Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 13 Young Dragon
Compared to the grassland, which has now become the focus of the dragon's territory expansion, the forest has become a resting place for the young dragons to entertain themselves.

Only when night falls will the dragons return to their nests in the canyon to sleep. The young dragons stay in the forest not far away for most of the rest of the time.

When he discovered that fishing was an activity that could help him calm his mind and more easily suppress the evil dragon blood that was constantly rebelling in his body.

Charon became a fisherman in the world of Ekania, sitting on the fishing platform every day without fail. Although he would get angry because of the fact that he was in the air force, Charon regarded it as a test of his will.

The sun was shining brightly today, making him feel sleepy.

Perhaps because his dormant period is approaching, he is now lazy every day and has a bad temper. When hunting, he likes to kill his prey with a breath of dragon's breath.

The blue dragon Dos came out from behind the tall trees and walked towards Karon who was crawling on the shore.

The blue dragon, which is more stable than other dragonlets, is like the former hardworking dragon Akzi, and is responsible for patrolling the resting areas among the dragonlets.

"Karon, I caught this damn guy again. It emptied the honey from three nearby beehives while I wasn't paying attention, and then moved all the honey back to its nest and hid it. If I hadn't discovered it early, the remaining beehives would probably be in danger."

The blue dragon Dos was very angry about this, and dangerous tiny flashes of lightning flashed in his light blue eyes.

The red dragon opened his eyes and found that behind the blue dragon Doss was a black bear lying on the ground with a trembling look of fear.

Its two-meter-long body looked like a poor and helpless lamb next to the giant dragon.

The dragons are extremely greedy and possessive, and now the young dragons regard everything in the forest as their private property.

Even though these beehives were left to Charon by Riven before she left with her parents to visit her elders far away, the real owners are the Pik elves rather than the dragons.

The reason why the Pik elf Riven gave the beehive to Charon for management was that she was afraid that the elves of the same race would steal her honey when she was away. However, she didn't expect that once the honey fell into the hands of the dragons, there would be no chance to get it back.

After learning from Charon how to cover burnt food with a layer of thick honey, the young dragons' greed for desserts and delicacies made them pay more attention to the bee colonies in the forest.

The young dragons restrained their greed according to their developed habits, and only took out a certain amount of honey from the hive each time, accumulating little by little for the dragon group to consume.

Unfortunately, this damn black bear was even more greedy than the giant dragon. It plundered all the honey accumulated in the beehive, which made the blue dragon Doss very angry.

However, the black bear's talent for searching for beehives is just like the red dragon's talent for controlling fire. A beehive hidden in any corner of the forest cannot escape the black bear's clutches. Even a dragon with an outstanding sense of smell is not as talented as a black bear in this regard.

If the dragonflies hadn't needed the black bear's talent for finding wild beehives, it would have been torn to pieces by Doss long ago.

Karon was also troubled. This black bear was not a ferocious animal and did not have enough intelligence to communicate.

Dragons are naturally able to learn multiple languages, even animal languages, but proud dragons will not learn the meaningless howls of such unintelligent creatures.

The red dragon sighed, "Forget it, let's beat it up as usual, and then take the honey from its nest and leave some for it."

Karon was also helpless. Every time the black bear robbed a beehive, it would be caught and beaten, but it never learned its lesson.

"By the way, Dos, ask Antajena to clear a piece of land in a suitable place in the forest as soon as possible, and transplant the fruit trees we found there by classification. Ask Antajena to use her talent for growing plants to take good care of these fruit trees. This will be an orchard for the dragons to relax in in the future, and it will also attract bee colonies to inhabit." The hands-off shopkeeper Karon instructed Dos.

"After this hibernation period, when the dragon group's power grows stronger, perhaps we can start trying to subdue useful followers and have them manage the orchards and herd bees for the dragon group. This way, we will have a constant supply of honey and desserts to enjoy."

The blue dragon Doss lowered his head and responded, "As you wish, wise Kalon."

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The red dragon's hibernation period has arrived as scheduled, and the remaining dragonlets will also enter hibernation one by one in the near future to go through the critical transition from dragonlets to young dragons, which is extremely important.

During this stage, young dragons will awaken their own spells and achieve leapfrog growth, but it is also extremely dangerous. There are many examples in the history of dragons that gradually died out during their dormant transformation.

The once bustling canyon became deserted, which made Akiz, who was used to the hustle and bustle, a little uncomfortable. Every day he would fly to the top of the canyon and pace for a long time.

After making sure that the sleeping dragon chicks in the dragon's nest are safe, they will spread their wings and patrol around the mountains again and again until night falls, when they will return to their dragon's nest to rest.

When night falls completely, the lazy real dragon leader, Carlit, will fly out of her cave, stand on the highest peak of the mountain, and silently look down at the sleeping place of the canyon dragonlets.

Until the sun rises. This is the custom of the elder dragons who live in groups to protect the young dragons, and it is also the responsibility of the leader of the dragon group.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and the seasons change. The slumber of the young dragons will last from one to three years. For the dragons, it is just a dream, but for many races, it is a lifetime. The red dragon sleeps in its ever-expanding cave, motionless, breathing slowly.

Every breath is accompanied by a large amount of breath fluctuations and a surge of magic power. This is the magic power that begins to be absorbed by the dragon to promote the evolution of the body.

Even the air in the cave, which had become hot due to the red dragon's long-term residence, had lost its heat. The temperature of the cave in the belly of the mountain seemed to have dropped with the change of seasons outside.

In the corners of the cave, the dense dragon blood grass that was created by the blood dripping from the red dragon's teeth and claws and the influence of its breath over time is also slowly withering, and the pure fire element energy is being absorbed by the dragon.

If a goblin merchant saw this scene, he might beat his fist and cry. The blood of the evil dragon is highly poisonous to other races, but the dragon blood grass born from dragon blood contains the purest dragon blood.

Such a pure dragon blood grass can be used to make excellent fire potions in the hands of a wizard, and can help purify the dragon blood in the body in the hands of a warlock.

In the hands of a warrior, it can be used to make potions to strengthen the body, and in the hands of a merchant, it can be exchanged for a small bag of gold coins.

This is why dragons are labeled as being full of treasures. Even the poorest dragons can produce some precious materials in their caves.

Those were shining gold coins, but now they have all turned into a handful of ashes.

One month, two months, three months, as time passed, the Red Dragon's consciousness fell into a deep sleep, passively accepting the inheritance information.

Without the suppression of its conscious mind, the evil dragon blood in the red dragon's body began to boil. A huge amount of fire attribute magic power was absorbed by the evil dragon's bloodline, and then turned into surging flames burning fiercely in the bloodline.

The blood of the evil dragon, unwilling to be mediocre, burned dry in the flames, and then absorbed the energy and magic of the dragon to revive, day after day.

The red dragon's bright scales lost their luster with the passage of time, and the flame-like lines wrapped around its body became as black and dry as a dried-up river.

The dragon's strong body was also becoming thinner, the intervals between its heartbeats were getting longer and longer, and its powerful aura was slowly weakening, approaching zero, like a lifeless dragon-shaped rock.

Dust began to cover the body of the red dragon, and the cave where all creatures once retreated also welcomed new residents. The corners were covered with spider webs, and poisonous spiders as big as an adult's fist made their homes here.

Strong life emerged from the compacted ground, and wild grass sprouted. Some insects also found this seemingly safe home, and occasionally a small burrowing lizard would hang on the spider web.

More than a year later, the two white dragons were the first to awaken from their slumber.

After a short period of hunting and eating, the two bored white dragons decided not to occupy the pond anymore and dug their own caves on the mountain wall to while away the time.

In the next few months, the green dragon and the black dragon also passed their dormant period and became young dragons, awakening the magic in their dragon life.

But perhaps it was because they had become accustomed to sleeping for too long, and these young dragons usually liked to stay in their own nests. The black dragon Rosani no longer coveted the pond in the canyon, and the daily routine of the past also disappeared.

Then the blue dragon Doss also woke up, and his previous enthusiasm for patrolling the forest disappeared, except when he was hunting with other young dragons.

The last one to awaken was the bad-tempered and stubborn little female dragon, Clenaya. The female red dragon that had entered a new stage of development was now the strongest among the awakened dragonets.

She wanted to become the leader of the dragon hunt while Charon was asleep, but the blue dragon Dos disagreed and called Clenaya a fool with her head stuck in her ass.

Although Clenaya is slightly larger than Doss, pure-blooded blue dragons are not afraid of her.

The blue dragon is firmly in second place among the five colored dragons, and has been competing with the red dragon for the title of the strongest dragon among the five colored dragons. This shows the powerful bloodline of the blue dragon.

The black dragon Rosani and the white dragon Gemot neither opposed nor supported it, but they were closer to the blue dragon because Clenaya was usually very arrogant, the kind of arrogance that a red dragon has when it looks down on dragons of other colors.

Although the Green Dragon Antajiana has a good relationship with Clenaya, she has not openly expressed her support for the Red Dragon. When the dragons disagree, she will use misleading language to change the subject.

As for the other white dragon Kamide who is not good at speaking, although he did not learn to use a lot of swear words around Kalon like his brother, he also learned some things. For example, when facing a dragon he does not want to pay attention to, he will look at the opposite side with his sincere eyes, and then say "aba aba".

In this way, the young dragons had disputes, lost cohesion, began to hunt on their own, and then slept in caves all day like other dragons, lazy and scattered.

Although Akzi would occasionally fly over this cliff when patrolling his territory, he never stopped there again. This place was no different from other dragon tribes, and he was naturally no different from other dragons.

(End of this chapter)