Chapter 42: 042 The Mountains Part Two

I had ten seconds to act before we hit bottom, so I scrambled as quickly as I could up to the dragon's head. “I'm sorry about this.” I said and took out my sword, activated all the enchantments on it and my armor, making both glow, then I shoved the blade deep into the dragon's right eye.

“ROOOOOOOWWWWRRRRR!!!!” The dragon yelled in pain.

I held the hilt and gently kicked off as I activated my Lightning ring and boosted it with my armor's power. “I'm really sorry.” I said and channelled everything into the sword.

The entire chasm lit up and I let the hilt go. The Lightning still arced to the sword as it acted like a conductor and all that power went right into the dragon's brain. Both eyeballs burst as the dragon convulsed. I could easily see the bottom now and just before I hit, I activated Featherfall.

The dragon was too focused on my attack to deploy its wings, so it hit the ground at nearly terminal velocity. Since the thing was gigantic, it weighed a lot and had a lot of mass, which meant when it hit without slowing itself down like I had, its slightly softer underbelly was pretty much crushed.

I was very glad that I had worn my full suit of armor, because I was in front of the mouth as a lot of the dragon's guts and blood spewed out and slammed into me. I was pushed back against the wall of the chasm until it stopped and it left me covered from head to toe in gore as I stood in a giant pool of mulched dragon insides.

Luckily, one of the enchantments was the magic equivalent of no sticking, so all that blood and gore slid right off. Eventually. I had to jump up and down a couple of times to get some of the smaller chunks to dislodge and fall to the ground. I ended the Lightning attack and activated my Light ring to light up the area. I walked over to the dragon's head, pulled out the sword, and flicked it to get the residue off of it and stored it.

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Congratulations! You have defeated the Legendary Dragon of the Tell Mountains as a Level 64 combatant without any fighting abilities. You faced death and mocked it, even though you don't have any points in stats or skills. Extra bonuses for Daredevil and Reckless apply. Good Job!
Experience earned: 8,950,435 (x1)
Daredevil Bonus (x3): 26,851,305
Reckless Bonus (x2): 17,900,870
First Legendary Kill Bonus: 5,000,000
Grand Total: 58,702,610 Experience Points

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You have proven that the Daredevil and Reckless skills are insufficient for the way you throw yourself into danger and they have been combined into singular skill, Battle Crazy. You live for battle and gain experience bonuses every time you fight, for any reason or in any capacity. Grants skills Blood Frenzy (Strength skill), Multiple Opponent Combat (Agility Skill), You Are Nothing To Me (Charisma / Intimidation skill)

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Total Levels gained: 35
Stat Points available for distribution: 350 + 640 unspent = 990
Skills unlocked: 0 (none are locked)
Skill points available: 175 + 270 unspent = 445
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Congratulations! You have reached the level cap of 99.
Devourer class specific skills are now safe to use without repercussion.
Experience Overload Bonus: Extra experience gained can be converted to Stat Points or Skill Points at the cost of 1,000 Experience for 1 point.
Unspent Experience: 11,256,899
Current Point Potential: 11,256
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“Jesus fucking Christ!” I yelled at the popups in front of me. “That can't be real! It can't!” I walked around and my armored boots squelched in the dragon's guts. “On the last world, once I reached the level cap, that was it. All other experience I gained was wasted. I couldn't store them and it didn't let me gain extra stat points or skill points, which was why I was so limited at the end.”

I hadn't formed my question into a prayer or thought about the Goddess Jasindia while asking it, so I didn't really expect an answer. I shook my head at the ridiculousness of the situation.

One dragon. I thought in disbelief. If I had met it first, I think I would have reached Level 99 right away, especially since I was level 1 at the time. I looked at the slightly deflated corpse of the thing and wondered what I was going to do with it. I was going to need proof that I killed it, so I needed to take the head.

I got to work and used my sword to pry up the scales on the dragon's neck and then took my time sawing the head off. It took a while. Just because it was dead, it didn't stop the body from resisting both physical and magical attacks. I didn't spend any points to make myself stronger, either. My eight rings gave me +120 Strength, which meant the cap was pretty high, probably the same as my armor at 999.

The math didn't work for a balance, which meant I would normally have to divide the points up and focus on the stats I used the most. With the experience overload conversion, I had a very hard decision to make. Did I make them all stat points, all skill points, split them evenly or skew them one way or the other? Do I focus on skills and leave my stats, or do I ignore the skills and pump my stats up?

I had fifteen stats to level up, which was insane, since each supposedly needed 999, which was 14,985 points. With my current potential and my actual points, I only had 12,246. Which sucks. The worst part, I had tons of skills that were currently at level one. I knew they would only take 99, just like my level, so I could potentially level 123 skills to max, assuming they were able to level.

It was quite the mess, especially since if I left myself with no stats or skills, the bonuses and experience I gained would be much better than if I tried pumping myself up. If I stayed the way I was, I could never remove my armor, not without severely risking myself like I had when having sex with the cat woman. I sighed at my squishy normal body, because reinforcing myself now would hamper my experience gains and slow my progress down to a crawl.

I held out my hands. “Protection.” I moved my left hand. “Potential.” I moved my right hand. I pretended they were scales and moved them up and down as I thought over the risk and reward system that I had almost no experience with. I quickly glanced at my basic status and the stats were the same ones that I had at level one, and then I looked at the long list of skills that were also still level one. My hands moved up and down for several minutes as I debated.

“Aww, fuck it.” I said and dropped my right hand of potential and held up the left for protection. “I'll add 500 to each of my stats and then use the rest of the points to distribute across all of my skills.”

I stored the severed head and sat down on the dragon's body as I started to add the stat points. I knew I was limiting myself and my growth, because I would only gain minimal experience from now on with my stats so high. I couldn't justify staying in danger of being hurt, though. I looked at my status before I confirmed permanently what I was doing. What was funny was that it didn't show me the enchantment bonuses from my armor or rings, only my own personal stats and powers.

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Damon (Level 99) Status:

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