Swallowed Star

by Alexander Buchanez

  "My battle ability amplifier is 12.6!" Luo Feng let out a smile.

  ******

  Jiang-Nan pagoda, Luo Feng's room.

  Right when Luo Feng got back, he opened up his notebook. It was already 10:50 PM, but he couldn't care about anything else. Luo Feng swiftly opened up the contract that he signed with the Dojo of Limits. The document he opened was a scan of the contract he signed.

  In the contract was a phone number. Once Luo Feng's battle ability amplifier reached the required level, he could call this phone number and ask for his reward.

  "An enormous reward man" Luo Feng took in a deep breath.

  The full price for a portion of dragon blood was 160 billion, half price 80 billion. The half price for a complete��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��instruction manual was 50 billion. The cheapest battle uniform and weapon set was also around 10 billion, whereas the half price was near 10 billion too. Even if everything was half price, the cost would still be astonishing.

  Of course, the amount of money that the Dojo of Limits needs to provide these is quite low.

  For the Nine Stage Thunder Blade, they're just selling permission to use it, so they don't need to pay anything there. The head, 'Hong', is probably the only person on earth who knows how much it costs to make dragon blood, since he's the only supplier. And it only costs a few billion to make the battle uniform and weapon set.

  After adding it all up, the amount of money is around a couple billion.

  However......

  that is the cost to make them! Who would make the price equal to the cost it takes to make them? Even if you buy dragon blood from the governments of various countries, they'll still sell it at the price it's set at.

  "BEEP--BEEP--" Luo Feng dialed.

  "Hello" a low voice rose.

  "Hello, I am Luo Feng from the elite training camp" at this moment, Luo Feng was surprisingly calm, "I previously signed a contract with the Dojo of Limits. On the contract were five provisions. Once I meet the requirements for one of them, I can dial this phone number and receive the reward from you, correct?"

  "Yes!" said the low voice.

  "My battle ability amplifier is above 12, which satisfies the first provision" said Luo Feng.

  "Please wait a moment, I will check"

  In just a moment, the tone of the voice slightly rose, "Ah, congratulations, student Luo Feng. Your battle ability amplifier is currently 12.6, and the current date is July 30th, 22:56 PM, which is before August 1st. As the contract states, your reward is..... a 9th series battle uniform, a set of weapons, any instruction manual, and a portion of dragon blood worth 80 billion"

  Once Luo Feng heard these words, he couldn't help but to clench his teeth and left fist out of excitement!

  Success!

  "Student Luo Feng, please tell me the details about the battle uniform and weapons you want. Also tell me the name of the instruction manual you want" continued the low voice.

  "I need a 9th series battle uniform, the size....." Luo Feng quickly reported the information about the size and type of the battle uniform, ghost blade, and hexagonal shield he wanted. He also spoke about the tactical communications watch, binoculars, a backpack, and other accessories. Of course, the throwing knives he wanted were included too!

  "I also want a complete��Nine Stage Thunder Blade�� instruction manual!"

  "Finally, that portion of dragon blood" answered Luo Feng, "Oh yea, I want two of the ten 9th series throwing knives to be changed into SS grade throwing knives! I can transfer money over to purchase these two SS grade throwing knives".

  Throwing knives were small and didn't require much material to make.....

  so even the price of a SS grade throwing knife is much lower than a ghost blade of the same grade.

  "We can include those two SS grade throwing knives with the battle uniform set" the low voice clearly didn't care about two SS grade throwing knives, since the full price for one SS grade throwing knife was 400 million, half price 200 million. The cost to make them is even lower! For the Dojo of Limits, the provider of this enormous reward, this amount of money was nothing.

  "The elite training camp is inside the headquarter city, so the rewards will be sent to the gate of the elite training camp in around an hour. You can go there to receive your reward" said the low voice.

  "Within an hour?" Luo Feng let out a face of surprise.

  Who would've thought that he would receive his rewards so quickly.

  "Finally, congratulations, student Luo Feng, on receiving this reward. At the same time, keep working hard and try to get your battle ability amplifier to 16, student Luo Feng, to receive the other rewards" after the low voice finished saying that, the call ended.

  After the call, the room was completely silent.

  However, Luo Feng's heart was pounding.

  "Dragon blood. The dragon blood will arrive soon"

  "My strength can instantly undergo a dramatic change" even now, Luo Feng felt like he was in a dream..... just like that, the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��instruction manual and a portion of dragon blood was about to be his. Looking at how much fuss the astronomical bounty of 100 billion stirred up, one could know just how astonishing of an amount 100 billion is.

  And even if you take the half price of the instruction manual and the portion of dragon blood, they still cost way more than 100 billion.

  ******

  Excited, Luo Feng was extremely excited. He stayed in his room for 20 minutes before giving in to his urge to rush to the entrance of the elite training camp.

  Main entrance of the elite training camp.

  It was deep into the night, around 11 PM. It was a bit cool. Since it was already the 30th, there weren't any students at the main entrance at this time.

  "Student Luo Feng, how come you're here at such a time?" the middle aged manager of the security team at the main entrance smiled as he yelled; of course he knew this famous student of the training camp.

  "I have stuff to do" smiled Luo Feng as he responded.

  The manager of the security team knew the rules, so he didn't continue asking.

  And Luo Feng, under the winds of the night, paced back in forth alone in front of the main gate. To Luo Feng, seconds were like minutes. Occasionally a car would pass by the gate of the training camp. Luo Feng couldn't help but to raise his head each time but, unfortunately, none of them were for him!

  "BEEP!"

  The sound of a horn rose; a gigantic truck headed towards the gate of the training camp.

  "BEEP! ALLOWED!" an electronic sound carried from the security room. The patrolling soldiers and the other members were all shocked. Many systems in the elite training camp were controlled by an AI and not by humans. Usually, even private cars of the Dojo aren't allowed to come in.

  The door automatically opened.

  A huge truck drove in.

  "It's probably that" Luo Feng walked to the side. As if the truck discovered Luo Feng, it directly drove over to an open area and stopped there.

  HUALA!

  The door to the back of the truck opened and a sound rose: "Student Luo Feng, please get in the truck"

  Luo Feng ran over to the back of the truck. Before he was even able to get in, a blue light shone on Luo Feng. At the same time, an electronic voice rose: "Student Luo Feng, identity confirmed. Please get in the truck"

  The truck's interior was quite fancy. Inside of the truck were three people, who were all looking at Luo Feng with surprise.

  "This is Luo Feng?"

  "I wonder what HQ told us to escort. I can't believe they called out the three of us" in the truck were two white people and one yellow person, who were all speaking Chinese. The language of Hong Ning city was Chinese, so most of the people from the HQ knew Chinese.

  Luo Feng jumped onto the truck and, with a glance, noticed a gigantic, locked safe. The size of this locked safe was indeed big enough to store things like a shield and a ghost blade.

  At this time--


  A blue light like before shone onto the locked safe.

  "Reward items, confirmed. Unscathed" the electronic sound rose, "Student Luo Feng, please accept your reward"

  Luo Feng took a step forward.

  A tall, white person of the trio picked up this locked safe and put it in front of Luo Feng.

  "Student Luo Feng, what's inside here?" smled the white person as he asked.

  "A secret" smiled Luo Feng as he took the locked safe.

  Finally.....

  The enormous reward, and so is the dragon blood, is his!

  Chapter 134: Dragon Blood’s Miraculous Effect

  With the locked safe in hand, Luo Feng swiftly returned to his living quarters.

  Jiang-Nan pagoda, underground training room.

  "CREAK~~" Luo Feng sealed the underground training room's alloyed door. Of course, the first thing he'll do after receiving a portion of dragon blood is use it up! If he doesn't use it, other students might find out, and when that happens, someone might even steal it. At that time, Luo Feng wouldn't even know where to cry! Using the portion of dragon blood is an extremely important thing. To prevent others from distracting him, he decided to use it in the underground training room.

  The light shone across the entire sealed room.

  Luo Feng put the locked safe in the corner. A fingerprint was required to open this lock. Luo Feng swiped his finger and, with a "KA", the locked safe opened.

  The locked safe was extremely large.

  It was divided into two sections: top and bottom. The top section contained the tidy battle uniform, ghost blade, shield, throwing knives, and other accessories. Luo Feng took all of these out and put them on the side. He then looked at the bottom section.

  Only two wooden boxes were in the bottom section.

  "One of these wooden boxes must be the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade�� instruction manual while the other one is the portion of dragon blood" Luo Feng carefully opened the first box. Inside the box was a thick instruction manual and a full stack of discs. On top of the instruction manual's seal was indeed the four words----��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��.

  The instruction manual is his.

  "I won't have to worry about saving money for this instruction manual anymore" Luo Feng closed the box and opened the other one.

  KA!

  The wooden box opened: inside was a vial stabilized by a bubbly foam. The vial was plugged in with a stopper. Inside the vial was golden blood, which took up a third of the vial's interior.

  "This is dragon blood, the dragon blood worth 80 billion?" Luo Feng carefully took out the foam and carefully picked up the vial. He was scared that it might break, but a vial containing dragon blood should be extremely sturdy. However, Luo Feng didn't dare to take any risks. He raised the vial towards the light.

  Under the light, the golden blood could make one's heart skip a beat.

  If nothing was known about it, there's no way anyone would believe that this thing is worth 80 billion.

  "Hm?" Luo Feng lowered his head and looked.

  Below the wooden box that contained the dragon blood was a manual. Luo Feng picked it up, looked carefully, and couldn't help but to let out a smile: "I didn't know that using this dragon blood would be so simple!". According to the manual, you just have to spread some of the dragon blood on your body, and you don't even have to spread it around your entire body: just particular locations.

  The dragon blood will naturally spread around to your whole body.

  The only taboo----Do not drink it.

  "On the night of the 28th, I tested my fist strength to be 25,100 kg at the Nine Grand Floors. I wonder how high it will reach after using this dragon blood". Actually, before June, Luo Feng's fist strength was only 19,600 kg, which means Luo Feng's fist strength rose by over 5,000 kg during the month of July!

  This improvement is shocking!

  But it makes sense. During July, Luo Feng had four hours to use the archaeological gravity room, which was split into 12 sessions of 20 minutes. He was able to use the archaeological gravity room for 20 minutes a day for 12 days. Three days is comparable to 15 days, so just these 12 days in the archaeological gravity room is comparable to two months of training!

  So that's why he improved so much during July!

  And actually, it's not because how talented Luo Feng is or anything. If someone is able to train in the archaeological training room for 2 hours a day for an entire month, that one month will be equivalent to 10 months worth of training!

  "My fist strength is 25,100 kg. If it multiplies after using this dragon blood, it could reach 50,000 kg" thought Luo Feng to himself.

  The more powerful you are, the smaller the effects of the dragon blood.

  The weaker you are, the more obvious the effects of the dragon blood becomes. Because a warrior fighter is physically weak, his strength could quadruple after using dragon blood!

  Rumors say that dragon blood can multiply one's strength, but that multiplication is just an estimate.

  "My current body fitness level is at the intermediate warlord level! If I use this dragon blood, it might not just double, but even triple my strength" Luo Feng thought to himself expectantly. He never used dragon blood before, and others who have used it before never shared their experience, so barely anyone knows the exact process.

  He has to experience it for himself.

  .....

  In the underground training room, Luo Feng lay flat on the ground and, with the vial containing the dragon blood in his left hand, he lightly pulled out the stopper.

  A special aroma emanated around the underground training room. Just by smelling this aroma made every part of Luo Feng's body slightly sore, as if he was training his genetic energy.

  "Dragon blood!" Luo Feng slightly tilted the vial and poured the blood towards the area on his chest.

  Dragon blood was viscous like mercury.

  It slowly flowed. The vial wasn't that large and the dragon blood only took up a third of the vial, so this portion of dragon blood was indeed quite small. Even on his chest, it didn't take up much space. Soon enough, all of the dragon blood poured out. Luo Feng set the vial aside.

  "There's barely anything" Luo Feng immediately wiped the dragon blood around his naked top half.

  He also wiped some on his arms.

  With this, Luo Feng felt his top half and his arms start to heat up.

  "It's taking effect?" Luo Feng was filled with expectation.

  A warm current carried from where the dragon blood was to every part of his body: it swiftly headed towards his insides, his arms, hands, back, chest, head, and every other location. This warm current became stronger and stronger, and even the naked eye could tell that the dragon blood on his skin started swiftly disappearing, as if it went inside his skin.

  The warm current kept becoming stronger!

  The temperature kept increasing!

  "The manual explained that the process would be painful; so painful that one might even faint. But he didn't think that it would be this painful. "Ever since I was little, I've had to deal with my painful headaches, so I thought I could tolerate the pain. But who knew......" Luo Feng clenched his teeth and his entire body shook slightly. At the moment, he felt like millions of ants were biting every single part of his body. This pain made Luo Feng go pale.

  And the pain kept increasing!

  He was sore at first, and now he's in pain!

  Every single part of his body, and even his head!

  Burning! He felt like he's being burned to death.

  The numbness made him feel like he's being tickled to death.

  Pain! The pain that even sank deep into his bones made him twitch.

  "AH!" Sweat was flowing off of Luo Feng's forehead. His entire body shook and his muscles twitched. His heart rate increased and his blood continuously flowed faster.

  The sound of his heart beating.....

  THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

  His heart beated like a heavy drum righ
t next to the ear. The sound became louder, and louder, and louder until...... he lost consciousness! Fainted!

  The dragon blood on Luo Feng's body decreased continuously and was absorbed by Luo Feng's body. What followed this absorption was the twitching of Luo Feng's entire body: not just simply his body, but every single muscle in his body. Luo Feng's muscles in his top half of his body twitched and turned like centipedes. His skin seemed like it was burned and the veins on his body were sticking up and twisting; it was quite a horrifying sight.

  CHICHI~~

  What followed this horrifying process was that Luo Feng's cells crazily absorbed this weird energy and started their transformation! This was the first time that his body changed this much, even if you count the time where he awakened as a spirit reader!

  The quality of the genes in his cell slowly transformed from useless ones to perfect ones under the transformation brought by the dragon blood.

  Some useless cells and contaminants were directly removed and came out of the surface of Luo Feng's skin, as if it was filth.

  Under this transformation that sank deep into his cells, Luo Feng's tendons, skin, bones, muscles, and all his organs were undergoing a gigantic transformation. The density of his bones continued to increase and the tenacity of his tendons were undergoing a dramatic transformation. The amount of dragon blood was enough to provide for such a transformation!

  All of this happened swiftly!

  Faster than regular training by 1,000 or even 10,000 times!

  At the same time--

  In Luo Feng's vast realm of consciousness.

  In the center of his realm of consciousness that was covered with an infinite mist, the huge dark, golden ball no longer turned slowly and released spiritual force slowly like before. At this moment, as if the dark, golden ball made a huge decision, huge amounts of nearly liquid-like substance was instantly released, which soon evaporated into a mist. The huge amounts of mist swiftly emanated around his entire realm of consciousness.

  Hu~~~

  The amount of mist in his realm of consciousness continued to increase, and at an extremely alarming rate. The dark, golden ball was releasing a crazy amount of mist; it was releasing 1,000 or even more times faster than before.