The Persistent Dragon

[Your innate mana attributes are mutating]

[Awakened mana attributes: Dark and shadow]

[The Drak and Shadow attributes are combined together]

[A Special attribute, never ever seen in the world has been created]

[Congratulations, you have acquired the mana attribute, Umbra]

[You have acquired a new trait, Risistant against all attributes(lv.1)]

The resistance that he had obtained from the sudden combination of both his attributes gave him the power to withstand the blue fire of the dragon.

However, Drakorinith's attack wasn't just a normal fire.

It was the blaze that agonized and invoked one's deepest emotions.

"Kuh…"

Ashoka moaned painfully.

He remembered the face that he hated the most in his previous life, the way the person laughed at him while looking down on him like a bug, making him gasp.

Ashoka was finding it hard to endure that.

{Don't worry in exchange for taking your body, I will take any revenge for you. I will break his skull and chew on his flesh.}

Ashoka gasped for breath.

As the dragon's voice incited his emotions, Ashoka wanted to explode with his anger toward that person.

He was lost in hate towards that certain individual from his past life.

'Absolutely not…'

Ashoka bit back his emotions as hard as he could.

Then remembered.

He was dead.

The one who had made him suffer, Ashoka had killed him with his own hands.

He remembered that he was no longer the Ashoka of the past.

He was now the prince of Mauryan, son of Chandralekha, the moon lady, Ashoka Maurya.

Even if he were to die there, he couldn't give him his body.

'I have to endure.'

He clenched his fist to bleed.

Patience and emotionlessness were what he practiced the most in his past life to achieve his revenge.

To successfully complete his revenge, he endured more pain than anyone could imagine.

{You are enduring better than I thought, but for how long? No one can win against the willpower of this great Monarch}

As if the dragon was mocking him, he released a fire capable of burning his mind and body.

"Huff…"

It was a relief.

It was going to be difficult to hold on if the dragon kept on inciting Ashoka's emotions, but the dragon chose to enhance his power instead.

For Ashoka, enduring physical pain was easier than enduring mental emotions.

Ashoka caught his breath and withstood the power penetrating his bones.

{A mere human dares!}

Drakorinith's burning voice was irritated and angry.

{I wanted to avoid harming the body that this monarch was going to use, but it can't be helped. I'm going to devour you alive.}

It wasn't an exaggeration. As his flame grew bigger, the intensity of the flame wave assailing his mind and body increased immensely.

"Kuh!"

Unable to withstand it, Ashoka groaned. His lip parted as he felt the pain of his flesh being torn apart and organs being severed.

{Raise your anger and accept this monarch. Are you planning to die?}

"I'd rather die than give my body to someone like you."

He bit his tongue to come to his senses. The moment he resolved to die rather than give the dragon his body, he had an idea.

'Wait. If the Resistance can block his power…'

Then he might be able to lower the pain in both his body and mind by circulating his newly awakened mana attribute through his mana circuit as Sage Vyasa had thought him.

Ashoka bit his lips and forcefully started to rotate his mana as instructed by Sage Vyasa.

It was hard.

The newly formed mana attribute was refusing to move according to his will, but Ashoka didn't keep up.

Little by little, he moved the mana around his body.

One rotation.

two rotations.

three rotation.

four rotation.

It happened as soon as he completed the fifth rotation.

[Congratulations, you have acquired the mana circulation method <Enhance art of energy circulation>]

[Your resistance towards all attributes has increased]

[The trait <Resistantce against all attribute> has increased to lv.2 ]

The pain he felt from the power of the Dragon's will started to decrease.

Soon Ashoka was able to fully withstand its flame and stand on his feet.

{How did a mere human child?!}

"I am a human, but I am not a child."

Casting off the subsiding power, Ashoka responded calmly.

{This doesn't make any sense. Not at all!}

Drakorinith's power came away from his body while screaming furiously. His lips were shaking like a scared colt.

{Even though it hasn't been long since I woke up, for this monarch to be pushed back by a mere human!}

"Haaaah…"

Ashoka exhaled and glared at Drakorinith. His flame wavered like a lamp in the wind.

"My revenge, I have already achieved it. All I wish for is to live this life peacefully, I am not going to give this body to a mere dragon like you."

{Mere dragon? You dare call me, Drakorinith, the monarch of dragons as a mere dragon!}

"You can't even deal with me, yet call yourself a Monarch. I guess all the other monarchs are dead."

{You! Are you for real…?!}

Drakorinith amplified his flame once again, but only the size increased. The firepower was a lot weaker than before.

'He said he just woke up.'

Waking up from sleep, or a seal… Either way, it looked like he couldn't use his full force.

As Ashoka shook it off violently, Drakorinith's fire was thrown off, fluttering away like paper.

The sound of the dragon grinding his teeth could be heard from inside the blue flame.

Im-impossible! How are you controlling your emotions?!

"There is no need to tell you. Now disappear."

{You took the power of this monarch! How can you ask me to leave?!}

The Dragon glared at him with rage and hate.

{And this monarch has already decided. I couldn't separate from you even if I wanted to. Ah!}

Ashoka gathered up courage and threw a punch at the mumbling dragon.

It was funny how a mere human was punching an enormous dragon.

But as if he expected it, Ashoka's hand just passed through the dragon's body.

It was as if he swung his hand into an empty space.

"Then…"

Ashoka gathered mana on his fingertips. It was lousy compared to the aura of experience knights, but still better than nothing.

Swoosh!

He slashed with the mana-enhance hand knife, but even that didn't do anything to the image of the dragon in front of him.

{Wh-What are you doing?!}

"Tsk, this won't work, either."

Drakorinith was like a soul and didn't have a physical body. Because of that, it didn't seem like he would disappear even if he used an aura.

'Now that I think about it…'

Even though the dragon let out his intense power, Sage Vyasa, Sage Chanakya, and the guardians who were guarding the building didn't seem to notice it.

It must've been because Ashoka was the only one who could see or feel him.

"How do I make you disappear?"

{Give your body to this monarch. Then…}

"You must be crazy."

As Ashoka sneered, a message popped up.

Ding!

[An additional ability has been unlocked.]

"An additional ability?"

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