"Okay," He takes a deep breath and let's his cloud slowly make his way to the pile. "We need ten, so don't eat them yet." It clamped on a blue scale and dragged it to him. It was slow gowing, because a solid scale was much bigger than previously infered by the scale shards in the jars. The intact blue scale was smooth and as big as Luther's head.
"Nice!" he whispher-yelled when he realized the litle ball of gluttony got 3 scales at once with it's wide maw. "Good work." He put 2 in his inventory and fed the third one to his gluttony skill. He knew he would have to assimilate the [Dragon Mana] into the other circles and find out how to use [SoulSpirit Energy].
He slowly made his way over to a sleeping gold dragon next. Gold dragons were smaller, and their scales were shaped like shields. Getting four and absorbing one was easier, getting him halfway to the goal.
He made his way to the Red dragon next. There was only one red dragon on the whole mountain. Being twice as big as the blue dragons, they had jagged scales twice as big. Getting seven scales from it was surprisingly easy.
Mostly because the beast's back was facing him the whole time. "We should get some more, y'know, for research purposes. And to sell them to the Forum."
He spent the whole day stealing from the red dragon. he managed to get a total of 25 scales after absorbing one, when the red dragon woke up.
The dragon let out a huge roar as it stared at Luther. "Uh oh." He quickly unsummoned his cloud and bolted from the cave. Valdir let out another roar and started to walk toward him.
Blue and Gold Dragons were now flying in a swarm around the mountain. "I'm sorry! I promised a kid i'd get them some scales!" That only seem to enrage them more. He ran down the mountain, dodging ice blasts and what looked like acid. "Yep, that's acid. Which would be so cool if they weren't trying to kill me!" A magma bolt landed in front of him and melted into the rock.
"Would you be willing to trade? I can make crystals?"
The dragons all stopped their attack. They looked at one another with wide eyes.
"Is what you speak the truth, young human?" A gravely female voice echoed from the cave he exited. Which was impressive, considering he was closer to the bottom now.
"Yes, I am a White Mage from the Eerin Kingdom." He said in a strange amalgamation of confidence and shitting-his-pants level scared.
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"Bring him and all the scales to me Valdir." The female voice stated from high.
"Ahem, yes honey!" Valdir, the magma dragon, said in a surprising high society voice. "You heard your Queen. Gather the scales." He then landed to grab Luther. "I hope you know what you are doing. My wife has been upset since our son left the nest."
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He was plopped unceremoniously in front of a large black dragon. Her scales
"I haven't laid eyes on a White Mage in so long. I believe it was a human named Aegis that could also make Mana Crystals. You smell just like him. Just, with a little more."
Dragons flew in the cave carrying piles and piles of scales. They dropped them on top of the Queen's Shield shaped ones.
"Young human. I will forgive you for stealing from us if you can do what your master did for us 200 years ago. Convert these scales into a large crystal for us to absorb."
He didn't think he could, to be honest. They were still bringing more. The pile had become larger than the Queen herself. But he had to, by any means necessary. Player's corpse could be looted and their inventory can be stolen. If he was eaten, with everything he has in his inventory. Things could be dangerous for all parties involved.
" I need to do one thing first. I never done something this large scale before, pardon the pun." He tried his best to come off as respectful as he walked over and took a black scale. After devouring it he sat down and looked inward.
The four scales were luminous in his void. The Black scale took a purple hue as it floated aimlessly with the others.
First he mixed the power of the scales into one. Melding them into a singular power didn't work, no mater how much he swirled them together. It looked like an old loading button on even older computers.
"This isn't working." He mummbled as he kept mixing. "Absorbing them into me one at a time will take too long. I don't want to get eaten." He looked at his own Energy. a blue ring spinning clockwise, a green ring spinning counterclockwise, and a white pearl inbetween them. Like an hourglass.
An idea formed in his mind and he acted upon it immediately. He pulled a drop from all three energy points. [SoulSpirit Energy] being surprisingly cooperative, but that could be because it was working with Pure [Mana] and [Other].
He mixed them together with the [Dragon Essence] as the System called it. He watched as the [Dragon Essence] Finally coalessed, making a surprising Azure color. he could almost hear the roar of a dragon in the distance.
He then activated [Energy Devour] inside him. The [SoulSpirit] core became a suction fiend. The [Dragon Essence] tried to get away, but was ultimately engulfed by the core. The core went from pure white to Azure as pain covered his body. He set the two circles into overdrive, purifying the Core once again. He watched in facination as the two circles pulled out their energies, leaving a pure white core in the center.
As everything calmed down, the [SoulSpirit] Core now slowly spun like a planet on it's axis. An Azure symbol of a dragon's head was now etched on the core.
Waking up, The dragons could immediately see the difference. His left eye was blue and his right, green. They were both repitlian.
He managed to read one World Announcement before Espara spoke to him.
{A Player has found the correct way to use the elusive [Soul Magic]! Servers with be down for maintenance in 15 hours and will be down for 24 hours for updates.}
"What did you do, child? Why do you feel like one of us now?" Espara Spoke in awe, fear, exhasperation, and anger.
"Well, your majesty, I didn't think i could handle all of these at once without damaging myself. So, i guess, you could say that i've 'Attuned' myself to be more compatible with this Mana. Now i have 15 hours to turn this into something worthy of your clan." He didn't want to waste time, the scales finally stopped coming in, it filled half the cave now.
He used his [Energy Devour] skill on the scales. His little cloud looked dragon shaped as it opened its purple toothed maw and ate the humongous pile. The King and Queen watched in slight terror as they saw with their special eyes the absorption of 4 different types of [Dragon Essence].
Luther looked, and felt, like he was going to explode. Especially when he used all three points of energy to melt the Essences together. He couldn't handle it. He could hear the roars of warning and concern on the outside, as well as the roar of rage from inside. The proud Essence of Dragons was contained inside a puny human, it wanted out.
Luther marched toward the center of the cave and punched the ground.
[Manga Crystalization]
The platinum Essence grew and splintered like a mineral from the ground. Jagged, pointy and varied in size and shape. Like a geode that was cracked open.
{A Essence Crystal made from the scales of the Titan Clan of Dragons, [Mana],[Other],and [SoulSpirit energy]!
Species Resonance: Those with the blood, body, and/or soul of a Dragon will grow faster in strength, wisdom, and Mana control the longer one is in range of this crystal.}
Luther let out a breath. "That was exhausting..." He turned to the King and Queen. "How did I do?"