Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 82 Awakening and Huge Harvest

Moore's prophecy ultimately failed. He used many methods to confirm that the person he was linked to was a quasi-god from the water elemental plane. After discarding the possibility of being a prank, he finally confirmed one thing.

The object of his investigation—the great dragon—had the direct gaze of a god.

He didn't know whether this was good news or bad news.

He could not complete his mission because the will of the gods prevented his prophecy and no sane creature would continue to pursue him, which was bad news for him.

But to the royal family, there is a powerful divine power behind the dragon that saved the city and destroyed the abyss sacrifice ritual.
This might be a very good opportunity, and Moore was keenly aware of it.

So he made a decision that was completely opposite to what he had done when he came here - just deal with it.

In the next few days, the investigation team spent every day in Rosa Castle, feasting and drinking, enjoying the delicious food and wine at various banquets, but they did not mention a word about the investigation.

Colette felt strange but was happy about it, and she even arranged more entertainment programs for the members of the investigation team.

This anti-climax investigation soon ended with singing and dancing, but before Moore left, he talked to Colette alone.

"You know, Your Excellency, the abyss sacrifice ritual that is now spreading secretly in the country is closely related to Cesk next door and even the Sel behind it."

Moore calmly took a sip of tea and said while sitting on a chair in the reception room.

Colette nodded. Losrien had already told her that her stupid brother's partner was the wizard of Sel, and she had also reported the news to the royal family.

"The royal family is angry, very angry," Moore sighed.

"His Majesty Saint Delis has made up his mind and has already discussed it with the Witch Nation of Leatherman. Our war with Cesk is about to begin."

Collette's pupils shrank. Moore's words instantly alerted her. Cesc bordered the eastern part of the Kingdom of Imbutu, and the location of Degen City was exactly the eastern border of Imbutu.

"Degen and Goebenland, these two cities will become the frontier of the border."

"Your Majesty has already begun recruiting troops. In a year, the troops will head to the border and place your two cities under military control."

"You should have made plans earlier, Colette. The royal family has strong goodwill towards the dragon standing behind you, so I am secretly warning you here. You need to make preparations within this year to preserve the glory of the Rosa family in the upcoming war."

Moore put down his teacup and said word by word: "This war will be a total war!"

After saying this, Moore left without paying any attention to Colette who was stunned.

After he left, Loslien and Lao Luoan, who were hiding in the dark, came out. They also looked unhappy.

"Military control?! What right do they have?" Loslien said angrily.

"Of course they can." Colette said coldly, "In the war when Sel invaded Inbutu a hundred years ago, Degen City was completely controlled by those red-robed wizards. They used this place as a base and radiated their army as far as the vicinity of the royal capital."

"If it weren't for Leatherman's intervention and the forceful attack on Serre, which forced Serre to retreat, I'm afraid that Inbutu would have become a vassal state of Serre just like Cesk."

"Since the royal family has made up their minds to start a war this time, they will never allow the front line to be lost."

Lao Luoan drew out the black sword and sneered, "Let them come. I will kill all the fools who lay their hands on the master's property!"

Loslien looked at him with disdain and said, "Use your brain, which is smaller than a mouse, to think about how we can fight against the power of an entire kingdom."

"My suggestion is to let it go and accumulate strength. War is inevitable. What we should do is actively cooperate with the military and try our best to protect our master's property." Loslien analyzed.

Colette nodded helplessly and said, "It's the only way. As an Imbutu, I prefer to defend my homeland and kill those disgusting Cel people."

Luo Luoan snorted coldly, quite dissatisfied with the decision, but the 2 to 1 vote forced him to give up: "It's up to you."

Colette thought for a while and said to Loslien, "There is still a year left. I think we need to start expanding the private army of the Rosa family. I think this is why Mr. Moore reminded me. After a year, the military forces of the two cities and even all the surrounding cities should be taken over by the army. We should recruit enough private armies now."

Loslien thought for a while and said, "I'm not really worried about the army. The demon army hidden underground by the master is not weak. And when the master wakes up, he can recruit more demons to surrender at any time as a dragon."

Just as Collette was about to frown and object, she heard Loslien continue, "Don't worry about being exposed. From what Moore said, I can roughly guess that the royal family should want to get something from the master, and their attitude is very correct."

"Besides, don't forget, the master is now a good dragon who has saved a city. Even if he has some monster followers, no one will object."

Colette shook her head and reminded him, "You forgot that the master's sleeping time is uncertain. How can you know when he will wake up? The primary responsibility of the monster army is to protect the master's sleep."

"Let's do it at the same time. Expand our private army while waiting for the master to wake up. We have finally gained the legal power to rule Degen City. We must not let a war destroy it at will."

The three of them reached a consensus and left the reception room one after another to start preparing for the war that would take place a year later.
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Fifteen months later, in the Underdark.

In the dark cave, a huge monster rose and fell rhythmically, with sparks in its breath, magic flowing from its nostrils, and blue arcane flowers blooming in every corner of the cave.

Suddenly, the dim yellow vertical pupils opened, standing out in the dark cave.

He woke up.

Nemesis yawned, stretched, and climbed up. The dead skin tissue that had fallen off his body fell to the ground as his body moved, and fresh dragon scales were exposed to the air.

"Ah, how long has it been?"

The dragon shook his head, trying to get rid of the dizziness, but accidentally bumped into the wall. He had grown up again. With a body of 25 meters long and a standing height of 10 meters, he clenched his claws. Although he was still weak compared to dragons of the same age, he should be able to crush a jackal to death now.

Nemesis called upon the mind, and presented the data of growth to the youth stage before him.

Real name: Nemesis

Race: Variant of Tome Dragon (Mind Dragon)
Growth stage: Young dragon
Physical stats – Strength: 15
Agility: 17
Constitution: 18
Intelligence: 28 (16+12)

Perception: 23 (16+7)

Charisma: 27 (16+11)

Supernatural Abilities: Darkvision three times a day, Tome of Dragon Breath five times a day, Psychic Gas Breath five times a day, Read Memory at will, Memory Modification at will, Common Sense Modification at will, Mind Control at will, Psychic Blast at will, Polymorph Dragon at will, Turn/Rebuke Undead at will.

Features: Immune to psychic damage, immune to mind control.

Classes: Warlock Level (Conjuration, Divination) — 10th level, Wizard Level — 10th level, Psion Level — 10th level, Cleric Level — 11th level

法师（术士）施法资源：戏法——随意，一环法术——19个（智力增幅12），二环法术——17个（智力增幅11），三环法术——15个（智力增幅10），四环法术——13个（智力增幅9），五环法术——11个（智力增幅8）

牧师施法资源：戏法——随意，一环神术——13个（感知增幅7），二环神术——10个（感知增幅6），三环神术——8个（感知增幅5），四环神术——6（感知增幅4），五环神术——4（感知增幅3），六环神术——3（感知增幅2）

Power Points: 133 (88 + Intelligence + 45)

Talents: Improvisational Super Magic, Fusion of the Orcs, Fusion of the Orcs, Priest's Paragon Power - [Holy Super Magic].

Activated Gem: Mind Gem
Activated ability: Control the mind, increase spellcasting resources tenfold

Witnessed the miracle: the birth of Nemesis

Equipment: Ring of Telekinesis, Ring of Protection from Elemental Energy Damage, Master Ring of Transmutation, Obsidian Death Staff (Legendary), Darkest Hour (semi-artifact), Throne (artifact/? Unknown), Moon Cloak (artifact).

At the same time, the newly acquired six-ring magic skills are: [Blade Wall], [Healing], [Heroes' Banquet], and [Command].

Nemesis walked out of the dark cave. His scales were covered with patterns formed by the cross-fusion of light blue and light gold, which showed a strange beauty. The magic net around him kept vibrating as he walked, and magic power condensed and dissipated around him at any time and anywhere.

He felt his own strength and just wanted to shout to the sky: I am now! Very! Strong!
Not to mention the large number of added attribute points, spell slots, and the joy of breaking through the fifth-ring spell slots and sixth-ring divine spell slots, and even the increased control quota of the mind gem.

The biggest change to Nemesis is the four newly added talents.

As the magical patterns on the scales of the scroll dragon matured completely, Nemesis absorbed a massive amount of magic power from the magic web while he was sleeping. This magic power filled his body, turning every organ of his into semi-energy, and he thus gained extremely powerful power to manipulate the arcane.

Improvisational super magic, as the name suggests, compared to the super magic that mortals have to spend huge costs to perform, the Scroll Dragon at this time has mastered the power of improvisational super magic.

Nemesis has acquired all the means of super magic, including but not limited to - instant spell casting, spell expansion, spell enhancement, etc.

Furthermore, when casting metamagic spells, the cost of casting metamagic spells can be reduced by one level for each age group starting from adolescent dragons, but the casting cost must be increased by at least one level.

For example, for the super magic [Instant Spell], to cast a spell instantly, an ordinary wizard needs to add four ring slots as a cost. In other words, to cast a first-ring spell instantly, the wizard needs to prepare a fifth-ring spell slot.

But Nemesis, who is in the Young Dragon stage, can reduce the cost of two spell rings! He only needs to use a fifth-ring spell slot to instantly cast a third-ring spell!

And as he grows older, he can even cast spells instantly at will by simply adding one level of spell slot!
Not only that, he can also increase the power of spells at will. For example, using the two metamagic specialties [Spell Power] and [Spell Maximization] can stack and enhance the power of spells by at least two and a half times!

For Nemesis now, he can cast spells of level three and below instantly at will! The power of improvisational super magic, coupled with his huge spell slots, can be said to have increased his combat effectiveness exponentially.

The power brought by growth is not limited to this. Arcane magic, divine magic, and psychic powers are entangled in Nemesis' body. Based on the power of arcane, the three are integrated, and this Nemesis has two talents.

The effect of the Ao Ling Fusion is that every time Nemesis uses an arcane spell, he can choose to consume his psionic energy to recharge the power of the spell, making the effect of the spell doubled!
The same is true for Arcane Fusion, the only difference is that it consumes divine spell slots of the same ring to charge the power of the arcane.

With these two talents, Nemesis can consume psychic energy and divine spell slots at the same time, doubling the power of the spell! If he then performs the [Strengthened Spell] and [Maximum Spell] magic, he can increase the power of the spell four and a half times!

Of course, the combined use of [Maximum Spell Effect] and [Power Spell Effect] requires raising the spell level by five. Even if Nemesis can reduce the cost by two levels, he can only amplify one second-level spell at most.

As for the last talent, it is a bit more conventional. It is the power of paragon that the priest class obtains after reaching level 11. Nemesis' priest class was also promoted by two levels during his sleep, which resulted in him gaining this ability after waking up.

The so-called [Holy Super Magic] is a method that priests study to super magic. After the priests disperse the undead, they can use their energy to charge the magic, making the magic super magic.

However, most priests' supernatural abilities of [Dispel/Rebuke Undead] have a limit on the number of times they can be used, and it is very rare for Nemesis to be able to use it at will, so [Holy Super Magic] is not a method that priests can use frequently.

In fact, Nemesis guessed that his ability was probably due to a recessive gene left by his father, the angel of wisdom, whom he had never met.

Nemesis took back the small light board with relief. The priest profession bestowed by Oghma came at the right time. The combat power improvement brought by this growth can be said to be unprecedented. He believed that if he met the Soul Judge again, he would not even need to use the power of [Darkest Hour] to kill it.

　The so-called super magic - that is, overload magic, is a means of strengthening spells. There are a total of eight specific techniques of super magic written in the picture and pasted on it. The writer cannot post it due to the word limit.

　　I wrote this for readers who want to read it. It's okay if you don't read it. I will write down what kind of super magic you need later and how many spells you need to upgrade as a price. You don't need to remember it. The most commonly used ones are extreme, powerful, instant, and extended.

　　Also, don't look for Aoling Fusion and Aoshen Fusion, I made them up.

　　
　
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