Chapter 1008 - Hibernating Fragments (1/2)

After setting the target, everyone started working immediately. Shortly after, missions were issued one after another and every aspect was worked on methodically. Of course, most of them didn’t understand the reason behind it as Rhode didn’t provide an explanation. Although the threat of Chaos existed, most people hadn’t personally experienced the dangers and crises it brought. Rhode handed Celestina the task of analyzing Grazite’s memories. It wasn’t simple to read the memories of a devil’s chaotic mind. Their chaotic nature turned the simplest of thoughts upside down and confused the causes and effects. If it weren’t for a demon like Celestina who was familiar with devils, perhaps it would be harder than climbing to heaven to arrange Grazite’s thoughts and intentions. This was even based on Grazite as the ‘devil who most resembled demons’. If it were any other devil, perhaps Celestina couldn’t read their minds at all.

On the other hand, after Rhode issued the missions, he locked himself up in the room as he had more important matters to attend to.

One of the important matters was about Christie. Rhode didn’t confess Christie’s identity to everyone. He intended to speak to the other ‘Christie’ about it. He believed that the other ‘Christie’ was surely aware of it and didn’t have the intention of telling him the truth. If not, she wouldn’t have kept it a secret until now. Rhode also didn’t know what Christie would think about herself after knowing the truth. This made things really difficult for Rhode.

The other problem was about himself.

After returning to the Void Territory, Rhode scanned through his attributes and discovered something really strange. He still couldn’t transform into the dragon form.

Based on the concept of the Void Dragon, Rhode should be able to transform into an enormous, mighty dragon. There was no doubt about it. In the game, the three final BOSS forms of the Dark Dragon were in the form of a large dragon. Moreover, Rhode had also personally witnessed Erin in her dragon form, as well as the twin dragons in the Country of Law whom they, as the dragon soul heirs, could transform into dragons effortlessly. Therefore, it was impossible that Rhode couldn’t take up the dragon form as one of the Creator Dragons. What astonished him was that he totally lacked this ability.

There wasn’t a talent within the talent trees that could transform him into a dragon. There were no changes in race techniques either. Rhode checked the system interface from top to bottom, but failed to find anything related to it. He was incomparably depressed. Thereafter, he tried meditating like the protagonists of online novels, but it was useless too. Of course, he asked Alice about it and got a confirmation from her that the first generation of Void Dragon could indeed turn into the dragon form.

Rhode was at his wits’ end.

Where exactly went wrong…?

Rhode couldn’t understand. It wasn’t that he had some obsession in being a dragon. Instead, it was much more convenient for him to engage in battle as a dragon, especially when facing large armies. A single breath of flame could easily wipe out the enemies as compared to him slashing his way through. Besides, the visual effects were much more outstanding too, wasn’t it? A strong image was essential to make others fear him.

Am I not strong enough? That’s impossible.

At this moment, apart from his strength as the Void Dragon, he also possessed the essence and power of the other four Creator Dragons, so it was impossible that strength was the issue.

Is there a bug in the system?

Gillian had already run an analysis on the system and found no issues. However, she prompted him that from a game perspective, since a thing that should have appeared didn’t show up, it was highly likely that some conditions weren’t met.

Rhode was extremely familiar with it, such as upgrading to a higher class or holding concurrent jobs. Some things needed players to uncover and trigger in order for them to appear. But these conditions were odd. The sequences for ordinary ones could be found in the forums. But it was harder to determine for rarer ones.

“Where exactly went wrong?”

Rhode murmured, gazing at the open field before him. He tried basically everything but to no avail. He had even attempted the most ancient method: shutting his eyes and imagining himself as a dragon. Of course, this method didn’t work. Or perhaps, this made him heave a sigh of relief. If this method worked, his confidence about the future would definitely be crushed. Rhode recalled a familiar, beautiful face at this thought. If she could be by his side, perhaps there wouldn’t be any issues… But she was already dead and her last spirit fragment had fused into his body as one.

Dead?

Suddenly, Rhode’s heart skipped a beat and a thought emerged in his head. Even though he felt ridiculous, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was a possibility. He was the Spirit Swordsman and what was the Spirit Swordsman’s job? Wasn’t it…

He extended his arm when suddenly, a summoning ritual appeared in midair and enfolded his body and the floor. Then, he shut his eyes. Bright spiritual energy shone from the summoning ritual and whirled in his movements. Rhode opened his eyes.