Thinking About Me? The speed at which he allocated points depended on Chu Ke's speed of thought. In almost an instant, all of Chu Ke's attributes soared into the tens of thousands.
Under this enormous boost, his mana was also driven upward, steadily climbing at a slow pace.
When his Constitution surpassed five thousand, something like an illusory shackle was shattered by Chu Ke's body.
Naturally, without anyone teaching him, Chu Ke "comprehended" the Aura Flame Rhode and the other had used in the arena.
As a result, Chu Ke's understanding of Aura Flame surpassed that of martial artists who had learned it through conventional means.
Aura Flame was essentially a biological force field that appeared in a plasma-like state. It could be imagined as an extension organ of the body.
Likewise, Resistance and Recovery had also spawned skills: Repulsion and Overload Recovery.
Repulsion: As Resistance increases, you can freely reject everything.
Overload Recovery: Your daily recovery far exceeds your daily needs. You can store your usual recovery and unleash it all at once when needed.
Chu Ke gave his skill list a cursory glance and did not pay it much mind.
After all, there could never be a skill stronger than Fundamental Forces, with broader applicability or a higher rank.
Outside the carriage, the sky inexplicably darkened.
No, it was not nightfall. It had been covered by the shadow of some enormous creature.
Diallo and Vega looked up, and the culprit blocking out the sky came into view—a pitch-black dragon over three hundred meters long!
"An Elemental Dragon! And an adult one!" Vega's mouth fell slightly open.
Ultimately, she had become a high-ranking Great Mage almost entirely through her extraordinary talent and unique understanding of magic.
The most dangerous place she had ever visited was the public underground dungeon less than eight hundred meters from East Flower City.
Simply put, she was like a highly educated college graduate fresh out of school.
She had yet to receive society's brutal beating.
Vega had only ever seen such a creature—one step away from becoming "Legendary"—in books.
Every flap of the behemoth's wings in the sky made the ground seem as though a typhoon had passed through. Trees thick enough to require several people to encircle them rippled like grass beneath a helicopter's downdraft.
"Hah!" While everyone was panicking, Diallo, the imperial princess, was the first to regain her senses. She shouted, drew a pure-white sword, and plunged it into the ground. Her golden hair whipped wildly in the wind. "Do not panic! Holy Light shall forever shine upon you!"
As she spoke those words, a golden wave of energy erupted from the greatsword and swept across everyone.
The panicked crowd was immediately soothed.
Chu Ke had somehow produced a strip of beef jerky and was chewing on it.
Vega also came back to her senses and spread her five fingers toward the dragon. "Appraisal, Calm, Elemental Concealment."
Name: Elemental Dragon (Hell Flame) (Adult) Lv.100 Attributes: ? Skills: Dragon Breath, ? Name: ? Attributes: ? Skills: ?
Calm and Elemental Concealment were clearly ineffective against an adult dragon, but what shocked Vega even more was that the Appraisal panel had revealed two entities.
After all, she had cast Appraisal at the sky. That meant the other entity could only be on the dragon's body.
"How could—" Before she could finish, a possibility surfaced in Vega's mind. Her pupils contracted slightly. "A Demon King executive!"
Hell Flame Elemental Dragons generally lived only on the Wasteland Continent of the demon race. The only ones capable of commanding such a creature were Demon King executives—those high-ranking demons!
"What do we do?!" Vega anxiously asked Diallo.
A Demon King executive had surely come to eliminate the Hero candidates.
Diallo shook her head in despair.
You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? My level isn't even as high as yours. I can't beat a dragon, much less whoever's on its head.
"Hm?" Chu Ke finally finished his beef jerky and leaned over. "Let me see what's going on."
He had heard that his dear subordinate had come from so far away to find him.
Transparent Aura Flame slowly overflowed from Chu Ke's body, lifting him off the ground. The power of his tens-of-thousands Strength finally radiated its proper pressure.
Standing beside Chu Ke, Diallo and Vega felt as though the world were drifting away from them. Just as people instinctively closed their eyes when gripped by fear in the dark, their five senses gradually dulled and shut down on their own. Their vision stretched, their hearing rang, their sense of touch twitched, their sense of smell peeled away, as if they had fallen into eternal nothingness.
The higher one's level, the sharper one's perception of danger and the more intense the feeling. Only as Chu Ke moved farther away did it ease slightly.
The two immediately collapsed onto the ground as though their strength had left them. Their dulled senses began feeding back, like someone who had eaten plain flour for years tasting seasoning for the first time. Their blood pressure spiked, and nosebleeds began to flow uncontrollably.
On the dragon's head stood War, clad in knightly armor that looked as though it had been casually cast from lava. Beside him stood two strange humanoid puppets like iron towers.
A few hours earlier, while still in Demon King City, he had gone to find Plague and had Plague use his skill to remotely appraise several Heroes.
Among them, the team closest to Lake of Truth actually contained two Heroes. It was like hitting the jackpot.
They were Diallo, the Hero of Holiness from the north, a level 35 paladin—not bad; and Chu Ke, the King's Hero from the east. What a laughable title. As for his level, level 1? Wait, what? Your level? Bro, how did you dare leave the beginner village protected by the Goddess?
No, how had you even left the beginner village? Even the goblins by the roadside could treat you like a beginner dungeon and solo you. Both Plague and War were stunned, but it was no big deal. They could just consider it a free bargain.
There was no way Plague's Appraisal skill could be wrong. The opponent was definitely level 1.
Although something abnormal inevitably meant something suspicious, perhaps he was the kind of Hero whose skills were extremely annoying but whose drawback was slow leveling.
But with the absolute disparity in attributes brought by levels, no matter how annoying his skills were, they could not have any effect.
So War had set off.
At this moment, War cast another Appraisal, and the panel that appeared was identical to Plague's findings.
Looking down at the ant-like people below, War gently bent down and patted the dragon's head. A strange language passed through his helmet. "Use Dragon Breath."
The giant dragon's head raised slightly before it drew in a fierce breath. A mass of black, viscous flame began gathering in its throat.
Suddenly, time seemed to freeze. The dragon's expression stiffened, the flames in its throat slowly went out, and its wings—deprived of mana—stalled in midair. The entire dragon slowly glided down into the distance like a Paper Airplane.
Meanwhile, War atop the dragon froze completely, every muscle in his body stiff as stone.
Because at that moment, a hand had lightly hooked around War's neck, while pressure like a collapsing sky poured freely from its owner.
That being casually glanced at the Appraisal panel before War, which had yet to be withdrawn. Then he gently patted War's neck and smiled. "Oh? Were you thinking about me?"
[War] Nilma Jarvis [Demon King Executive] Transcendent Demon Lv.197 Constitution: 991; Resistance: 989; Recovery: 970; Mana: 1.05 million
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