Chapter 134 Garus's Flame and Lightning, Blast Scale Evolution
The rain poured down, and the originally fine silver threads, after a while, transformed into a waterfall that cascaded down onto the wilderness.
It is noon, and the sky should be bright and sunny, but because of the thick, dark clouds, the whole world is shrouded in a dark and gloomy rain curtain.
A huge creature is moving through the mud.
This is a sword-jawed beast, about twelve meters long, with scales and claws on its body. At first glance, it looks like a fusion of a crocodile and a lion. Its most distinctive feature is the pair of giant bone blades extending from its lower jaw.
It is three meters long and its surface is covered with a hard glaze like steel, which gleams coldly in the rain.
This beast is tracking a herd of iron-horned deer.
Its steps were incredibly light, and its paws, covered with fleshy pads, allowed it to walk silently in the rain. Whenever it spotted prey, it would lower its body, and the bone blade on its head would tremble slightly.
This is a hunting posture unique to the Saberjaw Beast.
Just as the saber-jawed beast was about to pounce on the deer herd, the sky suddenly brightened as if it were daytime.
A bolt of lightning, interwoven with gold and red, cleaved through the rain.
Galos descended like a god, his body wreathed in violent electricity and flames, instantly evaporating the surrounding rain.
The sword-jawed beast instinctively raised its head, its bone blade pointing straight to the sky.
But it was too late.
A dazzling golden-red sphere shot out of Galus's mouth, piercing straight through the rain.
At first glance, it looked like a ball of lightning, with golden arcs of electricity leaping and rolling inside and out, but overall it also had the appearance of burning flames. It was extremely fast and landed on the Saberjaw Beast in an instant.
boom!
Countless bolts of lightning and flames exploded simultaneously.
The ferocious beast, which was also a level 10 beast like Garos, became stiff, convulsed, and spasmed, with large patches of charred blackening on its body. After this attack, it fell to the ground, its body stiff, and died.
Galos folded his wings and landed in front of the fallen body of the Swordjaw Beast, carefully examining its wounds.
"The flames and thunder formed in the state of high energy are very powerful, even better than my blazing dragon breath and electric fire dragon breath."
A satisfied smile appeared on Garus's dragon face.
Through repeated practice and activation of the excited state over the past few days, he has gradually mastered some deeper applications.
Initially, the golden lightning could only be used to enhance and stimulate his body, improving his physical attributes. However, through a chance experiment, Garos unexpectedly discovered that in a state of heightened arousal, he could combine the golden lightning with dragon breath to unleash spherical flames of lightning.
This Flame Thunder combines the characteristics of both lightning and flames.
Paralyzing, penetrating, exploding, burning. It has many effects at the same time.
Galos, a hybrid of red and iron, is essentially only of the fire attribute.
Iron Dragon is also a Fire-type dragon. Although it has electric fire breath, it is limited to the breath attack, and the lightning damage is disproportionate to its speed. Its main advantage is its speed, and its damage output relies on fire.
Flame and lightning are different.
It is a true dual-attribute energy.
Just like how the magical energy and life energy of dragons can be fused into dragon energy.
The fusion of fire and lightning can create flame thunder.
"Flame Lightning can currently only be used for breath attacks."
"But I feel that its development has not yet reached its limit."
With its golden mane billowing in the rain, Garus extended its right claw and focused its attention.
Sizzle!
The intensely hot lightning, interwoven with gold and red, and resembling crimson flames, burst forth from his claws, flickering and leaping haphazardly. Galos tried to gather them into a cohesive form, but failed; their combination was unstable and immediately disintegrated.
If flames and lightning can be condensed and attached to the body.
Undoubtedly, this will further enhance the damage of Garoth's attack.
Moreover, given the characteristics of Flame and Lightning Breath, if it can be stably condensed, it can be used not only in close combat but also as a powerful weapon for ranged attacks.
Galos exhaled softly, and the golden lightning on his body completely subsided.
Hiss. The scorching red scales on his body came into contact with the rainwater, forming dense steam that gradually cooled down.
Galos flapped its dragon wings, dispelling the steam that was obstructing its view.
"My dragon scales also need to evolve."
Red Iron Dragon stared at its rapidly cooling, bulging scales, the rain hissing on the scalding surface of its scales.
The layer of scales on his body is no longer suitable.
Actually, after Garus's wings evolved, he became somewhat uncomfortable with this layer of exploding scales.
Whenever he flies at high speed, the friction between his scales and the air causes them to heat up rapidly. If you are not careful, they will explode due to overload.
As for its bombardment and scale splash damage.
It works well against mobs, but against targets like the Diamond Giant and Behemoth, Exploding Scales is unlikely to deal significant damage. However, against mobs, Garoth doesn't need to use Exploding Scales; he can simply spread his wings and charge at high speed to clear out and kill them in large numbers.
There's also the buffer defense from Blast Scales.
Galus was moving at high speed, and it became scorching hot as it swooped down across the sky.
Unless Garros gives up his speed advantage, his Bazelgeuse scales are already close to overload when he engages in close combat, such as in his battle with the Frost Behemoth, where a single blow to the behemoth blew off all of his Bazelgeuse scales.
For Galus at present.
The burst scales provided good cushioning, but the high-temperature explosion was a failed evolution.
Of course, failure and success should be judged dialectically at different stages.
When Garus first evolved into Bazelgeuse, its wide-range bombardment and scale-shattering splash damage were very suitable for it. It was a successful evolution, giving it a wide range of attack methods in the early stages.
However, as he has grown, he has fallen behind and is no longer compatible with his stronger characteristics.
"I need a completely new scale armor system."
"It should retain the energy absorption properties of the exploding scales without overloading and exploding due to high-speed movement. Ideally, it should be able to accumulate the absorbed energy to replenish my physical strength and make me more durable."
Galos pondered deeply.
He had evolutionary directions and ideas, but unfortunately, adaptive evolution would not proceed in a predetermined direction simply because of Galus's ideas, and he could not precisely control the outcome of adaptive evolution.
The successful evolution of the Wings of the Comet was due to his hard work, but also to a certain amount of luck.
However, having a goal is always a good thing.
Galos took a sip of the scale powder he carried with him, and the world in his eyes turned into a warm color. The colors were no longer dark, and even though it was still shrouded in torrential rain, it seemed positive and uplifting.
"Flame lightning is a special form of energy."
"Use it more when it's in an excited state, allowing it to take longer to mature, so that it can gradually adapt to evolution and become stable."
"Burning scales are a bit troublesome."
"The process of absorbing kinetic energy to replenish itself must be very complex and requires a long process. First, we need to find a way to prevent it from exploding easily. For example, when the scales are overloaded and about to explode, we can stop it with a 'stop' and let it cool down. We should do this every time."
Galos's mind raced as he considered methods for condensing Flame Lightning and evolving Explosive Scales, and he began to get a preliminary idea.
As time went by, the effects of the powder gradually faded.
Perhaps because Galos's mind was also growing, the effects of the scale powder on him were gradually weakening. He wanted to further enhance his mental agility, so he increased the dosage he needed each time.
There is only one Fairy Dragon, and the production capacity of its scales is limited.
Now, unless absolutely necessary, Galos rarely uses scale powder. He saves it for crucial moments, and the extravagant act of using scale powder for the sake of spiritual pleasure, as he did in the beginning, can no longer be done.
Black oil is similar to scale powder.
As Galos's body grows stronger, he needs a much larger amount of black oil to achieve the same effect as before. However, black oil is not an expensive resource, as he has a stable supply through trade routes, and his supply of black oil is so plentiful that he can even use it for bathing.
Sizzle!
Golden lightning erupted, and Galos once again entered a state of high excitement.
The scales, which had just cooled down from being washed by the icy rain, quickly began to turn red and heat up.
Galos tried to condense flames and lightning while letting the exploding scales heat up until he felt they were about to overload and explode. Then he immediately deactivated the excited state and let them cool down slowly, repeating this process.
Flame Thunder, Exploding Scales, Dragon Heart, Thorns.
Galos's life is very fulfilling, with his daily exercise schedule packed full. He enjoys this peaceful and fulfilling life, and all of this daily accumulation is also preparing him for potential risks and accidents.
However, the training in Bakurin and Flame Lightning hadn't lasted long.
A piece of neck scales suddenly trembled slightly.
Garros stopped what he was doing, took out the communication stone, and received a message from the Iron Dragon. His pupils immediately contracted, turning into cold, predatory vertical pupils, before returning to normal a second later.
"Viscount Ironthorn, tax collector."
"What was bound to happen has finally happened."
Galos had anticipated this day. He knew that controlling a trade route, whether openly or covertly, would attract attention, but controlling it covertly would have the least impact.
"Let's talk to them first, as they wish."
Galos's eyes flickered as he conveyed his thoughts to Sorog.
He was not a savage and uncouth beast.
The Scaled Earth Road is a trade route opened up by the other party, who has occupied it for profit. The other party does have a valid reason to pay taxes, and Galos doesn't mind cooperating for a win-win situation and maintaining the current situation.
However, this is on the premise that the other party's demands are reasonable.
If they make exorbitant demands, Galos will not simply back down.
He sharpened his claws and teeth, carefully seeking survival, so that he would have the power to resist when facing danger and the confidence to overturn the table, rather than always yielding.
(End of this chapter)
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