Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 991 - 460: Test Reward, Despair of the Dragon Clan in the Abyss_3
[Transporting...]
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[Transport Successful!]
[You open your eyes and find extreme darkness in front of you, the cold, damp rot and stench filling your nostrils as desolate wails of despair and powerlessness echo in your ears...]
[You’re at the summit of Lonely Peak, towering within the deep layers of the underground, where the cold wind is biting.]
[You look down at your feet, barely making out countless tiny figures of half-dragon, half-human creatures, shackled in chains and marching in long queues, driven forward by many fierce monsters.]
[These monsters are very familiar to you, being the Stars’ Favored ’Stars’ Monsters,’ also known as ’Star Spirits.’]
[On the ground, the ’Star Spirits’ enslave the Half-Dragon Men... while in the sky, those with purer dragon bloodlines who have reverted to ancestral dragons soar through the skies, also herded by various ’Flying Star Spirits’ and ’Astral Corpse Sacred Beasts.’]
[Rona explains solemnly beside you that at the bottom of the Abyss of Despair lies an extremely hard type of rock from which rare pigments used for teleportation paintings can be extracted.]
[The Half-Dragon Men with mixed bloodlines must undertake grueling mining labor in exchange for food, while the dragons also have to continuously exhale Dragon Breath, softening the stone to help the Half-Dragon Men mine more efficiently.]
[Any moment of slackness in their labor, or failure to meet the quotas, would lead to execution for the Half-Dragon Men, and their bodies would be dismembered for various magical materials.]
[Labor is only one aspect of their enslavement; apart from labor, they must also undergo periodic bloodline extraction. Those Half-Dragon Men who fell ill or died due to blood loss were met with the same fate.]
[The dragons are the primary focus for bloodline extraction. On the days designated for extraction, the dragons’ mournful screams would resound all day, truly making this place the Abyss of Despair.]
[And there’s an even more disgusting form of slavery; the dragons of higher bloodline purity within the Dragon Clan can morph into human shapes, and many from the Emerald Sage Tribe are female, with strikingly beautiful human forms.]
[They not only have to endure harsh labor but also the vile desires of many members of the Polar Star Association...]
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[Under Rona’s explanation, you only feel as if there is a boulder pressing on your chest, making it hard for you to breathe.]
[These faithful dragons, loyal to the ’Almighty True Knowledge,’ have met such a fate due to the betrayal of a Knowledge god servant.] 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
[Their ancestors shed blood and sweat on the battlefield of the gods, slaying countless enemies and making numerous sacrifices. At the True God’s behest, they voluntarily had their powers sealed. They were the descendants of heroes, the most devout believers, yet they fell to such a wretched state due to the betrayal of a Servant of God.]
[Rona turns around, facing toward the building far behind you...]
[Only now do you notice that there is a building atop Lonely Peak. It is a grand and imposing astronomical observatory, shaped like a pyramid and constructed from countless black boulders.]
[You look up to the sky, and being deep in the Underworld Abyss, it’s not even stars you can’t see, but even the sky itself is hidden. Here, constructing such a massive astronomical observatory has far more symbolic than practical significance.]
[The existence of this observatory seems like a silent declaration that the Dragon Clan, under the enslavement of the Bright Stars, will never be able to see the sky again.]
[Rona tells you that the Dragon Clan Ancestors are imprisoned below the observatory, at the bottom of the mountain’s belly. The inside of the peak has been hollowed out, with the observatory serving as the sole entrance to the mountain’s interior.]
