Chapter 165: The Choice of New Skills!
Magnalos realized it's best to just behave.
This child was simply too intelligent.
In the Holy Life Alliance, whether it's outstanding intelligence, physical strength, agility, or power, they are all signs of superior bloodlines.
Some intelligent beings can display an extraordinary talent in a specific area within just a few months, leaving people in awe.
So, while Lin Ke's cleverness surprised Magnalos, it was only surprising, nothing more.
She simply put away her little thoughts, ready to instruct this child properly.
Once she performs well enough, that adult should take her back, right?
As for resurrection, she still preferred to believe in her own kin.
"So, let's start." Lin Ke prepared paper and pen to take notes.
This time, Magnalos was honest, not changing the subject, nor drifting off-topic, but narrating the skills seriously.
"Magma Surfing, this is an incredibly powerful skill. As long as there's magma around me, I can use the entire magma as my mount..."
"Rage of the Fire Element, I can blast your castle into the sky in an instant! And..."
"Fiery Strike, I can even slightly injure an Epic Powerhouse of level eighteen at the same level!..."
Magnalos recounted her skills one by one, from the first to the last.
Her {Knight} profession has a total of nine skills, unsurprisingly all related to fire and earth elements.
Magma originally belongs to these two attributes.
Moreover, Magnalos was well-trained by her father, excelling in every aspect, and deeply digging into the word "magma."
Ordinary dragons might be left alone by their mother after birth, but Magnalos' father was one of the twelve legendary dragons in the Giant Dragon Race, the Red Dragon Surtr. Her mother was also a level ten or so Earth Dragon.
So Magnalos is actually very excellent.
But precisely because the body of the Giant Dragon Race is too alluring, the current Holy Life Alliance rarely sees dragons anymore.
However, the long-lasting knowledge and heritage of the dragons, Magnalos had them, and quite a lot at that.
So Lin Ke kept using various methods to extract knowledge from Magnalos.
He discovered that Magnalos, this young female dragon, was genuinely very young.
She sounded like she'd lived for several hundred years and was a figure from the early Insomnia Emperor era, quite frightening.
But in reality, she was just two hundred years old in dragon age.
It's just that what she knew were ancient secrets, so even if she drifted off-topic sometimes, Lin Ke would listen and record.
For instance, back then, the Insomnia Emperor almost didn't marry the Five-Colored Dragon Princess but the Black Dragon Princess. At a critical moment, the Five-Colored Dragon directly punched the Insomnia Emperor down and abducted him, otherwise who would end up marrying him was uncertain.
And after learning this, combined with what Magnalos said, Lin Ke understood why the Holy Life Alliance and the Gula Kingdom were not on good terms now.
One has to know that the current king of the Holy Life Alliance seemed to have been a small follower of the Black Dragon Princess, who had migrated with the dragons.
"...So, that's how I got this skill? You should know that once I unleash my Flame Furnace, it could directly melt an eighth-level skill!"
Magma Dragon Magnalos looked proud; it required sixteen levels to unleash an eighth-level skill, achieving such a skill at the initial stage of sixteen was quite impressive.
Lin Ke also thought it was good, so he recorded this skill too.
It wasn't until very late at night that Magnalos smacked her lips, cleared her throat, and said, "Hey, do you want to sleep? Let me tell you about the Wild Boar King from my ex-husband's tribe of boar people and the twelve Rabbitmen, it's quite a story."
After speaking, Magnalos looked at Lin Ke with expectant eyes.
Lin Ke remained silent, for the thirteenth time he said, "I'm going to the bathroom."
"Alright!" Magnalos cheered. She knew that once Lin Ke came out of the bathroom, he would be a bit more refreshed; after all, she was a lonely mother dragon for over a thousand years!
You could see her crawling back and forth on Lin Ke's desk on all fours, chanting, "Hmm, where should I start... That big white rabbit seemed to have given me a candy, and because of that candy, I was in a good mood to go to the lakeside to enjoy the scenery and accidentally discovered him..."
Lin Ke listened casually for a few sentences, but couldn't bear it, quickly escaping into the bathroom.
Too much!
Too much talking!
What is supposed to be useful information, my gosh!
This mother dragon was entirely a gossiping creature, focusing on all sorts of gossip and entertainment news!
Things about the White Dove King and the stories of the flock, the Black Crocodile Elf's tribe leader's scandal and subsequent downfalls, and how a couple of white dragons gave birth to a pure black dragon...
Too messy!
The Holy Life Alliance is essentially a large tribal conglomerate, made up of various intelligent species' tribes, changing rulers every two hundred years.
In such a complex nation, the information Magnalos knew must be trivial.
Not that it is completely useless, it may have a tiny bit of effect.
But most of it is a bunch of messy trash information.
Fortunately, in terms of skills, Magnalos was pretty much done, and Lin Ke was contemplating the skills he wanted.
He was a level four {Scholar} and level four {Knight}.
In the {Scholar} aspect, his first skill was a streamlined air pressure shield, the second skill was temporarily vacant.
In the {Knight} aspect, his first skill was a charge, the second skill was also temporarily vacant.
Magnalos' skills weren't just offensive ones, like that Magma Surfing, it was also surfing the fire element and earth element, or rather, the earth element itself.
Lin Ke had always thought that {Knight} must have a mount to exert its power, but what if there's no mount?
However, Magnalos told him that the strength of a {Knight} lies not only in the charge but also in the fact that the mount can be anything and everything.
Even Housekeeper Billy didn't know this, neither did Garoce.
So for the {Knight}, if the first skill is a charge, then the second skill should be "riding" on everything.
But Lin Ke actually didn't want Magma Surfing.
Because Magnalos was a Magma Dragon, her father prepared skills to enhance her abilities, complementing each other.
If Lin Ke were to choose, he'd prefer choosing skills like "Air Surfing" or "Earth Surfing," so he could have a mount anytime, anywhere.
However, Magnalos was only a {Knight}, not a {Scholar}.
The fatal flaw is, she didn't have a shred of research ability!
All her feedback came from battles!
As for skills, most of them were given to her by her father, and she learned whatever she was given. Her life's attention was retained in gossip.
Therefore, Lin Ke's idea was to learn these skills' composition methods and to analyze and research them with Ove, and finally devise something that suits himself.