Ashen Dragon-Chapter 224 - 149: Promotion and Magic Withering
Chapter 224 -149: Promotion and Magic Withering
“Such enviable power.”
Cassius couldn’t help but marvel. In front of the illusions of those Ancestral Dragons, even Tiamat’s terrifying form seemed to be lacking something.
But he speculated that the Dragon Queen probably did not look the same in ancient times. How could the deity of the giant dragons who ruled the world be just an ordinary weak divine power?
However, this was just his speculation.
Cassius looked at the panel again, which had refreshed with many more lines of information.
[You have killed the [Dragon Fan Black Wizard – Vagnard (Challenge Level: 16)] and earned 15000xp]
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[You have killed the [White Dragon Centaur]…]
[You have killed the [White Dragon Gnoll]…]
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[You have killed the [Vagnard’s Dragon-Mania Spawn (Challenge Level: 19)] and earned 22000xp]
This destruction of the Polar Night Demon Tower awarded him a huge amount of experience, totaling fifty thousand. Adding the twenty thousand experience from killing [Soleim’s Incarnation of Winter] a while ago, he had enough to level up again with some surplus. Most of this experience was derived from Vagnard and the monsters he transformed into, while those dragonified creatures killed along the way also accumulated a lot of experience.
If Cassius were an ordinary player template, without the level cap, this experience would be enough to push him straight to Level 15.
[You have chosen to level up [True Dragon Sorcerer] to Level 12]
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[With innate spellcasting of the dragonkin, your current casting level is: 15]
Cassius couldn’t help but lick his lips in anticipation, sulfur-smelling smoke puffing out of his nostrils.
Reaching a casting level of fifteen was a new milestone for a True Dragon Sorcerer. It meant he could now cast Eighth Tier spells without external assistance.
Exploring the eighth layer of the Magic Web was a level that countless mages couldn’t attain even in a lifetime.
[Gained additional Dragon’s Spell [Magic Withering]]
[Magic Withering]
Eighth Tier Enchantment
[The dragon shoots an antimagic ray from one raised claw. The dragon must make a touch attack to hit a target creature. If successful, the ray dispels all effects caused by spells, spell-like abilities, or magical items on the target. Additionally, magical items carried by the target become permanently demagicked unless they succeed in a Will save.]
Cassius’s breathing became rapid.
Antimagic, removal of magical effects, and demagicking of magical items.
“This is… the dragonkin version of Mordenkainen’s Disjunction?”
[Mordenkainen’s Disjunction] was a famous spell in his past life. Once, a daring mage player snuck into a deity’s church and disjoined a holy chalice into an ordinary cup, triggering the deity’s curse “as desired.”
He was chased and killed by the church’s legendary guardians over a hundred times, before signing a slave contract to work for three hundred years just to survive.
And this spell was extremely powerful for Cassius as well.
[Spell Nullification Barrier] only blocked spells of the Fifth Tier or lower. It had long fallen behind his combat level advancements.
His current opponents were Frost Giant Chieftains and Vagnard, beings nearly at the Legendary Level. They had countless means above the Sixth Tier, and [Magic Withering] undoubtedly gave his antimagic abilities a qualitative leap.
If he had Magic Withering before, there wouldn’t have been a need to collect intelligence and meticulously plan with Ramp; he could have just flat-out dismantled the Polar Night Demon Tower.
[Gained additional Dragon’s Spell [All-Knowing Eye]]
[All-Knowing Eye]
Fourth Tier Divination, Transmutation
[The dragon’s eyes flash briefly with bright light, opening its mind to every object nearby.
You gain immense vision, allowing you to see everything clearly in the surrounding area and become immune to blindness effects.
Furthermore, if you have target vision, you can cast the Will-o’-the-Wisp Effect on any invisible creature or object nearby, though doing so ends the All-Knowing Eye immediately.]
“A very interesting spell, a combination of divination and transmutation. Though the spell rank is not high, the effect is obvious.”
This was Cassius’s assessment.
Though the Heaven’s Calamity Dragon Eye was good, being a Seventh Tier spell, it could only be cast twice a day given his casting level. The All-Knowing Eye compensated for this shortfall, proving effective in situations where “using a sledgehammer to crack a nut” wasn’t necessary, conserving his already scarce spell slots.
As information refreshed, the vast spell knowledge flowed into Cassius’s mind, causing his brain, just recovered from resisting the Dragon Mania, to ache slightly.
Although he had already cast Eighth and even Ninth Tier spells using the Eye of the Storm King in the past, that was with external aid. He was more like an indirect, foolproof operator using the Eye as a medium to cast spells. Now, he needed to rely solely on his own will to control the Eighth Tier spells, a world of difference between the two.
It had only been a few months since he first mastered Seventh Tier spells. His ascent was simply rocket-like.
And as a Dragon Sorcerer, the number of spells he memorized far exceeded that of ordinary sorcerers.
Ordinary sorcerers specialized in a few spells, more like magical artillery, needing only their confidence to influence and cast spells. Mages humorously referred to them as “barbarians with magic wands,” but this required expertise and understanding to support the spells.
Simply put.
Cassius’s intelligence wasn’t quite up to the task.
Thankfully, at Level 12, he had the opportunity to enhance his attributes every four levels.
[Your occupational level has increased to 12. You can choose to upgrade 2 points of normal attributes, 1 point of special attributes (for attributes above 20), or an additional feat.]
[Choose to increase intelligence to 16]
With the influx of invisible power to his mind, Cassius immediately felt clear-headed. His memory, analytical ability, and logical thinking improved substantially; his intelligence finally leaped to—close to the level of Ramp from seven years ago, though it sounded a bit strange.
His headache eased slightly.
Cassius carefully browsed the [Magic Withering] in his mind. This Eighth Tier Dragon’s Spell was similar to the Spell Nullification Barrier but much more complex by an order of magnitude.
He expected it to take several months to fully master the spell.
After all, Red Dragons were considered magical creatures, and if he didn’t master the spell properly and ended up disjoining himself with an antimagic ray, it would absolutely become a joke to be widely spread among Metal Dragons, one that could make Bahamut laugh out loud.
“Finally, it’s over.”
The Red Dragon finished digesting the basic spell knowledge, regained his senses, and slowly opened his eyes.
He was stunned to find—Tiniya had already licked his forepaw clean, the long claws shining with a luster, the rough tongue almost polishing the surface to a patina.
“Roar roar～”
The White Dragon looked up at him innocently, her tongue slightly sticking out, tail wagging, eyes full of eagerness.
Cassius: “…”
It seemed that wild White Dragons indeed lacked manners and needed a thorough makeover!
