193: Chapter 193 The Golden Gate Symbolizing the [Future]: [Duel] The Unknown Crystal of the Ancient Secret Realm

The two [dice of fate] thrown by Gemini had just landed, and the total was still 12.

[Points: 12; Arrived at "Duel Grid": Since the opponent's character is also located on the "Duel Grid", both characters are being teleported into the "Duel Space"]

The translucent grid beneath Gemini and Hapi the Monochrome Bear suddenly lit up with a golden light that felt the same as the Golden Gate symbolizing [Future].

The water of the [River of Fate] surged violently, and the outline of an ancient Secret Realm shrouded in mist emerged from the colorful waves. The figures of Gray and Bai Ye each passed through a portal and entered the Secret Realm simultaneously—this was the exclusive teleportation of the [Duel Grid], pulling the characters controlled by both parties of the [Gambling] into a real battlefield of fate.

In this ancient Secret Realm where no one had set foot for hundreds of years, towering ancient trees blotted out the sky, the air was filled with rich elemental energy, and the broken stone slab road on the ground was engraved with long-lost ancient runes.

The [Dragon] Gray, now grown to three meters, flapped its huge wings and hovered in mid-air. Its black and white lizard slit pupils reflected the massive altar in the center of the Secret Realm and the white-haired human stepping onto it. In its pupils, besides contempt for the human, there was only anger that its own treasure was about to be stolen by an ant.

In his deeply ingrained perception shaped by the Legacy knowledge of the Dragon Clan Bloodline, humans were merely ant-like beings, unworthy of stepping into this Secret Realm containing pure elemental energy, and even less worthy of coveting the treasures within.

Bai Ye, having shed his naivety, rolled to dodge the [Dark Element Breath] descending from the sky. He looked up to see a gray Dragon flapping its huge wings in the air, its gray scales shimmering with unknown gray energy.

"Evil Dragon..." Bai Ye gripped the Radiant Greatsword at his waist, and the inscriptions on the scabbard glowed with a faint white light as he injected Light Element into it.

Bai Ye looked coldly at Gray in the air. As an orphan who grew up in the church and was well-versed in the classics of the Church of Light, all human texts described Dragons as synonymous with evil and destruction without exception. This gray Dragon emitting a terrifying aura before him only made him feel vigilance and disgust from the bottom of his heart.

The man and the Dragon arrived at the circular altar in the center of the Secret Realm almost simultaneously.

In the very center of the altar, a fist-sized unknown cubic crystal floated in mid-air. The Light and Dark elements flowing inside the crystal intertwined, surrounded by streams of light from various elements such as Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth. This extremely unique and pure elemental energy strongly attracted Gray, who was tormented by the "Eternal Hunger" state, and made Bai Ye instinctively yearn to obtain it.

Gemini watched the gray Dragon [Gray] flapping its wings in the image. Its thick gray scales covering its entire body reflected a cold light, its black and white lizard slit pupils revealed a longing for the Secret Realm's treasure, and the dragon saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth symbolized its vigorous appetite.

[Character Name: Gray Dragon]

[Character Race: Gluttonous Dragon (Became an independent new Dragon Clan branch due to acquiring the status "Eternal Hunger" and the ability "All Element Affinity")]

[Character Stats: 500]

[Character Abilities: Light Element Affinity (Advanced), Dark Element Affinity (Advanced), Dragon Magic (Intermediate, can cast all elemental magic), Dragon Skin (Intermediate), Devour Evolution (No Rank, acquire corresponding "Element Affinity" abilities by devouring flesh, Ore, items, etc. containing elemental energy), All Element Affinity (Intermediate)]

[Character Status: Eternal Hunger (An insatiable hunger caused by acquiring the "Devour Evolution" ability)]

"Roar! Ant! Get lost!" Gray's voice was low and majestic, and the unique pressure of the Dragon Clan was released. As its huge dragon wings flapped, dust and gravel on the altar were scattered, and the whistling wind broke the silence that the Secret Realm had maintained for long ages.

Gray opened its huge mouth, and the surrounding Dark elements swarmed and quickly gathered in its mouth. As the Dark elements were continuously compressed, a massive black beam, [Dark Dragon Breath], shot towards Bai Ye on the ground.

Watching the highly corrosive Dark Dragon Breath rushing towards him, Bai Ye quickly ran to the side, attempting to dodge.

Just as Bai Ye, relying on the strong physical fitness gained from one year of training in the Reinhardt Family, ran a hundred meters away and was about to curl his lips into a confident smile, Gray glanced disdainfully at the human fleeing on the ground. With a turn of its head, the Dark Dragon Breath continuously spewed from its mouth shifted to hit Bai Ye a hundred meters away, leaving black gullies on the stone slabs of the altar along the way, eroded by the Dark elements in the Dark Dragon Breath.

Relying on the Innate advantage of having ascended to the Dragon Clan, and with the absolute crushing power of 500 points in stats, Gray had already forced the human Bai Ye into a desperate situation using only its most instinctive Dragon Breath, which didn't even count as Dragon Clan magic.

As Gray stopped spewing Dragon Breath, the Dark Dragon Breath dissipated to reveal a white magic barrier. Bai Ye was standing there in a daze, his pupils having lost their focus. The unknown whispers that had only occasionally appeared in his ears now suddenly turned into passionate unknown hymns. Dark elements and some unknown power instantly devoured Bai Ye's consciousness, and Bai Ye's eyes were also turned completely pitch black in the process.

Gemini glanced at Hapi the Monochrome Bear, who was covering its mouth and giggling on the spot, and asked, "The ability of items is not as reliable as one's own power, you know~"

Gemini looked at the information of [Bai Ye] on the light screen in front of Hapi the Monochrome Bear, a flash of shrewdness in his eyes.

[Character Name: Bai Ye]

[Character Race: Human]

[Character Stats: 200]

[Character Abilities: Light Element Affinity (Advanced), Dark Element Affinity (Advanced), Reinhardt Style Divine Sword Technique (Advanced, a Divine Sword Technique personally taught by Sword God Lily Reinhardt), Light Magic (Advanced), Dark Magic (Advanced)]

[Character Items: elemental greatsword (Advanced, a masterpiece by the Reinhardt Family swordsmith, can gain different enhanced states based on the elements injected), Reinhardt Family Token, Light Amulet (a defensive amulet gifted by the Archbishop of the Church of Light, can block three fatal injuries)]

[Character Status: Dual Personality, Full Concentration, Unknown Whispers (Acquired with the Awakening of the "Dark Personality", unknown whispers appear in the ears from time to time)]

Gray glanced at the human "frightened silly" inside the white magic barrier and flapped its wings to fly towards the altar holding the unknown crystal.

Just as Gray opened its huge mouth, preparing to swallow the unknown crystal along with the entire altar in one bite, a black sword light slashed straight at Gray's white lizard slit pupil. Gray quickly closed its eyes, but its eyelids, which possessed the formidable defensive ability of Dragon Skin, were actually slashed with a shallow black scar.

Gray looked angrily in the direction of the sword light. A black-haired youth stood in the center of the shattered magic barrier, his pitch-black eyes revealing a provocative meaning and his evil, charming smile successfully provoking Gray's anger.

Bai Ye, whose hair had turned black, gripped the greatsword in his hand, which had become pitch black due to the injection of Dark elements, and glanced at the Light Amulet that already had cracks. He laughed self-deprecatingly: "I can only say, as expected of the original personality raised in a greenhouse; to be scared out of his wits by a mere Dragon..."

Subsequently, Dark Bai Ye (Bai Ye in the Dark Personality state) turned into a beam of black light and dashed straight towards the unknown crystal on the altar.

Just as Gray wanted to spew Dragon Breath again to kill the human before him who dared to provoke it, Dark Bai Ye, who had turned into black light, had already used his extreme speed to take the mysterious unknown crystal from the altar in front of it.

Dark Bai Ye laughed mockingly: "Hahaha~ Are all Dragons' brains this stupid? Who still fights to the death before taking the treasure now!"

After saying this, he turned into black light again and rushed into the dense forest outside the altar. Gray's gray dragon scales covered the skin that had turned red due to shame and anger, but the wild elemental fluctuations around its body proved its inner rage.

"Roar! Despicable human! Detestable ant! I will kill you!!!" Gray's angry dragon roar and curses spread from the altar throughout the entire Secret Realm.