The Ultimate Beast World Glow-Up novel Chapter 228

Chapter 228 The Sick Believe

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They sprinted uphill at full speed. As they ran, Rosalie asked, “Declan, is Bert’s beast form a dragon?”

Declan nodded. “By rights, all dragons should belong to my clan,” he said.

“There shouldn’t be any I don’t recognize. Bert may be the one exception.”

He glanced back, tense. “Matriarch, he didn’t come with good intentions. We have to be careful.

“I’ve already sent out a call to gather my people,” Declan continued. “If we can hold out until they arrive, this danger will pass.”

After that, they would take Bert back to the clan and find out exactly who and what he really was.

Bert was fast. It didn’t take long before he caught up to them.

Declan shifted slightly, placing himself in front of Rosalie and Reid.

Bert’s eyes gleamed with wild excitement. “You’re a dragon,” he shouted.

“You’ve completed the change! How did you do it?”

Declan frowned. His sharp eyes caught the scars on Bert’s back-long marks, dark and twisted, like they had been struck by lightning.

In that instant, he understood.

Bert had tried to become a dragon too. He had failed. That was why he stood between forms, neither fully dragon nor fully something else.

Declan had seen it before. As a child, he had watched elders attempt the same transformation. Some died. Others lost their minds. Bert was clearly one of those survivors.

“Matriarch, hide,” Declan said firmly.

Rosalie pulled Reid to seek shelter behind a large tree.

The next second, Declan and Bert clashed.

Declan’s pupils narrowed into sharp slits, glowing a powerful gold. The eyes of a true dragon.

Bert’s eyes burned red, not with strength, but with excitement.

Declan struck first.

The two fought in human form, but their hands had already changed into sharp dragon claws.

They did not take on full dragon shapes. Dragons were beings of immense power, and the world did not allow them to appear freely.

That was why only one true dragon had emerged in hundreds of years. If they transformed fully, the disturbance would be massive and the consequences far worse.

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Chapter 228 The Sick Believe

Both of them understood this. They fought in silence.

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Then Bert did something unpredictable. He didn’t strike with his claws. Instead, he lunged forward and bit down hard on Declan’s shoulder.

His teeth pierced deep. Blood burst out as a chunk of flesh was torn away.

Declan cried out in pain. His face went pale as his shoulder shook violently.

Rosalie’s eyes widened in shock. Bert tore away a piece of flesh and, to her horror, brought it to his mouth. and began chewing.

He kept eating until the entire chunk was gone. Blood smeared his lips, making him look like something dragged straight out of a nightmare.

Rosalie couldn’t take it. She turned aside and retched, her stomach burning.

By the time she steadied herself, the fight was already raging again.

The pain didn’t slow Declan down. With a sharp motion, he drove his claw into Bert’s abdomen and tore away a piece of flesh in return.

Bert staggered but did not fall. He clutched his stomach, staring at Declan with greedy, unblinking eyes.

Suddenly, Declan remembered something Zoran had once said-a theory so extreme it had sounded absurd.

It was said that some failed dragons believed that eating dragon flesh and drinking dragon blood could purify them.

If they consumed enough, they thought, they could one day become true dragons.

Declan’s brow tightened as he looked at Bert’s clouded eyes. Could he really be one of those?

Then Declan noticed Bert’s lips moving; he was mumbling something.

He listened closely. “I’ll eat your flesh,” Bert muttered again and again. “Drink your blood. Then I’ll become a true dragon.”

Declan’s heart sank. He had been right.

What followed was not fear but deep disgust.

Declan despised dragons who harmed their own kind. From the look of Bert, he had already done this more than once.

After a brief pause to catch their breath, the two lunged at each other again.

Behind the tree, Rosalie stared in disbelief.

When she had first met Bert, he had seemed normal. Polite. Even handsome.

But the creature now fighting with madness in his eyes-was this really the same beastman?

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