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All the Mana I could muster was concentrated and then crystalized inside of my chest, right next to my heart. And when I meant all, I mean it, all of it, 100% of my total Mana. Doing something so risky would usually make a person pass out instantly, and I felt it the moment my Mana hit absolute zero, my body felt slightly lethargic and exhausted, but I was overall fine.
My powerful Physique, my many Passive Skills, and several other factors allowed me to easily brush out what would make others pass out, even people at higher ranks too. But not me, I was just fine with it, with all of it!
FLASH!
A blue colored crystal materialized in my chest; it was done. Although I could easily enchant it now with other elements to make it, so the mana is always of a chosen element, that wasn't really good for me. I needed the attribute-less mana so I can conjure skills, elemental mana doesn't work with Skills, for some reason.
The small crystal released waves of Mana into the rest of my body, suddenly, it felt like all the mana I lost was regained, and now I even had a whole new reserve to fill, doubling my total Mana Reserves.
Ding!
[You have created a [Mana Core]: [Rank 1 (Initial Stage)]!]
[The Bonus Mana you've accumulated within the Mana Core is 1.800.000!]
[The Mana has been supplied back to your body, refilling your total Mana reserves back to full.]
"Hahaha... Yes, this is it."
I laughed rather viciously, the feeling of even more overwhelming power coursing through my veins made me feel excited and utterly joyous. With this amount of Mana, I could do much, much more than ever before.
The Magic Circles activated, and while my mother and grandma walked out into the graveyard to put some washed clothes to dry by the sun and were startled to see two giant monsters flashing brightly in front of them, they began evolving.
FLAAASH! FLAAASH!
"W-What's happening? Blake, what are you doing with those guys?" My mother asked me from afar.
"I'm evolving them. Tamed Monsters can also evolve on their own, did you know, mom?" I asked her with a smile. She was completely clueless about that because it wasn't even well known in this world.
Because everyone relied mostly on spirits, tamed monsters were rare, the art of taming had only gone so far, and even the summoners didn't really tamed monsters other than that one girl that had been mostly forgotten by now.
"W-What?!"
"ROOOOAARR!"
The roar of Ruby interrumpted my mother's words as his gigantic body was now even larger, almost reaching a hundred meters. The nearest neightbors who were several hundreds of meters away from our house walked out in a hurry to see a big crimson and black dragon, with golden scales decorating a few of its body parts roaring ferociously.
Any hint of youthfulness was no longer on his face, as Ruby completely looked like a mighty adult dragon, with a rough-looking face with a sharp chin, golden horns decorated his head, three pairs of them spiraling upwards and to the sides. He now had four golden eyes and a fifth crimson one in the middle of his forehead, and his tail turned into two long and sharp-ended ones.
His wings spread, revealing sharp golden claws, while crimson and black scales decorated the rest of his body, he released a mighty aura of authority and pride, like nothing this little former wyvern ever exuded.
"Congrats, Ruby, you've finally become an Actual Dragon."
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