Chapter 19: Gravity Enhancement

Chapter 19: Gravity Enhancement

“Get up.”

“Whoa, what is this?”

While sleeping, Zheng Yichen suddenly felt the weight on his entire body increase several times. Even after opening his eyes, he couldn’t get up for a moment, pressed down by the sudden burden. He looked down in shock to see several rings had appeared on his limbs at some point.

“Go run.” Loris pointed toward the end of the street. “Run ten laps around the town, then go hunting.”

“I… this… how can I run?” He struggled to support himself, swaying unsteadily, and spoke with a conflicted expression. He tried to lift his foot slightly, but the multiplied weight on his body nearly crushed him to the ground.

“Run with your feet. Of course, you can also choose to fly.”

“…What is this for, exactly?”

“Training.”

“Isn’t magic enough? I’m learning pretty fast!” Loris had given him three days to learn the first spell. Zheng Yichen had already mastered it by the second day.

Just as she had said, once he grasped this magic and engraved it into his own Mental Consciousness, whenever Zheng Yichen thought about it, the Magic Array could clearly appear and be sensed by him.

And every time he used the magic, the activated Rune Patterns would connect with the external forces. Because the Magic Array was closely linked to himself, a portion of the external forces would flow into his body.

Then, part of that portion would be digested, like food eaten, becoming his own. This part was extremely small, but he could feel it clearly. Before, Zheng Yichen’s body felt empty, but now he could sense the power called Mana.

Of course, after practice, he realized this absorption and digestion were not unlimited. First, using magic would consume Spiritual Power, preventing him from using magic at all times. Then, accumulating Mana also involved a digestive capacity.

Just as a person could get stuffed from eating too much each day, accumulating Mana was the same.

However, because he was now a Giant Dragon, his digestive capacity was much stronger. Zheng Yichen did not experience the feeling of being ‘stuffed’ that Loris had mentioned. The magic he mastered was too low-level, and the amount of Mana he could accumulate each day was very limited.

“Magic is just one thing. You have more conditions and Talent to learn other powers.” Loris took off one of her long gloves and waved her hand slightly in the air beside her. A long whip took shape, formed from energy, so its length could extend…

Staring in shock at the over-thirty-meter-long crack she had easily whipped open near his feet, Zheng Yichen silently started running. If that whip had hit him, he would probably be rolling on the ground in pain.

“You’re running too slow. Speed up.” Hearing the sound of the whip cracking behind him, Zheng Yichen involuntarily quickened his pace. Actually, he wanted to look back and see what Loris looked like right now.

While running, he also felt strange. The weight on his body had increased several times, so why wasn’t the ground breaking when he ran? Shouldn’t it have cracked long ago?

The town’s area wasn’t very large, but it wasn’t small either. After Zheng Yichen finished running, he was basically left only with the energy to gasp for breath. However, without any chance to catch his breath, Loris walked right up to him, lightly swinging the whip in her hand, which had now shrunk to about one meter long.

“I’m hungry.”

“…” Zheng Yichen, lying on the ground, rolled his eyes. Hungry? These past few days, he hadn’t seen Loris eat anything at all, at most she drank some water, and he never saw her get hungry. It made him wonder if Loris even needed to eat.

Supporting his tired body, he slowly stood up. Before he could steady himself, his back suddenly felt heavy!

Loris was very light, but he was currently under the effect of multiplied gravity. When she sat on his back, the weight transmitted to Zheng Yichen was also amplified. It almost felt like the last straw that could break the camel’s back.

“Is this kind of training just to exercise the body?”

“A dragon’s body is different from a Human’s, so Human or humanoid race Combat Techniques can’t be used. But Battle Qi can be attempted.”

“Doesn’t learning that shorten your lifespan!? And Magical Beasts can’t learn it either, right?”

“You are a dragon. Although your nature is close to that of a Magical Beast, normal dragons cannot learn it, but your constitution is different from a normal dragon’s.” Loris sat steadily on Zheng Yichen’s back, gently swinging her two small feet as she spoke. “Even if you can’t succeed, it will still train your physique. It’s very likely you won’t have a dormant transformation period, so you must make up for it through training.”

“Similarly, if you succeed, because you are a dragon, you can also ignore the side effects of Battle Qi based on your strong physique.”

“Really?” Zheng Yichen was still a bit doubtful. He felt like Loris was confirming something.

“That’s only part of the reason. I’ll tell you more after you manage to cultivate Battle Qi. Now hurry up.”

“…%￥@! Why is there something like this in the Forest!?” Zheng Yichen stared in shock at the giant python coiled around more than a dozen trees ahead. The entire python was nearly thirty meters long, as wide as an adult’s waist. Zheng Yichen thought his own physique was already large.

Only the large lion he had seen before could compare to him, and that opponent couldn’t even defeat him. But compared to this giant python, he seemed insignificant. How many times could that thing coil around him!?

Not only that, but this giant python also had an irregular horn on its head. Occasional arcs of electricity leaked from the horn, making it clearly not something to mess with.

“You can’t defeat it yet. Go around.” Loris glanced at the python and said calmly.

Zheng Yichen nodded slightly and prepared to quietly retreat. However, the python didn’t seem to intend to let them go, its eyes fixed directly on Zheng Yichen.

“Oh, dragons are also highly nourishing for some Magical Beasts. Pity. It would make a great future opponent for you.” Seeing the python quickly approaching, Loris shook her head slightly and gave her whip a light flick.

The whip’s length suddenly extended dozens of times. The rapidly approaching python didn’t even have time for any extra movement before it was split in two vertically by the elongated whip. The horn on its head was also rolled back by the shortened whip. Loris casually tossed it into a rift she opened beside her hand.

Zheng Yichen stared in shock at the instantly killed python. After being split in two, the python’s splattered blood rapidly decayed before even hitting the ground. By the time it touched the ground, it had turned black and foul-smelling. Its body quickly rotted and weathered away, eventually leaving not even a skeleton!

“It died way too cleanly!?” Zheng Yichen said with a conflicted expression. Since coming to this world, he had noticed that the stronger the beast or even Magical Beast, the better its meat quality was.

“There’s still some blood!” Loris said with a serious face.

“…” That’s sewage!