Red Dragon Monster Hunter Template.

"Larger size, stronger physical strength, and faster movement speed are the foundation. Adding a few ice-attribute monster abilities that I previously acquired should be enough."

In a short while, Thor finished carving the cursed seed, flicked his finger, and launched it out.

The black snowflakes melted instantly upon touching Miltje's white scales, causing him to shudder violently and his blood to become inexplicably hot and scalding.

His heart pounded, his stomach churned violently, and an overwhelming hunger surged through him, nearly shattering his reason.

Fortunately, he knew that this was the great palace of the Dragon Lord. He suppressed his instincts with intense fear and awe, and even though he was trembling all over, he dared not make the slightest move.

His torment was finally relieved when a deep, authoritative voice slowly rang out.

"Take this white dragon away, prepare enough meat and energy crystals, and once his physical transformation stabilizes, have him twist off the head of the Shahua fishman leader and return to report."

The dragon-blooded kobolds waiting outside the hall immediately swarmed in and dragged Milt's body away from the hall.

A steady stream of meat was soon delivered, mixed with many translucent and luminous energy crystals.

Ever since Thor obtained the Netherworld Dragon creature template and activated the magic network to draw inexhaustible primal magic, these crystals containing pure energy have continued to grow, their reserves becoming increasingly abundant.

This crystal can serve as the driving energy for various magical artifacts and arrays, and it is also a high-quality food for true dragons and their offspring.

Any creature that makes a contribution within the territory can receive a corresponding allocation; however, the rate at which they consume crystals is still far slower than the rate at which crystals are naturally generated.

With ample food and energy, Milt's body swelled and grew at a visible rate.

The scales on its body, which overlapped like ice needles, continued to thicken and harden, and thick ice shards and frost flowers gradually condensed on its wings, claw tips, horns on its head, and tailbone.

Half a month had passed by the time all the strange occurrences had completely subsided. At this moment, Milt had reached a total length of fifteen meters, with most of his body encased in thick, solid ice, and his entire body uncontrollably radiating a bone-chilling cold.

This time, Thor deliberately removed most of the complex abilities from the Mad Dragon Curse, retaining only the basic physical enhancement and the ice system strengthening.

This is why the degree of physical mutation was not exaggerated, and the entire evolutionary process was exceptionally rapid.

Chapter 375 Deep Underwater

Milt had never felt so intensely before. The power surging within him almost burst out of his body, even giving him the illusion that he was capable of competing with red dragons of the same age.

This transformative change was entirely due to the Great Dragon Lord's casual flick of his finger; a simple glance was enough to bring about a dramatic metamorphosis.

Such extraordinary power is no different from that of a god.

After the news spread, countless true dragons were filled with envy, jealousy, and confusion: Why would the great Dragon Lord take a liking to such a weak white dragon?

Could it be that these white dragons possess hidden strengths or extraordinary advantages yet to be revealed?

Whatever the reason, the creatures under Thor's command began to have more respect and higher regard for these white dragons.

Not long after, Milt boarded a large ship and set sail from Mirror Lake toward the lair of the Chinese sharks in the Sword Sea.

Accompanying him were not only mutated goblins, but also a large number of black-scaled and white-scaled dragon-blooded kobolds.

Over the past decade or so, the continuous battles with the Shahua fishmen have given rise to many dragon-blooded kobolds skilled in naval warfare due to the demands of naval warfare and the allocation of resources.

Today, their numbers are second only to the Red Scaled Dragonkin Kobolds, far exceeding their counterparts in the Blue and Green Scaled forms.

Several days later, the newly launched giant ship arrived directly above the cave city.

Faced with ships that dared to invade their territory, a large number of Shahua fishmen rode giant sharks and charged out of the water, intending to drive them away.

Unfortunately, without summoning the dragon turtle or using the avatar of Serco, these Sawa fishmen were completely powerless against such a sturdy and massive ship, and were utterly crushed.

The newly emerged group of Sawa fishmen raiders was instantly crushed by the yellowish-green acid and frost-covered ice arrows. Some of their corpses floated on the surface of the sea, while others slowly sank with the ocean current.

Upon learning that it was their old rival, the Shahua fishman no longer dared to show himself.

Anyway, with thousands of meters of deep sea separating them, the other side is ultimately helpless. So what if they temporarily give up the sea? This ocean will eventually belong to the Shahua fish people.

This time, however, Thor's dwarven artisans and anthropologists were already prepared.

One after another, bombs with shells forged from sparrowstone, engraved with inscriptions, and nearly completely sealed were dropped from the ship.

These bombs did not explode immediately after entering the water; instead, due to their immense weight, they sank deeper and deeper into the water.

Its hard outer shell is strong enough to withstand the pressure of deep sea water, and it will only explode with a bang after being subjected to a violent impact or after a certain delay.

The Shahua fishmen had never seen anything like it before, and as usual, they quickly scattered to avoid the bomb when it fell into the water.

But when they discovered that these iron lumps had not exploded, but instead sank like stones, all the Shahua fish people were filled with doubt, and for a moment no one dared to go forward to check.

After some time, a large number of deep-sea bombs fell directly onto the seabed below, and exploded with a bang the moment the delay ended.

A blue-white, high-temperature plasma cloud flashed by in the pitch-black deep sea. The high temperature evaporated the surrounding seawater, and the cavity that was formed was compressed and bounced back by the enormous pressure of the deep sea as soon as it appeared. This happened repeatedly until it finally exploded into countless tiny bubbles.

The pulse generated during this process spreads out in layers like waves, and its power is even more powerful than when it explodes in air or shallow water.

The terrifying shockwave raged wildly in the deep sea, while only scattered white foam could be seen from the surface.

Seeing that the time was right, Milt leaped into the water, his massive body splashing up huge sprays as he swam swiftly into the deep sea.

One after another, black- and white-scaled dragon-blooded kobolds followed closely behind.

Although they are weaker than the Crimson Scaled Dragonkin kobolds, they possess extremely strong underwater breathing and survival abilities due to their bloodline.

One after another, figures, some white and some black, quickly disappeared into the deep water. The sunlight was blocked by layers of seawater, and its intensity gradually weakened, causing the surrounding environment to darken until it was completely plunged into darkness.

But this did not affect these dragonborn at all, since even the most ordinary kobolds possessed the ability of darkvision.

At this time, the effects of the deep-sea bomb had not completely subsided, and a large amount of seabed sediment was stirred up, making the water extremely turbid.

The continuous explosions caught the Shahua fishmen off guard. Many fishmen were still recovering from the shock and were running around like headless flies.

Just then, Milt's massive body descended from the sky, accompanied by a biting cold current. Seawater condensed on the surface of his scales, extending outwards as sharp ice spikes.

He didn't even need to make any special attack moves; he simply plunged headlong into the swarm of swarf fishmen, and the ice spikes on his body sliced ​​through their bodies like sharp blades, causing widespread death and injury.

The black and white dragon vein kobolds followed closely behind, wielding sharp spears specially designed for underwater combat to minimize water flow interference and launch a fatal attack on the Shahua fishmen.

A colossal white dragon, over 15 meters long, led the charge, followed closely by a large number of dragon-blooded kobolds, sweeping towards the seabed rift like an unstoppable icy tide.

The entire cave city was violently shaken, and a large number of Sawa fishmen rushed to the scene to fight, riding giant sharks and sea beasts. Among them were even four-armed fishman nobles.

Unfortunately, they are far too weak for true dragons. Even a white dragon is far beyond the reach of ordinary creatures.

Moreover, thanks to the modifications made by Thor's Curse, Milt possesses a size and ice abilities far exceeding those of an ordinary white dragon.

On the inner side of its wing membranes, abdomen, and claws grows a unique gland that can absorb and highly condense ice elements to form a peculiar supercoolant.

As these icy blue liquids were released outwards along the water flow, the surrounding temperature began to drop rapidly.

Tiny, sparkling ice crystals quietly form in the deep sea, seemingly possessing a life of their own, spreading and growing wildly in all directions.

In the blink of an eye, the seawater within a radius of several hundred meters turned into a sheet of cold, solid ice. The sawa fishmen and sea beasts that rushed up were frozen in the water like insects in amber.

The next moment, a dull cracking sound rang out, and the entire huge iceberg shattered, along with the frozen creature inside, breaking into fragments of varying sizes.

The blood gushing from the severed body almost completely stained the entire underwater rift red. The intense smell of blood, on the contrary, completely stimulated the hunting instincts hidden in the white dragon's bloodline.

The deaths of the Sawa fish-men and the sea beasts made Milt truly feel his own power, and he began to excitedly squander the power he had obtained from the Great Dragon Lord.

The continuous ice peaks suddenly rose from the deep sea, like a fierce white serpent, advancing deeper and deeper into the cave city.

Chapter 376 The Path to Godhood

The matter of the Sawa fishmen and the incarnation of Serco did not hold much weight in Thor's mind. After making some simple arrangements, he quickly put it out of his mind.

He was currently pondering something else—how to continue becoming stronger.

Thor now faces two paths: one is to continue extracting templates from various monsters; the other is to prepare for his ascension to godhood.

When a true dragon reaches a certain level of strength, it can choose to devour all of its own wealth, no less than 100,000 gold coins, in order to allow its soul to undergo a transformation and ignite the divine fire.

Legend has it that a golden dragon named Servax devoured the temple gold, celestial treasures, and all his wealth accumulated over twelve thousand years, successfully ascending to become a quasi-god and even creating a holy light demiplane.

However, only a very small number of true dragons would choose this path. Their innate greed makes them regard wealth as their lifeblood, so how could they easily give it up?

Thor didn't care much about the gold and jewels, but unfortunately, a core aspect of this ascension ritual was to achieve the sublimation of the soul by overcoming greed.

If one doesn't care about this wealth in the first place, then giving it up won't involve any intense emotions, and what the final outcome will be is anyone's guess.

In addition, many other beings who aspire to become gods choose to gradually develop followers and accumulate faith.

In the entire multiverse, the soul is the absolute hard currency, a power of idealism, and even dominates the operation of the universe.

Within the soul of every living being lies a near-conceptual energy, though this energy is extremely weak.

However, when they experience intense emotions due to worship, awe, fear, or other reasons, this power will involuntarily dissipate.

If these are further guided and projected onto the same being, countless spiritual energies will converge into a torrent of faith. At that time, the powerful force of idealism will naturally be able to change reality.

When believers believe you can control fire, you will gain the divine power of fire; if believers see you as a protector, you will master the area you are protecting.

When this power is strong enough, countless fragments of laws collide and merge within the soul, spontaneously giving birth to an inextinguishable primordial flame—the divine fire.

This is also the most convenient and quickest way for mortals to touch the realm of the divine. However, while achieving their own goals through believers, they will also be defined by the believers.

Some beings with extraordinary bloodlines and extremely powerful strength, if they do not want to spend time and effort developing followers, will choose to kill and plunder those equally powerful creatures, as well as their established divinity.

As long as they share similarities, belong to the same field, or are related to each other, there is a certain chance of fusion.

Therefore, even among gods, there is a constant struggle to encroach upon and crush each other in order to expand their divine authority and power.

Logically speaking, with Thor's current strength and the vast territory he controls, he should have been able to ignite the divine fire long ago.

However, all the faith that gathered around him was absorbed and transformed by the wheel in his mind, turning into pure spiritual essence, so he could never achieve divine fire.

If Thor wanted to ignite the divine fire now, the first thing he would do was naturally to stop the wheel in his mind from absorbing external faith.

Unfortunately, the idea only flashed through his mind and was quickly forgotten.

A deity who achieves enlightenment through faith will ultimately be bound by that faith.

You are not something you can become just because you want to be; rather, you are what believers think you are.

Moreover, if too many believers are slaughtered, the faith will decline, and the flame of faith will be affected, gradually going out.

Only beings that are inherently sacred, such as Bahamut, Tiamat, and the elemental gods, are not greatly affected by faith.

For them, divine power is merely an amplifier of their strength; having it is certainly desirable, but not having it will not affect their existence.

What Thor wanted to achieve was naturally this kind of divinely powerful being.

Therefore, converting external emotional power into spiritual essence and using it to extract monster templates to enhance one's various talents seems to be the optimal choice.

However, after careful consideration, he realized that there seemed to be no fundamental conflict between using the roulette wheel to draw monster templates and igniting the divine fire.

Since igniting the divine fire requires sufficient mastery of a particular field, and the fuel of fanatical believers' faith,

Could he directly use spiritual essence as fuel? They both originate from emotions and the soul, so they should be essentially the same.

The miscellaneous items drawn can be repeatedly exchanged, and naturally, the monster templates that have already been drawn can also be exchanged.

If the same monster template is constantly being exchanged and loaded, will it allow one to continuously enhance a certain aspect of their ability?

Saul felt that these were directions worth trying and researching.

He first tried to extract the essence from the remaining essence in his mind and transform it back into a tangible form of energy.

The process was simpler than Thor had imagined; with just a thought, a wisp of light, like stardust, wrapped around the tip of his claw.

He then touched the thin thread of light to his brow. A faint light flashed, and he immediately felt as if a barely perceptible spider web had landed on the surface of his consciousness.

Such a thin essence of power could not possibly ignite the divine fire, and because it contained no subjective kinetic energy, it could not affect things from the heart and help Thor condense the authority of the rules.

But there is no doubt that this thing can indeed be used as fuel to ignite the divine fire.

The essence in the roulette wheel seemed to Thor like money in his pocket, which could be used to buy goods, and of course, it could also be used to start fires.

Thor is currently unable to discern whether the essence of spiritual power or the power of faith is superior as fuel for the divine fire.

He then turned his gaze to the enormous spinning wheel in his mind, where on one of the lit squares on the fourth level, a monster—a fire dragon—was depicted in vermilion paint.

It's like extracting the essence from miscellaneous items; if you were to buy it again, the price would change depending on its value.

It only costs 1000 essence points to draw the fire dragon, but when Thor tried to buy it again, he found that the price had increased fivefold.

Fortunately, 5000 points of essence is nothing to Thor now.