Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 144 Power Gem
The effect of the power gem is very powerful. It can be said that the stronger the user is, the more powerful the power it can display.

Nemesis noticed that the talents he had awakened, [Fusion of the Mystical Gods] and [Fusion of the Mystical Spirits], had been transformed into the talent of [Spiritual Resonance] during this evolution.

This powerful talent can strengthen all spellcasting abilities, including divine spells, by two times. More importantly, the amplification of the Strength Gem is achieved on this basis.

In other words, his spellcasting ability is not as simple as a tenfold increase in physical strength, but a full twenty times!
Nemesis also discovered that his profession had inexplicably changed to "Spell Keeper" after he fell asleep. He knew in his heart that this was probably what Oghma meant by "a new profession personally woven for him."

The Spellkeeper can be said to be very similar to the Mage, and even the advancement method is exactly the same. The only difference is that under the influence of Oghma's power, this profession can not only learn arcane magic, but also other secret methods including divine magic.

Similar to the priest's divine spells, the druid's natural spells, etc., the Spell Keeper can convert them into spell models, copy them and learn them.

In addition, the Spell Keeper possesses an extremely strong magic affinity, because this profession is a special version developed based on the Tome Dragon. Under the influence of Nemesis's terrifying magic affinity, the Spell Keeper can flexibly extract the power of low-level spell slots to charge high-level spell slots.

Simply put, Nemesis's spellcasting resources at this time are no longer rigid spell and divine spell slots. They are all transformed into spellcasting resources called "spell points". Just like "power points", they can freely realize spells of different levels by investing energy.

This effect actually does not produce any substantial difference from that of a wizard. In essence, both the spell slots and spell points are condensed from the caster's own mana.

It’s just that the Spell Keeper’s control over magic power has reached perfection, so the rigid spell slots have been transformed into more flexible “spell points”.

Nemesis now has 4980 spell points. A first-level spell consumes 1 spell point, and a second-level spell consumes 3 spell points. With his current mana, if he casts a sixth-level spell (11 spell points), he can cycle through the bombing 452 times!
If Nemesis was still a wizard at this time, his sixth-ring spell slots would probably only be around two hundred and ten after being enhanced by the Mind Gem, and the remaining mana would all be converted into lower-ring spell slots.

These are the two biggest changes of Spellkeeper compared to the Mage. Apart from that, there are only two additional arcane abilities.

[Arcane Shaping], which can control the shape of area spells at will, and [Twin Casting], which can release two spells at the same time each time a spell is cast. Compared with other changes, these two arcane abilities can only be said to be better than nothing.

After sorting out all the information, Nemesis set his sights on the last item, which was the second ability of the Power Stone - adaptive evolution.

“Adaptive evolution”

Nemesis frowned, not quite understanding what this ability was for. Evolution? Evolution of race? Forget it. He was quite happy being a dragon.

As if sensing its master's doubts, the illusory seven-pointed fleshy crown loomed above Nemesis' head. In addition to the yellow mind gem at the head, there was also a purple power gem embedded in one of the holes.

Minus two of the seven, there are still five left to return.

A message came from the purple gem, and Nemesis immediately understood how to use the second ability of the Power Gem.

"This is too powerful!" Nemesis' eyes were filled with excitement.

He quickly called out Yu Long.

"You, attack me!" Nemesis ordered.

Tralocot was dumbfounded, not knowing whether Nemesis was deliberately looking for an excuse to punish him. He hesitated for a long time and did not dare to take any action.

Nemesis had no choice but to promise that he would not punish him and was only training him, and Yulong reluctantly obeyed. The snake-tiger roared, and the huge waves in the lake were immediately summoned out by him, hitting Nemesis fiercely. Although the damage caused by Nemesis's power was now ten times stronger, his physique was still the same. The blunt impact of the huge waves made him feel pain in his chest without any protection, and he fell to the ground suddenly.

He touched his chest, where dozens of scales had been broken, and waves of dull pain came from the part that was hit by the huge wave.

"Tsk." Nemesis let out a sigh of relief. He was really annoyed by the Scroll Dragon's weak physique. Since he was born, he had hardly ever been hurt by such physical attacks without any protection. Therefore, he didn't expect that he would be injured by just a huge wave.

However, soon, the Power Stone began to show its true "power".

A ball of purple light glowed at the injured area, and Nemesis could feel that the broken scales were slowly repairing themselves.

But this is not all the power stone can do.

When his scales are repaired, he will have increased defense against such physical blows, and his scales will become more capable of buffering the impact of blunt blows.

This is adaptive evolution.

He can continue to suffer any kind of damage, and as long as that damage does not kill him completely, he will continue to evolve resistance to that damage and eventually achieve immunity.

Nemesis could already imagine that in the future, he would rely on his indestructible scales. No matter whether it was a sharp sword, surging ice and fire, or a difficult force field attack, all damage would be unable to break his defense!

Of course, before that, he still needs to develop slowly and rely on the restrained attacks of his subordinates to evolve. After all, the body of the Scroll Dragon is too weak. If it is not protected, it may really be killed by the enemy with one sword, and adaptive evolution cannot adapt to Nemesis's attack on itself.

"Come again!"

Nemesis became addicted and let Yulong summon huge waves to attack him again and again until Yulong's strength was exhausted and he lay on the ground gasping for breath before he reluctantly stopped.

His scales also changed from being shattered at the first to having only tiny cracks on them later.

Yu Long's initial confusion turned into surprise. He didn't expect that his master was actually using this self-abuse method to train him.

What’s even more outrageous is that it actually worked!
Damn it, is the talent of a real dragon so enviable to dragons? There is also a word "dragon" in his name!

Ignoring Yulong's muttering, Nemesis became addicted to this ever-increasing feeling. Like a masochist, he could not wait to summon Wangmula again, and this time ordered her to use her thorny tail to train his resistance to piercing physical damage.

The sun rose in the east and set in the west. Nemesis took turns to tire Wangmula and Yulong half to death. Under the effect of the Ion Stone, his recovery speed was extremely fast. Even if Wangmula hit him too hard sometimes, he could heal the injury immediately with a [Heal Severe Injuries].

In this round-robin battle, Nemesis had not fallen yet, but Wangmula and Yulong were so tired that they could not even lift a dragon finger.

Nemesis had no choice but to give up and secretly added this training to his daily activities.

(End of this chapter)