The King of Elder Dragons Falls

Humanoid Bird Wyvern MAX's ability was actually quite overbearing. It looked like creating something from nothing and bringing life into being, but in reality, it still needed some basic Underlying Logic to support it.

Those abandoned dragon nests, for example, used the nests' original owners and the damaged dragon eggs left behind there as a basis. The newly synthesized eggs came at the cost of the old ones.

As far as the dungeon was concerned, Cheng Tian's actions did not interfere much with the world. No matter how many dragon eggs he pulled out, they were but a drop in the ocean compared to the entire Monster Hunter ecosystem.

But the Elder Dragon was different. It was a special existence capable of causing other elder dragon species scattered across the world to cross the seas on instinct, arrive at the utterly unfamiliar New Continent, and reproduce or die here.

Who knew how many years of energy the New Continent's ley lines had accumulated before producing an Elder Dragon like this?

And Cheng Tian pulling out three eggs in a row had clearly squeezed the energy reserves of the ley line core dry ahead of time, leaving it unable to produce new life for a long time to come.

In plain terms, Cheng Tian pulled out the eggs, while the ley lines footed the bill. The price of conjuring three eggs from thin air was borne by the ley lines.

Cheng Tian? He was just a midwife delivering dragon eggs!

Of course, that did not mean the Elder Dragon would be permanently cut off.

Other regions besides the New Continent also had ley lines. Their distribution and processes might differ from those of the New Continent, but theoretically, other Elder Dragons would still be born.

In fact, in the Savage Devil