Chapter 444 Water
Dilan was trying to make the Drakins talk and communicate with them but that was certainly not easy. He looked at them in an imposing manner to make sure that they wouldn't attack him.
However, this had the opposite effect and the Drakins considered this a threat. They unsheathed their weapons before shrouding their body with the elemental affinity they had been born with to charge at Dilan.
This looked quite formidable and it would have bothered Dilan a lot if the Drakins that had already emerged from the Dragon Temple Gate were stronger than the Mid Tier-3 Wyvern.
Even if they were, Dilan would have been quite happy about it.
The stronger his opponents, the faster he could grow after absorbing their Essence crystal. It was as simple as that!
Nonetheless, Dilan wanted to try talking to the Drakins at least once before he would do something to make sure that the Drakins couldn't bother him or his group.
"Yoo, Lizardmen, how about you talk a little bit with me?" Dilan asked the Drakins, who began to look at each other in confusion.
"Kissschatazzzz mirazzzz lakossss!" One of the Drakins addressed the group, which caused Dilan to give him a thumbs up.
"That's exactly what I want!" He declared with a faint smile on his face.
Unfortunately, the situation turned awkward afterward.
The Drakins turned silent and they looked at him for quite a while without uttering a word.
'Looks like I was too impatient,' Dilan figured before he smiled hesitantly.
There was no need for him to be impatient at first because there were not really troublesome existences in the surrounding, but that quickly changed as a monster towering over ten meters emerged from the Dragon Temple Gate.
Dilan just saw its brown scales and the humongous horns that protruded out of the head of the bulkily built huge lizard.
"An Earth Dragon?" Dilan wondered at the sight of the towering monster.
A big smile appeared on his face and he was ready to give his all to ensure his survival when he noticed that there were reigns around the neck of the monster he presumed to be an Earth Dragon.
Not only reigns but a small mud hut was located on the lengthy back of the Earth Dragon and Dilan could clearly tell that the monster was tamed.
This was quite interesting, but Dilan didn't really have much time to spend watching the scene in front of him in awe as two things happened at the same time.
First, a huge serpentine eye was constructed at the top of the innermost building, the centerpiece of the Dragon Temple; The Golden Dragon Eye Tower!
The Eye stared straight at Dilan, and it detected him as a being that was not benevolent to the Drakins' Ideals.
Their ideals and mission were something that would most certainly obstruct Dilan, and the Golden Dragon Eye could perceive this precisely.
Dilan sensed that his head began to ache the moment the Golden Dragon Eye stared at him.
But that was not everything that happened. The Earth Dragon opened its huge maw and a small pebble-sized mass of energy formed.
The mass of energy enlarged in size and a beam filled with a Dragon's Essence was being unleashed.
A brownish-translucent beam shot straight at Dilan, who looked at the situation in front of him with a trace of interest.
"It doesn't look like they want to make friends," Dilan said a bit ruefully as a faint smile emerged on his face.
"In that case, let me have some fun!" He exclaimed, turning into countless golden specks just before the Dragon Beam would have collided on him.
Dilan had used [Short distance traveling] twice more to make sure that he would land outside the Shiron crater.
Because [Master of Gravity], [Thunder Step], and [Second Acceleration] were still activated, Dilan could shoot to the right side of the crater where a small pit was located.
Next, he quickly accessed his second storage ring, and countless Essence crystals emerged in front of Dilan at once.
The Essence crystals landed inside the pit and Dilan accessed all of them at once, using his high mana aptitude.
A strand of essence was pulled out of all the Essence crystals.
Yet instead of desiring to absorb all Essence crystals, Dilan led the strands of Essence toward the Orb of Mantras.
He charged the Orb of Mantras with the Essence and intended to activate the Deep Sea Tsunami Mantra as soon as it was fully charged.
It was only a matter of time before it would be fully charged and Dilan knew that the next three seconds were the most important. As long as he could fully charge the Orb of Mantras most trouble revolving around the Dragon Temple and the Drakins would be taken care of for quite a while.
That thought was motivating and it caused Dilan to activate [Bearer of Pain] to replenish his Mana at once. His Life force was drained in return but that was not something Dilan was worried about.
His Life force had already been drained so many times that he felt almost accustomed to it by now.
Ignoring the pain of getting his life force drained, Dilan made use of his lowered Health stat to make sure that his stats were properly augmented.
After all [Bracing Pain] would augment his stats drastically the lower his Health stat would be.
This was something Dilan made use of as his Mana increased even further.
He made sure that his mana stat reached an extremely high degree to accelerate the charging process of the Orb of Mantras.
This was possible by inserting traces of his Mana into the strands of Essence that were quickly pulled inside the Orb of Mantras.
Thus, even before the Earth Dragons beam that was empowered with the Essence of a Dragon ended, a tremendous pressure began to weigh down on all existences within the Shiron crater.
Everyone looked in Dilan's direction as he stretched the Orb of Mantras that had turned blue into the air.
"Dive into the Abyss of the Melphyrim, reach out to the Darkness, and bring down the terror of the Ocean!" Dilan screamed at the top of his lungs just before masses of water shot out all around him.
Dilan smiled at the situation that unfolded all around him and he was ready to make sure that everything would go fine as a golden hue emerged all around the Golden Dragon Eye.
"You are pretty troublesome, aren't you?" Dilan mumbled but his smile never dissipated.
Rather, he was pretty satisfied that the Drakins were not easy to defeat as he saw that the masses of water he created were being blocked by a golden semi-translucent come that had emerged around the partially constructed Dragon Temple.
A total of four different types of Magic Scrolls manifested around Dilan.
He took a deep breath and activated [Bearer of Pain] once again, replenishing all of his mana before he made use of [Switch] and the fact that his Mana was already extremely high after [Bracing Pain]'s augmentation.
Reaching close to 1000 Units in Mana, Dilan imagined that he was able to see something all around him, but he didn't have the time to think about this.
It was time to wreak havoc with some Dragons, and Dragonbloods!