Chapter Summaries

An ordinary corporate worker awoke reborn as a green dragon named Chaos Phobetor Amoros and used the knowledge in his dragon inheritance to break out of his egg. He emerged into a cave and roared his true name, beginning his life in the unfamiliar world.

• The protagonist discovered in a dream that he was a green dragon egg named Chaos Phobetor Amoros, with a mysterious golden hourglass nearby.
• Chaos woke inside his eggshell, recognized its magic ring as the weak point, and decided he had to hatch without relying on his mother.
• He struck the shell’s weak point repeatedly, healing his injured claws between blows, until the shell broke open.
• Chaos identified the surrounding cave as a fitting home for a chromatic dragon and waited for his claws to recover.
• Chaos pushed his head through the broken shell and roared his full name into the cave.

Chaos hatched as a green dragon and found himself surrounded by older chromatic hatchlings, including the powerful red dragon Agatha Tiamat Thor. Agatha gave him most of his eggshell, then fought the other hatchlings over the cave’s food, leaving Chaos poised to take advantage when the dust cleared.

• Chaos crawled from his eggshell and found five hatchlings, led by the much larger Agatha Tiamat Thor, waiting around him.
• Agatha introduced herself, took Chaos’s eggshell, then pushed most of it back and told him to eat.
• When a blue hatchling objected to Agatha’s rule limiting each dragon to a third of the eggshell, Agatha challenged the hatchlings to fight her.
• The two blue hatchlings, the black hatchling, and the green hatchling charged Agatha, who knocked the first blue hatchling into the ground with one claw strike.
• As the dust settled, Chaos kept eating and prepared to attack whoever emerged from the fight.

After Agatha defeated four hatchlings, Chaos finished eating his eggshell and debated whether to enter his first slumber before tending to the others. He tangled the four unconscious hatchlings together, then settled beside a red dragon egg and urged it to hatch first.

• Chaos decided not to attack the badly injured Agatha and finished eating his eggshell, though his throat was parched.
• Agatha lay down on a full stomach to begin her first slumber, hoping to awaken a useful ability.
• Chaos read his inheritance’s advice to enter a first slumber on a full stomach, but doubted it because it was signed by a green dragon.
• Chaos freed the four unconscious hatchlings from the dust, then knotted their tails together so they could not compete with him to care for newly hatched dragons.
• Chaos chose a red dragon egg and urged it to hatch before the others.

Chaos ate Roya's eggshell and drank the egg fluid while she struggled to stop him, then introduced himself as Agatha Tiamat Thor and left her vowing revenge. He later passed four hatchlings whose tails Agatha had tied together, and they agreed to beat him up once they got untangled.

• Roya hatched, but Chaos grabbed her and tossed her aside so he could chew her eggshell.
• Chaos pinned Roya down, ate through the shell, and drank most of her egg fluid despite her protests.
• Chaos released Roya and announced his name as Agatha Tiamat Thor; Roya vowed to challenge him after her first sleep.
• Chaos found four hatchlings arguing over their tangled tails, which Agatha had tied while they were unconscious.
• Chaos swaggered past the four hatchlings, who agreed to beat him up once they untangled their tails.

Chaos waited for the red dragon egg to hatch, then seized the newly hatched black dragon An and demanded some of her eggshell. After eating and tasting her sour egg fluid, he left to begin his first slumber, while An secretly ate the remaining shell and memorized his scent.

• Chaos urged the red dragon egg to hatch before hearing a new hatchling nearby.
• Chaos grabbed An as she ate her eggshell and offered not to beat her if she cooperated.
• An pretended to be frightened and thanked Chaos, who tossed her aside and ate her shell.
• Chaos tasted An’s egg fluid, found it sour, and told her she could challenge him after her first slumber.
• An declined to challenge Chaos, and he left to find a place to sleep.
• An ate the remaining eggshell and memorized Chaos’s scent for later.

Chaos entered his first slumber, while the hatchlings fought over eggshells and a white dragon finally began to hatch. After the golden hourglass turned over, Chaos witnessed an illusion in which a tentacle killed his other self beside an underground river.

• Chaos fell asleep on a raised stone platform in the cave.
• The newly hatched dragons fought over eggshell fragments, then settled down to begin their first slumbers.
• Four hatchlings waited by the remaining white egg, but they fell asleep before it cracked and its white dragon hatchling emerged.
• Chaos awoke to find the golden hourglass nearly empty, then watched it turn over and refill.
• Chaos saw an image of himself approach an underground river and get dragged beneath the water by a black tentacle.

Chaos woke in the cavern, reasoned that a powerful chromatic dragon had placed the clutch there as seeds for the future, and examined his new magical talents. After learning to create venomous emerald threads, he decided to wait before exploring outside, but a hatchling called Agatha out to a challenge.

• Chaos found that every egg had hatched into a chromatic dragon hatchling and suspected a powerful dragon had deliberately brought the clutch to the cavern.
• Chaos checked his changed body and discovered the talents Magic Tide, Dominion, and Elemental erosion, which left his body innately frail.
• Chaos learned Venomous Thread and practiced shaping the emerald thread into figures before letting it dissipate.
• Chaos considered leaving the cavern but chose to wait for the other hatchlings because the dark passage reminded him of his ominous dream.
• A young hatchling shouted for Agatha to come out and accept a challenge, and Chaos recognized the voice as belonging to the green hatchling whose egg he had stolen.

Loya called out Agatha, but mistakenly confronted the much larger red Agatha instead of the green hatchling she meant to challenge. Agatha searched the gathered hatchlings for the other Agatha, while Chaos hid at the cavern entrance and avoided being noticed.

• Loya gathered the hatchlings and called for Agatha to come out and face her.
• The red Agatha stepped forward, and Loya froze when she realized how much larger she was.
• Agatha asked why Loya wanted to challenge her, and Loya clarified that she meant another green dragon named Agatha.
• Agatha scanned the circle and noticed a green hatchling backing away, but decided she was probably not the one Loya meant.
• Agatha looked toward the cavern passage, while Chaos pulled back and hid against the wall.

Chaos was caught after trying to flee and faced Loya, the hatchling whose eggshell he had stolen, until Agatha stopped their fight and established rules for the hatchlings. After realizing he was the only male among fourteen dragons, Chaos rejected the idea that he was meant to be a breeding dragon, and Agatha announced that they would leave the cavern.

• Agatha caught Chaos by his tail and tossed him into the circle of hatchlings, where Loya recognized him as the one who had stolen her eggshell and challenged him to fight.
• Agatha stepped between Chaos and Loya, forbade them from fighting for now, and pinned Loya down when Chaos taunted her.
• Agatha proposed four rules requiring the hatchlings to cooperate in hunting, warn one another of danger, share prey, and avoid fighting when food was scarce; no one challenged her authority.
• Chaos noticed that all fourteen other hatchlings were female and worried that he had been designated the breeding dragon, though he rejected the idea.
• Agatha asked the hatchlings to follow her rules and told them it was time to leave the cavern.

Chaos and the other dragon hatchlings reached a cave exit overlooking a valley where giant Xelila grazed beside an underground river. Agatha identified the creatures as prey and prepared the hatchlings for their first hunt, while Chaos pinned the eager white hatchling and waited to dive.

• Chaos and the red hatchling ran toward a cool breeze and found the cave exit beside an underground river.
• Chaos learned from the True Dragon Inheritance that the armored Xelila were weak magical beasts and saw them as giant crabs and potential food.
• Agatha made room at the cave mouth by tossing a black hatchling back into the passage.
• Chaos pinned the white hatchling when she tried to rush outside, then smacked her head until she stopped struggling.
• Agatha told the hatchlings that their first hunt would be for the Xelila in the Valley Basin and ordered everyone to prepare to dive.

Chaos joined the hatchlings’ first hunt, killed a Xelila, and discovered that its venom-tainted flesh tasted awful. After the hunt, Agatha brought him another Xelila corpse and ordered him to eat.

• Chaos and the hatchlings dove from the cave entrance to ambush the Xelila fleeing toward the Underground River.
• Chaos struck a Xelila from above and killed it with venom flowing through his claws.
• Agatha killed several Xelila with brutal force, while only six dragons caught prey before the rest escaped into the Underground River.
• Chaos bit into his venom-tainted catch, found it bitter and fishy, and switched to eating a pincer joint.
• Agatha dropped another Xelila corpse in front of Chaos and coldly told him to eat.

Chaos finished eating and watched the other hatchlings fight over prey. He decided the excluded, foolish White Hatchling could make a useful teammate, but Agatha was watching her too.

• Chaos ate his fill while the hatchlings who had caught prey learned to guard it from hungry rivals.
• The White Hatchling repeatedly tried to join other hatchlings eating, but they kicked her away until she crashed into Chaos's crab shell.
• Chaos judged the White Hatchling foolish but resilient and considered tricking her into becoming his meat shield and teammate.
• The White Hatchling smelled meat in the claw beside Chaos and noticed Agatha watching her from nearby.

Chaos recruited White Hatchling as his first teammate by offering her food and making her agree to follow his orders and share hunts. He named her White Chubby until she learned to speak Draconic, and she eagerly began eating the crab meat beside him.

• Chaos invited the wary White Hatchling over and gave her a crab claw, which she quickly ate.
• Chaos learned that White Hatchling understood Draconic despite only answering with “hm-da.”
• Chaos offered her more food in exchange for following his orders and letting him divide their catches, and she agreed.
• Chaos pulled White Chubby into the crab shell and let her eat the pile of crab legs and claws.
• Chaos told her he would call her White Chubby until she learned to speak Draconic.

Chaos woke after sleeping and gained the Perceptive Vines spell, then tested it and received a contract offer from a life elemental. Agatha joined him, and Chaos decided to refuse the elemental’s offer.

• White Chubby finished eating, curled up beside the sleeping Chaos, and continued sleeping after he moved away.
• Chaos woke hungry, ate the remaining crab leg, and learned the Perceptive Vines spell in his sleep.
• Chaos cast Perceptive Vines and read a life elemental named Vinnie’s request to become his familiar.
• Chaos rejected Vinnie’s offer because he would only consider contracting with an elemental queen.
• Agatha approached, asked whether this was Chaos’s first spell, and watched him dismiss the offer.

Chaos used Perceptive Vines to discover a shoal of Kashi in the underground river and devised a trap to catch them. As he shared the plan with Agatha, she placed a claw on his head, and Chaos could only endure it because he could not beat her.

• Chaos cast Perceptive Vines and sent one down into the underground river.
• A Kashi ate the vine’s eyeball, but Chaos was pleased to learn that the river held plenty of food.
• Chaos realized he could turn the basin into a fish pit by digging a channel and filling it with water to trap Kashi.
• Chaos suggested the plan to Agatha, who understood that he wanted to lure the Kashi into the basin.
• Agatha placed her claw on Chaos’s head, and Chaos could not break free or protest because he could not beat her.

Chaos devised a way for the hatchlings to attract Kashi by digging a channel from the river into a pit, then fell asleep while they worked. The channel broke through unexpectedly, and Chaos woke to a torrent rushing toward him.

• Agatha gathered all twelve hatchlings and led them to help carry out Chaos's plan to dig a channel and lure fish and shrimp to attract Kashi.
• An and Loya followed despite Loya's resentment toward Chaos, and An helped keep her from crouching in fear when Chaos looked their way.
• Chaos marked a digging line down the slope, and Agatha led the hatchlings in excavating the channel while he lay down and fell asleep.
• After Agatha called the digging to a halt, An's tail disturbed the soil, water began forcing its way through, and the hatchlings took flight or were carried into the air by their allies.
• Agatha flew away without waking Chaos, and he opened his eyes to find a torrent rushing directly toward him.

Chaos climbed out of the flooded pit with a fish and realized Loya and An had likely caused the collapse. He set up underwater vines to catch prey, then woke White Chubby and headed off with her while Agatha watched.

• Chaos emerged from the pit with a large fish as the hatchlings watched, and Agatha checked that he was unharmed.
• Chaos suspected Loya and An had caused the soil to collapse, and Loya's reaction convinced him they were responsible.
• Chaos planted three emerald vines with eyeballs at the channel entrance to watch for fish and shrimp entering the pit.
• Chaos tried to wake White Chubby by making the fish slap her, but she bit off part of it and swallowed it.
• Chaos told White Chubby to follow him for food, and she hurried after him as Agatha watched them go.

Chaos waited until fish and shrimp gathered in the flooded pit, then modified the Perceptive Vines spell for a new purpose. He successfully cast the altered spell, causing thorn-covered black vines to burst from the soil.

• Chaos asked Agatha to organize strong hatchlings to guard the channel entrance when they began hunting Kashi, and she agreed.
• Chaos watched fish and shrimp gather in the pit while Agatha kept the restless hatchlings quiet.
• Chaos walked to the channel and reshaped the Perceptive Vines casting ring, replacing its glyphs until it formed twin rings.
• Chaos cast the modified spell, and several thick, black, thorn-covered vines grew out of the earth.

Chaos and the other hatchlings hunted fish and shrimp in the underground pool, with Agatha overseeing them and sharing her catch with Chaos. Chaos left the water full and rested on a rock while the second red hatchling came ashore.

• Agatha organized the hatchlings and warned them not to fight during the hunt.
• Chaos used Perceptive Vines to catch fish and shrimp underwater while the other hatchlings chased prey.
• White Chubby caught a fish and shrimp after the shrimp collided with the fish.
• Agatha caught a large white shrimp and gave it to Chaos, who wondered if she was treating him like a kept pretty boy before deciding to repay the favor.
• Chaos came ashore after eating, watched the pool, and saw the other red hatchling emerge.

Chaos discovered that Kashi were drawn to the life force in Perceptive Vines’ eyeballs and proposed using them as bait to hunt the Kashi. He offered to summon the vines in exchange for all the Magic Cores, and Agatha accepted his terms, leaving the hatchlings to decide whether to challenge him.

• A Kashi tore through Chaos’s thorny vine net to bite a Perceptive Vine, but a larger Kashi killed it and swallowed all three vine eyeballs.
• Chaos realized the Kashi were attracted to the Perceptive Vines’ concentrated life force and called Agatha to bring the hatchlings ashore.
• Chaos told the fifteen hatchlings they would hunt Kashi instead of fish and shrimp, and said he could summon enough Perceptive Vines to lure them.
• Chaos demanded all the Magic Cores from the hunt as payment, while the hatchlings reacted with displeasure.
• Hera asked Agatha whether she accepted Chaos’s terms, and Agatha agreed, saying the hatchlings could challenge Chaos if they rejected his strength.