On a beautiful grassy hill, a man with huge black wings stood and long black hair flowing in the wind, he stared at the sky as if he had immense hatred for the beings that created it. This man of course was John, he was going through all of the information on the dragon race that he was now a part of. The cursed dragons were a proud race of majestic creatures and became too strong. Heaven and Earth couldn't let their power become too immense, they destroyed their wings and made their reproduction rate negligible, after a while they reproduced with similar creatures to them and after less than a century all of their race was mixed with salamanders and other creatures. In the following centuries the race got weaker and weaker due to the continued breeding which led to the extremely diluted blood line in the salamander.
These creatures developed a lasting hatred against Heaven and Earth, which was increased over many centuries as Heaven and Earth only kept trying to eradicate the descendants of these powerful creatures. As he thought of this a hint of anger could be seen in his cold penetrating eyes, at the same time the huge black wings on his back unfolded and started flapping. According to the system, he needed to find civilization to safely continue his journey, which up till now was about living comfortably, but now it was about revenge.
A large shimmering lake appeared in front of the dragon-like creature, as he saw it the dragon dived. As it was about to hit the water, the creature spread its wings like a parachute. After it slowed, the creature landed in the water. The huge black wings on its black got absorbed back into its body and after that, the handsome looking man started to rinse off. The man was paying attention to his environment quite well, as he finished up his snake like pupils landed on a boat of some sort. The boat was nearing him at a surprisingly fast speed and after a minute or so of appearing in his vision, the boat pulled up beside him.
"Hey do you need a ride, you're in the middle of the lake". A large muscled and tall man yelled in a pirate like voice from the deck of the boat. " Thank the heavens, i've been swimming all day so far". The handsome man in the lake was quick to reply. After he said that, the captain helped him up on the ship and the two men went into his office. " So why did you start swimming?" the captain said in a confused tone. " Well I was trying to find a new town and rest for a few weeks before I continued my exploration, but as we approached the side of the lake a large group of monsters attacked and killed all my bodyguards, so I had started to swim, you happened to be here when I was swimming."
The captain listened as he pulled out two cups and a bottle of wine. " I see, well we'll be headin' back to land in 'bout a month or so and you can work around here till we get there". After the captain said that, they both enjoyed a glass of wine and a good meal.
The captain let him have a room that sealed and let no sound out. The system told him that there were safe ways that allow you to train safely, but they take a long time and that there are more dangerous ways which offer amazing results but are very risky. The system gave him a list of options that would help him get strong fast, for his mind there were not that many options, but a few made him interested like the mental runes, which is a method that allows you to make runes in your mind which carry intense power but are hard to create on top of being painful. There was a method which allowed you to store mana in your mind to manipulate the energy around them. And the last one was a meditation technique which accumulated runes on one's mental sphere that helped connect your different centers of power together, but also allows for making runes on your body to increase its power and to use the elements easier or on weapons to make them have various results.