"Could eating the eggshell have been the right move?"
Tang Qi blinked. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether Kuru swallowing the eggshell had kept the Amethyst Dragon before him from displaying a Giant Dragon's instincts,
or whether it was simply underdeveloped and had failed to awaken Dragon Breath.
Either way, it was good news for them.
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It was a newborn hatchling, after all, and it had lost its wide-area weapon. Even without Kuru, the three of them could handle it easily:
"I thought you'd be tougher than that, but all you managed was a muffled fart!"
Tang Qi strummed a chord and hurled the insult to the melody, then turned to Dawn.
"Go finish it off! I'll record your glorious deed!"
Poet's Inspiration took a little finesse, too—
To rouse Gravel's fighting spirit, the best approach was to mock him mercilessly.
Once he was fuming, a skull might as well have been a block of tofu to him.
Dawn, on the other hand, needed the lure of glory.
It was only a hatchling, but it belonged to a Giant Dragon species unseen for centuries. The challenge alone would make a tale worth telling.
An insult here, a little encouragement there.
The fight could hardly have been easier.
"Ah, we bards really are incredible!"
Tang Qi couldn't help humming.
Honor was strength.
The song seemed to stir Dawn's soul.
The Headless Horseman dimly recalled her youth: standing atop a cliff, driving her sword through a Griffin's throat, then stripping the flesh from its bones.
The passion and recklessness of that moment seemed to have crossed the long river of time and flowed along the lines of her muscles into the body she wore now—
Wait. Did she even have a drop of blood in her?
"Launch