I Am Negary

Noah carried a box into a secret chamber. Inside flowed golden blood taken from Komoro's heart—his elder brother's heart.

Ten years ago, when Nara was born, Wang Yuan had begun researching the Dragon Blood awakening within her body.

Over those ten years, Wang Yuan had never ceased his research into this Dragon Blood. Its most widespread application so far was the "Spread" germ, which had blanketed all of Reastmia and was gradually spreading into the surrounding regions.

Besides that, the research Wang Yuan valued most had already taken shape three years ago.

The Dragon Blood gradually awakening within Nara possessed the following characteristics.

First, this Dragon Blood enhanced its host's physical constitution, making those who carried Dragon Blood extraordinarily tenacious in life.

Second, Dragon Blood carried so-called inherited information, as well as a form of spiritual energy named "Dragon Might." Those who awakened Dragon Blood would gradually come to understand Dragon Tongue and develop in the direction of dragons.

Wang Yuan had looked through the records of all those in the Interkami Kingdom who had awakened Dragon Blood throughout the generations. Without exception, they had all become highly distinctive—powerful, willful, gluttonous, greedy, and lethargic. Yet without exception, they had all possessed immense personal charisma, with many willing to follow them to their deaths.

What surprised Wang Yuan was that among the families of the entire Interkami Kingdom that possessed Dragon Blood, there had never been a precedent of a woman awakening it. Perhaps the germs Wang Yuan had injected back then had triggered a mutation, allowing Nara to awaken Dragon Blood. In any case, over the years, Nara had also displayed certain traits belonging to a Dragon Child.

What disappointed Wang Yuan was that he was not, after all, an inheritor of Dragon Blood. Although he had obtained Dragon Blood's inherited information, he truly could not make heads or tails of Dragon Tongue. He had also sent people to seek out those who understood Dragon Tongue, but unfortunately, he had never found any.

Third, Dragon Bloods shared an inseparable connection. Even Dragon Blood that had been extracted still maintained a close link with Nara.

The golden blood inside Komoro's heart was precisely the Dragon Blood Wang Yuan had extracted from Nara's body bit by bit through germs. Wang Yuan had altered this Dragon Blood, made it learn the things implanted within himself, then implanted it into a suitable candidate to be continuously nurtured.

A suitable candidate was someone capable of inheriting Dragon Blood. Perhaps because Dragon Blood had undergone mutation, becoming a suitable candidate first required three conditions. The first was that one's body had to contain Wang Yuan's germs and be thoroughly infected.

The second was that one had to be of mixed Kexi People blood. Komoro and Noah's mother had half her bloodline from a small ethnic group.

With those two conditions, Dragon Blood implantation could actually be completed. However, the recipient would gradually become unable to bear the oppressive force of the Dragon Might within the Dragon Blood and turn into a madman.

Only those who met the third condition—whose soul nature leaned toward the "dragon" side—could endure Dragon Might and even turn it into their own means of attack.

There were not many who fulfilled all three conditions, and Komoro and Noah were among them. Noah, as the righteous man bound to Wang Yuan by an "agreement," naturally could not become an experimental subject. After all, the experiment still had unstable aspects, and the Dragon Blood Wang Yuan had concocted was still only a prototype.

Over three years, this Dragon Blood had changed hosts five times. Komoro was the fifth. With Komoro's aid, the Dragon Blood had finally been completely altered by Wang Yuan, becoming "Soul Blood" under Wang Yuan's control. Of course, it could also be called by its other name: the "Negary Germ."

Dragon Blood and Soul Blood were similar, except one's primary attribute was "dragon," while the other's was "Negary."

In Wang Yuan's estimation, Soul Blood could also enhance its host's physical constitution and even strengthen their spirit to a certain extent, allowing them to awaken abilities similar to those of a Spirit Warlock, like Noah had.

Some of Wang Yuan's other creations could accomplish this as well. What Wang Yuan truly valued about Soul Blood were its remaining two effects.

Noah looked at the golden blood in the case. As the blood stirred, blackness showed through beneath its golden hue. Unhurried, Noah undid his clothes and picked up the Ritual Blade that had long been prepared at his side.

He dipped the Ritual Blade into the case, staining it with golden blood, then stabbed it into the place where his heart lay without the slightest hesitation.

He pulled out the dagger, yet not a drop of blood spurted forth. At his heart, the golden blood wriggled like living creatures, filling the gap the dagger had pierced. In the end, a strange mark grew over the wound, like a raven spreading its wings to soar high, and like a giant dragon gliding through the heavens.

Noah could feel something within him being drawn away, while something else began to gestate. For the first time, the expressionless youth revealed a joyful look. He felt it—he was becoming part of the great Negary. He and his god had never been so close.

At the same time, Nara, who was walking home with her mother, suddenly clutched her chest. A palpitation rose within her for no reason, but the feeling soon vanished without a trace. Her eyes also became ever purer, so pure that they no longer seemed human.

Beneath the great tree in the Rea Forbidden Land, Wang Yuan picked up a fallen leaf. He could feel his soul body beginning to become whole at an unprecedented speed, its missing parts gradually filling in bit by bit.

A wave of will swept past. In the unseen darkness, something descended toward Wang Yuan. His soul body became active as never before, and every instinct of that soul body frantically told Wang Yuan to accept that thing, to place it back in the deepest reaches of his soul body. Then he would be complete.

This also made Wang Yuan understand what that thing was. It was the most important thing he had lost—his true spirit, the origin of his soul, his very root.

If he completed it and acquired the body of a living person, he could become a true living being rather than the remnant soul he was now. If he completed it, he could use the soul-transmigration method obtained from that monster to travel to other worlds, never again needing to fear being trapped in this low-magic world.

"Wang Yuan" sensed that thing. His soul body desperately urged him to complete it. Only by completing that thing would he become the true Wang Yuan, rather than a remnant soul bearing Wang Yuan's name.

Those who had never experienced it could not understand how immense that thing's temptation was to the current Wang Yuan. The feeling of recovering what had been lost and possessing it once more was so intoxicating that Wang Yuan could not resist it.

Wang Yuan had extended his hand to many people, making them submit to him. But now, Wang Yuan felt that some existence was extending Its hand toward him.

Yet as he looked at that completion so close at hand, "Wang Yuan" drifted backward. His soul body began to riot and collapse. Those past memories belonging to Wang Yuan desperately tried to make him return. Every inch he moved away took him another inch farther from becoming the true Wang Yuan again.

"Then from today onward, I shall officially become Negary!" The remnant soul that had severed its past held up its collapsing soul body and revealed an exceptionally radiant smile.