Drawing Cards in the Middle Ages to Rise in Ranks-Chapter 353 - 42: Dragon Core Treasure

What is Losa’s strongest flame magic?

Undoubtedly, apart from the "Breath of the Giant Dragon" enhanced by the Half-Dragon Transformation, he has no real abilities that belong to him and can be showcased.

But during the casting process, he has to transform into a "Little Dragon Man," which really doesn’t look like a righteous character.

Losa instructed, "Later, no matter what happens, do not be shocked."

"Relax, what storms haven’t I seen?"

Anna was quite confident in her knowledge.

Many things, even if she’s cautious by nature and hasn’t seen firsthand, she’s read about in books—the Empire Library was her window to understanding the world.

To wizards, knowledge is power.

Those who become wizards by chance, or small-group wizards, might spend their lives only in the "Star Spirit Body" stage, considered apprentices by the school wizards.

Anna’s gaze showed a hint of expectation.

She hadn’t seen Losa’s true strength; previously, she only guessed based on his aura and the record of slaying the Tyrannical Dragon.

Losa hesitated no longer; the dragon bloodline within him started to surge, absorbing the dragon blood of the Earth Dragon, Sea Dragon, Fusion Monster, Tyrannical Dragon, Dragon Descendant, and the essence of the Destiny Black Dragon.

Its strength compared to the initial state was exponentially increased.

The terrifying dragon mighty swept out, transforming into a storm, blowing Anna’s long hair into the air.

The shadow behind Losa gradually elongated, expanded, transforming into a massive dragon shadow with a bone crown on its head, lingering behind him like a structure reaching sky and earth, with fierce fangs and shining black scale armor.

It didn’t combine with Losa’s "Dark Lord" aura, thus appearing more noble and elegant rather than the domineering, evil nature of a fused "Dark Demon Dragon."

Meanwhile.

The sound of bone cracking, and the bizarre sound of flesh proliferating, echoed in the enclosed space.

Losa’s figure started to grow taller, bursting through the linen shirt he deliberately changed into upon arrival, his eyes transformed into golden pupils, and black scale armor spread from his heart area across his cheeks.

On his head sprouted winding dragon horns, slightly shorter than the black dragon phantom behind him, unable to form the crown-like shape, yet looking exactly the same.

Moreover, a bloody rift tore open on his back, squeezing out a pair of broad flesh wings, but these wings were just for show, for he hadn’t mastered the ability to fly.

This was not because these wings were only decorative.

It’s simply because Losa couldn’t fly.

It’s not surprising; birds born with wings, if captured by humans for taming without their bird mother’s guidance, may also lose their ability to fly.

Anna widened her eyes in amazement, a hint of expectation mixed with realization—no wonder Losa was obsessed with hunting dragon species; the truth was, he was a Dragon Descendant like King Seleucus!

To a powerful wizard, a giant dragon is not a rare thing, and neither is a Dragon Descendant.

A weak Dragon Descendant, like Belian who drank the Dragon Blood Potion, was only slightly stronger than ordinary humans, lived longer, but in the Extraordinary World, it’s not worth mentioning.

Any slightly stronger wizard would have their unique methods of prolonging life, whether sinister ones, like drawing life force from the living, or trading with demons from the Abyss; the righteous ones could refine or purchase various magic potions.

If wizards had any choice, they would never opt to become Dragon Descendants to prolong life.

Even if they became Dragon Descendants, wizards often wouldn’t increase the concentration of dragon blood in their bodies anymore.

Because the path of the Dragon Descendant becomes harder as it progresses; humans have poor compatibility with dragon blood, and any carelessness could lead to being eroded by the Dragon bloodline and turning into a real dragon beast.

But Losa clearly transcends the conventional scope of Dragon Descendants.

"How did he manage not to lose control?"

Anna was puzzled; at this stage of the Dragon Descendant, the body is completely alienated, and it’s impossible to switch freely between human and dragon-transformed bodies like Losa.

At this stage, Dragon Descendants walk a tightrope, anytime they might fall into the abyss of losing control, and wouldn’t draw more dragon blood, which increases the risk of losing control.

In fact, many Ancient Dragons dwelling in distant mountains and forests are such creatures, completely transformed from Dragon Descendants into Dragon Species, as their thoughts are completely dragonized.

Anna continued to closely observe Losa.

Losa quietly felt the alienation of his body.

This was his first time exercising the Half-Dragon Transformation ability in this world, and the feeling was almost entirely consistent with his battle records.

He felt less influenced by the Dragon bloodline.

Losa thought briefly and realized it should be the effect of the "Destiny Black Dragon"; Eastern dragons belong to Auspicious Beasts, though not necessarily aligned with kindness and goodness, are evidently not the evil beasts like Western dragons.

The two are mutually neutralizing, reducing the burden on himself.

After the Half-Dragon Transformation, Losa could feel the closer connection with the treasure crafted using the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon.

He could almost faintly see the structure on it, the crisscrossing array patterns, the miniature spell models, and those auxiliary materials that seemed integrated but essentially lay on top of the Tyrannical Dragon’s heart as separate materials.

Therefore, his goal is to completely integrate these auxiliary materials with the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon.

Losa felt inspired and walked slowly towards the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon.

At this moment, the divinity of the King of Volcanoes had been fully stimulated; each step left a charred mark on the ground.

The temperature rose rapidly; in the blink of an eye, Anna felt as if she returned to the height of summer, wandering in the African desert.

Losa opened his mouth, his teeth became slightly sharper, a firelight glowed in his throat, and the temperature continued climbing rapidly, giving a sensation akin to being inside a volcano.

Anna timely erected a shield to isolate herself from the scorching heat waves.

Immediately.

A terrifying fiery pillar erupted, straight towards the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon.

In an instant, the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon seemed to come alive, began to throb, as the array patterns melted along with the auxiliary materials, imprinting onto it.

This progress is far faster than Anna imagined; at this point, it could actually stop.

But Anna immediately reminded, "Continue, don’t stop. This thing can’t be burned, the longer you calcine it, the higher its quality will be."

Although it can’t reach the level of a half-divine artifact.

After all, a true divine artifact is a rare item that even many deities in the Mythical Era couldn’t create. The heart of the Tyrannical Dragon has limited quality, and her, as a witch, her forging skills are far from being considered profound compared to craftsmen of the Mythical Era.

But half-divine artifacts and half-divine artifacts cannot be generalized.

A half-divine artifact is not a specific quality but a generic term for all divine creations. Randomly hunt a Totem God in an African tribe, and its idol left behind can be considered a half-divine artifact.

Compared to this, with the heart of the Tyrannical Dragon condensed with all its essences as the main body, supplemented by various precious materials, a Dragon Core Treasure painstakingly created by a prospective legendary witch, the difference is like night and day.

Losa heard Anna’s transmission without a bit of hesitation, continuing to maintain the output of flame.

He could clearly sense that as the flame calcined, his connection with this newly forged treasure deepened further, as if it was going to become one.

The system’s prompt sounded abruptly.

You are forging a powerful half-divine artifact, and you have the following three options to choose from:

One: Integrate it into your Shining Cross Sword, raising its quality to legendary, obtaining new traits while retaining its original characteristics.

Two: Maintain its current form, which can be embedded into any piece of equipment at any time. Depending on compatibility, it will gain a certain degree of enhancement.

Also, it can be removed from the equipment at any time without damaging the item.

Three: Enable it to devour equipment; it will devour your designated equipment and can transform it at any time.

The transformed equipment will receive more efficient enhancement.

The three options were a bit vague at first glance.

But familiar with the system’s style, Losa immediately figured out the characteristics of these three branches.

The first option is to specialize in enhancing the Shining Cross Sword, with the highest strengthening level.

The second option is an all-around enhancement to all equipment, the most versatile but with the lowest strengthening level.

The third option is also an all-around enhancement, but it requires the equipment to be devoured, and the strengthening level is moderate.

Losa didn’t hesitate at all and directly chose the third option.

If he were only seeking a powerful high-impact weapon, he could borrow the Holy Spear, and the third option was definitely the most appealing.

Losing one piece of equipment wasn’t a big deal to him.

The output power of the flame gradually decreased.

The Dragon Core Treasure within it revealed its full appearance—a brilliantly faceted gem.

Losa took out a silver cross embedded with a ruby and threw it toward it.

The Shining Cross Sword, without a property of indestructibility, transformed in an instant into a mass of silver viscous liquid, covering the Dragon Core Treasure.

In just a moment.

The silver liquid seeped into the gem.

Losa opened his hand.

The gem immediately seemed to have telepathic understanding, flew into his hand, and transformed into a silver Armed Sword shimmering with a dark red light.

At the sword guard, there was still a red gem, only the shape remained the same, but the effect had changed significantly from before.

You have acquired legendary level equipment: Dragon Core Treasure (Shining Cross Sword state)

In this state, when you hold this sword, you will automatically master master-level swordsmanship.

The power of all your flame magic will get a twenty percent boost.

Your weapon will inflict high-temperature burning damage.

Losa lightly swung the sword blade in his hand, feeling that it seemed not much different from before, only slightly heavier.

Anna’s astonished voice rang out, "How did you do that?"

...

In Anna’s manor stable.

Grapes were leisurely eating fodder.

When not on the battlefield, even a famous horse like it can’t eat fine feed every meal and still mainly eats fodder.

By the corner of the wall, a little mouse scurried past with light rustling sounds, and "Grapes" naturally lowered its head, opened its mouth, and caught the mouse without much chewing before swallowing it.

Jeanne patted the horse’s butt, stepping on the stirrup with one foot, and with a little effort, mounted the horse.

She was going to participate in a riding competition, which tests both the mount and riding skills.

This was a noble sport in Constantinople; horses like the Akhal-Teke might not even be considered the top-notch ones.

They had already returned from shopping.

Even people like Chelina and Prajna, who usually had indifferent personalities, bought two silk long skirts under Furinjira’s lead.

Only Jeanne didn’t spend a single penny.

She thought with a troubled look that the money these three spendthrifts spent today could have upgraded her to the Elite One stage.

She really was eager to advance to the Elite One stage.

It seemed now was the time to be self-sufficient.