One has a great figure and is mysterious, while the other is young and beautiful!
Tsk, interesting. I should find some time to exchange insights...
Naturally... I mean exchange insights on superpower development. What else did you think?
After all, compared to those Western superhumans who only know how to use brute force and output power through sheer quantity, Huaxia's superhumans definitely have more insights.
As for Ryan's undisguised appreciative gaze, Weather Witch and Lei Ling didn't feel offended or disgusted by it.
On the contrary, because of Ryan's gaze, the two straightened their postures even more and nodded at Ryan with a smile.
Because this World is just one big game of looks, power, authority, and money. Coincidentally, Ryan has all four, and he's at the very top of the pyramid!
Thus, facing Ryan's lingering gaze, the two only felt valued rather than offended.
Ryan also gave them a slight nod before shifting his gaze away.
After all, now wasn't the time to exchange insights; he still had official business to attend to.
With a wave of Ryan's hand, a table and four chairs immediately appeared in the clearing.
"Sit." Ryan gestured for Zheng Xian and Guang Bo to take a seat before unceremoniously sitting in the head chair.
Zheng Xian and Yingli looked at each other and took their seats on the left and right sides respectively.
As for the remaining seat, it went without saying who it was for...
But the Great Dragon looked at its own size, then at the chair that couldn't even hold one of its claws, its face full of embarrassment:
"Maybe I should just stay standing..."
Ryan glanced at the Great Dragon, smiled slightly, and snapped his fingers.
Snap—
In the next second, one of the twenty rings floating behind him turned from iridescent to red, quickly expanding and slipping onto one of the Great Dragon's claws.
In the next moment, something miraculous happened...
As the red-glowing iron ring settled on the Great Dragon's claw, its size actually shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Finally, under everyone's shocked gazes, it actually transformed into a mature human woman with golden eyes, crimson hair, and white armor, so beautiful she didn't seem human!
"Holy crap! The Great Dragon transformed!"
It was that hotheaded youth Alex again, his exclamation breaking the frozen atmosphere.
"No... I didn't change myself. It's the power of the 'bracelet' on my hand..." The Great Dragon looked at the red-glowing iron ring on its slender arm, its face also filled with disbelief.
After all, it knew very well that it wasn't the kind of dragon from Huaxia legends that could shapeshift.
It was just a dragon-shaped creature from another dimension!
It didn't know how to use such a miraculous method like Shapeshifting at all!
The reason it could transform now was entirely due to the power of the red-glowing iron ring on its wrist!
And this, naturally, was the power of the Reality Stone!
Ryan had mentioned before that the Ten Rings were excellent vessels for the Infinity Stones!
Although Ryan didn't have the complete Reality Stone yet, after absorbing the Infinite Power from within the Infinite Hulk, he possessed a portion of the Reality Stone's origin energy.
Injecting it into one of the rings to alter the Great Dragon's reality and modify its appearance into a human was easily accomplished~
As for why it was a woman, Ryan's stance was: would you rather your mount transform into a beautiful girl or a scruffy man?
Since Ryan was the one choosing how the other party would change, it would naturally follow his own aesthetic!
This caused everyone from S.P.E.A.R. to gasp in shock once again!
Wait, are we the ones practicing cultivation, or are you?
We at least have the cultivation methods for 'Qi' obtained from Ta Lo Village and Kun-Lun.
As the representative of the West's strongest superheroes, is it really reasonable for you to know so many miraculous methods comparable to cultivation?
After all, he was the strongest one now; there was no need to explain so much to the 'weak'.
Ryan reached toward the table. As he did, a red light suddenly appeared on the previously empty surface, and a teapot along with four cups of steaming hot tea slowly materialized.
Ryan picked up the cup of hot tea in front of him, took a sip, and said indifferently, "Tell me, what happened here..."
Hearing this, the dragon and the two people opposite Ryan looked at each other.
Although they were even more curious about why Ryan himself had come out of the Dark Gate and where the Dweller in Darkness and Xu Wenwu had gone...
But again, the one with the bigger fist has priority...
So, the Great Dragon, Ta Lo Village's Chief Guang Bo, and S.P.E.A.R. 's Zheng Xian—one dragon and two humans—'reported' their side of the story to Ryan.
First, the sleeping Great Dragon sensed something was wrong and notified Guang Bo, then Guang Bo requested aid from S.P.E.A.R. ...
But before S.P.E.A.R. 's reinforcements could arrive, Xu Wenwu broke into Ta Lo Village and forced his way into the Dark Gate...
And then, it led to the current situation.
When Ryan heard the timeline they described, he found it perfectly matched the time the Soul-Devouring Beasts appeared in Wakanda's Golden City last night...
Hearing this, Ryan nodded and shared some news from his end with them.
Hearing Ryan say that the Soul-Devouring Beasts had actually appeared in distant Wakanda, everyone felt it was somewhat unbelievable.
However, after hearing that the people in Wakanda's Golden City had all turned into mindless zombies, the Great Dragon became thoughtful and said:
"Actually, the Dwellers in Darkness are not native creatures of our dimension either. They also suddenly appeared in our World, in a manner similar to how they appeared in Wakanda's Golden City..."
"In our Universe, the source of their appearance was a sudden plague in a city—a terrifying plague that couldn't be cured even with our World's level of technology!"
"This plague infected the entire city almost overnight. To prevent it from spreading, we had no choice but to forcibly seal off that city, helpless to do anything for those infected who were waiting for death in agony..."
"And the Dwellers in Darkness and Soul-Devouring Beasts appeared in that city a few days after the plague, beginning to hunt the wandering souls of that city on a large scale, as if..."
"...as if they were attracted by pain and death!"
Ryan wasn't very surprised to hear this.
Because his conjecture coincided with the Great Dragon's.
A high death toll wasn't the only reason for attracting the Dwellers in Darkness and Soul-Devouring Beasts; pain was too!
And few ways of dying are more painful than being chased by zombies and watching helplessly as those you once knew devour your flesh!
Besides being able to absorb the souls of living beings to grow stronger, the Dwellers in Darkness and Soul-Devouring Beasts likely had another special ability...
Which was the ability to open channels through the pain of living beings!
That's why they could use the pain of the despairing people in the Golden City before their deaths to open a channel connecting to the Golden City through the slight crack Xu Wenwu had forcibly opened in the Dark Gate's seal!
Upon learning that Ryan had already wiped out everything inside the Dark Gate, including the Dwellers in Darkness, Soul-Devouring Beasts, and Xu Wenwu...
Whether it was the Great Dragon, the Guardians of Ta Lo Village, or the few from S.P.E.A.R., they all breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling an unprecedented sense of ease!
After all, the heavy stone that had weighed on their hearts for thousands of years could finally be set down today!
A smile played on the lips of the human-form Great Dragon:
"That's wonderful. Now, as long as no more large-scale painful deaths occur in this World, we won't face new threats from the Dwellers in Darkness..."
Hearing this, Ryan couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. He didn't have the heart to tell them they were celebrating too early—that he had actually been cursed by the Dwellers in Darkness.
So, a new threat from the Dwellers in Darkness truly could erupt in this World at any moment...
And knowing that there was someone like him in this World who could easily kill a Dweller in Darkness...
The next Dwellers in Darkness to come, or rather, dark creatures even more powerful than them, probably wouldn't be so easy to deal with...
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