Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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The first participant to show off was Erdragon, whose creation was an interesting artifact, it resembled a large egg of at least thirty centimeters of height, made completely out of metal.

The audience was clearly surprised, some were annoyed that he had just showed something so stupid, while others seemed more curious.

"What is he showing to our king and queen?"

"An egg?!"

"The Dragon Born are really disrespectful, it seems!"

"I think there's more to that, sir Erdragon has clearly shown a great amount of ability."

The King and the Queen, however, were left speechless when the Dragon Born simply placed the giant metallic egg over their desk, feeling both confused and slightly offended.

Was that it? It didn't do anything other than stand still!

Has Erdragon finally snapped after never getting first place, perhaps?

"This is an egg?" wondered the Queen.

"Quite beautiful, but what else can it do?" the King asked.

The King decided to just be blunt and ask Erdragon directly, mostly because the Dragon Born himself was not explaining a single thing about it, as if expecting them to magically figure it out.

"You see, imbue it with your Mana, your majesty," Erdragon suggested. "Once you do, you will be able to see what it truly carries inside."

"Huh, mana you say?" wondered the Queen, rising an eyebrow. "Alright…"

"Um, like this?" wondered the King.

The rulers looked at one another in confusion, but then decided to just play along, touching the egg, and imbuing it with their Mana.

Blue rivers of Mana entered the egg, and suddenly, within it, cracks appeared across the metal.

Crack, crack…!

The cracks continued to spread, the people around, including the crafters, couldn't help but just glance in silence.

CRACK!

Once it fully opened, a bright golden light surged from within.

FLASH!

Then, the egg transformed alongside whatever was inside, taking a brand-new shape, the shape of a dragon creature, made of metal and crystals of various colors.

It was a powerful golem in the shape of a small dragon! It seemed that Erdragon's dragon-theme was never ending, everything he did always had dragons in them.

"A tiny dragon? Isn't that cute?" wondered the Queen.

"Okay that's pretty neat," said the King. "Let's see what it can do… Can it fight?"

"Yes! It can fight, and do many other things!" Erdragon said. "It can even evolve over time. It is a mechanical magical golem crafted using an artificial dragon soul made out of dragon energy and the essence of my own soul."

"Y-You used your own soul for this?" the Queen muttered.

"It has been my dream to make something like this, so I just went and did it, haha!" Erdragon laughed. "Please, test it as much as much was you want! I am sure that Draky won't mind it!"

"He even named it…" said the King. "Very well."

They tested it, summoning monsters to fight it. Anything below Level 200 died instantly against the dragon. And whenever monsters died, the little dragon would suck their mana and soul energy and grow larger.

Eventually, it started fighting evenly against Level 250 monsters, using a myriad of spells and techniques, and it only continued developing!

Once it finished the Level 250 three-headed volcanic snake, the dragon looked rather badly in shape, with several wounds across its metallic body.

"Is it going to break?" wondered the Queen.

"Haha, worry not, your majesty," Erdragon said. "It comes equipped with the ability to regenerate over time. See?"

Erdragon showed them how the "wounds" across the metal slowly regenerated back to normal, it was incredible, but it wasn't rare to find self-repair items out there.

"Incredible, good job!" said the Queen.

"This is an amazing creation, like a golem dragon pet thing!" the King said. "Can I buy it from you, Erdragon? Gustav, what do you think about having this as your pet?"

"Yeah! I want it!" Gustav was excited to get a new friend, happily accepting his father's gift.

"I will gladly let the prince have it for a price, yes!" Erdragon nodded. "We can further discuss this later, I assume. There are many other participants after me."

"Of course," the King nodded. "Now then, next person, please come in with your creation."

The next person stepped in, Planta looked, it was Horshen, carrying with himself something resembling a…

An hox made of red metal, with crimson jewels as eyes, and golden horns.

It was roughly a meter big, and it emanated a powerful aura.

"Don't tell me, another golem?" wondered the Queen.

"Nah, I ain't doing that," said Horshen. "You don't even need to pat it or give it mana. Here, start."

FLUOSH!

The hox suddenly opened its eyes, releasing a shockwave of magic, encasing the king and the queen inside what seemed to be a spiritual domain of fire!

However, the flames did not hurt them, but only the rulers and Horshen ended inside, making the people outside panic, thinking Horshen had staged an attack or something.

"W-What is this?!" the King looked around.

"This is a Fire Spirit Domain!" Horshen said. "Not only it is a space separate from our own, but it can easily protect someone from harm. When it is attacked, fire will attack those attacking it…"

At the same time, a group of soldiers tried to destroy the domain, resembling a bubble made of fire, only to get bombarded with fireballs and sent flying.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"Also, anybody inside can be assigned as the master of the domain," Horshen continued explaining. "Like you, my queen, you're now the new master."

"Oh?" the queen gained authority, instantly controlling the flames with a mere thought, and shaping them into what resembled a fortress of fire with giant arms made of flames. "Interesting! Wow, this is a bit unique for just an artifact…"

"And that's not everything!" laughed Horshen. "Like this."

Horshen took out a knife and cut through the palm of his left hand, then, from the Domain, white flames covered his wound instantly, slowly healing it back to normal.

"Healing Flames?!" the King wondered.

"Hahaha! Impressive, isn't it? We are not even done yet!"

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