Douluo: What Does the Silver Dragon King Know About Spirit Beasts?
Chapter 41

Torina's Little Daily Life

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[Note up front: You're reading too much into it. The novel's title openly bashes the Silver Dragon King, so there's no way she'll end up with Rus Wang, and the Silver Dragon King won't be redeemed either. Rus Wang already has a son and a daughter, and even his granddaughter Torina, whose stats are even more ridiculous, is here. With the appearances of his nine wives after they transformed, which aren't just similar to the game characters from my previous life—they're practically the same models—I'm not about to lose control of myself and go after an idiot. This is just to make things more plausible. In Douluo 2, the Silver Dragon King still secretly protected Di Tian. How did she turn into the love-struck Gu Yuena from Douluo 3?]

[Also, I'm posting the map from the Douluo 2 animation again, along with the map I made, so you can compare them and clearly distinguish the Antarctic Continent from the Extreme North.]

This is the map from the Douluo 2 animation.

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This is the map of Douluo Planet that I made.

What kind of strength did Rus Wang's granddaughter Torina have, as the union of three bloodlines: Zheer Elf, Douluo Dragon Race, and Seer Elf Rus Wang?

Let's start with defining her species. As Seer's Elves became more and more humanoid over time, and her bloodline could be traced back to its roots, Torina actually looked more like her grandfather Rus Wang than her father Barus. Like Rus Wang, she had her own Soul Seal and engravings.

Since she was the first Seer Elf of her kind, coming into existence from nothing, Torina was terrifyingly powerful despite having two bloodlines that actually dragged down her species and attribute stats: the Zheer Elf bloodline and the Douluo Dragon Race bloodline. These bloodlines would also have an extraordinary effect on her growth later on.

With Torina's species confirmed as a Seer Elf, rather than some mishmash of unrelated things, her current exclusive traits were Powerful Offense, immunity to abnormal conditions, and interference. Her nature was Cautious (Special Defense +10%, Special Attack -10%).

As for her Soul Seal, from the moment her Soul Power awakened, Torina naturally possessed the Soul Seal effect of her grandfather in his Claw Rus Wang state: when using an attack skill, she had a 30% chance to inflict Freeze on her opponent. As she grew, she also acquired two golden traits: Sanctity and Rock Intent. These granted immunity to all abnormal conditions and stat reductions, prevented enemy Soul Seal effects from affecting her during her first three turns, and stopped enemies from activating their own skill buffs for two turns while she was under Rock Intent. As her cultivation level rose, the effects of Torina's exclusive Soul Seal traits would grow stronger and more numerous.

As for engravings, she naturally had a buff for 6,000 days of sailing, and she could also add the three engraving slots she was supposed to have.

After her Soul Power awakened at twelve, Torina could switch between three forms whenever she wanted: Zheer Elf, Dragon-born Elf, and True Dragon Form. In her Zheer Elf form, just as Zheer Elves had no Soul Skills, she couldn't use Seer skills; she retained only her Soul Seal and engravings. But, like Zheer Elves, her physical stats were terrifyingly high. Her True Dragon Form was actually the most balanced of the three. She could use Self-Created Soul Skills, the Dragon Race's powerful defensive body, the Dragon Clan Rune Secret Technique, and a device her father had made by imitating the properties of the Dragon God's Tear: a summon that let her draw on her grandfather Rus Wang's power from afar. This was unlike Di Tian possessing Huo Yuhao; after Di Tian finished using a move, Huo Yuhao would be near death.

As for the Dragon-born Elf form, Torina's strongest form, it had physical stats only slightly lower than her Zheer Elf form and somewhat weaker physical defense. But in this form, she could use the skills of the Zheer Elves, the Douluo Dragon Race, and those she possessed as a Seer Elf.

This was the appearance she'd had since birth, and it required no expenditure of her Soul Power or energy. It was Torina's true face, and she should have been able to show it to the public. But because this appearance revealed her identity as a member of the royal family, it would have exposed her at school. So, except at home or when visiting her aunts and uncles, she rarely used it.

Though Rus Wang was the king of the Elf Kingdom, his presence had always been faint, except among the prime minister and senior civil officials, where circumstances were different. Some Elf children didn't even learn that they had a king until they started school and read it in their textbooks. "Oh, so we have a king?"

Rus Wang's children were much like their father. After their mothers sent them away from their territories, they either stayed with the Elf army and formed Mental Contracts with Elves, or went about their own business in the various territories of the Zheer Continent.

Elves rarely saw them. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's coloring, on the other hand, was so similar to that of Rus Wang and his divine consort Thalassa's offspring that they were often mistaken for Rus Wang's descendants. The Sun Newspaper and several other gossip papers often ran stories about it. The Dragon Clan Committee's News Censorship Division in the kingdom often fined them for spreading rumors, but the fines clearly didn't amount to as much as the papers made from the stories.

This was, above all, a reflection of Zheer Elf culture. The Elf civilization had been laid down by Rus Wang, who then continued building upon it alongside the Elf Sages Evans, Light, Osuen, and the others.

In the Elves' mythological tales, the Divine King had nine wives. So, in the stories, Thalassa's situation was much like Hera's in Greek mythology. But Thalassa actually encouraged her husband to have more children.

Year 295 of Levant, Year 375 of the Intermission Period

Ever since five years ago, when her grandfather Rus Wang had suddenly come to her home with a grave expression and given her a physical examination, then let out a relieved sigh, he had insisted that she always go about in her Dragon-born Elf form. Taking on the face and identity of the third generation of the royal family and attending school that way had brought her plenty of trouble. Fortunately, after the Grey Feather Division and the Dragon Clan Committee got involved, the attention she attracted had died down from the initial frenzy, and the Elves around her had gradually gotten used to her.

After all, she'd passed the exams fair and square, completed middle school, and been admitted to Ravenna No.1 High School as a top student. No matter how much the tabloid paparazzi tried to nitpick, the scores on her test papers were real.

As it happened, Torina planned to make use of her winter vacation (July to mid-August) to visit Aunt Thranduil's home—or, more accurately, seeing Aunt Thranduil was secondary. Her main reason was to see Noelle, who was like her.

"I'm here, Aunt Thranduil!"

After riding a Heron Eagle Dragon to a manor near Herundis Manor, Torina transferred her mount to the Heron Eagle Dragon free-roaming area and hurried toward the manor house's front door.

Knock, knock, knock—

A maid soon opened the door for Torina and took her to see Thranduil, who had just finished a sauna.

"You really are something, kid. Noelle's still asleep at this hour."

Seeing Torina had come to her manor again to play with her daughter, Thranduil sat on the sofa in her bathrobe with a smile.

"That's all right. I'll wait for her to wake up."

Thranduil was the third Zheer Elf to condense a Soul Core and break through level 90. She often joked with Thalassa that if she'd found an Elf man before she turned 215, she wouldn't have chosen to break through and accept those inevitably long years, then force herself on her husband, Scher.

For long-lived Elves, breaking through level 90 was only a thin membrane, as long as they didn't do it too late—after the age of 250, for instance. It mainly depended on what they wanted. With time stretching on and no external shocks, most Elves were rather apathetic and readily accepted the concept of death. Elena broke through to Titled Douluo because she didn't want to leave her husband, Barus; Ulides did it to carry on her father Evans's will; and Thranduil... remained a virgin until old age, then burned with desire.

"I've been out of kindergarten for 25 years now. It's been eight years since that wedding, and Noelle, the child we had, is already three. That thrill from back then still feels like it happened yesterday." (Noelle can also switch between three forms, but since neither parent carries Rus Wang's bloodline, she has no Soul Seal or engravings. She can only use the Soul Skills unique to her father's Turquoise Dragon clan.)

"By the way, where's Uncle Scher?"

"Him? With my permission, the Dragon from the Dragon Clan Committee took him back to mate with a female Turquoise Dragon who's just turned twenty thousand years old. He probably won't be back for a decade or two. You know, all the Dragon clans your father belongs to have fewer than 1,200 members combined. It's rather outrageous for an Elf like me to keep an adult male dragon with cultivation just shy of a hundred thousand years all to myself."

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