Ascension from Dual Professions

Chapter 222: Chapter 216: Dragon King’s Breath! Order Dharma Seal! Complete Suppression

Dragon Flame Dance was the first skill Jon created, and it was also his strongest one to date.

He had always refused to use Skill Points or Experience Points to rush its development. Instead, he insisted on relying on his own efforts, using everything he had learned to continuously experiment and develop new possibilities based on this skill.

And this persistence finally bore fruit the night before his departure. In the moment of clarity after he and Rosalind had explored the mysteries of life, he found himself greatly inspired by the Ice Vein Mage’s masterful control over the power of frost.

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[Dragon Flame Dance LV. 2 (Perfect)]

[Passive Effect 1: Omitted]

[Elemental Transformation: You can change the element used by this skill, altering its effects. Currently Mastered: Fire, Frost]

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Frost and fire—two completely opposite elements—were perfectly integrated into a single skill. The success of this endeavor deepened Jon’s understanding of the skill’s Power, causing it to level up.

This battle would be the debut of its new form!

The moment the Ice Armor completely covered his body, Jon moved!

He exploded forward, his form shrouded in deathly cold ice, shooting like an Ice Arrow loosed from a bow toward the behemoth occupying the center of the chamber!

”—!”

Sensing the intruder, the ancient tree shuddered. Its countless hanging vine-like tentacles snapped taut, lashing out from all directions to whip and strangle Jon like a nest of enraged giant pythons!

In an instant, the entire chamber was filled with whistling shadows of death.

But Jon’s eyes held not a hint of fear, only a calm observation of the incoming assault.

Dragon Flame Dance: Ice + Dragon Tail Sweep!

The Longsword in his hand, thoroughly saturated with Extreme Cold Magic Power and pulsing with an Ice Blue Sword Aura, became a raging hurricane of frost with a flick of his wrist!

”SSSSSHHH—! CRACK!”

The sword light flashed like a bolt of silk, carrying the unstoppable might of a Giant Dragon. Every slash was accompanied by a sickening crunch of tearing and freezing.

The vines, as tough as steel, were instantly severed and torn asunder the moment they met the Ice Blue Sword Aura!

No sap spurted from the severed ends; instead, they were sealed shut by a thick, rapidly spreading shell of ice. The dark green, viscous ”blood” and the broken vines crashed to the ground with a dull shattering sound.

Amidst the forest of attacking tentacles, Jon neither dodged nor evaded, using his Sword Skill and Power to break through head-on and steadily close the distance to the Demonized Ancient Tree’s main body!

However, as the overlord of these ruins, the Demonized Ancient Tree had far more tricks up its sleeve!

BUZZ—!

Its enormous crown began to tremble violently. Countless dark-green leaves detached from the branches, not fluttering down, but hovering strangely in mid-air, buzzing and transforming!

Their edges instantly sharpened like razors. Eerie, intricate patterns resembling the compound eyes of an insect appeared on their surfaces, emitting a bloodthirsty, scarlet glow.

In an instant, the leaves transformed into a sky-blotting swarm of bloodthirsty bees. Vibrating their wings at high speed, they unleashed a dense, skin-crawling buzz as they dove madly toward the ice-blue figure below!

At the same time, the severed vine fragments on the ground that had yet to freeze completely began to twist and squirm as if pulled by an unseen force!

They coiled and knotted together, rapidly forming several monstrous masses of tentacles, far thicker than before and covered in hideous nodules and sharp shards of ice!

These monsters, formed from the collected fragments, opened their ”great maws”—filled with jagged, tooth-like splinters—and charged furiously toward Jon with an aura that threatened to crush everything in their path!

A sky-blotting cloud of bloodthirsty bees from above, and rolling masses of aggregated tentacles from the sides—in an instant, an inescapable kill box had formed!

Yet, faced with this pincer attack from all sides and with nowhere to run, the corners of Jon’s mouth curled into a faint smile.

Any other Adventurer, lacking a skill to clear a wide area, would have been forced into a desperate situation. This was the main difficulty in fighting the Demonized Ancient Tree boss.

But for him, this kind of scene was all too easy to handle.

He raised the Longsword in his hand, then gently pointed it downward.

”Begone!”

A deep, imperious roar erupted throughout the chamber, followed by the burst of a terrifying will born from Dragon Might!

BOOM—!!!

With the tip of his sword as the epicenter, a visible, ice-blue shockwave erupted like a dormant volcano, spreading out with a deafening roar. It carried a soul-freezing cold and an oppressive pressure that demanded the submission of all living things!

Dragon Might Burst!

As the shockwave spread, the air behind Jon twisted and condensed, and from it, the vast, ferocious, phantom head of a Frost Dragon King materialized! It was formed entirely of extreme cold and boundless dragon might.

The phantom was breathtakingly lifelike. Its prominent Dragon Horns were forged from Ice Crystals, and its deep blue draconic eyes stared down impassively at the insignificant plant-based creature, filled with endless disdain and a destructive will for the one who dared to offend it.

Then, the phantom Frost Dragon King opened its great maw, a mouth that seemed capable of swallowing heaven and earth. From it, a terrifying torrent of cold, condensed to its absolute limit and glowing a profound ice-blue, spewed forth. It was like a sigh from the deepest abyss—silent, yet possessing the power to annihilate everything in its path!

Wherever the cold torrent passed, time itself seemed to freeze.

The moment the overwhelming and impossibly sharp Metal Bee Cloud touched the cold torrent, the buzzing of its wings ceased abruptly.

Each leaf-turned-insect was frozen solid in its diving posture, suspended in mid-air like a specimen in giant blue amber. The scarlet glow in their compound eyes rapidly dimmed, then extinguished completely.