The dragon teeth in his mouth were trembling as well. Xiluo hurriedly opened his mouth, and before long, his teeth fell out one after another as new ones rapidly grew in.
Only after everything returned to normal did he spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva and shed teeth.
Grrrrumble...
A strange noise came from his stomach!
Replacing his claws and teeth had used up all the food Xiluo had eaten just the day before yesterday! His stomach was now completely empty.
He needed protein now!
Xiluo swallowed all his shed claws and teeth to store them in his stomach, then leaped out of his burrow!
He headed straight for the area they had been using to store food.
Cold air filled the place.
The carcasses of their earlier catches were covered in thick layers of frost.
Xiluo could not worry about anything else. He opened his jaws and began to eat.
With just one bite, he noticed a difference.
His teeth pierced the thigh of a deer-like animal with almost no resistance...
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
The sounds of chewing echoed through the quiet night.
Although Allen and Gordon lived in the same area, they still kept a hundred or two hundred meters apart and were sleeping soundly.
An unknown amount of time passed.
Xiluo finally satisfied his hunger.
He glanced down beneath him.
The several animal carcasses they had stored had originally totaled around three thousand pounds of food. Now, he estimated that only around a thousand pounds remained.
He had eaten a full two thousand pounds of food in one meal!
This left Xiluo rather embarrassed. Their hunting over the past week had made the already scarce prey around the Green Forest even harder to find. Over the last few days, the three dragons had mostly returned empty-handed. Replacing these two thousand pounds of food would probably be no easy task...
It had already been difficult to hold out until the Ground Luo Beasts bred enough to provide a complete food supply, and now the shortfall was even greater...
Apart from hunting, he had to think of other ways to make up the shortage.
Frowning, Xiluo returned to his lair.
He glanced at the wooden wall inside, slowly raised his right claw, and gently pressed one talon against it. Then he drew it downward, gradually increasing the force as he went.
Scrape...
With a soft sound, a mark appeared.
The scratch in the wooden wall grew deeper the farther down it went, and the resistance Xiluo felt gradually increased. Only when it began to feel somewhat strenuous did he withdraw his claw.
A deep scratch now ran down the wooden wall, ranging from a few millimeters to several centimeters in depth.
He gently tapped two talons together.
They even made a clanging sound.
"My new teeth can easily bite through an animal's skin and flesh without even feeling the slightest resistance.
"My claws have become sharper too. They can probably rival some sword blades, and their hardness might even compare to ordinary steel... This really is an immediate improvement.
"If it's this effective at just the Wyrmling stage, Gordon, what are you going to fight me with?"
Xiluo was brimming with confidence. He felt as though he were someone equipped with iron weapons beating up someone who still used stone tools. His equipment already gave him an overwhelming advantage!
Of course, that was only if they fought at close range!
It made him feel that those 10 achievement points had been well spent!
Unfortunately, even with [Sharp Claws and Teeth], the Elite-+ suffix on his level had not changed in the slightest.
But Xiluo believed this was already enough.
Satisfied, he closed his eyes.
"Roar! Who was it? Who stole the food belonging to me, Gordon Kenneth? I'll make them pay in blood! Roar!"
An utterly furious roar echoed through the Green Forest.
Xiluo, who had still been resting, jolted all over and woke groggily from his sleep.
"Which of you stole my food? Was it you, Abel? Or you, Koraman? Clyde? Or was it you, Alicia... Answer me!"
Another utterly furious roar rang out.
"Gordon! Stop insulting us! Do you think I'm a glutton like you and Xiluo?"
"Steal your food? Do we need to?"
"Gordon! Don't go too far! We have absolutely no motive!"
"No motive? Pah! You bastards! You must be jealous of me and Xiluo! We eat more! We crap more! We get more silver coins in exchange! Now you want to hide our food and starve us so Xiluo and I won't be able to crap next time?
"Did you think I wouldn't see through such a simple trick?"
"!"
Still inside his lair, Xiluo heard the shouting in the distance and shuddered again, his expression changing drastically.
Damn it! Gordon, you idiot! Stop talking! Why are you so endlessly proud of crapping more? Just talk about yourself! Don't drag me into it!
Fuck!
Xiluo cursed inwardly.
He also regretted it. If he had known this would happen in the morning, he should have explained things to the two dragon youngsters after sneaking that meal last night!
Now, not only had it all turned into a misunderstanding, but that idiot Gordon was also shouting his damn head off!
Xiluo's entire draconic face nearly scrunched together as he slowly crawled out of his lair, looking utterly gloomy.
At first glance,
he saw a group of wyrmlings gathered where they had stored their prey.
The Red Dragon Whelp's enormous frame stood out among the wyrmlings. Flames flickered around him, and wisps of white smoke kept rising from the grass beneath him.
He looked ready to attack at the slightest disagreement.
The little white dragon was somewhat frightened, but he still stood firmly beside the Red Dragon Whelp, with a little anger on his face as well.
The other dragons were either angry or crouching low in combat stances.
"Everyone, stop! What are you doing? Have you forgotten Lady Barbara's instructions?"
Seeing the situation turning ugly, Xiluo hurriedly shouted, drawing every dragon's gaze to him.
"Xiluo! You're just in time! Help me teach these weaklings a proper lesson! They stole our food because they're afraid we'll crap more than them and earn more gold coins, and they don't even dare admit it! They're nothing but cowards! Trash!"
The Red Dragon Whelp bellowed.
Fuck! Shut your damn mouth! Can you stop bringing that up? Damn it!
Xiluo's face twisted. This stupid youngster was practically driving him out of his mind.
"Xiluo! Do you think we would steal your food too?" Alicia asked, her expression grim.
"I'll investigate the missing food later.
"But I believe none of you have any reason to do this.
"Everyone, disperse! It won't look good if Lady Barbara sees us all gathered here."
Xiluo walked over to the wyrmlings and waved his claws, urging them to leave quickly.
"Xiluo really is the wise one! Gordon has nothing but muscle in his head! He doesn't understand anything!"
"Looks like Xiluo isn't just stronger than Gordon. He's far smarter too!"
"Xiluo's the reasonable one! Unlike that idiot Gordon!"
With Xiluo's support, the wyrmlings immediately began mocking the Red Dragon Whelp. They made him so angry that more and more sparks sprayed from his nostrils, and his whole body looked ready to catch fire.
"Xiluo! You actually believe these guys over me?"
The Red Dragon Whelp stared at Xiluo, his face full of disbelief and even a trace of sorrow, like an abandoned dog.
(End of chapter)
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