Deep withing the Forest of Tob
Near the Forest Dragon's body
[The Spell Polymorph is weakening due to contact with dragon's blood]
'What is Polymorph? It sounds like a transformation. Poly, I think means many, and morph means changing into another form or something. So does not mean I'm currently under this spell's influence and I'm reverting back to my original body? It doesn't make sense, as far as I know, I was always human,' Dough thought as he is having a mini mental breakdown.
"Can't believe you manage to one-shot that dragon. I guess it was more scared of you since he kept trying to swat you away," Brain said as he laughs after having landed next to Dough. He never expected to witness a 'human' slay a dragon in one shot. This gives him the motivation to try and catch up with Dough, even if it took him one-hundred years to achieve it.
"Amazing master Dough is," Hamsuke said as she also lands on the ground next to the two. During the fight, she was mostly on the run the whole time trying to dodge all the dragon's attack since he went and focus on her more for some reason, probably because he thought she would be easier to hit since she's so big.The dragon only manages to graze her, but even that caused a lot of damage.
"I-m-pos-ble," Ryraryus states as he trembles from what he just saw, never expecting the group to slay the dragon. He was almost going to leave them to their death, but before he could go through with his action, that human managed to kill the dragon in one shot.
While all of this was happening, Dough was stuck in his own little world. He realized just how immature and arrogant he was, expecting to face a dragon off after having gained all that power he did not deserve. He was just a normal kid before this, never really experiencing too much of a hardship. Right now, he felt the need for power more than anything else.
Dough starts to walk towards the dragon's corpse, not realizing that all the blood on him is completely gone. The others watch him as he moves toward the dragon, expecting him to harvest it.
The moment Dough is next to the dragon, he puts his hand onto a hole on the dragon that was still dripping blood, and he was going to drink it again. Before he could do that, all the blood from the dragon seems to get absorbed into his body.
[Time remaining until complete draconification: 29 days]
[Polymorph spell weakening]
'I see,' Dough thought, realizing what he now must do in order to make the process quicker. He doesn't care if he has to give up his humanity in order to gain more power. Well, he was not even a human to begin with so what does it matter.
Dough uses the sword in his hand to slash open a giant hole in the dragon's body, allowing the blood to fly out of it like a fountain, raining down onto him.
[Time remaining until complete draconification: 28 days]
[Polymorph spell weakening]
...
After a minute of dragon blood continuously pouring on him, his body starts to feel like it's growing. He is getting bigger, Scales starts to appear all over his body, and everything seems to be getting smaller.
Before long, Dough completed his transformation, having fully become a black dragon.
[Draconification complete]
[Polymorph spell dispelled]
[Relearned the Polymorph spell]
[Updating the player's panel]
[Regained a Racial Level in Young Dragon]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Dragon's Scale I: Reduces all incoming damage by 35%. Nullifies all attack below level 30.]
[Regain Active Racial Skill- Draconic Breath Attack I: Unleashes a devastating elemental(user's choice) breath attack that deals 300% of User's Magic Attack Stat. Use 7/day.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Draconic Mana Furnace I: The mana present in the user's body rages violently, allowing the user to cast magic without chant and is 70% more efficient.]
[Draconic Mana Furnace I replaces Mana Heart.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Draconic Aura I: Induces fear and pressure to surrounding environment and anything in it.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Time Resistance I.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Poison immunity.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Instant Death Resistance I.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Elemental Immunity.]
[Regain Passive Racial Skill-Dragon's Claw I.]
[Draconic Sense replaces Mana Sense]
...
There were many messages that Dough found too bothersome to read right now {I don't want to write it. Also, no clue what a dragon should have but they are pretty overpowered}. He has an more important matter at hand right now. Like explaining to his group on how he became a dragon.
"UHHHHH, I CAN EXPLAIN," Dough started say, even though he has no clue how to explain how a human suddenly became a dragon. He can't just say that he did not know either, they would never believe him. Would they?
"I see. I get it now," Brain said as if he had figured it all out.
"You were a dragon who was trying to experience what it was like to live as a human. That's why you don't know how to survive at all in the wild or how to cook. It all makes sense now. And the reason you keep getting stronger constantly was just your natural draconic power. You probably just started to use more of it when you want it," Brain said as he does not really seem bothered by the fact that Dough is a dragon.
"YUP, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT, BRAIN," Dough said as he wonders if he is facing the same situation as a certain skeleton does with his npcs. He'll just let Brain create the narrative because he can't think of any good excuses.
"Hamsuke is honored for having a dragon as her master, she is," Hamsuke spoke, accepting of the situation easily.
The three then looks toward the naga, who was sweating bullets right now and wondering how he could get out of this situation. Dough does not want to kill him, even though it would give him some good experience point, because he has helped them. Even though he did not participate in the fight, it was understandable since a sane creature would never dare engage a dragon in a straight fight. Dough then just told Ryraryus that he could leave, as long as he does not eat humans again. Of course, Dough does not know if he will follow his order, but he also does not want to kill a intelligent creature without any reasons.
"Get on. We are going back to Carne Village," Dough states as he lowers his body for both Hamsuke and Brain to climb on. He has decided not to hide his identity, at least to the villigers. After housing him for a couple of days, they at lease deserve to know he is a dragon. If they reject him, he will leave, but Enri probably won't reject him, that little angel.
It has already been two days since they first set off, and in Dough's opinion, it went extremely well, besides the part where Brain and Hamsuke almost died.
When they reached the edge of the forest, Dough spotted a band of monsters composed of ogres and goblins. In order to test out his new breath attack, he will let these creatures become his guinea pigs. Besides, they are getting too close to the village. It must be because Hamsuke is gone from her nest, making the monsters feel like they can claim that territory for themselves.
Dough, careful as to not throw those on his back off, prepares a breath attack, inhaling all the air from the surrounding and his chest becomes bigger. He chose fire as his choice of breath attack, even if burns a some parts of the forest, he will put it out with water. Actually, that might flood the forest. Change of plans, he's going to use light. Hopefully it is not too destructive.
As he fully charges his attack, which took 5 seconds to charge, he unleashes it upon those poor creatures. All they saw was a blinding light, not even registering that it was an attack, before they all disappeared, leaving a huge crater, 50 meters in diameter, behind.
Brain and Hamsuke, who were on his back, were shocked by the pure power and destructive power of the attack. Brain especially, since he aims to become the strongest swordsman the world has ever seen. He is glad he got a dragon to help him achieve that goal.
Dough then headed for the village, which was not that far away so they got there in a couple of minutes.
The moment Dough reached the village, flying in the sky, he saw that all the villigers were running into their houses, expecting that to protect them from a dragon. He expected this, but he hopes that they accept who he is. The Re-Estize Kingdom is not known for their discrimination of other races, only the Theocracy, so he has a higher chance of being accepted here, especially out here in this remote place where the influence of the kingdom is scarce.
As near the ground and lands, Brain and Hamsuke got off his back and onto the ground.
"Brain, would you explain to the villagers what happen?" Dough asked, having learned how to lower his voice a little so that it does not make such a load sound.
"Sure, I'll be right back," Brain stated as he walks towards John's house and knocks on it. It is better for a Brain to explain what happen since his voice did change, making it harder for the villagers to recognize him. After explaining to the family what was going on, Enri was the first to come out and rushed towards the dragon.
"IS IT REALLY YOU, BROTHER DOUGH!?" Enri shouted as she excitedly starts circling Dough's dragon body.
"Yes, Enri. It is me. This is my real body, sorry for lying to you," Dough said as he kind of did not lie since this is his true body, just that he did not know it at that time.
"YOU'RE SO COOL AND AWESOME!! CAN YOU TAKE ME TO FLY!!?" Enri said eagerly, perfectly praising Dough at the same time as requesting something from him, trying to get sugar coat him into accepting her request.
"Sure, Enri. Get on," Dough said as he lowers his body down onto the ground so that little Enri could get on. After struggling for a while, she finally manages to climb onto his back. Hopefully by the time they are back, Brain explained the situation fully to the villagers. Yup, that's right, Dough left Brain all the work and is planning to secretly get away for a while.
{Slice of Life element, you can skip this, just making more words so I can hopefully get on the rank thingy or something}
Dough then took off carefully as to not let Enri fall. They fly around the village, doing many circles around it before taking off towards the Forest of Tob, making sure to take it as to not make Enri fall. Even if she falls, Dough is confident that he can catch her. He also got the spell Mass Fly just in case anyway. That was probably a safer option to use.
As they fly above the forest, Enri was amazed at the view. She can't believe how exhilarating and exciting it was to fly and explore new places.
Right now, Dough is just enjoying the peace. The wind crashing against his face felt nice and cool. Just when he was about to go into deep thought, Enri interrupts him.
"Hey, take me up higher," Enri says, which with the current wind speed they are facing, would of been difficult for a normal human to hear, but since he is now a dragon, he heard it perfectly.
"Hold on tight then," Dough stated as he prepares to fly up, giving Enri enough time to hold on to his scales. Just in case though, he is going to learn a couple of spells just to make sure she does not fall. At least, from the name of the spell, it seems like it. He then casted Wind Resistance, cold resistance, and Strength on Enri so she could better deal with the altitude and get a better grip.
Dough then proceeded to fly up at an angle. The higher they got, the thinner the air becomes. After a while, Enri started to have a little trouble breathing, so he stops. The both of them then looks down, realizing how far up they are.
"Everything seems so small up here," Enri says as she sat on top of Dough's head, looking down.
"Yeah, it is," Dough replied, lost in thought as he watches the cloud pass by.
"It's kind of scary being this high up," Enri says, a little scare because of the height but she trusted Dough enough to catch her if she falls so, she is not really that worried. Dough then proceeded to learn and cast the spell Lion's Heart in order for Enri to stop fearing.
"It might be fun to just dominate the world as a Dragon Emperor," Dough stats as he was lost in thought again, not really realizing what he just said.
Meanwhile Enri interpreted as him wanting to rule the world, which would be cool since she would be like his general or something. She then aims to help him with whatever she can do to help conquer the world, starting with the human kingdoms first.
After several minute, the two decided to head back down. Of course, during the flight down, Dough was not paying attention to where he was going and now, they are lost. In order to not panic Enri and waste time flying up again, Dough learned and casts the spell Hawk Eye, allowing him to see the edge of the forest. Reaching the edge allowed him to determine where the village was located and he flies towards that direction.
{Slice end}
After going near the village, the villagers were not as tense as they were the first time, but they were still a little scared since they, right now, are facing a dragon.
"Hi, it's me, Dough," Dough started off as he does not really know how to talk to them right now.
"Everyone! It's fine! It's just Dough," Enri said as she poked her head out from behind Dough's head, not really understanding why everyone was so tense. Dough is Dough, no matter if he is a dragon or human.
After Enri said that, everyone starts to calm down slowly. Most of them then slowly accepted the fact that Dough is a dragon and he was not that much different, besides a change in species. He is still that kind person who saved two of them while helping around the village.
Carne Village
Night Time
After everyone has gone to sleep, Dough then finally looks through the system's messages.
As he scrolls down, he found the Polymorph spell, which is a spell he got through his Dragon Racial Class. This spell basically allows him to transform from his dragon form into another race, but this will get rid of all the stats and skills he has gained in his Dragon Racial Class.
{I'm not even going to try and put up much system's messages anymore now since I can hardly keep track of it all}
Dough still decided to use the Polymorph spell, at least for now, to revert back into his human form. When he did that, he realizes that he was naked so he transforms back into his dragon form instantly. He should of bought extra clothes while in the city.
'I guess I will just ask anyone if they got a spare clothe for me, if they have any, tomorrow,' Dough thought as slowly lay down on the ground, trying to sleep.
Carne Village
Morning
Welp, Dough did not sleep at all last night since his mind was restless, though he did not feel any fatigue. He then asked around for spare clothe and the village chief seems to be the only one who has one. After putting the clothes in his inventory, he flies to the forest and changed into his human form. He then put the clothes on, though they are slightly bigger than his frame.
'I guess I'll just buy some new clothes from the city today. While I'm at it, I could also buy everyone in the village a pair of clothes. I mean, how expensive could it possibly be?' Dough thought as he plans his course of action. He then went back to the village.
{I know I'm prolonging this, but I got to get to fifteen with four zeros words to be eligible for the rankings. It is 15,000 words. You know?}
Brain and Dough Training Spot
Dough was sitting on the ground, just waiting. He does not know why, but he does not really know what to do right now. {Same}
Right now, he has the cracked sword in his hand, trying to get a feel for what it could possibly be.
"You decided to become a human again huh," Brain said as he enters the training ground.
"Yeah, being as a human made me realize how fragile they are," Dough said as he stands up and faces Brain.
"What kind of sword is that? It was powerful enough to slay that forest dragon in a single strike," Brain said as he questions Dough on the cracked sword he had in his hand.
"I don't know, but it seems to drain my stamina constantly when I use it," Dough said as he handed the sword to brain, who grabs it and tried to swing with it. The moment he swung the sword; it shattered with the strength he exerted.
...
Brain decided to hand the bladeless sword back to Dough. When Dough had the sword in his hand, it instantly drains a tiny drop of his stamina and all the sword shards on the ground retracted back, reforming the sword.
Dough then decided to learn the magic Appraise Item. When he used it on the sword, it did not tell him its rank, but there was many useful information. One such information was that it deals massive damage to evil creatures such as undead. It especially works well on demon. Another function of the sword is to render a demon's regeneration ineffective, absorbing their vitality when it struck a demon. When the demon is killed by the blade, the blade absorbs the demon's soul, powering up the blade and making it impossible for the demon's resurrection. {Don't check the abilities of the sword online. I just made a hypothesis on its abilities.}
The name of the sword is... The Thousand Demon Daggers.
[Shadow Assassin from Scissor Seven plays]
{Hopefully this is enough. Also I did not p?roof read this. So, Good Luck}
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Player Panel
Name: Dough
Alignment: 63 [Neutral-Good]
Race: Dragon
Talent: Natural Prodigy
Total Level: 28
Experience: 423,484.5/28,000(2,800)
Racial Class:
(Young Dragon level 1)
Job Class:
The Legendary Berserker(Genius) level 7(maxed)
High Sorcerer(Genius) level 10
Sword Saint(Genius) level 10
HP: 45.3 (47.3)
MP: 62.2 (64.2)
Physical Attack: 58.3 (60.3)
Physical Defense: 36.2 (38.2)
Agility: 49.2 (51.2)
Magic Attack: 40.1 (42.1)
Magic Defense: 40.1 (42.1)
Resist: 14.1 (16.1)
Special: 39 (40)
Total: 384.5 (401.5)
Passive Abilities: Legendary Physique, Battle Lust, (Draconic Sense), (Draconic Mana Furnace I), Sword Affinity, (Draconic Aura I), (Poison Immunity), (Instant Death Resistance I)...
Active Abilities: Challenger, Sword Resonance, Air Slash, (Draconic Breath Attack I)...
Spell Slot:16/140
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