"Abel!"
Xiluo shouted.
The Blue Dragon Wyrmling shuddered.
The magical beast beneath him trembled even more wildly in fright.
It shrieked repeatedly.
The Blue Dragon Wyrmling hurriedly held it down, then turned toward Xiluo at the den entrance in annoyance.
"What are you doing~ Can't you see I'm busy?
"You shouted so loudly you nearly scared my little darling underneath me to death!
"Don't you know these magical beasts are very fragile when they're doing this?
"If you scare it into trouble, I'll have to compensate those merchants."
"You... weren't you seriously injured and unable to work properly?
"You even made me compensate you with 400 gold coins. This is what you meant by unable to work properly?"
Xiluo wore a strange expression.
"!"
At this, the Blue Dragon Wyrmling rolled his eyes and said,
"Well... I can't help it!
"After this war, I really felt how inadequate my own strength was.
"So I wanted to earn some more gold coins and buy some treasures to improve my strength."
"Improve your strength?"
Xiluo eyed him doubtfully.
"If you really want to improve your strength, I could sell you the Crimson Thunder mutation method. How about just a thousand gold coins?"
"No!"
The Blue Dragon Wyrmling refused without a moment's thought.
"And you claim you want to improve your strength?"
"Hehehe~ Of course I'm taking a different approach! Take a look at this!"
The Blue Dragon Wyrmling spoke.
He gave Xiluo a smug smile.
Then he raised his foreleg.
He displayed something like an aqua-blue bracelet on one small claw.
"This is..."
Xiluo murmured.
"This is a treasure I spent nine thousand gold coins on after you left yesterday!
"It's called [Power of the Sea Emperor]!
"Having it is equivalent to having the power of a level 13 water spellcaster.
"It