Hunting The Dragon (II)

Chapter 13 Hunting The Dragon (II)

"Rezvan, my dearest Daredevil!"

Amdarais laughed satisfyingly while patting my head.

"Hey, knock it off."

As I dismissed his hand from my head, the skull magician still laughed like a joker.

After a long laugh, Amdarais reach one of the dead dragon bodies near him.

"Heheheh…I can't hold my excitement, Rezvan. Having a Dragon's Diamond after being chained over a thousand years? Oh, it's like a fine appetizer!"

"Wait, are you want to eat the Diamonds?"

"No but watch this…."

Both Amdarais hand suddenly emerges with the gray light of magic, so his hands become like gleaming star.

I gasped as the skull magician ripped off the dead Dragon's body and then took the red Diamonds covered with the Dragon's blood.

Amdarais squeezed the red Diamond firmly until it cracked and then broke into a hundred fractions of red-light magic that absorbed into his body.

"This how we strengthen up as Magician, Rezvan. We absorb their energy into our Soul's Spirit. Can you feel it?"

I looked at my palm in silence.

As Amdarais said, I can feel enormous energy arise in my body.

It became stronger after Amdarais robbed the second Dragon's Diamond and drained its energy with greed.

"It's time to utilize it, Rezvan."

Amdarais flew his body in front of me and then placed his right hand.

The gray aura on my chest suddenly formed a pentagram shape of gray light with a ball of red light floating in the central pentagram.

"This portrays the energy that we absorb. The monster's soul."

Amdarais pointing the ball of red light and then pointed out the edge of the pentagram.

"…and each of the pentagram's edges reflects the magician's key power we want to elevate."

I remember he explained there is five magicians' key power.

Still, it is better to improve the three primes of key power for the initial phase: intelligence, vitality, and cleverness.

Oddly enough, a small light in each end pentagram symbolizes my current measurement of my key power.

Based on the symbol shows my Intelligence at 15 points, vitality at 5 points, cleverness at 5 points, strength at 5 points, and agility at 5 points.

Intelligence for increasing magician's capability to develop his spell and magic damage.

Vitality for increasing magician's defense and endurance.

Cleverness for increasing the magician's recitation speed and aiming skill.

I haven't heard the explanation about strength and agility key power from Amdarais.

Still, I understand a little meaning about that.

Since the body enchanted by Soul's Spirit grace could elevate all key power for 5 points, strength and agility are unnecessary at this initial phase.

I paused for a minute to think about it more deeply.

It would be easier to think if I increased all primary key power together.

But the number of monster souls I had was limited.

Amdarais previously warned me that it would slow impact the magician's development if I raised all the key power on average.

Of course, there will be other dragons on this mountain to increase my monster's Diamond later.

But in a meantime, I need to exploit this 'leveling up' moment.

As I contemplate, remembering the strength of my Soul's Spirit Strike, it's the right time to elevate it into a more powerful spell.

I understand the consequence of this is a lengthy recitation of the spell, which will make me get countered easily by my enemies.

But it's still effective in an ambush battle like this.

After being sure enough, I placed my right palm on the north edge of the pentagram, symbolizing the magician's intelligence.

The red ball of light broke into pieces and absorbed into the pentagram's north edge, making the edge thicker than before.

From the symbols on the north edge of the pentagram, I can see the intelligence points increased to 25 points.

My hand clenched as the sudden vibration from inside my heart shook like being struck by thunder.

The moment I kneeled, the gray aura in my body shone brightly, which indicates the Soul's Spirit had given their new knowledge of magic spells.

"Spent it all to Intelligence, huh? It's suitable for Daredevil like you, Rezvan…."

Amdarais grins widely with his usual annoying face.

As the strange vibration is gone, I stand up to continue the dragon hunt.

Following the mountain's road, I fast walk cautiously because the road becomes more narrow and slippery under the rain.

The moment I heard the sound of snoring dragons, I was sure I had arrived in another cave full of dragons sleeping.

As the flash of lightning dances in the cloudy sky, I hurriedly run to hide under the rock.

The sound of clattering thunder in the sky makes the mountain shake for a moment.

However, that ear deafens sound, not waking the four-sleeping Dragon in the cave west of me.

I'm not sure if they are sleeping like a log or in a coma state; either way, it's my opportunity to test the new spell.

I stepped out from the rock slowly without making any sound.

As my vision focused on the cave, the Soul's Spirit helped me sense the aura of four dragons sleeping there.

I clenched my right palm and placed it in my chest as the Soul's Spirit became more concentrated.

The gray aura on my body emerges intensely since it shows me the new path of the Soul's Spirit in my mind.

As I dive deep all my senses into the Soul's Spirit's new path, I can't hear the sound of the raindrop, the snore of the sleeping dragons, the wind breezes, and even the sound of my heartbeat.

"There's no light nor the dark in your path

Reaching for the mysterious beyond

Facing the endless cursed fate

Strive, Brandish Soul!"

I recite the new spell I learned from my levelling up.

As I pointed my right palm into the sky, the magical formation formed above the cave.

The sound of emerging gray light in the magical formation, louder than the raindrops, awakened some dragons.

The awaking dragons burst into anger after realizing my intention.

Before they rush and gush their fire breath, I am aiming the cave with my right hand.

The blinding light from the magical formation comes out as the massive gray magic spears stomp the cave and all the dragons inside them like a raindrop that demolishes ants.

It was mesmerizing, yet terrifying, to see the rain of magic spears devastating the cave, piercing the Dragon's head, crushing the Dragon's body, and breaking the Dragon's wing.

As the gray magic formation is gone, I only see the cave wreckage and the Dragon's carcass.

Under the heavy rain, the Dragon's roar and the shaking of the magic spear become entirely quiet.

"Hahahahahaha! I thought the Dragon would catch you first!"

Amdarais laughed impulsively.

He flew toward the Dragon's carcass, absorbing all their Diamonds with his hand.

I kneel while maintaining my exhausted breath.

Reciting the new spell took a long time, and I spent lots of energy.

Suppose there is any Monster that remained survived after I cast that spell.

In that case, I can't fight back or defend myself because of the tiredness.

"Trying to catch your breath, Rezvan?"

I stare at Amdarais, who standing in front of me.

I just nod to answer him because I'm still gasping for breath.

He touched my chest, so the gray pentagram of key power status appeared between me and Amdarais.

"Take time to choose the next key power you want to increase."

As my breath gradually stable, the gray pentagram took my attention.

What's next?

Increasing intelligence indeed made the magic spell stronger.

But my lack of endurance and speed of magic spelling has a lot of risks if the enemy still survived and fought back.

Respectively speaking, I think magic spells are effective when the spell can kill the enemy fast from long range.

Based on these thoughts, I finally chose to raise intelligence until it reached 30 points, vitality by 15 points, and cleverness by 15 points.

As the gray pentagram shines in a glimpse, I can feel the improvement from increased key power points.

My magic spell recitation would be slightly faster.

Even my body has recovered a little better now.

"KIIIKKK!! KKIIIKKKK!"

Amdarais and I were suddenly alert when the sounds of hundreds of steps from the top became louder in the middle of the raindrop.

Not only that, the squeak of dragons that become clearer alongside the steps make us aware of their incoming.

"Rezvan! This is not as I expected! Run!"

Amdarais shouted in panic.

I also instantly took a back step and ran because of the hundreds of little red dragons, approximately less than half the other dragon size I defeated.

These hundreds of little dragons with tiny wings might be incapable of flying to attack me.

But me and Amdarais aware that their sharp teeth and fire breath could kill me in an instant if they threw that together at one time.

Why the hell does this 'baby' dragon knows my existence?

Is my Brandish Soul explosion sound too loud so they awake?

Whatever the answer is, these Monsters already intact for burning and eating me alive, so who cares.

I won't let my dragon hunting be done by these scoundrels!