Marwyn pointed at the dragon eggs, so excited that his beard bristled. "Three days ago, just three days ago, they suddenly started glowing, and their temperature rose sharply. When I first arrived, they were only lukewarm. Now..."
He drew back the hand that had nearly touched a shell, still shaken. "At this temperature, they're like bread fresh from the oven. No, hotter than that.
I don't even dare touch them with my bare hands anymore..."
Liu Qian stepped forward, his eyes full of wonder and tenderness.
He reached out, ignoring the heat that could have scalded an ordinary person, and gently stroked each of the three dragon eggs.
What reached his fingertips was not just searing heat, but a vigorous pulse of life, a power that faintly resonated with the depths of his soul.
"Yes, Doctor. They're about to hatch."
Yet when his gaze fell on the fourth tray beside them, he frowned.
The black-and-red dragon egg, resembling the legendary Balerion the Black Dread, belonged to the same batch as the three dragon eggs he had first awakened,
yet it remained as still as death.
Its shell was cold and dull, a stark contrast to the three vibrant sources of light beside it.
"This one..." Liu Qian's voice carried puzzlement.
Janice stepped forward, confusion in her beautiful purple eyes as well, and explained softly, "Doctor Marwyn and I examined and compared them carefully. This dragon egg doesn't seem to have awakened completely. We suspect it might be a lack of magic power. The magic power it absorbed doesn't seem sufficient to sustain the final hatching..."
"A lack of magic power?"
Liu Qian's brow furrowed tightly.
The system's active skill incubated this egg. Could even the system have limits?
Or does this dragon egg itself need more?
He remembered that the