Chapter 2: Contribution Points, Awakening
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Dragon Hibernation Stance required the person to put one leg in the front and the other in the back extrely widely, and they were to twist their backs like a venomous snake. They also had to be as energetic as snakes when they gathered their strength to attack.
They were supposed to look like hungry snakes who had just woken up from winter and were very aggressive.
In the Ninth High School, there were only a handful of top students in the “rocket class” who could maintain this stance for more than ten minutes.
Class 6 was a very normal “strolling class”, and there was half an hour before class dismissal.
Everyone knew that ng Chao was injured during his second year of high school and had stayed in the hospital for a few months.
After he was discharged, he decided to let loose and live however he wanted. He did not intend to get into college, and he was average and sloppy when it ca to the basic Nine Great Stances.
If he maintained the Dragon Hibernation Stance for half an hour, he would probably have to crawl ho when school ended.
Quite a number of students mourned him and thought about the ruthlessness of Demon Yan.
Zuo Haoran crossed his arms over his chest and sat down with a cold sneer.
ng Chao stood in the corner obediently.
‘Dragon Hibernation Stance is a very simple, elentary stance and was obsolete in my nightmare. How in the world did it go again?’
ng Chao tried hard to recall it.
His mind was still in a slight ss, so he could not quite differentiate between his dream and reality.
“Stop pretending to be cool. Just beg for rcy!”
His classmates thought that ng Chao did not dare to enter the Dragon Hibernation Stance, and they could not bear with the sight. They gave him a gentle reminder.
“He’s just a bad egg in the batch. This is what he deserves!” Zuo Haoran mumbled under his breath, but he spoke at a volu that could be heard by the people around him.
Before his voice could fade, ng Chao moved.
Whoosh!
The leg he positioned in front was bent, and the leg he positioned at the back was tense. He spread his arms out like a sentient snake, and he moved his back like an aquatic dragon which had just woken up from an abyss. It had saved up enough strength and was prepared to strike when rain poured down in spring.
ng Chao’s spirit and strength exploded forth like a torrent rushing down from the mountains. He could not control himself at all.
“This is...”
His classmates were dumbfounded.
They felt as if ng Chao had been reborn and beco soone entirely new.
The movents of his muscles, bones, and limbs were filled with a relaxed and confident air. Even when he was just standing casually, he gave off none of the stiff movents high school students had.
His posture was not perfect, but it was even more beautiful than the normal Dragon Hibernation Stance.
Even the tips of his fingers were trembling slightly, giving off a faint, murderous air.
“What the heck? Was ng Chao’s Dragon Hibernation Stance so good?”
“It’s even better than the class rep’s!”
“It’s just an illusion. He won’t be able to deceive . He’s using his life to pretend to be cool. Just watch. In at most one minute, he’ll definitely collapse!”
One minute passed, but ng Chao remained at ease as if he could remain in this stance until self-study period at night.
Suddenly, he rembered sothing and said with an apologetic look, “Mr. Yan, is there sothing else? Am I not maintaining the standard stance? I’m really sorry. I haven’t practiced it for a while, and my movents aren’t perfect. I’ll change it when I go back, so please excuse for this.”
“...”
Yan Dongxing wanted to say sothing, but in the end, he did not say it. A few expressions fleeted through his dark face. In the end, without a single word, he returned to the podium.
The students began to curse in their hearts.
‘ng Chao, you bastard! Are you even speaking human?! If your Dragon Hibernation Stance isn’t proper, then how is ours? Earthworm-like? Is it just an illusion?’
Everyone felt that after ng Chao woke up, his stance and his ability to pretend to be cool had gone up with a whoosh.
All sorts of gazes went to Zuo Haoran, and the pressure also returned to him.
The class rep felt as if he had just been slapped in the face by ng Chao.
There was a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, but a monstrous look flashed past his eyes.
“We’re returning to the lecture, co on!” Yan Dongxing tapped at the blackboard. “One Hundred Saber Techniques and Thunder Rapier are the two most important high-middle tier cold weapon techniques. The last question in the national college examination last year was about Thunder Rapier.
“So this year, there is a high chance that it will be One Hundred Saber Technique. Everyone, listen as I analyze the seven advancing moves that will allow you to cut into a monster’s scale armor with a saber.”
Yan Dongxing was a master in saber techniques, and he was a top-class teacher.
It was said that he had a senior brother, who was a peerless fighter ranked among the ones who set the questions for the national college examination.
In the last three years, Yan Dongxing focused on guiding those in the third year in high school, so his chances of guessing the right questions were very high.
When the class heard their teacher ntion his best skill, everyone beca excited and forgot about ng Chao.
He continued maintaining the Dragon Hibernation Stance, and as he watched the exquisite and matchless profound skills of the saber technique, his gaze beca slightly unfocused.
‘That’s so crude. There’s plenty of weaknesses in this saber technique.’ As if he was possessed, he began murmuring in his heart. ‘There are at least nine openings in the first skill “Forward Wind Cutter” alone. If you use this saber technique to fight against the real powerful beings of the Other World, you’ll definitely die in the first clash of blades.
‘But that’s not Demon Yan’s problem.
‘This One Hundred Saber Technique has just been developed and is in its first version right now.
‘Before Dragon City was destroyed, One Hundred Saber Technique had absorbed a lot of the essence from Blood Spirit’s Nitoryu and Ice Giant’s Broadsword Technique. After being refined multiple tis, it was upgraded to Version 7.3.5.
‘I’m using the Ultimate Version of the One Hundred Saber Technique to size up One Hundred Saber Technique V1. It’s only natural that I’ll find that it’s full of weaknesses.
‘... Hang on a second. What are Blood Spirits? And what are Ice Giants? Why did these strange things appear in my head?’
ng Chao had a complicated expression on his face.
He could no longer deceive himself and say that he had just been daydreaming earlier.
Was it the legendary rebirth?
Well, being reborn was nothing.
Even though ng Chao was just a normal high school student, he did read webnovels.
And he lived in Dragon City.
More than fifty years ago, for so reason, Dragon City transmigrated to the Other World from Earth.
A lot of supernatural, unbelievable things had happened in the city.
Children at three years old awakened to supernatural powers; old won at eighty years old began practicing ancient martial arts; housewives ripped apart zombies with their bare hands; white-collar workers fought against monsters after they got off work. All of those beca common occurrences in Dragon City.
Since the transmigration had beco a fact, being reborn naturally had its own profound scientific logic as well. ng Chao could accept it.
But based on the fleeting scenes he saw in his head, his future and Dragon City’s future were pretty pitiful.
The Earthlings who transmigrated thought that they understood their new ho, but they did not expect that the Other World would be much bigger and so strong that it surpassed the limits of human imagination.
Right now, they were only moving around the uncivilized area of the Other World. They had not even gone past the “newbie village” yet.
And beyond the newbie village...
ng Chao felt as if he was suffering from a hangover. His mories from his previous life were scattered and blurry. He could not quite rember how the creatures who surrounded and attacked Dragon City looked.
He only rembered that there were true civilizations in the Other World, and all sorts of powerful and ridiculously powerful fighters along with various insanely powerful enemies walked the land.
The “monster crisis” they talked about right now paled in comparison compared to the insanely powerful enemies.
Dragon City had raised the flag of Earth civilization to march into the mysterious other world. They killed, fought, and struggled.
They enjoyed a period of glory where they were known as the Extraordinary Disaster”.
In the end, they dealt with various enemies by their loneso and could not escape from the disaster.
ng Chao closed his eyes and felt like he could see millions of purple shooting stars exploding above Dragon City.
They were destructive flas, but they were even more dazzling than fireworks.
The incredibly vivid picture seed to have happened a mont ago. It burned in his mind and etched into the depths of his spirit.
‘Is this... our end?’ ng Chao asked his seventeen-year-old self. ‘Damn you, I refuse to believe it! This is just an outlandish nightmare!’
He opened his eyes swiftly.
‘Dragon City won’t be destroyed! And I won’t end up as a third-class fighter and live a diocre life either!
‘Since I returned from that nightmare, I will definitely be able to change the future so that those extraordinary beings from the Other World... who I can’t na, will open their stupid eyes and witness what the Extraordinary Disaster truly ans!’
The seventeen-year-old ng Chao had not been defeated by the harsh society just yet.
He still treated statents like “My fate is decided by myself, not by God. My fate is that I don’t believe in fate, and I will go against it to change my destiny”, which were created by adolescent delusions of grandeur and were incredibly embarrassing, as his motto.
He gritted his teeth, and his gaze beca firm.
A fla burned in the depths of his eyes, and it looked like lightning. It grew brighter with each passing second, and it caused him slight pain.
‘What is this?’ ng Chao was shocked.
A red light that looked like fire and lightning floated at the top right corner of his field of vision. It was elusive, just like floaters.
The others were probably unable to see it, or else, if such a strange fla had started floating around the classroom, they would have started screaming.
Also, it was rather familiar.
During the end of his nightmare, when Dragon City was destroyed, he seed to have seen this strange fla gush out of the center of the city.
Now, the strange fla had accompanied him back to his teenage years.
The next mont, it shattered with a bang and turned into lines of profound and complicated symbols.
Hundreds of them danced madly within ng Chao’s field of vision. Then, they twisted about to turn from strange letters that looked like earthworms to even stranger words. They looked like a ssage that ca from beyond the constellations and the depths of the universe itself.
After changing dozens of tis, the notification was translated to words from Earth.
[The host has passed the mind and willpower appraisal tests.
[Kindling has been bound successfully. The host’s identity has been verified. You are now Fire Relayer ng Chao.
[Congratulations on becoming the Fire Relayer of this civilization. I hope that you will do your best to pass on the fires of civilization. Here are 10,000 points as a reward for your initial contribution.
[The Fire Relayer has been found to contain old internal injuries and not be skilled in any basic skills. Would you like to automatically distribute your contribution points so that you can upgrade yourself to your best state?]
‘Kindling? Fire Relayer? Contribution? Contribution points as rewards? Is this a gift pack for my rebirth?’
ng Chao was full of questions, but he nodded instinctively.
[Used up 1,000 contribution points in exchange for the use of one Initial Stage Healing Skill. Healing progress, 10%.
[Used up 1,010 contribution points in exchange for the use of one Initial Stage Healing Skill. Healing progress, 19%.
[Used up 1,025 contribution points in exchange for the use of one Initial Stage Healing Skill. Healing progress...]
A string of notifications flashed in ng Chao’s field of vision.
At the sa ti, warmth filled his body in streams. They were like the first shoots that grew during spring, and they caressed him with the gentlest of motions.
‘My injuries! Even the doctors could do nothing about the internal injuries from when I botched my cultivation last year, but now, they’re healed? I can sense that the torn muscles and tendons have all been connected together!’
ng Chao’s eyes went wide. He was so happy that he wanted to sing.
After the series of notifications regarding his healing popped up, a new notification showed up in his line of sight.
[Used 3,500 contribution points in exchange for Reckless Bull Technique, a basic technique to execute power. It has been upgraded to Specialist Level.]
‘This is...’
All sorts of details flashed in ng Chao’s mind.
The complicated and intricate formulae of Reckless Bull Technique activation included the calculations of how all the muscles and blood vessels in the human body would twist up, how the blood and electrical signals would circulate in each of the acupressure points. Right after, the strength of the bones, ergonomics, all sorts of cultivation thods, and various scenes of practicing the Reckless Bull Technique in the nightmare popped up in ng Chao’s head.
The mories of his previous life had been blurry before, but now, they flashed brilliantly in his mind and turned into a torrent of notifications that filled his motor nerves and brain cells, allowing him to instantly beco an expert in using Reckless Bull Technique.
ng Chao felt like he could control all his muscles with ease and bring out all his strength to deliver an extrely fierce and powerful punch.
‘This is aweso! So, even a third-class fighter is this strong?’
He was incredibly delighted for a mont, but the pleasure ca to an abrupt end.
A notification popped up before his eyes.
[Basic skills are divided into five stages: Normal, Specialist, Master, Perfection, Ultimate. When you reach 100% in Skillfulness, you will be able to level up. Skillfulness can be accumulated by fighting and training. You can also exchange for it with contribution points.]
‘Then I’ll exchange it all. Do I look like soone who cares about so asly contribution points?’
[The Fire Relayer’s healing progress is currently at 62%. If you want to continue using the Initial Stage Healing Skill, you will need to exchange 1,150 points for it.
[Your Skillfulness for Reckless Bull Technique at Specialist level is at 22%. If you want to upgrade it to Master Level, you will need to spend 1,756 contribution points.]
[You have 3 contribution points left. You cannot use them to exchange for anything. Please accumulate more contribution points.]
‘I... had 10,000 contribution points, right? How did they end up getting spent so quickly? Could you push it to Master Level? I’ll give you an IOU.’
[No can do.]
‘Then you should at least tell how I’m supposed to earn contribution points.’
[The flas of civilization must burn endlessly. The stronger the civilization is, the stronger the Fire Relayer is. Please hurry up and contribute to civilization so that you can unlock more skills and missions!]
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