Fanatics of the Magic Academy

After the death of the first Ancient Dragon, the Ancient Dragon followers elected a second "Ancient Dragon".

This second Gu Long was much crazier than the first Gu Long.

Because although the first Elder Dragon was the pioneer of this path of "human supremacy and slaughter of other races," he was a forerunner who grasped the blood of the Elder Dragon in a desperate situation and started by killing his own god to pry open a ray of hope for humanity.

The problem is that his power mostly comes from the blood of the ancient dragon, and he is the only solution who possesses the right qualities at the right time and in the right place.

His greatness is beyond doubt, but his path is not replicable.

You can't expect every newcomer to get their head drenched in ancient dragon blood and then happen to have a trait called "superadaptation" to survive.

The remaining Ancient Dragon followers are different.

Each of them gradually transformed from an ordinary person into an extraordinary one by practicing the concept of "human supremacy."

Most of them did not start from a higher point than ordinary people, but emerged from this dark age by fighting alongside the first generation of ancient dragons.

They are warriors shaped purely by the path of the Ancient Dragon believers.

Every bit of their strength was squeezed out of their own bodies little by little in the process of fighting against alien beasts and practicing the belief of "human supremacy and slaughter of alien races".

They had no external support, no shortcuts, only faith, only slaughter, and the path pioneered by the first ancient dragon and paved with the blood and flesh of countless predecessors.

This is precisely why they are more convinced of this path than anyone else.

Because everything they have comes from this path.

Without this path, they would have remained mere mortals trembling in the shadow of strange beasts for their entire lives.

This path transformed them from ants into beings capable of fighting off monstrous beasts.

Then what reason do they have not to believe in it? Not to take it to its extreme?

They have long internalized this concept and put it into practice.

To put it more simply, it means you've practiced enough.

What? Strength consumes too many resources? Then I'll save the resources for strength and practice strength instead.

So, when Gu Long's followers gathered together to elect the second "Gu Long," what kind of person did they choose?

Influenced by the extreme ideology of "human supremacy and the slaughter of other races," the entire society of Gu Long's followers is itself extreme.

Every believer who survives and rises to a higher level is an extreme humanist who has crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Their daily routine consists of fighting against strange beasts, and their belief is that humans should be above all else.

Will the leader elected by such a group of people, such a group of lunatics, be a conservative?

Don't make your Uncle Gu Long laugh.

The only conservative aspect of the leaders elected by Gu Long's followers, generation after generation of Gu Long himself, is that he believes the radical ideas of Gu Long's followers are too conservative.

Thus, in that era, one of the most fanatical civilizations was born.

A civilization that frantically slaughters and devours other races, turning their flesh and blood into its own nourishment, like a runaway train elbowing all other races to their deaths—these are the followers of the Ancient Dragon.

The second Gu Long quickly assessed the existing combat strength of Gu Long's followers and the scope of potential expansion.

Then he led the ancient dragon followers to fight and battle against the strange beasts.

The foundational prayer of Gu Long believers, "Gu Long Meditation," has already been developed in its initial form.

This is a prayer developed in imitation of Gu Long's habit of sleeping.

Ancient dragon devotees have risked their lives to observe the habits of ancient dragons and discovered that young ancient dragons need to sleep constantly to grow rapidly, and the same is true for adult ancient dragons.

They first devour high-energy substances and food, then fall into a long sleep, during which time they grow rapidly.

Based on this, the Ancient Dragon devotees, by working backward from the flow of Ancient Dragon current in the bodies of those who possess Ancient Dragon blood, developed the foundational prayer of the Ancient Dragon devotees: Ancient Dragon Meditation.

As long as the Ancient Dragon followers continue to slaughter alien beasts, they can obtain a continuous supply of their flesh and blood to sustain the entire race.

The process of slaughter can also enhance the faith of the group.

Therefore, the operating mode of Gu Long's followers at that time was to kill to support killing and to fight to support fighting.

The second Gu Long also adhered to this operating model, and in every battle against and hunt of strange beasts, he was always at the forefront.

In just 12 years, he accumulated unimaginable hidden injuries, which even caused his strength to begin to decline.

During one of their hunts with the Ancient Dragon followers, they encountered a mid-tier fourth-order beast.

At this point, the Ancient Dragon Cultists had only managed to deduce the highest level of their path, reaching the third tier. Although they had hunted fourth-tier beasts thanks to their numerical advantage,

However, that time it was an injured fourth-tier low-level alien beast, and even then, it came at a considerable cost.

The second Gu Long judged that if he led his followers to fight by force, they would likely suffer heavy losses.

So he chose to cover the retreat alone; he was fully capable of doing so. As a follower of Gu Long, he had taken the path to its extreme.

He has reached the pinnacle of the third tier; the only limitation for him is that the path of the Ancient Dragon Followers has not yet been extended to the fourth tier.

Four days later, when the reinforcements of Gu Long's followers arrived, his body was already mangled and there were no intact bones left on his body.

Even his heart was exposed, yet, to the astonishment of all Gu Long believers, he did not die.

He endured the pain with all his might, clinging to life, and when he saw the crowd arrive, he shakily pulled out his heart.

Using the physical control granted by his profound faith, even after losing his heart and having no healthy bones left in his body...

He handed his heart to the nearest young man and left with his last words:

"Take it."

He said.

"Don't waste it."

His heart contains diluted ancient dragon blood that he received from the first ancient dragon.

He was clinging to life with all his might so as not to lose the vitality of the ancient dragon blood within him and to pass it on as much as possible.

However, such sacrifice, death, and hatred were commonplace among the ancient dragon cultists of that era, just as the 15 ancient dragons told Rose.

"We chose to abandon the gods and seek survival and dignity amidst bloodshed, hatred, and slaughter."

Soon after, the third Gu Long took office, and like the second Gu Long, he remained an extreme humanist.

They harbored an extremely high level of hatred towards strange beasts.

But he was more rational than the second Gu Long, or to put it another way, he was luckier.

Unlike the second Gu Long, he didn't burn himself out in just twelve years.

He served for a full twenty years. When his hidden injuries accumulated to their limit and his strength began to decline, he was forced to step down.

Under the influence of the ideology of "slaughtering other races", only leaders who can lead the followers of the ancient dragons to fight against other races deserve to be in that position.

In fact, even the third-generation Gu Long himself agreed with this view.

He personally presided over the election of the fourth Gu Long, and after ensuring that everything was on a smooth track...

He continued to follow the fourth Gu Long's team, charging at the forefront of the battle, fighting against the monsters until the last moment of his life.