Ashen God
Chapter 444 - 443: Dragon Above Dragons

Could it be because of the sudden change in the name of the Talent that brought about this transformation?" Zhang Yanhang thought carefully and felt that it indeed might be the case. Originally, he had a common Scroll Dragon Blood lineage, but now it had evolved with Bloodline Purification, turning from ’Ordinary Dragon’ to something elite among dragons. And since the hereditary Talent of the Scroll Dragon was closely related to spells, the magic strength had immediately become much stronger than before.

"Then looking at it this way, a change in the Talent name doesn’t mean there are no changes at all. Although the Attribute value bonus and Energy value limit enhancements didn’t change, the most important part, the Spell List, did indeed get a boost, which is truly great."

If possible, Zhang Yanhang hoped that the Scroll Dragon Bloodline could mutate a few more times later on, such as into something like the Dragon God Bloodline, where the special effect would allow one to obtain Second Ring Spells upon leveling up once, and when reaching SSS Quality, to directly unlock Thirteenth-Tier magic and shatter the whole world. Okay, he was just daydreaming.

"Now that the Spell List has been strengthened, this means that from now on, the chance of me obtaining useless spells will be even lower. Not that it wasn’t already low, but this kind of thing is indeed better the lower it is."

Among the Third Tier Spells, Zhang Yanhang remembered a spell from the same series as the First Tier Spell, the Tentacle Tongue. This spell was called Reptile Tongue, which could transform one’s tongue into an ultra-long thin snake.

Unlike Tentacle Tongue, which can only be used for close combat, the thin snake summoned by Reptile Tongue is at least ten meters long. With sufficient strength, one could summon a forty-meter serpent to bind and ’train’ an enemy from a distance.

By the way, the only attack method for the snakes summoned by this spell is close combat, such as biting the enemy with teeth or directly strangling them to death. From this, it’s evident that the spell is rather weak.

But fortunately, just like Tentacle Tongue, Reptile Tongue can also summon extra tongues (snakes). If several forty-meter serpents were to bind and ’train’ multiple people at the same time, the scene could still have a certain shock effect on the enemy, especially with female humanoid targets.

Well, maybe when you look at it that way, Reptile Tongue actually does have its merits, but it still fails to measure up when compared with spells like the Ma Youfu Micro Meteor. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang naturally resists the idea of allowing such useless spells to occupy a precious spot on his Spell List.

"Since all spells gained from upgrading the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to B Quality are useful, let’s continue to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to A Quality next."

Zhang Yanhang still had one hundred and nineteen Thin dragon veins left. After using twenty-seven of them to upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to B Quality, he now had ninety-two Thin dragon veins left, which was more than enough for the A Quality upgrade requiring eighty-one Thin dragon veins.

Eager to see the upcoming Fourth Tier Spells, Zhang Yanhang immediately counted out eighty-one blue-purple Small light balls and crushed them in batches.

[Detection of Subordinate Talent ’Young Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)’ of B Quality in your Talent list, would you like to merge Talents?]

"Yes, merge," replied Zhang Yanhang. He had two hopes for this upgrade. The first was that the Scroll Dragon Bloodline would mutate again, pushing up the bonuses like Energy value limit as much as possible since the current 7.5% was indeed somewhat too little.

The second hope was that, after the Scroll Dragon Bloodline was upgraded to A Quality, the Spell List could refresh with powerful and useful spells, preferably immediately refreshing some related to Invisibility and Silence, allowing him to quickly complete the remaining two-thirds of his small goal.

[Merging complete.]

[You have obtained the A Quality Talent ’Young Scroll Dragon (Bloodline Purification)’.]

When he saw the name of the newly upgraded A Quality Scroll Dragon Bloodline, Zhang Yanhang felt a bit disappointed. There wasn’t much change in the name, and it remained consistent with the previous naming style, but it was fine since he hadn’t held much hope, to begin with.

After all, expecting another mutation so soon after one just happened was a bit unrealistic and unlikely to happen.

"If B Quality was Young Scroll Dragon, now at A Quality it’s Young Scroll Dragon, continuing this trend, wouldn’t I be able to reach adulthood by the time I upgrade the Scroll Dragon Bloodline to S Quality? Even if not at S Quality, surely by SS Quality, I should be adult.

By then, I would have officially gone from a little dragon to an Adult dragon like Scroll Dragon Desilia, but thankfully I don’t have to support myself by selling blood immediately after reaching adulthood like he did. My parents are still quite good to me.

Come to think of it, it’s been quite some while since I last saw them. The last I checked their social media, they seemed to be traveling in the Northeast..."

Zhang Yanhang’s parents had inexplicably made a massive travel plan one month before the official start of the Spiritual Qi Recovery, bought an RV, and declared they wanted to drive across the whole Empire to fully enjoy the wonderful world for two.

Zhang Yanhang had thought about persuading his parents to give up this plan, but in the end, he couldn’t convince them, so he just let them go, and since then, they never returned home.

But Zhang Yanhang wasn’t too worried about his parents’ safety. After all, they updated their social media almost every week, and they sometimes still called him. Plus, the living expenses they sent to his account were always on time each month.

This was completely different from the five students from his dorm who went out to travel on the first of October and then just disappeared without a trace.

Those five had been missing for over half a month now, which would worry anyone, right? After living together in the same dormitory for a year and a half, there would naturally be some attachment.

By the way, Zhang Yanhang had already asked the counselor about the five roommates, but the counselor said he didn’t know their specific situation. Zhang Yanhang understood, given that the counselor managed ten classes and couldn’t possibly know the detailed situation of each student.

Later, Zhang Yanhang thought about asking their class teacher about his five roommates, but the teacher happened to be on leave and not at school that day, so it would have to wait until his return to the Main World to see if he could get in touch with the class teacher and find out information about his five roommates.

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