Arc 2The Underground River Hunt

Chaos prepared the hatchlings to face the Bamokangla, then killed it with the Water Snake Formation and gained a time-stopping ability from its Magic Core. Afterward, he cooked a shared hot pot, discovered a salt deposit with Agatha, and helped the hatchlings settle into life around the riverbank.

  • Chaos foresaw the rising river and decided to kill the Bamokangla before it threatened the hatchlings’ territory and food supply.
  • Chaos and Agatha gathered all twelve hatchlings and traveled to the underground lake, where Agatha drew the Bamokangla out of the water.
  • Chaos built the Water Snake Formation with fish bones and Kashi Magic Cores, then used it to fight the Bamokangla while Agatha and the hatchlings defended the riverbank.
  • Chaos exhausted his mana and collapsed after the water serpents killed the Bamokangla, and Agatha let him claim its Magic Core.
  • Chaos discovered that the Magic Core had changed his left pupil into a golden pocket watch that could stop time, though using the power rapidly drained his mana.
  • Chaos cooked Bamokangla’s heart in a hot pot with Feeny and Vinnie, while An and the hatchlings joined the meal and learned to wash their claws before eating.
  • Hera gave Chaos a poison-element Magic Core, and White Chubby led Chaos and Agatha to a cave where they found a large deposit of salt.
  • Chaos returned to the riverbank with Agatha, added salt to the hot pot, and showed the hatchlings how much to use.
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Ch. 26Bamokangla

Chaos cooked a spicy Kashi fish hot pot with Agatha’s dragonfire, then dreamed of a giant Bamokangla flooding the cavern and hunting the hatchlings. After waking and finding the river rising, he decided to kill the Bamokangla before it trapped the group and consumed their prey.

  • Chaos carved a stone pot and stove, then woke Agatha and asked her to light it with dragonfire.
  • Chaos boiled pieces of the Kashi in the stone pot, ate the whole fish, and fell asleep on the riverbank.
  • Chaos dreamed that rising water submerged the cavern entrance and a huge Bamokangla hunted aquatic creatures outside.
  • Chaos woke, saw that the underground river had risen, and recognized that the vision was coming true.
  • Chaos decided to kill the Bamokangla to protect the hatchlings’ territory and food supply.

Ch. 27Kill It!

Chaos searched the True Dragon Inheritance for a way to kill the juvenile Bamokanla and chose the Water Serpent Magic Array. After agreeing with Agatha that they should attack, he planned to gather its materials while she summoned the others.

  • Chaos searched the True Dragon Inheritance and chose the fourth-circle Water Serpent Magic Array for its versatile severing ability.
  • Agatha brought Chaos two shrimp, and he told her his premonition warned that rising water would trap them with the Bamokanla as it hunted.
  • Agatha said the Bamokanla seemed weakened and juvenile, and she and Chaos agreed to kill it.
  • Chaos told Agatha he would build the Water Serpent Magic Array and said Kashi or Xielali could provide materials.
  • Agatha told Chaos to summon Perceptive Vines as bait while she gathered the others.

Ch. 28Got a Light?

Chaos woke White Chubby and brought him along to hunt, using Perceptive Vines to scout the underground river and lure a shoal of Kashi into the pool. As the hatchlings prepared to attack, Chaos stopped Hera to ask her to light the stove, and her dragon breath blasted the stone pot into the air.

  • Chaos woke White Chubby with a shrimp head and took the eager dragon along on a hunt.
  • Chaos used Perceptive Vines to explore the underground river, finding abundant fish and Xelila breeding on the riverbed.
  • Chaos spotted Kashi hunting fish, then used an injured Perceptive Vine to lure twenty Kashi through the channel opening.
  • Agatha took position at the channel opening, and Chaos sent the hatchlings into the pool to attack the Kashi.
  • Chaos grabbed Hera's tail and asked her to light the stove, so Hera blasted dragon breath into it and sent the stone pot flying.

Ch. 29Chaos Was So Responsible!

Chaos summoned the water elemental fairy Feeny while preparing to improve his Four-Ring Water Snake Formation. He soothed her after she burned her feet and put off forming a contract by inviting her to eat and get to know him first.

  • Hera leaped into the pool, and Chaos rushed after his stone pot before it could roll into the Underground River.
  • Chaos rinsed the pot and returned it to the stove, where a dead Kashi landed beside him.
  • Chaos cast Water Blade Slash and tapped its casting ring, summoning the water elemental fairy Feeny.
  • Feeny burned her feet on the hot water, and Chaos healed them with emerald life mana.
  • Chaos introduced himself to Feeny and delayed her request for a contract by suggesting they share a meal and become friends.

Ch. 30Then... Then next time

Chaos cooked fish for Feeny, but convinced her their meal together would only count toward forming a contract if she enjoyed it, so they agreed to try again next time. After Agatha and the hatchlings returned from hunting Kashi, Chaos prepared to rest before the showdown.

  • Chaos blanched fish for Feeny, who found it bland, and he promised to cook something she would enjoy next time.
  • Feeny said she liked and trusted Chaos, and he persuaded her that their first meal together did not count because she had not enjoyed it.
  • Feeny agreed to wait until next time to share a meal with Chaos and form their contract.
  • Agatha returned with the hatchlings and a pile of Kashi carcasses, and Chaos judged the prey should be enough.
  • The hatchlings ate the Kashi and left twenty-three Magic Cores, then Chaos lay beside the crab shell to save his strength for the showdown.

Ch. 31Do you want to duel Lady Feeny?

As the water continued to rise, Chaos prepared to use the Water Snake Formation against Bamokangla and asked Feeny and White Chubby for help. Agatha failed to persuade the hatchlings to follow her orders, leaving their cooperation uncertain as time ran short.

  • Chaos woke, ate a fish, and told Agatha to gather the hatchlings while he made preparations.
  • White Chubby charged past Chaos and fell, then challenged Feeny; Chaos stopped them from fighting and promised to take White Chubby hunting.
  • Agatha confronted the hatchlings, who rejected her authority and prepared to attack her.
  • Agatha restrained herself because Chaos needed the hatchlings to hold off Bamokangla's tentacles while he set up the Water Snake Formation on dry land.
  • Agatha ended the standoff by naming Bamokangla.

Ch. 32Did These Roundheads Have Any Idea What It Meant to Be a Mighty Mage?!

Agatha warned the hatchlings that a juvenile Bamokangla at the end of the underground river would eventually hunt all the prey there, and persuaded them to follow her by saying she would take Chaos with her. The group set out carrying fish skeletons for Chaos’s setup, but their flight left Chaos exhausted, so Agatha called a rest.

  • Agatha told the hatchlings about the rising river and the juvenile Bamokangla, then said she would take Chaos with her whether they followed or not.
  • An agreed to go, Loya followed, and all twelve hatchlings ultimately chose to join Agatha.
  • Agatha assigned the hatchlings to carry the intact Kashi skeletons Chaos needed for his setup.
  • Chaos, Agatha, White Chubby, and the hatchlings set off through the underground river, with Agatha carrying a pot of white Magic Cores.
  • After flying for nearly an hour, Chaos clung to the rock wall in exhaustion, and Agatha told the group to rest before flying to join him.

Ch. 33Made peace with it, made peace with it

Chaos struggled to keep up with the Dragon Group during their flight, but White Chubby carried him until he recovered. At the underground lake from his hourglass revelation dream, Chaos ordered Agatha to lure the creature beneath the water into attacking her.

  • Agatha led the hatchlings back into flight, and Feeny reassured Chaos when his exhaustion left him trailing behind.
  • White Chubby carried Chaos back to the Dragon Group, and he decided to protect it in return for its help.
  • After resting, Chaos and the hatchlings reached the underground lake he recognized from his dream.
  • Chaos asked Agatha if she could withstand the underwater creature's attack, then told her to pretend to drink at the water's edge.
  • Agatha walked toward the bank as the hatchlings watched her.

Ch. 34Beating This Big Little Girl Someday Looked Tough, Too

Agatha fought off the Bamokangla in the river and demonstrated her overwhelming strength, leaving Chaos and the hatchlings wary of her. Afterward, she shared the tentacle meat with them and showed that she could reclaim her destructive dragon breath, making Chaos doubt he could ever defeat her.

  • Agatha dodged the Bamokangla’s ambush, tore off its tentacles, and drove it back into the river.
  • Chaos recognized several of Agatha’s talents and worried that defeating her had become even harder.
  • Agatha gave Chaos and White Chubby tentacle meat, then ordered the other hatchlings to gather the remaining food.
  • Agatha collected the burning tentacle pieces and absorbed their flames back into her claw, leaving Chaos convinced that her dragon breath was unusual.

Ch. 35Luckily, Feeny Had Met a "Kind" Green Dragon Like Him

Chaos and Agatha prepared the hatchlings to finish off the Bamokangla, while Chaos began making the cores for a Water Snake Formation. The hatchlings started their assigned work, and Chaos recruited Feeny to help power the formation.

  • White Chubby offered Chaos saliva-covered tentacle skin, which he refused, while Agatha shared her last piece of tentacle meat with him.
  • Agatha told the hatchlings to follow Chaos's orders and help kill the Bamokangla so they could stay safe during their hatchling years.
  • Chaos ordered the hatchlings to remove the spines from the fish skeletons, suspecting An had sabotaged him during the water-channel work.
  • Chaos used blue magic runes to prepare Kashi Magic Cores for the Water Snake Formation.
  • Chaos asked Feeny to sit on a core and channel her magic power into it when he controlled the formation, and Feeny eagerly agreed.

Ch. 36Didn't see a thing, this dragon didn't see a thing

Chaos completed the Water Snake Formation with the hatchlings and prepared to use it to attack Bamokangla underwater. Agatha and the hatchlings agreed to stop its tentacles if they came ashore, while An continued digging at the rock wall.

  • Chaos directed the hatchlings to plant fish bones in the Water Snake Formation's two rings and winding serpent pattern, then sent them outside the framework.
  • Chaos assigned An to dig a three-meter-square stone block from the rock wall, and An went to work without asking why.
  • Chaos placed magic cores across the formation and told Feeny to sit on the core at the serpent's head and connect her magic power to it.
  • Agatha agreed to stop Bamokangla's tentacles if they came ashore, and the hatchlings silently agreed to help.
  • Agatha looked toward An digging at the wall, and Chaos turned away as if he had seen nothing.

Ch. 37A Turn-Based Game-My Turn, My Turn

Chaos activated the Water Snake Formation and used its giant serpent body to hunt Bamokangla underwater. He found and grappled with the creature, but Bamokangla kept countering his bites with enchanted tentacles as the fight continued.

  • Chaos activated the Water Snake Formation, and its serpent form emerged as Agatha and the hatchlings watched.
  • Chaos spat a powerful water ball at the Black Hatchling, knocking her into a cracked rock wall before she returned to digging.
  • Chaos dove into the river and searched the dark depths until he found Bamokangla clinging to a wall.
  • Bamokangla attacked with its tentacles and water arrows, but Chaos's serpent body resisted the physical strikes and healed quickly.
  • Bamokangla fled deeper into the water, and Chaos caught it and coiled around it.
  • Chaos slowly bit through Bamokangla's enchanted tentacles while the creature repeatedly shoved new ones into his jaws, and their underwater struggle continued.

Ch. 38Today, This Hot Pot of His...

Chaos and the hatchlings fought the mutant Bamokangla as it charged the riverbank, leaving Chaos trapped in its slowed-time attack. He summoned two water serpents that bit into Bamokangla’s head just as time returned to normal.

  • Chaos kept the water serpent gnawing on Bamokangla’s tentacles while Agatha and the hatchlings defended the riverbank.
  • Bamokangla stunned the hatchlings with its roar, then launched itself toward the bank in a desperate charge.
  • Agatha grew to nine meters and struck Bamokangla, and the hatchlings joined her to halt its charge.
  • Bamokangla stunned the hatchlings again and sent its remaining tentacles toward Chaos’s real body, while Agatha and Hera tried to burn them away.
  • Chaos experienced time slowing as two tentacles neared him, then poured his mana into the magic circle and summoned two water serpents to bite Bamokangla’s head.

Ch. 39She Believed Chaos Would Be No Exception

Chaos defeated Bamokangla with a burst of time power, then collapsed from mana exhaustion. While the hatchlings gathered food, Hera agreed to help Agatha preserve the giant dragon species and sought permission to pursue mating rights with Chaos.

  • Chaos's tentacle attack stopped, and he collapsed after exhausting his mana; his uncontrolled water serpents dissolved over Bamokangla's corpse.
  • Feeny checked Chaos and told the hatchlings he was unharmed and would recover after resting.
  • Agatha sent the hatchlings to gather food while she recovered from using a burst of later-stage power.
  • Hera asked Agatha whether Chaos was the only male hatchling left and learned Agatha wanted the giant dragon species to survive.
  • Hera offered to help and asked for mating rights to Chaos, and Agatha told her she could approach him but that Chaos would decide for himself.

Ch. 40Did you really think this dragon hadn't seen through you?

Chaos woke beside White Chubby and Feeny, then focused on claiming the rewards from Bamokangla’s defeat. He left Bamokangla’s heart soaking by the river and found its enormous magic core beside the sleeping big little girl.

  • Chaos woke up, thanked Feeny for caring about him, and pretended to be hungry when she seemed about to ask him something.
  • Hera brought Chaos Bamokangla’s heart, but Chaos washed it in the river instead of eating with her.
  • Chaos searched for Bamokangla’s magic core, which he considered his prize for killing the creature.
  • Chaos found the huge blue magic core beside the sleeping big little girl and leapt onto it, wrapping his claws around it.

Ch. 41Tick-tock, tick-tock~

Chaos discovered that his left pupil had become a pocket watch that could stop time, though using the power consumed his magic quickly. After eating Bamokangla’s Magic Core and falling asleep, he woke to find two dragon hatchlings preparing to fight over food.

  • Agatha told Chaos that Bamokangla’s Magic Core had been left for him, and Chaos noticed his left pupil had changed into a golden pocket watch.
  • Chaos tested his new ability and stopped time, then cut it off when it rapidly drained his magic.
  • Chaos ate the entire Magic Core while Feeny tried and rejected a fragment, then he fell asleep again.
  • Chaos woke to find a Black Dragon hatchling and a green dragon hatchling fighting over food, and watched as they began colliding their bodies.

Ch. 42His dead conscience seemed to stir again

Chaos prepared Bamokangla’s heart for hot pot and invited An to eat, getting her to carve a stone platform into a pot. When Feeny asked to form a contract after the meal, Chaos avoided agreeing and asked her to find Agatha to provide fire.

  • Chaos left the hatchlings wrestling and checked the heart soaking by the riverbank, then noticed his cooking pot had been destroyed.
  • Chaos kicked An off her stone platform and invited her to eat as an apology, though his remark about Water Serpent made her suspicious.
  • An followed Chaos to the riverbank, where he asked her to hollow out the platform into a stone pot while he sliced the heart.
  • Feeny asked Chaos to form a contract after the meal, and Chaos asked her to find Agatha so they could get fire.

Ch. 43I think we should get to know each other first~

Chaos summoned the life element fairy Vinnie, who impressed him by growing plants he could use as seasonings. Feeny returned and confronted Vinnie, accusing her of trying to steal Chaos.

  • Feeny flew toward the riverbank to approach the red dragon while Chaos summoned Vinnie.
  • Vinnie appeared and asked whether Chaos would form a contract with her, but he suggested they get to know each other first.
  • Chaos asked Vinnie to grow seasoning plants, and she quickly produced several unfamiliar varieties, including chili peppers and Sichuan pepper.
  • Feeny returned, saw Vinnie beside Chaos, and angrily declared that she was Chaos's only friend.

Ch. 44Black Coal Ball and Big Jerk

Chaos prepared hot pot with Agatha and An while Feeny and Vinnie fought over him. The fairies paused their fight when the food smelled good, leaving Chaos wondering which one had won.

  • Vinnie and Feeny argued over who would form a contract with Chaos, then grabbed each other’s hair and fought in midair.
  • Chaos watched the fairies fight while slicing heart meat, and An quietly avoided his gaze as she carved out a stone pot.
  • Chaos gathered herbs and spices, teased An by calling her Black Coal Ball, and told her to wash and fill the pot.
  • Agatha heated the pot with her dragon breath, and Chaos added the seasonings to the boiling water.
  • Feeny and Vinnie stopped fighting when the hot pot smelled delicious, and Chaos wondered which fairy had won.

Ch. 45Now that's balance

Chaos cooked hot pot by the river, carved stools and tableware for Feeny and Vinnie, and tried to keep the two fairies from fighting. After tasting the broth, he stopped An from reaching into the pot with dirty claws and told her to wash them first.

  • Chaos watched Vinnie and Feeny finish their fight, then decided Vinnie could serve as Feeny's rival.
  • Chaos carved stone stools and tableware for Feeny and Vinnie while the hot pot cooked.
  • Feeny and Vinnie accepted their gifts and settled on opposite sides of Chaos.
  • Chaos cooked sliced heart meat in the broth and enjoyed its flavor, though he wished he had salt.
  • An reached toward the pot, but Chaos knocked her claw away and told her to wash it in the river first.

Ch. 46Hungry and Impatient

Chaos restarted the hot pot meal with fresh ingredients, then invited the hungry Green Hatchling Loya to join them. After making her wash her claws twice, he left An to explain how she could eat without angering him.

  • Chaos gathered fresh seasonings and meat, and Feeny refilled the Stone Pot with water while Agatha heated it with her dragon breath.
  • Black Coal Ball brought back a large slab of meat, and the hatchlings began their second round of hot pot.
  • Chaos noticed Loya sneaking toward the food and invited her to eat with them.
  • When Loya reached into the Stone Pot without washing her claws, Chaos stopped her and sent her to the riverbank.
  • Chaos sent Loya back to wash again after she stepped in dirt, and An joined her in the water.
  • An told Loya to wash her claws, walk upright, and sit down so she could eat without Chaos stopping her.

Ch. 47Weird, Seriously Weird!

Chaos shared a meal with the hatchlings before White Chubby rushed to him, pursued by a Sali. Hera killed the beast and offered Chaos its magic core, while Agatha revealed she had organized the hatchlings to befriend him and proposed they work together for safety.

  • Chaos and Agatha stopped eating so the Green Hatchling could have more food, and Chaos told the gathered hatchlings to make their own pots.
  • A Sali burst through the riverbank, and White Chubby rushed into Chaos’s arms as the beast charged after her.
  • Hera pounced on the Sali, killed it, and extracted its poison-element magic core.
  • Hera offered the core to Chaos, who asked why she was giving it to him.
  • Agatha admitted she had asked the hatchlings to befriend Chaos and offered him the magic cores they found in exchange for his help protecting them.

Ch. 48Cuteness -100

Chaos accepted Hera’s magic core and tried to learn why Sali had attacked White Chubby. After discovering that White Chubby had eaten Sali’s larva and tasting the white granules on her scales, he suspected they were salt and asked where they came from.

  • Hera offered Chaos a poison-attribute magic core and said she wanted to team up with him during their hatchling years, while repeatedly glancing at Agatha.
  • Chaos set the magic core aside and questioned White Chubby about Sali’s hostility toward her.
  • White Chubby revealed that she had eaten Sali’s larva, then swallowed it again when Chaos refused it.
  • Chaos scraped white granules from White Chubby, tasted their salty, astringent flavor, and asked where they came from.
  • White Chubby pointed toward the hole she had escaped from.

Ch. 49You really do care about those hatchlings' safety

Chaos and Agatha explored the cave where White Chubby had found an opening and discovered a salt vein. Agatha carried the salt ore back for Chaos, who prepared to return to the others.

  • Chaos let White Chubby eat meat from the Stone Pot after the white dragon washed its claws.
  • Chaos and Agatha entered the cave and found no other Sali along the passage.
  • Chaos discovered a chamber filled with salt deposits and dug out a large block of salt ore.
  • Agatha lifted the salt block onto her back, and she and Chaos headed back together.

Ch. 50The Answer Was Only a Matter of Time!

Chaos continued questioning Agatha about her intentions, then returned to the riverbank and found the hatchlings feasting around their stone pots. After Chaos showed them how to season their hot pot with rock salt, the hatchlings rushed to try it, though one group decided to take more than he recommended.

  • Agatha told Chaos that she would not harm him now and refused to explain her original idea.
  • Chaos returned to the riverbank, where hatchlings ate from stone pots and settled food disputes with fights.
  • Chaos learned from Black Coal Ball that Vinnie was staying in a vine house in a fruit-bearing tree.
  • Chaos added rock salt to his hot pot and explained that the right amount improved the taste.
  • Hera took a small piece of salt after Chaos demonstrated the amount, while a group of four hatchlings doubted his advice and sent a blue dragon to collect more.
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