Polymath Redux

Chapter 3: To display your power, display a powerful minion!

However the [insignia of the Crimson Dragon Lord] was a little different, in that it was an event item given to the player who had won the world PvP tournament, and the obvious winner was the rank 1 player in the game 'Mordred'. The 'Crimson Dragon Lord' was actually the raid boss of the hardest dungeon in the entire game, 'Hellgate'. It had two forms a humanoid form and its true form the dragon lord form, it would swap between these two forms for different purposes.

The humanoid form allowed it swifter and agile movement, its primary attribute was actually physical oriental combat. While its dragon form was less mobile but it had the ability to fly and rain meteors on the players causing massive damage; it was aptly titled the 'rain of death' as it was famous for wiping entire raid parties if not properly prepared for.

That being said, the 'crimson dragon' wasn't technically the strongest dragon in terms of the lore of Hellgana, that titled went to the 'golden dragon lord', but that was in game. It was up for debate as to whether that entity existed in this world as well.

Mordred had such an item, though he had yet to use it as there was no real need to. Having a 'crimson dragon lord' around would almost be game breaking. Dragons were naturally powerful in the game with high specs so having it assist Mordred would just make him invincible.

However, right now the situation had changed greatly. He was abruptly taken to an unknown place which he had no knowledge of and currently he had no allies to depend on. Even if it was just an AI controlled monster, having at least one ally in such a scenario could ease his mind even a little.

Mordred thought back to his first time fighting through the endgame dungeon, 'Hellgate', for that game the AI was fairly advanced and even reacted to player movement intelligently. It even had a dialogue prepared if the player entered the boss room solo. The first time he had entered that final dungeon solo the crimson dragon lord said the lines 'I'm impressed you made it this far on your own, but this is the end!' and a long and tedious battle ensued.

Fond memories.

Now then, the problem was the how powerful this 'crimson dragon lord' would be. In the case of most familiars it had only a single class and the level of that class was correspondent of the player's level. For example a low class familiar the 'banshee' would have the single class of [necromancer] and its level would be whatever level the player would have, if it was level 200, the banshee would also have a class level of 200.

However that wasn't the case with boss class monsters. Boss class monsters had three classes with a maximum level of 200 each, just like players. The crimson dragon lord's classes were [sorcerer], [warrior] and [necromancer], thus its actual level was at the maximum of 600. For this reason Mordred surmised that it was at least much stronger than that weak red dragon he slayed with a single strike.

"I guess it would just rot away in my [inventory] if I didn't use it here."

He tapped on the egg shaped insignia and an option dragged down.

[Use]
[Description]
[Destroy]
[Trade]

Oddly enough in the game this item wasn't tradable as it was considered an 'event item' but as the situation had changed he wondered if it was possible now. He would never actually do it but it was some food for thought. Feeling a little curious Mordred tapped on the [description] option. A light blue holographic text appeared in front of his eyes that read.

A beautiful red egg. It contains the essence of the [Crimson Dragon Lord]. Obtained from the event: [The Inauguration of the Crimson Dragon Lord]. Given to the winner of the grand tournament.

A faint singing can be heard from within the egg.

It was just flavor text that many items within the game had. After sating his curiosity he next pressed on the [use] tab. Upon doing so the egg lit up like a bon fire and floated just a bit above him. It shun for a few minutes as it pulsed in the air with numerous holographic magic circles surrounding it.