Chapter 191: Dragoon Princess’s Armor of Crimson Glow.

Chapter 191: Dragoon Princess’s Armor of Crimson Glow.

Acquisition requirement fulfilled. [Scale-Dust Size Increase], [Fire Abnormality Effect: Dread] gained. 6100 SP remaining

Mutation acquired. Merging [Scale-Dust Size Increase], [Fire Abnormality Effect: Dread] into unique racial skill [Dreadflame Dragon]

Yeah, gliding is a non-issue, balancing is easy with favorable winds. Although, controlling it to match the power of the boosters, especially during erratic power increases and decreases, is difficult. Well probably get used to it over time, with more varied practice. An astute analysis came from manager mind the first of my parallel mind on the control of my scale-dust boosters and the effects [Tailwind] had on my flying capabilities.

I was currently practicing my flying over a forest while my parallel minds were analyzing my training, learning the feel of it so we could fly more efficiently in the future. Of course, just like the last time I did this, I wasnt trying to act overly smart here, my parallel minds and I were simply getting our body used to flying with boosters and [Tailwind]. It felt nostalgic. The last time I did flying training was in the Belzac forest, almost a year ago.

Now I was practicing it inside the Emerald-Flare Forest Dungeon on its ninth floor. Wind was surrounding my body like an [Air Shield], ejecting wind in whatever direction I wanted as my parallel minds controlled [Tailwind] using [Fluid Cast]. A constant stream of fire was being blasted out from the gaps of my wings scales, just strong enough to propel me forward at a decent pace.

With my [Bonepecker Bladeclaw Spear] that I bought from Kraftja and Ogni out and ready, I was flying over the forest of floor nine, eyeing the ground like a drone. With [Detection Sensor], I was able to sense the approach of a group of signals five dots were running rather orderly in front of a horde erratically moving behind them.

Shit, theyre getting faster! When I heard that statement, a group of five young men jumped out from the shade of a group of trees, with a horde of knopbries following hot on their heels. I turned my body around, following the two groups from the sky through the gaps of trees. Clutching my spear, I was biding my time through the constant shouting the boys were doing, completely frightened by the giant mushroom monsters.

That was when we struck.

A crimson flash dashed out of the bushes, a split second after the boys passed it. As they turned their heads around, a brown glow appeared on the flashs hand, quickly constructing a large diagonal [Terra Wall] to cut off the knopbries sight, stalling them. As if they were lemmings, the knopbries collectively rushed towards the left flank of the wall, but that was where she waited for them.

Wind Slash! Wind Slash! Two blades of wind shot out from the young womans hand, slicing two knopbries heads off. As their decapitated corpses were trampled by the horde, the young woman in crimson armor dashed forward, cutting down a third monster with her blade while her blue hair fluttered in the frantic start of this skirmish.

Dragoon Jump.

Stopping my boosters for a moment, I turned my body around, aiming my head towards the ground. Muscles in my legs began to tense up the moment I thought of this new unarmed ability of mine. I bent my knees as I used [Air Walk] to create a platform for my feet to stand on, readying my spear for battle in the process. Like an eagle singling out a target from above, I chose one of the knopbries in the horde as my target.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via Ñøv€l-B!n.

With a sonic boom, I blasted off, stomping the air with power and scale-dust boosters.

Knarrrghh! In the next second, all I could hear were death rattles and the explosion of rocks underneath my spear. Knopbies were sent flying from the shockwave of my landing, making easy targets for my partner-in-crime to cut anything flying over to her.

Fuck! But all I could do was curse out in exasperation.

Hestia?! the girl in beautiful armor suddenly cried out.

I turned towards the girl, tears figuratively flowing from my eyes. Ellaine! I broke my spear!

I was too ambitious. Far too ambitious. In my attempt to mimic Yorshkas dragoon attack, I thought I was copying every motion she did to a tee I was even being original by replacing the [Wind Blast] part with my jet engine. Unfortunately, I forgot the most important part: A good spear.

Admittedly, my jump was a bit too strong. My ears were ringing a bit from that sonic boom, my body ached from the sheer physics applied with this attack, and my [Draconic Barrier] had to drain some of my Mana to prevent my body from taking damage upon crashing onto the ground. Nevertheless, I not only had a body sturdy enough to endure this attack but also regenerative powers to heal any damage in seconds. Sadly, my spear had none of these traits.

As I held up my ruined spear, only the half behind my hand was in a fine condition; the rest of the weapon, from the spear tip down to the shaft, everything broke into pieces.

Thats what happens when you drop down like that. I barely saw you fall. Of course a spear made from normal bones and a lightweight metal like andurium would break under so much pressure! Ellaine scolded me as she continued her slaughter.

Four days. It took exactly four days, just as Grimnir had said. After Yorshka and Saoris students left us, our party went to Grimnir working inside the Tunging Hammers smithy to check up on him. There, he presented us with a fine set of armor made specifically for Ellaine. Made using a few of the rachonoid queens materials, my dragon scales and obsidian, and Saoris fenrir fur, it was the epitome of what Aurora could currently produce with the materials we had.

As Yorshka not only had experience as a dragoon but also as a lifelong companion to a griffin knight, namely her husband Farron, her suggestions combined with Grimnirs experience crafting dragonewt armor turned Ellaines armor into not only a work of art, but, also a piece of equipment able to elevate her defensive stats far beyond what her body could provide, perfect for her future goals.

Dragoon Princesss Armor of Crimson Glow

Armor made using [Molten Core Rachonoid], [Young Sunfang Dragon], and [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir] materials, fused together during the blacksmithing process with eoriant and voldunna metal. Blood of a Kargryxmor dragon was used to douse the armor pieces, granting the wearer enhanced combat stats during battle, which lends a crimson glow from the scales. Extremely resistant to any source of fire damage, although weak against water-based elements.

Intelligence Power: 257

Vitality Power: 1245

Wisdom Power: 1098

Skill: [Sundering Resistance Lv. 8] [Piercing Resistance Lv. 6] [Crushing Resistance Lv. 8] [Inferno Resistance Lv. 5] [Lava Resistance Lv. 5] [Terra Resistance Lv. 3] [Dark Resistance Lv. 8] [Water Weakness Lv. 5] [Mana Conductor Lv. 8] [Mana Efficiency Lv. 8] [Aerial Fighter Lv. 8] [Mid-Air Maneuvering Lv. 8] [Mounted Fighter Lv. 8] [Durability Loss Reduction Lv. 10] [Wind Pressure Nullification] [Explosion Pressure Nullification] [Battle Frenzy] [Silk Claw Bindings] [Sorcerers Power Lv. 3] [Prime Vigor Lv. 5] [Sages Wisdom Lv. 5]

The armor was designed to fit a flying knight, similar to Sir Antonios or Ellaines fathers armor, but with a distinct dragoon touch courtesy of Yorshka.

Yorshka, due to her more up-front and personal fighting style, had designed her own armor to fit the image of a fully defensive paladin conveniently, it made her pass as a knight of Aurena rather than a dragoon knight and was meant for solo diving into a battle. She had the reflexes and strength to keep the mobility focused battle style of a dragoon despite being in heavier armor, and in combination with her silver powder increasing her defense further, it let her strike like a meteor whenever she dragoon dived an enemy

Since Ellaine was a human, lacking the natural physical stats of a beastman, Grimnir made her armor more similar to a dragoons while keeping the Artorian knight appeal. As such, her armor was built lighter in order to allow her to dodge attacks more efficiently while on foot, and to synergize well with her goal of becoming a griffon knight.

As it was a dragoon-inspired armor, my dragon scales were added lavishly onto her suit, giving it that distinctive crimson shine. Similar to using chainmail as the second layer of protection, Grimnir created a more refined scale-mail for Ellaine to wear underneath her armor. The gauntlets and pauldrons especially looked spiky as the scales were added onto them not fused, like the scale mail Grimnir made during the blacksmith competition, but just layered while her breastplate had monster materials alloyed with the metal to create it, looking elegant and sleek.

The scale-mail she had flowed down to her thighs, looking a bit like a mini skirt, although Grimnir called it a hauberk. To better protect her legs, a fauld with large scale-looking tassets were added to protect her waist and thighs. Her leg armor also included pants made from troll leather resilient against slash and striking attacks but flabby enough for elasticity to ease movements and scale-fused alloy cuisses, greaves, and sabatons which made up her leg armor.

As an additional piece, Ellaine also wished for a cape, explaining her father wore one on his armor. Capes are cool was everybodys consensus on it, well, everybody but Grimnir who shouted Capes are impractical! He still relented to Ellaines wish at the end of the day, but added a failsafe which could be activated using mana to detach it.

Outside of the elegance and fashion statement the cape brought to Ellaines armor, it was mostly made out of Saoris shed white fur and the rachonoid queens spider silk. Unsurprisingly, the silk of a B rank raid boss monster was quite durable and resistant against conventional weapons, and with Saoris fur, the cape could shield quite effectively against fire and dark elemental attacks.

However, since we had a limited supply of spider silk, repairing the cape was pretty impractical compared to repairing her armor. Corrosive obsidian, voldunna ore, and my scales were readily available. Most likely, we would have to replace the spider silk with Saoris mana threads eventually, but for now, the cape could act as a shield.

Hmph. Elven, dragonewt, and human armor always have a certain artistic appeal to them, while we tazongs value each others armor by how much metal we can carry around. Grimnir commented when he handed Ellaine her armor. He sounded grumpy about how much importance dragonewts and humans placed on armors appearance, but he had a wide smile on his face when he said it. It helped that his beard hadnt grown back yet, making it easy to notice.

Now, to the combat specs, it was without a doubt incredible. Intelligence Power, Vitality Power, and Wisdom Power'' were far higher than what the Black Orcs voldunna armor gave, and as they added these stats onto the wearers base stats, they boosted Ellaines defensive stats to the point that they rivalled Saoris and my own defensive stats. In our moderately humanized forms, anyway. The power of good equipment.

The skills were probably the most interesting part. Ellaines armor was made to support her while she flew around on her griffon in the air, and Grimnir made sure they would work. Ellaine hasnt gotten her griffon yet, but she was already fully prepared when it happened. Now, aside from these normal skills, there were two among the list which caught my attention: [Battle Frenzy], and [Silk Claw Bindings].

Silk Claw Binding

A skill obtained through the silk glands of a spider-type monster, creating a sticky binding around the claws using mana. Increases grabbing power

Battle Frenzy

The battle will of the Black Tyrant Dragon Kargryxmor coursing through his descendants blood, tamed to do the bidding of the bloods carrier. During battles worthy of the users focus, stats and resource regeneration will increase

The [Silk Claw Binding] was a simple feature; it made her gauntlets super sticky if she let her mana flow through them. It made it hard to disarm Ellaine while giving her a better grip on her mounts reins, preventing her from falling off them while in the sky. Accepting some of the rachonoids silk glands was a good choice.

[Battle Frenzy], on the other hand, was a great surprise. Yorshka, who had suggested this idea, reminded me of the power of the blood of a true dragonkin, of how potent it was for alchemy. Since I already gave Saori some of my blood, I might as well double-down and give Ellaine a dragon blood boost, also.

Now, up until now, I thought [Battle Frenzy] was just an annoying piece of shit I had to deal with due to my bloodline Kargryxmor was called the Black Tyrant of the Skies, after all. However, apparently, part of a Kargryxmor whelps education was to learn how to control their bloods battle tendency and harness it for their strength.

Ever since I evolved into a [Young Sunfang Dragon], I havent had any issues with [Battle Frenzy] thanks to the dragons calmer nature. While I was able to control [Battle Frenzy] this way, this frustrating tingling never disappeared completely, so I still needed to fight. It was good to know I could turn this dreadful effect to work for me, though.

Damnit. I recovered the pieces of my spear and threw them into my storage before snapping my fingers, igniting the small amount of scale-dust ejected from my wings during the landing, flying around the area. Explosions set my surroundings on fire the moment a root spear was shot at me. Youre not the same barkwraith, but you sure like getting set on fire, just like the other one.

Hestia, Ill take care of the knopbries! Stop the barkwraith from escaping! Ellaine shouted before swinging her sword to gut something.

I nodded before grabbing the root spear wiggling around trying to extinguish the flames from the scale-dust. I pulled on it, causing a figure to appear behind a tree and fall on the ground. It was the target of our Quest: the barkwraith of floor nine. Now that it was finally in my sight, I let go of its arm.

Pulling it back through the ground, the barkwraith severed its arm off before the flames could spread to the rest of its body. It stared at its shortened arm, unable to hide its confusion. Since barkwraiths had impressive healing, it probably was baffled that it wasnt able to recover from the damage, but that was cause it was affected with [Dread Burn].

Mutations. Similar to how Saori was able to buy the Job skill [Penumbral Armament], I could finally buy [Crimson-Scaled Dreadgiver]s Job skills from my SP shop as mutations. I bought both [Scale-Dust Size Increase] and [Fire Abnormality Effect: Dread] for 1500 SP each, delighted to learn that leveling up certain Jobs allowed me to acquire cool skills for SP. This really made me happy when I decided to be more stingy with it.

Since my scale-dust now could prevent people from healing, I just became a hard counter against healers. With the barkwraith now distracted and distressed from its condition, I jumped over to it and grabbed its neck.

Yo dayo. Snap. I crushed its neck.

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]s Job [Hellblade] has risen from [Level 5] to [Level 11]

The dragonslayers werent the ones pursuing Hestia.

An old acquaintance was.

A note from AbyssRaven

Ellaine's suited up in her friend's body parts. Would sound more morbid, if Hestia and Saori weren't alive.

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