Ryu continued his way through the forest. He wanted to find a vulcano, but there weren't any hills or mountains that in his sight. All he could see were trees and even more trees.
Ryu saw many beasts, but all of them were rather week and the stronger beasts were instinctively getting out of his way.
With the time Ryu walked the forest changed to a rather dry environment. Also the beasts were different than in the lively forest. Lizards were more common, the grases and trees were dried out.
The heat was also increasing and the weather got more windy.
After a long time continuing his way, Ryu's environment changed into a desert.
The heat and the flying sand were very annoying. He barely even saw any creatures walking in the desert.
It was somekinda a dead place. Nothing really moved, there was just the sound of the wind and the red sand flying into his eyes all the time.
Suddenly the wind became heavier and heavier and the sand hit his scales more and more.
It was like thousands of hailstones trying to pierce his body and it kept increasing.
Ryu fought his way through the sand, but the more he got foreward, the more it was getting harder to take a step.
After fighting against the sand for at least half an hour, all the pressure and heavy sand bullets stopped out of nowhere.
In here the sight was all clear and the air was standing still.
When Ryu looked up he noticed that this wasn't a normal sandstorm. This was a huge tornado more than one kilometer high. In comparison to the tornado he was not even a little ant.
He was lucky to be even alive. If the tornado had pulled him in, he would be surely dead.
In order to survive he woulfmd need a safe place to hide till the tornado passed by.
But in this lonly desert there was just sand and more sand. Where should he hide if there wasn't anything?
Just when he wanted to try his luck by fighting his way through the storm, he saw a small cave in the sand, which looked very sturdy and safe.
Without hesitation, Ryu entered the small cave. Inside was an overwhelming heat and a small corridor leading deaper.
The heat kept increasing and out of the depths shone a red yellow light.
When Ryu reached the end of the tunnel, the heat was so immense that sweat poured out from all of his body.
He was actually inside a huge vulcano, surprisingly he had found out of luck what he wanted for his evolution.
Inside the lawa there was a big platform in the middle of the crater.
It was so the perfect spot to undergo his evolution, because of the extreme heat no beast lived inside here.
After thinking for a while, Ryu decided to just evolve. What should happen?
He selected the evolution [Sun Dragon] and clicked Yes.
Golden light enveloped Ryu and illuminated the whole vulcano. It was as if a god has descended upon earth.
All the light surrounded him and suddenly his body slowly absorbed all the heat and golden light around him.
First he thought that was a good thing, but out of nowhere, unbearable itiching and pain overcame his body.
He threw himself back and fotmrth on the platform. Tiny cracks appeared all over his body and blood flowed out.
Ryu saw his hp slowly decreasing, if this continues like this he will die soon.
Allthrough he was neary dying in pain and itch, Ryu still concentrated to find a solution.
The cracks got bigger and bigger on his body, because the imense heat rampaged within his body.
Ryu was losing more and more blood, the situation wasn't looking good for him.
He quickly opend his skill list and searched gor usefull skills he could get to survive this critical situation.
While cursing this dam world, he finally saw one helpfull skill.
[Health Regeneration]
He used 5 Skill points and bought this skill.
[Congrats: You obtained [Health Generation] ]
[Health Generation: Regenerate every two seconds 0,5% of Hp (passiv effect)]
With skill Ryu could stop the wounds to grow bigger but it wasn't enough to close his injuries.
He quickly searched for another skill what could safe him out of this situation, but he couldn't find anything helpful.
His mind became dizzyer and was slowly fading away.
Ryu didn't have any strengh remaining to think about the message.
^Yes^
[ [Health Regeneration] reached maximum level! ]
After saying yes he fell emotionless at the ground, but the golden light and heat kept pouring into his body.