Welcome to the Dragon world

"If players get into the game, are they granted new powers?" Drahon asked, wanting to confirm something.

"Yes," the man replied. "And that was what I wanted to tell you about. As for you, you'll evolve your powers and even your earlier system, gaining new skill and powers."

Drahon stood up from the chair. He had the urge to pace around the room but decided not to; he couldn't even confirm where he was.

"So why are you telling me all this?" he asked.

"So you know," the man replied. "Level one was a trial. Now you'll be really entering into the game. The game voice won't like to tell you players the full details of the world and that is what I have just done, even though I only told you just fifty percent, as there's more to it that I don't know yet."

"And who are you?"

"I've told you before, I'm a Golden Dragon."

Drahon tried to think, but at the moment, he seemed to have lost the ability to do the act. Eventually, the man intervened, answering a question Drahon was likely to ask.

"As for the lady in the hall who told you guys about types of dragons and level one, consider her an NPC."

Drahon furrowed a brow.

"She's not actually real. That's just what the game does to any new batch of players. They drop a mysterious egg, you pick it, a portal appears, you enter the portal, you arrive at a hall and get briefed by that lady before entering a trial level, which is level one, then you enter into the game."

Drahon stared blankly at the man. So the lady was an NPC?

He was about to ask more questions. He needed to know more. He needed more answers to his questions.

But he couldn't. He suddenly felt woozy and dizzy, and it felt like he couldn't use his feet again.

His vision became blurry, and the last words he heard were:

"Make us the Golden Dragons proud…"

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Brain freeze.

It felt like his mind was whizzing through dimensions, like his brain was in a fridge.

He saw a blinding light…

So bright it scorched and overcame his whole vision, and when Drahon opened his eyes, he could see the words in front of him:

[Congratulations players, you survived the trial level… level one]

[Welcome to the Dragon World…, the real game world]

Drahon stared at the golden runes in front of him blankly.

He stood on solid, cracked ground. All around him, the remains of colossal dragons lay scattered, massive skulls with broken horns, ribs as tall as trees, and tails frozen in twisted agony. Time had weathered their bones to a pale gray, and faint blue fire danced along the edges, flickering with ghostly life, and he wondered if the fire always flickered like that or if a battle had just occurred before he was teleported here.

The wind carried a low, distant howl, as though the beasts or monsters who died last roared in pain before dying.

The sky above was almost gray. It was light blue and seemed like it had a tendency to turn gray anytime soon. It was with swirling clouds that flickered with streaks of lightning, but no thunder followed. Jagged rocks jutted from the ground, and the place looked like a battlefield.

Drahon wondered why he couldn't see other players as he expected to. Wasn't this a game, after all? And he earlier was with the half-dragon guy, and he had said that was a dream, a dream where he learned. Does it mean he must have been in some kind of sleep?

The runes continued speaking, showing the words it was saying as it did so:

[You came here asleep, and for a second there, you had been confirmed to be dead]

So that was really a dream?

The runes continued:

[The Dragon World is where things happen and that is where you currently are. It isn't so gloomy though, as it might seem. You are currently in Beginner's Battlefield]

Beginner's Battlefield?

Was he to be compelled to fight some monsters the moment he entered into the game-like world?

Drahon thought. He was starting to be slightly angered.

Drahon stared at the runes with a bit of resentment. He didn't even know what this rune thing was and why he was seeing one now.

But then, he agreed with a fleeting thought that this was just like a guide. Perhaps something similar was assigned to all the players who survived their level one, and right now, they were just being guided on the basic stuffs in this world.

[After a player survives level one, he or she is given an upgrade, depending on which rank you were when you first entered the game.]

Drahon squinted his eyes, curious.

The guide continued:

[Your upgrade depends on your rank. All players will be granted a unique ability and receive an upgrade in their system]

Drahon looked at the runes more fixedly at this point. He could almost grin. He might be ranked SSS in literally all things he had in his systems, but that doesn't actually guarantee he would get something good.

But now, he was assured he would be getting a really good upgrade.

Firstly, he was half-dragon. He didn't know earlier, but since the voice had told him, it was something to be proud of, not so much to be talkative though —more of a self-fulfillment that he was more than a boy with just horns.

If he was to receive an upgrade, perhaps it would unlock his transformation?

It depended on how the stuff that upgraded his system and level did it.

For example, if a Tier F player was to survive level one and get an upgrade here now, the player might upgrade to Tier A and then gain a power.

But the power was what Drahon didn't fully understand. He didn't know what powers they were to be given.

But if he eventually was given, he only hoped it was something really powerful that would make him not be in a near-death situation anytime he was fighting a monster or some half-dragon, half-monster creature.

Level one was, to the game mechanics, not so hard as what would become of level two, and he only hoped he wasn't doomed, as he wouldn't want to die now.

He still needed a lot to uncover. His existence and even this game world, as the half-dragon man had said, he only said fifty percent of the world's history to him.

And that fifty percent was a lot. What about the other fifty percent he didn't know?

The guide voice rang out now:

[Player, await your upgrade]