184. Dragon Island (I)
Li Aoz casually chatted with Archer, the Golden Dragon Monk, to build rapport.
He did not deny his dragonborn identity, but neither did he reveal which dragon race he belonged to. This did not arouse the Golden Dragon's suspicions.
After all, Dragon Kind was a race with distinct class divisions. Although dragons possessed secret arts such as the Dragon Transformation Art, that did not mean one's racial origins would be overlooked.
On the contrary, discrimination between higher and lower races had become even more severe. Thus, hiding one's original race was no big deal among dragons.
It was only when encountering those old fossils that one might be mocked for it.
Ever since eating Grina's corpse, Li Aoz had inherited quite a bit of dragon knowledge.
The reason was simple. High-ranking Dragons, lower-ranking dragons, and even dragonborn all had different lifespans. Top Dragon Emperors like Radiant Dragons were even limited in number.
When High-ranking Dragons transformed into lower-ranking dragons, it was to exploit their lifespan advantage and unleash their full Combat Power. Lower-ranking dragons, on the other hand, had no way to transform directly into High-ranking Dragons.
Low-grade mixed-blood dragonborn could only transform into lowly drakes such as cockatrices, land dragons, or wyverns when using the Dragon Transformation Art. To them, that already counted as revealing their true forms. If they wished to climb any higher, they could only extend their lifespans and grow slowly over time.
Very well. By this point, even preschool children could spot the problem.
Given: if low-grade dragonborn wanted to rise through the ranks and become High-ranking Dragons, they needed time to grow. Yet lower-ranking dragons often lived less than two hundred years, while becoming a proper true dragon generally required four to five hundred years of growth.
Meanwhile, once dragonborn