Chapter 1860 Caught In Middle, Anesthesia Dragon
?Date- 17 April 2321
Time- 14:15
Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters, Blood Rock Cave Dungeon
Promising the Field Marshal a meet with a cooperative Corey, Wyatt headed back inside the dungeon seal. Talking to the Field Marshal Wyatt understood why Corey was not interested in cooperating with the Southern Royal family. They saw keeping Corey safe as another way of getting the Bright Couple to keep doing their great work at the Way Beyond.
Corey already blamed the Southern Royal family for her absent parents more than her parents themselves. Because as their daughter she wanted to be supportive of them completing their duty toward their homeland, as for the Southern Royal family, she blamed them for using patriotism to force her parents into neglecting their only child. She believed the Southern Royal family had robbed her parents of their only daughter"s childhood and time with their precious family.
There were so many other capable Southerners out there who had yet to do their share of duty toward their homeland but the Southern Royal family only forced Corey"s parents who had done more than their share for their homeland. Corey"s reason for thinking this was totally valid. She was not wrong, her parents had indeed done a lot for their homeland within and beyond the limit of their strength.
The Southern royal family would agree with Corey"s reasoning, they even had plans to honor her parents for their service, however, the couple was caught in a huge case that required their presence as without them the progress the case had seen so far would be for nothing. There were many capable people in the Southern Region but none could replace these two and their contribution in this case.
The case was very important for the economy of the Southern region as such the Southern Royal family paid close attention to it. So much so that even the Southern Emperor had become the couple"s only daughter"s G.o.dmother. So, if not for Wyatt, it was somebody else sheltering Corey then the Southern Royal family would not care and use force to get Corey to cooperate with them. N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter"s release on No"v3l--B1n.
Since Ann had already requested Wyatt"s help concerning the case that Corey"s parents were working on he knew how important it was. If not for the Southern region being cheap he would have helped them but that"s a matter of another time. However, Corey"s parent"s task was very important for the Southern region so despite sympathizing with Corey"s sadness, he did not blame the Southern royal family for their actions.
But Wyatt did not like being caught between the two which was why he promised the Field Marshal to persuade Corey to cooperate with them. He would give it a try but knowing how broken Corey was right now he did not know if it was the right time to ask her to cooperate with anything for that matter. Since Park was the reasonable one of the two with Corey down, it might just work out in favor of the Field Marshal.
"Sigh," Wyatt let out a long sigh standing on Bloodette"s bed. Then looking at his clone that was keeping an eye on her he instructed, "Here, take this anesthesia"s beard and feed it to her. Considering her physique by the time I make the position it will have taken effect."
The herd anesthesia"s beard looks very much like the beard of the dragon Anesthesia, hence the name. As for its effects, it"s a very potent drug, even a tiny bit of it would dampen a being"s body"s regular responses. But for Blood"s physique, an entire anesthesia"s beard was required to do the trick.
The idea behind giving Bloodette this herb was that, with her bodily response dampened the potion Wyatt was creating for her would have the maximum effect. Bloodette"s blood rule body though humanoid functions differently from that of humans so dampening her regular bodily response would not hinder but he helpful. Considering the potion Wyatt was making was to trick her body"s natural response to trauma, this was even more so true.
"I will be right back," instructing his clone, Wyatt headed back into the seed world only to be greeted by an unpleased Dredre, "Wyatt, you promised you would not leave the Seed world for the foreseeable future until my Forest"s spirit was born. But left."
"I was just when out for a little bit to help Park take Corey outside. Besides, I am back aren"t I?" Wyatt thought he would return right away and Dredre would not even notice but he did not expect to be delayed by the Field Marshal. He noticed that the void of the seed world was colder than usual.
"I understand that but you said you will let your clones do all the work if there need be," Dredre reminded Wyatt what he had said.
"I am sorry, Dredre. I will not repeat it," Knowing that the forest spirit"s birth was important for Dredre, Wyatt apologized to her for not keeping his word without continuing to argue with her. He thought going out for a minute or two would not matter but he did not think the Field Marshal would be so demanding today.
"You promise," Dredre asked, looking at her pink innocent eyes Wyatt did not think twice before promising her, "I promise."
"Okay," the lost smile finally returned to Dredre"s face with Wyatt"s promise and the void of the seed world once again felt pleasant.
"To think Dredre"s mood would affect the atmosphere of the seed world," Wyatt was astonished to notice that Dredre had such influence on the side of the seed world. He began to wonder if she was already considering the entire seed world as her territory and not just the floating island where her forest was situated. Wyatt wondered what brought this change, "Was it me giving Dredre authority of the seed world?"
Upon asking the Hive AI to go through his memories to find when these subtle changes to the seed world began. Soon it reported that his guess was right, it was after he handed Dredre authority to the seed world.
As Dredre left to do her thing, Wyatt isolated the s.p.a.ce to begin the potion-making for Bloodette"s condition. First, he carefully examined all the ingredients one by one. The first one was a rainbow scale, just by holding it Wyatt felt sleepy and lethargic. Forcing himself awake Wyatt remembered the ingredient"s name, the scale of Anesthesia Dragons.
There"s a race of dragons known for their sleeping prowess across the myriad realms called the Anesthesia Dragons. They sleep for a millennium and spend a decade awake. The popular belief was that not even the destruction of the realm they were sleeping in could awaken the Anesthesia Dragons from their millennium-long sleep.
One would believe that the Anesthesia Dragons were weakest during their sleep and strongest when awake just as the other race of dragons. However, they would be wrong as unlike the rest of the dragon races they were strongest when asleep and the weakest when awake. This was because when asleep, an Anesthesia Dragon was able to neglect almost ninety percent of the physical damage and a hundred percent of the spiritual damage. Not to forget that it gains immunity to all debuffs in its sleep.
Damage negation and absolute debuff immunity were only two of Anesthesia Dragons" many scary abilities. In their sleeping state, the air they breathed out would instantly put every living ent.i.ty in the vicinity to sleep regardless of the realm. If the realm difference was high then they might be lucky enough to barely escape the area of effect if they were not very close to the Anesthesia Dragon. After all, the closer one was to the Anesthesia Dragon the stronger the effect of its power.
Even if someone were to somehow manage to hurt the Anesthesia Dragon in its sleep overcoming its damage negation and sleep breathe, then it would only spell disaster unless they kill it in one blow because once attacked the air it breathed in would drain the life force of every living ent.i.ty sleeping in its vicinity to heal itself and to add a new defense. Being attacked in its sleep, the Anesthesia Dragon"s defense not only has damage negation but also gains counter defense which returns sixty percent of the damage it received back to the attacker bypa.s.sing all the attacker"s defense and also increasing the chances of the attacker falling asleep.
In case the situation becomes dire for the sleeping Anesthesia Dragon, then its spiritual body can awaken by sacrificing 10 percent on spiritual damage negation to actively defend itself. However, once the sleeping Anesthesia Dragon"s spiritual body awakens it can control and possess the air its sleeping body breathes out to create a humongous wind-elemental body as a vessel for its spiritual body to use. Allowing it to specifically target the attacker and force them to sleep by stuffing the sleep breath into the attacker"s body. If the Anesthesia Dragon has mastered any runes related to wind, sleep, dream, etc then it would be in the best interest of the attacker to run before its spiritual body awakens and gains a vessel.
So, unless one has the confidence to kill the sleeping Anesthesia Dragon in a single blow, it was highly recommended to not engage it. As showing hostility toward the Anesthesia Dragon near its area of effect would only increase the effect of the sleep breath.
However, it was a totally different story about killing an awake Anesthesia Dragon as they did not have their overpowered abilities to rely on to keep the predators away. Without their abilities, they were nothing but oversized winged lizards. This was why the Anesthesia Dragon does not sleep anywhere and carefully chooses its nest and as a precautionary measure during the last decade of their millennium-long sleep, the Anesthesia Dragon"s spiritual body awakens forcefully such that it can kill all the predators hiding in wait for it to wake up.
Elder Anesthesia Dragons do not have to worry about being stalked by their predators as they are capable of Dream escape. An ability that allows them to escape to another location by carrying their body through dreams. n.o.body knows how this ability actually works as n.o.body has been able to capture or kill an Elder Anesthesia Dragon. Hence, Dream Escape has been listed as top 100 abilities in the myriad realms.
Regardless of their prowess, Anesthesia Dragon"s each part of the body has high demand because of their high medicinal value. Susan had to pay two devil-grade ingredients just for one of its scales. This scale did not even belong to an older dragon but a young one hence its potency was very little compared to the scale of an older Anesthesia Dragon. Still, it was already a miracle that she could find it on such short notice. Besides its power was more than enough for Wyatt"s use.