Chapter 543: Cultivation of a Young Dragon
In early March, after dealing with a number of corporate affairs, and with the follow-up of the project by the members of the Star Cluster, Tilan finally had some free time.
It seemed that the little guys should also advance, and Tilan finally remembered the pet companions she had cultivated.
She had been very busy during this period, and she would not take care of them during the period when Themisia was in charge of the body, and she asked the maids to help take care of them.
"Are you asking about the situation of the white kites? They are all normal. They go out for a ride from time to time during the day and always come back in the evening." A maid in a red dress who was in charge of taking care of them answered.
"Because you said that the big spider does not need to be taken care of too much, we just provide food. It usually comes back every few days for a big meal."
"The white young dragon usually stays on the dome on the top floor to bask in the sun, tempering and accumulating magic power according to the branding array you arranged. The other cold-scaled young dragon stays in the ice pool of the cold storage underground. Occasionally, we will go there to feed it with the prepared nutrient cubes."
"I see." The girl nodded and then walked towards the top floor.
Soon, she pushed open the door on the top dome. The space inside was a hemispherical observatory with a one-way translucent glass dome on the top. From the outside, it was an elegant purple, while from the inside, it was transparent glass.
Going up the spiral staircase, the highest point was a cylindrical platform, where a young dragon with snow-white scales and a faint halo lay coiled. There was a transparent golden gem between its eyebrows, like a miniature sun, emitting a faint heat.
When the girl approached, the young dragon opened its eyes, raised its head, gently rubbed the girl's palm, and then continued to lie down.
It was much bigger than before. When I first met, the young dragon was still a daylight indigo snake that could wrap around the girl's arm and stand up.
Now, the girl compared it with her palm and found that the young dragon's neck was probably a little thicker than her waist.
Unlike humans, supernatural animals tend to grow in size as they advance, so they can accumulate more magic power and become stronger. If humans use guns and swords as weapons, then these supernatural animals use their claws and fangs.
If they are supernatural animals that have not been artificially cultivated, their strength will not increase so quickly, and their core models when they advance are mostly simple. However, if they are animals carefully raised by breeders, they will be much stronger. With human intervention, the advancement templates of these supernatural animals can often keep up with the mainstream progress. The various exquisite nutritious foods and ritual arrays provided by breeders can also greatly increase the speed of their accumulation of magic power.
With Tilan, it only took 4 years for this indigo snake to go from sequence 2 to sequence 5, but if it was in the wild without anyone to teach and supervise it, it might take 30-40 years, and this is the case when it is smart enough to comprehend the high-level core model on its own.
As for the magical beasts above sequence 6, it depends on luck. There are generally not many in nature. Unless they are special tribes led by powerful high-level leaders, they will appear more frequently.
With her fingers lightly pressing on the gemstone between the young dragon's eyebrows, Tilan's perception spread along it, slowly outlining in her mind the flow of magic power in the young dragon's body and its current state.
The sunlight from the roof passed through the glass of the dome and fell on the scales of the young dragon, reflecting the glittering veins and imprints in them. Then, along these natural imprints and veins on the scales, the sunlight and Aigeka particles turned into special light golden magic power for the young dragon to absorb and enter its body.
After that, these light golden magic powers with the attributes of "sunlight" and "fire" gathered in the young dragon's extraordinary core, and along the complex veins in the core, they were refined again and precipitated into higher-level magic power with the attributes of "sun" and "dragon", and then accumulated in the core.
Although the whole process was not fast, it was very stable, and it could operate spontaneously even if the young dragon fell asleep.
In this process, the young dragon will also slowly adapt to and master these high-level essence magic through the process of refining magic, so that it can have stronger control when advancing, can perform more refined operations, and is safer.
If you use the essence magic provided by certain spiritual medicines, although it can greatly reduce the time required to accumulate magic, because it is not the magic accumulated by yourself, the control is often poor, which makes it much more dangerous when advancing. If relevant measures are not prepared in advance, there is even a risk of losing control. This is the pros and cons of extraordinary spiritual medicines.
After helping the young dragon sort out and optimizing the trajectory of magic operation, Tilan retracted her fingers, stroked the pale young dragon again, fed it some energy cubes, supplemented the special elements needed for growth, and then walked down the platform. There is
no need to worry about the white dragon for the time being. Judging from its appearance, it will be able to advance to Sequence 6 in about 3-4 years.
Although it was a bit slow compared to Tilan, this speed was actually quite amazing. After all, due to their size, Warcraft needed more magic power to accumulate. Moreover, the dragon sequence was very special, and often required about twice as much magic power as other sequences.
It was time to take a look at the cold-scaled young dragon in the underground ice pool.
Turning the stairs, Tilan went down to the basement, and opened the underground ice storage with his identity authority and entered.
There was an icy chill in the air. The temperature here was maintained at minus 20 degrees all year round. When you stepped on the ground, you could feel a few raised ice ridges and fragments.
Continuing to walk in, when Tilan was about to enter the hall where the ice pool was located, a figure holding a lantern appeared at the end of the corridor.
The other party looked up and saw Tilan standing in the ice storage, with a surprised look on his face.
"Lord Tilan, why are you here?"
The girl shook her head. "I came to see the young dragon. But you, have you been guarding here all the time?"
The maid holding the lantern opposite was wearing a skirt with dark red rose lace and a red hood on her upper body. Seeing Tilan asking, she took off the hood, revealing her short golden hair covering her ears.
"Yes, I have been guarding here, because there is a sarcophagus in the ice storage for everyone to sleep." She knelt on her knees and answered.
"How many maids are sleeping now?" Tilan remembered that the vampires would occasionally hibernate for a long time.
"There are 37 of my kind in sleep now, and they will wake up one after another in about a year, and then replace the other members working in the mansion." She answered in detail.
"Oh, I vaguely remember hearing Ran Bei'er say something. The price of your longevity is that you need to enter a dormant state regularly, right?"
"That's right. We will repair our bodies and genes during the sleep process, and this process will consume a lot of essence of magic power. This also causes our advancement speed to be often slower than that of ordinary transcendents."
"The price of longevity..." Tilan seemed thoughtful.
"You go ahead and do your work. I'll go check on the baby dragon."
"Yes, Master Tilan." After saying that, she stood up and slowly disappeared into the depths of the corridor.
Entering the hall on the 7th floor underground, the girl saw a bottomless black pool of water in the middle of the ground, and the temperature in the air was exceptionally low.
It was about 50 degrees below zero, the girl thought, but for her, it didn't feel cold, after all, she was born with the power of crystallization and stillness, which was also the source of the concept of cold.
Walking to the edge of the ice pool, Tilan dipped her fingers into the water, stirred it slightly, felt the ripples spread, and the perception also spread downwards.
After a while, the image of the baby dragon deep under the water appeared in the girl's mind.
It was sleeping so deeply. This guy is not as sensitive as the indigo snake, and feels a little clumsy.
Thinking back to the scene when they first met, when she was helping in the maid shop, this little snake was wrapped around her legs, which made her a little panicked.
After thinking about how to wake this guy up, Tilan moved her fingers, and a long ice spike condensed in her palm, and then one end fell deep under the water. As her wrist moved, the other end knocked on the head of the sleeping cold-scaled young dragon.
Wake up, the girl called softly in her heart.
Under the water, the young dragon finally opened its eyes, dodged under the knocking of the ice spike, then swam and emerged from the water.
Its scales were ice blue, and the outer skin on the inside was extremely white. In contrast, it formed a texture of ice blue and white, which was very beautiful. After emerging from the water, it floated up, swam slowly above the pool, and then came to Tilan.
"By the way, your colors have been swapped."
Tilan remembered that this young dragon was originally a white tree viper raised in a glass house in the Butis Rainforest. Now, because of the choice of advancement, it has become a young dragon with icy attributes, and its scales have become icy blue. The
daylight snake, which was originally indigo in color, has become snow-white in scales because it has advanced to the "sun" and "sunlight" attributes.
After touching the little head of the tree viper, Tilan also combed and checked it.
Compared with the pale young dragon "Zhu", this cold-scaled young dragon is much smaller in size and has less magic power than the other. This is not to say that its talent is not as good as the other, but it lacks a suitable environment.
Under the dome of the observatory, with the help of the special magic circle there, the sunlight can be gathered, and the magic of the "sun" and "fire" attributes is relatively active, easy to transform and utilize, and naturally accumulates quickly.
On the contrary, the magic of the "icy" attribute originally carries the concept of "slowness". Even if the monster itself can be immune, the speed will definitely not be as fast as the "sun" and "fire" attributes.
This situation is also reflected in the current supernatural factions. Highly active concepts such as "flame" and "sun" are mostly popular, while the esoteric factions with the concepts of "ice cold" and "forbidden" are relatively rare.
In fact, it is the same in nature. Absolute zero is only minus 273 degrees, but high temperature can be thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees.
It seems that I have to ask if there are suitable ritual arrays for you to assist in practice, the girl thought.
But for now, she has other ways to help this cold-scaled young dragon solve the problem of magic accumulation.
With a finger raised, a jade flute condensed from ice appeared in her palm. After a little adaptation, Tilan held the flute horizontally and played it slowly.
The quiet flute sound slowly sounded in this underground world. Because it was far away from the outside world, she could play to her heart's content without worrying about affecting passers-by and spectators.
Then, the flute sound like a clear spring rose and fell, like a trickle of water passing through the mountains, like a smart bird flying across the wilderness. As the girl played, the temperature around her became lower and lower, and a faint "ice mist" slowly emerged around her.
In this ice mist caused by the highly condensed tiny particles of magic power, the cold-scaled young dragon swam happily, and the scales on its body also glowed with a faint halo, constantly absorbing the ice mist in the air.
In this way, time passed slowly. After about 20 minutes, Tilan opened her eyes and put down the flute.
At this time, the temperature in the air was more than 200 degrees below zero. If she hadn't been able to keep the objects around her body unaffected, I'm afraid her clothes would have broken into pieces.
With a slight lift of her palm, the ice mist in the air quickly condensed, and finally formed a flawless transparent ice ball in the palm of her hand.
Holding this ice ball, she placed it in front of the young dragon, and then Tilan loosened her fingers, and the cold-scaled young dragon swallowed this ice ball condensed by pure magic power in one gulp.
"Then you just hold it and slowly absorb it." The girl touched the head of the young dragon, and then let it return to the bottom of the water to rest.
After leaving the underground hall, she closed the door again, and then went to the place where the maids were sleeping.
"Lady Tilan." Seeing the girl coming, the maid she had seen not long ago stood up.
The girl nodded slightly, and then looked at the hall where the sarcophagi were displayed. There were about 130 sarcophagi here, and about a quarter of them were sleeping vampires.
Walking in front, the maid held a lantern to lead the way for the girl.
"What's your name?" There were too many maids in the mansion, and Tilan sometimes couldn't remember them.
"My name is Shayla, Lady Tilan." She said her name.
"How many maids are there at the same level as you, at Blood Eye Sequence 6?" Tilan was curious.
"Including me, there are 12 people in total. Lady Ran Bei'er is the only Blood Eye Sequence 7, and is currently in deep sleep."
"Higher-Sequence vampires spend more time in deep sleep. Among the maids currently in the mansion, there are only 5 Sequence 6s, and the other Sequence 6 maids of the same level are all in deep sleep." "
That is to say, among these 5 people, except you, in daily life up there, only 4 are Sequence 6, right?"
"That's right, but because of our special physique and the sequence we cultivate, our combat power will be much stronger than that of the same level, so Lady Tilan doesn't have to worry."
"Among the rest of the people, except for the 30 or so newly promoted companions, the others are all at the level of Blood Eye Sequence 5." She continued to add.
"Well, I understand." Tilan walked past the sarcophagus one by one, occasionally placing her hand lightly on the closed sarcophagus to feel the condition of the sleeping maids inside.
Although the blood race is powerful, its flaws are also obvious. No wonder their numbers have been small over the years and they have not become a powerful force. On the one hand, they are excluded by major mainstream forces because of their bloodline and physique. On the other hand, their frequent dormancy also makes it impossible for them to maintain certain key positions. They can only do some auxiliary professions, such as scholars, artists, scientific research, combat categories, etc. If they are key leadership positions, they have to find people to replace them frequently.
"Are there many forces or giant companies that know about your existence?" Tilan was quite curious.
"This... shouldn't be many." Shayla shook her head.
"In the early days of the Federation, our identity was very awkward. Although we were not a new race under the 'Dark Sun', we were also a highly changed and specialized race, very different from the mainstream group."
"At that time, because of the war in the Fifth Era, the major mainstream forces had a strong sense of aversion to us 'aliens', and bloody incidents often broke out."
"In order to avoid disaster, the vampires at that time had to hide their identities, disperse, and hide in the crowd. Even if they had special abilities, they dared not use them. Because of their special physique, they had to find areas with sparse populations to settle down in order to reduce the probability of being discovered."
"When we met you, our branch had been quietly operating and multiplying in the Emerald Skirt for hundreds of years, and gradually had nearly two hundred people of the same clan. If it were in other star fields, the largest clan might not have more than a dozen people. If there were more, it would greatly increase the probability of exposure."
"Will the Inquisition still arrest you now?" Tilan thought, the Federation didn't seem to have any laws specifically targeting vampires.
"They won't arrest us specifically, but if they cite the 'Alien Security Law', it will be easy for them to find a reason to arrest us, so it's a gray area that's neither black nor white."
"But with your protection and guarantee, those people from the Inquisition will not target us."
In fact, as long as these maids do not leave the mansion, basically no one will come to make trouble. Moreover, if the influence of the singer expands in the future, the image of the vampires, as servants who often appear on screen, will gradually improve among the people and become easier to accept.
After all, in the Sixth Era, the vampires were relatively well-behaved, and the True Red Empire in history was also considered to have made contributions to mankind and was a frequent guest in many film and television dramas, so it was relatively easy to change their concepts.
After listening to Shayla's description, Tilan expressed her understanding.
"Take your time. Although I don't know what other vampires in the Federation are like, if you stay with me, I will protect you well."
The pain of that war really had a far-reaching impact.
The girl stopped and looked at the drawing on the wall in the distance, which depicted the past of Isanissa leading various tribes to fight against the "Dark Suns" at the end of the Fifth Era.
The entire painting was dark in tone, except for the place where Isanisha stood, which seemed to be filled with a faint golden light, spreading and radiating to the surroundings and behind her. The great men in history stood behind her, looking at the black sun burning in the sky in the distance.
Even now, traces of that period of history remain inside and outside the Federation.
(End of this chapter)
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