NOVEL NEXT Chapter 70: Complete Awakening
"Are you… are you the Master that Sakurako and the others spoke of?"
On the other side, the Goblin elder from the original story was chosen by the Goblins to be their temporary Leader.
He wore a dust-covered brown trench coat, leaning on a walking stick, his frail body seeming as if it would collapse with a gust of wind just by standing there.
"Yes, my name is Itoshi Rin."
Rin didn't waste words and immediately announced, "Sakurako and the others should have already told you my purpose."
"Under the witness of Treyni, I will accept your allegiance and grant you my protection."
"From now on, you will become my subjects and obey my commands."
"I guarantee you this here."
Rin said earnestly, "As long as you obey me, I will protect your lives and property from infringement by others!"
"Are you willing?"
The Goblins didn't understand what Rin's words truly meant.
They only knew that the weak Goblins were about to receive the protection of a strong one.
In the world of monsters, the strong are revered.
Living in the forest, always on the brink of danger, if someone was willing to protect them, then giving up their freedom and loyalty was only natural!
Rather, Rin was already very benevolent.
"We are willing! We are willing!!"
"Praise you, great Master."
Thus, the Goblins gathered in front of Rin bowed down to him like dominoes.
[Successfully obtained 8600 Goblin followers.]
[Commencing magicules total calculation.]
[Calculation complete. The Goblin clan's total magicules is 258,860EP.]
[Unique Skill: Leader begins integrating magicules.]
[Integration complete.]
[Obtained 78,000EP of magicules.]
"Ugh!"
The sudden massive increase in magicules caused Rin to momentarily lose control.
The increase in his magic power limit instantly triggered a series of chain reactions.
"Rumble!"
With Rin at the center, magic power transformed into a wave of energy spreading in all directions, and a dazzling blue magic power pillar, faintly shimmering with stardust, shot into the sky.
If not for Treyni's timely reaction, and Snow Empress, who stood beside her, helping the Goblins resist the magic power pressure from Rin, just that one burst would have probably knocked out a large number of nearby Goblins.
"How... how terrifyingly powerful!"
"Is this the power of Master?"
"How terrifying..."
Even with Snow Empress's protection, the Goblins still felt the pressure from their new master.
It was a massive amount of magic power they couldn't even imagine.
For a moment, countless Goblins were both shocked and delighted.
Because such a powerful being was actually willing to accept their servitude.
"Rin..."
Ice Empress and Ogerpon noticed Rin's change.
However, the two women didn't act rashly. Instead, they remained in place, helping Treyni maintain the stability of the anti-detection barrier.
With Snow Empress by Rin's side, nothing would happen.
After all, in terms of combat ability, Snow Empress was the strongest.
As for the remaining Direwolves, they were completely stunned.
What kind of monster were they fighting against?
At the same time, the Direwolves were incredibly envious of the Goblins, who could receive the favor of such a powerful Dragonoid.
'If only... if only that Lord could also accept our allegiance.'
For some reason, the Direwolf Leader had such a thought in his heart.
Not to mention Rin, even Ice Empress made it unable to feel any desire to resist.
Submitting to the strong is not shameful.
To preserve the race and continue the lineage, following a Leader with a brighter future is the most correct choice.
The Direwolves are inherently pack animals, with their own social structure.
The alpha wolf as the Leader, then the wolf pack as the main fighting force, and the lower-status old wolves and cubs.
However, Rin had no time to recruit the Direwolves.
At this moment, a large amount of information was surging in his mind, and he felt as if he was in a stormy sea, undergoing transformation by a massive amount of magicules.
[Detected magicules exceeding 100,000, meeting evolution conditions.]
[Commencing evolution. Evolution failed.]
[Challenging again.]
[Evolution failed.]
...
The repeated information cycled countless times.
Finally, when Rin himself felt annoyed, within the central core of the Cardinal World, a starry sky fragment, like a miniature universe, slowly appeared in Rin's eyes.
[Detected a power fragment of the Star King Dragon, Veldanava. Do you wish to fuse?]
[Upon fusion, the race 'Dragonoid' will be fully awakened, and the evolution path of the Dragon Kind 'Star King Dragon' will be obtained.]
"Fuse!"
Rin didn't expect that simply evolving from A-Rank to Special A-Rank would lead to such an event.
One must know that the reason Rimuru in the original story possessed such a BUG-like evolution speed, growing to the level of a creator god in just a few years.
Some speculated that a large part of the reason lay in Rimuru's identity and his Unique Skill: Great Sage.
Regarding Rimuru's origin.
There is a theory that Rimuru is the reincarnation of the Star King Dragon, and the Great Sage is the Star King Dragon's wife, Lucia.
But Rin felt that Rimuru was not the true Star King Dragon.
Or rather, the Star King Dragon had already fallen, but like Emperor Rudra of the Eastern Empire, he had split his soul into countless pieces.
One of the larger pieces fell upon Mikami Satoru, who then reincarnated as Rimuru.
However, Rin's current situation was different from Rimuru's.
What he obtained was not a soul fragment of the Star King Dragon, but a power fragment.
More accurately, it was the authority left by the Star King Dragon in the Cardinal World.
[Report: Individual name 'Itoshi Rin' has successfully evolved into a Dragonoid.]
[Obtained Unique Skill: Voice of the World.]
[Unique Skill: Leader has evolved into Convergence.]
[Unique Skill: Traveler (Anomalous) has evolved into Void Gate.]
[Obtained Special Skill: Magic Dragon Transformation.]
"Hoo~"
The evolution ended, and Rin remained in a dazed state.
He could feel the magic power within his body, which was several times larger than before.
Even more terrifying, after the Special Skill Magicules Solidification, Rin's physical qualities also increased by several times.
"Power!"
"Unprecedented strength!"
Rin clenched his fist. He looked at his hand and found that his original palm had turned into sharp dragon claws.
And behind Rin, a pair of dreamlike, ethereal, yet tangible azure dragon wings slowly unfurled.
(To be continued.)