Chapter 40: Bloodline Gift (Part 3)
Thick white smoke filled the surroundings, obsg the se above, revealing only a faintly disible giant shadow.
"Roar——"
Langpuo let out a dragon-like roar.
As the smoke dispersed, he tore off the discarded skin, supp himself with both arms as he slowly stood up.
Thus, the first dragon-blooded ogre he was born—if the dragons' taste ihetics wasn’t so absurdly out of pce.
The creature before them could no longer be called an ogre.
His body was over five meters tall and almost as wide; even his former kin standing before him would seem like tiny gnomes by parison.
His still massive and robust frame was now covered with bright, crimson scales.
His once short, stubby fingers had bee long and sharp, transf from humanoid hands to cws bearing dragon-like traits.
Langpuo slowly opened his eyes.
His pupils were golden.
Several rows of red horns protruded from his forehead, making his already hideous and terrifying head look even more ferocious.
If one could slito his flesh, they would find that the blood now c through the ogre mage was boiling with elemental fury, with structures resembling a dragon’s own blood vessels gradually f within his body.
pared to an ogre, Langpuo was now better suited to be called a "Dragon Ogre."
After all, he was no longer a mere giant subspecies but a dragon-blooded creature infused with true dragon blood, with a lifespaended from mere decades to several turies.
Nouo could even unleash a fiery breath.
On Cassius' minion panel, Langpuo’s stats had undergone a radical transformation.
[Dragon-Blooded Ogre Mage - Langpuo]
Name: Langpuo
Gigantic Dragon-Blooded Giant (Fire), ral Evil
Race: Dragon-Blooded Ogre
AC: 16 (natural armor)
Attributes:
Strength — 20
Agility — 10
stitution — 18
Intelligence — 17
Perception — 8
Charisma — 13
Skills: Literacy +6, Ara +4, Hunting +4, Leadership +4, Herbalism +2, Persuasion +2, Warfare +2
Senses: Passive Perception 14 ft
Languages: on, Draic, Giant
As: Sm, Bite, Pound, Cw Strike
Special Ability: Breath on (Fire)
bat Equipment: Ring of Wisdom Studies, Are Ring, Albert's Mithril Bracelet
Css Level: 6 Mage
Caster Level: 6
Spells:
trips: Fire Bolt
1st Level: Burning Hands
2nd Level: Scorg Ray
3rd Level: Fireball
Challeing: 10 (7000 xp)
Evaluation: "This dragon-blooded ogre will roast you and swallow you whole."
His challeing had leaped to level 10, with his strength, stitution, agility, and other key stats undergoing a drastic overhaul, granting him the special ability of breath attack.
Simultaneously, Cassius could clearly feel that—due to the pressure emanating from deep within his bloodlihe boween him and his minions had grown tighter, leaving them with no ability to disobey his ands.
Even harb thoughts of betrayal would be sensed.
"Quite an effective enha."
Cassius remarked with satisfa.
However, this was something Langpuo had achieved at the risk of his life, using his deep uanding of the are work.
Cassius khis effect was not universal.
"Master, I succeeded."
Langpuo’s tone was filled with irrepressible excitement and joy, as well as the satisfa of a mage whose experiment had succeeded.
The creature on the boulder, who looked more like a "Dragon Ogre," k down to thank the red dragon, then leaped down, causing a rumble upon nding.
"Boss, you're freaking huge now!"
"Think of how much more food you devour now!"
The ogres, upholding the simple principle that "bigger is better," cheered wildly for their boss’s new form. In their simple minds, all they could think of was how his rger size would let him e even more.
Meanwhile, Dolo’s face grew even darker.
"Chimera,"
Cassius called the sed name.
The chimera was the red dragon’s first minion and the top bat power of Ember .
Moreover, as a distaive ons, Cassius was eager to experiment ahe effects of this "Bloodline Gift" on-blooded creatures.
Even if it failed, the red dragon wouldn’t feel a trace ret—after all, such a chaotic, evil beast held little loyalty.
The three-headed monster nded on the boulder, folded its wings, and submissively lowered its heads.
Blood ehe dragon head’s mouth.
The chimera let out a low, restrained roar, as the blood boiled within its body.
However, it did not suffer the same agonizing pain as the ogre; dragon blood was not as challenging for this dragon-blooded creature to absorb.
The surrounding monsters watched silently, the chimera’s rea far less intehan that of the ogre.
As the blood spread throughout its body, all three of its heads raised.
The dragon head even released a fiery breath.
Although the chimera had three heads of different shapes, its mind was unified; each head merely represented a facet of its personality.
The dragon head drove it to attack, plunder, and hoard treasures; the lion’s nature aroused its desire to hunt powerful creatures within its territory; and the goat head re stubborn and unyielding.
Previously, the lion's head had been the dominant one in the chimera.
However, as the blessing blood flowed throughout its body, the chimera's dragon head began to expand, with bony spikes extending from its o its back, repg the lush mane, and scales gradually grew in pce of the lion’s fur.
"Roar——"
The dragon head of the chimera lifted up a out a prolonged roar.
Its body swelled quickly, growing visibly rger.
Uhe ogre’s exaggerated energy absorption, it grew to ht meters before stopping.
Its dragon head grew far faster than the lion and goat heads, with the "dragon" personality fully taking trol.
pared to the previous mishmash of different creatures, the chimera now resembled a mutated red dragon, with the goat and lion heads relegated to mere accessories.
"Roar"
The chimera pleted its transformation and respectfully lowered its three heads, letting out a soft roar.
Cassius could sehat, whether due to power or bloodline suppression, the chimera was irely free of rebellious thoughts, solely focused on allegiance.
As for the future, that was hard to say—dragoainly didn’t have "absolute loyalty" in their nature.
Cassius’ minion panel also reflected ges.
[Pseudon Chimera]
Challeing: 9 (5000 xp)
The chimera’s challeing rose to level 9, just belouo.
The power of the chimera’s fire breath had grown more fearsome, and its body’s scales granted a signifit boost to its natural armor, making it far more resistant to attacks than before.
"How could such a beast be granted favor before me…”
Seeing the chimera receive a blessing first, Dolo’s expression grew even darker.
Yet with the red dragon overhead, he could only suppress his anger, waiting ih bored breaths.
