Dragon's Archon 1: A LitRPG Isekai Adventure by Ajax Lygan

Author:Ajax Lygan [Lygan, Ajax]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

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TESTING THEORIES

I’d always thought that reading was weird—in a good way. Not because there was anything wrong with it, but because of something my philosophy professors had said about it in college. We interpret little scribbles on the page and then begin to hallucinate vividly in our own understanding. The more we read, the better we get at it. And the better we get at it, the more we will enjoy the journey along the way.

It was something I agreed with and respected. The Fast-Learning perk took this idea and ramped it up to a thousand. I was flipping through a page every second. A thousand-page tome took me less than ten minutes.

Once I finished a page, all the knowledge, descriptions, and imagery burned into my mind. It was like watching a clear movie. I could reference anything I’d read with perfect accuracy, even pinpointing the exact page. My understanding was immediate and thorough.

In A Mortician’s Mystical Guide To Mortality, I was the one who was performing the experimentation and autopsies. It explained everything there was with the various subraces, which were shown from a physiological perspective.

I saw how some aquatic species like lizardkin had extra-thick subdermal layers giving them natural armor. Or how harpies had a humanlike physiology but a reproductive system to birth eggs. I found the minute differences fascinating.

It also spent a good section on the soul. It wasn’t overly biblical, instead rooting it in a pseudo-scientific eye by showing how it applied to the world of magic. How our souls and the surrounding magic were one and the same.

The Art of Combat: A Treatise of Talis Expertise was Talis’s own martial arts manual. It covered everything from basic hand-to-hand combat to combat theory, including the various fighting styles utilized on the planet. One thing I gathered rather quickly was how a lot of it applied to fighting someone with a knife. With so many races having pointed horns, razor claws, or sharp teeth, the starting rule was always to run if you could and to keep a weapon on you at all times.

I wasn’t a stranger to combat sports. I’d spent my high school and college years in wrestling. They taught you the various guards, sweeps, takedowns, and pins. All of which had a similar structure to the theory of what I’d read. Each time I read about a new move or position, it came with a step-by-step crude drawing of how to apply it.

After finishing both tomes, I found myself somewhat disappointed. I half expected something to unlock in my mind and give me access to new abilities. However, nothing happened. I had a better understanding of the context of each work but no immediate gains or unlocked power.

I received the same result after finishing The Chalice of Thorn’s Manual for Initiates. However, based on the book’s focus on beginners, I wasn’t all that surprised. Most of it was magical theory and how to best protect oneself from getting killed while utilizing rituals and spells. What it taught me was a hand gesture and code phrase to dispel any spell I cast.

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