117: Breakthrough Earth Knight

A month of soaking in dragon blood allowed Arthur's strength to advance by leaps and bounds, but this was only one of the benefits.

dragon blood not only allows a person's strength to advance rapidly but can also improve their Physique.

For Arthur, for example, his current physical strength and Dou Qi content are definitely several times that of an ordinary human Earth Knight.

Although he is only in the Earth Knight Early Stage, he is confident he fears no ordinary Earth Knight Peak powerhouse, making him unrivaled within the same Realm!

This was only the first surprise. The second surprise was that Arthur, who originally had no Magical Talent, found that he could sense the Water elemental magic elements in nature.

Moreover, this feeling became clearer the longer he soaked in the dragon blood, and now, his Magical Talent has reached the Intermediate Stage.

Thus, according to Arthur's estimation, after his strength rises to Sky Knight, his Water elemental Magical Talent should also be able to rise to the High Stage.

Magical Talent is generally divided into the Initial Stage, Intermediate Stage, High Stage, and Super Stage.

Those at the Super Stage are expected to become Legendary, the High Stage are expected to become a Magister or Grand Magus, the Intermediate Stage are expected to become a Magister, and the Initial Stage can generally only become a Mage or Great Mage.

Looking at it this way, dragon blood is truly terrifying in terms of improving talent!

Although he gained Magical Talent, Arthur was not in a hurry to learn the profoundly mysterious magic.

Because with only Intermediate Stage Magical Talent, he is still too ordinary, and learning would yield half the results for twice the effort.

It is better to wait until his Magical Talent reaches the High Stage or even higher before studying; learning then would be equivalent to at least ten days of current study per day.

After comprehensive consideration, Arthur temporarily gave up on learning magic.

Today, one month later, Arthur, having made the Breakthrough to become an Earth Knight, carefully assessed his physical condition after stabilizing his Realm.

First was power—unparalleled power, several times stronger than when he was in the Silver or Gold stages.

As for lifespan, Arthur is still over a month shy of eighteen years old, so it's not the time to worry about this, and he didn't notice much change.

With his strength greatly advanced, he couldn't wait to test it out.

The destructive power of an Earth Knight is extraordinary; even if magic protection can be cast, the commotion is still too great!

Therefore, Arthur did not plan to test it within the city. After dressing, he went with Joao to the uninhabited area of the Barren Plains.

Arthur stood in the silent wasteland, holding a Knight's Greatsword.

After taking a deep breath, he began mobilizing the Dou Qi throughout his body and forcefully swung a regular slash forward.

Although it was a full-power strike, he did not use a Battle Technique, so it was just an ordinary attack.

As soon as this ordinary slash, containing Arthur's full power, was swung out, the Dou Qi within it transformed into a nearly fifty-meter-wide Dou Qi Slash.

It then cut a fissure in the ground and continuously rushed into the distance. The slash traveled nearly five hundred meters before gradually fading into nothingness.

Along this nearly five-hundred-meter path, neither soil nor stone could block its sharpness; both were split in two.

Such a terrifying slash already possessed the might equivalent to a strike unleashed by an ordinary Earth Knight Peak powerhouse.

Considering Arthur only has the strength of the Earth Knight Early Stage, this comparison shows that Arthur is now quite monstrous!

Afterward, Arthur conducted an hour-long test, having Joao act as a sparring partner, making good use of his Battle Techniques, and thoroughly integrating his rapidly advancing strength.

After Arthur's hour of devastation, the uninhabited area within a thousand meters was completely turned into ruins.

It looked as if a massive earthquake had occurred, with fissures everywhere.

After an hour of fighting with Joao, Arthur had used up most of his Dou Qi!

Of course, this is the amount used. If you also factor in the Dou Qi recovered by absorbing external energy during that hour...

The true amount of Dou Qi Arthur expended is two-thirds less than “most,” meaning Arthur still has half of his Dou Qi remaining.

From this, it can be seen that his current Dou Qi recovery speed is terrifying. This is also a unique characteristic of Earth Knights: astonishing Dou Qi recovery and long combat duration!

After this trial, Arthur was very satisfied with his strength.

At the same time, he fully understood the value of dragon blood, this precious item.

After a month of dragon blood Tempering, he confirmed that this item was very safe.

Therefore, Arthur decided that dragon blood must be included among the items in the Portable Shop in the future, as he couldn't leave out his family when it came to such a good thing.

Speaking of which, it is now November, meaning it is the start of a new month, and Arthur has gained one Replication Opportunity for the Portable Shop.

Arthur acted immediately upon his thought, taking out one cubic meter of dragon blood to replicate it, turning it into a commodity in the Portable Shop.

“The blood of a Water Attribute Legendary Dragon is an incomparably precious item, also containing numerous Wonderful Uses.

Price: Ten thousand gold coins per cubic meter”

Arthur looked at the information in the Portable Shop, thinking that a Dragon's entire body held about six hundred cubic meters of blood.

This meant that the blood of one Dragon was worth six million gold coins in the Portable Shop.

Based on the Pricing of the Portable Shop, this also meant that dragon blood was worth tens of millions of gold coins on the Continent of Gods.

The Pricing within the Portable Shop wasn't expensive for the current Arthur. Thinking about the candidates for the dragon blood soaking: parents, eldest brother, second sister, Karona, and Doria.

A total of six people, which amounts to thirty-six million gold coins—acceptable for Arthur.

Arthur took out six space rings and purchased six huge obsidian dragon blood Containers from the Portable Shop.

He then placed the six portions of exchanged dragon blood into the six containers, storing them separately using the six space rings.

The items were ready. Except for Karona and Doria, the rest could be sent to them by messenger.

After finishing this, Arthur returned to the Castle in Initial City.

As soon as Arthur returned, he happened to be spotted by a cute girl with blue hair.

This cute girl was Doria!

Ten days ago, exactly one month after Arthur left the Merfolk Royal City, Doria eagerly arrived at Arthur's place as promised.

At this moment, Doria was holding Karona's hand, happily walking from the Initial City street toward the Castle.

Seeing Arthur, she became even happier, skipping over and wrapping her arms around Arthur's arm:

“Brother Arthur, did you just return from outside?”

Then she saw Arthur's somewhat damaged clothes and couldn't help but gasp:

“Brother Arthur, why are your clothes torn? Did you encounter danger outside?

Who did this? Tell me quickly, and I'll have Mother avenge you.”

Karona, who came with Doria, also noticed Arthur's abnormality and looked at him worriedly, asking:

“What happened? Did someone really attack you?”