Time passed quietly and the sky gradually darkened.
The light of the two moons was obscured by dark clouds and wind and snow, so that Borderlands seemed to be left with only darkness at night. Only the Dragon Valley that had lit clusters of bonfires had light coming out.
"Garos! Garos!"
Fairy Dragon Vera flew over and circled around Red Iron Dragon who was munching.
"Why... haven't you been stretched to death yet?"
Vera tilted his little head and tortured his soul. His eyes reflected the huge body of Red Iron Dragon, which was like a mountain and was constantly swallowing food.
Garos, who was concentrating on eating, suddenly paused, as if he was choked by this inappropriate question.
Then, his huge head tilted slightly towards the direction of the flying Fairy Dragon, his cheeks puffed up, and a strong wind blew out.
He blew the little thing so much that he turned several somersaults in the air.
"Stay away from me, or I'll eat you as a dessert."
Because he needs to eat a lot and excrete waste from time to time, he doesn't want other dragons to watch this process.
Garos took a big mouthful of sticky Black Oil and continued to deal with the food in front of him.
Finally, after what seemed like an extremely long period of time, his spirit suddenly lifted.
He keenly felt that deep in his right chest, the Dragon Jade that was pulsing slowly like Miniature Sun, the energy accumulated inside had finally reached a certain critical point of saturation.
The energy transformed from the food swallowed at this moment is no longer greedily absorbed by Dragon Jade.
Instead, it was like a stream that had finally found its home, truly and continuously flowing to his limbs and bones, nourishing every muscle, every sinew, and every cell. This long-lost sense of real satisfaction made Garos couldn't help but let out a long and contented roar.
"From the moment I just woke up from my deep sleep."
Garos While chewing the tough animal meat, he sorted out the feelings of this period in his heart.
"Because almost all the energy in my body was drained by the new Dragon Jade, I was extremely weak, almost equivalent to being seriously injured and on the verge of death."
"But Dragon Jade automatically fed back energy at critical moments, allowing me to regain my strength instantly."
"After that, everything I ate, flesh, blood, ores, Black Oil... the energy they transformed into was almost all absorbed and stored again by this Dragon Jade, like a bottomless pit."
"It was only now that it was finally full and filled."
He slowly exhaled, the ups and downs of his chest became more relaxed, and the speed of eating slowed down. He no longer swallowed wildly like a starving ghost reincarnated, but began to eat slowly, while thinking rapidly in his mind.
After this period of personal experience and careful introspection, he roughly understood the core effect of Dragon Jade.
There is still a connection between it and Cold Explosive Scale, and it retains the effect of absorbing damage and converting stored energy.
However, the specific effects seem to have some subtle changes from before the evolution, which will need to be fully understood through subsequent actual combat or specific tests.
However, these are not the most important.
The most critical and core effect is that it can accumulate a large amount of energy in normal times and release it at critical moments when Garos is extremely weak or even near death, achieving a near-reversal from the dead!
This is somewhat similar to the Blood Well skill of the old sword demon.
To put it simply, this is - the second life!
In Garos's mind, possible future scenarios even emerged involuntarily:
When a powerful enemy, after going through untold hardships and paying a heavy price, finally breaks through his layers of defenses, defeats him in successive bursts of state, and beats him to a point where he is dying and running out of fuel.
The enemy may be smiling like a victor, preparing to give him the final blow, or preparing to admire his dying struggle.
At this moment, deep in his chest, the silent Dragon Jade suddenly burst out with a dazzling light like the rising sun. The majestic Life Energy was like a torrent that broke a bank, instantly washing over his broken body. All injuries healed in the light at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the weakness of dying was swept away.
What replaced it was a more vigorous and vigorous vitality and power than before.
Garos can almost imagine the momentary expression on the enemy's face - from ecstasy to shock, from elation to confusion, and finally into complete despair, or... numbness and dullness at being teased.
"It's an ability tailor-made for me!"
Garos's eyes flashed with satisfaction.
For him who cherishes his life, the value of the Dragon Jade effect brought about by this evolution far exceeds the further enhancement of Bloodburst State.
With this trump card, coupled with his own powerful strength and astute mind.
In the future, unless we encounter a terrifying existence whose strength gap is as big as a chasm and impossible to defeat, Garos will have the confidence to give it a go and even make a comeback against any powerful enemy.
He just thought for a moment, and countless tactical scenarios using Dragon Jade instantly appeared in his mind.
For example, he can pretend to be a reckless and impulsive young man, deliberately adopt a crazy and stupid fighting method of exchanging injuries for injuries, and lure the enemy into a war of attrition with him.
When both sides are bruised and exhausted from fighting.
He suddenly activated Dragon Jade, instantly returning to his peak state and delivering a fatal blow to the enemy.
For another example, he can create the illusion of dying due to exhaustion, luring the enemy to relax their vigilance and get close to his body for confirmation or taunting, and then at the moment when the enemy is most defenseless, he suddenly rises up and launches a fatal surprise attack.
It's a little sinister, but it suits Garos's wishes.
"No matter what."
Garos grinned. "My Dragon Jade will definitely give those enemies who think they have a chance of victory an unforgettable surprise."
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.
"Wait a minute... Since the existence of Dragon Jade is equivalent to having a second life, can I start training Eternal Death Pathway concurrently?"
Garos's thinking jumped to this.
Eternal Death Dragon, the dangerous path of [Death is like the wind, always with you], masters many powerful skills that make Garos covetous.
It's a pity that the way of practice often requires being infinitely close to real death, the fighting style is too extreme and deadly, and the risks are too high. A little carelessness will lead to catastrophe, which is why Garos has been deterred from getting involved easily.
But now, everything is different.
He owns Dragon Jade and has a second life.
Having the capital to jump repeatedly on the edge of death but with a high probability of climbing back! This perfectly solves the biggest worry of concurrently cultivating Eternal Death Pathway - you will really die if you lose it.
The current Garos is almost perfectly compatible with this dangerous branch path.
"Even the stupidest and dullest dragon should know how to choose by now."
"Must also take Eternal Death Pathway!"
Garos's eyes were burning and he made up his mind.
Phew! Phew!
At this moment, the sound of heavy dragon wings stirring up the airflow came quickly from far to near.
Garos looked up and saw the familiar figures of Iron Dragon Sorog and the red dragon Samantha, piercing the wind and snow in the sky, gradually becoming clearer.
Like his situation, the two blood brothers have also spent a long sleep.
What appeared in front of him at this moment were all Young Adult Stage, Young Dragon in the true sense.
Samantha's body length has exceeded sixteen meters, and thanks to the innate talent of the red dragon race, her body looks particularly strong and powerful, and her scales shine with a dark luster.
The body length of Sorog is similar to that of Samantha. Overall, it looks slightly smaller than Samantha, but it exudes a steel-like tenacity.
Soon, the two landed next to Red Iron Dragon.
"Garos, you finally woke up."
Iron Dragon Sorog's eyes swept over Garos's larger and more oppressive body, and said, "Molten Iron Tribe has been waiting for your return for too long."
"Now, we can finally show our claws to the wilderness and the wider world, and show off our ambitions!"
Since completing his evolution and awakening, the desire for conquest in Iron Dragon Sorog's body has never subsided, and he is eager to lead the tribe to expand his territory every day.
But his increasingly mature, calm and steady thinking allowed him to forcibly overcome his primitive impulses.
He knew that only by waiting for the awakening and return of the true backbone of the dragon group, Garos, could the power of the entire tribe be condensed into the most powerful fist. Therefore, he chose to wait patiently until this moment.
Different from the excited Iron Dragon.
After the red dragon Samantha landed, he first looked at Garos up and down carefully, then looked down at his strong body, and then let out a burst of delighted laughter.
"Haha! My dear brother, look! I'm finally as strong as you!"
She swung her tail happily and said in a loud voice, "Although you are still bigger than me, apart from our body length, our strength seems to be almost the same."
"This means that as long as I increase the intensity of my training to another level, I will hopefully catch up with you, or even surpass you."
Although Garos is already full of Dragon Jade energy at this time, the body has not yet fully recovered from its long sleep to its peak state. The muscle dimensions of the body do look quite similar to the strong state of Samantha at this moment.
This couldn't help but cause her to have some wonderful misunderstandings.
"Hmm."
Garos looked at Red Dragon's high-spirited and confident look, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile. He did not reveal the truth to dampen Samantha's rare enthusiasm and desire to challenge.
"I'll wait and see."
An hour later, the sky was completely covered in darkness.
Outside the valley, the wind is howling, snow is flying in the sky, and the harsh environment seems to swallow up the entire world.
However, Dragon Valley, which is protected by this wind and snow barrier, as well as Black Iron Plain, Fertile Plain in the distance, various frontline posts, mines and pastures, and other strongholds belonging to the Molten Iron Tribe, are all enveloped in a warm and jubilant atmosphere at this moment.
The entire tribe was cheering for the return of their leader, like a blazing fire in the winter.
Burning Steel Fortress On the first floor, the spacious vestibule has been transformed into a temporary banquet venue.
Garos, Deborah, Sorog, Samantha, these four majestic Young Dragon are undoubtedly the most eye-catching focus in the field.
Followed by the prime of life White Dragon Tressie, the four dragons that have entered adolescence - Blue Dragon Heriam, the red dragon Kaxier, Black Dragon Seraphina, Green Dragon Ludwig--and a few Garos are not very familiar, and Adolescent Dragon and Hatchling Dragon will be collected later.
The dragons of the Molten Iron Tribe are gathered here at this moment.
Among these dragons and monsters, which may be majestic or ferocious, there is one particularly eye-catching exception.
An extremely handsome young human with dazzling blond hair was holding a long sword for training, singing and dancing in the center of the venue, performing a gorgeous sword dance, attracting many family members around him to look curiously.
This is none other than Gold Dragon Alberto in human form.
Garos invited him with a bit of bad taste, but unexpectedly he accepted the invitation happily.
"Alberto, I remember you vowed to hone yourself hard and never slack off. Why are you now free to dance the sword?"
Garos couldn't help but ask.
Alberto stopped the dance with a neat sword sheath, with a bright smile on his face, and replied, "After a long period of insomnia... well, deep thought! I finally understand a crucial truth."
"Proper relaxation and mental rest can make the subsequent exercise more effective with half the effort and achieve higher efficiency."
"True strength should not be bound by rigid ideas, but should penetrate into its essence."
Although he sometimes seems to be a bit over-the-top, he is by no means stupid.
After Garos fell into a deep sleep and could no longer use physical sleep aids to help him fall asleep, he experienced painful insomnia for a long period of time. Finally, one morning when he was staring at the gold coins in a daze, he suddenly became enlightened and realized that his previous way of extreme asceticism had gone astray.
Today, Alberto is still astonishingly hard at honing himself, but he has learned to set aside necessary rest and relaxation time for himself, such as participating in celebrations like tonight.
"However, after the banquet is over, I hope to challenge you. I hope we can compare it calmly."
Alberto added, saying.
"No problem, I can spar with you for free."
Garos said generously that he also needed to test the status of his attributes after waking up, and Alberto was a good candidate.
PS: I have been very busy recently, so the update time will be changed to before eight o'clock as much as possible. If a single chapter is not issued to ask for leave, it will be updated.