130. dragon heart
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“ruler.”
Winnie held out a piece of wood slightly larger than an adult’s fist.
Dokgo Moo-young and Ray looked at it with their necks stretched out. Ray, in particular, was openly admiring.
“Ohh… this is…”
Winnie will assist Doyoon in absorbing hearts with a magic circle, and Dokgo Mooyeong, a genius of mana control, is an observer in case of an unexpected situation.
Hearing that he was eating dragon hearts, Ray begged him to come and see him.
Doyoon accepted the woodcarving. Outwardly, it was just a wooden box with no features.
But through his senses, he could feel that the woodcarving was intricately intertwined with innumerable magic. They were magic for storing dragon hearts.
Perhaps this wooden box alone would be worth a small castle.
“Take it carefully. Because what you have now is the most expensive elixir on the continent. If you drop it, the price of one country will be blown away.”
Ray made a strange noise.
“Ooh, ooh…”
Doyoon smiled.
Of course, even if you drop it, this woodcarving will perfectly protect it. What Winnie said was just a joke.
But he focused on something else.
‘The most expensive elixir on the continent right now.’
The supreme elixir that Winnie handled at the request of the alliance, ‘Sun’.
No matter how much a dragon heart is called, it is not as good as ‘the sun’. However, the fact that the dragon heart is the most expensive means that the sun has already been used and disappeared from the world.
Doyoon put his finger on the woodcarving lock and blew mana into it.
Then, several magic circles appeared on the surface of the woodcarving, and soon the glass started to break with a shattering sound.
Crack! Jjaeng-!
Countless magic circles were broken.
Now it’s just an ordinary wooden box. It was the moment when a small last name evaporated for a one-time use.
When the storage magic was broken and the lid was opened, bright light leaked out and filled the room.
Hwaaa-
Ray drew in a breath.
“Wow…!”
Sensitive to mana, he tightly closed his eyes and trembled.
The really thick and sweet scent of mana filled the room. It was such an ecstasy that it was hard to breathe.
‘gulp…’
He swallowed saliva, envying Doyoon.
A dark gray translucent gem the size of a baby’s fist. Dragon’s Heart.
The heart was emitting a brilliant light, lighting up the room. But strangely, it wasn’t dazzling at all.
It was the light itself of pure mana made of mana, like the starlight emitted by Doyoon’s sword.
The source of light is the inside of the dragon heart that is still burning. It was the nuclear fusion of mana that was constantly happening in it.
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Just like what Doyoon had in Danjeon, this was a star in itself.
“It was really hard to refine it.”
“okay?”
“There is no human in history who ate a dragon heart. Even Enoch, who was said to have sought and drunk elixirs all over the continent like a ghost, hadn’t come across Dragon Hearts. There was no record at all, so I did it myself based on Master’s dragon research materials.”
He just said it as if there was a difficult task, but it was a great achievement that will remain in the academic world. It was truly like a Master Alchemist.
“Then Winnie is the first to deal with dragon hearts.”
“…yes? Will that happen?”
Winnie’s clown twitched at the unexpected words.
“Thank you anyway. It wouldn’t have been possible without Winnie.”
“Yeah, that would have been! Still, I asked you to leave it, and it was a great help to myself… Hmm, hmm.”
“I like Winnie,” he said, trying to hide his feelings.
Doyoon reached out to touch the dragon heart. But she said as if she was still there.
“There is something to be aware of.”
“Careful?”
The three’s eyes turned to Winnie.
“Absorb only half of the mana contained in that dragon heart. Don’t be greedy and blow the other half into the air.”
“Yes?”
half of mana?
What do you mean by that?
“Dragon Heart has an enormous amount of mana. You cannot absorb it all with your human body.”
“…I beg your pardon?”
This was the first time Doyoon had heard of it.
“There is a limit to the amount of magical energy that living things can hold inside their bodies. It was only after the system was created that it became known. In the past, when there was no system, there was no one who could build mana to the limit of the body except for the Great Hero Enoch.”
“I’m human, but a new species…”
“know. that you are special Don’t you know how much I studied your blood?”
Do-yoon listened to her story in silence.
“I don’t know what achievements you made in your previous life to be born with a body like that. Still, it’s not okay.”
“Well…”
“Even if you absorb only half of the heart’s mana, you will be at level 8 of mana. You said that Verde had the power of the system, right? Even the dragon’s magic must have been only level 8. Because living things have limitations. Because you have a dragon-level body, even level 8 magic is possible. The human Heineken and the old man were only level 6.”
Dokgo Moo-young nodded beside him.
Enoch in his heyday had a mana amount between level 9 and level 10, in terms of the current system notation.
There are only two things that are handed down in the return. It was the amount of memory and mana.
He swept away all the elixirs with repeated regressions, and repeated this several times.
The accumulated mana is not through Doyoon’s body, but through the blessing of return. passed down in a special way.
It was for this reason that Enoch was able to accumulate an enormous amount of mana in a human body.
Originally, like all living things, Enoch was born with limitations. He must have hit the limit on the amount of mana he could hold.
I got it. However, Doyoon had doubts.
“I heard that the Lion King’s magic stat is level 9.”
“It’s hard to see that man as a ‘living thing’.”
“…Excuse me?”
“You know that uncle’s father is the former boss monster killer ‘Salamander’, right?”
“Yes. They said they dealt with a mysterious spiritual body from another dimension called a spirit.”
“Salamander was married to the princess of Muspelheim at the time, but he impregnated her and died. At that time, the spirit of the Salamander nested in the child in the womb. That’s the Lion King now. That man, half of you should be seen as a being called a ‘spirit’.”
Do-yoon nodded at the unknown inner circumstances.
indeed. Was it because of his special birth that he had monstrous stats at level 9 and the strongest firepower in the alliance?
“So don’t be greedy. It’s Shinsu and Nabal, and there are limits as long as you’re a living being with a body.”
“Well…”
Doyoon still seemed displeased with something, but for now he nodded.
‘then…’
Really, is it impossible to recover the output of a previous life?
‘If you increase the output through other stats than mana…’
Well. I was skeptical.
Unlike other stats, magic is a stat whose importance stands out.
“Ready done. Let’s start now.”
Winnie, who was looking at the auxiliary magic circle, pushed Doyoon’s chest with her finger and said.
“Remember what I said. Your body won’t be able to stand it if you’re greedy.”
“…”
“Do you understand, training maniac crazy about growth?”
“…Yes.”
For now, Doyoon decided to focus on the work in front of him.
He sat cross-legged in the middle of the auxiliary magic circle that Winnie had prepared. A dragon’s heart lay in his hand.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes.”
“It begins.”
The magic circle to assist in his absorption shone.
Doyoon took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Then he opened his mouth and swallowed the dragon heart.
Saaaa-
There is no gulp. As soon as it entered his mouth, the heart melted and flowed into his body.
waves of mana. No, the sea poured.
“…!”
Dragon Heart is a star.
A huge amount of mana is condensed into a small point, and a powerful mana pressure is created from the center.
Through this pressure, mana coalesced, causing a phenomenon similar to nuclear fusion, and in the process, enormous mana efficiency was created.
And the crystal that is created as a result of the mana fusion reaction is the dragon heart.
An ocean of mana with a huge amount of condensed mana, and a mana engine that burns endlessly like the sun. That is Dragon Heart.
Doyun couldn’t help but be surprised by this enormous amount of mana.
I’ve eaten countless elixirs in my 18 lives, but all of them were mere fireflies compared to this dragon heart.
‘It’s not half.’
Winnie is wrong. Let alone half, even 1/3 of the mana would reach level 8 of magic power.
And Doyoon felt that his body could not absorb more mana.
‘However…’
At the same time as recognizing the reality, faced with this unrealistic amount of mana, greed arose that he could not dare to hide.
What if you could absorb all of this enormous mana? How far can you grow?
‘In the power of the heyday…’
Could it be that we can finally get really close?
The upcoming threat and the grand scheme of re-subjugation of the demon lord. growth for it.
Doyoon’s intuition was screaming. Whatever happens, you must seize this opportunity.
Even if it’s impossible, you have to do it as you always have done.
Doyoon’s will began to burn.
Meanwhile, Dokgo Moo-young and Ray opened their eyes when they saw Do-yoon’s condition.
“Winnie! Doyoon’s blood is swelling!”
“It was to be expected.”
Winnie replied calmly.
The blood vessels in Doyoon’s temples, eyes, neck, and even the whole body swelled up brightly.
The huge amount of mana coming in from the outside was shaking and hurting the blood vessels.
This is the reaction that Winnie feared. That is why he ordered Doyoon to achieve level 7 of toughness.
Winnie said to Doyoon in the middle of the magic circle.
“Do-yoon! Give up all remaining mana and release it! hurry!”
However, mana was not released.
Doyoon’s brow furrowed from concentration and pain, and his blood vessels continued to squirm.
“Do-yoon! hey!”
Winnie raised her voice and shouted, but he didn’t listen.
The faces of her, Lay, and Dokgo Moo-young became serious. It would be really big trouble at this rate…!
‘What the hell are you thinking!’
Winnie’s stomach burned.
But there was something Winnie hadn’t thought of.
That is Do-yoon’s strong will. Mana control ability.
Doyoon frowned even more.
‘I feel it.’
His will began to dominate the mana in his body.