Make the dragon great again

Chapter 79 One hundred times faster and the dragon's "advanced ceremony"

[Barbarian Front] In the steep mountain range to the west, among a group of crows that were frightened by a giant spitting dragon in the east and flew to the deep mountains, a crow that was obviously different from the others and did not make a sound at all The crow suddenly broke away from the others of its kind and flew in another direction alone.

Not long after, the weird crow stopped on a tree, twisted its stiff neck, and looked towards the east, which was blocked by several mountains.

"Fortunately, I gave up the body decisively and let the phylactery escape directly, otherwise I will be finished this time!"

This crow is exactly the phylactery of Lich Aidankui.

Contrary to Adrian's imagination, Aidankui did not hide the phylactery far away, but for some reason, disguised it as a crow and followed behind his body. far away.

When encountering the dragon at the beginning, the experienced Aidankui hid his phylactery among the startled birds and ran away, while his main consciousness and skeleton body tried to attract the attention of the dragon. , it would be the best to escape, after all, a body is not something that can be made casually.

"Who would have thought that the legendary giant dragon that has been extinct for more than 5000 years still exists, and the Bechymos Kingdom, which has been showing signs of decline for many years, secretly hides an awakened dragon descendant who can transform into a giant dragon!"

Aidankui is treating the semi-pure-blooded flying dragon Fay as an awakened dragon descendant transformed into a giant dragon...

"It's a pity that my body has been carefully maintained for hundreds of years... This time the loss is too great. I lost the body of the lich and part of the source of the soul. It is not an easy matter to make up for it. Fortunately, I still have it. An unexpected piece of information."

The crow turned to look at the north. After hesitating for a while, it finally flapped its wings and flew to the south.

"Although the information about the existence of the giant dragon may allow the city lord to forgive me for failing in the mission, but in my current state, even if the city lord doesn't punish me, I will only fall into the hands of those guys... I heard that Bechymos The kingdom is at war with the country to the south, I will go to the battlefield over there to collect the breath of death, remake a body, and find a chance to occupy a hidden area in the Great Mullin Forest, which can be regarded as the completion of the task..."

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Return to the [Barbarian Front] here.

Adrian originally planned to say something to deepen the two-legged sheep on the surface's understanding of himself, but looking at their expressions of fear rather than curiosity, and feeling more and more feedback from the void, the continuous flow of [ Dragon Roots] came, and Adrian quickly lost interest in talking to them.

Adrian said to the three of Hank through the contract connection:
"Don't tell me that I am the owner of that dungeon, but you need to step up efforts to publicize the existence of the dungeon to others, for example, tell them why your strength has grown so much."

After all, he no longer looked at the humans below, and didn't care about the hesitant attitude of the two fourth-tier heroic adventurers. He rolled up a magical undercurrent, turned around with Fay and the two wyverns, and headed for South returns to...

Adrian's public appearance in the human world this time has had enough influence that the rumors about the dragon gradually spread.

As more and more people "correctly" recognize the existence of dragons, [Dragon Roots] began to provide Adrian with void feedback, although the amount is not much, but compared to the previous rumors That point, in terms of an almost negligible amount, is already a great improvement.

Next, we only need to wait for those who have witnessed the dragon to further spread the rumors and form a stable legend, then Adrian can harvest a stable enough void feedback source.

"Compared to the income from the dungeon, this kind of stable legend income will be more durable. If the void feedback obtained by expelling the intruders from the dungeon is regarded as performance bonus, then the income from the legendary degree is equivalent to the basic salary..."

I don't know how long the continental barrier can last, and the fantasies of the dragons outside the Sirias continent don't know what's going on, so Adrian needs to increase his strength as soon as possible, he can't slow down by accumulating years. Slow growth, the void feedback provided by [Dragon Root] is his only shortcut;
But now that Adrian, who has advanced to the legendary rank, the time required to grow to the next stage has become longer, so the need for void feedback has also become greater.

As an ancient giant dragon, under normal circumstances, when Adrian grows into an adult dragon stage and reaches the sixth level [Legendary], his age is about 150 to 180 years old;
To grow to the old dragon stage and reach the seventh level [Sanctuary], the age needs to be over 500 years old;
To grow to the ancient dragon stage and reach the eighth [natural disaster] stage, the minimum age needs to be over 1500 years old;
And to finally grow to the ancient dragon stage and reach the ninth [catastrophe] stage, you need to be at least 3000 years old!
Adrian began to accumulate a large amount of void feedback when he was 117 years old, and when he maximized the efficiency of digesting void feedback with light sleep, it took him half a year to reach the adult dragon stage;

If under normal circumstances, it would have taken Adrian about 50 years to grow to adulthood, then according to the ratio calculation, Adrian's growth rate in the past six months is equivalent to about 100 times faster!
This is the maximum rate at which Adrian digests void feedback. This rate is related to his ancient dragon sequence. Even if he reaches an adult dragon, this rate will not increase.

Then, based on this 100 times speed calculation, under the condition of sufficient void feedback, it will take three and a half years at the fastest for Adrian to grow from a sixth-order [Legendary] adult dragon to a seventh-order [Sanctuary] old dragon;
It will take 10 years at the fastest to grow from a seventh-level [sanctuary] old dragon to an eighth-level [natural disaster] ancient dragon;
It would take 15 years at the fastest to grow from an eighth-level [natural disaster] ancient dragon to a ninth-level [catastrophe] ancient dragon.

But this is the most ideal situation. In fact, things will not go so smoothly. It is almost impossible for Adrian to grow into an ancient catastrophe dragon equivalent to 30 years of experience in less than 3000 years.

First of all, after reaching the adult dragon stage, Adrian's demand for void feedback will increase exponentially. Judging from the speed at which he accumulates void feedback, it is the fastest to hoard enough void feedback for him to sleep and advance to the old dragon. It also takes three years.

Secondly, in addition to sufficient void feedback, this minimum time consumption also requires Adrian to remain in a light sleep. During this period, he can only stay in the [Hall of Dominion] to hold the [Contract Ritual] for the adventurers at most. , or simply communicate with subordinate servants through various contractual connections;
As long as there is excessive thinking and physical activity, Adrian will immediately get out of the light sleep state, unable to digest void feedback with maximum efficiency, let alone go out to meet the enemy or deal with things.

Finally, there is another problem that cannot be solved by reducing the growth time:

All creatures, including fantasy species, need to go through a different "advancement ceremony" every time they advance from the legend, and every advancement of the dragon after adulthood also needs to go through an advancement ceremony,
It may be a life-and-death battle, it may be to shelter a family, it may be to explore the vast world, or it may be simply to sleep for a period of time. At the moment when you do not reach the critical point of advancement, you will never know the progress of this time. What is the advanced ritual required for the first step.

For example, in the family of the bronze dragon Kunas, the advanced ceremony of their ancestors was to protect a family, which is the origin of the lizard people...

The increasing demand for void feedback, the light sleep state that cannot cope with unexpected situations during digestion, and every advanced ritual after the legend, these three are the reasons why Adrian cannot maintain the maximum growth rate forever.

"The rumors have been gradually finalized, and a stable source of void feedback will soon be formed. During the period of accumulating enough void feedback for the next 'hundred-fold growth', I will first solve some of the immediate issues, um... the dungeon's To further improve the construction, to occupy the phantasy species in the ancestral land of Bechymos, to find out the situation in other areas of the Sirias continent... there are a lot of things to do!"

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To be continued, change first and then change.

The second update will be a little later... In the past few days, I have been writing [-] words a day, and my body is a bit unbearable. I went to bed early last night, so today's first update is now orz
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