Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～ - Chapter 662

662 – New Future Evolutions
Python… Nun… Azhdahak… Apocalypse… Chronos… Coming this far, all these five future evolutions are available to me.

My choice will be tremendously crucial. It’d be less stressful for me if there were fewer choices, though…

The highest priority is something that can kill God’s Voice for good. The stronger it is, the better. However, God’s Voice doesn’t seem to have anything resembling a weakness.

Even with [Spirit Servant], which should have been only usable by Saints, God’s Voice was able to use it without heed for its restrictions. The limitation of two servants was broken, four servants came out at once. Seeing it boast that it would use those to send the world into disarray, I can assume that the maximum range that Lilixira’s [Spirit Servants] had shouldn’t apply to God’s Voice, too.

It wouldn’t be strange if God’s Voice could use any kind of skill. I should proceed with that assumption. With that in mind, I should avoid any skills that can be rendered ineffective by the opponent’s skills.

That said, firstly, I can’t make a decision without first seeing the actual contents, though…

【[Python: Rank L+ (Upper Legendary)]】
【The dragon said to be the personification of the great earth.】
【It’s said that the world’s lands were created from the Python’s skills.】
【Legends record that entire countries have been sent to the depths of Hades from fissures in the ground from its rage.】
【From mud, it is able to create armies of monsters and clones of itself.】
【The Python boasts ferocious stats and skills, but it lacks in speed.】

Upper Legendary… huh. With a focus on skills affecting the ground, the Python seems to be a type that trades mobility for the capability to crush enemies with wide-ranging firepower.

Honestly speaking, the anecdotes aren’t useful for decision making. All the species explanations I’ve seen so far make that clear. What’s important is that there’s a high chance it’s abound with wide-area attack skills, clone skills, and versatile skills; and that its stats aren’t bad with the exception of its speed. Its attribute might also be earth.

It looks like it has many other advantages, but speed is undoubtedly the most important stat.

【Nun: Rank L+ (Upper Legendary)】
【The dragon said to be the origin of life.】
【It’s said that all life was borne of the water controlled by Nun.】
【The scale of the white magic it controls is completely out of reach of the likes of human beings.】
【Even one drop of its tears can be used as an elixir to restore one’s youth.】
【Legends say that those who ate its flesh became immortal.】
【It excels at healing, but its ability to attack is weak.】

Nun… the healing-specialised type, huh. God’s Voice doesn’t seem like the type of opponent that I can fight by somehow relying on others. It’d be nice if I could gather information by forcing a battle of attrition. However, the lack of attack power is unfortunately a bottleneck.

【Once, feeling despair at the repulsiveness of the life it had borne, it returned the world to naught with a great flood.】

…Its ability to attack is weak? N-no, well, I don’t know how big the world was back then, and even if it’s said to be weak, it’s probably within the context of upper legendary rank beings. I needn’t place that much trust in the anecdotes in the first place. It’s probably enough to just regard it as a healing specialist. I won’t know anything else without first evolving to it.

【Azhdahak: Rank L+ (Upper Legendary)】
【A three-headed evil dragon.】
【Each of its three heads is said to govern pain, misery, and death respectively.】
【In addition to each head being able to continuously cast large-scale attack magic, it possesses a terrible poison.】
【If the Azhdahak’s blood is spilled, the ground it lands on would probably become a poison swamp that all monsters would refrain from approaching for the next thousand years.】

Another dangerous thing appeared… On top of being a multi-headed dragon type, it seems to be versed in magic and poison. It might be similar to the oneiros in how it fights indirectly. It seems like it might be even more predisposed to indirect fighting than the oneiros. Yet, against God’s Voice, I’m doubtful whether indirect attacks or poison would work.

…Hearing about a multi-headed dragon, I can’t help but think of my partner. Yet, I confirmed the last time that she wouldn’t return, even if I evolve to something with multiple heads. Because of that, I honestly want to avoid choosing this evolution.

Frankly, there’s probably more disadvantages from growing another two different personalities. It’s not likely that I would have much desire to evolve into this dragon. It was great that my partner was a good person, but I don’t even want to think about what living with two other differing personalities in the same body would be like. I’d accept it if I had no other choice, but it also doesn’t seem to hold much in the way of advantages over the other two I’ve seen.

【Apocalypse: Rank L+ (Upper Legendary)】
【The dragon said to appear at the end of the world, in accordance with the final prophecies recorded by the Holy Guidance.】
【A calamity of red and black will fly throughout the world in a single night, burning all to ashes with the flames of hell.】
【However, what makes it truly terrifying is its fangs and claws.】

I’ve already checked out so many choices, but there really is nothing but unbelievable evolutions to choose from… The Holy Guidance was Lilixira’s thing, I think. If I evolve into such a thing, there’s no way I’ll be able to go into civilised areas… But, well, that’ll be the same for any evolution I take at this stage.

The end of the world bit is ominous, but it’s probably fine if I don’t put much stock in that, right? However, I don’t have much information on what that entails. It’s a dangerous dragon for sure, but maybe I can’t expect it to have particularly unusual skills.

【Chronos: Rank L (Legendary)】
【A golden dragon controlling time and space, referred to as the [God of Spacetime].】
【In addition to literally being able to reverse time, it can distort space to create fake clones of itself, and can release piercing attacks that completely ignore defence.】
【However, its physical abilities aren’t very high.】
【The humans who once laid eyes upon the chronos believed it to be a god.】

It’s able to reverse time… huh. I don’t understand how far it can go, but it’s really an unbelievable skill.

However, it looks like its physical abilities aren’t high. That’s the bottleneck. On top of that, its rank is one lower than the rest. Apparently, I can also evolve within my current rank this time.

Honestly, there’s one major uncertainty with this evolution. After evolving into the chronos, will I still be able to evolve, or does it stop there? In the first place, it’s questionable whether I’ll have time to gather enough experience points to evolve again.

I have the choice of not evolving until I acquire [Deva Realm] as well. However, if I do that, then I’ll have to fight those monsters on the surface world in my current state. Furthermore, the very existence of the [Deva Realm] skill is unclear. I have too little information to decide, but I have no choice but to do so now.

At the very least, I would have liked to have gained advice from the reliable senior Miia. If I’m unlucky, there might be evolutionary paths that exert an evil influence on my mental state like her thanatos. Leaving aside the question of whether I’ll have the power to deal a decisive blow, my ability to maintain rational thought has to be a factor too.