Lord of The Mysterious: She Comes from the Chaos Sea

 "Your dragon language is very standard…

 "Who did you learn it from?"

Language is a product of civilization and also a symbol of civilization.

Based on Hermione's survival memories and short videos from Earth, Zhou Mingxiang confirmed that she had descended into the early to mid-Second Era of the Mysterious World, the Age of Fire's First Radiance.

In this era, various extraordinary races, under the leadership of their racial leaders later known as the "Eight Ancient Gods," had shed their initial savagery through generations of reproduction and survival, essentially developing their own civilizations.

Even subordinate forces like sea monsters, treants, and humans gradually developed their own cultures and racial languages.

However, the languages of subordinate races like humans only served for communication between races.

For naturally favored races like dragons, giants, and elves, the languages developed within their tribes could not only communicate but also leverage natural forces! This resulted in subordinate races like humans, even if they risked their lives to consume characteristics, still lagging far behind dragons and giants in the use of supernatural abilities.

Thus, among the weak but more rational human tribes, outstanding individuals who stole supernatural languages gradually emerged.

Hermione was one of the best among them.

Besides many racial communication languages, she had also learned the languages of giants and dragons.

Hermione's tribe was subordinate to the giant race, so if she was determined to learn the giant language, she could always find ways and methods.

But the dragon language was inaccessible to humans!

Because weak humans would only appear as food before dragons!

Faced with the curious inquiry of the monster woman wearing a black veil, Zhou Mingxiang swallowed and said with difficulty, "I once ate the remains of a young dragon."

The woman in black dress said calmly, "So it is indeed like this."

Zhou Mingxiang was stunned, hearing the woman's words as if Hermione's carefully hidden secret could be easily deduced by Her.

For some unknown purpose, the black-dressed woman who had concealed her monstrous features slowly said, "Devouring supernatural individuals to gain their various abilities... this is no secret among extraordinary races, only humans who have never produced strong individuals are unaware of this common knowledge."

The secret Hermione had obtained at the cost of near-death was merely common knowledge among extraordinary races... The gap between races was like an insurmountable chasm.

Zhou Mingxiang lowered his head and smiled bitterly.

The black-dressed woman then said:

"Among extraordinary races, this behavior is called consuming characteristics, but not all characteristics can be consumed at will."

"Consuming characteristics randomly will drive one's mind towards madness..."

"Even similar types of characteristics can pollute one's spirituality and increase mental burden."

"Taking you as an example, if you eat several more similar dragon characteristics, although your abilities would be enhanced, you would also go completely mad, and your body would undergo mutations as well."

This monster woman's attitude was unexpectedly gentle... Zhou Mingxiang, who had thought he would become the other's food, lowered his eyebrows to conceal this thought surging in his heart.

At the same time, based on this monster woman's explanation, Zhou Mingxiang couldn't help but think—

The woman's description was very similar to the potion system described in the videos!

The potion system refers to the process in the Mysterious World where humans, to become true extraordinaries, must use evil spirits, dragons, monsters, magical trees, flowers, or crystals' corresponding parts, combined with other materials, to concoct potions, then consume and absorb them to master different abilities.

The videos also pointed out that the potion system is a sequence chain of gradual enhancement, with a total of twenty-two paths. In each sequence path, the lowest is Sequence 9, and the highest is Sequence 0. Since Sequence 0 is the level of true gods, it's also called the twenty-two paths of godhood!

Within the same path, one first consumes Sequence 9, and after fully digesting it, consumes Sequence 8, and so on... Consuming multiple portions of Sequence 9 or Sequence 8 would also increase the risk of losing control.

Have I really crossed over into the Mysterious World described in the videos?

A hint of gloom flashed in Zhou Mingxiang's eyes.

She still had doubts because the videos described that Zhou Mingrui would come to the Fifth Era of this Mysterious World as the protagonist of the story.

Moreover, the videos emphasized that Zhou Mingrui's descent was not a transmigration! Instead, time was frozen by a pillar-level existence.

In the video story, Zhou Mingrui, constantly seeking the way back "home," finally discovered with sorrow that he had been on Earth all along... The homeland in Zhou Mingrui's memory was the prehistoric civilization that had long perished on this Earth.

Thinking of this, Zhou Mingxiang sighed lightly in his heart: Such a homesick Zhou Mingrui would definitely find it hard to accept this reality if he ever encountered that day described in the story...

Thinking of this, Zhou Mingxiang sighed lightly in his heart, no longer pondering over things that had not yet happened, and thanked the seemingly kind monster woman before him, "Thank you, madam. My name is... Hermione, and I don't know your name yet."

Zhou Mingxiang, who could always adapt to new situations, had no difficulty accepting his new identity in this new world, even if this identity was female.

At this moment, the monster woman responded, "I know who you are, I've heard your name."

"You have a relatively high reputation among humans... although I don't think such high-profile behavior is a good thing. You should be grateful that extraordinary races don't care about the growth of weak races like humans."

Seeming to feel she had said too much, the monster woman paused before saying, "Misfortune. That's what the werewolves call me."

Misfortune...

Neither in the native's memory nor in the narration of the video story had Hermione ever heard of this title.

"Are you... a were wolf too?" Gradually accepting the identity of Hermione, she tried to ask the woman before her, "To be honest, you look very similar to a human woman, and a graceful and charming one at that."

Hermione spoke sincerely, and "Misfortune's" tightly pressed lips under the veil actually smiled slightly, but this smile disappeared in an instant.

This lady resumed her calm tone: "I am a Demonic Wolf."

This lady named "Misfortune" didn't resemble a violent Demonic Wolf at all, her temperament was quite similar to that of humans!

Hermione exclaimed, "Conversing with you almost made me think I was communicating with a fellow human."

"Misfortune's" gaze slightly focused, as if recalling something again. After a few seconds of silence, she said in a slightly cold tone, "In this world... humans as bold as you are rare. You seem to have forgotten that you are the food the 'King' rewarded me with."

In Hermione's memory, there was a vague recollection of this matter. She had been searching for materials rich in characteristics in the wilderness when she unfortunately encountered werewolves out hunting.

Because she was a rare human extraordinary, she was captured alive and brought before the "Demonic Wolf King's" throne. However, that legendary violent "Demonic Wolf King" had no interest in such a weak human, not even an appetite to eat her.

As a result, Hermione didn't even see the appearance of "Annihilation Demonic Wolf Flegrea before being swept to the front of "Misfortune" by the surging wind from the throne.

The Demonic Wolf clan seemed to regard this phenomenon as a "reward" from the "King," all defaulting to Hermione, this human woman, becoming the property of the "Goddess of Misfortune".

Hermione sighed:

"When I was caught and brought to the depths of the Demonic Wolf territory, to the throne, I knew I had no hope of escape. Now my life is entirely at your mercy. If you really want to eat me, I can only resign myself to this fate."

"But..."

"I beg you to protect me."