BXBX NOVEL Chapter 503: Apocalyptic constellation dragon lord, part 1/2
This halo, a tumultuous maelstrom of superheated particles, encased them in a radiant mantle of blistering brilliance.
Energy tendrils blazingly spiraled around them as though orbiting a celestial body. They dimmed and cooled with distance, transforming into nebulous clouds that shrouded deeper luminosities.
Around the dragon, the light bent and twisted, making the dragon look ethereal, like a shadow specter cloaked in the fire of stars.
Crowned with horns of woven starlight—two atop their head, two flanking, and one adorning their snout—the dragon exuded regality. Atop the central horn, a burning star floated like a royal jewel.
Spikes, like lines of incandescent stars, adorned their spine, casting prismatic light across the dark expanse.
With a sudden twitch, the dragon unfurled their wings, crafted from the golden stellar flames, their grandeur magnified by the bending gravity, turning them into a display of diamond-like brilliance. Their eyes, wide and piercing, shone with the fierce glow of golden stars.
"Thank you for nothing—" the dragon whispered silently in annoyance. He was dragged into the golden hall for nothing. The ancient geezers didn\'t even get to the main topic before he was expelled back to his body.
\'Nothing new; that god always acted unpredictably.\'
The dragon turned his attention to the text floating before his eyes.
Ding!
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You have evolved into: [Apocalyptic constellation dragon lord]
The following abilities have evolved:
Stardust Glands (LV 15) --> Quasar Accretion Sphere (LV 20):
Description:
All the previous abilities of stardust have been preserved.
(NEW): The calm star-nebule surrounding the dragon has changed into a fiery barrier of super-accelerated particles enveloping and orbiting the dragon. The gravity-accelerated particles are moving so fast that each collision with them causes nuclear reactions, creating powerful explosions.
The matter entering the accretion disk will be swept by the strong gravity currents, forming an almost impenetrable, destructive barrier that annihilates almost everything it touches.
(NEW) Everything sucked and swept into the accretion sphere will turn into raw particles and join it, expanding and empowering it.
(NEW) The ability of the stardust to change its forms and turn into stellar bodies has improved, allowing the dragon to permanently transmute atoms and molecules using just the immense speed of the rotating particles.
(NEW) The dragon can feed any kind of energy into the sphere to expand and empower it. But they can also absorb a portion of the sphere into their bodies to quickly mend their armor, heal their bodies, and recover their energy.
The following abilities have been merged into Quasar Accretion Sphere: Star Rays (LV 1), and Corrupted Mana Well (LV 1), granting it the ability to curse on contact and shoot deadly quasar jets from any point of the sphere.
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\'This...\' An ability devouring and expanding, just the thought of how deadly it was made the dragon almost burst into laughter. He could already imagine what would happen if he unleashed the sphere on the surface of a planet, the massive sphere of fiery destruction growing larger and larger as it devoured everything in its path.
However, reality calmed him down almost immediately, \'It is still an ability fueled by me, so I doubt it can expand too far beyond the reach of my domain.\'
Moving on, he continued reading.
Ding!
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Dragon Supernova Apocalypse Breath (LV 20) --> Dragon Quasar Jet Breath (LV 25):
Description: This is an even deadlier version of the supernova breath. All its destructive properties have improved by orders of magnitude. Its speed, temperature, and contained kinetic energy have largely improved.
It preserves its long-range beam form but also gains a new spray-like form that unleashes clouds of super-heated, super-accelerated particles and an entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation. It loses its concentrated effect but gains a wide reach.
The gravitons contained in the beam and spray will suck everything into it, making it almost impossible to avoid, while unleashing chaotic gravity waves that destroy everything around while increasing the speed of particles even further.
The larger and denser the accreditation sphere around the dragon, the stronger the quasar jet will become.
The second form of natural wrath remains the same.
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\'As expected...\' It was only a simple change, increasing the power of his breath. However, for Vesuvius, who fell in love with the supernova breath after its first use, it was exactly what he wanted.
\'A destructive particle beam attack that is perfect in range, power, and speed.\'
Ding!
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Apocalypse Dragon Black Core Armour (LV 19) <-> [Noble Dragon Hoard Armor (LV 16)] --> Dimensional Black-hole Armour (LV 24) <-> [Noble Dragon Hoard Armor (LV 21)] :
Description:
It preserves all the properties of the previous armor and empowers them even further. As its density has increased, the gravitational field generated by the armor has become even stronger, and its resistance has become tougher.
When struck by both energy-based and physical attacks with power below a certain threshold, it will absorb the force of the attack to mend and rejuvenate the dragon. When struck by stronger attacks, it will partially absorb as much of the force as possible.
It also passively attracts nearby radiation, energy, and matter towards it.
Simultaneously, the armor is enveloped in a layer of warped and folded space, which helps to deflect enemy attacks.
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Ding!
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Dragon Star (LV 1) --> Dragon Constellation (LV 6) <-> [Star Forms (LV 1)]:
It preserves all the links and powers originating from the dragon\'s star. On top of that, it gains the power to devour and absorb other stars and black holes, only a single per class, and emplace them into the dragon\'s constellation, which is superpositioned inside the dragon\'s divine kingdom, the tips of their horns, and their stellar crown.
Once absorbed into the constellation, the stars will empower the dragon and supply them with a limited amount of their energy.
A single star from the constellation can be chosen as the main one, replacing the dragon\'s star in the material world, increasing the amount of energy drawn from it.
[Star Forms (LV 1)]: The dragon can take on the form of any star from their constellation, changing their body, relative size, stats, appearance, and powers to match the properties of the chosen star.
When in a specific form, the dragon can draw more energy from the chosen star.
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