Night fell.
The camp blazed with lights.
Half-Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, the Holy Human Race, Dragons...
And busy Great Xia soldiers.
The scene looked as absurd as aliens throwing a party on Blue Star.
Inside the laboratory.
Liu Chengen stared into the microscope, his gaze frighteningly feverish.
Beneath the lens, the golden dragon blood sample gave off a strange glow.
Qian Zhenhua's voice came from beside him, trembling unmistakably.
"Liu, the lab mouse's results are in!"
"After the injection of diluted dragon blood, its strength, speed, endurance..."
"All increased more than tenfold!"
Qian Zhenhua took a deep breath.
"Dragon blood really is the incredible tonic of legend!"
At those words, Liu Chengen looked away from the microscope.
He pushed up his glasses, his eyes shining.
"I've discovered something too!"
"The dragon blood shows extremely high activity in the culture dish."
"Its cells divide at an astonishing rate, and..."
Liu Chengen paused and lowered his voice.
"There's some kind of unknown energy factor in its gene chain."
"This factor can act directly on an organism's basal metabolism."
Qian Zhenhua's eyes lit up.
"You mean..."
Liu Chengen nodded.
"Exactly."
"If we can decipher how this energy factor works..."
"Humanity might achieve a qualitative leap to a higher level of life."
The two exchanged a glance.
Both their eyes were filled with irrepressible excitement.
This was a real, living Dragon!
The dragon blood of legend was right before their eyes!
They would never have dared dream of an opportunity like this!
Unlike the two feverishly excited old academicians.
Not far away, their students were toiling miserably to meet their deadlines.
More than a dozen experts on the Terra Continent gathered together, fretting over the measurements of Dragons, Treants, and Half-Orcs.
"This Treant is a hundred meters tall, with a main trunk three meters