Damon wiped the corner of his mouth. His throat burned like sandpaper, but the satisfaction blazing in his crimson eyes drowned out the discomfort.
That blast hadn’t just worked. It had cleared the battlefield in one decisive sweep. In this abyss where endless waves of spawn pressed in, wide-area devastation was king.
There was also something more special about this attack. He had lesser fire manipulation, and he could technically create a wide area fire element attack on his own if he tweaked fireball a little and practised for a while, but he had a feeling this one would still be superior.
After using the crimson fire lance for so long, he could feel it. This fire was different. One could even say it was superior.
Even the natural magic resistance of the abyssal creatures did not hold up against the wyrm’s breath. The wyrm’s breath carried weight, a destructive essence layered beyond simple elemental manipulation. It wasn’t mana woven into flame. It was something primal.
This was not new news to him. He had heard about dragon’s breath being superior before, but this was his first time personally using it, that too he was using a diluted version of it. Then how powerful should the actual thing be?
"Maybe when I use the wyrm core for forming my true core, I will get a better idea." Damon mused. Now that he thought about it, he had two wyrm cores in his possession, both collected from the pet wyrms of the same dude.
"Would he be able to summon them again? Or are they permanently gone?" Damon wondered.
A tamed beast was different from a summon, and both the wyrms even dropped their mana cores. A summon that could be summoned again and again, even after its death, would never do this.
Or rather, once it dropped its mana core, it would probably die permanently. That meant that these two wyrms were also probably a permanent loss for the guy. Quite a big one at that.
Damon wondered how he ended up getting so many wyrms in the first place as he continued to search the zone. He might have brought out only two of the big guys, but two in itself was too many when it came to wyrms and draconic beasts. They were the rarest creatures in the entirety of the game world.
"Little dude, you better hatch into one of the better dragons." Damon looked at the lightly pulsing egg, which was still slowly and steadily absorbing abyssal essence. He checked the progress, and it had only increased to 45%.
"It’s fine. Take your time."
While this progress might seem slow when compared with the pitiful guy from his last life, his condition was already a lot better.
Damon continued searching for some more time without any results when one of the abyssal hounds returned to him with something peculiar. The hound padded out of the shadows, its black-furred body slick with ichor.
It carried something clamped carefully between its jaws, something that didn’t reek of abyssal corruption. Damon’s eyes immediately sharpened.
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