Despite that he never thought of replacing it. He knew that there would be times like this where he would need it. Also he was waiting for more players to be able to use doppelganger skills, which would be real after level thirty, or that what he hoped.
The next moment twenty-nine clones of his appeared around, making the place crowded. "Dig the ground and take everything out," he instantly ordered.
"What do you mean by everything?" the dragon was shocked to be forced to ask in amazement.
"Humph," and Bloom only sneered and said nothing.
As he was here, why be content with just one skull while he could get the entire dragon skeleton as well?
That was his plan.
And that made the dragon more furious as it started roaring and forced its tail to move towards his head.
"Stop resisting you stupid snake," Bloom gritted his teeth and felt like the rock he was holding was doubled in weight all of sudden. He even felt his knees trembling under this immense pressure.
Yet he never let this piece of paper go out of his hand, or let the tail move more than a meter before stopping forcibly under the force of the map.
"Screw you!" The dragon was deeply infuriated when the clones managed to clear a big part of the dragon skeleton. The dragon skeleton was as large as the living dragon here, but it didn't have its huge body that was full of muscles and scales.
"Take everything," Bloom said while gritting his teeth, "don't let a single scale off!"
"Damn you player! I curse you, you are the most hideous being I have ever met in my entire life!"
"Humph!"
Bloom kept his stand while letting his clones dug the ground. He didn't forget to stress over Antoan to keep him safe from any prying eyes of his team.
And Antoan promised not to let a single one escape his vision, despite doubting anyone could have the time to break free from this brutal fight.
"I'll kill you," the dragon roared when the entire skeleton appeared and the clones started to take one bone at a time and gave it to Bloom to store it away. "I swear not to rest until I kill you and swallow your soul wholly!"
Bloom ignored these empty threats as he was sure the quest to release such a dragon wouldn't be available to players before level fifty or even seventy-five.
"This is my town," Bloom sneered, "and I won't allow anyone to come near here ever. So rot here as long as you love filthy dragon, I won't let you loose."
Bloom turned to his clones as he ordered, "bring me those scales, don't leave even the dirt around it to be wasted. Bring it all!"
"Damn you stingy player!" The dragon kept roaring and Bloom totally ignored it.
He watched his clones taking out the crystallized scales and collecting the dirt as he ordered. "I hope these come in use later," he stored them all, accepting everything and not rejecting any until his inventory was almost full.
"Stay here," he gave his final order to his clones while starting to retreat.
Advancing was hard, yet retreating seemed like a walk in the park in comparison. With each step he felt the pressure exerted over his body relieved by a large chunk.
"Good, barely in time," he muttered as he glanced at his stamina during this brief confrontation with the dragon's tail.
His stamina was the only thing being rapidly depleted here, and just as he left the dragon tail zone and stored away the map, he only had less than fifteen points inside his stamina.
"Boom!"
The next instant the huge tail of the dragon fell over his clones and smashed them all without exception. Bloom watched in cold blood this little sacrifice here while gulping a potion to replenish his stamina.
"Damn you! I won't rest until I kill you and feast on your soul!" the dragon kept threatening yet Bloom didn't hurry to leave.
"Stop this bullshit and let's talk about real business," his words succeeded in silencing the dragon who asked with a loss:
"What do you mean, rude player?"
"First don't give me names that I don't like," Bloom said, stating his superiority here.
"Or what?"
"Or you'll lose your sole chance of freedom," Bloom casually said, "I'm the next lord of this town. Not a single player here won't follow my orders. If I announced this place as a player off zone, believe me not a single ant would come here to help you out."
Bloom moved to see the face of the dragon clearer. "Simply put I'm your only chance of getting free, and you should show some appreciation first."
"Release me and I won't kill you!"
"Again spilling out bullshit," Bloom sighed in disappointment, "if you'll keep this loser's attitude then I better get going and find myself a monster to kill."
He turned around and was about to move away. "Stop," the dragon shouted and stopped him, "What do you want in return?" it finally asked.
"What can you offer to me?" Bloom grinned while stopping his fake retreat, "and beware, if you spoke nonsense again I'll leave and won't listen to any pleading from you."
The dragon kept his silence while sizing up Bloom. It knew he wasn't toying with him and that made him quite hesitant.
"I can tell you secrets about this game," the dragon suddenly said, "things you won't know or imagine."
"Like bringing the abilities here to the real world?" Bloom said, "like this place isn't just a normal game but might be a real world?"
The reaction the dragon expressed when he heard his words made him confirm his own guesses from before.
"How do you know this?" the dragon couldn't help but ask.
"I just was lucky to know these secrets," Bloom acted like he was already aware of these secrets beforehand. "If you only can give me this then I have to say I'm very disappointed."