Epic Of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System-Novel

Chapter 266: New Evolution Options...!

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I flew outside of Fuyu as I left things prepared in my absence.

System, how have things been doing in the dungeon?

<Nothing too much. The monsters are slowly regenerating, we are around 20% of the needed dungeon points for the teleportation trap, so it will take at least another four more weeks at this pace. Are you ready to evolve?>

I am ready, yeah… And, wait, four more weeks? Damn, it will be way more than I thought.

It will surely be a pain to spend another 5 million mana stones each week to enter that place, but we really need that big amount of mana cores.

These damn Elders, I wish I could storm the place and kill them all so I can take over everything I want.

Wait, that sounded way too crazy, let's calm down.

Was that my own dragon fury or something?

Eh? Really?

Are dragons a race that just loves to slaughter and plunder people?

<Very much… This is why they're hunted, according to what we have read.>

Huh. Well, they're also treasure troves of materials, and their mana cores must be tasty. I wish I could get to eat a Dragon one of these days…

Now, let's go evolve.

I flew into another spot and buried myself so deep I couldn't even count the meters.

After that, I used magic to seal myself in a barrier and then pressed the evolution options thingy.

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<Evolution Options>

[Soul-Devouring Spectral Tundra Dragon]

[Nightmarish Abyssal Abomination Cold Dragon]

[Nether Famine Swarm Ice Dragon]

[Dark Illusion Trickster Ice Dragon]

[Eternal Winter Storm Dragon]

[Dream-Seeking Abyssal Void Ice Dragon]

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These evolution options are a bit… Well, something else.

They all sound way too evil! Yeah, that's the right word.

And they're six options?!

System can I fuse the options?

<No, that's impossible.>

Ah… At the very least I gave it a try, didn't I?

<Not even close…>

Okay, forget it. Let's see… One by one I suppose.

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[Soul-Devouring Spectral Tundra Dragon]

Evolution of a dragon that is proficient in the ability to devour souls and become or temporarily transform into a specter, while also being a master of the ice element.

This monstrous dragon crawls the depths of the Realm of Helheim and devours the souls of the damned in large quantities, like a wall that opens its mouth to eat as much plankton, this monster has adapted the ability to open its mouth up to insane degrees, devouring anything that gets inside.

They're also proficient in the manipulation of ice and can freeze souls into solid statues of ice if they have enough power to suppress the soul, stopping it from escaping and eating it while it still a frozen crystal. This evolution is large and fat but can float naturally through a veil of phantom coating its body.

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This one is weird; I imagine it as an actual whale devouring large banks of souls in Helheim…

Anyways, this one doesn't seem physically stronger, but it definitely makes me closer to the Death Attribute.

Also, it says it makes me fat…? I don't like the sound of it.

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[Nightmarish Abyssal Abomination Cold Dragon]

An evolution that a dragon that has delved deep into the arts of controlling nightmares can take, their cold minds and abominable bodies make them horrid monstrous beings that devour the souls of their victims within nightmares.

Nightmarish Abyssal Abomination Cold Dragon is a highly capable dragon within the branch of Daydreaming dragons who branched out of the more beautiful and noble forms to become monstrous abominations with barely any resemblance to their previous forms.

They crawl in the dark of the night and enter the nightmares of the unfortunate and unwilling, the more sinful they are, the easier it is to devour their souls through dreams, so it usually targets evildoers. These monstrous dragons bring peace to a village when they devour the souls of those that did wrong to the people while passing by through the skies. Often referred to as the dragon of cleansing by many, despite its monstrous appearance.

This evolution possesses an aberrant body, which is not for the faint-hearted.

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This just makes me amazing at nightmare magic-user, a branch of dream magic, while also making me resemble an actual eldritch abomination, wow.

It seems enticing but it says nothing regarding actual physical power, let's see what else is in store.

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[Nether Famine Swarm Ice Dragon]

A monstrous evolution that only dragons proficient in spreading famine, rotting the living, and raising the dead can evolve into.

A Nether Famine Swarm Ice Dragon is an abomination that branches out from Death Dragons. It is capable of producing a gigantic cloud filled with deadly bacteria and poison which it carries around and spreads through the flapping of its wings.

This dragon is cataloged as a disaster-level threat and entire sects join together to slay it before it lays waste of entire areas of a continent by merely passing by. They feed on souls and in the rotting corpses of whatever dies before their powers. Their size is large, and they have immense moth-like wings to spread their poisonous famine auras.

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T-This is even scarier than the others before. Seriously, what is wrong with the System nowadays? Doesn't this just sound insane? Am I really capable of doing this, really? The humble little me?

Let's not even mention how its only way to kill is by spreading a horrendous cloud of literal death. I am all for it if I had absolutely no one at my side, but I have many allies and a wife waiting for a while, so this might not be the best…

Anyways, let's see what else the other dragon evolutions have in store, hopefully, things are not as insane as this… although I don't have many hopes.

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