Silence = Agreement!

When Chaos opened his eyes, he saw a tall, crimson figure sitting on her haunches in front of him.

It was Agatha.

She's back? That was fast.

This big loli sure is efficient.

"You're back from scouting?"

"Mm." Agatha nodded her dragon head, watching Chaos slowly push himself up into a sitting position. "I found the place you mentioned. Take a look at this."

With that, she reached a claw to the side and dragged over a tentacle more than a meter thick.

Only then did Chaos notice that Agatha had brought back a trophy.

The tentacle was five or six meters long from its thick base to its pointed tip. Its skin was rough and black, and the tender pink flesh at the severed end was ragged. One look was enough to tell that it had been torn off by brute force.

Some dark green fluid seeped from the tender flesh. It was probably the creature's blood.

"I flew downstream just now, and at the end, I found the pool you described. There really was something down there, too. I didn't see all of it, but judging by this tentacle, it was clearly a big one."

Her crimson slit pupils narrowed slightly, revealing a deep urge to hunt.

Chaos noticed the hunting desire in Agatha's eyes.

But his thoughts had already moved on. He remembered that hourglass of pure gold.

Time. The hourglass had something to do with time.

His thoughts connected.

The dream triggered by the hourglass wasn't an ordinary dream. The hourglass had shown me what would happen in the future.

Foreseeing death?

So I essentially had death foresight?

Coming back to his senses, he looked at Agatha, who seemed to be waiting for him to speak.

"What about upstream? Did you check?"

"Mm." Agatha nodded. "I did, but there was nothing up there, just more of the underground river. So I flew a little way before turning back."

"What do you think we should do now?"

After asking, Agatha quietly watched Chaos. Since he could use time to glimpse the future, following his advice more often certainly couldn't hurt.

Chaos noticed Agatha's gaze.

Chaos felt that this big loli seemed to have misunderstood something.

The big loli of the past would never have said anything like that. Though no dragon had said it aloud, the entire Dragon Group had essentially accepted her as their leader.

She had done a good job, too. From hunting Xelila to hunting Kashi, she had done her best to maintain order within the Dragon Group.

But the question was, did my bloodline really contain the power of time?

Leaving aside whether that hourglass was a bloodline ability, even its death foresight only predicted my own death.

The big loli's thoughts were easy enough to guess. She simply wanted to use him to predict the best option for the Dragon Group at this stage.

The big loli sat on her haunches before him, all four claws together, tall and imposing.

Well, it'd be a waste not to make use of her.

His emerald slit pupils narrowed slightly.

Since you think I have the power of time, let's say I do.

"I don't think we need to rush to find a way out of the cavern. There's plenty of food in this underground river. If conditions allow, we could even spend our vulnerable hatchling stage here."

"All right."

Agatha agreed without hesitation, her Dragon Jaws parting slightly.

She hooked the tentacle with a large claw and offered it to Chaos.

"Eat. It's not poisonous."

Weird...

Really weird.

Though this wasn't the first time, the big loli's distinctly different treatment of him still felt strange.

He lowered his head to look at the tentacle pushed in front of him.

The skin was a little rough, but the flesh inside looked so tender it could ooze juice! So soft and pink.

He raised his head and swallowed the excess saliva filling his Dragon Jaws.

Forget it. Who cares.

He reached out, hugged the tentacle in his claws, and chomped down.

Delicious. So delicious!

Watching Chaos eat, Agatha's narrowed pupils relaxed slightly, a hint of... gentleness appearing in them.

Chaos stopped when he felt about eighty percent full.

Only about a meter of tentacle remained in his claws.

This tentacle had an incredibly high magic content. In plain terms, it was extremely filling!

I'd nearly finished it already. Chaos looked up at the big loli with a little embarrassment.

Eating someone else's prey and taking four-fifths of it in one sitting was a bit much.

The big loli was still sitting there, looking as silent as ever. Perhaps it was his imagination, but Chaos felt that she looked a little more pleasing to the eye now.

"Your turn to eat~"

He reached out and pushed the remaining tentacle meat in front of her.

Agatha lowered her head. After a single glance at the tentacle meat on the ground, she hooked it with a claw, opened her Dragon Jaws, and stuffed it inside.

Unlike Chaos, who had carefully eaten around the skin, she swallowed skin and flesh together.

Chaos looked away from the big loli, who was still chewing, and turned to the side.

White Chubby lay on the ground, fast asleep, with two plump claws stacked beneath his chin.

Chaos hooked a piece of the tentacle skin he had peeled off earlier and held it in front of White Chubby.

Sniff, sniff~

The two large nostrils on the round white dragon head twitched.

Chomp~!

Chaos lifted his claw slightly, making White Chubby bite empty air.

Having missed his bite, White Chubby kept wriggling forward with determination.

Chaos watched White Chubby inch toward the tentacle skin in his claw like a caterpillar, refusing to open his eyes no matter what.

Was this the legendary nose booting up first?

Now I've seen everything.

Left, right, left, right, up, down, up, down.

After teasing him for a while, Chaos grew a little bored.

He simply tossed the tentacle skin in his claw.

Still sound asleep, White Chubby opened his Dragon Jaws and caught it perfectly.

Perhaps because there was now something real in his mouth, the sleeping White Chubby finally began to boot up. His heavy eyelids slowly opened.

When White Chubby opened his eyes, he saw Green Chubby watching him.

What's in my mouth? It smells so good.

(￣~￣) Chew!

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Seeing the remaining skin on the ground, he tentatively reached out a plump claw and picked up a piece, looking toward Green Chubby.

Only after confirming that Green Chubby wouldn't stop him did he continue stuffing the tentacle skin into his mouth.

After eating all the tentacle skin, White Chubby looked at Green Chubby.

"Hmph-da~"

"Are you full?"

"Hmph-da~" He shook his head.

"Then come with me. It's time to hunt Kashi."

With that, Chaos turned his head to glance at Agatha beside him.

Agatha nodded her head lightly as well, indicating that she was ready.

Once he had her response, Chaos pushed himself up from the ground.

"Keep up."

He turned back to call to White Chubby, then strode toward the pool.

Seeing that Chaos had finished resting and was heading toward the pool, the hatchlings who had been keeping an eye on him woke their allies. Without being called, they gathered at the pool on their own.

Soon, a row of hatchlings stood before the pool, with all five colors represented.

Standing in front of the pool, Chaos glanced around.

The eyes of every round little dragon head were on him.

Fourteen, no more and no less. Not a single extra, not a single one missing.

Hehehe, good. Everyone's here.

Chaos grinned. These were all good dragons who would help him hunt for magic cores, after all.

"I'll skip the unnecessary talk," Chaos said. "This time, we're hunting by ambush. Once we're in the water, all of you need to hide. Just dig yourselves a hole underwater and conceal yourselves in it."

"When the time comes, I'll attack first. You follow after me."

None of the hatchlings spoke. They watched Chaos quietly.

Hunting was supposed to be fun for them, but when they thought about having to give Chaos every Kashi magic core they collected, it suddenly didn't seem so enjoyable.

Why were all these guys looking at me like that?

Whatever. Silence = agreement!