Luckily, since I am immune to poison, it doesn’t do anything other than feel a little uncomfortable. My attacks, on the other hand, are absolutely effective against it and go straight through its scales. My claws crush the heads on either side and my teeth tear through the middle neck and sever the head.

  1 Hyrdashark defeated! 100,000 Exp gained!

  That was actually a lot easier than I was expecting, I thought it would be more like the hydra fight. Then again, I can’t really compare my current self to the me from back then. Although, that does make me wonder if the demon lords are as strong as I have been thinking they are.

  What looked so strong back when I was that weak might not be strong anymore. I’m pretty sure that if the old me saw the current me, he would be terrified. I might already be stronger than the demon lords, I just have no way of knowing for sure.

  To be honest, thinking about it like that, now I just want to rush off and attack one of them. That is really the only way for me to know how my strength measures up against theirs. However, if I were to try something like that before the wedding I would end up killed by my wives.

  Despite knowing that, the idea sticks in my head and just won’t go away no matter what. So, I file it away for after the honeymoon and mark it as something to not mention to anyone. It will sit there along with the idea of finding other god’s realms to raid, another idea I couldn’t get rid of.

  That is also another idea that would get me into all sorts of trouble if I talked about it. However, it is still something that I would like to try at some point in the future. Maybe after I have learned the dragon language, that should make evading gods easier.

  Since dragons are on par with gods, their magic should work better against each other. I am not stupid enough to sneak into another god’s realm unless I am sure that I can hide from them. Once my cloaking magic is improved, no god should be able to detect me.

  Not to mention that I have improved a lot since I first made the cloaks, I can probably improve them already. Anyway, I won’t be doing that until I am confident of success, not that anyone would believe me. Well, after how things went last time, Krenocia might believe me, but Seronia certainly wouldn’t.

  Anyway, I cut up the corpse of the hydrashark so that it will fit into my pouch. Then I go back to swimming around looking for dragonfish, but I don’t have much luck. My fight, while short, must have scared off any schools that were in this area.

  Either that, or I wasted too much time and missed them all migrating to deeper waters. I swim around for another hour, but when I don’t detect any dragonfish I give up. Instead, I head back to my island and proceed to remove and absorb the dragonfish cores.

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  Absorb Activated: 10 Evolution Points gained!

  I also remove the hydra’s core, but I just put it with the leviathan core for now. Since I don’t really have anything to do right now, I take a nap on the beach for a couple of hours. When I wake up, I have some lunch and then go back to crafting small obelisks.

  While I am at it, I pull up the system and check how everyone is doing with it. They seem to be using the messaging system the most, but that is about what I expected. No one has messaged me and I don’t see anyone complaining about any problems either.

  So I turn my attention to the map and take a look at the progress in expanding the network. The map of the land bridge is expanding faster than the map of the peninsula itself. Lizzy is really working hard, but I bet she is having a lot of fun being able to run free.

  Thinking of Lizzy, I turn my gaze inward and see if I can find my connection to her. I want to be prepared in case she decides that she wants to be freed or transferred to someone else. My experience with freeing Bones comes in handy and it doesn’t take me long to find the connection.

  It is inside my soul, but luckily it isn’t as deep in as the connection to Bones was. That means it will be easier to remove and it will hopefully hurt less to remove it. However, I don’t mess with it just yet, I will wait until Lizzy has made a decision.

  Just knowing that it should be possible is enough for now, since I am the one who brought it up. It really doesn’t make sense for me to keep her as my mount when I normally fly or gate everywhere. I feel bad leaving her behind all of the time and I want to make it up to her somehow.

  If she decides she doesn’t want to be free, then I should probably give her a human form. That way she can at least interact with people more and wander around the city. Honestly, the best thing for her would be for me to free her and gate her to the main continent.

  She would then have a massive area to explore and may even find others of her race. Or at least, something close enough that she could breed with it, maybe something with dragon blood. That would make for some interesting children, maybe even an entire new race.

  I wonder, could the experiment that the dragon started with the guardian of the barrier be applied to Lizzy? She doesn’t have any dragon blood, but her species is fairly close to a drake in power. If I can figure out what the dragon did, maybe I can help her evolve into something new.

  Of course, that would only be with her permission, but I think she might be interested. I think she would be, but I won’t mention it yet, that will be a ways down the road. First, I need to learn the dragon’s language and understand how my magic will change.

  Then I would need to understand the experiment that the dragon started and how to modify it. Although, now that I think of it, Lizzy is already pretty terrifying already, I don’t know if I should mess with it. However, I am already curious about the possibilities, especially if she can gain wings.

  A Lizzy who can fly would be an absolute terror for anything that she thinks looks tasty. However, that thought seriously amuses me and makes me want to do it even more. Besides, with dragon blood, the chances of her being able to find a compatible mate would increase.

  If I can learn how to grant dragon blood to Lizzy, then it will open a lot of possibilities. My kids and my wives are the first that come to mind, well some of the kids. It wouldn’t really benefit Ekard or Mushu, unless I can learn enough to improve their bloodline.