Radiance Across Ten Thousand Li

"Wasn't this fucking Little Godzilla?!" ＜(ºOº)＞

Bai Yu remembered now. That dopey look, those short limbs, and the distinctive dorsal fins on his back-wasn't this Little Godzilla Little from "Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla"?

"This is?"

"Me?"

Bai Yu was thoroughly confused. He had been reborn as a dragon, but the figure on the system screen was a juvenile Godzilla. He didn't know whether he was a young dragon or a Little Godzilla.

"No, no, that angel definitely said I'd reincarnate as a dragon. How could I have turned into Godzilla? The system panel must be wrong."

"But... where are my wings?"

Only then did Bai Yu notice that his back had none of a dragon's iconic wings.

The closest things to wings on his body were the dorsal fins on his back. He couldn't possibly flap those things to take off, not to mention they couldn't even move.

"What kind of joke is this?! Wasn't he an angel? Didn't he say he wouldn't deceive me?"

"Where's the dragon I was promised? How did I turn into Godzilla?"

Bai Yu felt miserable. That damn angel had said his department was legitimate and wouldn't tamper with the contract, but what happened? He had gone from the promised dragon to Godzilla.

It wasn't that Godzilla was bad. As the King of the Monsters, Godzilla was top-class in both strength and majesty, and Bai Yu himself could be considered a Godzilla fan.

But Godzilla couldn't fly.

What Bai Yu wanted was the feeling of a dragon flapping wings that blotted out the sky and stirring up storms in the heavens. Never mind flying, most Godzillas couldn't even jump.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm undoubtedly furious."

"That damn birdman had better not let me catch him!"

"If I catch you, I'll pluck your feathers all over the floor and roast your wings."

After cursing in place for a while longer, Bai Yu quickly accepted reality.

"Forget it. Godzilla isn't so bad. Although he can't fly, just like a certain divine beast, at least he's stronger than the dragons in most stories."

"Since things have come to this, I should figure out how to get out first."

Bai Yu hadn't forgotten that he was still trapped in an egg. He had to find a way out, and the only thing that could help him now was the panel in front of him, which looked like a system.

"Let me figure out how to use this thing."

The stats and character model had occupied most of the panel and drawn his attention earlier, so Bai Yu hadn't looked closely at what else was on it. Now that he did, he almost wished he hadn't.

There were no flashy effects or elaborate designs. It was as crude as the trashy UI of a low-budget adventure MMO made to fool players.

There was a black X in the upper right corner, and its purpose went without saying. Three buttons were lined up in the upper left: quests, gacha, and inventory.

"How shoddy. It's like someone rushed it out to fool people."

Bai Yu decided to check the gacha first. As for the inventory and quests, he had only just gotten the system, so what could possibly be in his inventory?

And as for quests, his first priority right now was getting out of the egg. Everything else could wait.

"Let's see what good stuff is in this gacha."

He opened the gacha, and a pure white path floating in the sky appeared before him. Looking around, he saw intricately carved pillars standing amid a sea of clouds, as if holding up the entire sky.

At the end of the path, a tightly closed door blocked everything behind it from view, leaving one to wonder what lay on the other side.

"Why does this look so familiar? It feels like it was lifted from somewhere."

Without looking any further into where this author had stolen the interface from, Bai Yu carefully read the notice that had popped up in the upper left corner when he entered.

"Basic pool"

"Reward quality: white, green, blue, purple, gold

A purple-quality reward is guaranteed every 80 pulls, and a gold-quality reward every 160 pulls."

"The first pull is free for newcomers and guaranteed to be purple quality."

"Wait, why is your gacha system so familiar?"

"And never mind how crude your interface is. Everyone else gives you a free ten-pull when you log in, but you only give one pull. Isn't that too stingy?"

"Someone definitely pocketed the rest!"

First there was the supposedly honest and taciturn intern angel, who had tricked him into becoming Godzilla. Then there was this trash system, shoddily made, with effects lifted from elsewhere. Bai Yu had deep doubts about whether that so-called transmigration department was legitimate.

But as he had said, things had already come to this. What else could he do? Forget returning to his original world to lodge a complaint; he couldn't even get out of his own egg right now.

Looking at the free single pull displayed in the lower right corner of the gacha interface, Bai Yu pinned all his hopes on it.

"I hope they weren't enough of a bastard to fill the rewards with trash."

"Come on, let me hit the jackpot in one pull!"

The moment Bai Yu tapped the gacha button with his claw, the viewpoint on the screen began moving toward the pure white door at the end of the path.

As the viewpoint drew closer, the pure white door slowly opened a crack, as though welcoming a guest. Dazzling purple light streamed through the gap.

Whoosh! The door swung fully inward, and blinding purple light filled the entire screen. The intense light even shone through the eggshell, illuminating the surroundings for an instant.

"Fuck, who threw a flashbang?!"

Bai Yu, who had taken the full force of the flash right up against the screen, curled up, covered his eyes, and rolled around wildly.

From the outside, it looked like a giant black egg rocking back and forth, as though something was about to hatch from it.

"Is it about to hatch?"

"A hatchling dragon with special powers. I wonder whether the abnormal changes around here have anything to do with it."

In a pitch-black cave, a white-haired old man in a mage's robe gazed with great interest at a flower in his hand, from which specks of blue light drifted.

No, perhaps it couldn't be called a flower at all. Its stem was unlike a plant's, resembling a creature's keratin instead, while fleshy veins on its leaves flowed constantly with blue light.

Even stranger were the roots writhing beneath the stem. Their surface was covered in wrinkles like an old man's skin, and each squirm compressed the folds.

A torn-off cross section revealed the inside of the roots writhing like flesh. Black liquid kept dripping from the break; it seemed to be his blood.

"This thing really is bizarre. Even super beasts don't look this ugly. It's almost as bad as those weirdos."

As he spoke, the old man continued teasing the layered mouth at the top of the flower with his hand. Dense, tiny fleshy tentacles kept brushing against his finger, as if trying to tear it off and swallow it.

All right, let's stop paying attention to the changes outside and return to the protagonist.

By now, the stinging in Bai Yu's eyes had eased, and he looked at the system again. After the light faded, a purple icon depicting a hand remained on the system screen.