Chapter 362- Pure-Hearted Prince vs. Giant Dragon Boss (01)
After completing the mission this time, Mu Jin didn’t stay long in the system space. He noticed that the luck accumulated from the previous world had been entirely transferred to Qiong Qi after Qian Chen accepted the small world.
Now, the missing parts of Qiong Qi’s divine soul had been reduced to almost nothing. It was evident that Qian Chen had done this to ensure their unwavering loyalty in helping him.
Even so, Mu Jin felt grateful because he could sense that Qian Chen had used his own abilities to aid Qiong Qi. If Qiong Qi’s divine soul could continue to be fortified with Qian Chen’s help, there was no doubt that once they returned to their original world, Qiong Qi’s power would ascend to even greater heights.
When Mu Jin opened his eyes again, he felt momentarily blinded by the dazzling sight before him. Everything was shimmering with a golden glow, and he couldn’t help but wonder about the original owner’s sense of taste and style.
Additionally, a wave of drowsiness washed over him, making Mu Jin want to fall back into slumber. It left him curious about how lazy the original owner must have been to let such lethargy seep into him.
However, Mu Jin forced himself to stay awake and observed his surroundings. He quickly realized that he was in an enormous, luxurious palace filled with piles of gold and jewels everywhere.
So, in this life, he was immensely wealthy?
Yet, instead of resting on a soft, plush bed, he was lying on a wide platform made entirely of solid gold. Strangely, despite such an unconventional resting spot, he didn’t find it uncomfortable.
But when Mu Jin lowered his gaze, he caught sight of his enormous claws and the smooth scales covering his body. His eyelids twitched violently as a thought crossed his mind—had he become a monster in this life?
He quickly instructed 003 to transmit the storyline of this world and the original owner’s memories into his mind.
After receiving the information from 003, Mu Jin finally understood that, in this life, he had become a dragon—a mighty abyssal dragon that commanded fear and respect in its domain.
The people outside didn’t know the dragon’s true name; they only knew of its existence. This dragon had lived for tens of thousands of years. After the original owner annihilated the demon army in the last battle, it retreated to the abyss and had been in deep slumber ever since.
Thus, most people referred to the dragon as the Abyssal Lord when speaking of it.
The world Mu Jin now found himself in was a Western fantasy world of magic.
In this world, the protagonist was originally a mercenary. However, he tragically died during a mission and then transmigrated into this magical world, becoming Gardner, a knight’s squire in the Church of Light. Along with this new life, a system also appeared in his mind.
The original Gardner was an obscure character—a mere orphan taken in by the church. Due to his diligence, the church granted him the position of a knight’s squire.
However, now that the protagonist’s soul had taken over, especially with the system’s support, he wasn’t willing to remain mediocre. With the system’s help, he accessed the original Gardner’s memories and began to understand the world.
This world had a strict hierarchy, and commoners had few privileges. Nonetheless, the protagonist was fortunate. Shortly after his arrival, he had the chance to participate in the one-time magical aptitude test available to commoners when they came of age.
He went to the church, where, to everyone’s astonishment, he awakened the ability to wield all elements of magic. Moreover, his aptitude in each type of magic was extraordinary, leaving everyone in awe. Gardner was thus formally knighted, quickly rising to fame as a prodigy.
The subsequent storyline followed Gardner as he leveraged his talent, hard work, and the system’s assistance to defeat enemies, level up, and win the hearts of countless admirers along the way.
In the original storyline, Gardner was exceptional—full of a strong sense of justice, intelligent, brave, and constantly helping others. He grew at an astonishing speed, surpassing what most could ever achieve.
During his adventures, he defeated ogres, killed the treants that plagued the forests, rescued the orc king, and inherited the goblin seal, becoming the master of all goblins. He even won the favor of the human princess, Bernice, and the elven queen, surrounding himself with countless admirers.
However, where there is a righteous protagonist, there must also be an antagonist. In this world, the ultimate villain was a dragon.
This dragon was infamous, having supposedly slumbered in the abyss for tens of thousands of years. But just as people began to forget about the dormant beast, the dragon awoke.
Upon awakening, the dragon made its first demand to the human world: to marry the most noble, pure, and kind person in the human kingdom. To everyone, it was clear that only Princess Bernice met these criteria.
Bernice’s brother, Norris, unwilling to let his sister be forced into marrying the dragon, went to plead with the abyssal dragon but was mercilessly killed.
The king, left with no other options, agreed to marry the princess to the dragon. But how could the protagonist bear to see the woman he loved wed such a brutal monster?
With the help of the orcs, the elven queen, and the most advanced weapons crafted by the goblins, Gardner ventured into the abyss alone. There, he confronted the dragon and ultimately slew it.
Gardner not only gained the dragon’s treasure but also destroyed the entire abyss in the process.
Having killed the dragon, Gardner became a celebrated hero. Princess Bernice later married him, and before long, she succeeded her ailing father to become the new queen.
Who would have thought that not long after this matter concluded, the continent would be engulfed in demonic energy, and the demon army would suddenly rise in power, plunging the land into endless war and chaos?
By this time, the protagonist, having absorbed the dragon’s magic, had become incredibly strong. He easily killed the Demon King and even subdued the demon army, ultimately becoming the undisputed leader of the entire world and reaching the pinnacle of his life.
Mu Jin couldn’t help but feel speechless at the revelation that he was now a boss-level character in this life. Was this the benefit of collaborating with Qian Chen—being cast as such a powerful role?
Still, given how strong this character was, Mu Jin was rather satisfied, even if he was a villain.
Mu Jin understood that, although the original storyline portrayed the protagonist as a hero, with his omniscient perspective, things weren’t as simple as they seemed.
It was true that the dragon’s attempt to forcefully marry the princess was wrong. However, much of the dragon’s infamy over the years was the result of exaggeration and rumor.
The dragon’s fearsome reputation arose because it had once slaughtered and intimidated the demon army into submission. Its millennia of slumber in the abyss weren’t out of indolence but rather to suppress the demonic energy within the abyss.
In truth, the dragon had been continuously depleting its own power to protect the world. By killing the dragon and destroying the abyss, Gardner inadvertently released the demonic energy, which could no longer be contained, leading to its spread and the resurrection of the demon army.
The storyline later glossed over how Gardner easily killed the Demon King and subdued the demon army. However, Mu Jin realized this ease was due to Gardner’s true power: his awakening wasn’t of all-element magic as everyone believed.
The so-called all-element magic was merely a façade created by the system. Gardner’s true awakening was to dark magic.
After killing the dragon, Gardner further absorbed its energy, becoming the most powerful dark magician. The Demon King wasn’t killed by him, and both the Demon King and the demon army were easily controlled by Gardner. Using the demon army, he unified the entire continent.
However, what wasn’t mentioned at the end of the story was that, despite all of Gardner’s cunning plans, this wasn’t his ultimate fate.
Though he was filled with pride, he still didn’t get the last laugh. After letting his guard down, he was unexpectedly killed by his own bedfellow—the Elven Queen, who had always held him in high esteem.
The Elven Queen had never loved him; in fact, she had always despised Gardner. For years, the elves and the treants had been close allies, coexisting in the forest and jointly protecting their homeland.
But Gardner, in his pursuit of the treant treasure, used a fabricated excuse to exterminate the entire treant race. The elves were no match for Gardner’s power, and the Elven Queen had no choice but to feign cooperation while secretly planning revenge for the treants.
Unfortunately, Gardner had too many powerful allies, and his own strength was formidable. The Elven Queen never found the right opportunity. Then, after the dragon was killed, the demon army ravaged the land, even destroying the forest and killing countless elves.
As she watched her people perish one by one, Gardner continued to make excuses and refused to help.
In the end, the Mother Tree of the elves was destroyed, and the entire elven race was nearly wiped out, leaving only a few beautiful elves who were kept by Gardner as playthings.
At this point, the Elven Queen had no other hope. In a desperate gamble, she poisoned Gardner when he thought no one could defeat him and, ultimately, killed him with a dagger.
However, after Gardner’s death, the demon army once again fell out of control, and the demonic energy spread throughout the world. War broke out again, and soon, the entire world was destroyed.
After finishing the entire storyline, Mu Jin couldn’t help but feel a bit melancholy. Although the story was completely different from the one in the previous world, the endings were surprisingly similar. The small world was once again destroyed by the relentless flames of war.
It seemed that the goal of Qian Sha was still the same. However, Mu Jin wasn’t sure whether the other party would reveal their true nature in this world.
But now that he had taken the role of the final boss in this world, Mu Jin found himself a bit confused about who his lover actually was.
After all, in every small world he had been in, his lover had always been a prominent villain, the kind that made the protagonist suffer, only to eventually meet an unfortunate end.
However, in this world, he was the most powerful boss, so he had no choice but to ask 003 for help.
After hearing from 003 about the identity of his lover, Mu Jin had the urge to cover his face. His lover had actually become a prince.
And it turned out that this prince, Norris, was the same person who, in the original storyline, had gone to the abyss to try to persuade the dragon and stop the marriage between the dragon and the princess, only to be effortlessly killed by the dragon.
Mu Jin couldn’t believe that in this life, his man had become a mere cannon fodder. What made it worse was that in the original storyline, he had been killed by Mu Jin’s own character.
Just thinking about this made Mu Jin feel a bit guilty, but he quickly regained his composure. After all, that was part of the original storyline. Now that the role had shifted to him, such a thing would never happen.
Besides, how could he possibly go after the princess? He had absolutely no interest in her.