Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 159

Chapter 159

Zeke examined the simulation results with a serious expression.

“Why was the distribution focused on passive skills that were already fully developed? The lacking skill proficiency and summon growth weren’t allocated at all.”

You can obtain Karma points by defeating monsters or magical beasts with mana.

All the Karma points Zeke had received so far were system rewards.

However, upon inspection, the experience points needed for ability growth were set to be automatically distributed.

This was because emergency regression activated the temporary administrator mode.

“It’s fortunate I found out now, but it’s a shame what was wasted until now.”

Zeke ran the distribution simulation and set the point allocation to the most effective method.

Among other settings, there were functions to convert system reward points into experience points, or settings to receive experience points as reward points.

Giving up experience points would be advantageous for obtaining more Karma points to use the shop or unlock new skills, but it wasn’t possible to increase the proficiency of already unlocked skills.

Therefore, Zeke left the reward points as they were and only adjusted the ratio of experience points.

What he set the highest growth priority for was none other than ‘Soul force’.

“So raising the level of the soul meant raising this ability.”

Soul force seemed to simply mean the power of the soul.

The Soul Technique that Zeke used drew upon the power of the soul to materialize his will.

This meant that the stronger his Soul Force became, the stronger Soul Technique he could use.

Moreover, there was one more reason why Soul force needed to be raised. This was something he newly discovered.

“Dragon clan skills work through Soul force?”

Until now, he thought dragon clan skills operated on mana like active skills.

But reading the manual revealed that dragon clan skills had a higher correlation with Soul force ability.

Zeke remembered how the dragon’s claws inflicted unhealable wounds on demons.

It seemed possible to directly wound demons’ souls since it operated through soul power.

If Abel’s fallen group continued summoning demons and magical beasts through demonic contracts, raising Soul force ability to directly impact souls was urgent.

Zeke finished the point distribution settings and entered summon management settings.

3D images of the summons Zeke had registered appeared on screen.

When Zeke pushed the image with his hand, the next summon’s image would appear.

“System, show the complete list of summons.”

Then all the summons spread out before Zeke’s eyes.

Bucephalus, Gurab and Nahuel, Richmond, Dragon warriors, and even the currently dormant Guardians were displayed in 3D.

Zeke selected Nahuel and checked the management list.

While examining the list, Zeke found the function he wanted.

“Here it is. Summon growth and evolution.”

Experience could be automatically given to summons, but it was also possible to separately assign Karma points received as rewards to raise their rank or skills.

Zeke examined Nahuel’s growth experience.

To evolve into a divine beast, more Karma points, skill proficiency, and Soul force were needed.

“Evolution doesn’t happen just by giving Karma points.”

The same was true for other summons.

There was only one exception, which was Richmond.

“Richmond can also grow by absorbing the power of necromancer items or undead monster dragon-type monsters.”

Richmond was unique because it became Zeke’s summon after being an undead monster that had dragon bones mixed in.

After finishing the summon management settings, Zeke examined the equipment list.

What he looked at most carefully were Bahamut and Theia’s Hersion, the Orichalcon sword, and the cloud iron sword with Arataso sealed inside.

When Zeke first selected the Orichalcon sword, a message window appeared.

[Equipment can be managed after registration by giving it a name.]

“Giving it a name?”

Besides Bahamut, he hadn’t given names to any weapons.

‘Since I’m the only one who can use this sword right now… and since the princess mentioned it before, I might as well name it and use it.’

Zeke thought for a moment about what name to give it. Then a name came to mind.

“Sacred Knight Roland.”

When the Lubern dynasty grew into the Holy Empire, the one who made the greatest contribution was Roland Durandal, who led the Holy Knights Order commanding twelve Arch Paladins.

Known widely through the epic ‘Song of Roland’, he was considered the most knightly knight after the dragon slayer Terakan Draker.

Zeke gave Roland Durandal’s name to the Orichalcon sword containing the power of Arch Paladin.

[Registering equipment as ‘Roland’.]

With the message, the Orichalcon sword automatically appeared before Zeke, floating and emitting bright light.

Zeke grabbed Roland, the glowing holy sword.

Then another message window appeared.

[Roland has been registered as equipment.]

[Roland’s durability is 82%.]

[Repairs are recommended when durability falls below 60%.]

[Roland’s stats can be increased through ‘Enhancement’.]

[Check the list of required materials for equipment enhancement and upgrade to higher grade equipment.]

“It can be enhanced to a higher grade?”

Zeke checked the materials list with surprise and joy.

“Cloud iron, mithril, blessed holy water? Why are gold and gems needed?”

There were several other small materials needed as well.

At this rate, it would become an incredibly ornate sword.

Zeke shook his head after imagining himself holding such a flashy sword.

“Hmm, I’ll need to go to Atlas first to gather materials.”

While some materials could be bought from the shop with Karma points, he needed to save points and planned to gather what he could.

Next, Zeke examined the cloud iron sword.

[Equipment is currently in sealed state.]

With the demon Aratasoso sealed inside with soul binding, the sword’s information wasn’t activated.

Then another message appeared.

[Sealed equipment’s stats can be increased through ‘Enhancement’.]

“Sealed equipment stats can be enhanced?”

Like Roland, Zeke checked the enhancement list for the cloud iron sword.

It needed quite a few hard-to-obtain materials including fairy stone.

“I should gather these along with Roland’s enhancement materials.”

Creating and enhancing sealing equipment was important since he might face demons like Arataso in the future.

After the cloud iron sword, Zeke checked Bahamut and Theia’s Hersion’s information.

With both currently having sealed stats, there wasn’t much enhancement or stat improvement possible.

“I can assign Karma points but I’m not sure how much growth is possible with just that.”

Theia’s Hersion also required an authentication code from Theia’s temple to use all sealed functions.

Finally, Zeke checked his skill information.

The screen changed to show Zeke’s skills spreading out like tree branches.

“Wow, what’s this?”

Zeke gaped at his skill tree.

Some titles and skills were connected, while others were isolated skills.

“The Dragon Being title and dragon race skills are grouped.”

The Dragon being title, Dragon Eye, Dragon’s Dignity, and Dragon Scale Armor were connected by branches.

Most dragon clan skills were connected in one group, but only one skill was separate.

“Why is only the Gluttony skill separate?”

Only the Gluttony skill existed independently in the tree without connected skills.

While strange, he didn’t fully understand the composition, and since Gluttony was such an overpowered skill, he accepted it.

Zeke examined skills that weren’t properly connected in the skill tree.

“The newly acquired Golden Sun Swordsmanship is grouped with Infinite Chain Formation.”

True Dragon Sword Technique, Dragon Slaying Technique, and Wind Storm Technique were also grouped together having the same root.

True Dragon Sword Technique was linked with Dragon Slaying and Wind Storm Techniques, with each skill’s proficiency affecting the others.

In other words, as True Dragon Sword Technique’s skill proficiency increased, Dragon Slaying and Wind Storm proficiencies would also increase.

Meanwhile, Golden Sun Swordsmanship and Infinite Chain Formation were connected but Infinite Chain Formation wasn’t registered as a skill.

“Seems it’s because I haven’t properly mastered Infinite Chain Formation yet.”

True Dragon Sword Technique also only appeared in the status window after mastering all sword forms and increasing proficiency, and Soul Technique only registered as a skill after succeeding with Double Spell.

It seemed Infinite Chain Formation needed to be trained to a certain level to become an official skill.

Looking at the interconnected skill tree, Zeke could see at a glance what he was lacking.

“Soul binding can be linked with Soul Technique. The proficiency was too low so I couldn’t use it properly.”

Focusing mainly on swordsmanship, he only used Soul Sealing as a support weapon to bind demons.

But since this was also a technique left by Terakan Drake and related to his Soul Technique ability, it seemed it could be more useful.

Zeke planned future training while looking at the skill window.

When returning to Atlas, he planned to focus on training to fill in his weak areas.

After checking everything including the skill window, Zeke decided it would be too much to check other detailed functions here and closed the system window.

‘The system structure is more complex than I thought. It’ll take considerable time to master this properly.’

What bothered him was still not knowing what this system really was.

He could understand becoming the Kabbalah System administrator through the Elder Dragon’s relic, but nothing important was actually revealed.

He didn’t even know what the Kabbalah System was.

‘I can’t figure out who made this system, why, or what it was meant for.’

The functionality was too advanced to have been made by humans.

Yet it seemed too cumbersome for dragons to use directly.

Dragons were the strongest beings from birth.

They didn’t need such systems or skills.

Being able to wield miraculous magic just by breathing, they had no need for such complex processes.

Then Zeke had a thought.

“Did dragons make it for humans?”

Kaisir said humans were the most beloved beings to dragons.

If dragons created this system to help weak humans grow stronger, the complex methods made sense.

Zeke recalled the past.

“Terakan could definitely see the system window too. He also used the secure archive.”

From current information, the most plausible hypothesis was that dragons granted system administrator privileges to their contractors.

If true, this would explain how Terakan Draker could control defense bases and fight giant magical beasts and dragons as an Immortal class.

This seemed credible since he was forcibly moved here while searching for holy relics Terakan had arranged.

“And if the being who created this system was the ‘Elder Dragon’…”

Zeke first obtained the system by acquiring the Elder Dragon’s relic.

Both Arthur Drake exploring these ruins and the Empire’s emperor put great effort into finding the ‘Elder Dragon’s relic’.

While not immortality, it made sense if they sought the system administrator abilities Zeke had.

“When I first regressed, they said the system activated when the Elder Dragon’s spirit merged with my soul.”

Piecing together the fragmented information, an outline seemed to emerge.

Zeke nodded and slowly stood up.

“When Soul force increases and raises my soul’s level, I can probably become an Advanced administrator from Intermediate administrator. Then I should be able to get more information.”

Holding onto unsolved questions wasn’t helping his progress.

Zeke decided to focus on what he could do first and solve the Kabbalah System mysteries gradually.

He checked if portal travel was possible to secretly leave this place.

“Oh, I can open a portal. Perfect.”

He could move near the Ice Mountains by spending 100 Karma points.

Better to spend 100 points than risk being discovered by Black Corps.

Zeke dismissed Bucephalus and immediately opened a portal.

Woooong!

With a vibration, Zeke vanished from the ruins.