Supreme BeastTamer: I Can Copy and Upgrade Skills 10x! - Chapter 506

Chapter 506: Before the Competition [1]
Some time later, Nox was summoned to a secluded chamber inside the royal castle, and the process of altering his appearance to make him look more like a dragon began.

To no one’s surprise, the one leading the process was the king himself, assisted by Drake.

Zara watched from the side, her eyes filled with curiosity. This was the first time she was witnessing this process as well. She watched with rapt attention, as if not wanting to miss a single detail.

As for Nox, he had temporarily closed his eyes, trusting the two. Of course, he didn’t think they would try to harm or take advantage of him—after all, they needed his help, and he was the only one who could assist them right now.

While the process was ongoing, Nox’s mind was occupied with something else.

“To fight in the tournament, I’ll have to use only ice skills.” Nox sighed in his heart. He couldn’t afford to use any other skills, as that would give away the fact that he was a fraud, which would then lead others to investigate Frostpire.

From there, it would be a chain of events that would eventually lead to his arrest.

If this were to happen, Frostpire would suffer a lot. From what Zara had told him, the other kingdoms were very hostile to humans, and kingdoms like the Fire Dragons weren’t on good terms with Frost Dragons.

They would use this opportunity to wage war against Frostpire, and with the support of the other kingdoms, even with King Dracos’ formidable strength, their defenses wouldn’t last long before crumbling.

For the next hour, as the process of his transformation continued, Nox kept thinking about how he could bypass this restriction. Eventually, his eyes flickered open, an excited gleam shining within them as he finally thought of something.

“It seems someone likes his new look.”

Drake’s voice sounded from behind him. By coincidence, just as Nox finished formulating a plan in his head, the process of altering his body also came to an end, and Drake had mistaken his excitement for that.

“How do you feel?” King Dracos asked in a clear voice. Without waiting for Nox’s reply, he retrieved a towering mirror from his inventory and placed it before Nox.

The obsidian mirror reflected a stranger.

Nox stared at his own image. His once familiar features were now subtly altered—his pupils, once dark, had taken on the faintest glacial sheen, a distinct trait among dragons.

Furthermore, the normally warm undertone of his skin had faded, replaced by a paler complexion. The most striking change, however, was the faint pattern of ice-blue scales now lining the edges of his jaw and temples, disappearing beneath his clothes.

“I feel strange,” Nox replied as he looked at himself. After staring for so long, he began to notice traces of his former self.

Nox flexed his limbs, noting that they were still working properly, and touched his face, feeling his skin—which was now cold.

Filled with curiosity, he couldn’t help but ask, “What did you use, if you don’t mind me asking?”

A small, proud smile appeared on the king’s face. “Oh, all I did was use a bit of my ice manipulation skills to alter your appearance, even changing your body’s natural temperature. And with a few additional enchantments, it should hold up well.”

“Ice skills?” Nox was dumbfounded. How did he pull off something like this with just ice manipulation? It was the same ice manipulation he had, one that was the same rank as an emperor’s, but even still, he doubted he could do something like this.

“Don’t think too much about it,” Drake said, a helpless look on his face. In the past, he had also attempted to mimic some of his father’s techniques with ice manipulation skills, but it had ended in failure, even though it seemed very easy when his father did it.

“Father is very old, don’t be fooled by his appearance. His comprehension of ice skills and his creativity is unmatched in the whole of the dragon realm,” Zara said, her tone carrying a slight trace of pride.

“Oh, don’t flatter me. I’m sure with time, even you kids will reach such a level of mastery.”

“So that’s how it is?” At this moment, Nox fell into deep thought. His talent allowed him to copy and upgrade any skill that he wanted, but creativity and mastery solely depended on him.

His skills could only be made more powerful and destructive. In most cases, if he fought against other dragons with frost affinity, he should be able to completely overwhelm them. But if he ever encountered one as creative as Dracos, he might just find himself in trouble.

Zara approached him and ran her fingers along Nox’s scales, nodding with a satisfied expression on her face. “You look the part,” she admitted, tilting her head. “But if anyone gets too close, like skin to skin, they might still sense the slight warmth emitting from your body.”

“Oh, right,” the king suddenly exclaimed as he pulled something else from his inventory. It was a small, sturdy amulet with a swirling blue gem in the middle.

“This is the last piece,” he said, tossing the amulet to Nox, who caught it, shock written all over his face.

Right there in his hands was an Elemental Core.

The same Elemental Core that was incredibly rare to find in the human domain—and the king had just casually thrown it to him as if it wasn’t worth anything.

“What does it do?” Nox asked.

“Put it around your neck,” King Dracos explained. “It will suppress the natural warmth of your body. Frost Dragons don’t give off any heat, but you, well… do.”

“What if it falls off in the middle of the fight?” Zara raised an eyebrow.

“He will stand out like a flame in the middle of an ice field, which will then make the other dragons raise an alarm. They’ll apprehend him, and either they’ll imprison him… or kill him on the spot.”