A Dragon against the Whole World

Chapter 377 - 312: The Undying Galos, Dawn of the Path of Eternal Demise

Time passed quietly, and the sky gradually darkened.

The light of the two moons was obscured by clouds and wind and snow, leaving the Border Area in darkness, with only the light of bonfires illuminating Dragon Valley.

"Galos! Galos!"

Elf Dragon Vera flew over, circling around the Red Iron Dragon who was busy devouring food.

"Why haven’t you... burst from eating yet?"

Vera tilted her little head, issuing a Soul Inquiry, her eyes reflecting the massive body of the Red Iron Dragon constantly swallowing food like a mountain.

Suddenly interrupted, Galos paused his ravenous eating, as if momentarily choked by the untimely question.

He slightly tilted his enormous head, and with a puffed cheek, blew a gust of wind towards the hovering Elf Dragon.

He blew the tiny creature into several flips in the air.

"Stay away, or I might mistake you for a post-meal treat and gobble you up."

Needing to consume large amounts of food and occasionally expel waste, he preferred not to have an audience of other dragons during the process.

Galos gulped down a mouthful of sticky black oil and resumed tackling the food before him.

Finally, after what seemed an infinitely long time, his spirit suddenly lifted.

He keenly sensed the energy within the Dragon Jade in his right chest, pulsating like a mini-sun, had finally reached a saturation point.

The energy from the ingested food no longer greedily absorbed by the Dragon Jade.

Instead, like streams finding their way home, it began flowing continuously into his limbs and bones, nourishing every muscle, every tendon, every cell, this long-lost sense of fulfillment prompted Galos to let out a deep, satisfied growl.

"From the moment I awoke from my slumber."

Galos munched on tough beast meat, recalling his experiences over this time.

"Because the newborn Dragon Jade drained almost all my energy, I was weakened to the extreme, practically on the brink of death."

"But the Dragon Jade automatically returned energy at the critical moments, instantly restoring my strength."

"Since then, everything I consumed, flesh, ore, black oil... all the transformed energy was absorbed and stored by this Dragon Jade, like a bottomless pit."

"Until now, it was finally full, filled."

He let out a slow breath, his chest rising and falling smoothly, as his eating slowed, no longer devouring madly like a starving ghost, but eating leisurely, while quickly thinking.

From this period of personal experience and introspection, he roughly understood the core effect of the Dragon Jade.

It still maintained a connection with Cold Burst Scale, preserving its energy transformation and storage effect.

But the effects seemed to have subtly changed since its evolution, requiring further battles or specific tests to clarify.

However, these were not the most important aspects.

The most crucial, core effect is that it can accumulate large amounts of energy, releasing them in dire moments when Galos is extremely weak or near death, achieving a near-resurrection reversal!

This is somewhat akin to Old Sword Demon’s Blood Demon Well skill.

In short, it is essentially — a second life!

Galos’s mind involuntarily conjured scenarios of possible future occurrences:

When some powerful enemy, through countless hardships and at a heavy cost, finally broke through his layers of defense, crushed his bursts of strength, leaving him on the brink of exhaustion and death.

The enemy perhaps, bearing a victor’s sinister smile, ready to deliver the final blow or savor his dying struggle.

At that moment, in his chest, the dormant Dragon Jade suddenly erupted with dazzling brilliance like the rising sun, a torrent of life energy surged through his battered body, healing all wounds at a visible pace, sweeping away the weakness near death.

Replaced by more vigorous and thriving vitality and strength than before.

Galos could almost imagine the enemy’s face, frozen in that instant—transitioning from ecstatic joy to astonishment, from pride to bewilderment, finally turning into utter despair, or... into numbness and daze at being toyed with.

"It’s simply an ability tailor-made for me!"

Galos’s eyes flashed with satisfaction.

For someone as wary of death as he, the effect brought by this evolution of the Dragon Jade, its value far exceeded the further enhancement of Frenzy.

With this trump card, paired with his inherently powerful strength and sharp mind.

In the future, unless confronted by an overwhelmingly powerful existence, insurmountably vast as the heavens and earth, facing any strong enemy, Galos now had the confidence for a desperate fight, even a miraculous comeback.

With just a little thought, countless tactical scenarios for using the Dragon Jade quickly surfaced in his mind.

For instance, he could disguise himself as a reckless, impulsive fool, deliberately adopting a frantic and foolish, injury-for-injury frenzied fighting style, luring the enemy into a war of attrition.

When both sides are battle-scarred and exhausted.

He would then activate the Dragon Jade suddenly, instantly returning to peak condition, delivering a fatal blow to the enemy.