This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!-Chapter 39 - 38: Research Results

In the Water Pool Dragon Nest, Udi took the wooden box from the spatial bag and retrieved the piece of beast hide that emitted a faint magical light.

This piece of beast hide is the carrier for the spell Zero-Ring Illusion: Secret Rune.

Though among spells it’s the lowest tier illusion, some spells cannot be judged solely by their level but by their effects and function.

When used well, even a zero-ring illusion can yield better results than a five or six-ring spell.

And Secret Rune is just such a special spell.

[Zero-Ring: Secret Rune]

Magic Effect: Marks a magic rune on objects (including organisms), enabling a certain connection with the owner despite long distances.

Although this spell can easily be cracked by a caster whose magical mastery surpasses its own, it remains an extremely useful spell.

It’s a spell that many mages frequently use even after reaching legendary status.

Though Udi plans to specialize in water magic, such useful spells must be learned if possible.

Unfolding the beast hide, Udi stared with eyes of a dragon, studying the critical spiritual nodes required to construct the Secret Rune spell.

A one-ring spell is constructed from a minimum of five spiritual nodes, whereas this zero-ring illusion requires four spiritual nodes.

The difficulty of learning it is already comparable to the simplest one-ring spells.

"Hoo~" Udi took a deep breath, forcing himself to diligently learn this spell.

Other than the magic-addicted dragons, other giant dragons really don’t enjoy learning spells.

Even if learning spells can enhance their own strength, this remains true.

It’s akin to the principle of studying in the previous life, where everyone understands that studying can make oneself stronger, improve future prospects, income, and change one’s life path. But how many can wholeheartedly throw themselves into study?

Few and far between!

Even basic spells like zero-ring or one-ring, their learning difficulty compared to book knowledge from the previous life is considered rather high; let alone higher-ring spells, that truly isn’t something ordinary beings can research and learn.

If Udi wasn’t a giant dragon, naturally endowed with extraordinary spiritual power, agile thinking, and able to continuously enhance his spiritual strength through cultivation and natural growth, thus making his mind even more agile and powerful, he probably wouldn’t withstand the high difficulty of learning spells.

It makes a dragon’s head hurt!

After studying for a while and barely grasping a rough outline of the Secret Rune spell, Udi chose to rest for a bit.

He diverted his attention elsewhere, immediately sensing the slow increase in the aura of many entities with weak connections to him.

"The Dragon Blood Transformation is almost complete," Udi muttered.

The Dragon Blood Transformation this time, besides enhancing productivity, Udi also approached it with a research and observational mindset.

Dragon Descendants are roughly divided into three levels, from the most potent Essence Blood Contract, to the secondary Scale Blood Contract, and the weakest Aura Soak.

The first two have the best effects; a giant dragon’s growth can to some extent influence the dragon descendant’s bloodline through the contract, boosting the growth of its underlings. Moreover, with a perfected contract, the giant dragon wields strong control over them, resulting in enormous betrayal costs.

The last type, ’Aura Soak’, merely involves being tainted by a giant dragon’s aura, dragon blood, and dragon scales, thereby acquiring the power of the Dragon Vein. As for the strength of the power acquired, it depends on the strength of the source giant dragon and the quantity of dragon blood and scales acquired. If the giant dragon is weak, the obtained power won’t be strong either, but with a substantial amount of dragon blood and scales, the power can be elevated to a significant level, even surpassing the benefits brought by the higher tier servant contracts to dragon descendants.

This kind of dragon descendant has a low floor, and the ceiling is determined entirely by whether the ’resources’ are in place.

And typically, the way a giant dragon mass-produces a dragon descendant legion is by using the last method.

After all, using a servant contract requires consuming a large amount of magic power within the body; the stronger the target, the more magic power is consumed. If the physical magic power is lacking over time, the growth speed of the giant dragon naturally slows down significantly, or even halts. Besides, if a giant dragon’s spirit isn’t robust enough, it can’t accept too many spiritual connections, or the dragon’s brain will become confused.

Saying so much, Udi actually just wants to see if these dragon descendants undergoing the lowest tier transformation can also, like Shiji, Mondo, and Kadan, benefit from the Banquet talent.

If they can....perhaps a fearsome monster army can be created.

If not, then it doesn’t matter. Their strength improvement at least enables them to hunt more quality prey for Udi.

"Hope they can bring me good news," Udi looked deeply, as if through rock walls and water pools, at those monster followers suffering the pain of Dragon Vein Transformation on the ground.

Shaking his head, Udi quickly redirected his thoughts back to delving into spells.

First, construct the Secret Rune symbol.

Time flew by in the pain but joy of Udi studying magic.

On the fifth day, Udi successfully mastered the beginner level of Zero-Ring Illusion: Secret Rune.

Above the sea of spirit, two gray transparent runes now floated.

On the fifteenth day, Udi finally halted the monotonous spell training. He decided to give himself a half-day holiday to unwind his dragon brain, which had been active for quite some time.

With a thought, his focus through spiritual connection descended upon Shiji.

In an instant, the view shifted to within the forest.

From Shiji’s first-person perspective, it was currently leading its tribe in a hunt.

The hunting target was a group of raptors. Although called dragons, raptors are actually just slightly stronger Level 1 beasts.

Raptors are small in size, with long and sturdy tails only about two meters long. Their second claws on each foot possess giant sickle-like talons, and the pair of slender hands in front also bear sharp claws resembling small knives, looking extremely dangerous.

In reality, to many beasts, this pack-dwelling, agile-type beast is indeed a formidable enemy.

"Huh~"

Udi’s expression suddenly shifted while spying on this battle.

He noticed that the twenty-some kobolds led by Shiji seemed profoundly altered.

In just half a month, these kobolds that underwent Dragon Blood Transformation grew from less than a meter tall to now generally around at least one meter two.

And lean muscles subtly emerged under scales, with their emanating aura considerably stronger.

Evidently, this is abnormal.

"The Banquet talent works on these dragon blood transformed followers too?" Udi grinned.

Very well.