I, the Lord of the Fifth Throne, am the source of all things!

..........

Ragnar followed Duanmu Lian out of the spatial passage and into the hidden base.

Everywhere he looked, there were instruments and facilities that Ragnar didn't recognize, and even the style of the room was unfamiliar to him.

However, what attracted Ragnar's attention even more than these things was a silver crystal shard the size of an egg, sealed inside a transparent culture dish.

That was a small fragment that Duanmu Lian had cut off from the Silver Comet. The real Silver Comet had already been sent back to the inner space by him through the chat group.

This fragment is for my own experiments.

"------!"

Upon seeing the fragment of the silver comet, Ragnar felt the silver energy within his body begin to stir uncontrollably.

"Ragnar, have you heard the legend of the Silver Comet?"

Sitting down in front of the instrument and starting to operate it, Duanmu Lian suddenly asked Ragnar without turning her head.

Upon hearing this, Ragnar snapped out of his reverie, distracted by the gravitational pull of the comet fragments.

The legend of the silver comet?

"I've heard of it. It's said that in the distant past, a silver star flew down from the sky and came to this world, which is how the silver aura came to be..."

Ragnar answered without hesitation.

The legend of the Silver Comet is a story that even children know, after all, silver energy is the nemesis of the demon bloodline.

That is the source of all silver energy, the very beginning.

It was only with silver swords imbued with silver energy that people were able to contend with and kill the dragons.

Duanmu Lian took out the fragment of the silver comet sealed in the petri dish and made it float above his palm. He smiled at Ragnar and said, "What's in front of you is a small fragment of the silver comet."

"!?!?"

Upon hearing this, Ragnar's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the small silver fragment in Duanmu Lian's hand.

He never expected to see the legendary silver comet at this moment.

Although it was just a fragment, Ragnar, recalling the agitation of the silver energy within his body when he saw the fragment earlier, was certain that what Duanmu Lian said was true.

"To be honest, I plan to use you as a test subject to explore the method of fusion and generation of the primordial silver energy of the silver comet with the human body..."

Duanmu Lian made no attempt to hide anything and directly told Ragnar his thoughts.

I want to use you as an experiment.

There was no deception in his words; he told Ragnar the benefits and risks of the matter in a very direct manner.

If Ragnar can survive Duanmu Lian's experiments, he can become a pioneer and obtain the powerful force to slay dragons.

If she doesn't survive and dies, the other party can only contribute to the success of Duanmu Lian's experiment.

You should know that silver comets are extremely precious.

As experimental subjects for the Silver Comet, besides Duanmu Lian herself and Ragnar in front of her, only Li Bai, the immortal swordsman of the Sun God Cult, is qualified.

Duanmu Lian and Li Bailian are considered excellent experimental subjects, while Ragnar is a qualified experimental subject.

"I accept!"

After hearing Duanmu Lian's words, Ragnar agreed without any hesitation.

He had already disregarded life and death, constantly pushing himself to the brink of death in his battles with the dragon, and several times his life hung by a thread.

He continuously pushed his limits and gradually mastered the Silver Breathing Technique taught to him by Duanmu Lian.

This process is essentially walking a tightrope between life and death.

The only meaning of his life was slaying dragons; there was nothing else.

Therefore, Ragnar was not afraid of the risks of being Duanmu Lian's experimental subject; on the contrary, he was extremely looking forward to the power he could gain.

You should know that this is the legendary silver comet, the source of all silver energy in the world.

If he can really pull through, he will definitely gain powerful revenge!

"Then let's get started."

Upon hearing Ragnar's unwavering answer, Duanmu Lian smiled knowingly and immediately began experiments related to the silver comet.

Although he didn't know if he could succeed, he had a gut feeling about Ragnar.

The experiment with the silver comet may not be entirely successful.

But Ragnar might be able to survive the series of life-or-death trials during the experiment and create a miracle.

P.S.: Please vote and recommend! The Dragon Hunter dungeon is over.

The plot involving collecting the remaining Dragon King's body materials will not be described and will be skipped, since the powers of the Bone Dragon King, Scale Dragon King, and Eye Dragon King have not yet been formally described in the manga.

As for whether there will be any more Dragon Hunter storylines later, that's in the distant future.

The next timeline is the Dragon Hunter world, which is the timeline where old Ragnar passed on his power to his past self.

Chapter Fifty-Two: Paradise of the Past? Eternal Abyss!

After collecting the specialties of the other world and completing the analysis and fusion of the silver energy, Duanmu Lian spent the rest of her time consolidating her cultivation.

During this time, Ragnar persevered through a series of experiments conducted by Duan Mulian.

In order to enhance the physical qualities of the test subject, Duanmu Lian taught Ragnar the Six Styles and the Enhanced Impact Technique.

Using the other party as a reference for trial and error, Duanmu Lian completely mastered the silver energy.

After collecting the blood of the six major vampire clans, he opened the portal to the interdimensional world and returned to the inner space.

"I'm back..."

Looking at the all-too-familiar scene before her, Duanmu Lian took a deep breath.

His trip to the other world was very fruitful, and his strength was further improved and solidified through repeated combat.

He had already increased the power level of the enhanced impact to level nine.

He has now fully mastered the Nine Yang Divine Skill and the Nine Deaths Evil Skill.

As for the problem of the Ten Yang Sacred Flame being too powerful and difficult to control, half of it has been resolved.

Through cultivating the Blazing Flame Without Form, he has already reached the point where his body can be transformed into flames.

While the Ten Suns Sacred Flame - Black Flame is not yet perfectly effective in the air, it is absolutely incapable of harming the user.

Now that he has returned to the interior of the space, he should advance his power to the next stage.

only........

"Dalian?"

After reconnecting with his memories from his external self and regaining control of the main chat group, he went to find Dalian in her large study.

However, he did not see Dalian here.

Instead, she encountered a girl who looked exactly like Dalian.

The other person was dressed in a pure white dress adorned with ribbons and multiple layers of thin lace, and had smooth, bright pink hair and a pair of beautiful amethyst-like eyes.

At this moment, the girl huddled among the pile of books, holding them in her hands to cover her delicate face, looking at Duanmu Lian with a guilty and embarrassed expression.

"...Where is Dahlian?"

Duanmu Lian's expression was somewhat stiff as he looked at the pink-haired girl in front of him who looked exactly like Dalian, but was not Dalian. An ominous premonition rose in his heart.

He knew who the girl in front of him was; she was, in a sense, another Dallian.

Dalian is a humanoid, mobile bookshelf.

Within Dantalian's bookshelf, specifically within Dantalian's body, resides an administrator—the pink-haired mage before us.

She manages the space inside the bookshelves, handling everything from finding books to putting them away.

She has the exact same appearance as Dalian, and although she is also Dalian, Duanmu Lian thinks they are two different people.

"She...is gone."

The pink-haired girl answered Duanmu Lian's question in a soft voice, a sad look appearing in her pale purple eyes.

Having truly heard words she didn't want to hear, Duanmu Lian felt as if she had been thrown into a blender, and a kind of grief that she couldn't tell whether it was heartache or soul-deep sorrow was spreading uncontrollably at this moment.

At the same time, a sense of sorrow that did not belong to him resonated within his soul.

Duanmu Lian also experiences sorrow, but her more profound sorrow comes from the previous generation's Demon God Lotus.

In her mind, memories belonging to the previous generation of Ren and Dalian flickered and surfaced as if stimulated.

However, these newly emerging memories all turned into 'experience' in the next moment.

It was like watching a movie; Duanmu Lian saw those memories, but she didn't feel like she had experienced them firsthand.

This was a restriction placed on him by those Duanmu Lians when he awakened countless memories of his past lives, preventing him from being influenced by his past.

"I... can still feel her...."

Duanmu Lian forced himself to suppress the unspeakable pain in his heart. He slowly walked up to the pink-haired girl and looked at her with a complicated expression.

His relationship with Dalian was complicated, and they shared an unspoken friendship.

She wouldn't see Duanmu Lian as the Demon God Lotus, nor would she see him as a substitute.

Duanmu Lian will only have feelings for Dalian, but she will not take those feelings any further.

"She...gave up her own identity and gave everything to me..."

The girl in pink looked directly at Duanmu Lian and softly explained the reason.

She is Darian, but she is not Darian.

She was originally a self-sealed entity within the bookshelf space, and she belonged to a different personality from Dalian.