The dark red flame was very weak and could barely cover Gonzalo's huge body, but the astonishing power emanating from it made several nearby giant dragons involuntarily retreat.
Their instincts told them that this faint dark red flame was something that could kill them.
One must know that the dragons surrounding Gonzalo were all Master-rank dragons. If converted into ordinary dragons, all of them would be adult dragons.
High in the sky, I smiled with satisfaction when I saw the demonic flames igniting on Gonzalo's body.
It works.
However, this gift of alienation talent is not without limitations.
The first limitation is that the amount of void power I possess is not like the massive reserves in the gray space of the real world. With the void power of my current dragon body, ten dragons receiving the third-level Magic Flame talent is the limit. If I switch to first- or second-level talents, the number could be higher.
The second limitation is that the ability given is just a seed. To truly develop the power of this alienated talent, one still needs to become stronger step by step through practice.
However, the development efficiency of this kind of innate ability, rooted in blood, may be related to individual talent. It may be faster or slower, but as long as enough time is given, one can master the cultivation of innate ability to a very high level.
With the experiment verified, I no longer lingered. The dragon's shadow gradually faded and disappeared over the dark square.
White Dragon Eirlys, the weakest among the ten dragons gifted with Magic Flame, woke up leisurely and only saw the final moment of her father's departure.
She opened her mouth and then lowered her head, her beautiful frost-blue dragon eyes filled with sadness.
She didn't know when the distance between her and her father had grown, and their once close relationship had become a bit unfamiliar.
"Stop looking so sad. Hurry up and feel the power in your body."
Katie, the eldest of the three female dragon sisters, spoke, diverting Eirlys's attention.
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Status:
Name : Barbatos Caesar Volaric
Race : True Dragon
Biological Order : 22th (Intermediate)
Occupation Level : Mage LVL 20 (Peak), Mountain Believer LVL 14 (Peak)
Body Length : 123.0M
Vitality (VIT) : 970
Current Feast Tier : 431
Feast Cool down Time : 29 Days
Spell-like Abilities:
Transfiguration/Polymorph…
Void Spell Rune:
Zero Tier :
First Tier :
Second Tier :
Third Tier :
Fourth Tier :
Fifth Tier :
Sixth Tier :
Seventh Tier :
Eighth Tier :
Ninth Tier :
Tenth Tier : Astral Projection (Entry 50%).
[Psychic Martial Arts: Rolling Stone Strike (Mastery 60%,), Shunpo (Mastery 20%), Hundred Fissure Fist (Mastery 18%) Spiral Power Core (Mastery 1%), Immovable Mountain (Entry 3%)]
Abilities:
Dragon Scales (LV 19), Dragon Breath (LV 18), Draconic Vitality (LV 29), Draconic Might (LV 9), Draconic Magic (LV 11), Fly (LV 16), Dragon Eyes (LV 9), Bite (LV 19 + 0.4), Claw (LV 19 + 0.4), Wild Scream (LV 8), Atomic Furnace (LV 6), Vibration Perception (LV 10), Telepathy (LV 7), Soul Chain (LV 7), Seed of Distortion (LV 5), Armor Shredder (LV 9), Meat Eater (LV 6), Master of Blood (LV 6), Super Speed Recovery (Level 3), Black Water (Level 1), The Eye of the Dark Demon (LV 3), Black Water (LV 1), Plant Growth (LV 2), Poisonous Aura (LV 1), Purple Thunder (LV 2), Soul Swallowing (LV 2), Magic Flame (LV 3), Sovereign of the Four Elements (LV 1), Multi-Headed Dominion (LV 1), Blessing of Sacred Might (LV 1), Friend of the Forest (LV 1), Space-Time Teleportation (LV 1), Radiant Force Field (LV 1) Frost (LV 1), Sharp Minions (LV 2)
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In five years, my biological level was raised from the original 21st intermediate level to the 22nd intermediate level, which was quite a significant upgrade.
The reason for this rapid improvement is that as the number of void creatures increases, most of the dead void creatures have not been resurrected by me, and their power has been integrated into me.
Of course, they did not truly die. The souls of these dead void creatures returned to the gray space, just like believers in the Kingdom of God, living an almost eternal life there, waiting for their next respawn.
Unless one day I am willing to resurrect their bodies in reality, these void creatures can reappear in the star realm.
Nevertheless, it is unlikely that most void creatures will have the opportunity for resurrection in the near future.
Because to resurrect them, it is necessary to peel off the part that originally belonged to the void life from my power, which would undoubtedly weaken my strength.
Now in the gray space, there are nearly 100 million souls of void creatures living in it. Most of these are void creatures that have died over the years. The other small part includes five million fiver color angels who died in the previous war with Duolun City and millions of black-winged angels.
"There are almost 100 million souls in the gray space now," I said with emotion.
In other words, so far, I have obtained nearly 100 million void creatures— all their power except their souls.
The quantity is terrifying, but the quality of these nearly 100 million void creatures is very poor.
There is no master-level soul, because master-level void creatures are resurrected by me after death.
With this level of combat power, it would be too wasteful to let them remain in the gray space doing nothing. It is better to resurrect them, spread the power of the void, and earn wealth and resources for me. It's a much better investment with greater return.
In addition, there are not many high-level souls in the gray space—less than 50,000—and they are all the kind with poor potential and weak strength. I'm too lazy to resurrect them, so I integrated their power instead.
There are millions of intermediate souls.
In addition to the above, the remaining 90 million souls are all low-level void creatures.
It is precisely because of this that I, having integrated nearly 100 million void creatures, have only increased my biological level by one major level.
In addition to the fact that the 'capacity limit' of my dragon body is too high, the main reason is that the souls of the void creatures have not merged with me, and the strength of the dead void creatures is too weak. Even though low-level void creatures today can rival the legendary fifth level in explosive strength, the gap between the current me and my past self is more than a million times.
Coupled with my ever-growing dragon body, this gap is even more terrifying.
"Try using astral projection again today," I pondered, expecting flickering in my dragon eyes.
Astral Projection is a forbidden spell that I purchased with a huge amount of wealth from the Ten Thousand Realms Chamber of Commerce after breaking through to legendary caster.
But it's not an attack spell;
[Tenth-Tier: Astral Projection]
Effect: Project the will and spirit of yourself and other creatures into the Astral Realm.
This spell is used by legendary spellcasters in many ways.
For example, searching the material plane.
Another example is looking for rare materials and creatures in the starry sky.
At the same time, if the will and spirit are strong enough, the projection can also be treated as a clone and can explode with powerful mental soul strength.
I learned this tenth-tier spell mainly for the first purpose — to search the material planes.
I actually know many plane coordinates, but they all have owners, and those who can own planes are never weak, even if their coordinates are exposed.
If they are too weak, once the plane coordinates are exposed, they will be spied on and exploited by intentional interdimensional beings.
Therefore, I chose to find new ones on my own.
As a massive amount of mana was poured into the void spell runes, the tenth-tier spell, Astral Projection, was activated.
A great force enveloped part of my consciousness and most of my spiritual power, entering a lightless yet colorful place.
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This is the Astral Realm.
The giant dragon of the void shuttled through the spiritual world, and no one knew how much time had passed. At a certain moment, the void dragon spotted a crack on the side.
'That's it,' my consciousness moved slightly, and my dragon 'body' entered the crack.
The next moment, the void dragon body appeared in an unknown starry sky.
This starry sky was the same as the ones I had visited before — cold and boring.
Pieces of meteorites, ranging from tens of meters to thousands of kilometers in size, floated in the starry sky, adding a sense of presence to this desolate expanse.
The void dragon body, constructed from a massive amount of mental power, chose a direction at random and moved forward.
With sharp eyes, I used my mental power to 'see' a meteorite hundreds of miles away.
The meteorite was red all over, mixed with a hint of gold, and there were faint wrinkles in the space around it.
"The meteorite is dark red in color. This is high-quality starry sky iron. There are traces of gold within it, and there are spatial wrinkles. Could it be virtual gold?!" I first recognized the material of the meteorite. Then, when I noticed the golden tint and space distortions, I suddenly felt something was off. It seemed familiar. I searched through the dragon inheritance and found a match. I was instantly ecstatic.
Virtual gold — this is a very precious material that can be used to make artifacts!
Artifacts are a higher level than legendary items, possessing unpredictable and terrifying power. They are weapons held by gods.
Without hesitation, I drove the void dragon body composed of spiritual power toward the piece of starry sky meteorite.
Nothing unexpected happened along the way, and I successfully approached the starry sky iron meteorite.
My dragon claws stretched out, attempting to grab the several-meter-sized piece of starry sky iron.
However, when the dragon claws, constructed by my tyrannical mental power, were still three meters away from the meteorite, scars appeared inexplicably on them.
An invisible and terrifying spatial force was cutting into the claws.
I focused, increased my mental power output, quickly healed the dragon claw injuries, and continued to approach the meteorite.
When only a few dozen centimeters remained, the dragon claw could no longer maintain the balance between recovery and disintegration, and was completely decomposed by the terrifying spatial force.
I, who had lost the mental power forming the dragon claw again, groaned.
"This is going to be tricky." I withdrew my dragon claws and followed the starry sky iron wrapped in virtual gold, which continued to float, feeling slightly depressed.
"Why don't I send my real body here?" A thought crossed my mind.
In the starry sky of the Astral Realm, except for special starry sky creatures, beings from the material plane generally must reach the legendary level to survive. But that is only survival— if they encounter spatial turbulence or a space storm, even ordinary legendary beings will die in masse. Only high-level legendary warriors can endure.
'It's just a matter of a moment. After taking the virtual gold, I'll teleport back to the material plane. I don't think I'll be that unlucky,' I thought.
But at the moment this idea emerged, a sense of crisis locked onto me.
That moment made me halt my plan to teleport my real body here.
"Danger warning? Where is the danger coming from?" I felt a bit uneasy.
Now that my strength has fully exploded, I can reach the fifth level of the legend. Coupled with various special alienated abilities and the terrifying defense brought by the void dragon body, it is extremely difficult to kill me without the power of a high-level legend. Extremely difficult indeed.
'Is it possible that this piece of virtual gold is bait released by a strong man? Or…' I was guessing in my mind. As I guessed, I couldn't help but think of one of my alienated talents — [Eye of the Dark Demon].
The origin of this evil eye is related to a terrifying evil god.
Could it be connected to this?
No matter what kind of danger came from it, I finally gave up on the idea of real-body teleportation for the sake of safety.
However, I felt unwilling to give up virtual gold so directly.
This is the material for making artifacts, and its value is much higher than all the power and wealth that I currently have.
There are even two lower-level Abyss Hearts included here.
"Anyway, I have a lot of time, so I'll just spend it like this," I made a decision.
I separated a part of my consciousness. The spiritual body and the void dragon body, transformed into part of the consciousness, silently followed beside the starry sky iron wrapped in void gold, while the main consciousness continued to carry out daily activities in Tal.
The practice of spell runes, the practice of spiritual martial arts, and occasionally enlightening a group of void creatures.
As for other magical powers, they will increase over time, and the quality of spiritual energy will continue to become stronger with the accumulation of feasts. I don't have to worry about levels. Void creatures die every moment, their souls return to the gray space, and their bodies melt and their power merges with me.
Occasionally, when I get bored, I summon the maids to a massage party.
The days passed quite leisurely.
All of this ultimately stems from my current strength.
A few years ago, I was still a little anxious and spent most of my time in the ghost plane. In the ghost plane, as long as the plane does not collapse, with my current strength, I'm almost invincible.
Since possessing the strength of the legendary fifth level, I have moved my living environment back to the Tal plane.
After all, I have now reached the third level of the legend. In the ghost plane, I still need to seal away a level of my strength. The feeling of restraint is quite uncomfortable for me.
But in Tal, I don't have to restrain my own power at all and can explode and grow as I please.
On days like this, I was sometimes so bored that I went to the Abyss Chamber of Commerce to buy a book on the astral races.
With the transformation of void creatures, I have become a little tired of the void angels.
Nowadays, there are hundreds of millions of void creatures in Dragon Nest, more than 95% of which are void angels, and the rest are the appearance of the original race and descendants of the void.
Too monotonous.
In addition to monotony and aesthetic fatigue, it was also because I suddenly fell in love with the feeling of "fabricating creatures."
This feeling is not very easy to describe.
"Well, that's weird."
In a hidden garden behind Castle Black, I lowered my head, looking at the strange creature in front of me that was composed of a pile of skulls and dozens of pairs of spider-like bone feet, and fell into deep thought.
The creature in front of me is ugly. No, it cannot be described as ugly. It should be said that it is extremely evil.
But as I looked at it, I suddenly realized that this form of creature was also quite beautiful.
It even feels a little cute.
I, who originally thought about erasing this creation, must have decided in my mind:
"I'll call you the Death Patroller."
This entity is a grotesque amalgamation of countless skulls and spider-like bone limbs, exuding a dark, malevolent aura. The eerie presence and synchronized movement of its skulls served as a psychological tactic to instill fear and demonstrate overwhelming power.
"Your name is an honor for me, who is as humble as dust." Thousands of skulls of the 'Death Patroller' opened and closed at the same time, making a strange sound.
I nodded slightly, and with a thought, a huge book flew in front of me and then began to write without a pen.
Number 1: [Death Patroller]·Demon Undead Species {DP - 1}
Raw materials: Abyss Bone Demon·Great Demon Rank
Special abilities: Spiritual Howl, Forest of Bones,
Bestowed special alienated ability: Blood Master.
After finishing writing, I nodded with satisfaction.
In this way, after the Descendants of the Void and the Angels of the Void, the third brand-new race created by me was born in this world.
Inexplicably, I felt a sense of accomplishment.
"Continue."
My voice trembled with anticipation as a surge of inspiration coursed through me—raw, electric, unstoppable. Ideas began to ignite like sparks in the dark, each one brighter than the last. My mind, fueled by the meta-knowledge I carried from my past life, felt alive in a way it hadn't in years.
And from that well of forgotten brilliance, I gave shape to something terrifying.
The Death Patroller—a creature born not just from imagination, but from memory. I recalled the moment I first laid eyes on that fearsome being in the anime Overlord, how it lingered in the corners of my mind long after the screen had gone black. The cold steel mask, the silent authority, the deathly calm… I didn't copy it—I evolved it. This was my interpretation, my creation: a being stitched from fear, order, and unrelenting judgment.
He wasn't just inspired by fiction—he was something more. A warden of death draped in shadows, a silent enforcer who could paralyze entire armies with his presence alone.
And now… he was real.
"Meteorite, flesh and blood, dragon..."
If you want to create a brand-new creature, it not only needs to be reasonable, but also the raw materials must be qualified.
For example, if I want to create elemental creatures, the raw materials must have a relationship with the elements. With the void power that I currently possess, there is no way to directly transform complete flesh-and-blood creatures into pure elemental bodies. There has to be a connection.
Assuming that I want to create a void creature that looks like a fire element, the raw material must at least be a flesh-and-blood creature that has the power of the fire element. Otherwise, it would be impossible to transform it with a demon that has the power of the abyss.
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