Ascension

Once a player reaches 100,000 gold for their first time they are able to **ascend** and meet the Eternal Dragon of Time, a godly entity with phenomenal cosmic powers over time. The Dragon congratulates the player for gaining awareness beyond what most mortals achieve in a lifetime and gives them time crystals and lets them use the crystals they acquired to permanently unlock MOBs, Bosses and gear such as Weapons and Back items, but the player loses all levels and gold obtained during the run. Unlocking grants the player bonuses in regards to the things they unlock.

When unlocking MOBs, damage against those MOBs is increased by +10% and overall global damage is increased by +1%. Unlocking gear makes that gear 10x more likely to drop from a MOB (1% drop rate becomes 10%).

After that initial 100,000 gold, the cost of every subsequent time crystal is the previous crystal's value +15%. Note that time crystals are now actively purchasable with the player's current gold amount, but are passively granted when the total amount of gold acquired over the course of playing reaches the current milestone and carry over multiple runs of the same save.

## Quotes

The Eternal Dragon of Time has several quotes from a pool that it can direct at the player. Some are only said when the player aquired any amount of time crystals while other are only said if the player ascended empty-handed. Some quotes even are generic and can be randomly chosen independently of whether or not the player aquired any time crystals.

### First ascension only:

* *"You've gained awareness beyond what most mortals achieve in a lifetime. Well done, adventurer. Enjoy the spoils."*

### If any dragon crystals were obtained in the last run:

* *"Ah, yes. Well, here you go. Take care now."*
* *"Alright, back for more? Gee whiz, you think I'm made of the damn things?"*
* *"You just go through these like candy, huh."*
* *"Here you go then. Don't spend it all in one place!"*
* *"You again? How many times do I have to kill you? Oh hold on, right, this wasn't the arrangement. Here you go then."*

### If no time crystals were acquired before ascension:

* *"No luck this time, huh? Hmm. Troubling."*
* *"Came back empty-handed? How very embarrassing."*
* *"Nothing this time, huh? That's okay. Happens to everyone. Or maybe I'm just saying this to make you feel better."*
* *"You know, I'm not just gonna give those out for free."*
* *"All the killing and the looting and you didn't even get me anything. Some adventurer you are!"*

### Random generic quotes:

* *"Ah, you again! That was fast. But then again, most everything seems fast in dragon time."*
* *"Back so soon? It's like you never left!"*
* *"Say. You're not one of those dragon-slayers, are you? Not that I'd care."*
* *"This is no pearly gates, but I'm judging you all the same. Boy, you really like to slaughter things, huh."*
* *"I love sand, you know. It's fine and smooth and scintillating and it's just about everywhere."*
* *"Ah, hey there. Why don't you pull up a seat and uh, eat a thing or whatever it is you people do."*
* *"There's something I'd like to get off my chest... but you can't have it."*
* *"Go on, now. Let's not let this drag on."*
* *"Oh, we've got all the time in the world, believe me."*
* *"So it has come to this... You think you can defeat me? Pathetic. ...Oh right, I'm just here to give out time crystals."*
* *"Welcome back. Yes, I've been redecorating, thanks for noticing."*
* *"Yes, the void, the stars, the looming cosmic horror. It's a timeless classic."*
* *"Mind the step when you reincarnate. First door on the right once you're done."*
* *"Adventurers... after me lucky time crystals... grumble grumble."*
* *"If anything, I applaud your persistence."*

## Trivia

* Time crystals were intially called 'Dragon dots' during development.
* The line *"I love sand, you know. It's fine and smooth and scintillating and it's just about everywhere."* is a reference to a line spoken by Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. In the film Anakin, unlike the Eternal Dragon of Time, instead expresses his dislike of sand by saying "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere."
* The line *"Say. You're not one of those dragon-slayers, are you? Not that I'd care."* is referencing the Eternal Dragon of Time's slaying at the hands of Galanoth in AdventureQuest Worlds.
* The max amount of time crystals until infinity is reached is 4,897. After that, while more crystals can be obtained, the gold counter until the next is replaced with simply "infinity".