Continuous Advancement (2)

While asleep, Lucifer was dreaming. But this time, it was an unusual dream. It felt real, but at the same time, it didn't. As if he was some type of ghost. There was a girl with a blue- and red eye. Lucifer recognized her as Thalia, which he had met by saving her from a weak minotaur. What amazed Lucifer back then was that she could predict the future with her special eye, called 'The Eye Of Destiny'.

In front of her was a portal which seemed to be hundreds of metres tall and wide. It was like a gigantic whirlpool of molten lava, with all the different colours of red, orange, yellow and some white. Sometimes it was as if the portal spewed out flames, that could burn anything it got into contact with. She was just standing there, as if nothing was in front of her, almost as if she was in some sort of trance.

As Lucifer watched from the sidelines, he looked at his surroundings. Lands painted in red with blood, and corpses everywhere. It looked the same as the battlefield Lucifer had encountered and had left to advance. The sky was red as well as if the blood from the gods had drenched it. Everything in sight was completely blood-red. Trees, rocks, the ground, the sky, you name it. The only thing standing out was Thalias sapphire-blue eye that was staring directly at the portal as if to challenge it.

A few minutes passed by as she kept staring directly into the portal, without moving a single inch or taking her eyes off of it. It seemed as if nothing could distract her.

Suddenly, her head shifted, bit by bit, as it turned around to look in the direction where Lucifer was standing. As his eyes met with hers, a chill went down his spine as he saw both an eye as calm as water, and an eye filled with destruction and movement. She looked at him as if she knew that he was there, although he wasn't in physical form.

- "I knew you were a special one. I can see why she liked you."

As she said that, she smiled with a mysterious smile, that was the same as when Lucifer had saved her back then.

Another chill went down Lucifer's spine as he was filled with shock. Who was Thalia talking about? He hadn't met any other girls inside this world, except for Thalia and an adventurer that he scared. He couldn't help but feel weird and confused at the same time. What girl could she be referring to?

He should've been sleeping at the moment, but it all felt way too real for him to think of it as a dream. Feeling extremely uncomfortable, Lucifer tried to ignore her gaze as he once again looked at the portal with wary.

- "I'll see you soon when you enter."

As she said that with her mysterious smile, her gaze fell upon the portal once again as she began to walk towards it with steady and agile steps.

It was almost as if they had just met face to face, but yet at the same time, it was as if it had never happened.

["Successfully advanced Host from 'Child' to 'Young Adult' Giant Demonic Dragon."]

["Successfully advanced Host from 'Young Adult' to 'Adult' Giant Demonic Dragon."]

["Successfully advanced Host from 'Adult' to 'Elder' Giant Demonic Dragon."]

["After the Host successfully advanced from the Child stage of the Giant Demonic Dragon race to the Elder stage, Host has a remnant of 11,203,200‬ 'Advance XP'."]

["Due to the Host exceeding 50001 points in TB, the Host is now ranked as a King ranked beast."]

As Lucifer woke up from his extremely weird and realistic dream, he almost got a headache at how many messages he'd gotten from advancing three stages in one go. After the three consecutive advancements, he felt so much stronger. He felt as if he was a mountain that couldn't be destroyed. Suddenly an excruciating pain went through his whole body as if all of his bones were broken, and thousands of extremely sharp knives were thrown into his body over and over again. He could n't even move, as if he didn't have any strength that could be used.

'It's probably due to my body being modified while advancing too many times in one go.' As Lucifer had already guessed what might be the cause of it, he didn't panic as he had been in a situation like that before. When it happened before, he just had to wait a couple of hours to be able to move properly again.

When he tried to fall asleep again, it would be extremely hard due to him sleeping for so long already.

An hour later, Lucifer finally went to sleep after consecutively trying time after time. As if sleeping for 72 hours weren't enough he had to sleep even more to recover some of his lost MP.

A couple of hours later, Lucifer woke up as he felt his body's pain was almost gone and he could move properly now.

- "Status."

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[Name: Lucifer][Race: Giant Demonic Dragon (Elder: 5/5)][Rank: King]

- HP: 76000/76000

- MP: 12845/28000

- Total Battlepower (TB): 88845/104000

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- (Skills):

Expand.

Orcus Dragon Flame.

Execution.

Poison Bite.

←---→

- (Unique Skills):

Wide Range Absorption.

Combine.

Observation.

Cold Resistance.

Blood Strengthening.

Enhance.

Poison Immunity.

Poison Gas.

←---→

- (Passive Skills):

Nature's Healing.

Constant Regeneration.

Corpse Regeneration.

←---→

[Advancement Unavailable]

[Evolution Unavailable]

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'104000 TB...'. Lucifer's mouth was wide open as his eyes instantly locked onto his TB. What was written, nearly gave him a heart attack from shock. Although Loton had said that he had exceeded the amount tolerated for a Lord rank, he didn't expect his TB to be a little over double, of what Loton had said was the minimum.

Lucifer's heart began to pound with excitement as he couldn't help but laugh loudly as if he was a mad man. His whole face was twisted in a weird expression that somewhat represented a smile.

He carefully examined himself, as he was curious about what changed had occurred to him while he was asleep.

The most notable change was his scales. They had changed colour from blood-red to a somewhat pearl-white, giving an extremely beautiful shine when the sunlight hit it. All sorts of colours could be seen as if he was some kind of rainbow-coloured dragon. He had grown to double the size he was before. He was around 30 metres tall, with a wingspan of around 40 metres, and his tail seemed to be around 50 metres in length as it looked like a gigantic snake, slithering around. On the tip of his tail, the now gigantic spike had was now coal-black. While his body emitted an aura of divine power and innocence, his tail emitted a strong aura of death and bloodlust, as if his tail and body represented Yin and Yang. Two complete opposites.

As Lucifer felt he was invincible he immediately flapped his wings, which created small tornados that destroyed the surroundings and lifted both rocks and trees into the air, launching them off the side of the mountain.

As Lucifer watched that, he felt surprised as to how powerful he had become, as he didn't expect that just a flap of a wing would create a small tornado, that could instantly lift trees and big rocks high into the air.

As Lucifer flew in the direction towards the battlefield, he noticed that he was insanely fast. It was as if he was flying at a couple of times the speed of sound. Suddenly he remembered something. The realistic and creepy dream he had, seemed to be somewhere inside the battlefield. Maybe he could also find the portal and enter it to find out what was on the other side of it?