Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 853 - 405: Ancestor of the Six Clans, World within the Painting

[After the servant retreated, a row of slave girls turned their heads away, refusing to meet your gaze as if they were afraid that you’d lose your animal instincts and inspect their bodies.]

[Only the green-skinned half-dragon glared at you venomously, baring her teeth and displaying a threatening expression, as if she was provoking you.]

"These slave girls are somewhat of a nuisance, it always feels awkward to have bystanders watching when you’re trying to get work done...."

Lin Xun summoned the Sly Ghost to ensnare the girls in an illusion, sparing himself the trouble of dealing with them once his task was complete.

[As you approached the cage, you had just used the key to open the iron gate when the ’half-blood half-dragon’ bared its fangs and hissed, lunging at you!]

[It wore heavy, sturdy shackles on its limbs, but it could still launch an attack with its sharp teeth!]

Lin Xun gave a slight smile and decisively switched to the Shell of the Little Dragon.

Being of the dragon lineage, they were kin to each other, and would mostly likely have a tearful reunion like old acquaintances.

[You possessed the Shell of the ’Primordial Hermit seeking Knowledge’!]

[You deliberately did not invoke the ’Flesh Authority,’ nor did you use the ’Art of Transformation,’ but faced the ’Green Half-Dragon’ in the most primal Dragon Humanoid Form.]

[Upon seeing you as one of its own, it was visibly startled. However, when it recognized that your dark skin marked you as a descendant of the Hermits, it roared profanities, calling you a ’damned traitor,’ before attacking you even more ferociously....]

[You bear a trace of the pureblood lineage of the ’Dragon Clan Ancestor,’ which made you far superior to the ’half-blood half-dragon’ before you, allowing you to easily evade its attacks.]

[However, your evasion only incited it further, causing it to attack you repeatedly and incessantly!]

[You had no choice but to smack your claw onto its forehead, and while it was dazed, you used the chain blade in your hand to bind it tightly so it couldn’t move.]

[As the ’Green Half-Dragon’ came to, it began to curse, but you glared at it and issued a thunderous dragon roar!]

[Suddenly, the overwhelming authority of the Superior Dragon Race flowed out, causing it to cower in terror, shaking instinctively, and prostrate itself on the ground.]

[Even the Sly Ghost nearby nearly failed to react in time, which almost caused the illusion targeting the human girls to tremble, threatening to reveal the dragon’s roar and the formidable pressure to the outside.]

[The ’Green Half-Dragon’ was so suppressed by the dragon’s majesty that it couldn’t rise, feeling extreme shame and anger. It simply turned its head, closed its eyes, and stretched out its arms and legs to form a ’big’ character, squeezing out a sentence through clenched teeth...]

[Damn traitor, if you want to do something, just do it quickly and then piss off!]

Lin Xun twitched the corner of his mouth, his face full of dark lines.

"Big sister, have you taken a look at yourself? If it were one of the slave girls next to you, I might consider it."

"Err... Perhaps by the aesthetic standards of the Dragon Clan, the Little Dragon might find you attractive?"

[You knew that aside from the ’Primordial Hermit,’ the entire Hermit Clan had forsaken ’Almighty True Knowledge’ and become followers of the ’Bright Stars,’ which was why descendants of the Greens felt such disdain and hatred towards you.]

[To clarify the misunderstanding, you praised the greatness of ’Almighty True Knowledge’ in front of the ’Green Half-Dragon,’ while denouncing the pettiness of the ’Bright Stars’...]

[...]

[After a series of self-affirmations, when she finally understood that you were a devout adherent of True Knowledge, she couldn’t help feeling embarrassed about her earlier behavior. Faced with your questions, she was forthcoming...]

[Since the end of the god war, following the agreement with the ’True God, Almighty True Knowledge,’ each of the Dragon Clan Ancestors had sealed away most of their power, leading all their descendants into seclusion in the mountains and forests, avoiding any intersection with the human world.]

[The ’Hermit Clan’ multiplied and thrived in the remote jungles across countless ages...]

[Although they had hoped that the peaceful tranquility brought by the victory in the god war would last until the end of time, no one had anticipated that before the ’Stars’’ light could fully fade, an endless fog called the ’Knowledge Barrier’ descended upon the world, blocking out not only the rampant pursuit for knowledge but also the starry sky above people’s heads...]

[The terrifying ’Chaos’ within the insurmountable fog plunged the ’Hermit Clan’ into immense panic, and the ’Hermit Clan Ancestor—an ancient being called the Green Dragon—prayed to the True God devoutly, yet never received a response...]

[The ’Red King,’ the ’Golden Lawgiver,’ the ’Green Saint,’ the ’Indigo Soulmaster,’ the ’Pale Wise One,’ and the ’Dark Hermit,’ these six ancestors of the clans gathered to try to summon the True God together...]

[However, not only did the True God not respond, but the gates to His most holy abode, the ’Temple of Knowledge,’ also remained firmly shut, inaccessible...]

[Since then, the six ancestors diverged in their beliefs. Some thought that the True God had abandoned them, others believed the True God was temporarily unable to respond due to an accident, and some believed the True God had gone mad or had died...]

[Regardless of what the other five clans thought, the ’Green Clan Ancestor’ unwaveringly stood by the True God. Their clan was the most devout and steadfast of His children, unlike your Hermit Clan.]

[The ’Green Clan Ancestor’ returned to the forest, praying devoutly every day, awaiting the day the True God would respond and hoping that He would disperse the endless fog...]

[Even if the True God did not act, as long as the seal on each ancestor’s power could be lifted, allowing them to ride into battle for the True God once again, they could...]

[The Dragon Clan’s offspring would not merely cling to life; even if it meant the sacrifice of the entire clan, they would clear all enemies for the True God, striking down those ’Stars’ that were about to reignite...]

[...]

[This was a legend known to everyone within the clan, a belief firmly held by all, and no secret at all.]