Chapter 0318: The Power Characteristics of the Time Dragon



"Where the hell is that damn dragon? I'm going to starve to death if I don't eat the staple food."

While circling in the sky, Fang Zheng was talking to himself in frustration. Although he had determined through prophecy that there must be a head dragon among these fire dragons, and that this head dragon was in this island country, Fang Zheng had no way of determining its exact location. The reason was simple, because Fang Zheng found that after integrating the blood of the Time Dragon, his prophecy spells had some problems.

In other words, a mutation has occurred.

Unlike other dragon races, Time Dragons have a major characteristic, or problem: they have a very weak connection with time.

This makes the Time Dragon the only dragon among all dragons that will not be killed by time. They will only grow forever and will not fall into the state of aging and death. Because the Time Dragon itself is free from the constraints of time, it does not need to be affected by time like other dragons.

This is why the Time Dragon needs to swallow and plunder time to perform "Ten Consecutive Draws" in order to grow randomly. They cannot grow step by step because the power of time cannot act on them at all. So they need to use this method to make themselves "briefly" overlap with time in order to grow.

On the other hand, the Time Dragon's sensing ability is also different from that of other creatures.

The general biological perception is determined and judged by characteristics such as "body temperature", "breathing", "breath", and "strength", but the perception of the Time Dragon is more like an uninterrupted and continuous prophecy spell. It does not sense your arrival, but through the flow of time, it perceives that something will appear in a certain place at a certain minute and second. Therefore, any creature that cannot escape time cannot escape the detection of the Time Dragon.

It was also because of this that after Fang Zheng possessed the blood of the Time Dragon and transformed into a Time Dragon, he found that the power of his prophecy spell had become even stronger, and conversely, more difficult to control.

This is not surprising. The prophecy spell that Fang Zheng learned is for humans. Humans' ability to sense time and the future is naturally not as strong as that of the Time Dragon. Therefore, they need multiple guarantees and precise connections to ensure that they can peek into the future in some way without being affected.

But this method seems very cumbersome for Fang Zheng at the moment.

For example, if time is a huge stone, and humans want to lift it up or uncover it, they need to prepare a lot of sophisticated tools, such as gears and conveyor belts, to ensure that they can lift the stone without any mistakes and will not be hurt by it. This is the essence of prophecy magic.

But for Fang Zheng, as a person with the blood of the Time Dragon, he only needed to reach out and flip the stone. But on the other hand, because the power was too strong, Fang Zheng was completely unable to cast the prophecy spell as usual. It was like an adult holding a toy gun that a three-year-old child played with. You still want to play with it as much as the three-year-old child does, which is definitely impossible.

Therefore, in addition to plundering the power of time, Fang Zheng also did another thing in this world, which was to integrate and enhance the spells he had learned as much as possible. Fortunately, with the knowledge hidden in the blood of the Time Dragon, he had successfully changed some of the spells. However, there was still a part that Fang Zheng still needed to study and transform.

Due to the influence of the Time Dragon bloodline, Fang Zheng's ability to master prophecy spells has reached the seventh ring. However, he cannot cast prophecy spells normally like humans. Instead, according to the power and knowledge in his bloodline, Fang Zheng divides the prophecy spells he masters into two types.

Enhance and release.

To put it bluntly, enhancement spells are actually many spells in the prophecy system that have effects on the caster, such as "Arcane Vision", "True Seeing", "Higher Detection" and other spells. In essence, the prophecy mage "gains" the power of time through magic to see through and perceive. As for Fang Zheng at the moment, he has the blood of the time dragon and the dual fusion of the time manipulation ability from "Edge of Tomorrow". This means that Fang Zheng no longer needs to use cumbersome spells to connect to the magic power and then gain influence, but can directly simulate the power of time to create similar spell effects.

This also means that these enhancement spells that originally acted on the caster himself and could only be released after being cast, are now fixed on Fang Zheng. He no longer needs to cast spells. All he needs is a glance or a thought, and the effects of these spells will immediately take effect on Fang Zheng.

Unfortunately, because Fang Zheng had just started to improve and use these spells, the effects were not very obvious yet. It was like a precision technique like micro-carving, you had to practice until you could do it best. So Fang Zheng was not able to use this improved "prophecy-like spell" to accurately locate the target like before.

After all, the prophecy spells in the past were just weapons and tools like guns to Fang Zheng, but the prophecy spells now are like a "superpower" that has become a part of his body. Being familiar with a tool and being able to use one's physical strength skillfully are two different concepts.

In addition to this, there is also the power of "release".

The so-called "release" is actually those spells that do not act on one's own body, but on others. For example, Fang Zheng used to like to use "Thought Exploration" and "Suppress Good Luck". However, for Fang Zheng, what he most wants to study at present is the most offensive spell in the prophecy spell series - the "Law" series.

The so-called command series spells are also very powerful spells in the prophecy system. You only need to issue a single word of the command to the target, and the target will be affected immediately.

The third ring's "Poor Law" and "Weak Law", the fifth ring's "Removal of Law", the seventh ring's "Blind Law", the eighth level's "Petrification Law" and the ninth ring's "Death Law".

However, like many other spells, Fang Zheng thought that the spells of the Law System had a big flaw, that is, except for the ultimate "Law of Death" of the Nine Rings, the others were single-target spells, and Fang Zheng was currently studying how to transform them into range-type spells. In addition, another feature of the Law System was that it would be directly immune to creatures with strong bodies, which meant that the spells of the Law System could only be used to bully the weak, which was not worth the loss for Fang Zheng. Therefore, at present, he was also referring to other spell effects and modifying them. Although Fang Zheng did not intend to make it 100% impossible for anyone to resist the effect, at least he hoped that even if the target resisted the effect of the Law System, it would be affected to a certain extent...

Of course, this is a very difficult research task.

"Perhaps after this instance is over, I should go to my mentor to ask about the situation."

Although Fang Zheng could start learning and studying magic by himself with the knowledge gained from the "Book of All Laws" and the blood of the Time Dragon, he still decided to go back to the Mage Tower and have a good talk with Rex. After all, the other party was a powerful prophecy mage, and perhaps he could help him solve this problem.

"Um?"

At this moment, Fang Zheng accidentally saw a hint of green on the ground, which made him stunned for a moment, and then Fang Zheng immediately lowered his altitude and flew downwards. You know, after coming here, he has never seen anything green again, and now seeing this color representing life, Fang Zheng couldn't help but feel curious.

Soon, as the altitude decreased, Fang Zheng could see the green area clearly - it was a vegetable field hidden in the ruins. The emerald green plants and bright red fruits stood out against the dark, burnt-out gray field.

Is there a human settlement nearby?

Seeing this vegetable field, Fang Zheng seemed a little surprised. He didn't expect that there were people here who could survive under the noses of so many fire dragons. But when he thought about it carefully, it was not surprising. After all, humans... can survive anywhere, right?

“Woo woo…”

While Fang was hovering in the air, he saw a car suddenly coming from the road in the distance. There were three or four people sitting in it. They were wearing worn-out, dirty coats that covered their entire bodies. They drove to the vegetable field, and before the person sitting in the driver's seat stopped the car, the others jumped out of the car holding a cloth bag and rushed to the vegetable field quickly.

Are these people here to pick fruit?

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but feel confused, because he could sense that the fruits in the vegetable field were not fully ripe. Or were these people so hungry that they had no choice but to eat anything?

Those humans didn't notice Fang Zheng and the little dragon at all. They just shuttled through the fields quickly, picking the fruits that were about to ripen. Fang Zheng watched this scene with great interest. He even considered whether he should go up and say hello to these humans later. As the local bosses here, perhaps these humans would know where the so-called head dragon is?

“Ding ding ding…!!”

At this moment, along with the sound of a car engine, Fang Zheng soon saw another metal car whizzing over. Then, one of the men stepped out of the car and ran towards those people. He grabbed the collar of the man who had come here before and yelled at him. But the man pushed the man away with his backhand, showing an attitude of not giving in.

Hmm? Something interesting happened?

Looking at the two men who couldn't hold out, and the others who hurried over to them, Fang Zheng became more and more interested. He originally thought that these were robbers, but soon Fang Zheng found that the two groups seemed to be in the same group, but perhaps for some reason, they had a dispute.

"call--!"

Just when Fang Zheng was about to go down to see what was going on, he suddenly felt a gust of wind passing under him. Then, Fang Zheng saw a fire dragon rushing towards the field at a rapid speed.

“Ouch!!”

Hearing the roar of the fire dragon, the two groups of people who were about to fight quickly reacted, they quickly turned around and ran towards their cars. But the fire dragon just flapped its wings a few times, rushed in front of them, and then spewed out a mouthful of fire, completely engulfing their car in blazing flames.

It seems that these humans are in trouble again.


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