Part-Time Boss
Chapter 29

Human Form

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System Prompt: You had successfully advanced into an Ancient Black Dragon. Your boss title had been updated, and you could replace it in the title list. Your level cap had increased to Level 90. You had unlocked the Ancient Bloodline System, allowing you to use talent points to unlock the ancient powers hidden within your bloodline... System Prompt: Your maximum health had increased. In your current form, you gained the power of Ancient Blood, recovering 1% of your health every minute outside combat. System Prompt: Your body had become even larger. You were now a "colossal" unit, and all your base attributes had increased. System Prompt: Your dragon scales had evolved, increasing your armor. You gained Ancient Dragon Scales: the special modifier Armor Break Immunity. System Prompt: Your dragon breath had become more powerful. Its attack range had increased by 30%, and its damage had increased by 30%. System Prompt: You had mastered new boss skills: Human Form (Dragon Magic), Greater Dragon Awe (Bloodline Skill), and Ancient Dragon Wisdom (Passive). You could view the relevant information in the skill list...

Mo Fei felt the power surging through his body as he read the system prompts, filled with unprecedented satisfaction.

Murphys (Ancient Black Dragon): "Hahaha, such tremendous power! Who could possibly stand against my will now—the will of Murphys, the Ancient Dragon? Even Deathwing... cough, cough, cough. Well, we'll talk about that later."

Mo Fei promptly cut off his impromptu speech. Deathwing was still the leader of the Black Dragon Legion, after all. He was a World-Ending Tier boss, so it was best not to say things like that carelessly.

He savored the power of the Ancient Black Dragon with great satisfaction. He had to admit, Tier Ascension brought an enormous boost in strength. If those two heroes brought another party of adventurers to challenge him now, Mo Fei was confident he could deal with them alone without using any combat strategy.

Then he inspected the Ancient Bloodline System.

It was similar to the previous talent tree, with five tiers of talents and three talent paths: Ancient Dragon Magic, Ancient Bloodline, and Ancient Dragon Combat Skills.

Each Tier Ascension granted one talent point, which could unlock one talent. He currently had only one talent point, and the first-tier talents were as follows.

Ancient Dragon Magic: Dark Descent. Summon boundless darkness to shroud the land and obscure the enemy's vision. Legend said that the oldest Dragonkind had been born in the primordial darkness before chaos was divided. Thus, Dragonkind could often recall through their bloodline that dark age ruled by Ancient Dragons. Though time could not be reversed, magic could recreate the scenes of that bygone era.

Ancient Bloodline: Lava Blood (Passive). After the passage of ten thousand years, the blood within your body had long been replaced by scorching lava. Your dragon breath damage increased by an additional 5%. When you took damage, the Lava Blood within you would spray forth, dealing 50 fire damage per second to enemies hit by the splatter.

Ancient Dragon Combat Skills: Hurricane Wings. Flap your wings and unleash violent winds to blow enemies away. The wings of Ancient Dragons could summon hurricanes. It was not their intention, but the natural majesty of primordial beasts.

Mo Fei hesitated for a moment before decisively choosing the third one, Hurricane Wings.

His damage was already more than high enough. What he lacked instead were crowd-control skills, and Hurricane Wings suited him perfectly.

Besides that, he had also received three free skills after advancing.

Human Form (Dragon Magic): Transform into a humanoid unit. After transforming, your boss tier would automatically convert into a hero tier of the same level.

Greater Dragon Awe (Bloodline Skill): You emitted a more powerful aura of intimidation, causing those around you to feel awe toward you. When actively cast, it inflicted Fear on enemies within a 100-meter radius and triggered a Will check. Those who failed would be feared for 5–10 seconds.

Ancient Dragon Wisdom (Passive): Your mind contained many ancient memories and numerous secrets unknown to others. When you observed an item, you would automatically cast Level 3 Appraisal on it.

When you observed a unit, you would automatically cast Level 2 Detection on it.

You could now interpret written information in Dragon Language and Ancient Dragon Language.

Not bad, not bad. Each one was more useful than the last. Greater Dragon Awe was far more useful than ordinary Dragon Might, and the key was that it could be actively cast. That gave him another crowd-control skill.

But what excited Mo Fei most was Human Form. He had been coveting this thing for ages.

Being able to turn into a humanoid creature would be extremely convenient in many situations. Most importantly, he could finally show his face and look cool.

Without hesitation, Mo Fei used the Dragon Magic Human Form.

As he recited an ancient, obscure Dragon Language spell, a virtual character creation interface appeared before Mo Fei's eyes.

System Prompt: Please set the appearance of the humanoid creature you wish to transform into. Note: Once this appearance has been set, it cannot be changed. Please choose carefully.

The character creation interface did not offer particularly high freedom. He could only choose a race, not a gender. He could not freely sculpt the face either; the system could only generate one automatically, after which he could make minor adjustments.

Mo Fei guessed that the game designers were probably worried players would mess around and create an Old Gods face or a celebrity face or something. That would ruin immersion far too easily.

Come to think of it, this game really did everything it could to immerse players in its world.

Fortunately, the system-generated appearance would be based on the dragon's personality, temperament, identity, and past experiences. And since he was Dragonkind, it would basically generate handsome men or beautiful women, not some hideous monstrosity.

Mo Fei began by choosing a race. Elves were not imposing enough and looked a little too feminine. Dwarves seemed too simple and honest, while Gnomes were even less worth mentioning. He had no interest in being a three-foot-tall runt.

Orcs were ugly as hell, and the Horde had not yet entered the Eastern Continent on a large scale. Turning into an Orc would draw too much attention. Tauren were ugly as hell, Trolls were ugly as hell, and Goblins were even uglier as hell.

After thinking it over, humans were still the most suitable.

Mo Fei selected human, then stared in surprise at the virtual image generated by the system. Murphys' human form actually looked seventy to eighty percent like him.

But compared with his real appearance, the human avatar before him was far cooler. His long black hair was slightly tousled, his brows faintly raised, and his eyes were golden and deep, with Dragonkind's distinctive vertical pupils. A faint smile lingered at the corners of his mouth. His lean muscles were well-defined, and his eight-pack abs were sharply chiseled.

The entire image gave him one impression—dominant and wickedly charming. It even resembled the kind of outrageously cool, domineering male lead from a romance novel.

Well, this appearance did suit Murphys' identity as an Ancient Black Dragon. But why did it look so much like him?

Then he immediately thought of a possibility. Maybe the system could directly scan a player's appearance.

That saved him the trouble of sculpting a face. Seeing his ordinary looks transformed through a bit of magical alteration into something so wickedly handsome and domineering, Mo Fei almost felt the urge to get plastic surgery based on it.

If he really had looks like these, his success rate with girls would definitely rise by ninety percentage points.

All right, this was the one.

Mo Fei clicked confirm. The next second, the enormous body of the Ancient Black Dragon burst forth with a black, intangible radiance. Under the power of magic, it rapidly shrank until it finally became a human figure, dressed in a set of black leather armor adorned with dragon-scale decorations. A black scaled cloak hung behind him, his long black hair draped down his back, and a golden crown shaped like dragon horns rested on his head.

He exuded the aura of a king, yet carried the unique dominance of a dark sovereign.

"Are you Murphys?" Princess Catherine cried out as she looked at the man before her.

"That's right, it's me. What, you can't recognize me?" Mo Fei glanced at Princess Catherine. He had to admit, seeing her from the perspective of someone the same size as her, Catherine no longer felt like a doll figurine. She looked even more beautiful.

"Hmph. I'd recognize you even if you turned to ash." Catherine snorted and turned her head away.

Mo Fei smiled indifferently, then checked his attributes again. The moment he saw them, he felt extremely dissatisfied.

Although a World Tier boss transformed directly into an Epic Tier hero, his health was still only a little over ten thousand, and all his attributes had dropped significantly. It really did not feel very safe.

And why was his default class "Warrior"?

Mo Fei felt rather helpless. It seemed he would have to slowly study this transformation system in the future.

Seeing that the time was about right, Mo Fei turned on the livestream system.

When the viewers saw Mo Fei's new appearance, the chat immediately exploded.

[Holy crap, Dragon Bro, how did you turn into a human?]

[Damn, Dragon Bro, that look is way too cool. You're pretty good at character creation.]

[What the hell? Where did that huge Black Dragon go?]

[Who the hell are you, kid? Tell us what you did to our Dragon Bro.]

[Wow, hubby, I can't take it, I can't take it. He's seriously too handsome.]

Mo Fei looked at the comments with mixed emotions. He thought to himself that after streaming for so many years, he never expected to have a day when someone called him hubby.

Tomorrow's PK vote push—I'll post two chapters before noon. I hope everyone can keep reading until the latest chapter as much as possible.

Please.

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