Arad stared at the key chain. It’s filled with keys. It will take him a while to find the ones for his shackles. ^I should kill that one first. She might attack me,^
“Give me those keys!” Kristina shouted.
Arad slowly turned his head toward her. She covered her face with her forearm.
“What a coward, or should I say wise?” Arad smiled, “I’m not giving you anything.”
“You were a vampire? But how could it be? I saw you walk in daylight.” Kristina growled.
“Who knows?” Arad stared at her, “Come on. I won’t charm you, so let’s have a fair fight.”
“Why would I trust you?” Kristina growled.
“I would have already attacked you,” Arad replied.
Kristina sighed, lowering her arm and looking at Arad’s face. “Fine, let’s see if you can keep your word,” The moment her eyes met his, her vision blurred, and she felt light. “You bastard,” she growled, falling on her face.
BAM! Arad lept at her, swinging his claw at her chest, “Where are Aella and Jack? Pray to your god they are unharmed,”
TING! Kristina leaned on her staff, [Mind Shield]. A flash of light emitted from her staff, and she jumped backward, [Stone Wall]
Arad saw the wall emerging in front of him. BAM! He jumped to the side, trying to run around it.
KA-don! As he emerged, he saw a fireball rushing toward him. ^She expect me? Those spells aren’t used for just defense?^ Arad rolled to the side, barely evading the flames and only having his hair slightly burned.
^I don’t have any people to heal, and I don’t think getting close to her would be easy. Think, how could I get my fangs on her neck^
BAM! Arad jumped away, dodging multiple ice spears at the last moment. He glared at her, [Blood magic: Faint spell]
Kristina didn’t seem to be affected. Arad rushed at her, wishing to get close enough to strike.
“Like I would let you!” Kristina screamed, pointing at him [Quagmire]
The ground beneath Cain’s hands turned muddy, and his legs sank, keeping him in place.
[Wind Blast] Kristina released a blast of compressed wind, pushing Arad all the way to the other side of the room. [Flame Lance] With a spark, a burning spear flew toward Arad.
Arad jumped away, keeping his eyes focused on Kristina. ^I learned magic from Amber. But I relied on void magic to make it work. I can’t cast magic or spells without my draconic powers,^ Arad growled, ^I need something ranged. If only I learned magic…wait, Merlin did teach me one.^
Arad pointed his hand at Kristina, trying to activate Gravity magic. Nothing happened. Magic wasn’t that easy to use.
“Come on! Vampire, use your blood magic!” Kristina screamed, [Stone Pull] with a single swing from her staff. Multiple tiles got pulled from the ground and floated between her and Arad. [Catapult] The tiles flew toward Arad at high speed.
BAM! BAM! Arad jumped from one side to the other, dodging thanks to his [Wild instincts]. ^When will she run out of MP? No, I can’t rely on that.^
Arad grabbed one of the tiles she flung at him and threw it back at her, attempting to distract her enough to get close.
Kristina lifted her staff [Barrier] CLANG! The stones cracked on a glass-like ball covering her body. And before Arad could get close, she shouted, “Burn!” [Fire Wall] Raising a great burning wall between her and Arad.
Arad glared at his hand. ^Come on, gravity magic, work!^
~Feeling the element you’re trying to use will give you a deeper understanding~ The words of Cain. The plant shopkeeper rang in his head.
Arad smiled. ^Gravity is the power that pulls everything toward the ground. That dragon dropped me from the sky. Even now, it’s pulling me to the ground.^
Arad lifted his hands. ^Gravity pulls everything to the ground. Then all I need to do is convince myself. The ceiling is the ground.^
A purple aura engulfed Arad’s palm, [Reverse Gravity]
Kristina’s legs levitated for a moment, and her body fell upward. CRACK! She smashed into the ceiling. With a thud. “What?” A growl escaped her mouth.
Arad smiled, “Back to the ground!” He shifted his focus from the ceiling to the ground, causing her to fall. CRACK! “And Come to me!” He then pulled her toward him, opening his arms to grab and bite her.
When Kristina got close to him, she smiled, pointing her staff at his chest, “It’s over!” She screamed, [Ice Shard Barrage]
Tens of tiny ice shards exploded from the tip of her staff with a shattering boom, gouging Arad’s chest. With a blood splatter, he fell on the ground motionless.
“This won’t be enough to kill him. But it’s enough for now,” Kristina panted, going through Arad’s clothes and taking the key chain. She smiled, turning around to leave.
GAH! Arad rose from the ground with open arms, hugging Kristina from the back and jamming his teeth in her neck.
“GRWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Kristina screamed at the top of her lungs. [Flame cloak] And immediately covered her body in raging flames.
The flames ate away at Arad’s skin as he regenerated from drinking Kristina’s blood. It only took a few seconds for her to pass out and for the flames to calm down. After sucking every last drop of her blood, Arad opened his arms to let the dried husk fall.
“HAHAHAHA!” Arad started laughing, “I should have used this power before. The regeneration is way too good.” He then bent over and picked the key chains, spending a few minutes trying each key until he found the one for his shackles.
CLICK! Arad removed his shackles with a smile, ^Mom, can you hear me?^
[What happened? I feel like I was sleeping for a while.]
^Some people who call themselves the cult of the dragons used those weird shackles to capture me. They seem to completely block dragon power.^
[Cult of the dragons? Those radical idiots?]
^You know them?^
[Yeah, they are a bunch of people who once worshipped Tiamat, the chromatic dragon goddess. But now they are mostly focused on turning dragons into dracoliches.]
^Dracoliches? What’s that?^
[Powerful draconic undead monsters. The cult seduces dragons with the premise of immortality and unrivaled power, but they sneak curse magic to control those dragons who made a deal with them.]
^I see.^ Arad thought, ^Since I drank the dragon’s blood, how much power do I have?^
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[Name: Arad Orion][Race: Void Dragon][Class: Draconic Mage]
[Level: 5/20][Exp: 5600/14000][Sub-class: Void Knight]
[Age stage: Wyrmling] [Nine years and two months and five days.]
[Stats]
[Available stat points: 1] ｂｏ𝚟𝚕.
[Available skill points: 0]
[Strength: 15] [Agility: 20] [Constitution: 14]
[Magic: 20] [Intelligence: 20] [Wisdom: 20]
[HP: 135/135][MP: 132/150][SP: 145/150]
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[Skills]
[Claws]
[Bite]
[Tail slam]
[Wing Slam]
[Glide]
[Innate Skills]
[Frightful presence]
[Void Magic: The ability to use void magic to for the elements out]
[Void Power: the ability to wield Void itself]
[Alternate Form: Shifting from a draconic to a humanoid form]
[Breath Weapon: A blast of all-consuming void]
[Void Biology: The void dragon is alive, but not made of flesh and bones.]
[Void Eyes: The void eyes can detect magic, see in the dark, and detect invisible creatures.]
[Void Existence: The void dragon itself is made of the infinite void. It’s aware of everything in contact with itself. It also allows the dragon to store items within its infinite stomach pouch where neither time nor space exists]
[Void Walk: The Void Dragon can teleport up 40 meters to a spot it can see.]
[Resistance]
[All Elements]
[Immunities]
[Time]
[Space]
[Magic]
Non
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[Vampire skill tree: 5 Skill points]
Tier one skills:
[Night affinity][Locked(Cost one point to unlock)]
[Blood-sucking bite][Unlocked]
[Blood magic: Faint spell][Unlocked]
[Silent Step] Your walking is completely silent. [Locked(Cost one point to unlock)]
[Blood scent] You can smell creatures’ blood from afar, determining if they are alive or dead and guessing how much their blood can heal [Locked(Cost one point to unlock)]
Tier two skills:
[Blood magic: Eyes Burst] Cause the small veins in the target’s eyes to explode, blinding them. This skill can affect people who could resist. [Locked(Cost two skill points to unlock)]
[Thralls-cursing bite] Sucking a creature’s blood dry will cause them to rise into a zombie after a minute. Those thralls die after half a day. You can have a maximum of three. [Locked(Cost two skill points to unlock)]
[Resting Coffin] Sleeping in a coffin grant one HP regeneration per second for the next 12 hours. But, if stabbed with a wooden stake that has been drenched in holy water while sleeping in the coffin, you die. [Locked(Cost two skill points to unlock)]
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[Wyrmwolf skill tree]
Tier one skills:
[Bestial aspect][Unlocked]
[Wild instincts][Unlocked]
[Moon rage][Locked]
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After reading his stats, Arad smiled, ^I see. [Resting Coffin] mitigate the negative effects of [Night affinity] But it grants people a condition to instantly kill me. Does this mean if I got strong enough, I could have enough skills for them to fix each other weaknesses?^
[Probably, but I suspect that you would still have a major weakness from them. The best scenario is for you to find a weakness that is hard to exploit and hide it.]
^The choices are obvious then,^