Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

"The comb-bone conch is not a creature of this world."

When the strange snail inside the Howling Fish King finally erupted, Dago obtained some fragmented information and learned that the Comb-Bone Snail was a creature from another world.

This creature feeds on the souls of the dead and can emit terrifying sound waves.

In the fragmented memories that Dago obtained, this snail creature once ruled a world. Any being capable of ruling an entire world is no simple existence.

The strange snails that now live in the Green Abyss are far from being true comb-bone snails; at best, they are just some "defective products" with a little bit of comb-bone snail bloodline.

That's why it can only survive in the Ghost Fish's body through parasitism. The original talent of the Comb-Bone Conch, which could transform ghostly power into terrifying sound waves, has degenerated into extracting the host's life force. Although it can still unleash terrifying sound wave attacks, after one burst, it will not be able to withstand the backlash and will die.

The last snail king that Dago saw had a fairly high concentration of bloodline, and its shell was burdened with the wronged souls of the sea creatures of the past. It even retained the memories of its ancestors within its body.

This is also why Dago was able to obtain the rune pattern in front of him from the other party.

Perhaps it wasn't originally like this, but for a wizard, runes are the best language to interpret everything.

"The impure bloodline of the Bone-Piercing Conch has changed its talent from extracting ghostly power to extracting life force, which is perfect for me."

The way the Comb-Bone Conch extracts life bursts is far superior to the simple and crude technique that Dago devised himself—compressing the life sphere and releasing it all at once. Once mastered, Dago's combat power will definitely be greatly enhanced when he tries the "Complete Despair" transformation.

"Perfect timing. With the [Cold Element] rune upgraded to advanced level, my [Blue Demon Body] strength is becoming somewhat insufficient. If the [Spiral Palace] technique can truly be effective, it might be able to make up for this."

Dago remained indifferent. Even he himself hadn't expected that the breakthrough of the [Cold Element] physical rune to an advanced level would place such a heavy burden on his body.

His dull white hair and the large quantity of healing potions he purchased from the Mystic Energy Workshop were all caused by the severe depletion of his life force from activating a high-level [Cold Element] once.

With this in mind, Dago attempted to activate the [Blue Demon Body].

"Click click click—"

Amidst the familiar sounds of flesh and bone colliding and squeezing, Dago, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet on the floor, slowly rose up, his entire body gradually becoming stronger and more imposing.

Everything was the same as before, but on the palms of Dago's outstretched hands, which were laid flat on his knees, there were black lines like vines, which began to grow wildly from his arms all over his body like flames.

"boom!"

An invisible aura emanated from the body, like an invisible millstone, squeezing the void and creating layers of folds. The furniture and decorations in the room were destroyed, and layers of runes and magic arrays lit up rapidly.

"Whoosh—"

Dago stood up and quickly appeared outside the airship in a flash.

By this time, the airship had long since left the territory of the Arcane Workshop and was flying over a vast, desolate desert.

Dago stood out against the setting sun, his back against the desolate sky. The blackness that had grown wildly on his body had spread to his chest.

His long white hair flew high behind him, and a dark halo emanated from Dago's body, like a dark and twisted sun swallowing the light of the void.

The atmosphere of terror continued to rise, reaching a certain peak.

"Bang!"

Half of Dago's upper body exploded open, and black lines "grew" out from the ruptured flesh, dancing wildly like flames and vines, scattering large clumps of twisting black filaments.

"Whoosh—"

Dago made a claw-like gesture with his fingers outstretched and his eyes indifferent as he waved his hand forward.

next second.

"Click—"

In the void directly in front of him, it seemed as if jet-black, tree-branch-shaped lightning bolts were rapidly flashing across the sky. Immediately afterward, the void in a certain location in the distance suddenly twisted and collapsed, and several deep, narrow ravines appeared silently on the Gobi Desert below.

"call--"

Having done all this, Dago seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and he completely broke free from the activated state of [Blue Demon Body].

Weak and exhausted, with his body covered in blood and horrifying ruptured wounds, he flew back into the airship, took out a large amount of healing potions from his spatial ring, and poured them into his mouth as if they were free.

As the treatment was administered, the remaining life force in the body began to take effect, and fresh granulation tissue grew on the wound, which then slowly healed.

When all of Dago's wounds had healed, he seemed to have aged more than ten years. His white hair was scattered over his shoulders like withered grass, his back was hunched, and even his once smooth, jade-like skin had become dull and had some faint wrinkles.

"The third type of power that reaches the level of 'miracle'"

Dago looked at the lines on his palm, his eyes filled with an indescribable complexity.

He never expected that the [Cold Element] rune would experience such a huge increase in power after being promoted to a higher level.

It was so powerful that it easily broke through to a level equivalent to the realm of magical miracles, and this was not even the full extent of the [Cold Element], so he dared not fully unleash its "power".

When the [Cold Element] rune first appeared, Dago speculated that the physical tempering of [Ascetic Body Tempering] was merely a "prelude" to the appearance of the [Cold Element], allowing practitioners to withstand this terrifying power.

It's like the [Cold Element] is a sword, and the [Blue Demon Body] is the scabbard.

The problem Dargo is facing now is that the knife is too sharp, so sharp that his scabbard can hardly contain it anymore.

During the growth of the [Frosty Element] rune, his body was constantly destroyed, and almost all of his abundant energy had to be used for repair, which led to severe depletion of his life force.

To solve this problem...

Alternatively, one could increase the storage of life energy within the life sphere, which would accelerate the body's repair process.

The alternative is to reinforce the scabbard itself.