Chapter Summaries

Chaos fought Hera in a hatchling duel and defeated her with thorn-vine magic, leaving the other hatchlings wary of challenging him. Hera remained determined to get revenge as Chaos stood over her without speaking.

• Hera challenged Chaos to settle their dispute through a Chromatic Dragon fight, and the hatchlings cleared space for them.
• Chaos started the duel by trapping Hera in thorn vines, but she broke through and charged at him.
• Chaos grew more vines around Hera until her charge stopped just short of him, and she collapsed from blood loss.
• Chaos withdrew the vines and surveyed the hatchlings, who avoided his gaze except for White Chubby and Agatha.
• Hera tried to rise, then grew angry when Chaos continued staring at her and vowed to get revenge.

After Chaos warned Agatha about a dangerous pool downstream, she flew out to explore while he rested. She found the exact place from his prophetic dream, escaped an attack by a mass of tentacles, and decided she had to help him reach adulthood quickly.

• Chaos, drained of magic power after fighting Hera, asked Agatha to explore the surrounding terrain while he recovered.
• Chaos told Agatha about his dream of danger at a circular pool downstream and described the location in detail.
• Agatha took four hatchlings downstream, then continued alone when they stopped to rest.
• Agatha found the circular pool and narrowly escaped when a huge tentacle attacked her from the water.
• Agatha recognized that Chaos's dream had come true and decided to pay closer attention to him and get him to adulthood fast.

Chaos realized the golden hourglass had let him foresee his own death and let Agatha believe he could guide the group’s choices. After resting and eating the tentacle Agatha brought back, he led the hatchlings to ambush Kashi in the underground pool.

• Agatha returned from scouting with a severed tentacle from a large creature in the pool, and Chaos recalled that the golden hourglass had shown him a vision of the future.
• Chaos advised Agatha that the group should stay in the underground river, where food was plentiful, and she agreed and shared the tentacle with him.
• Chaos teased the sleeping White Chubby with tentacle skin, then invited him to join the hunt for Kashi.
• Chaos gathered all fourteen hatchlings at the pool and instructed them to hide underwater until he began the ambush.
• The hatchlings stayed silent as Chaos decided their silence meant agreement.

Chaos and the hatchlings ambushed a school of Kashi in the pool, while Agatha guarded the channel entrance and killed those that tried to flee. After the hunt, the dragons gathered the corpses to divide the spoils, but the Green Hatchling was too distracted by magic cores, so they turned to Agatha.

• Chaos asked Agatha to guard the channel entrance, and she confidently refused help from two more dragons.
• Chaos and the hatchlings hid underwater among Perceptive Vines as the Kashi entered the pool and began eating the vines' eyeballs.
• Chaos attacked when the vines were gone, and the hatchlings launched a coordinated ambush on the Kashi.
• The Kashi tried to flee, but Agatha killed those that reached the channel entrance, leaving none alive.
• The hatchlings carried the Kashi corpses to the riverbank, then looked to Agatha to divide the spoils because the Green Hatchling was absorbed in the magic cores.

After the hunt, Agatha explained why she prioritized Chaos and used her blood to nourish meat for him. Chaos woke to find the food and ate it, puzzled by its spicy taste.

• Agatha invited the hatchlings to share the prey from their joint hunt, while Chaos ate Kashi magic cores until he fell asleep.
• Agatha gathered the hatchlings and told them Chaos was the only male dragon in the plane, promising to protect them and lead them in restoring dragonkind.
• Green Hatchling challenged Agatha’s claim, and Agatha said they would learn the truth after leaving the cavern.
• Agatha nourished a Kashi with her dragon blood and placed it beside the sleeping Chaos.
• Chaos woke, ate the meat Agatha had left for him, and wondered why it tasted like chili peppers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.