"Lisa, you can't awaken the bloodline."

When the always peaceful elder of the village said this in a calm tone, the girl felt a blank attack on her heart, and she clasped her hands tightly in front of her chest, her fingers clenched. Because of nervousness, she subconsciously glanced around, and in the spacious sacrifice hall, all the school-age teenagers and girls in the village looked at her with complicated eyes, including regret, doubt, nervousness, and disdain.

"Your bloodline is pure, but you have fallen silent, unable to awaken the power of inheritance."

After the Great Elder said this in a slightly indifferent tone, his beard was white, and even his horns were blue, he sighed softly: "Stand down, Lisa, next." ”

Subconsciously obeying the words of the Great Elder, the girl walked down the test stone platform in the center of the hall in a daze, because she was in a trance, she even almost fell, but no one stepped forward to support the stumbling girl. Once she returned to her seats around the altar, scattered voices came from her side again.

"Hmph, I had a disgusting smile on my face before the test, and now it's not a failure?"

"Isn't Lisa okay too? Her bloodline should be the purest......"

"What's the use of being pure, you can't awaken, you'll always be an ordinary dragonman."

"The demon hunting team originally had high hopes for her, and with Lisa's bloodline concentration, if she awakened, she would definitely be able to become the main force against those monsters...... Alas, why is this happening? ”

"Maybe it's because it's not favored by the gods."

Lisa didn't hear the words of the people around her at all, and a violent sense of loss invaded her heart, making the originally confident girl lose her soul. She muttered to herself, "How could this be......"

Just ten minutes ago, she thought that she would naturally awaken the bloodline and become a 'pure-blood' who has not produced a single one of the dozens of villages around her in the past ten years, and then become an important combat force and pillar in the village, sharing the pressure on her father, who is the captain of the demon hunting team. She also fantasizes that her future self may grow into a powerful hunter who can go deep into the 'God's Desert', find the monster that killed her mother, and avenge her mother.

But now, all illusions about the future are gone. Can't awaken the bloodline, be an ordinary person all your life, let alone become a hunter to hunt monsters, daily life is dangerous - in the huge Chronos Mountains, there are countless dangerous giant beasts, if it weren't for the dragonman's demon hunting team cleaning up the monsters in the mountain over and over again, and making a safe area around the village as much as possible, ordinary dragonmen would have to take a huge risk even if they farmed.

During this period of time, the young girls with two horns on their heads and tails behind them went to the test stone platform in the center of the worship hall, and they cut their fingers and dripped blood on a gem dragged by the white-haired elder.

The darker the color, the thicker the arc of electricity surrounding the gem, and the more relief and joy in the eyes of the Great Elder, which meant that the concentration and awakening of the bloodline could be higher.

Lisa watched this scene with a wooden voice, when she tested it, the color of the test gem even changed to an almost black dark purple, which means that she is not a 'pure-blood' among 100,000 people, and has the closest bloodline to the ancestor, but at the same time, the gem did not flicker the slightest arc, which means that although her bloodline is pure, it is unlikely that she will discover this power in this life. There is no doubt that this is a big joke.

Before puberty, only the concentration of blood can be tested, and only when puberty begins and you have the ability to have fertility, that is, enough vitality, can you test whether this power can be awakened. Every village gathers young girls of the right age in the spring of each year to test their qualifications, and the losers step down and those who meet the requirements are left in the sacrificial hall to go through expensive awakening rituals and make them hunters with great power.

Lisa's parents were both hunters, and were the most powerful hunters in the village, but her mother was killed by a monster from the God's Desert during a patrol when she was eight years old. Lisa has been expected by all since she was born, and she has been trying to sharpen her strength to make herself worthy of this expectation and have the power to avenge her mother.

In addition to this, the maiden also has a great dream: she wants to explore the entire Chronos Mountains and go deep into the depths of the desert in search of the source of ancient legends. She wanted to find out where the existence called 'the sea' in the ancient books was, and she wanted to know if there was an end to the desert of the gods.

But now, everything is over, whether it is anticipation or revenge, dreams or the future, it is over, without power, everything is empty talk.

At the end of the test, all the teenagers and girls who did not meet the requirements left the temple, leaving only those who did. Lisa walked slowly home, her heart full of unwillingness and bitterness.

"Can't I really wake up......"

Back at home, a cottage made of polished logs and bluestone, the girl sat on the edge of her bed, and then lay down on the bed, her mind gradually emptying.

In the vast Kronos Mountains, there are countless dragonman villages and cities, millions of dragonmen with horns and tails, and some of them with wings, living in this desert, the only mountain with life. Because of the complex and changeable geographical structure, each dragonman's gathering place is divided by forests, mountains, cliffs and rifts, and a hundred times the number of dragonmen, different types of monsters also inhabit this mountain range, the two compete with each other for living space, bloody racial wars have lasted for hundreds of years.

There is rain and snow in the mountains, plants and animals, rivers flowing between the valleys, and the fragrance of plants and trees in the wind, but beyond the mountains, there is no end to the 'desert of the gods'. No one has ever been able to explore the end of the desert, no one knows what inhabits the desert, the Chronos Mountains are like islands in the sea of sand, only the islands have traces of life, and the rest is just sand without the slightest life.

In the ancient legend of the dragonmen, this world was not what it is today. In the distant past, the whole world was covered with grass and trees, rivers rushed between plains and canyons, countless races thrived on this continent, and the civilization of the dragonmen flourished. But one day, a sudden catastrophe struck, and on the day the sun disappeared, rain of fire and darkness descended from the heavens, destroying all the kingdoms of the earth—and just as the world was on the verge of apocalypse, a great dragon god appeared from the sky, wielding thunder and crushing the darkness that permeated the entire world.

The war between the dragon god and the end lasted for a hundred days and nights, and finally the god won, but he was also seriously injured by it, and in the face of the world turned into a desert, the dragon god could not bear it, so he created the Chronos Mountains, and gave this last paradise to the dragons, but the aftermath of the end is still there, and its power turned into a monster, vowing to destroy all living beings.

In order to resist the monsters, the ancestors of the dragonmen used the power of the gods to transform themselves into the dragonmen with the two horns and tails they are now in, and established the original gathering place, and some of their descendants inherited this power, which is now known as the Demon Hunter.

"The Witcher...... Ryujin ......"

Lisa repeated the words softly. Just a few days ago, all the dragonmen gathered to observe the extraordinary thunder in the deepest part of the God's Desert, countless pillars of thunder that seemed to be able to tear the sky fell from the top of the sky, and the black, larger than the mountain range of the sandstorm set off a violent wind that could be clearly felt by the Koronos Mountains, and in the center of the sandstorm, a silver dragon shadow could be faintly seen.

It is rumored that it is the posture of the dragon god, and the god of salvation has awakened from his long sleep, which should have been the news that everyone is happy and excited, but at this time, Lisa did not feel the slightest joy, she was still immersed in the fact that she could not awaken and could not extricate herself.

"Boom Rumble !!!"

Suddenly, the girl heard a violent roar from the sky, and she was frightened like a spring and bounced off the bed, swallowed her saliva, and Lisa immediately ran to the window, and she saw that a meteorite was burning with white flames, and it crossed an arc from the sky and fell rapidly!

In an instant, before Lisa could react to what was going on, the meteorite had landed neatly on a mountain near the village, and the violent shaking caused the whole village to crumble, and the girl felt an uneasy creak from the beams of her house, which immediately made the girl rush out of the door in fright.

Outside the house, Lisa could see that the whole village was similar, no matter who was frightened enough by this sudden alien object, there were several houses at the edge of the village that did not seem to be very good workmanship and even collapsed, that is, the dragon man had rough skin and thick flesh, and the people who were suppressed crawled out on their own, in the panicked discussion, Lisa did not have the heart to care about the safety of her compatriots for the time being, at this time, for some reason, her heart suddenly jumped up.

"That thing ......"

Lisa forced herself to calm down, I don't know what was going on just now, when she saw the strange white meteorite, she suddenly felt a fever all over her body, and a feeling of being radiated by the strong sunlight spontaneously appeared, and it seemed that because of the impact of the heat, the silent blood veins in her body seemed to beat a little, making a trace of electric arc flicker between her fingers!

That white meteorite seems to be able to unlock her dormant bloodline?!

"The village will definitely send a demon hunting team to observe the situation...... Either way, I wouldn't have access to anything like that if I wasn't a witcher, even if my father was the leader of the squad. ”

I don't know if this is an illusion, but at this time, Lisa is unwilling to give up every possibility-she doesn't want to be an ordinary person, and she lives in a mountain village for the rest of her life! She wants to be the most powerful witcher in the world, she wants to explore the world, she wants to see the sea, she wants to find the end of the God's desert!

"I don't want to, just like the fish in the fish tank, I will live in the village for the rest of my life!"

Reckless, desperate, crazy – or to put it another way, courage. Countless emotions filled her mind, and at this time, the dragon girl Lisa had already made up her mind, she didn't believe in other people's giving, she had to decide her own fate - the witcher team wouldn't take her, so she would go out of the village by herself to find this meteorite that might awaken her bloodline!

As soon as she thought of it, the girl did not hesitate, and immediately quietly followed the path, sneaking out of the village while everyone was still panicking. The dragonmen are all soldiers, and most of their daily clothes are forest protection colors, even the dragons who have not successfully awakened have received basic training when they are young, and the village is surrounded by safe zones without monsters, so Lisa's journey was very smooth, and basically did not encounter any obstacles.

But because she was too young, and because she was not familiar with the path and wanted to avoid the route of the village demon hunting team, when she hurriedly came to the place where the meteorite fell, the village's demon hunting team had already arrived first and came to the place where the meteorite fell.

The meteorite landed on a treeless hill, and the blazing heat spread in all directions, distorting large swaths of the air, and a panting Lisa hid in disappointment behind a giant tree, watching her father, a tall, steel-faced unicorn dragon man, command the demon hunters to carry the huge white meteorite wreckage in batches. The stones that fall from outside the sky are usually very valuable and strong metals, which can be used to forge the best weapons and utensils, and there is more than one surrounding dragon village, and they will remove the largest and most useful part of the meteorite as much as possible before the demon hunting teams from other villages arrive.

"Damn, it's too fast, don't give people a chance!"

Although she is unwilling, this is also the limit of what Lisa can do, she is a fourteen-year-old girl in the final analysis, she has not yet awakened, and she wants to surpass the demon hunter elite who has been honed for more than ten years in terms of foot strength, it is really too much. Seeing that the witcher team moved most of the white meteorites away, Lisa originally wanted to hurry back to the village, since there was no chance, then don't risk it for the time being, she planned to see if she could find a chance to contact those white meteorites in the village in the future, although there was little hope, but it was not impossible.

However, just after the girl watched the meteorite leave in a hurry and disappeared into the jungle without checking the surrounding demon hunting team, she suddenly discovered something important - the strange radiation that made her feel hot all over her body, as if it could immediately awaken her blood, did not seem to have disappeared, and it was still in the place where the meteorite fell!

"Isn't it?!"

Thinking of this possibility, Lisa suddenly held her breath: Could it be that the demon hunting team didn't remove the part of the meteorite that could promote the awakening of her bloodline? That's right, all the members of the Demon Hunter Team are people who have successfully awakened, how can they be like themselves, a loser who can't be awakened?

Thinking of this, the girl had no intention of hiding, the demon hunting team in the village had already left, and the monsters in the other villages and the forest had not arrived, this was her best chance! Thinking of this, Lisa jumped out from behind the tree where she was hiding, and then strode towards the crater - unconcerned about the hot breath pouring into her lungs, Lisa ran with all her might, and in just a dozen seconds climbed to the top of the hill to the edge of the crater.

This is a huge crater about ten meters long, but it is unexpectedly shallow, and although the meteorite is powerful and the earthquake is also terrifying, the damage to the hill does not seem to be very large. At the bottom of the crater is black-red magma that has begun to cool, and a broken white meteorite sits in the center of the crater, releasing a fiery breath.

Most of it has been removed by the demon hunting team, leaving only broken scraps and a small part of the shell with relatively small use value, but even so, it can be seen that the texture of the meteorite is extraordinary-not so much stone, but steel, and it is also compressed, condensed, and purified by some great force before it can be found after thousands of times, just by looking at it, Lisa felt that the weapon made of this material must be indestructible...... It would be better if it was a great sword!

However, the girl's attention was not attracted by the meteorite, in fact, she only had time to look at the meteorite, and her eyes involuntarily looked away.

Because, there was a mass that was slowly wriggling, like a mass of white jelly, and it happened to crawl in front of her eyes.

"Aren't they all gone, how can there still be people?! Where did this human village girl come from, no, how can there be horns?! ”

A mortally injured archdemon whose body had been destroyed let out a cry of surprise.

"Oh my God, this ...... What kind of monster is this! ”

A certain dragon girl who was silent and fought for the future let out another exclamation.

Almost all the power was lost, leaving only a ball of the purest flame gathered into a shape similar to the abyssal flame slime, the Great Fire Demon Syndicate was thinking calmly, it looked at the dragon girl in front of him with long black hair, two cyan dragon horns, trembling and groping for stones on the ground, ready to smash the rest of her life after the catastrophe, in order to survive, the fire demon thought in his heart, and subconsciously flashed the figure of a black warrior. After a brief but most sincere prayer, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in the syndicate's mind, and the Great Demon directly connected his spirit to the other party, and said in the most solemn and majestic tone of his life, full of incitement:

"Girl—what wish do you want to fulfill?"

"Huh?" Lisa froze for a moment, and stopped preparing to smash the stone in her hand.

- McCrove Continent, Northland, Joshua, who had finished talking to Iger, was suddenly slightly stunned.

"What's wrong, Joshua?"

The old pope, who had just said goodbye, asked casually after seeing the soldier's stunned expression, and Joshua shrugged his shoulders and said with some confusion after hearing the other party's inquiry: "It seems to be ...... The sound of prayer? ”

It should be an illusion, he thought so.

After all, there should be no such thing as a praying demon in this world, right?