The Elder Dragon Couple of Elder Dragon's Land

There were still three Special Effects on the Blazing Sun Mask that could be unsealed, but they could only be triggered at 50%, 80%, and 100% progress.

The 42% shard count was not enough to cause Cheng Tian to undergo another qualitative transformation. The same applied to both the mask and his talents.

However, derivative abilities such as Solar Punch, Shadow Serpent Form, and Retribution Arrow had received several minutes of cooldown reduction and single-digit damage increases.

As the Sun God Gem Shard changed hands, the scorching heat that had once affected the entire dunes suddenly dissipated completely. Even the name prefix and characteristics on the panel floating above its head changed along with it.

Cheng Tian looked at the Blazing King Dragon, which was locked in a drooling stagger.

The "Blazing Sun" in its prefix and the "Blazing Sun" description in its Unit Characteristics had both completely turned gray.

It seemed they had not vanished entirely. If it obtained new shards, there was still a chance they could be activated again.

...In other words, its wife should have shards too.

But at that moment, the scoutflies at Eileen's and the Great Commander's waists all changed from the red indicating combat status to green.

The Blazing King Dragon, having left drool all over the ground, actually turned around unsteadily, flapped its wings, and began ascending to higher ground.

The Blazing King Dragon, whose health was still perfectly healthy, had actually chosen to run away!

The holes pierced through its fleshy wings had already begun healing and scabbing over. That was probably just the standard self-healing ability of a lifeform on the level of an Elder Dragon.

As for why it was running, the reason was simple—

It had gone limp.

The Sun God Gem Shard was partly to blame for