Last Egg: Reincarnated as a Dragon in a Game

The dragon’s thoughts ran on override as he read over and over through all the options floating before his eyes.

‘Which should I take?’

He nodded as his eyes lingered on the divine option for a fraction of a second, knowing it was a part of the foundation he had to build.

‘What can go wrong with it? I already witnessed its power plenty of times in the past.’

With a single thought, he moved it to the top of his list, and his gaze moved toward all the elemental options before him.

‘Absolute zero?’ Even with all his current power, he could only get infinitely close to it, yet now he had the option to potentially go even lower.

‘How can it be colder than the absolute zero?’ The temperature represented the energy contained within the atoms, all the energy vanishing when reaching the absolute zero temperature.

‘How can energy be lower than zero? What will it even do?’ He didn’t cross it out as he potentially saw its potential.

‘Nah, this isn’t going anywhere. I should at first eliminate the bad ones.’

He snickered as he immediately crossed out the most useless option, ‘Frost flesh… such a garbage, I can just stick myself into a freezer to accomplish the same thing.’

‘Fusing some opposing elements? Thanks, but no, there is too much randomness in it. It is simply not worth it.’

Finally, there was one option that wasn’t just useless but also dangerous and troublesome to use.𝒪𝔳𝔩xt.𝑐𝗈𝑚

‘Forming barrier out of my soul?’ He had already invested in powerful defenses without the terrifying negatives of the soul barrier. His body could always quickly regenerate, but if his soul took damage instead, it would also regenerate thanks to the resilience of the draconic souls, but it would be a much slower process.

He could finally focus on the remaining ones with the bad ones gone.

‘Infuse my soul into my breath to attack directly the souls of my enemies?’ His breath was already super destructive, especially after his latest metamorphosis and when fueled by divine energy.

‘If it could directly strike souls, it would be too terrifying. Would I erase an entire being out of existence?’

The only problem was the cost. Even though he kept it as an option for now, knowing it could potentially become an emergency-use-only reverse uno card.

‘Isolating scales? It is not a bad thing, but is it truly necessary? My scales are already more than capable of doing it, and I see no interesting synergy with the other attributes.’ He immediately moved it to the bottom of the list, straight into the mediocre category.

‘Engrave spell circuits into my soul? That might be a good option.’ Magic was powerful beyond his doubt, and he had already invested much into it.

‘If I engrave a defensive spell, it will boost my defense, if I engrave an offensive one like my breath lenses, the power of my breath will jump again.’ It was a no-brainer to him due to its immense versatility as he easily moved it up the list.

‘What about making my soul orbit? It could either be garbage or something good.’ His mind hurt as he tried to think about the effects of doing something like it with his knowledge of magic and modern science, ‘What insight? Maybe an insight into gravity? Or some stupendous power generation?’

His curious mind and past life of trying whacky builds itched him to try it and hope for the best.

Still, in the end, his rationality won, making him realize it was too risky to just do some random thing with his soul without knowing its consequences.

The lingering ambers of the craving to create and test new powers and combos remained, providing him to think about the next possibility.

‘There is also the potential combo of empowering the frost-bases elements, fire-based elements, and the option to combine their boosts.’ Just the sheer potential of the numbers made him consider it.

‘My most powerful element right now, apocalyptic storm contains both, so it would greatly profit out of this combo.’

The glow of his eyes brightened, and his breath sped up as he recognized he was on the right track.

‘Yes, maybe if I throw the absolute zero power on top of that it will synergize even better!’

He wasn’t some noob and knew it was always more powerful to pick abilities with good synergy instead of those that might sound extremely powerful on their own but lacked potential for combos and synergy.

Fuse his body with a soul? Soul-damaging properties to his breath attack? The magic soul? They were all-powerful, but they were just funny gimmicks, whereas right before him was the combo of perfectly synergizing powers that would also synergy with his already existing ones.

‘That leaves the one last slot.’ Even though the one div stat didn’t sound staggeringly high, he had to consider its future potential.

‘If it opens the divine path for my soul, then it is worth it.’

Finally, the dragon confirmed his choice.

Ding!

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You have chosen:

[Cold? Hot? Arent they both the same?]

[Is absolute zero truly that absolute?]

[Divine Soul Core]

[The Soul Fire]

[The Soul Frost]

Generating the new evolution of the Winter Soul and Heart…

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Vesuvius bathed his breath waiting for the final result, full of expectations and worry.

Suddenly a terrifying force erupted out of his body, the dark apocalyptic storm flashing with golden and purple flames, the lightning going berserk with its temperature both increasing and decreasing at a staggering rate.

Ding!

//

Winter Soul and Heart (LV 53) –> Energy State Soul Divinity (LV 8):

Description: The soul, with its energy state constantly shifting from the lowest to the highest in an unending circle of cold and heat.

Passive effects:

+1 to all stat scaling except faith and DIV

+0.5 to scaling of DIV stat

+1 DIV

+50% to intensity of fire and frost based elements

Boosts and bonuses to fire-based abilities also apply to the frost ones

Removes the physical limits on the minimal temperature within the range of the domain

Upgrades the frost and fire affinities from primary to transcendent

Abilities:

<Energy Shift>: Allows the domain and the dragon’s body to instantly reverse the temperature of everything under the power of his domain (the shift ratio is not 1:1, but it is a nonliteral function).

<Energy Cycle>: Both your fire and frost-based elements balances each other in a cycle. The hotter the flames, the colder the frost. The colder the frost, the hotter the flames. The longer the cycle is active, the more unstable and harder to control it will be, and the upkeep cost rises.

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The dragon’s vision slowly darkened as the immense force transformed his soul and body. With his last vestiges of consciousness, a terrifying grin, fully revealing his teeth, formed on his face, ‘Come gods, send you lackeys, I am ready now.’