An ordinary middle school boy wasn't scary. What was scary was when the middle school boy firmly believed that the things that only existed in his imagination were actually real.

  That was the case with Shava.

  For some reason, she firmly believed that a giant dragon appearing in front of her was her chance to become a dragon knight.

  As the Lord of Gciers gradually approached while exuding his powerful aura, System began trembling more and more uncontrolbly. Shava, on the other hand, was still fine. In fact, she seemed to be getting even more excited as the dragon grew closer.

  "Calm down, don't act rashly. It's okay if you become an eagle knight first."

  "Don't do anything stupid!"

  "Stop making trouble!"

  Shava seemed to be unable to hear the increasingly frantic mental messages System was sending. She just kept staring at the approaching frost dragon with a face full of excitement.

  System also felt the gaze of the Lord of Gciers at this time, and his eyes met with the dragon's again. As soon as they locked eyes, System knew that the Lord of Gciers was flying over to meet with him.

  As the frost dragon gradually descended, a faint, white halo emerged from Shava's body, then started rapidly growing brighter and more dazzling.

  "King, as long as I'm here, you don't have to worry."

  Shava stood in front of System, once again saying the same words that she'd said while facing the white spider.

  Like a dazzling meteor, Shava pounced straight into the sky toward the Lord of Gciers!

  Moments ter, she rocketed straight back down to the ground just as fast.

  Bam!

  Shava collided violently with the ground, sending a rge puff of snow into the air.

  When the Lord of Gciers had seen Shava rushing into the sky, he'd casually stretched out one of his dragon cws. When the tip of his cw had collided with Shava's bdes, she'd been bsted from the sky at high speed like a cannonball before smashing a two-meter-deep pit into the snow.

  System saw that Shava's exoskeleton had a rge number of cracks on it. Fortunately, she wasn't dead, as he could still feel weak emotional fluctuations from her. She seemed to have only been knocked unconscious.

  ...

  The Lord of Gciers didn't attack the unconscious Shava for offending him. Instead, he nded and stared at his cw with a puzzled expression.

  "Huh?" Aura suddenly made a surprised sound.

  System heard the Lord of Gciers' voice. He turned his eyes away from Shava lying in the snow pit and looked up at the frost dragon, who was busy fiddling with his cw.

  System's eyesight was excellent. He quickly discovered the Lord of Gciers' reason for inspecting his cw. It turned out that the ice crystals coating his dragon cw were covered with fine cracks, which had obviously been caused by Shava's attack.

  System sighed helplessly in his heart.

  Although his body was trembling because of the Lord of Gciers' aura, System still used his tentacles to move his body in front of the snow pit where Shava was lying unconscious, blocking her body behind him.

  The frost dragon continued to look at his cw for a while, then blew a breath on it, restoring the ice crystals covering his cw to their original state.

  "Finally found you, little guy with the special eyes. That frost creature with the bdes, do you know her?" The Lord of Gciers stared down at System and Shava.

  Without waiting for System to transform into [Frost Form] so that he could use Nellis to help expin, the dragon continued talking.

  "Forget it, her bdes are very good. Let her go ahead and join the Winter Legion."

  Aura's words gave System a very strong feeling of déjà vu. He'd also joined the Winter Legion in a confusing manner half a year earlier. He hadn't expected Shava to do the same.

  After Aura finished speaking, a cloud of white, frosty air surrounded Shava's body in the snow pit.

  Her situation was almost exactly the same as it had been for System.

  ...

  The Lord of Gciers had approached System for a different purpose. He stared at System for a long time, then made a 'tsk tsk' sound.

  "Sure enough, your eyes are really good." The Lord of Gciers stroked his chin with his cws. He seemed to be thinking about something.

  He suddenly stretched out his cws and gathered a huge snowball several meters in diameter, then asked System, "Your eyes should be able to see, right?"

  System looked at the frost dragon in confusion. After obtaining [System's Eye] during his third metamorphosis, his vision had improved tremendously.

  However, System didn't know what the Lord of Gciers wanted him to see. He first transformed into [Frost Form], then let Nellis, floating above his head in her halo form, answer for him.

  "What's special about the snowball?"

  The dragon's huge face showed a puzzled look when he heard the response, and he unconsciously started muttering, as if talking to himself.

  "He can't see it? Those eyes clearly have the ability. Is his level too low?"

  System was very confused by the dragon's words, but before he could finish processing what the dragon had said, the huge frost dragon in front of him had already disappeared.

  The Lord of Gciers had completely vanished. He seemed to possess the ability to leap through space. Only a voice was left behind, echoing in System's head.

  "Forget it, it's time to sleep..."

  ...

  As usual, Aura had arrived suddenly, then left just as suddenly.

  Only System was left standing there in confusion.

  He didn't remain stunned for too long, though. He quickly pulled Shava out of the snow pit behind him with his tentacles and conducted a simple inspection.

  "Is there anyone else in the world as crazy as you?" System sighed.

  It seemed like the white smoke that had enveloped Shava's body when she'd joined the Winter Legion had possessed a healing effect. System noticed that her exoskeleton now had fewer cracks in it.

  Through his examination, System found that there was nothing wrong with Shava's body. If her flesh had been damaged as badly as her exoskeleton, it would have been troublesome to deal with.

  After feeling Shava's strong heartbeat, System guessed that she shouldn't be in any danger.

  However, the twin bdes on her forelegs had been shattered by the Lord of Gciers' cw. It would take some time for them to completely grow back.

  ...

  System wrapped Shava and the ice-encased meatball up in his tentacles and carried them back to the nest. After inspecting and observing the unconscious Shava for a while, he grabbed the core part of the meatball and went to an empty chamber for some in-depth investigation and research.

  Although the meatball was dead, his flesh and blood seemed to tremble from time to time the same way little chunks of slime did.

  This kind of living flesh and blood was dozens of times more useful than a simple corpse, and its vitality allowed System to easily use [Perception] to analyze the abilities in the insect's bloodline.

  System used his tentacles to carry out a thorough inspection of the meatball's core.

  He concluded that this clump of flesh and blood contained the [Pupation] talent after comparing it with his own body's [Molting and Growth] talent. He also gained a better understanding of how to transform [Molting and Growth] into [Pupation].

  System could sense the meatball's unique abilities, but he could only vaguely feel the [Devour] and [Morph] abilities.

  However, perhaps because his grasshopper body already had the [Limb Regeneration] ability, System clearly perceived the insect's [Super-Speed Regeneration] ability with his tentacles. This ability was highly compatible with System's body, so he could obtain it with no issues.

  However, because of this ability, System became a little confused.

  Should he transform [Molting and Growth] into [Pupation] first, or should he consume experience points to activate [Super-Speed Regeneration] first?