stjorthotic Chapter 54 Son of the Abyss
Chapter 54 Son of the Abyss
In the middle of the ravaged battlefield, a black dragon more than twenty meters long stood tall, its terrifying aura growing stronger and stronger.
Under the pressure of fear, the legs of the demons kneeling around them trembled instinctively, including the dog-headed shaman Mora and other demons who were its servants.
"Your Majesty, is the advancement not finished yet?" The dog-headed demon Sokos's hands trembled and his teeth chattered.
Moo! The Minotaur Serus looked around, its body trembling, making it inexplicably excited, and it wanted to find something hard to bump into.
"Quiet, don't disturb the king, the king is gathering its exclusive authority." The dog-headed shaman Mora's face was filled with fanaticism.
When it first encountered the Black Armored Earth Dragon, it knew that the king had extraordinary potential, even though the creature was only a demon-level monster and could speak abyssal demonic language.
The subsequent transformation bestowed by the true name further validated its conjecture.
In the legends of the abyss spanning billions of years, there has never been a ghost-rank demon that could bestow names upon other demons, causing them to transform and evolve.
What shocked Mora even more was that the Black Flame Dragon, having only advanced to the Cataclysmic level, had already begun to condense the authority that only an Abyss Demon King could possess.
With such potential, the King must be the Abyss's own son.
At this moment, the Black Flame Dragon had completed its transformation. Ignoring its demonic subordinates, it summoned its personal page with a thought.
Race: Black Flame Dragon Sogdis [A primordial monster possessing the bloodline of a Silver-rank Abyss Dragon]
Rank: Catastrophe-level monster. Low rank
Rank: Third Rank
Consumption efficiency: 18 → 20% + tail sting 22%
Abyss Power: 6500/8000→50000
Innate Talent: Infinite Evolution [SSS Rank]
Active Talents: Talent Plunder [SSS Rank, Current Plunder Attempts: 1], Bloodthirsty Tail Sting [Mutation-type Talent], Sonic Roar [Mutation-type Talent], Dark Flame Breath [B Rank, Scorching, Destructive], Instant Burst Speed [Mutation-type Talent]
Elemental Talent: Dark Demon Flame [Rank B]
Passive Talents: Black Armor [Rank B, Scale Strength +150%], Malice Perception [Rank C], Life Recovery [Rank C, Recovery is faster the more severe the injury]
Life Essence: 365 [The next evolution will be unlocked when 1000 points are accumulated]
Authority of Fear: Aura of Fear [The materialization of the Authority of Fear, without cost, without an independent domain, limited to a short distance around the body.]
Feature 1: Mental Intimidation (Passive): Creatures of the same rank will instinctively feel uneasy when they look directly at you, and their fighting spirit will decrease. The effect is doubled against lower-ranking monsters.
Feature Two: Fear Outburst, active, instantly consumes the body's fear power to unleash a wide-range soul-shaking attack.
Source of Fear: 156 units [The creature that is extremely afraid of you will have its soul continuously generating fear power for you. When the Source of Fear reaches 1000 units, the authority will advance to the Domain of Fear.]
[Currently generating 0/156 units of Fear Power per day]
Power of Fear: 1492 points [Power born from the soul and spirit of life, which can be absorbed and transformed into Abyssal Fear Magic to enhance one's own strength.]
You can also choose to corrupt your monsters and familiars, turning them into special units that spread fear for you.
Family member information [folding]
This time, the Black Flame Dragon's form "did not change much," but the main change was in the Abyss Core, where the "amount" contained within it increased more than sixfold.
At the same time, the abyssal energy transformed from its original fog state into a liquid state, resulting in stronger power amplification, defense amplification, and the burst of innate abilities.
However, what surprised the Black Flame Dragon the most was the condensed authority of fear.
"Spread fear, control fear, become fear!"
The Black Flame Dragon looked at all the demons kneeling around it and let out a deep roar: "Get up." As it spoke, the invisible fear emanating from its body slowly subsided.
"Yes, great Lord of the Abyss!"
All the monsters stood up, their eyes burning with fervor as they stared at the increasingly terrifying Black Flame Dragon. Among the newly subdued dog-headed monsters, some had eyes filled with fear.
Clearly, they were terrified by the power and carnage that the Black Flame Demon Dragon had unleashed, and even after being subdued, they were still filled with fear.
At this moment, the Black Flame Dragon extended its right claw, pointing the tip at a kobold monster standing behind the kobold shaman Mora: "You, come here."
This dog-headed monster had fought several battles alongside the Black Flame Dragon, and through its killing spree, its size had grown from 1.6 meters to 2 meters.
A roar! The powerful demonic creature arrived before the Black Flame Demon Dragon, its eyes burning with fervor, showing no fear whatsoever.
"Don't move." With a low growl, the black flame dragon's massive claw touched the dog-headed monster's forehead, and then waves of invisible, terrifying power poured in.
Click click click!
The dog-headed monster trembled all over, dark patterns appeared on its body, its ears elongated, its dog face deformed, and its fur turned from gray to black.
According to the Black Flame Dragon's perception, when the power of fear reached thirty points, the dog-headed monster could no longer absorb it.
The Black Flame Dragon retracted its claws, looked at the demonic creature whose appearance had changed and which now seemed to emanate an aura of fear, and growled, "How do you feel?"
The fear demon soldier with sharp ears clenched its claws and said in somewhat broken abyssal demon language, "Your subordinate feels much stronger."
Originally, its aura was around the mid-stage of the first rank, but now it has reached the peak of the first rank. It only needs to go through another bloody battle to transform into a ghost-level monster.
"My lord, I have also acquired an ability called the Eye of Darkness." As he spoke, the Fear Demon Soldier looked at a dog-headed monster, his eyes turning dark.
The demonic consciousness staring directly at it roared, vaguely seeing a sky-covering, sun-blowing dragon roaring. Fear surged like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down, instantly making its legs weak and its teeth chatter.
Under the threat of fear, a wisp of dark energy was born on the monster's body and silently merged into the Black Flame Demon Dragon's body.
The Black Flame Dragon's eyes lit up immediately.
Fear transformation not only enhances a monster's strength to a certain extent, granting it a weak fear aura effect, but also absorbs the fear power generated by monsters subsequently intimidated by it.
"Sokos, come here," the Black Flame Dragon growled.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Sokos, the dog-headed demon, stepped forward excitedly.
Just like before, as the power of fear flowed into his body, Sokos's aura began to rise, and his body underwent a transformation.
Dark patterns appeared on its fine scales, its ears lengthened, its protruding muzzle shortened, and its pupils slowly turned dark.
The upper limit of the familiar demons is even higher. Sokos's body only completed its transformation after absorbing about two hundred points of fear power, and his aura broke through from the middle stage of the second tier to the late stage of the second tier.
The biggest change remains 'fear'. The fear surrounding Sokos has almost materialized, and just standing there is enough to terrify ordinary monsters.
If the Dark Eye is used in conjunction with this, even monsters of the same level will be shaken and filled with fear upon encountering it.
Just then, the dog-headed shaman Mora lunged forward and pounced on the Black Flame Dragon, grabbing its thick, ferocious left paw and fawning over it.
"My king, your lowly servant Mora must also become strong."
"Don't worry, I won't forget you."
The Black Flame Dragon roared silently, then its massive claws struck the dog-headed shaman, injecting two hundred points of fear power before it could absorb no more.
Ignoring the excited cheers of the dog-headed shaman, the Blackflame Dragon looked at the minotaur.
"Serus, come here."
Moo!
The sullen minotaur strode forward, and after enduring three hundred points of fear power, its body swelled to four meters, its ears became sharp, and its fangs became ferocious.
"Stone Mountain."
"The stone mountain is here, Your Majesty!" The lava giant excitedly charged forward.
The molten stone giant, with even greater potential, absorbed five hundred points of fear power, turning its originally dark brown body completely black, with dark patterns spreading across its surface, making it look terrifying and ferocious.
At this moment, the dog-headed demon Vala, who had gone to "raid" the house, returned from behind the hillside, followed by a group of dog-headed demons escorting a group of cave monsters.
"Your Majesty, your subordinates have discovered dozens of cave monsters in the underground lava cave over there, along with a large amount of iron ore and extraordinary minerals."
As they spoke, several dog-headed demons stepped forward, each carrying a simple animal skin bag, from which a large amount of red, turbid crystals poured out with a clattering sound.
These crystals add up to nearly a hundred.
"So many extraordinary molten stones." The Black Flame Dragon's eyes lit up.
After this period of development, the dog-headed monster gathering team that went out has not made any progress for two days.
The dog-headed demon Vala respectfully said, "Your Majesty, there is a large fine iron mine inside that lava cave, and these extraordinary lava stones are by-products of the fine iron mine."
"So these extraordinary ores are by-products!" The Black Flame Dragon revealed a ferocious smile, which meant that it had a stable source of extraordinary molten stone.
"Well done, Vara. Now I will grant you the power to spread fear."
Vala has good potential. After absorbing 250 points of Fear Power, his transformation was completed, and his strength improved from the mid-stage of the second tier to the late stage.
However, the transformation of the five-headed demon has almost exhausted its current power of fear, so the idea of the Black Flame Demon Dragon's large-scale fear-transforming demon soldiers has to be temporarily shelved.
The Black Flame Dragon surveyed the underground space before him and pondered for a moment: "Vara, Serus, take five hundred kobold warriors back and move all the supplies from your territory here."
"From this moment forward, this place shall be my new territory."
This place is close to the ground, has enough space, and the presence of refined iron ore makes it more suitable as a base than the original territory.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Sokos, take a hundred kobold warriors out and search to see if you can find a way to the surface."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Mora, you are in charge of the management and planning of the new territory." With that, the Black Flame Dragon looked at the dozens of short and stocky cave monsters.