Deep space, dead silence and cold.
In the boundless darkness, there is a high-temperature and scorching Neutron Star, which is rotating at medium to high speed. The invisible Gravity Field domain causes the surrounding space to fluctuate and distort, and even the light is bent.
No life is willing to come into contact with such a deadly celestial body.
Even Immortal One will take a detour when seeing him.
However, there is a figure on its surface.
A giant dragon with mirror-like red scales is entrenched on the surface of Neutron Star, rotating at high speed with the star.
The terrifying Gravity that could crush steel into powder came from all directions, oppressing him, causing every dragon scale on his body to bear unimaginable overweight and overpressure, and from time to time it cracked Shatter and produced several cracks.
But the dragon didn't move at all.
His scales, flesh, bones, and all his body structures were destroyed in this extreme environment, but at the same time, his body was constantly regenerating, cracking and reorganizing again and again.
Repeatedly.
In this cycle, his body becomes stronger and stronger, moving towards a higher level.
This is one of Garos's exercise methods, an anti-stress exercise for the whole body. By weakening the Gravity Field domain around him, Neutron Star's pressure on him skyrockets to the point where it can crush and stimulate the whole body.
This method of exercise is not refined enough, it simply lets the environment forge you.
However, its advantage is that Garos doesn't need to do anything. He just needs to lie here and endure it. The body will adapt on its own. In this state, he can free up more thoughts to think about other things while exercising.
Garos is doing the same thing now.
His energy is currently focused on his Divine Power system, thinking carefully, summarizing and sorting out his Divine Power.
"Currently, I have two main Divine Powers."
"Once, once."
Red Iron Dragon's eyes were full of thought.
The main thing is his Divine Power foundation, the beginning of his talent, his real foundation, Adaptive Evolution.
It was just a talent with no specific concept at first. It existed with Garos from the time he was born. Later, as he grew up, the talent itself became more powerful, achieving each other, and finally transformed and sublimated into the specific Divine Power.
Divine Power is also intangible and without quality.
However, it can also materialize.
Divine Power of Garos, the actual form is a ring, Ring of Adaptation.
This Ring of Adaptation is spinning all the time, including the time when he is on Neutron Star, and his previous leisure travel on Faerûn. It has never stopped running, but the efficiency of its operation is very different.
The fastest time it spins is when Garos is fighting fiercely.
Ring of Adaptation accumulates through daily rotation. As long as Garos has an idea, it can directly adapt Garos to the state it is in at the first time.
This state includes but is not limited to the surrounding environment, the influence of other Divine Powers, special damage patterns, and even the abnormality of one's own Divine Power----
In short, almost everything that works on Garos can be adapted to it.
Just like the previous battles with Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations and Immortal Lich.
Whether it is Aberrant Mutation at the Divine Power level, or a special spell based on Divine Power, his Divine Power has adapted to ignore the effect of the opponent's Divine Power, or to be more precise, it is not ignoring, but suppressing.
After being designated once, Ring of Adaptation will enter "cooldown" and rotate as the battle continues.
The higher the intensity of the battle, the faster it will rotate.
When it makes another full circle, it can be designated again and adapt to the new state.
In other words.
His Divine Power can only focus on one state at the same time and cannot deal with multiple different types of threats in a short period of time.
"One on one, I have nothing to fear."
"But if it's one-to-many, my Divine Power won't work very well."
If there are multiple Immortal Ones attacking him at the same time, and they use Divine Powers to attack in batches, it will be difficult for him to fully adapt to the enemy's Divine Powers, and he will definitely be hit.
But this is not Divine Power's problem.
One of the main reasons why high-level gods, Eternal Realm, Immortal Realm, etc. rarely come to Material Plane in real form is that they are worried about being besieged and strangled.
Material Plane has iron law restrictions.
No matter how strong an individual is, their level will be kept at a level, and it will be difficult to face many other beings who are at the Material Plane limit at the same time.
Garos This is too much worry.
However, he always thinks about the worst outcome.
What if you are also surrounded and killed? No matter what, you must think about it.
"Unless, I can shorten the cooling time of Ring of Adaptation."
"Or you can make it rotate more times at the same time and adapt to it multiple times. Only in this way can you cover everything and not fall behind even if you fight ten times. It would be best if Ring of Adaptation can spin so fast that it can't stop."
Garos thought to himself.
His second Divine Power is less important and is Aberrant Mutation, which comes from Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations.
This Divine Power is incomplete.
But it also appears simpler because of this. Compared with Adaptive Evolution, it is more aggressive and proactive.
Aberrant Mutation can distort and alienate the target's Divine Power, causing the target's Divine Power to change into a completely unfamiliar and even harmful Divine Power.
However, this alienation can only last for a short period of time, and the effect depends on the target's dependence on itself Divine Power.
The stronger the dependence on Divine Power, the more significant the alienation effect will be.
On the contrary, if the target can continue fighting without relying on Divine Power, the effect of this alienation will be greatly reduced.
"The current manifestations of my two Divine Power----"
"To put it bluntly, it actually killed the performance of Divine Power in the battle of the Immortal Realm, and brought both sides back to the original point, returning to the most primitive level of competing for life values. However, at this level, I can still adapt to make myself stronger."
Garos summarized his Divine Power system.
No matter what kind of Immortal One we face.
As long as the opponent cannot crush Garos in terms of pure numerical value and physical strength, he will have the upper hand.
Even if there is an existence like Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations that can surpass him numerically, as long as he cannot kill him quickly, he can catch up little by little through continuous adaptation, equalize, and then surpass.
This fades and the other grows.
The Immortal Lich I encountered before is the best example.
The law spell based on Divine Power is quite overbearing, but when the spell is adapted, Divine Power is also alienated, and Immortal Lich can only be reduced to a state of competing for health with a giant dragon like him, and finally runs away.
"If it's a human Immortal One, get the exact same Divine Power as me----"
"The effect is definitely not as good as mine."
"In the final analysis, this body that I have refined over time is my greatest confidence to give full play to my Divine Power."
Garos thought to himself.
Divine Power and Immortal One are not independent of each other, they complement each other.
Immediately, he began to think about other applications of Adaptation Authority.
Although his current Divine Power system is already quite good, allowing him to maximize his own advantages, Garos still feels that his Divine Power is far from reaching its upper limit.
As for Mutation Authority----
After all, it just comes from a broken piece of Destiny Core.
Unless Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations can be killed again and more Divine Power fragments can be snatched from it, there will basically be no changes. The upper limit is right here, so there is no need to expect too much.
So.
How to develop your own adaptation Evolution Divine Power?
Garos sat on Neutron Star, thinking quietly.
And not long after, he roughly had three vague directions.
First of all, it is the breadth. Find ways to expand the scope of application of Adaptive Evolution.
His adaptation is currently mainly aimed at a single situation.
But if he can expand the coverage of Ring of Adaptation so that it can cover multiple targets at the same time, then he can adapt to multiple different situations at the same time and achieve all-round and multi-dimensional adaptation.
In this way.
He can also deal with large numbers of enemies calmly.
The second one is accuracy.
What he adapts to is a certain state, environment, and boundlessness.
But what if it could be adapted directly to a specific enemy?
For example, in the battle with Omen, he did not adapt to his Divine Power, but directly adapted to Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations itself, thus evolving into a state that completely restrained Ten Thousand Ominous Manifestations?
If he could achieve such an adaptation, he would be completely invincible.
No matter what opponent you face, you can instantly become its natural enemy.
Last, and most important, is the degree of permanence of adaptation.
Garos's Ring of Adaptation allows him to adapt to special conditions and evolve into corresponding forms, but it cannot last long and can only be done during fierce battles.
But what if it could be kept forever?
For example, after adapting to a kind of power, you can turn it into a part of yourself and obtain it permanently.
To this extent, he can really say that he is invincible.
"Width, precision, permanence----"
"These three directions will be our three main development routes for Divine Power, and they are all very important."
Red Iron Dragon whispered in his heart, his eyes looking expectant, but then he shook his head slightly.
Unfortunately, these are just assumptions after all.
Garos does not know the specific development method of Divine Power.
The body can be exercised, sharpened, and then Adaptive Evolution ed under the influence of Divine Power, but how should its Divine Power itself be tempered and evolved? How can it move in the direction you want?
Could it be that we can only rely on hunting Immortal One of the same kind?
He has no clue at the moment.
However, Garos is not discouraged.
To put it bluntly, the time it took for him to become Immortal Realm and master Divine Power was ultimately too short, less than a hundred years, and he could not be said to be proficient in his own Divine Power.
According to Huihong Big Red Dragon, Ignas, it would take thousands of years for a normal Immortal Life to just become familiar with and master its own Divine Power, and it is often only when Immortal Path takes major steps that it can more deeply understand and develop its own Divine Power.
"Does this mean that I have to become Glorious One to take a big step in a certain direction?"
"Then become Ancient One, Eternal One, and then you can Divine Power yourself to the top?"
Garos is deep in thought.
But he didn't think about it for too long.
The level of the essence of life is still very important. Now he has taken the first step in Immortal Path. It is okay to set a direction for himself, but it is unnecessary to think too deeply. If you are not at the corresponding level, there is no point in thinking too much.
The growth of life level, the growth of Divine Power.
Nothing can be accomplished overnight, and Garos is also prepared to spend a long time on this road.
Phew!
Red Iron Dragon let out a silent breath.
"As long as you want to walk, the road is at your feet."
"Besides, I want to bite off more than I can chew. My top priority right now is to get through the existing Divine Power first, and at least make Ring of Adaptation spin faster."
Garos thought to himself.
But how can we make Ring of Adaptation spin faster?
The speed of its rotation essentially represents Garos Divine Power's proficiency. In the final analysis, it is still proficiency.
Garos thought quietly for a while, and then came up with a preliminary idea.
He stretched his body and gradually stood up from the surface of Neutron Star.
"Change somewhere."
The dragon first stretched its wings, weakening the Neutron Star field through the distortion of Force Field, then flew away from the influence of Neutron Star, and then tore apart the space with Spell-Annihilating Claw, leaping in, and the star field disappeared from then on.
In the deep space, Neutron Star is still spinning.
And on the far side, Garos came to a shining Star.
A real sun comes into view.
White Dwarf, Neutron Star, their predecessors are the sun, which is the dead Star.
Garos Before, he mainly trained himself on such death stars, but now, he came to a huge sun in its prime.
It was suspended in the darkness, burning calmly and fiercely.
Fiery flames surge across its surface, radiating energy enough to incinerate an asteroid every second. However, this energy spans many light-years away and is a necessary condition for the planet to breed life.
So contradictory, yet coordinated.
"The sun----the gods who control Sun Authority are almost all Greater Deity, and there are more than one."
"It's not just a Star object."
Garos stared at the sun in front of him.
Solar Corona is like thousands of golden ribbons, stretching and swaying in all directions, and the bright light spills out, forcing back and burning through the darkness of the surrounding billions of miles of deep space.
In the dark and endless vacuum of space, the sun is like a beacon in the dark night.
Brilliant and magnificent, the light is infinite.
Red Iron Dragon is parked in space.
The light of Star also shined, fell on him, was reflected by the mirror-like red scales all over his body, and refracted in other directions, making his entire dragon seem to have become a small sun, its rays of light shining, reflecting the real scorching sun in the distance.
For a moment, he looked like he had turned on Shining Form.
"Temperature, light, radiation, particle storm----"
He squinted his eyes, feeling the burning sensation coming towards his face.
White Dwarf, Neutron Star, the sun, they are all just different stages of Star, but the first two are somewhat similar, but the latter gives Garos a completely different feeling.
White Dwarf and Neutron Star both made him feel dangerous and fatal.
The sun, on the other hand, is not so deadly, but it has a huge sense of oppression. In front of it, even the darkness covering the vacuum of the entire universe retreats, unable to corrode its light.
Garos didn't stay long.
After thinking for a moment, he waved his wings and flew towards the blazing sun.
The closer the distance, the more intense the light and flames become.
Solar Prominence rises from the ground in the dragon's field of vision, like a turbulent ocean. Solar Flare is also rolling on the surface, setting off huge waves that are enough to swallow Mountain Range. One wave is not flat, but another wave is rising.
However, none of these have much impact on Garos.
He wore Solar Corona, Solar Prominence.
Even though Solar Flare was born around him, he just felt accustomed to it, as if he was back home, without any discomfort.
Although it has evolved again and again, the foundation of Garos is still there.
He is Fire Dragon after all, and now he is Celestial Life.
Although unlike Space Dragon like Sun Dragon, it has been able to move freely on the surface of the sun since birth, it has already reached a level where it will not be harmed by the sun. At least it does not need to be too nervous when it is on the surface.
At the same time.
Garos keenly discovered that his Ring of Adaptation had changed.
He was shocked.
"Sure enough, I need to change my environment."
Garos thought to himself.
While on Neutron Star, he was vaguely aware of it.
In terms of danger and extreme degree, Neutron Star will definitely exceed this sun.
But when he was on Neutron Star, his Force Field control could control and affect the surrounding field pressure. There was always an upper limit of endurance, allowing him to leave room for the limit.
The most important thing is.
In a single environment, no matter how extreme the environment is, if you stay there for a long time, the rotation of Ring of Adaptation will stabilize and there will no longer be significant changes.
"I'm not limited to one extreme environment."
"In this boundless universe, there are many dangerous celestial bodies. I should constantly change the extreme environment I am in so that Divine Power keeps changing. Whether it is faster or slower, I must stimulate it to change."
"Change is a good thing."
Garos's heart became clearer and brighter.
Never-ending change may be the way to train him Divine Power.
Moreover, in this change, in addition to his Divine Power, it is impossible to say that his body will undergo a new evolution.
"My body structure is already very dense. If I want to go further in this direction, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time."
"There is more than one form of celestial bodies."
"It's better to try to change, change the direction of evolution, and no longer blindly pursue density."
After figuring this out, Garos's thinking became clearer.
He will also go to Neutron Star to exercise, but not just on Neutron Star. He needs to change his environment and try more changes, so as to find a direction that is most suitable for him now and move towards the Huihong level.
This sun is an experiment that he attaches great importance to.
Phew!
Red-Iron Dragon flapped its wings, tore apart the last layer Solar Corona, and then fell to the surface of the sun with its whole body covered with light.
Although it is said to be on the surface, there is no land here.
Bright spots condensed by countless flames are imprinted on the surface, constantly rolling, like a pot of thick porridge that has been boiled until it rolls.
Garos Every time he took a step, waves of fire were stirred up, licking and burning his scales.
hot.
Pure heat.
Garos feels the heat and light around it, and continues to penetrate deeper into the sun.
After reaching a certain point, even he started to feel burning pain.
The flame here is no longer a simple flame, it has become something more essential, more dangerous and powerful. And there is also Gravity Field, which is not weak, but it is far inferior to White Dwarf or Neutron Star.
"----Great place."
Garos admired in a low voice, his eyes were filled with light and the fire of the sun.
Although it was still small, he could feel that changes had already begun. The giant dragon opened its four claws and walked in the sun, letting the flames cover and burn its body.