Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 187 Hidden Benefits of Breaking Through Age Groups
The main material plane - the Kingdom Sky Crystal Wall System.

In the vast starry sky, the supreme sun (Sól) is located in the center of the [Kingdom Sky], sitting like a king over a vast territory with a diameter of 103 billion kilometers.

Extending outward from the sun, there are a total of eight planetary belts in the entire [Kingdom Sky], and there is an independent planet on each planetary belt.

At this time, on Toril, a planet located in the third planetary belt, outside its atmosphere, in the gap that is invisible to ordinary objects, a magnificent castle is quietly floating. The main body of the castle is made of snow-white marble, shining with a mysterious and soft light under the starlight.

The spire of the castle stands tall, as if piercing the sky. The sharp top is inlaid with huge gems. The gems emit dazzling light, like miniature stars, shining with the real stars around them.

That is the [Polaris Camp], the Pantheon of [Kingdom Sky], and the meeting room of the gods.

Inside the castle, at the bottomless depths, darkness occupied everything. Countless beings imprisoned in the darkness gasped softly, fantasizing about the end of their punishment.

"No no! Damn it!"

Suddenly, a flame lit up in the darkness, igniting the existence there. It turned out to be a strong man with long, dazzling red hair like flames, who was chained to the wall.

The flame seemed to ignite from the man's body due to his extremely unstable attitude, but soon, it was completely extinguished as if it had lost its oxygen supply, and everything returned to darkness. The people around him who were tied to the wall like him could no longer sit still.

"What happened, Tezca?" a commanding voice came from the darkness.

The sturdy man lowered his head and said viciously: "The ritual failed."

The darkness fell into silence. After a long time, the majestic voice sounded again: "Find a way to wake up Duzula II. The expansion speed of those Faerun gods must be curbed."

"Yes, my dear master." Tezca said respectfully.

Everything fell silent again and returned to darkness.
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The wind carried the scent of dust and gunpowder, and the strong smell of rust spread among the ruins.

On the street, the once bustling market is now in a mess. The goods abandoned by the vendors in a panic are scattered all over the ground. Bright red cloth, golden wheat ears, broken pottery and all kinds of sundries are mixed together, like colorful fragments, which are particularly dazzling in the gray ruins.

The entire city of Nazca had been destroyed, and only hundreds of Niksalan people who had fled to the edge of the city survived.

A giant silver dragon sent down a wave of elements from the sky, destroying the pyramids, and the golden barrier that blocked the city of Nazca fell.

"Another one, but unfortunately I don't need it for the time being."

Nemesis was holding a transparent golden crystal ball in his huge dragon claws, which felt better than nothing. At his level, ordinary magic items had lost their appeal to him. In the pyramid, apart from piles of gold coins and crudely made magic items, only this [Hymn to the Sun God] was somewhat interesting.

After clearing out all the items in the pyramid, Nemesis finally had time to sort out his gains.

The first thing that was affected was undoubtedly the huge amount of spiritual energy infused into him, which greatly shortened his growth period.

His current size has grown to 100 meters, and he has reached the critical point of evolving into a mature dragon.

Although there is still a little gap, it is not a complete failure.

Under normal circumstances, a true dragon's body size will not change before it crosses an age level. Only when it falls into a deep sleep that breaks through the age level will its body continue to grow.

That is to say, even if a true dragon would fall into a dormant state the next day, its attributes and abilities would still be at the current age level. But now, due to the infusion of psychic energy, although Nemesis has not yet evolved to the stage of a mature dragon, it already has some of the abilities of a mature dragon. This can be said to be a very rare and special situation.

He had a premonition that when he truly fell into the dormant cycle of a mature dragon and woke up, he would probably make another leap forward based on his current foundation.

In other words, he has one more chance to break through and grow than other dragons.

Now his statistics are almost the same as those of a mature Volume Dragon.

Real name: Nemesis

Race: Variant of Tome Dragon (Mind Dragon)
Growth stage: Adult dragon
Physical data - length: 100 meters

Power: 17
Agility: 19
Constitution: 20
Intelligence: 38 (+6 from Ioun Stone)

Perception: 38 (Ioun Stone +6)

Charisma: 37 (+6 from Ioun Stone)

Supernatural Abilities: At will—darkvision, tome dragon elemental breath, mind gas breath, psionic blast, polymorph dragon, turn/rebuke undead
Features: Immune to mental damage, immune to mind control, adaptive evolution.

Occupation: Spell Recorder—14th level, Psion Level—14th level,
Spell Power Level: 20

Spell Point Casting Resources: 604 points

Power Points Casting Resource: 256 points

Due to its larger size, all of Nemesis' attribute points were improved again. Under the chain effect, Nemesis' two professions also achieved breakthrough advancement.

Unfortunately, since it was not a true breakthrough to the Middle-Aged Dragon stage, apart from the improvement of attributes and profession, there were no other changes.

But Nemesis was not in a hurry. After all, this was a free opportunity for growth.

You know, it is the most unreasonable for a true dragon to increase its level while sleeping. Its powerful bloodline allows the true dragons to increase their level simply by breaking through their age levels.

Take the Scroll Dragon as an example. As long as you can break through the current age level, you can increase two spellcasting levels and fixed attribute points regardless of obstacles.

Under normal circumstances, when a Tome Dragon is promoted to an Elder Dragon, it will gain the ability to cast legendary spells, which means that the caster level will be directly increased to level 22.

But according to Nemesis' current caster level, after breaking through the age group of the very old dragon, he will directly become level 24!
This means that if Nemesis can improve his spellcaster level as much as possible every time he breaks through an age level, when he reaches the ancient dragon stage in the future, his professional level will naturally be quite high, and may even reach the pinnacle of legend. With just a little effort, he can reach the roof of the quasi-god.

This is a classic case of the early bird catching the worm.

As long as you have the confidence to strike a balance between improving your career level and maintaining your sleeping time, the harder you work, the more terrifying rewards you will get in the ancient dragon stage.

In the past, Nemesis had no chance to upgrade his career level because of his short growth period. But now, as he gets older, the time required for each age breakthrough begins to increase significantly. In addition, he has seen the benefits of upgrading his career level in advance, so he is determined to improve his career level as much as possible before each age breakthrough.

(End of this chapter)