Chapter 1239 – Dragonslayer

Jake entered meditation and allowed his senses of the world to fade away, which also had the lucky side-effect of removing any sense of pain. This allowed Jake to focus fully on recovery while also going through his system messages, of which he had quite a few.

He also reflected a bit on his conversation with the aunt of Yrelstromoz and noted that she called him a Dragonslayer towards the end. In truth, he had found that a bit odd, especially the way she’d said it.

It sounded like both praise and a slight warning at the same time. He had found it pretty damn weird, at least until he saw his system notifications and saw one sitting there right at the top. He hadn’t even noticed it before now… but apparently, Dragonslayer was an actual system-recognized title.

Title Gained: [Dragonslayer]

[Dragonslayer] – Slay a dragon. This title marks you as someone who has successfully slain a True Dragon in single combat. Wear it with pride, for all shall know of your feat, for better or worse. Dragons can innately sense that you have slain one of their kin. Grants negligible resistance to the Draconic Language skill.

Jake read the description and noted that it didn’t really seem to do much of anything. It reminded him a bit of the Kingslayer title he’d also obtained back when he killed the King of the Forest. The benefits of the Kingslayer title were notoriously weak, as nobility-based skills tended not to work on powerful people, anyway. Such skills tended to be population-wide, and in fact, having resistance could prove detrimental rather than beneficial. At least Jake had never benefited from his title as far as he knew.

However, that didn’t mean the Kingslayer title was useless… it just didn’t necessarily help the one who had it much. Instead, it was a title others could sense, serving as a warning. A system-recognized King could recognize that Jake had slain another king before.

In the same vein, this skill would allow other dragons to know Jake had killed a dragon. It felt more like a mark on his existence, telling other dragons he was a potential target for revenge more than anything, a bit like if one were branded a heretic.

Not that Jake particularly cared if dragons were butthurt that he’d killed one of their kind. He seriously doubted any dragons would dare raise an issue with the Chosen of the Malefic Viper over something like that, so Jake would wear the title with pride. Besides, it did make Draconic Language less effective on him, even if the effect was minuscule.

Overall, he found the title odd and would ask Villy about it later.

Moving on, Jake had naturally also gained some experience, but before that, he checked out the kill notification as he was curious exactly what level Yrelstromoz had been. He expected her to barely be B-grade… and he couldn’t have been more right.

You have slain [Luxellian Dragon – lvl 350] – Bonus experience earned for killing an enemy above your level

She had indeed barely evolved and hadn’t even gained a single level after becoming a B-grade. Likely her Path had been too broken, and it was only due to her heritage that she’d even become a B-grade in the first place, as all she had to do to get there was stay alive.

As for her race as a Luxellian Dragon, Jake believed it was one of the most common dragon races from the Lumenflight – as common as a dragon could possibly get, anyway.

Yrelstromoz had no doubt been a weak True Dragon, but she had proven herself a True Dragon in the end. Even the curse she tried to place on Jake at the moment of her death had some real heft behind it, and if not for Eternal Hunger making him borderline immune to curses at that level, he would have been in for a bad time.

The system also agreed that, despite her relative weakness, it was a good kill. At least he wasn’t going to complain about the experience gained.

’DING!’ Class: [Arcane Hunter of Horizon’s Edge] has reached level 333 – Stat points allocated, +50 Free Points

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’DING!’ Class: [Arcane Hunter of Horizon’s Edge] has reached level 337 – Stat points allocated, +50 Free Points

’DING!’ Race: [Human (C)] has reached level 339 – Stat points allocated, +45 Free Points

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’DING!’ Race: [Human (C)] has reached level 341 – Stat points allocated, +45 Free Points

Five class levels, while toward the end of C-grade, were pretty damn good, especially when one considered his prey had only just been B-grade. Jake had killed a lot of B-grades that were higher level without even getting close to getting a level from them.

Seeing his level-ups and that his race was now level 341, he wondered what Yrelstromoz would have thought if she knew a level 338 had killed her. For a C-grade human to kill a True Dragon was already a massive feat, but to do it while not even at peak C-grade yet had to be even more impressive.

Though truth be told, Jake felt that if he’d been peak C-grade, this fight would have been too easy. While those levels wouldn’t offer a massive boost in power, they would most certainly have mattered.

Not that Jake planned on putting it to the test. He wasn’t planning on hunting more True Dragons for now, though who knows about the future. Jake felt about True Dragons a lot like he felt about hunting other humans or enlightened races. It felt weird to do. Yes, Jake knew this was incredibly hypocritical, seeing as finding any B-grades outside of elementals and some rare other types of monsters who weren’t sapient was pretty damn hard.

Either way, Jake moved on as he had one more important thing to check out: his gift for allowing Yrelstromoz’s aunt to take her body. Jake didn’t have super high expectations or even put much consideration into his loot from the fight, especially not with how many rare and expensive dragon parts he’d gone through to make his Dragonsbane Poison… yet he found himself pleasantly surprised when he finally Identified it.

[Light-touched Luxellian Dragon Heart (Mythical)] – The heart of a Luxellian True Dragon, touched and empowered by her kin mere moments after death. Contains the focused Records of a Luxellian True Dragon, granting it incredibly potent energy of the light-affinity and even the true essence of a dragon. Has many alchemical uses, but be warned that manipulating the inherent power within will not prove easy.

Normally, the Dragon Hearts Jake used for his alchemy were of legendary rarity, and in many cases, it wasn’t even the full heart he used but just parts of one. He’d expected to see another legendary item at most from Yrelstromoz, but it appeared that he had severely underestimated the effects of whatever the aunt had done.

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As for what he would use it for, Jake legitimately had no bloody clue. He considered eating it with Palate, but he still had half a desolate-ridden World Core to get rid of first. While it was an option to get rid of that core now, and it would likely even be the smartest move, Jake stubbornly wanted to keep it in there and at least get enough benefits from breaking his Palate skill while eating it to make himself feel a little better about his questionable decision-making.

Jake also only really now thought about how this was probably his first major fight like this that hadn’t resulted in any skill upgrades. Usually, he got at least an upgrade or even two during scenarios like these, but this time, nothing.