CH.478 A Week of Recovery

CH.478 A Week of Recovery

Surprisingly, I wasn’t called to meet with the Goddess. I was honestly expecting to get yelled at, but I didn’t. Maybe the System Agents and the Goddess realized that what happened with Lady Janina was a mistake. How should I have known that Ra can actually almost kill her?

But luckily she didn’t die, and even better, she is awake, so I can have a little chat with her.

“How are you feeling?” I started what I knew would be an awkward conversation.

“Good. Missing my scales, but they’ll grow back.” Lady Janina responded.

She looked a lot better than she did yesterday, her ‘skin’, which I’ll call skin until her scales reform, was looking nice and healed, no burns left anywhere. Her scalp had also healed, and some of her golden hair had begun to grow back. I wonder why the hair grows back faster than the scales?

“That’s nice to hear. ... I guess I should apologize.”

“For what? I got injured because I’m weak.”

“I should have called Ra off before it got to that point. It wasn’t a fight to the death.”

“For your monsters it is. Yes I know they can come back from the dead, but it still is.” Lady Janina reasoned. “... How is the coast? I hope they are behaving.”

“... I may have kind of taken command of it. I chose a few of the older dragons to take commands of different sections while you are recovering. I hope that is fine with you.” I told her.

“Of course. It is how I assign things when I leave the Coast. ... but there is something more bothering you, isn’t there?”

“... I got two System titles. One is Dragon King, the other is Ruler of the Dragon Coast, but it does have a temporary tag.”

“Ah! A dragon king! I’ve never met one. There was one during my predecessor's time, but never one with me.”

“... should have guessed something like that.”

“What do you mean?”

“Of course some super rare once in five-thousand years title would just drop onto my lap.”

“You do seem to be that kind of person.” Lady Janina said, as she chuckled a bit.

“Yeah. Could do without all of the issues that come with them. ... but let’s talk about the coast a bit more. Do you approve of what I did there?”

“Why wouldn’t I? As long as they don’t start infighting, it will be fine with me. ... I suppose I should thank you for it. There hasn’t been a single territory battle since you started visiting. They are able to blow off the excess energy with your summons, so they don’t challenge each other.”

“Glad to be of service then. ... did the dragons really fight that often?”

“A lot of them did. You know that when we are young, we use the dragon avatars to go to human settlements and live like humans for some time.”

“Yeah, I’ve heard of that.”

“But after we come back from those adventures, the coast life gets boring, so a lot of the returning dragons start fighting each other, because it is the most fun they can have.”

Because of it, and the info we got from Dragonic Knight and Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord, we were now more than set to make some dragon scale armor.

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I left designing Ria’s armor to the girl herself, Agunan and Wilma, while Lady Janina and I worked on my stuff. And not just because mine will be made of Lady Janina’s scales, but also because she said she wanted to design the armor of the new Dragon King.

After the armor designing, Lady Janina wanted to show me a secret technique of hers. I didn’t even ask, she just said that since I’m now a Dragon King, I deserve to know it.

And oh boy it was a nice technique, because it explained how Lady Janina can win against some of my OP monsters, but still ‘lose’ to Ra.

Yeah I know she didn’t technically lose, because Ra died while she survived, so technically Lady Janina won with heavy, if not lethal, injuries.

But back to Lady Janina’s technique.

“I suppose you could call it Power Copy or Power Imitation or whatever you really wanted to. I don’t really have a name for it, because I never needed one.” Lady Janina began. “I made it when I saw the Hero and his party. They had powerful armor and equipment, boosting their power beyond what their body can naturally do. Even temporary power gains from skills, like your Summoner's Unity skill. So of course I wanted something like that.

So I learned how to boost myself by the same amount as what my opponent had boosted themselves. It is especially effective against some of your monsters, as they rely entirely on boosted power. Be it that serpentine fire dragon, Uria, or the great soldier of Obelisk. They both boost their power beyond what their bodies can really handle, so they practically radiate the excess energy, which is easy for me to grasp and use to boost myself as much as they boost themselves.”

“... so that is how you win against a 10k Uria, but lose to 9k Ra. Ra doesn’t boost its attack in the same way, instead it just turns the boosted attack into original attack, which you cannot copy.”

“Yes. But that isn’t the only reason I lost. There is also the dragon that fought me before the Phoenix Dragon. Slifer you called it, right? The weakening attacks it uses are quite debilitating, and I hadn’t fully recovered from them when I took one the Phoenix Dragon. Had the Phoenix Dragon not been as powerful as it was, or had it radiated excess power that I could have grasped, the fight would have gone differently.”

“Alright. ... I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. It was my own hubris that caused it. I should have realized that you now have Divine-Beasts that don’t rely on boosted attack since that Slifer Dragon didn’t. I should have asked for a rest break after the first match.”

“Yeah, I guess Slifer’s effect doesn’t count as boosted attack either.”

“Be it boosted or not, it doesn’t let any of it outside of its body. It can handle all that power.”

“... maybe if I had more cards in hand it wouldn’t be able to?”

“We can test that later, because for now, I want to teach you this technique. It may not be the best against humans, because most humans wear armor at most, and copying that boost is challenging. But against monsters you might run into in the wild, and more importantly, with your monsters, it will be very effective.”

“Yeah. I guess if I can copy a 10k attack boost, that would be nice.”

“Let us hope that you can.”

By the end of our training session, I got the basics of this technique down. I think I’ll call it Psych Up, based on that move from the Pokemon games that copies your opponent’s stat buffs.

I could now sense the ‘boosted energy’ that leaks out, which is already nice since I can feel when opponents boost themselves, but copying it, yeah, that is still in the works. But I’ll get there.

Also, this isn’t a skill or anything. It is all done with Draconic Magic. And Lady Janina was quite impressed by the power boost my Draconic Magic got because of my Dragon King title. Even if she said I cheated a little.

In total, Lady Janina spent about a week on HomeBase recovering. She ended up falling in love with the mana hot spring, because she could use nearly unlimited magic while bathing in it to boost her scale growth. Because of that, HomeBase for the first time ever used over 50% of the daily produced mana. Normally we use maybe 20% on a high usage day for comparison.

Because of all of that mana, Lady Janina had regrown her scales and she was going to return to the Dragon Coast tomorrow. It will be sad to see her go, but it was nice to have her here, even if it was just for a week.