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  Chapter 48: True Dragon Bloodline

  Bay Vilge.

  Afternoon, after lunch.

  Excited cheers echoed all around.

  Every soldier who stepped up to the stage was able to select the ons and equipment they had hoped for.

  When the rules of the tribution system were posted on the vilge notice board, every vilger couldn’t help but widen their eyes in surprise.

  Alongside the tribution system, a brand new recruitment notice was also posted.

  "Recruitment Requirements: Bay Vilge residency, age 18, and passing the recruitment assessment."

  "Recruitment assessment: Lift a 100 kg stone lod plete a 10 km weighted run within the allotted time."

  "Or, if you have mastery-level skills in archery, swordsmanship, or other forms of bat, you bee a reserve soldier, regardless of gender."

  "Reserve soldiers receive full food and housing, with 4 hours of daily training and 4 hours of assigned duties."

  "The monthly sary is 5 silver s, along with relevant bat skill training, tribution point accumution, and rewards."

  "After one month, didates may take the final exam. Passing the exam qualifies you to bee a full soldier."

  "Full soldiers receive full food and housing, with 8 hours of daily training and standard issue ons and equipment."

  "The monthly sary is 20 silver s, along with bat skill training, tribution point accumution, and rewards."

  Unsurprisingly, the two annous ighe ambitions of all the eligible men in Bay Vilge.

  Many were eager to sign up immediately, but most failed at the first hurdle.

  The 100 kg stone lock proved to be quite challenging for the majority of civilians, who had long suffered from malnutrition and had never undergone proper training.

  Unwilling to give up, they tried to opt for the sed path.

  However, Vilge Chief Field informed them:

  "If you ’t meet the first dition, no non-professional didates proceed to the stage of the assessment."

  "So, don’t aim too high. Go home, eat more, train harder, a your body into shape."

  "Also, let me share some good news: the lord has opened four stores where you buy inexpe good-quality food."

  "But each household has a purchase limit. This is the lord's reward for your hard work, so don’t try any tricks!"

  The soldiers weren’t the only ones cheering—other vilgers shouted praises for the lord as well.

  Butler Ralph, refleg on the vilgers' attitudes and behavior over the past two days, still found it hard to believe.

  Matthew, however, was fident ihing. He patted Ralph on the shoulder and said:

  "This is just the surface. The real show is yet to e."

  Butler Ralph nodded, his expression plex, and turo return to the lord’s manor.

  Tomorrow, the professional training academy would officially begin ierritory. Ralph o quickly select a leader and appoint professional instructors.

  This time, however, Ralph felt more energized, with deeper insights into ma aorial development.

  Matthew g the training soldiers and then at Ange, who was busy seleg reserves.

  There was still one more thio do today.

  He turned and headed toward the vilge entrah Yaya.

  Over 400 kobolds y on the ground, their eyes fixed on Yaya as she approached, babbling iement.

  What seemed like an absurd ritual to others marked a signifit ge in Yaya's data under Matthew’s watchful eye.

  Name: Yaya

  Race: Drago.

  Css: Level 1 Sorcerer.

  Age: 2 days (Hatg stage).

  Talent: + (3000 Experience, 300 Fate s!)

  Challeing: 9+!

  Equipment: Shadow Fang.

  Special Abilities:

  Extraordinary Ability—Dragon Might LV1: Releases a terrifying aura that imposes a Willpower -5 penalty on all surrounding creatures!

  Extraordinary Ability—Banishment Breath LV1: Breathes a linear stream of time dispt onto objects or enemies, banishing them into the flow of time for 1 month!

  Matthew keenly noticed a small "+" symbol o the taleion!

  "3000 experiend 300 Fate s? This is the reward for ging the fate of hundreds of people. Let's see if it brings any surprises!"

  Without hesitation, Mattheed the "+" symbol.

  Yaya’s strength was directly lio his own!

  A blue light enveloped Yaya’s body.

  She instinctively fpped her wings, h in the air as an indescribable majesty radiated from her, triggering Dragon Might.

  Most of the kobolds trembled in fear, pressing themselves ft against the ground, uo move.

  Only four kobolds, struggling against the immense pressure, crawled toward Yaya as she underweransformation.

  Faint ripples of distortion emerged along with the blue light, and a bck ring began to form on Yaya's silver back.

  Matthew only g it but quickly turned his gaze away, feeling as though it ulling him in—he barely mao resist falling us influence.

  "Ding, you have resisted the effects of the Ring of Time, Knowledge +10, current total 198 (Near-Legendary)."

  Matthew had no time to be pleased as Yaya’s light intensified, her head tilted ba a silent roar.

  Finally, the blue light faded, the twisting ripples were reabsorbed into Yaya’s body, and the bck ring vanished.

  Talent: True Dragon Bloodline LV1—All attributes +1, gains the iance of the True Dragon. As the dragon ages and its bloodlirengthens, it gains knowledge and power from its genes and bloodline.

  Matthew’s eyes widened in realization as a thought dawned on him:

  "The distin between a true dragon and others must be this True Dragon Bloodline!"

  "Imprinting knowledge and power into the bloodline and genes, allowing growth from birth... No wohey’re suidable super creatures..."

  "Iing..."

  Yaya, whose physical size hadn't ged much, slowly desded and stood before the four trembling kobolds.

  A flood of information and knowledge filled Yaya’s mind, and a glint of uanding fshed in her eyes. She extended a small cw, pressing it gently into her palm.

  A few drops of blood seeped out, falling onto the foreheads of the four kobolds as Yaya softly muttered words of power.

  The gemstone-like crimson blood sank into the kobolds' skin.

  The four kobolds clutched their heads in agony, letting out shrill screams as terrifying waves of energy rippled from them.

  Matthew could clearly see the life force of the kobolds rapidly depleting.

  tact with dragon blood was inflig immense damage on them, along with unbearable pain.

  Suddenly, the smallest kobold let out a final scream, its life forstantly extinguished. Its body trembled once before colpsing lifelessly to the ground.

  It had died!

  Not all lives could withstand the backsh of fate-altering ges!