"That egg's about to hatch! Junior Brother Mu, build another campfire and stoke it up!"
"On it!"
"Hehe, what do you think will hatch from a Pal Egg that big...?"
"It has to be a divine beast! One look at that Pal Egg and you can tell it's rare!"
Beside the Palworld Terminal, Zhong Yi, Zhou Qiaoling, and Mu Yawen kept circling the Egg Incubator. Expectation filled every word, and the place buzzed with excitement.
Meanwhile, Zhou Yue had just called Pengullet over to help him put together another Egg Incubator.
"Pah! What a bunch of snobs! Looking down on me like dogs with their noses in the air!!!"
Zhou Yue muttered under his breath as he worked.
The Egg Incubator had originally been meant for him. But the moment Zhou Qiaoling returned with a Pal Egg half as tall as a person, Zhong Yi switched sides and told him to go wait somewhere else.
Once the Egg Incubator was finished, Zhou Yue placed his Common Pal Egg inside, his face full of defiance.
His Pal Egg was smaller and would hatch in just one minute.
As the seconds ticked away, Zhou Yue watched the Pal Egg quiver, as though new life were about to leap out. He murmured:
"Everyone looks down on you. That means you have to prove them wrong!"
"I, Zhou Yue, was born an ordinary man under a Heavenly Baleful Fate... How many Heavenly Prides have fallen to me?"
"The demon beasts of this world are vast as mountains and countless as the sea. Yet didn't they still fall to tiny humans in the end?"
"Bloodline, talent, size... I, Zhou Yue, refuse to believe in fate!"
"And you, my Pal, you must also..."
Before Zhou Yue could finish, the Pal Egg in the incubator began