Section one: Don't show off while gaming with a girl
At three in the morning, in Xiamen, China, heavy rain poured down amid thunder. In a cheap rented room, I, Lister, was still awake! Hehe, as a promising young man of the twenty-first century, there was no way I wasn't going to play games.
"My play as Madara Uchiha in that fight was absolutely flawless!"
"You're so amazing, Lister! I admire you so much!"
The voice coming from the phone belonged to Lister's in-game partner-his girlfriend, in other words.
"Baby, let me tell you, you definitely made the right choice picking me as your partner. With skills like mine, I'm telling you, I'll take care of your account from now on!"
"Lister, shall we meet in person? I really want to see you. I want to be yours. I have black stockings!"
What was this supposed to mean? Was this how they tested an official's resolve? Who could possibly withstand a test like this?
"Sure! Come on over, then."
Although I was incredibly excited inside-after so many years of being single, things were finally going to work out-I still had to stay calm so I wouldn't scare the girl away.
The girl's voice came from the phone.
"It's settled, then! Moonlight over the Lotus Pond. Be there!"
Moonlight over the Lotus Pond Couples Hotel. A couples hotel! Brothers, did you know what that meant? Wahahaha!
"Okay, good night, baby!"
After saying goodbye to the girl, I sank into my fantasies. I couldn't think too much about it, or I wouldn't be able to sleep. I might as well play another match before bed.
I picked my main, Madara Uchiha, again and won, just as expected. As expected, my Madara was the true chosen one! Hahaha!
"Noise, noise, noise! Every single day, nothing but noise! You'll get struck by lightning!"
The tenant next door said.
Just then, thunder really did crack across the sky! A bolt of lightning struck Lister's room as though something had drawn it there!
All I saw was a flash of white before a tingling numbness swept through my whole body.
"No way! Am I going to die? I won't play games in the middle of the night anymore! Can you strike me some other day? My girl's still waiting for me! Fu-!" Then I lost consciousness.
Incidentally, on the other end of the phone, a thirty-year-old, long-haired man weighing around a hundred kilograms was sitting at a computer, picking his feet. Looking at his phone, he said,
"Th-this voice changer works so well. Another sucker hooked. Tomorrow, once he gets there, I'll tell him something happened to my family and I need to go home immediately, but I don't have enough money. He doesn't look all that rich, but squeezing ten or twenty thousand out of him should be doable."
Then he flashed a sleazy grin.
Section two: Rebirth
What felt like a long time passed, yet it also seemed like only an instant. Lister groggily regained consciousness and instinctively stretched his body, only to hit a barrier, like a round wall enclosing him.
Some kind of thick liquid surrounded him, and, uh, he was curled up inside it. In that dark space, he felt no fear at all. Instead, it felt as though he had been in his mother's womb all along.
Where was this? Lister felt his body. It was covered in scales, one overlapping another, like the dragons of Chinese legend.
Had I transmigrated?
A fierce pain surged through him, and a vast amount of information appeared in his memory, like some kind of inheritance he had been born with!
The Dragon Race! A Spined Iron-Armored Dragon! A high-level magical beast, the Magical Beast Forest on the Yulan Continent! I had been reborn in the Magical Beast Forest on the Yulan Continent, and I had become a Spined Iron-Armored Dragon-an unborn Spined Iron-Armored Dragon egg.
As a member of the Red Alliance and a longtime novel reader, transmigration was hardly an unfamiliar word. I never imagined that, with transmigration all the rage, I, Lister, would transmigrate too-and into the Coiling Dragon World I loved, at that! But why couldn't it have happened one day later? I was just about to meet my girl!
What a ridiculous turn of events!
He wondered what his parents would do when they learned he was gone. In his original family, Lister had three older sisters. He had always been happy growing up, but he had also been immature. He had only just started to grow up, and before he could repay his parents, he had transmigrated.
Wait for me! Mom! Dad! My family! I'll definitely find a way back. Lister also understood that complaining was useless. It would only make him feel worse and accomplish nothing else. He could only face reality and work hard. In the world of Coiling Dragon, where strength reigned supreme, being a magical beast meant risking being killed and skinned.
Fortunately, Lister had been reborn as a Spined Iron-Armored Dragon, which counted as a relatively powerful magical beast on the Yulan Continent. As long as he kept a low profile and grew, surely he wouldn't run into danger that easily. If he had been reborn as a low-level magical beast, things would have been very dangerous. He might have been killed as soon as he was born. That would have been far too tragic.
Since he was still developing, overwhelming drowsiness pulled Lister into a deep sleep.
After a period of development, Lister's body had filled the entire space, and the space no longer provided nutrients for his growth. It looked like it was time to break out of his shell!
Lister mustered all his strength and thrust his head upward. A crack rang out as the eggshell broke.
With another forceful thrust, his head poked out, and at that very instant, Lister took his first breath of air on the Yulan Continent.
There was another unbroken egg beside him, so it seemed he had a sibling. Looking up, he saw a dragon about ten meters long and three meters tall, with a particularly striking row of spikes running along its back from head to tail.
But Lister felt no fear as he looked at her. Instead, he felt a sense of closeness. The large dragon was staring at Lister.
It seemed this was Lister's ready-made mother.
The mother dragon looked at Lister and waved a claw, signaling for him to eat the eggshell.
Lister promptly ate the eggshell. Sure enough, a dragon's teeth were no joke. The rock-hard dragon egg went down as smoothly as chocolate.
Once the mother dragon saw that Lister had finished eating the eggshell, she paid him no more attention and went back to sleeping soundly.
Before falling asleep, the mother dragon conveyed one piece of information to Lister: his name was "Satius"!
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