In the dimly lit cavern, Brian covered his left foot with his hands and wailed in pain, his voice echoing through the cavern.

Just now, he broke his left foot!

The screams grew quieter, and Brian gritted his teeth and looked toward the only light in the cavern, a sloping tunnel barely big enough for a man to pass through.

That's when he fell from here all of a sudden.

Fortunately, instead of falling vertically, he was not directly killed.

Brian tried to get up, but couldn't get up several times, and finally he endured severe pain, landed on one foot, and finally succeeded in one go.

Then he groped around, picked up a sturdy branch, and reluctantly used it as a crutch, looking out into the deep, dark cavern.

Suddenly, Brian saw a halo of light flickering not far away, and the pale blue light was so beautiful that it instantly attracted his attention.

Looking back at the slope where he fell, it was impossible for him to climb up now, plus there were two man-eating monsters on it.

Brian thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, and limped towards the cave.

As he entered the cave, the darkness gradually lit up, and the light grew stronger and stronger, and it didn't take long for the entire cave to be filled with blue light, which was stunningly beautiful.

Brian saw that these light sources were none other than brilliant mysterious grass species.

He wanted to reach out and pluck the nearest grass, but the world seemed to be a world full of crises, and the unknown didn't dare to move at all.

He cautiously walked slowly forward, and an empty, light-filled space appeared.

The grass seeds in the space shine brighter and more brilliantly.

In this space are placed props that are both familiar and unfamiliar to him, from utensils that resemble those used for chemical experiments to various items that he cannot name.

He also found a bed with a futon and a high table in front of it.

These items are covered in a layer of ash, and the people who once lived here seem to have abandoned the place.

"Could it be that there are humans in this world?"

Brian limped to the bed, patted the ash on it and sat down, intending to take a break.

"Huh?"

Brian's gaze fell to the table not far in front of him, and there was a noticeable bulge in a thick dusty area that seemed to hold something.

Curious, he reached out and picked up the object, patted the dust on it, and presented a heavy gray diary in his hand.

The diary is made of unknown material, it feels like leather, and the long years have not made it look old, but rather give Brian a sense of mystery.

Brian immediately opened the diary, and was greeted by dense handwriting, and in some places drawings were drawn, and the whole picture came to life.

But what surprised him was not the perfect drawing technique, but the dense text on them.

"It's ...... Chinese character? ”

Brian swallowed, his heart filled with shock, and then he flipped to the first page of the journal and began to look at it from the beginning.

"Sacred Radiance Calendar, November 3, 2002. This morning, with great excitement, I boarded the Dawn, a ship of hope for all mankind, and was temporarily appointed by the captain as the 'Chief Researcher', to be conveyed to us our first mission after the ship sailed through the gray fog. I saw that the captain's face was solemn, and his hair had only turned gray a few days since the last time we met, as if he had changed from a man in the prime of life to an old man with vicissitudes of life. ”

"In the year 2002, on November 6, it took three full days for the Dawn to sail through the gray fog and officially sail into the dark sea, encountering some horrors along the way, but fortunately, there was no danger and no conflict. That night, the captain gathered me with the best researchers in the city, and he quietly informed us of the operation. The elves have abandoned their status as human allies and moved north to the Arctic Lands, and their entire territory has been divided between the orcs and the undead. Their next target is our last human camp, the City of Radiance. After listening to him, I fully understood that this time, the last hope of humanity had fallen to everyone on the Dawn. ”

Brian quickly finished reading the first page of the journal and saw the elves, orcs, and undead mentioned in it.

These races, which originally existed in fantasy, are real here.

"This is indeed a world with transcendent and alien races, and the human race in this world has been forced to this point, so they can only shrink into a city and struggle to survive."

Brian muttered to himself and continued to look down.

"On November 8th, 2002, I had been weakened all day, and without the one Divine Transcendent, I might not have been able to sit at my desk and write my diary. So far, the Dawn has been sailing in the dark sea for two more days, and the dark element in this sea area is very strong, and it seems to carry a soul-corrupting magic, and some researchers and scholars who have not stepped into the transcendent have fallen into a state of extreme weakness. The most serious of these was the captain's son, the boy was only four years old, and soon could not withstand the erosion of this force and fainted. By now, he had been in a coma for a day and a night, and the healing transcendents were all helpless, and even if the divine transcendent had a magic recovery potion, he couldn't recover at all, and now his spirit was extremely tired, and he didn't know how long he could hold on. If this continues, I doubt that the ship will be able to continue to move. ”

"It seems that this place called the Dark Sea is not simple, what does this diary represent when it appears here? Could it be the ruins of the Holy Radiance City? ”

Intrigued, Brian continued to look down.

"I was in a coma for a long time, I had lost track of time and I didn't know where I was. It was a dark, damp cave, with only a bonfire lit by someone else, and the cave was already covered with things that belonged to me. Strange to say, most of my stuff has been preserved, even the diary is brand new. ”

"When I woke up this morning, I found the captain sitting by the campfire in despair, as if he had lost his soul. When he woke up, he grinned at me, but to me, it seemed like a miserable picture. When I heard the truth from his mouth, I realized that now that the whole search ship has sunk, he and I are one of the few people who used the energy airship to transfer here. ”

Reading this, Brian paused, as he noticed that there seemed to be something under the table.

Leaning into the light of the room, Brian could clearly see a gray skeleton, and it was clear that it was the bones of a dead man.

It was now sitting on the ground, leaning forward, its hands on its knees, its upper and lower jaws open, revealing a mouth full of unweathered teeth.

"Maybe this is the cave where the owner of this diary woke up, and I don't know how long he stayed here."

Brian guessed that from this dry bone, he saw the vicissitudes of life, loneliness, and the end of humanity in this world.

"Rest in peace, maybe humanity still has a chance."

Brian flipped through several more pages of his diary and finally found some useful clues in the back.

"Today, the captain and I are finally going to set off to the island where the airship has landed, and by the way, we will find something useful, and it is said that several companions have also been stranded on this huge island, and if we find them, we will have a better chance of survival. As we stepped into the forest, I saw this strong, muscular man staring blankly at a low mound with an inscription in front of it. It turned out that the child still didn't make it through in the end, and the man had lost everything. ”

"We walked through the forest, and the transcendent creatures here were weak, not like I imagined the dark seas. But as we walked into the valley ahead, the captain suddenly stopped me and told me to follow him. He led me into the depths of the valley, which had been a little cold, and suddenly became so hot that even the air was burned and distorted, and I thought we were coming to a volcano, but I found something even grander. Lying there was a behemoth, a creature that existed only in legends, the oldest myth in the entire continent, and now, it was actually here. ”

Brian saw this and saw that there was no text on one page, and a picture on the other page.

It was a man with a strong body, a long, thick neck, a horned and frilly head, a mouth slightly open, revealing the sharp teeth inside, a pair of bat-like wings, and a long tail.

"It's ...... Dragon! ”

He was immediately shocked that the owner of the diary had discovered the legendary dragon, albeit the Western dragon.

But why did he survive, didn't dragons like to eat people?

With this doubt, Brian looked down.

It wasn't until he finished reading the rest that he realized that it was a dead dragon, but the powerful bloodline and elemental power on its body had not dissipated, but had slowly created this valley that resembled a lava volcano.

At the back of the diary, the recorded routine is almost gone, replaced by a pile of data, a pile of data that Brian can't understand.

All he knew was that the owner of the diary had almost found the survivors of the island, and formed a makeshift team to begin exploring the island, searching for herbs or hunting otherworldly creatures.

From his diary, Brian read not only about the transcendent, but also about something completely new - potions.

On this continent, almost all species have natural talents, but humans are ordinary and are used as food by many races.

There are even races that raise humans as pigs, slaughtered regularly, or used as coolies.

In the long road to survival, human wisdom gradually awakened, began to use some means to fight other races, and also learned a way to obtain extraordinary talents, that is-refining potions.

After taking the potion, as long as they have a certain talent, they can awaken to be extraordinary and have strong combat power, and the human race will slowly rise among the rest of the race.

But why humanity is dying, Brian didn't see the answer in his diary, but saw another thing that caught his eye - potions.

If you refine the potion yourself and take it, you will also have the ability to protect yourself.

He then looked down, trying to find a way to refine the potion.

"I never thought I'd think I'd do such a crazy experiment, but it's my mission, and it's the mission of all of us on board. Man will die, but man cannot perish at our hands. ”

"After more than four months of research, I and several researchers have finally refined the potion, we named it 'Red Dragon One', and tomorrow, we will select a healthy man who has passed the talent from among the unawakened transcendent humans for experiments."

"Experiment No. 1 failed, the subject was a scholar who had not previously awakened to the transcendent, had taken the potion 'Nature's Darling', but failed to awaken, and has since given up to become transcendent. Unable to withstand the effects of Red Dragon One, the target's flesh exploded, burned, and turned to ashes, killing within ten seconds. ”

......

"Experiment 2 failed, and the subjects were the transcendent 'Knight', 'Sacrifice', and a sailor. Among them, the 'knight' was the closest to success, his body underwent obvious changes, the blood slowly began to burn, burning his skin to blood red, his body almost doubled in size, and it was still slowly expanding, but his spirit was out of control, and finally his brain collapsed and died. The sacrifice did not get out of control mentally, but the body could not bear it, and eventually it was distorted, and only the part of the brain was conscious, which was regarded as the brain alive, and the body died, and finally could not bear the severe pain and died. The Sailor is similar to Experiment 1. ”

"Experiment No. 3 was a semi-failure, and the subject was the vice-captain of the Dawn, the transcendent 'Berserker'. After two months of improvement, reducing the dragon's blood component, increasing the neutralization of herbs, and thousands of blends, we successfully developed the 'Red Dragon No. 3' potion. This time, the co-captain took the initiative to take the lead, and we all thought that this time it would be successful, but the truth was cruel, although the co-captain successfully resisted the side effects of the potion on the body transformation, his mental will was greatly damaged, and finally he became a dragon-blooded 'puppet warrior' with only instinct. ”

......

Brian looked at the more than a dozen experiments in a row, which lasted for more than two years, and barely succeeded once, and his heart was full of shock.

It's hard to imagine how the human race could have risen to prominence in such a way that required countless experiments to make the human race a transcendent alchemy.

Looking through some experimental data, Brian also remembered some of the raw materials for refining potions.

Some are obtained from otherworldly creatures, while others are herbs with magical powers.

After looking at a lot of recorded data, the combination of potions, and a few failed experiments, Brian finally saw the rest.

"Today, a group of wurms came out of nowhere and attacked us. We fought a bloody battle with them, and in the end we paid the price to fight them off, and after this warning, we decided to take the dragon's materials and move to a safer place. In fact, there are only twelve of us left. ”