Chapter Summaries

Xiluo reflected on how he had entered the Astral Realm and become a blue dragon hatchling before joining the other hatchlings watching a fierce fight. The chapter ended with Alicia discussing whether she could lead their generation, while Xiluo considered the Dragon Matriarch's plans for the hatchlings.

• Xiluo remembered choosing Breath Enhancement after descending into the Astral Realm and learning he had become a blue dragon hatchling named Xiluo Utrasis.
• Xiluo emerged from his lair and found the hatchlings watching blue dragon Abel fight green dragon Koraman.
• Xiluo warned Abel and Koraman about Lady Barbara's rules, but Alicia offered him half a Thorn Beast leg to predict the winner.
• Xiluo bet on Koraman, citing his forest home ground, awakened Nature's Vine spell, and greater age.
• A black dragon urged the hatchlings to unite under Alicia, heir to the Jade Star, and Alicia said Gordon had never accepted her as a leader.

Xiluo watched Kolaman defeat Abel, then stopped Kolaman’s jealous challenge with a lightning strike and a devastating lightning breath that narrowly missed his head. The other hatchlings were left stunned by Xiluo’s power.

• Kolaman tripped Abel with a vine, knocked him down, and beat him unconscious.
• Kolaman celebrated his victory, then grew jealous when he saw Alicia with Xiluo and charged at Xiluo.
• Xiluo struck Kolaman with lightning, paralyzing him as the other hatchlings fled in alarm.
• Kolaman tried to explain that he had been carried away by his fighting urge, but Xiluo fired a lightning ball past his head and blasted a huge depression into a tree.
• Kolaman collapsed in relief, while the hatchlings marveled at Xiluo’s extraordinary dragon breath.

Xiluo assessed his powerful but costly lightning breath as the hatchlings debated who was strongest. Gordon challenged him, but Xiluo refused to fight until they reached the young dragon stage; before Gordon could continue bullying the others, a level 12 green dragon arrived and seized him.

• Xiluo reflected on the strengths and limitations of his full and quick breath attacks, which had helped establish his standing among the hatchlings.
• Gordon declared himself the strongest and challenged Xiluo to a duel.
• Xiluo refused, saying he would fight Gordon once they reached the young dragon stage, and Gordon accepted the future challenge.
• Gordon attacked a blue dragon hatchling, ignoring its pleas for help, while Alicia and the others watched.
• A level 12 young adult green dragon landed, stopped Gordon, and lifted him by the scruff of his neck.

Barbara punished Gordon, Abel, and Koraman after their fight and warned the hatchlings about injuring one another. As Xiluo climbed up to her nest, Barbara recognized him and remarked that his breath was unusually strong for a blue dragon.

• Barbara bound Gordon with vines after he ignored her orders, then questioned the hatchlings about the fight.
• A little black dragon explained that Abel and Koraman had fought over which dragon breed was strongest, and Barbara bound them too.
• Barbara reminded the hatchlings that Allen had been left disabled after a previous fight and ordered them not to release the three captives for three days.
• Barbara returned to her nest and lamented her caretaker duties after spending two days in Hawking Town with Kuchi.
• Xiluo climbed up the tree, and Barbara recognized him as Xiluo Utrasis and praised the strength of his breath.

Xiluo proposed noncombat contests to Barbara as a way to reduce the hatchlings’ fighting, and she praised his plan and offered him spell lessons as a reward. He began learning [Earth and Stone Armor] and [Discharge] from her while Alicia and Martha watched from afar and resented his closeness to Barbara.

• Xiluo suggested that the hatchlings compete in strength, speed, breath, and spells instead of fighting, and Barbara enthusiastically approved his idea.
• Barbara offered Xiluo a reward, and he asked to study spells under her.
• Barbara explained [Earth and Stone Armor] and [Discharge] to Xiluo, who chose to learn both despite their conflicting effects.
• Alicia and Martha watched Xiluo with Barbara, and Martha accused him of currying favor and insisted that Green Forest belonged to Alicia.

Xiluo helped Barbara devise four contests to settle the hatchlings’ rivalry, and Barbara announced that the first competition would take place in a month. After falling asleep, Xiluo returned in a dream to the mysterious sea, where he saw the phantom of a young white dragon chained to the enormous skeleton.

• Xiluo came down from the treetop and ate a share of the Spiny Beast’s leg meat while Alicia and Martha watched him strangely.
• Barbara told the hatchlings that they would compete in four events to determine the strongest dragon and future leader of the Dragon Legion.
• Barbara explained the strength, speed, breath-power, and spell contests, and announced that the first competition would be held in a month.
• Alicia and Martha watched Xiluo outside his den before leaving, and Xiluo returned inside and fell asleep.
• Xiluo dreamed of the starry sea and saw a young white dragon prostrate before the enormous skeleton, connected to it by a thin chain.

Xiluo gained the [Strong] talent through an achievement and woke to find himself noticeably more powerful, though his hunger forced him to secretly gnaw on his den’s roots. He left the hatchlings’ sparring without accepting a challenge and went to practice Barbara’s spells as the month before the contest passed.

• In a dream, Xiluo received 10 achievement points because a hatchling admired him as its leader, then spent them to acquire [Strong].
• Xiluo woke ravenously hungry and secretly ate the roots of his den until dawn.
• Xiluo saw that his status had become [Strong blue dragon hatchling] and noticed increased muscle, strength, and magic.
• A green hatchling challenged Xiluo to spar, but Xiluo declined, prompting the hatchling and Martha to boast while Alicia wondered if Xiluo seemed stronger.
• Xiluo left to practice the spells he had learned from Barbara and noticed the little white dragon watching him from a tree hollow.
• A month passed.

At Green Forest’s hatchling competition, Barbara and Kato wagered fifty gold coins on the overall winner, with Barbara choosing Xiluo and Kato backing Gordon. Their selections were sealed in a contract, and Xiluo was called up to compete as Gordon confidently urged him to take second place.

• Gordon hurled a green dragon hatchling from the strength contest circle, impressing the watching hatchlings.
• Barbara and Kato debated Gordon’s chances of winning the competition’s strength, speed, breath, and spell contests.
• Barbara proposed a fifty-gold wager, and she and Kato agreed to take turns choosing hatchlings before signing a contract.
• Barbara chose Xiluo Utrasis, while Kato chose Gordon, Alicia, and other hatchlings; the two young dragons finalized their selections.
• Gordon called Xiluo to compete and told him to show his strength, insisting that Gordon would win first place.

Xiluo won the strength contest against Koraman, then reached the final against Gordon and surrendered to conserve his strength. After Gordon took first place, Xiluo went on to win the breath weapon contest.

• Xiluo easily threw Koraman in their strength contest, leaving Koraman humiliated as the other dragons mocked him.
• Gordon challenged Xiluo, while Barbara explained to Cato that Xiluo's exceptional strength justified her confidence in their bet.
• Alicia beat a male green dragon, and Abel advanced through several rounds before Gordon and Xiluo reached the final.
• Xiluo surrendered to Gordon, explaining that he wanted to save his stamina for the remaining contests; Gordon accepted his reasoning.
• Gordon placed first, Xiluo second, Abel third, Clyde fourth, and Alicia fifth in the strength contest.
• Xiluo took first place in the breath weapon contest.

Xiluo won Green Forest’s hatchling competition overall after using his self-enhancement spell, Lightning Flash, to overtake Gordon in the speed contest. Barbara paid him her share of their wager and promised to take him to meet the Dragon Matriarch, while Xiluo later received achievement points for his victory and first gold.

• Xiluo learned from Barbara that Gordon might have Magma Dragon blood, then prepared for the final speed contest while still leading the overall rankings.
• During the race, Koraman and other green dragons tripped several competitors with vines, but Cato stopped the interference and ordered the hatchlings to continue.
• Xiluo used Lightning Flash to surge past Alicia, Martha, and Gordon, crossing the finish line first and securing first place overall.
• Cato protested that Xiluo had cheated, but Barbara pointed out that the rules allowed spells that enhanced the caster, and Cato paid her fifty gold coins.
• Barbara gave Xiluo five gold coins, praised his cleverness, and said she would take him to meet the Dragon Matriarch the next day.
• After returning to sleep, Xiluo received ten achievement points for winning the competition and ten for obtaining his first wealth, bringing his total to twenty.

Xiluo spent achievement points on Rapid Growth, met the Dragon Matriarch, and continued learning and training with the other hatchlings. A year passed as he built connections with the lonely red dragon youngster and worked to grow stronger.

• Xiluo chose Rapid Growth over Rapid Healing and Sharp Claws and Teeth, leaving his achievement points at zero.
• Xiluo met the level 18 mutated mature adult green dragon Dragon Matriarch, who praised him briefly but gave him no reward for winning the contests.
• Xiluo returned to the nest and resumed learning Earth and Stone Armor while the other hatchlings trained and exchanged spell knowledge.
• Xiluo noticed the blue dragon youngsters treated him with new respect, and he sought out the isolated red dragon youngster to practice spells and share knowledge.
• A year passed as Xiluo and the other hatchlings continued their training.

Xiluo’s rapid growth left him malnourished after the food was divided evenly, so he devised a plan with Gordon to obtain an iron lump from Barbara. Days later, Xiluo revealed a gold coin to the other hatchlings, drawing their eager attention.

• Xiluo won the second four-event contest overall, while Abel placed second and Gordon came third.
• Over the following months, Xiluo’s appetite grew until he needed nearly three hundred pounds of food per meal, but the hatchlings’ equal portions left him hungry.
• Allen offered to share his food with Xiluo, but Xiluo refused and told him to eat it himself.
• Xiluo’s malnutrition caused him to lose his Strong prefix and Elite+ status, so he decided he had to find a solution.
• Xiluo obtained a lump of iron from Barbara, then disappeared with Gordon for several days after whispering with him.
• When the hatchlings gathered for their meal, Xiluo retched up a gold coin, and the others crowded around to ask where he had found it.

Xiluo used a rigged high-or-low dice game to win food from the hatchlings while making them believe they had a fair chance to win his gold coin. Barbara recognized how Xiluo controlled the magnetized die, and the hatchlings left unaware of his trick.

• Xiluo offered the hatchlings a chance to win his gold coin by earning five points in high-or-low bets, with their food at stake.
• Xiluo chose Koraman to go first, but Alicia took his place and lost her bet, giving Xiluo her food.
• Koraman gave his own food to Alicia, and Xiluo refused the other hatchlings' requests to play again until five days later.
• Xiluo gave Gordon a share of the food for helping him smelt the die, while Gordon asked whether Xiluo would truly hand over the coin if he lost.
• Barbara observed that Xiluo had magnetized the die and used his electrical sense to control the results.

Two years after Xiluo began gambling with the young dragons, he had repeatedly deceived them for food and earned the Wyrmling Deceiver achievement. The wyrmlings had grown substantially, but they refused to gamble with him anymore, leaving Xiluo frustrated as he tried to persuade them to risk their meals for his gold coin.

• Xiluo gambled with the young dragons for two years, adjusting his scheme when they pooled their winnings, and earned the Wyrmling Deceiver achievement.
• Gordon won first place in the third four-event competition and learned Xiluo's Lightning Flash, but became furious that Xiluo had not competed.
• The blue dragons called Xiluo the Eternal King of the Greenwood, while the young dragons grew into wyrmlings and two years older.
• Xiluo offered the wyrmlings a gold coin if they gambled for their food, but they accused him of cheating and refused.
• Koraman and the other wyrmlings rebuked Xiluo for leaving them hungry, and Xiluo complained that they lacked perseverance.

Xiluo refused to take food from Allen and, angered by Cato’s inadequate rations, decided that he and Gordon would hunt for themselves. His proposal stirred up a confrontation with Alicia and Koraman, while Allen worried about the danger and Barbara’s likely refusal.

• Xiluo recognized Allen as his loyal subordinate and declined to take his food, while Gordon complained that Cato’s rations left them hungry.
• Xiluo and Gordon’s stats showed that both had reached level 6, and several other wyrmlings had also grown stronger through the contests and training.
• Xiluo said they would have to rely on themselves and proposed hunting for food.
• Allen warned that hunting was dangerous for young wyrmlings and that Barbara would not let them leave, but Gordon eagerly challenged Xiluo to a hunting contest.
• Alicia objected to the plan, and Gordon insulted her and Koraman until both prepared to fight; Xiluo noticed that Gordon had dragged him into the argument.

Xiluo used his draconic might to stop Alicia and Koraman from challenging Gordon, then drove them back and warned Alicia to recognize her weakness. The other young dragons admired Xiluo’s strength, while Gordon eagerly asked when they would fight again.

• Xiluo tried to break up the argument, but Alicia rebuked him and Gordon threatened to teach her a lesson.
• Xiluo released his draconic might after Alicia disrespected him, frightening her and prompting Koraman to step in.
• Koraman tried to rally the young dragons against Xiluo, but Abel and the other blue dragons refused to side with him.
• Xiluo warned Koraman not to challenge a stronger opponent, then flung him aside and confronted Alicia.
• Xiluo told Alicia to recognize her weakness and walked past her, while Gordon expressed eagerness to test his strength against Xiluo.

Xiluo got Barbara’s permission to take Gordon and Allen hunting beyond the Green Forest, then led them out onto the grasslands. The wyrmlings found no prey from a treetop, so Xiluo proposed searching for water while Gordon worried that they could not easily find it without flying.

• Xiluo asked Barbara for permission to hunt, and she warned him to stay within five kilometers of the Green Forest.
• Barbara agreed that Xiluo and Gordon were capable hunters, while Xiluo said he did not regret helping her deal with Carter despite losing most of his coins to food.
• Barbara watched Xiluo leave with Gordon and Allen, then transformed into a small bird and secretly followed them.
• Allen worried about hunting outside the forest, but Xiluo explained that the Dragon Mother’s forces had driven most prey away from the Green Forest.
• The three wyrmlings reached the grasslands, where Gordon and Allen admired the open sky while Xiluo climbed a tree to scout for prey.
• Xiluo spotted no prey and suggested finding a water source; Gordon pointed out that locating one would be difficult since they could not fly.

Xiluo led Gordon and Allen to search for food and water, using Allen’s ability to sense water. After an unsuccessful attempt to hunt alert animals, the dragons found a burrow and smoked out whatever was inside.

• Allen sensed a large body of water to the west, and Xiluo led the group there.
• Gordon rushed toward the animals drinking by the water, but Xiluo stopped him and tried to stalk them; the prey spotted Xiluo and fled.
• Xiluo caught a few fish from the water before Allen discovered a burrow with faint sounds coming from inside.
• Xiluo and Gordon found and blocked two other burrow entrances while Allen kept watch.
• Xiluo stuffed grass into the remaining entrance and had Gordon set it alight, then blew the smoke into the burrow to drive the trapped prey toward them.

Gordon caught prey but attacked a Frost Giant Eagle after it stole his catch, drawing him into a dangerous fight with the eagle and its family. Xiluo saved Gordon from a thrown carcass, but the chapter ended as the eagle’s icy talons struck Gordon’s Flame Armor.

• Gordon caught a large burrowing creature and bragged that he had beaten Xiluo at hunting.
• A Frost Giant Eagle stole Gordon’s prey, and Gordon ignored Xiluo’s warning and hit it with a fireball.
• Xiluo spotted the eagle’s family approaching and urged Gordon to retreat, but Gordon attacked again.
• The Frost Giant Eagle extinguished Gordon’s next fireball with freezing air and hurled the prey at him.
• Xiluo used Lightning Flash to knock Gordon clear and dodge the carcass as it smashed apart.
• Gordon activated Flame Armor and faced the diving Frost Giant Eagle, whose ice-coated talons struck him.

Xiluo and Gordon fought off five frost giant eagles that tried to steal their food, with Xiluo using lightning and the little white dragon using Nature's Vine to turn the battle in their favor. After killing the strongest eagle, Xiluo reflected on the advantage dragons held over ordinary creatures of the same level.

• Xiluo leaped at a diving frost giant eagle and paralyzed it with a discharge of lightning.
• Xiluo bit and shocked one eagle, then used its body as a shield against ice spikes from the others.
• Xiluo blasted one eagle with a lightning ball while the little white dragon restrained another with Nature's Vine.
• Xiluo battered the restrained eagle unconscious, while another frost giant eagle fled.
• Xiluo joined Gordon to kill the strongest frost giant eagle after Gordon had gained the upper hand.