Chapter 949 Where To Get Materials?!
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Ding!
[The [Dungeon System] explains that Boss-type Monsters are pivotal pillars to each ecosystem, as they provide with vast amounts of energy and maintain the food chain, sometimes even being able to provide new young such as well.]
[Therefore, they cannot be easily replaced. And it might take forever for another to reappear, or maybe they might never appear again.]
[However, lesser monsters can still be hunted. Bear in mind that the higher their ranks within the Floors, the rarer they are and the slower their reproduction becomes as well.]
"Hah, I guess it couldn't be easy. I should probably let them grow their population over time then." I said. "Though… Should I really do this? Ugh, it feels different than hunting monsters outside. After all they're all so gentle with me because I'm the Dungeon Master…"
"You're feeling bad about killing monsters now?!" Ignatius asked.
"It's not that! They're different from the outside monsters! I feel like they're my kids! …In a weird way." I said, sighing.
"Ugh this is ridiculous." Ignatius sighed. "S-So you're delaying my evolution because you don't want to kill these guys?"
"Yeah! We'll find another way! And we can always just harvest some of their scales and blood if we ask them nicely." I said. "Claws, fangs too, I think that would be alright. Though, we'll still need a Heart. Hey Alice, do you think Crimson Dragon Scales and Blood would do to replace some of the other materials?"
"They should do as long as you give a lot of them." She said. "Though, for the heart, the most important material, you'll need something stronger, even with the single heart of the Crimson Dragon, you'll need… three to four more."
"Eh?!" I cried. "That's a lot! Why is your evolution so damn expensive?" I began shaking Ignatius. "You're such a golden spooned dragon!"
"Agh! Hey, I am a Great True Fire Dragon! What did ya expect?!" Laughed Ignatius. "To fully evolve my spiritual form, you'll need a lot of power! Heh."
"Quest System, can't we get a Quest so we can get the Heart right away? You've given me other heart items before!" I said.
[The [Quest System] says that for that to happen you'll need to either supply them with one billion EXP or do something that changes fate to the equivalent of the previous war against Arachne, which would give, perhaps, enough Causality to create such a reward.]
"Hahhh… it's hopeless." I sighed. "I am blessed by your dad though, and there's your brother as another familiar too… I wonder if there's some grave of your family we could borrow a heart from?"
"D-Do you think it's that easy?! And no, there's no grave of my family out there…" Ignatius said. "We Dragons live to fight and grow stronger, wherever we die, we die. Our bodies stay there, and the stronger we are, the more we affect our surroundings."
"That's true, many of the landscapes around the Demon Continent, and even other Continents as well were shaped by Dragons bodies that died and decayed." Said Beelzebub. "It shouldn't be so different compared to other lifeforms as well, your parents, for example, whenever they die and are left to decay, they'll fill their surroundings with a lot of their leftover mana, changing the landscape greatly-"
"Okay, okay! I get it! You don't need to put my parents as an example!" I cried, smacking the moth a few times.
"Hahaha! Did you imagined them decaying and dying? Hahaha!" Beelzebub started to laugh at me.
"Sometimes I forget you're a sick Demon Lord." I facepalmed. "Anyways… Is this really true?"
"Yeah, usually above Rank 10 its when it happens to a wider scale." Said Ignatius. "Naturally, we dragons are even more stronger than that, our bodies are filled with Elemental Draconic Runes, the secret to our almighty strength and magic power! Because of that, once we die, our Dragon Runes spread everywhere… My father once said that we are bringers of nature as well, we are seeds of life. Even when we die, we continue living across the world! Though… I didn't get to Rank 10 myself, and when I died… I… Ugh, well, I was made into equipment."
"I'm sorry…" I sighed.
"It's fine." Ignatius said. "It has been over a decade since then, and now thanks to you I've revived into a new and almighty form! Even as a Spirit, I'll surpass all dragons eventually! Hahahaha!"
"Yeah! To make up for your death, I'll turn you into the strongest dragon!" I nodded. "And for that, finding a place where a Red Dragon died would be ideal. Your hearts are crystals, so they don't decay, right? If we can find an area where one died, there's a chance the heart will be untouched."
"Hmmm…" Ignatius began thinking. "No idea about that… Sorry."
"Ugh…" I sighed once more. "Wait, I wonder if I could talk with your dad? We have a link with his Divine Protection after all!"
"Wait, Sylphy, you're not thinking on just boldly trying to speak with the Dragon King, right?!" Beelzebub asked me in disbelief. "He's so strong he can give Divine Protections! Doesn't that give you an idea of how terrifying he is?! If you make him mad he could…!"
"Well, the old man spoke to me easily anyways, so let's do the same again…" I said, quickly concentrating.
By imbuing the newfound strength into my soul, I quickly fused it with the dragon energy coming from the Dragon King's Divine Protection
And then, I slowly followed the origin of this power given to me, slowly traveling across an incredibly long distance, with only a part of my bare soul.
FLAAASH!
Suddenly, I found myself floating inside a dark space, in there, two blazing eyes opened, gigantic in size, glaring at me.
"What do you want, brat?! You've gotten stronger but that doesn't give you the right to come and wake me up! I was having a nice nap and now it's ruined!" He roared angrily.
"P-Please don't get angry! It is about your son, Ignatius!" I said.
"My dead son?" He wondered. "Isn't he a spirit or something?"
He was surprisingly chill about it…
"Yeah, well, we need materials to help him evolve… In specific, a Red Dragon Heart…" I said.
He squinted his eyes, glaring into my bare soul.
"Hmmm…"
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