Chapter 11: Dragon Kind Evolution
'Let's see . . .' Jun thought as he pulled up his status.
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Name: Haikami Jun
Race: Human/Dragon Hybrid
Gender: Male
Parameters:
Strength: E- ->D
Endurance: E- ->D
Agility: E- ->D
Mana: D->C+
Luck: EX
Magic Circuits/Core: EX
Affinity: True Void
Skills:
Scion of the Void (-/UEX)
Kalaripayattu (D)
Pankration (D)
Ascetic (E->B): Immunity to basic needs like hunger, thirst and sleep. Performance still drops when avoiding them for extended periods of time but the effects are light until the problem becomes life threatening.
Significant resistance to exposure. Immunity to pain and reduced mortality rate from injuries as well as the sustaining of battle ability in the case of injury equivalent to Battle Continuation (B). Also increases the users resistance to mental effects significantly.
Breathing and Walking (E)
Magic Resistance (E->C): Even at the initial state of integration, any who bears the traits of the Dragon Kind boasts powerful Magic Resistance.
At this rank, spells with chants below two verses are completely nullified and damage from more powerful spells is reduced but High Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals cannot be defended against.
Dragon Kind Evolution (E): Rank will slowly increase over time as the integration approaches completion, thus allowing the user's power to slowly increase until it reaches the power of a legendary dragon. Grants several draconic attributes as the rank increases.
-Dragon Heart (E): Although truly of the EX rank it is currently in the early stages of development and thus unable to show such potential. The user's original talent and the high grade of the dragon's essence still make its performance superior to any Magic Circuits.
Can double the user's magical energy and generate more at a high pace if engaged at full power but doing so can drain the user's stamina until the Magic Core forcefully shuts down.
-Dragon's Aura (E): The user carries a draconic aura. At the E rank, it grants a small boost in power and possesses the ability to subdue beasts and even low grade Phantasmal Specieses. It also carries a certain charm towards the opposite sex.
-Dragon's Wisdom (E): Innate Knowledge of the wise Dragon Kind. At the E rank it grants one increased mental faculties, an easier grasp of any magecraft and an innate understanding of the Draconic Language which possesses inherent power similarly to runes.
-Draconic Enhancement (E): Continuously active, it slightly raises one's Parameters.
-Dragon Breath (E): A torrent of Magical Energy released by a Dragon, the strongest Phantasmal Species. It lacks an inherent element being pure destructive magical energy released as "heat".
The power is currently at its lowest rank but it can still blow apart reinforced buildings and kill Mid Class beings in a single shot.
Magecraft:
Reinforcement (B)
Magic Bullet (B)
Magic Burst (C)
Mental Archive (C)
Thought Acceleration (C)
Memory Partition (C)
Memory Manipulation (D)
Rune Magecraft (D)
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The changes were staggering. Jun's race for starters and then the changes in his skill list brough as sub skills of the Dragon Kind Evolution Skill which would determine the progress of Jun's transformation in the future.
All of his Parameters jumped up, now reaching a solid C rank even without Reinforcement or Runes and due to the suffering induced by the change, Jun's Ascetic Skill jumped several ranks to B. His Magic Resistance was also upped significantly.
In his soul, at the place equivalent to the heart, all Magic Circuits now connected to a Magic Core with a far greater performance. Capable to producing magical energy at a fast rate. The quality was great but the integration was not yet perfect a such, it did not yet exhibit the true power of its rank.
Jun modified the trigger for the activation of his Magic Circuits to reflect this change. Now, by turning the key a second time, he can activate his Magic Core in addition to his normal Magic Circuits.
This resulted in the (+) modifier on his Mana Parameter, signifying that his Magical energy had the potential to double once the Magic Core was fully engaged.
Lastly, there were all the draconic abilities Jun received other than the Magic Core which was already mentioned.
Dragon's Aura and Dragon's Breath were pretty self explanatory and their descriptions were specific enough not to leave any doubts. Draconic Enhancement was slightly vager but the effects were easy to observe.
Without it, Jun's Parameters other than Mana would have stopped at D-, meaning that only with the support of magecraft would they reach the power of the D rank but, with Draconic Enhancement, they were instead firmly in the D rank.
Lastly, Dragon's Wisdom seemed pretty simple but Jun appreciated it quite a bit, not only would the understanding of Draconic Language allow him to perhaps develop hybrid rune or even just dragon magecraft but there was something else.
The enhancement of Jun's mental faculties would most definitely allow him to progress further and faster in the mental magecraft that was getting hard to improve and it was only at the E rank, being expected to rise in the future.
'Alright, this is much better than I was expecting, even though the process may be slow, it is much more thorough that something like Sigurd's Dragon Kind Modification.'
'Now, I should go to my training field and get used to these new abilities.' Jun decided and so he did.
After a few hours of practice, he more or less got the handle of things and elected to try and forward his skills in magecraft through practice to see how training went with his new draconic talents and the results were far greater than he thought.
First, much like he predicted, Thought Acceleration immediately rose to B rank and Jun knew the the other mental skills would soon follow with some more work.
The big surprise however, was the use of Tempering magecraft. It seemed to speed up the integration of the draconic magical energy into Jun's body.
It did not improve the speed of the general changes in any significant manner but Jun could feel his body strengthening, even if not enough to raise the ranks of his physical Parameters.
His Magic Resistance sharply increased though and he could tell it would actually rise in rank again with a little more practice.
Jun's routine didn't change much in spite of these changes though. He still humored Irina and Issei by hanging out with them a few afternoons and spent most of his time training this or that or working on something inside his workshop.
But, while he had no changes to his routine, Kuoh was changing rapidly, even if only those with connections to the supernatural knew it.
The conflict brewing between the star crossed devil and exorcist lovers, Cleria Belial and Yaegaki Masaomi and their respective factions was coming to an head and Jun had a first row seat to the action due to his surveillance network that still went unnoticed.
At this point, he was making his plans to try and squeeze some benefits out of the situation but unfortunately, he was far from having the necessary power to do so directly. As such, he had to resort to subterfuge.
Even though Touji and his group knew Jun was part of the supernatural community, that did not believe him to be a factor in all that was happening simply due to the fact they knew he had struggled when fighting Kawamura, one of the most inexperienced and weaker members of their group.
'This is my advantage and one I cannot afford to give up for some meager benefits I could possibly earn now.' Jun thought to himself.
'What I need to do, is come up with a plan to fish something out of this without giving myself away, even if that plan results in failure to get anything, the priority should be not getting found out, even if it means turning out empty handed.' He decided.
Already having some ideas, Jun once again decided to run his rough plans by Ahsaka so they could work out the kinks while maximizing his chance for success, while eliminating the risk of being discovered under any circumstance.
In the end, they settled on a plan and Jun stopped his usual routine to make his preparations. Namely, he needed to create a special kind of familia for this job and thus required study on things he never really focused on before.
'I can only hope I'm ready by the time things blow up, otherwise, I'll have to pass on the opportunity. I wish I thought about this earlier but the only reason this can work at all is because of my recent improvements that came as a result of me focusing on myself.' Jun thought.
He needed a generous supply of magical energy to work on things but he didn't want to draw attention to himself so he had been very slowly gathering the mana in a wide radius to compensate for it and it had been working out decently well.
Now though, his magic core opened up a lot of new possibilities that just were not available to Jun before, hence his current ability to actually try something.
Although success in his plan did not result in short term benefits, it would give him quite a bit of advantages down the road and was the best he could do as of now since the parties involved in the conflict were currently way beyond his league.
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