One year

Chapter 2: One year, section 3: Cheat

What a coincidence! Lister was the unfortunate Spined Iron-Armored Dragon eaten by Linley, the protagonist of the Coiling Dragon World!

What am I supposed to do? I've been sentenced to death right after being reborn. As long as I don't go to Mist Canyon, I won't die. What am I afraid of?

Besides, I'm Lister now! I've been reborn, and the course of fate has already changed. Still, I have to kill that bear. It did cause my predecessor's death, after all.

I definitely have to follow the protagonist Linley and suck up to him. He's going to become a Hongmeng Controller. Who else would I suck up to?

Just as Lister focused his attention, a screen of data flashed across his vision!

What's this? He focused his attention again, directing it at himself.

Name: Satius? Lister

Race: Mutated Sharingan Spined Iron-Armored Dragon

Level: Rank 5 intermediate divine beast

Description: A newborn Mutated Sharingan Spined Iron-Armored Dragon, a magical beast with darkness and lightning attributes. The smallest of the Dragon Race, with the strongest defense and greatest agility among those of the same rank. Its mutation grants it greater innate talents than an ordinary Spined Iron-Armored Dragon.

What's this? The cheat that comes standard with transmigration! Looks like this ability came from my phone merging with my soul during transmigration.

"Sharingan?"

Puzzled, Lister walked over to a crystal.

Crystals were everywhere inside the dragon's lair.

Looking at his reflection in the crystal, he saw a blood-red tomoe inside his eye.

There was no mistaking it: this was the Sharingan in its one-tomoe state. As a Naruto fan, he could recognize it at a glance.

But a one-tomoe Sharingan is pathetically weak even in the Naruto world. It's not much use.

He did not know how to improve his Sharingan.

But judging by the Coiling Dragon World, a "divine beast" should awaken its innate talent upon reaching maturity.

He did not dwell on it any further.

Lister took another look at his dragon mother.

Name: Mengdilina

Race: Spined Iron-Armored Dragon

Level: Rank 9 advanced magical beast

Description: A mature Spined Iron-Armored Dragon, a darkness-attribute magical beast. The smallest of the Dragon Race, with the strongest defense and greatest agility among those of the same rank. Possesses humanlike intelligence, and her strength stands at the very peak of rank 9!

Sure enough, his dragon mother was a mature Spined Iron-Armored Dragon, but she had not reached the Saint-level. That made sense. The original owner of his body had also remained stuck at rank 9. Even after its opponent advanced to the Saint-level, it had still been stuck at rank 9 despite living somewhere with a hundred times the concentration of natural elemental energy.

At that moment, his dragon mother's other egg began to hatch as well. It was a younger brother.

Name: Quinns

Race: Spined Iron-Armored Dragon

Level: Rank 3 magical beast

Description: A normal newborn Spined Iron-Armored Dragon hatchling, a darkness-attribute magical beast. The smallest of the Dragon Race, with the strongest defense and greatest agility among those of the same rank.

At their mother's urging, his little brother ate his own eggshell too.

With this cheat, at least no one could pretend to be weak in front of him while concealing their strength, and he did not have to fear sneak attacks. There was also the fact that, through Lister's transmigration, the original Spined Iron-Armored Dragon had incorporated the Sharingan from Naruto and evolved into a divine beast.

This was good news. Divine beasts could grow all the way to the Deity-level. But Lister also knew that being a divine beast was nothing special. Only by truly growing stronger could he become invincible and have a chance of returning to Earth.

Section 4: Growing stronger

Lister had a younger brother, now called Quinns, but in terms of size, Lister was clearly a size larger than him.

By comparison, Mister might have been as large as a cow, while his younger brother was probably as large as a sheep.

Three months passed quickly. Lister had familiarized himself with the surrounding area and could now eat an entire wild ox in one meal. Compared with his younger brother Quinns, Lister grew much faster.

By then, Quinns had reached rank 4, while Lister had already become a rank 7 advanced magical beast, and his Sharingan had awakened its second tomoe.

Even Linley's magical beast Bebe, a God-Eater Rat, had not grown this quickly. It was a little freakish. Perhaps the fusion of the two souls brought about by transmigration had accelerated his magical beast body's growth. His blood-red, two-tomoe Sharingan made Lister look more sinister and alluring than an ordinary Spined Iron-Armored Dragon.

Lister had also confirmed that his Sharingan did indeed continue to awaken as his rank rose. That was quite good. After all, he only had a dragon mother and a dragon brother in this world. If things followed Naruto's script, he might not awaken it even if both of his dragon relatives died.

Dragons were lazy by nature. One month after Lister's birth, his mother had demanded that he take his younger brother out to hunt magical beasts for their own food, and handle takeaway deliveries for her as well.

Now his dragon brother was following Lister in search of their target for the day, since his older brother was relatively strong. There was a lake near the dragon's lair where magical beasts often came to drink. Lister did not need to search everywhere; magical beasts would deliver themselves to his doorstep. After all, he housed a modern person's soul. Waiting for prey to come to him and conserving his strength suited him very well now. His dragon brother was different. At present, he was like a child who had just ventured out into society and knew nothing.

Once before, he had wandered recklessly into the den of a rank 7 Blood Lion and nearly been killed. Luckily, Lister had been there. Otherwise, he might have become the first Spined Iron-Armored Dragon on the Yulan Continent to be killed by a Blood Lion.

At that moment, three Raging Yaks, each two meters long and one meter tall, were walking toward the lake. Little jets of hot vapor puffed from their nostrils as they exhaled. Lister signaled to his dragon brother to take the Raging Yak on the left, while he would handle the two on the right.

Level: Rank 4

Race: Raging Yak

Description: A fire-attribute magical beast, a bad-tempered bovine. Skills: stomp, savage charge. Hates other creatures disturbing her while she grazes more than anything.

Looks like this cow is a complete foodie too.

His dragon brother charged out and roared at the Raging Iron Bull, slamming a powerful dragon claw onto the Raging Yak's head. The Raging Yak swayed from side to side but did not fall. Its head was relatively hard, and the blow had not killed it. Lister swiftly charged up to the Raging Yaks right after him. Two dark cyan dragon claws slashed across the bellies of two Raging Yaks, while his jaws seized the neck of the one his brother was fighting, killing it in a single strike. "Triple kill." After these two months of hunting, Lister had become an expert hunter.

His dragon brother happily dug in, paying no mind to Lister's intervention. Lister did not start eating immediately. Instead, he made a fire by striking his dragon claws against stone. He still preferred cooked food, though this body made barbecuing rather inconvenient. His dragon brother had tried Lister's roast meat too, but it had been burnt that time, and he had refused to eat it ever since. Once they finished their meal, the two brothers packed up the other yak and delivered it to their dragon mother.