Chapter 97 - Saving an Innocent

(WARNING: VIOLENCE >>> I think describing the situation after or during the explosion may cause discomfort)

The innocent citizen holding the bomb is inside Nadira's mental barrier!

Nadira had to think fast and pull back from her mental barrier to cover herself, Mu Liang, and the few citizens who were next to her.

Mu Liang became very anxious and ended up releasing some of his mental power, but even some of his mental power was too great and the tunnel floor shuddered, luckily the bomb's force was mitigated, which caused some relief for Nadira who she shuddered to think if the bomb had exploded so close to her.

Of course, Alessandra-066 hastily took action to contain Mu Liang's mental power so that his body would not be harmed. Mu Liang didn't have full control over his mental powers, luckily he only needed to use a light attack to ward off some of the force of the explosion which made Huang Liang and the Rebels fly away, but compared to all of them who were without mecha armor, they would at most have some bruises, but would be alive and relatively well.

Unfortunately, they were mistaken about the innocent citizens, a child carrying a pretty doll looked at the toy that started to glow like magic, the little one got excited and showed the mother who was holding her tightly in her embrace, everyone looked with horror at an innocent child excited by the toy her father had given it days before.

The child's mother looked at everything in horror and tried to throw the doll away, but it was too late. The explosion was strong and sudden, the bodies of the child and the mother were shattered and those who were close had at least lost part of their bodies as their bodies were thrown away.

Nadira's body flew away due to the strong explosion and her mental barrier was broken throwing Mu Liang and the others, luckily the secret tunnels were made explosion-proof as they were created in the darkest periods of intergalactic wars, otherwise, they would be dead by burial due to destruction of the tunnel structure.

Unfortunately, the explosion lifted the rocks off the ground and scattered debris everywhere, but it was less bad compared to the burial.

When Mu Liang woke up his body wasn't sore, a violet energy protected him.

Mu Liang: System was you?

Alessandra-066: It wasn't me, I was holding back your mental power. You almost got out of hand and were going to kill us in the process.

Mu Liang: I wanted to help Nadira and the explosion disturbed me the moment I decided to use my mental powers... If it wasn't you, then who was it?

Sword: Are you my new master?

Mu Liang: Did you save me?

Sword: Are you my new master?

Mu Liang: (...)

Mu Liang didn't have time to talk to the sword now, he looked around not seeing Huang Lian and Nadira, but he saw an unknown man wounded beside him. His long, red hair gleamed beautifully even amidst all the rubble and dust, almost as if it were magic.

The man's ears were strange and looked like those of elves, but the tips were similar to ruby ​​stones, his skin was fair despite being covered in dust from the explosion, which was a rarity in the Diablo Empire.

Alessandra-066: This is a cross between Humans and Dragons. This type of hybrid is very rare since humans are fragile and dragons are very tyrannical.

Mu Liang barely listened to his system, he was more concerned that the man didn't seem to be breathing. He approached the body, luckily there was no debris or anything like that, otherwise, he would be powerless to help as his physical body is weak and he is forbidden to use his mental power directly.

Everything was dark the tunnel lighting system had been harmed by the explosion, at least that part of the tunnel was dark, he didn't know where the others were thrown, they were fighting the connection between three and four different tunnels. The rebels had passed through the secret tunnel on the right and met Mu Liang's group coming from the tunnel to the south.

Mu Liang's blue eyes sparkled in the dark, luckily his elven genetics helped him a lot at this point, he approached the fallen man and observed the slightly bruised face of the other. There were rocks and earth piling up around and blocking part of the tunnel he was in, due to the explosion the ground was shattered and the result is he was partially trapped.

"So beautiful!" Mu Liang thought in shock to see the face that seemed to have been carved by a loving God who loved beauty the most.

"Alessandra, can you check his health?" Mu Liang asked after coming out of his daze.

Alessandra-066: Activate the scan of your communication device.

Mu Liang activated the scan and a green light appeared and passed through the unconscious man's entire body.

Alessandra-066: He is alive, but the explosion caused damage to his internal organs, he is hemorrhaging internally and he could die in a few hours. I have the medicine of the goddess Lan-Lan that could save his life, do you want to use it?

Mu Liang said yes and took a bottle containing the Elixir of Life, which the system had shown him earlier. As he had the stone with Elixir of Life which was more effective than the liquid state in his hand, he felt no pain in his heart as he made the man drink the elixir.

Unfortunately, some of the elixirs came out of the man's mouth, he was unconscious and couldn't drink. Mu Liang took a deep breath and placed the elixir in his mouth and then transferred the liquid from mouth to mouth. Mu Liang didn't realize that his lips had been hurt from his biting hard when there was the explosion earlier, there was some blood that mixed with the liquid of the Elixir of Life, but soon the wound was healed and he didn't notice anything. of different.

This time the red-haired man swallowed the elixir and his body glowed in the darkness, which lit up the gloomy environment.

Alessandra-066: You better back off, he must be taking his dragon form.

Mu Liang stepped back and watched the man's body transform into a white dragon with two silver horns with strange runes, a long luminous red mane, the tail also had a red tip and the pointed ears were silver, the scales were similar to milky, shiny jade.

The half-elf was impressed with such a transformation, he had never seen it in his two lives, the first time he had encountered such a majestic creature.

The white dragon's closed eyes snapped open, the midnight blue irises glowing beautifully, attracting any living beings that were nearby. They stared at Mu Liang in confusion, but vaguely the dragon felt a strange connection with the apparent elf who was looking at him.

"Do you feel better?" Mu Liang asked not approaching so as not to scare the dragon.

"I feel so much better, did you save me?" the dragon did not respond by speaking, but with mental communication.

"Yes, we fell together due to the bomb explosion," Mu Liang stated but showed no arrogance or pride. He only did this because he felt guilty, if he hadn't run off to explore the capital today, probably none of this would have happened.

Unfortunately, he couldn't save them all, but if he could save someone it would lessen his guilt.

"Thanks for saving me, but it wasn't the bomb explosion that made me feel like this. My body was about to collapse when these strange men in Mecha Armor invaded the hospital I was in and took me by force... Apparently, there was a secret passage there"

The white dragon started to explain what had happened, the hospital that was outside the market was invaded when the military ship broke the barrier that protected the Market.

He and some other patients on the same floor were captured and forced to follow the Rebels. The dragon half-breed was terminally ill. Hybrids between dragons and humans are rare, as the dragon's tyrannical nature forces them to go through three stages of evolution, the first is easy to pass as it has to do with dexterity over the control of the elements which humans can also achieve if willing to try.

The second stage is about the physical and the third stage is the mental power, most hybrids die in the second stage, as they cannot make physical evolution the organs fail and they die.

However, as the Elixir of Life that Mu Liang gave the dragon, made the hybrid go through its second stage of evolution, now it could transform into a dragon despite being a small dragon at the time when compared to true dragons. Over time his dragon body would become bigger and stronger, but for now, he was like a teenage dragon.

"So you are my savior" the white dragon concluded the shocking conversation. Mu Liang was surprised by all this, but he didn't regret helping someone else. He even witnessed something rare and amazing thanks to the white dragon.

"Can I touch?" Mu Liang asked curiously. He had never touched a dragon in his life, even though dragons existed in the Age of Cultivation, they were proud and tyrannical creatures, as they would let a simple human touch their precious scales.

"Okay," the white dragon agreed and let Mu Liang touch his scales, the man in front of him was fragile and handsome, which posed no danger. Fortunately, the white dragon didn't know about the blue fire that devoured mind power and destroyed the connection with soul and body.

If he knew, he would stop thinking that Mu Liang was a fragile man and would be more cautious.