Chapter 281

"Hum!"

When a huge amount of mana was poured into the black dragon's body, it couldn't help but widen its eyes.

"Roar — —!!!"

A roar that was filled with comfort, joy, and excitement rang out from its mouth, causing the black dragon to narrow its eyes.

The mana that Shien poured into the black dragon's body turned into a force that was rapidly absorbed by the black dragon.

This caused the violent mana and flesh of the refined demon in the black dragon's body to be stirred, as if it was torn apart by an external overbearing force, and it became shaky.

"Roar — —!!!"

The black dragon roared again.

With this roar, the black dragon's aura began to rise crazily, and its level began to fluctuate again.

However, this time, the black dragon's level did not fluctuate. Instead, it began to rise steadily from level 93.

In other words, the black dragon's strength was constantly increasing.

"Great!"

Shien suddenly smiled, and continued to pour mana into the black dragon's body.

The reason why the black dragon's strength rose like this was because of his [Taming] skill.

Monsters were different from humans and Demons who could increase their strength and level through growth.

For monsters, the most direct way to increase their strength was to absorb mana.

They could transform mana into their own strength, and some were even born from the source of mana. Hence, the way for them to increase their level and strength was very simple, and that was to absorb mana.

Why would monsters be attracted to the source of mana and want to occupy it?

It was very simple. They wanted to absorb the spring water in the source of mana, and transform the spring water that was materialized from mana into their own strength to increase their level.

If they did not have the ability to occupy the source of mana, they could only obtain mana by devouring other individuals to increase their strength.

Because of this, monsters would constantly attack others, not only to prey on them, but also to obtain mana from the flesh and blood of others.

At the same time, monsters would also kill each other. The strong would prey on the weak, and the weak would try their best to survive, and then prey on even weaker ones to strengthen themselves and survive. Only a few exceptions like Gorim would use other methods to increase their strength, such as devouring precious metals. However, that was because of their own uniqueness.

In essence, magical creatures were creatures that took magical power for themselves and used it to increase their own strength.

This method was somewhat similar to Tierre, who had turned into a "ghost".

The difference was that Tierre's "horn" could forcibly plunder all the mana in the surroundings, including the atmosphere, the earth, and even the world itself. Unlike monsters, which had to absorb mana from others and the source of mana.

Moreover, although monsters could absorb mana and use it to increase their own strength, the absorption efficiency was not high at all.

A small source of mana contained an extremely large amount of mana. If it could completely absorb of it, it would definitely allow a level-10 monster to rise above level-70 overnight.

However, back in the Mangal Mountains, Shien had once witnessed a monster over level-60 drink up the spring water of a medium-sized source of mana, but it could not immediately convert the mana into strength.

This was because the efficiency of monsters to absorb mana was not high.

Even if a monster drank up the spring water of a source of mana, in the end, it would only be able to absorb less than a ten-thousandth of the total mana.

This was the case with mana plundered from the outside world. It was not one's own mana, so it could not be used perfectly. In the end, a large amount of mana would be wasted.

From this point of view, Tierre's "horn" was very amazing. It could actually completely convert mana that was forcibly plundered into strength, allowing Tierre's strength to increase rapidly. In a short while, it rose above level-90. It was no wonder that this unique skill was regarded as comparable to Rosie's.

However, even Tierre's "horn" could only fully utilize the mana temporarily. Once the "horn" was cut off, the mana would automatically dissipate, causing Tierre's level to fall back to its original level after she regained consciousness.

In addition, forcibly plundering mana from the outside world for her own use eventually caused the "horn" to affect Tierre's own rationality. This was another drawback.

From this, it could be seen that it was very difficult to completely convert and utilize mana from the outside world.

In fact, the same was true for the Demon Refinement Ritual.

This ritual was similar to Gu Refinement. It allowed monsters and Demons to devour each other and absorb each other's mana and flesh to strengthen themselves. In the end, it caused the Demon Refinement Ritual to go berserk and become deformed.

Therefore, when monsters absorbed mana from the outside world, most of it would be wasted, leaving only a small amount for their own use. That might be a way of self-protection.

However, when someone had the [Taming] skill, this rule would be broken.

That was because the person with the [Taming] skill could convert mana into a form that could be easily absorbed by the monsters, allowing them to completely absorb the mana.

In this way, the monsters could absorb mana at a much higher efficiency than usual, increasing their strength much faster than usual and becoming more powerful.

Under such circumstances, in addition to absorbing the tamer's mana, the magical beasts would subconsciously develop a sense of closeness and dependence on the tamer. In the end, the magical beasts would take the initiative to follow and submit to the tamer.

This was the use of [Taming].

As mentioned before, there was a Master Tamer in the Mithra Kingdom. His [Taming] level wasn't high, but he had a unique skill that could greatly increase the success rate of [Taming]. That unique skill strengthened the Master Tamer's mana conversion ability.

As a result, the Master Tamer nurtured many Wyverns for the Mithra Kingdom as mounts.

Now, Shien used his [Taming] skill to convert a large amount of mana into a form that could be absorbed by the Black Dragon and injected it into its body.

Of course, the Black Dragon's level was already very high, and even if Shien had a lot of mana, there was no way to easily increase its strength like that.

The reason why the Black Dragon's strength could increase so quickly was that Shien used his own mana as a bridge and injected it into the Black Dragon's body, strengthening its resistance and absorption ability, allowing it to temper the Alchemy Demon's mana and flesh in its body.

This was originally very difficult to achieve.

If it weren't for the fact that Shien had the [Taming] skill at the maximum level, and the effect of this skill was greatly enhanced by the Holy Sword, he would definitely not be able to achieve this goal.

Now, the Alchemy Demon's mana and flesh seemed to have been thrown into a furnace to be smelted again. They were first minced before being absorbed by the Black Dragon and turned into its strength.

The purpose of this was to remove the parts of the Alchemy Demon's mana and flesh that caused people to go berserk and deformed, leaving only the essence and pure mana.

Thus, the Black Dragon's mana continued to rise, and its level also continued to rise, but it was no longer chaotic, no longer painful, and no longer twisted and protruded its body.

When the Black Dragon transformed all the Alchemy Demon's mana and flesh into pure mana and completely absorbed it, the Black Dragon's aura also became unprecedentedly powerful.

As for its level, it was completely fixed.

[Lv.99]

An invincible monster that was close to the maximum level was born just like that.

"Roar roar roar roar —!!!"

The ultimate dragon roar that announced its rebirth resounded throughout the entire canyon.

It made the world tremble.