NOVEL NEXT Ch. 31
Chapter 31: Dragon King Ignis’s Character Setting?
Library, second-floor reading room.
Mophis was lying comfortably on her exclusive soft couch.
Ever since she had received those three pieces of “sky-high priced” materials last time, she had felt her physical condition better than ever before.
Although on the outside she still looked like a frail, sickly girl, she could clearly feel that the weakness and fatigue in her body had completely vanished.
Her spiritual power recovery speed had also become several times faster than before.
“These players… really are useful tools.” She thought happily while flipping through an ancient book.
Especially that piece of myth-grade underwear, 【Pure Guard】.
Although every time she put it on, she felt ashamed when remembering the frenzy of those LSPs, she had to admit… it was truly comfortable to wear.
That 【Absolute Comfort】 effect was like placing her butt in a pool filled with slimes—it was downright addictive.
Now, if she had to go back to those ordinary fabrics, her whole body would feel uncomfortable.
“Degenerate, degenerate…” Mophis shook her head in self-mockery.
Just as she was enjoying this rare peace, that shrill alarm that echoed throughout the entire game world suddenly blared without warning.
“Wooo—wooo—wooo—”
Mophis was so startled that she shivered, dropping the book in her hand onto the ground.
“What’s going on? An earthquake?”
Before she could react, her vision was forcibly pulled toward the sky outside the window by an irresistible force.
Immediately after, volcanic eruptions, blazing dragon wings, blocking out the sky and sun… those earth-shaking scenes were all reflected clearly in her silver eyes.
When that cold system announcement rang in her ears, Mophis was completely dumbfounded.
【Dragon King Ignis has locked this place as her first ‘meal’!】
【Estimated Arrival Time: 24 hours.】
“M-meal… meal?”
Mophis’s face instantly turned pale.
The Dragon King? Coming to eat her?
No, this wasn’t how the script was supposed to go!
According to her memories from her past life as a programmer, the second chapter main storyline, 【Greedy Wings】, was supposed to be triggered only when the players’ average level reached 50 and they had completed the first chapter’s main storyline.
Right now, that first chapter progress bar for repairing the barrier wasn’t even one-tenth filled, and the players’ average level had just barely reached 40.
So why had the Dragon King appeared ahead of schedule?
Besides, in the original script, after the Dragon King awoke, her first target should have been the most prosperous 【Golden City】 on the eastern continent, because she was greedy for wealth.
So why did she suddenly come to this barren Western Wasteland, claiming she wanted to devour “knowledge energy”?
This library contained nothing but books… and her, the librarian.
Where would there be any “energy”?
Unless…
A chilling thought flashed through Mophis’s mind.
Unless this so-called “knowledge energy” referred to herself?
After all, she was the very core of this library, the true “guardian” of all knowledge.
“Damn it! The GM is playing dirty!” Mophis nearly jumped off the soft couch in anger.
She instantly pieced together the cause and effect.
It must have been that bunch of LSP players and their “Liberation” series that forced the GM into a corner.
So now, the GM had disrupted the game’s rhythm and released the Dragon King ahead of schedule, just to forcibly divert the players’ attention!
And what’s more, they had precisely locked the Dragon King’s target onto her!
This was clearly meant to make her perish together with the players!
“Too ruthless! These damned devs!” Mophis gnashed her teeth.
She immediately opened the player panel and clicked into the forum.
She wanted to see how those LSPs, who had thrown her into the fire pit, were reacting now.
As expected, the forum was already wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves.
【Run! You can’t stay in the Western Wasteland anymore!】
【GM, screw your ancestors! Is this game even playable anymore?!】
Reading these posts, Mophis’s heart sank to the bottom.
It was over.
The players had all been scared away.
Now she really could only wait for death.
She, a librarian with no strength to even truss a chicken, was facing a world-class BOSS.
She wasn’t even enough to fill its teeth.
However, just when she was in despair, she saw 【Data Emperor】’s tide-turning analysis post.
【Breaking news! Everyone calm the hell down! …】
Mophis read it word by word, her expression shifting from despair, to bewilderment, then to sheer stupefaction.
“An official conspiracy?”
“To interrupt our ‘lewd’ progress?”
“The Dragon King… is a female?”
When she read 【Data Emperor】’s final sentence in blood-red bold font, she felt like her thoughts could no longer keep up with this group of players at all.
Then, she watched helplessly as the forum’s atmosphere underwent a shocking 180-degree reversal in just a few minutes.
The previous panic and fury completely vanished.
Taking their place was a wave of bizarre excitement that made even less sense to her.
【Holy crap! Dominant Dragon Queen X Frail Librarian! I ship this CP! Nobody stop me!】
【The one above, you’re not right in the head! But… well said! I ship it too!】
【Look at the Dragon King’s eyes in the CG! That gaze that looked down on the world, yet carried a trace of millennia-old loneliness! Now think of our wife’s cold and distant, yet lovable temperament! Ah! I’m dead! This is a match made in heaven!】
【Match made in heaven, my ass! What kind of thing is the Dragon King? She’s not worthy of our wife! That’s not love, that’s greed! It’s forced capture! What’s the point of our Knights if not to protect our wife from being defiled by such a dragon?!】
【But… don’t you think, our wife being pinned against the wall by a domineering Dragon Queen… cough cough, I mean, engaging in ideological exchange, would be quite thrilling?】
“Thrilling, my ass!”
Mophis’s scalp tingled as she nearly crushed the virtual screen in her hand.
Just what kind of brains did these people have?
The apocalypse was nearly upon them, yet they still had the mood to ship CPs here?
And worse, it was CPs between her and that female dragon?!
This wasn’t just a crisis—it was a chastity crisis!
She refreshed the page, and a brand-new post, its popularity skyrocketing like a rocket, appeared at the very top.
Poster: 【LaceSupremacy】.
Title: 【Facing the Dragon King! The ‘Dragon Calamity Countermeasure’ series officially launched! Our slogan is—Defeat Greed with Holiness! Make the Dragon Queen bow before our wife’s Holy Light!】
Beneath the post were sketches of underwear designs, freshly made, exuding “sacred” and “abstinent” styles.
There was also an absurdly long list of materials, all radiating legendary glows.
And… a heated discussion about “how to exploit the rules to make wife wear the decisive-battle underwear.”
Mophis stared blankly at all this, feeling her worldview shatter once again.
So…
The GM’s plan had once again failed, in an even more ridiculous way?
They had intended to use the Dragon King to interrupt the players’ “lewdness.”
Instead, the players had taken the Dragon King as new “lewd” material.
Not only did they refuse to give up making underwear, but they even took this as an opportunity to design an even more perverse, even more absurd… “anti-dragon ultimate weapon”?
Mophis buried her face in her hands.
She felt that what she was facing was no longer just ordinary players.
But a group of “artists,” using the game as a vessel to unleash the deepest, most twisted, most perverse desires within themselves to the fullest.
And she was their one and only, their best… muse.
“Save me…”
A weak moan echoed through the empty reading room.
She now faced a double crisis.
Outside, there was a greedy Dragon King who wanted to “eat” her.
Inside, there was a group of perverted players who wanted her to wear “decisive-battle underwear” to purify the Dragon King with “Holy Light.”
She felt that no matter what choice she made, the outcome would not be good.