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Chapter 599 - Here Be Dragons
🕑 Added 2024-11-01 02:00:04 +0000 UTCArtemis being around was great. We had enough people trying to cram into our tiny cottage, too many settlers, and literal mountains worth of trees that we decided to move into a bigger plot.
Given how mobile most of us were - excluding Raccoon and Titania, who were a bit on the slower side - we rebuilt our home over the ruin of our old one, finding countless treasures that had been buried and collapsed. The material wasn’t as nice, the place wasn’t nearly as luxurious, and Raccoon was too old and established in her job to make her haul all the water up, but we once again had our home.
Auri’s hall of mirrors had shattered into a million pieces, but she was one to roll with the punches. She picked them up, had us build her a new, huge nest room, coated the walls in sticky tar then carefully, a dozen pieces at a time, rebuilt a mosaic out of the million broken pieces of mirror.
“Brrrp!” She fluffed herself up as she looked in the mirrors, first one side, then the other.
“I’ll admit, I had my doubts, but you were totally right. This effect looks amazing.” I said. It was like a sliver of a hundred thousand little fires flickering through the crack in a wall. “You took something broken, and made it even more beautiful than it was before.”
“Brrrpt!!!” Auri fluttered over to my shoulder and nuzzled my cheek.
“I was thinking, we should install the bath right above, so you can heat it up. It should only leak a little.” I joked, yanking Auri’s chain a bit. She looked so outraged by the suggestion I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Brrpt.” She pouted. I had to agree.
“Artemis is a bad influence on me.”
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All of us were on the porch, watching the sunrise. It was turning the ocean into a thousand sparkling gems, and Titania had made a lovely tea for all of us. It was a beautiful moment. Me, Iona, Auri, Artemis, Nina, Raccoon, and Titania. Seven lovely ladies, nearly all of my family in one spot. Amber was somewhere, and I knew she was safe thanks to her lucky coin, and Fenrir was snoozing in his cave, the big lug wanting his 18 hours of beauty sleep.
The valley stretched out in front of us, and we could also see the patchwork of farms. It was sunrise, most everyone had already been up for hours, working their ass off. The sunrise marked breakfast, and many of the [Farmers] were heading home after turning out the cows, sheep, and dinosaurs to graze in the fields, while others finished their morning vegetable harvest for the freshest fruits. I could spot both the Nixes and Surveyor from here. A light turned off in Skye’s office as the natural light let her see enough to no longer spend mana on that enchantment.
As usual, we got no warning before calamity struck. A dragon roared overhead as it dove down, the sound shaking us so badly it threatened to spill my tea. I managed to keep it all in, but I was giving the overgrown lizard the side-eye. The scales were a burnished white, and it was on the smaller, younger side. Definitely a dragon though - four powerful legs, two leathery wings, scales that could turn an arrow, claws that could rip through a house, and teeth that could bite people in half.
Figured it was as good of a time as any to level up [Identify].
[Kangrim, the Alabaster Reaver - 817]
He landed, seized a pair of cows, blasted black flames into the air, then took off again. Welp, that could’ve been worse.
Raccoon, Artemis and Nina all jumped to their feet while I sipped on my tea.
“Damn.” I said as two of them babbled, rocks starting to hover around Artemis. “That’s really unfortunate for the Nixes.” They’d be fine though. Two cows? Orthus Town was lucky enough to be considered wealthy, and the family could absorb the loss without a blink. Maybe we’d bake them a pie and joke about getting a [Dragon Livestock Provider] class.
What were we going to do, fight a dragon? Kill - no way. Placate - it had been placated, hopefully it’d keep moving on and we’d be done with it. Drive off - I hoped we didn’t have to, but we could probably make the area less tempting than others. Tolerate - The logistics probably didn’t work out, but if the dragon decided to set-
“My territory!” Fenrir roared out as he shot out of his cave, hellbent on fighting off the intruder.
Oh fuck.
Shit went down very, very quickly. I mentally shifted gears entirely. I split my mind into as many parts as I could, each one managing something different.
The first, greatest priority of mine was to flip my healing back on for everyone. I’d mostly been relying on [Domain of the Healer] to ‘wean’ people off permanent healing. It would lead to things like kids thinking they were invincible, that they could jump off the top of trees and nothing bad would happen. It led to broad stagnation. It led to - it didn’t matter right now.
Focus.
A calamity had befallen us, and it was going to take every inch of skill I had, every single stat point, to get out of this merely bruised and unhappy. The dragon’s black flames reminded me strongly of Lun’Kat’s flames defying all logic. Lule burning to death in my arms, under my aegis, and needing to hack off my arm was seared into my memory. I was going to do everything that I could to prevent deaths.
The second was flipping Iona’s armor out of storage and onto her body, along with dropping her weapons in front of her. She’d be able to grab them before they fell. My wife was summoning her bow and arrows, bending her knees and making sure we were all ready to fly off to help Fenrir.
The third was activating my extremely rare stat-boosting runes. I rarely found a need to significantly increase my physical prowess, but today was the day. I’d built them as a percentage boost, the effect just as strong as the day I engraved them.
My mind flipped through spells and plans, the situation at hand looking uglier by the second, forget the aftermath. We did have a significant level advantage, and our class quality was top-notch. But we were against a dragon.
Auri was already blazing off to reinforce Fenrir, who hadn’t made it there yet. The white dragon was just starting to lift his head, recognizing the challenge issued.
Artemis was shouting at Nina and Raccoon.
“Get the Rangers! Search and rescue, harrying!” She ordered.
Iona was fully ready, I was as prepared as I was going to be, Fenrir was about to hit. Iona and I were on the same wavelength, and we blasted off in unison, Artemis trailing half a second behind us on shoes of stone. Iona’s weapons came with her, buzzing behind her like ducklings as she telekinetically pulled them along.
“But-” Raccoon tried to protest.
“NOW!” Artemis ordered over her shoulder.
There was a time and a place to argue, and I wanted to argue that Artemis didn’t belong in this fight, that her level wasn’t high enough and her quality not there. I knew exactly how effective that would be, and a fight with a motherfucking dragon was not the time or place.
I elected to slow down a bit and pace Iona, figuring the two of us hitting at roughly the same time was better than a slow trickle of reinforcements. Auri worried me a bit with how she was flying ahead. There was so much knowledge lacking around dragons. Like, who was the true master of flames?
Iona was talking so fast I could just barely understand her.
“Pyronox, Ocean, Verdant. Flames look nasty, try not to get hit. Water jets. Ability to manipulate himself, think Sigrun! Growing skills, unknown.”
Sigrun was the Valkyrie leader Iona had grown up under. She could self-dose with Verdant to boost her baseline, which made her stronger and deadlier. I supposed it made sense that tricks would eventually overlap. And a growth skill would have additional effects depending on what, exactly, was being grown. I thought of Sentinel Nature, who grew bark and sharp thorns over his body to act as armor in one type of growth, and my recent adventure to the School made me think of the Witch in White, who grew flowers with all sorts of spores. That could go anywhere, really.
I got into range to hit Kangrim with my Radiance, but I wanted Fenrir to hit first. Dozens upon dozens of rocks whizzed by us like angry bees as Artemis judged she was in range and opened fire.
We managed all that in the moments before an enraged Fenrir [Lightning Flapped] the remaining distance, then hit the dragon with ten thousand tons of force. He didn’t have any foreclaws, but his hind legs sank deep into the dragon’s back while his jaws closed around the dragon's nape. The two started to tumble to the ground, heading straight for a farm. They twisted and turned in a sinuous mess.
“Fuck!” Iona swore, tossing her bow and arrows aside, moved her glaive in front of her, and grabbed on.
Iona and I both veered off. Thanks to a quirk of the System, we could fly down far faster than Fenrir and the dragon could fall down, and Iona and I were both thinking the same thing - save the people inside.
Jets of water exploded out of the dragon, carving deep grooves into Fenrir. They immediately closed back up under my healing, but one jet cut deeply enough to briefly sever a muscle in Fenrir’s neck, loosening his jaws and letting the dragon’s head slip loose. Kangrim twisted his head around, snarling tooth-to-tooth at Fenrir, nevermind the wyvern being half again as large as the dragon.
With my new angle and the minor separation between the still-falling draconids, I saw my chance. I blasted a fully-powered, hold-nothing-back [Rays of the First Dawn] directly at the dragon’s eye. A feral scream confirmed I’d blinded the dragon, but my hopes of quickly ending the fight rapidly vanished.
The dragon was probably planning on it anyway, but with his mouth pointed to Fenrir he breathed out deadly Pyronox flames point-blank. Fenrir was breathing Ice at the same moment, and the two were about to collide in an explosion of steam when Auri intervened.
I’d been wondering why she wasn’t firing off [Fireballs] or any of her other abilities. The moment the dragon breathed fire though - nevermind that it was Pyronox, and not directly one of her elements - Auri clearly seized the flames and scattered them, a thousand deadly black wisps rapidly dissolving into nothing.
Good. I didn’t need to use [Mantle] in the dusk aspect to try and eat them. [The World Around Me] was detecting a number of spores and pollen wafting off the dragon in great gusts, but they couldn’t harm us right now and we’d deal with the aftermath later.
The dragon’s forelegs clawed into Fenrir’s chest, the wyvern trying to coat himself in Icy armor but it wasn’t doing much against the Reaver’s claws. The [Ice Beam] directly from his mouth, with Auri helping disperse the flames, went practically down the dragon’s throat to devastating effect.
The dragon screamed, an uncannily loud noise that threatened to shake my ears and nose apart. I could feel it in my chest.
Iona and I hit the farmhouse and didn’t stop for anything as mundane as doors or walls. We didn’t bother talking to the people inside. We crashed through at full speed, I [Teleported] all the children and small creatures to myself before wrapping them up in a dawn aspected [Mantle]. Iona grabbed the adults - two women under one arm, one man slung over her shoulder - and the two of us bailed hard, knowing there was no time for explanations. The poor [Farmers] barely had a moment to register what was going on. One moment they were hearing a beast roaring nearby, and just as they were starting to get up to investigate, we burst through the wall.
Neither one of us had stopped or particularly slowed down - there was no time for it - and we kept our momentum up, going through the wall on the other side.
The structural integrity was shot before several dozen tons of monster hit. The house didn’t break so much as explode, a thousand shards going everywhere. I was able to use precise applications of my [Mantle] to delete the splinters heading our way, not wanting to risk any of them hitting the kids I was carrying. Two shields were better than one!
I twisted my neck and looked over my shoulder as we continued running, knowing we were nowhere close to ‘safe enough’ to let our neighbors go. I saw my chance and fired a second Radiance beam at the dragon’s good eye, mentally pumping a fist as it burned away. I spared a glance for Artemis. Pinpoint shields of Darkness, like my [Mantle], were automatically appearing around her, absorbing the splinters.
The two draconids rolled as they landed, wings snapping and flesh tearing. Fenrir managed to leverage his greater bulk and stats into pinning the dragon down.
Lightning crackled and bolted from Fenrir to Kangrim, and Artemis followed through with a bolt of her own. They played against the scales, not doing much.
The dragon breathed fire again, Auri dispersing it with a contemptuous flick of her wing, before needing to twist impossibly to dodge one of the [Water Jets]. It concerned me how close she was to them, and the sort of damage they threatened to do. I dropped the kids off and sprinted back with Iona, summoning both [Feathers] and [Radiant Angel’s Spear of Obliteration]. Now that the dragon was vaguely still, I could hit it hard, scales or no.
We all hit the downed dragon with everything we had. I carefully managed my mana - the dragon could make some large injuries on Fenrir in an instant - but still buried the monster under a million feathers, hammering its head and neck with my [Radiant Angel’s Spear of Obliteration]. Fenrir snapped with his teeth at the blind dragon, following up my spears with Ice javelins of his own. Auri was merrily nailing the dragon’s wings to the ground with spikes of Lava, hopping around to dodge the [Water Jets] and dispersing the flames. Artemis had a rock the size of her head whipping around her, building up momentum for a devastating strike.
Iona ran up and vaulted into the gap between Fenrir and Kangrim, the two thrashing bodies threatening to crush her between them. She sprinted up the softer belly scales, her glaive already spinning. Divine light started to coalesce around the edge. With a clever flick of her glaive, she sliced a number of scales off, like skinning a fish. The dragon roared with fear, and she plunged her glaive in below the sternum, up towards the heart. Hot blood geysered out of the fatal wound.
There was a heavy pause, like the attention of the world was on us, as Kangrim thrashed his last.
[*ding!* Congratulations! Your Party has slain [Kangrim, the Alabaster Reaver]!]
The sheer scale of what we’d just done was starting to settle on me, the question of it being a blessing or a curse still up in the air. Was there going to be retaliation? Could we outfit the Rangers in the finest armor known to elvenoids? Would we get a reputation? Classes, class quality?
The fight had also been closer than I would’ve liked. Normally, having hundreds of levels in a black class would’ve made it easy. Five versus one, it seemed like we overwhelmed the dragon; but outnumbered and outleveled it had still done horrific damage, and if Auri or I hadn’t been here, it very well could’ve killed us all.
For fucks sake Fenrir, did nobody ever tell you about threat assessment!?
And I had a million notifications to check.
[*ding!* Congratulations! [The Elaine] has leveled up to level 1392->1456 +200 Strength, +200 Dexterity, +800 Speed, +800 Vitality, +2000 Mana, +10000 Mana Regen, +4000 Magic Power, +4000 Magic Control from your Class per level! +1 Strength, +1 Dexterity, +1 Speed, +1 Vitality, +1 Mana, +1 Mana Regeneration, +1 Magic Power, +1 Magic Control for being Chimera (Elvenoid)! +1 Mana, +1 Mana Regen from your Element per level!]
Excellent! [The Elaine] wasn’t exactly a class designed to kill the myths of the world - well, it hadn’t been. Next classup it would be more ‘in line’ with what the class wanted, and if I somehow managed to pull the feat off again, I’d get even more experience. ‘Defending against marauding monsters’ was in the class portfolio, if not dead center, and the sheer weight of a dragon’s influence on the System was enough to turbocharge my levels. Huzzah!
[*ding!* [Clad in Twilight] leveled up! 560 -> 565]
Oh nice! I’d barely used the skill, and I hadn’t gotten hit. Simply being close and using the skill had been enough.
The rest of my capped skills remained capped, thank goodness, and I suspected the weight of the battle would keep them capped for a while longer. It was nice when I didn’t need to concern myself too much with individual skill levels.
[Seraph of the Dawn] had been at 1024 for some time now, and I’d been waiting for a good event to class it up. Nothing was going to beat slaying a dragon with significant contributions from the class, and I couldn’t wait to see what my offerings would be! Bit of a shame I hadn’t tried to temporarily blind it with [A Light Shining in the Darkness], instead going for actually blinding it. The levels would’ve been nice… but I’d kinda been in one of the deadliest fights of my life. Grinding levels hadn’t exactly been on my mind.
I was ready to class up.
[*ding!* [Sage of Tomes] has leveled up! 1010->1024. +1500 Magic Power, +1500 Magic Control, +700 Mana, +700 Mana Regeneration from your Class per level! +1 Strength, +1 Dexterity, +1 Speed, +1 Vitality, +1 Mana, +1 Mana Regeneration, +1 Magic Power, +1 Magic Control for being Chimera (Elvenoid) per level! +1 Mana, +1 Magic Power from your Element per level!]
Excellent! I suspected I had more levels stored up, and I felt I had done enough in the class for it to be worth classing up now. Two for one!
[*ding!* [Everywoman] leveled up! 550 -> 614]
A whole 64 levels! The skill was easy to gain experience in, and easy to gain a single level at a time. 64 levels at once was insane! I wasn’t going to complain - stacked competency was nice.
[*ding!* [The World Around Me] leveled up! 606-> 650]
All this before breakfast was done.
With a triumphant shout, Iona thrust her hand into the dragon’s chest, ripped out his heart larger than she was, threw off her helmet, and bit deep into it, blood trickling down her chin.
My wife, a [Dragonslayer].
[Name: Elaine]
[Race: Chimera (Elvenoid)]
[Age: 127]
[Mana: 20,860,080/20,860,080]
[Mana Regeneration: 72,601,403 +(242,872,320)]
Stats
[Free Stats: 0]
[Strength: 169,320 (Effectively: 1,354,560)]
[Dexterity: 193,576 (Effectively: 2,061,197)]
[Vitality: 754,624 (Effectively: 11,791,000)]
[Speed: 741,856 (Effectively: 14,601,952)]
[Mana: 2,086,008]
[Mana Regeneration: 7,589,760 (+ 24,287,232)]
[Magic Power: 3,162,167 (+ 230,205,758)]
[Magic Control: 3,161,024 (+ 230,122,547)]
[Class 1: [The Elaine- Celestial: Lv 1456]]
[Celestial Spirit: 1456]
[Domain of the Healer: 1456]
[A Drop of Eternity in a Sea of Starlight: 608]
[Luminary Mind: 1456]
[Universal Cure: 1456]
[Clad in Twilight: 565]
[The Mantle of Dusk and Dawn: 900]
[Elaine Eternal: 1456]
[Class 2: [Seraph of the Dawn - Radiance: Lv 1024+]]
[Radiance Mastery: 1024]
[A Light Shining in the Darkness: 941]
[The Rays of the First Dawn: 1024]
[Radiant Angel's Spear of Obliteration: 480]
[Celestial Dew: 1024]
[Sunrise Halo: 1024]
[Wings of the Seraphim: 1024]
[Six Wings, Six Million Feathers: 1024]
[Class 3: [Sage of Tomes - Spatial: Lv 1024]]
[Spatial Authority: 1024]
[Scripture Savant: 1024]
[Teleportation: 1024]
[The Library of Infinite Wonder: 1024+]
[Tower of Knowledge: 666]
[Reality, Writ As You Will: 1024]
[Astral Archives: 1024]
[Endless Pursuit of Knowledge: 1024]
General Skills
[Long-Range Identify: 643]
[Everywoman: 614]
[Companion Bond between Elaine and Auri: 1456]
[The World Around Me: 650]
[Oath of Elaine to Lyra: 1456]
[Sentinel's Superiority: 1456]
[Persistent Casting: 1456]
[Tender Gardening; Industrial Farming: 900]
Comments
Adel Lê
Huh, I was expecting jumping in to attack the dragon just because Fenrir felt pissy about them taking cows in "their" territory to cause an Oath violation for Elaine.
Francis Dickinson
Elaine's basically the only elvinoid who has ever lived who thinks that Artemis has a low class quality even if she doesn't push herself the way Elaine does. Unless Artemis is daft her third class (or possibly one of her main ones) is a teaching class, and she's the Founder of The School. That's got to be at least blue, probably purple (and won't be improved much). If her primary ranger class isn't at least green I'd be surprised (and is probably ranking up to purple). I don't think she'll be on triple black classes. But divinely granted classes are normally blue. And in Remus their class quality was high because of the low XP zone.
Gorane
Agreed!
Harry Hirsch
I am terrified of the consequences this is going to have!
Nate El
“ what is a gd but a dragons minion.” - Vainquer the Dragon
Kurosov
He'd been intentionally waiting thousands of years to do just that. The school boasted they were spitting in the gods face by shielding cultivator students tribulation lighting with their defences and it was mentioned way back when that the god would be pissed at them, they knew he would be and they found it funny.
Kurosov
It's an interesting balance for her mana. None of her skills cross the 20m single casting cost but there probably are classes out there that have obscene single cost skills. Her regeneration allows for her healing to be in constant use and also allows for Channelling. Her wizardry skills and fuelling her tower arcanite rely on the regen not the capacity.
Kurosov
It definitely seems like dragons don't ascend. We've seen the ascension process. Once they hit the level they enter ascension and only then does the system list their options much like classes. The moon illusions were a power statement on Pallos but seem pretty binding to that singular world as far as godhood goes. Lun'Kat seems like someone who'd be interested in the wider cosmos if anything. The system treats dragons differently to other creatures so it wouldn't be surprising if they cannot access Godhood but do get a bunch of the bonuses without the drawbacks. I can see dragons naturally gaining access to traverse other worlds including reaching wherever the gods hang out.
Bubbles The Amoeba
In this case, the golden retriever is immortal and is one of, if not the strongest creature on the planet. I think it's a bit more likely in this scenario.
Shoto
Night did not ascend to godhood because he was a vampire, a progenitor vampire, unlike other vampires we have seen in history. For example, Calamity Sentinel, he was level 2800 and was a miasma/poison mage. He specialized in large-scale killing, his leveling rate must have been very fast, eliminating entire enemy armies, reaching a high level while still young and human and then becoming a vampire. This must be the same as most other vampires in history, reaching a high level as mortals and then slowly leveling as a vampire. Night had to live his entire life leveling slowly, and it gets to a point where it is simply difficult to level. He was almost level 3000, someone of that level to continue leveling has to do something very big like facing another person of level 3000. Night has to do 10x that, and there are not many people level 3000 in the world. While Lun'kat, the selkie has yet to explain why she did not ascend, there is likely some reason.
Lorcogoth
I will be honest I don't think Dragon Ascend to Godhood, Lun'kat has been around for so long that it just doesn't make sense that she hasn't yet ascended. same is true for Night really, but he keeps cycling his classes.
TroubleFait
That was a god. Specifically, the god that always blasts cultivators when they challenge the heavens. He spent much of his accumulated power on that blast against the school. And he waited precisely the right moment so that his blast would be worth it.
Tsorov
That wasn't a god, that was just dome dude with a grudge
Nate El
Roomates, Just like my uncle Kenny and his “Friend “ Thomas that comes over for Thanksgiving every year.
MoonlitShade
Unless you’re an angry lightning god and can decide to just blow up the fucking School, apparently.
MoonlitShade
It’d be kinda like if there was someone with the class [Sentinel Killer]. Elaine might not try to kill him for the class because of her Oath, but the rest of the Sentinels probably would lol.
MoonlitShade
That’s one theory, but I kinda doubt it. If you saw a golden retriever you wouldn’t think “Hmm I wonder if it’s related to this other golden retriever I saw 20,000 years ago.”
Harrison Slik
No they are all just roommates.
Shoto
I hope not. Pyronox was the only attribute that dragon had that was similar to Lun'kat... well, I hope it's just a coincidence.
Shoto
considering the fact that Lun'kat came towards the moon goddesses when they came down to support Iona in that tournament, I believe she wants to kill Sellena and Lunares, so the moon goddess spot would be free. A Selkie rule is that everything in the world can die, including the gods, and since the goddesses are very limited when they are in Pallos, killing gods should be possible.
jackalsclaw
Why didn't "[The Mantle of Dusk and Dawn: 900]" get a few levels?
DireGoat
given that Lun'Kat hasn't ascended yet after more than 20 000 years at the peek of power its likely that Selene and Lunaris beat her to divinity. Now she has to usurp them in some way which I imagine is much harder than just ascending.
MadKingMidas
Oh shit oh Cireil oh fuck
TeaGeek
It’s been established that god-related classes are automatically blue with some wiggle room to go up based on accomplishments not association. Elaine’s god-related classes are the lower offerings for her in her more recent class-ups. I think we’ve been seeing with Lun’kat, the White Witch, and the new god of small lights that NOT ascending to godhood gives one much more direct ability to influence Pallos than taking the step up, which grants afterlife shenanigans and the ability to lay some divine blessings or whammy, but comes at the cost of needing believers donating mana and prayer to influence the material world. Remember the difficulty the moon goddesses had in just reinforcing a building when Nina was making her big decision or the effort needed to dispel the illusion over the moons for a little while?
Nate El
Oooohhh wow 😮. That is a big idea
Benjamin Smith
I wonder if it's possible to usurp a God's position, if more people associate you with their domain. That would explain what Lun'kat was doing with the Moon Cult.
Nate El
Would helping Lun’kat achieve g-dhood count as completing Iona and Elaine’s mission is Lun’Kat released he hold on the moon? Or would Lun’Kat be a moon associated deity and competition for Selene and Lunaris.
BlueFox
Oh dear... oh no... Oh deaaar....
Kurosov
If anything I'd expect it the other way around. Ciriel is devoted to Elaine as we've seen the Goddess of Healing fangirling over her and stating she things Elaine should have been the Goddess if not for Fae shenanigans and Ciriel herself could never have achieved it without Elaine's manuscript.
Anonymous
Elaine won’t be able to complain about Artemis’ low class quality anymore. She’s gona be sitting on 3 black quality classes at 756. Now to hide the evidence asap. Auri is going to have the shiniest alabaster nest.
Terry Winter
I‘m wondering if that was one of Lun‘kat‘s children. Her fire type and I believe her mate was a white dragon…
SwitchBlaze
Great Chappie. Thank you.
enderman
Being a devotee of Ciriel is definitely a achievement and worth a solid class quality. But at some point there are diminishing returns. Meeting and being acknowledged by Albert Einstein is a achievement but if you invented the nuclear bomb as well then it's not even worth mentioning that achievement because its tiny in comparison.
Dalth
The number in the bracket next to “mana regen” should be the effective amount, with multipliers included. It’s 8x the size of her mana pool. Pretty sure it’s from Celestial Dew skill in her second class. Mana 20 million Mana regen 72 million + 242 million per hour. At that rate it’s something like 5 million plus mana regenerated every minute, so she could be empty and regen it in four minutes. Which is pretty bonkers, considering her other bonuses to reduce healing costs and persistent casting.
BudgetDragon
Dont forget: “We don’t like people with Dragon Slayer Classes”
Oblivious Sage
[A Light Shining in the Darkness] didn't go up because she didn't use it, but she's explicitly mentioned as using [Radiant Angel's Spear of Obliteration] during the fight and it's not capped, shouldn't she have gained some levels in that?
DAK
This could spiral in interesting ways. Kind of like the ancient legends killer class that idiot guard got a few books ago for killing Aurie--if Artemis hadn't killed him immediately when he showed up raging at people, Night probably would have done it simply because he represented such a niche threat. I'm sure dragons see [Dragon Slayer] classes the same way. It won't matter how reasonable you are as a person, they're going to try to stamp you out. There will be more Dragons and more confrontations for sure--even if there are not any coming specifically for revenge. But it's always been level or die, so I suppose nothing is really new about this...
Osloo Mortan
"Hey, why not switch to the sun ? It’s a bigger achievement."
Todor
I was thinking the same - but from the "hide the evidence" angle...
Rainer
He's right. It's 480 and it was definitely used in the fight with no level notifications.
Selkie
I do have that fanfiction license… go nuts
Nate Slattery
She did her regen looks to be at least 3 times her capacity
ben
How much mana did Elaine use during the fight. Status screen would suggest it was all regenerated immediately?
sarvashaktimaan
It might be one of those topics no one can agree on and WILL start a bar fight.
sarvashaktimaan
I assume it will be covered up as being another high level wyvern to the population. That way rumours won't say out loud the D word and attract attention.
Markus
Or Iona is actually good socially. Do some social work instead.
Markus
Lets gooo! Immortal war round two. START!!!
Joshua Little
Thanks for the chapter. Can't wait for class ups.
joey
spear isn't capped, it's sitting at like 400, she should have gotten a ton for that as she used it to attack the dragon.
Trevor Mergen
Thanks!
Tsorov
She said that all her capped skills stayed capped, and you can see in her status at the end that the skills did level
Tsorov
It could, but it is the wrong class for that. Would be more possible with [The Elaine] classing up again. But, it would have to integrate in the class for that, or the classup couldn't influence it.
tr13ze
Thanks for the chapter 😁
C Gillan
That went fast. Oh a dragons stolen a cow we'll just have to deal with it to oops its dead..... consequences? Love it.
Necrotyr
Well, the moon goddesses gave Iona a quest to remove her influence on the moons, I'd think the only way to do that would be to remove her.
Sean Shivers
I dont think they plan on a direct confrontation.
Sean Shivers
Sure... but... 1. "I'm allowed to bully my brother but if someone else does it means war." 2. "That was my son, how dare." 3. "Killing dragons? Cant let that idea spread." 4. "Ha! Fool deserved it. Now I'm going to go kill the people who got him just to show how great i am."
chris
I wonder if being a devotee of Ciriel, the god of healing could effect the classup. Like, an upgrade to Long-range Identify to include a diagnostic component.
TwistedToaster
Amazing!
Deltoren
Why would this cause problems. Dragons don’t seem like a close knit group
Simerop
Well, let's hope this wasn't the favourite child of an adult Dragon
CringeWorthyStudios
Ah, next week? Damn.
Kennyevilmonkey
Yes, you did. You're welcome <3
Kennyevilmonkey
Here ya go, Goblin entering Elaine's personal harem.
Nate El
I have brought this on myself.
Kennyevilmonkey
Elaine corners Racoon in the washroom, pushing her back against the wall. Racoon, quivering, asks, "Elaine? What is this, did I do something bad?" "No, no, you've been a very good girl. I just wanted to ask you a question is all~" Elain tells her as she steps closer, their bodies almost touching. Blushing at the closeness and feeling the heat coming off of Elaine's body, Racoon tries to back away further, but Elaine puts her arms against the wall and boxes her in. "Wha-What did you want to ask me?" Racoon asks timidly as the blush starts to spread across her green face, her long ears starting to feel warm as her heart pounds in her chest. Elaine smiles, her white teeth showing from behind soft lips as she narrows her eyes and looks down at the cute little Goblin. Leaning forward, her chest pressing against Racoon's, she whispers into her ears. "I heard that Goblins are built for breeding. I was wondering, is it true~?" Raccoon shivers as Elaine's hot breath tickles the inside of her ear, a little scream, potentially even a moan, escaping her lips as the Healer playfully nibbles on one of her long ears and licks the tip. A shiver running down her spine and her heart pounding in her chest, Racoon's knees go weak, and she practically collapses to the floor as Elaine backs up and smiles down at the defeated Goblin girl. "If you'd like to help me find out, come to my room tonight." The quivering Goblin looks up, "But what about-" "Don't worry about Iona; she likes to watch. See you later, Raccoon~" Elaine leaves, Raccoon being left on the floor of the washroom as a confused, but yet also curious, mess, her laundry left long forgotten on the floor as she continues to watch where Elaine used to be, the image of those swaying hips still lingering in her mind... "If it's what my teacher wants, then I... I guess I could..."
Stropeyer
I think admin week
Stephanie Washburn
Wow. I wonder if Iona will accidentally get Siegfried style immortality from eating that dragon heart?
Cirvante
They do have classes, but they are also the only beings aside from the Guardians who have titles displayed when identifying them.
Nate El
It was a bad joke. Please ifnore
Cirvante
Bathing in dragon blood gives you [Princess Radar] aside from the strengthening supposedly, so they'll always know where Skye is. But yes, keeping a few barrels of blood for Night and Arachne will undoubtedly make them very happy.
BudgetDragon
Wdym?
BudgetDragon
As triumphant and awesome as this is, Fenrir probably needs a talking to about threat assessment and not taking dumb risks. As Elaine said, without her and Auri they were all dead
Nate El
Is…. Is this a Harem Fantasy and I only now realized it?!!??!! The MC is living in a post apocalyptic cabin with 5 other women….
Kennyevilmonkey
Also, don't they have special defense bonuses on them already because they bathed in wyvern blood? Could they do the same with the dragon blood and get even stronger? And on the subject of blood, Elaine better cork up a few bottles to give as gifts to her vampire buddies. I could see Night appreciating some of that good sip.
Kennyevilmonkey
I am very hyped for the next chapter. Let's see those juicy dragon slayer boosted classes. And not to mention Fenrir, that boy is going to be getting one hell of a class evolution, hells, I wouldn't even be surprised if the System gives him an offer to actually become a Dragon for pulling this stunt.
Andrew
Thank you!
Thomas Heaton
If Iona and Elaine still have designs to take on Lun’Kat, having a dragon slaying aligned (influenced) class can’t hurt
Jason Hardman
TYFTC! Good fight. Should the plus symbol be on class 3 and not on the library skill in the stat sheet?
Kurosov
Interesting the dragon gave a unique kill notification rather than the usual class template yet Iona could see it’s skills and the attributes even if they end up not having actual classes.
DireGoat
no spear or identify levels either. They were likely just missed or maybe being saved for next chapter for a more detailed aftermath.
Tiffany Miller
I want to see those class ups soo bad
CringeWorthyStudios
She really should shove the dragon’s corpse in her tower. That’ll give it a few levels hopefully. Also a good emergency food source since things don’t spoil in there…
Kurosov
Probably not as they were outright created by the gods at the same time alongside many other birds. I did point out in a previous chapter however that people on Pallos wouldn’t understand the chicken and the egg question though as it’s established fact that the chicken came first there.
Roombot
Badass
Noshei
no mantle levels seems odd considering it was used in the fight
Logan
Shouldn’t you be more sad? because of your name? You may be a budget-dragon, but a dragon nonetheless.
Daniel B
But Kangrim, the Alabaster Reaver will never have looked so stylish :)
Ervin Ughy
Do people on Pallos count chickens as dinosaurs? On the one hand they technically are, but on the other, evolution isn't really a factor there.
JC Weiss
Hell yeah! Woo! Thanks for the chapter. Though I am concerned about the possibilities of repercussions.
Moses
Can’t wait for the class ups
CringeWorthyStudios
It’s not quite the moon lizard but that’s still fucking impressive. Class-ups on Monday? Thanks for the chapter!
fala
Can't wait to see what she gets when the class offerings show up
Owen Wilson
Bad ass Thank you for the chapter, nearly forgiven for Julius
puppy0cam
killing a dragon that picked a bad fight - that's one thing. Desecrating it's corpse might piss off other dragons though.
BudgetDragon
TFTC
matt
fucking nice
