Chapter 44: A Power More Real Than an Epic
As the sun rose and set, five months passed in the blink of an eye.
The hemlock hills were shrouded in a pale white mist in the early morning. Galos buried his nose and kiss in the dew-covered hemlock needles. The cool dew rolled down the gaps in the scales, taking away the lingering heat from last night's workout.
Five months ago.
After a minor incident involving the adventurers.
Galos put the map away and then, as if nothing had happened, continued his usual life: hunting powerful ferocious beasts and monsters, training his physique, and exploring magic, interspersed with short breaks.
During this time, the earth spiders kept returning, bringing back oily soil.
Samantha refined the clay into black oil, which Galus ingested, becoming his energy source, giving him a pump of energy and boosting his training efficiency.
"Go for it!"
I took a sip of the last bit of black oil.
Galos, who had just woken up, immediately perked up, his eyes shining. He then soared into the sky in the morning sunlight and went out hunting in the gentle breeze, fighting against ferocious beasts and monsters to hone his fighting skills and combat reflexes.
It was noon.
Galos, having hunted down and devoured a level 8 giant lizard, began his flight training.
Under the bright, golden sunlight, Garus's wings gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen, yet he was still able to soar through the sky.
Without relying on magic, but solely on its own wings.
Through persistent training and strengthening, Garus's wing joints are more than twice as flexible as those of an ordinary young dragon, and its durability is also astonishing, allowing it to fly for hours without landing even in the face of sandstorms in the wilderness.
Today he tried a sudden stop during a dive.
Galos flapped its wings and swooped down from the sky to the ground. When it was a few dozen meters above the ground, it suddenly spread its wings completely and hovered in the air.
This action had a tremendous impact on his body.
With repeated occurrences, it eventually led to a tear in the fascia at the base of the right wing.
Garos licked away the oozing dragon blood without batting an eye.
This level of pain has become commonplace.
As the sun set and the twin moons rose, Garus returned to Hemlock Hills for the most dangerous resistance training, having Samantha breathe dragon breath on him.
The flames spewed by the red dragon were no ordinary fire.
High temperature, domineering, and with a strong impact.
Even though both are fire-type dragons, they will still suffer considerable damage if they directly confront dragon breath.
When Garos initially faced Samantha's dragon breath head-on, he would be blasted away and burned all over his body, but now, due to the further changes in his buffer scales, he is different.
All I saw was...
Bathed in the raging flames, the red iron dragon's scales deepened in color and slowly extended upwards, but instead of bursting, they absorbed the high temperature and impact.
Two seconds later.
*Bang!* One of the buffer scales reached its limit and suddenly exploded.
The flaming, brand-iron-colored fragments shot out and landed on a hemlock, producing a deafening roar as they exploded into flames, blasting the hemlock in two.
The current buffer scale.
It can not only absorb impact, but also has the additional property of absorbing high temperatures and thus exploding.
Galos renamed it to — Bakurin.
The current layer of Exploding Scales is not yet fully evolved. It needs to withstand fire-attribute attacks to explode. When Garos strikes the Exploding Scales purely with brute force, the scales absorb kinetic energy while their temperature rises.
In a while.
Garros estimated that it could convert kinetic energy into heat, or absorb its own magical energy and convert it into an explosive burst of energy that would blast out as the dragon scales shattered.
Only then will the evolution be considered complete.
When Samantha collapsed from exhaustion, Galos had the Earth Bear use its earth-attribute skills to attack him, exhausting it to the point of collapse as well. Then, Galos soared into the sky and arrived at the desolate mountain area.
Here.
He used the Silverfrost Ring and Lightning Tail Ring to train his ice and lightning resistance, and used the sun and earth to improve his defense and muscle strength, while also incorporating dragon breath to enhance the intensity and duration of his various dragon breaths.
The day only ended when it got late at night.
And Galus did this day after day, night after night.
In the dead of night, the starry sky is like countless eyes, silently watching over the vast earth.
Galos lay alone on a rocky platform in the desolate mountains, taking a rare moment of rest to feel the changes in the starry sky and himself.
It has been about a year since we left the Iron Dragon Girl's territory.
At eight years old, Galus had grown to 7.2 meters tall.
His body grew increasingly thick and strong, with muscles, scales, and bone density far exceeding that of ordinary young dragons.
The branding marks on his Blast Scales are gradually extending towards his spine. When the marks fully reach his spine, that will probably be the moment when Blast Scales completes its evolution.
He felt an even stronger electric shock under the dragon tail scales, as if an invisible electric grid was intertwining around him.
Through constant covering with alchemical tools and daily training, the lower membrane of his wings, traditional to dragons, became thinner, with dense, feather-like scales overlapping on top, gradually turning fiery red, sparking as they rubbed against each other when he flapped his wings.
These things are not achieved overnight or formed in an instant.
They were gradually pieced together through subtle progress, a unique growth trajectory belonging to Galus.
There are no legendary adventures in the wilderness, only the accumulation of day after day. Every broken dragon scale tells a story of power more real than any epic.
—This is the true source of Galos's power.
Compared to this will, even legendary alchemical tools are just trivial trinket.
As for the life level, it remains at level 7, with no improvement.
Galos was initially puzzled as to why his life level hadn't increased despite all the changes, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood.
Life level is just a reference and cannot measure the actual strength. Below the legendary level, they are still all mortal beings.
He estimated that he could easily defeat his past self, who was also level 7 a year ago.
and.
Galos's evolution is not a direct increase in its life level, but rather the release of its 'potential'.
It's like an adult cat turning into a tiger cub.
They may have the same body size, but their future prospects are completely different.
It's normal that his life level hasn't improved, after all, he's only 8 years old.
An 8-year-old level 7 dragon is something only a golden dragon can achieve.
The Golden Dragon is universally recognized as the strongest among normal dragons, possessing unique advantages and being the most favored by the Dragon God. Even the Red Dragon cannot compare. An 8-year-old Red Dragon is only around level 6, and some are even only level 5.
"I don't know if I can beat a Golden Dragon of the same level."
Galos gazed at the starry sky, blinked, and thought to himself.
Next, I continued to train and strengthen myself every day.
But only five days have passed.
Galos has run into a problem—the black oil is gone.
For some reason, none of the earth spiders returned for two or three days, so they didn't bring back any oil soil or raw materials for refining black oil. Galos also used up the last of his black oil.
"It seems there's a problem."
"Could it be that the earth spiders extracting oil have been discovered?"
Galos paced back and forth in the dappled shadows, a vague unease creeping into his heart.
Unexpected events mean variables.
Variables mean danger.
Because of the unusual disappearance of the earth spiders, Garus keenly sensed danger.
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