Chapter Summaries

Xiluo bought Tidal Crystals and Frozen Crystals from Barbara, then set out hunting with Allen and the newly volunteered Abel. After several days, the crystals arrived.

• Xiluo told Barbara that he and Allen had Thunderfall Dragon and Frost Dragon mutated bloodlines, and Barbara revealed that her own mutated bloodline belonged to a Giant Tree Dragon.
• Xiluo and Allen paid Barbara for Tidal Crystals and Frozen Crystals, then left to hunt.
• Xiluo visited the injured Gordon before noticing Abel following them outside the Green Forest.
• Abel offered to join Xiluo and Allen's hunting group, and Xiluo accepted his help.
• Xiluo, Allen, and Abel hunted together for several days until Barbara's crystals arrived.

After consuming Tidal Crystal, Xiluo strengthened his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline, while Allen’s Frozen Crystal revealed a frost dragon mutation. Abel could not accept that Allen had a mutated bloodline and ran off in a frenzy, leaving Xiluo and Allen to hunt without him.

• Xiluo ate the Tidal Crystal and used the Bloodline Refinement Technique, raising his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline from 0.5% to 4.5%.
• Allen noticed that Xiluo looked different, and Xiluo reassured Allen that his own frost dragon mutation would continue to develop.
• Allen told Abel that he had a mutated frost dragon bloodline, but Abel accused him of lying until Xiluo confirmed it.
• Xiluo pointed out a newly changed blue scale on Allen, and Abel became enraged at the thought that Allen might surpass him.
• Abel ran off shouting, while Xiluo took Allen hunting; Abel then barged into the Wyrmling Territory.

Abel revealed that Allen had awakened a frost dragon bloodline, prompting the Wyrmlings to seek Xiluo’s Bloodline Refinement Technique. Xiluo sold them access for pooled gold, while he, Gordon, and Allen built a sustainable food supply, and a year passed.

• Abel told the Wyrmlings that Allen had awakened a frost dragon bloodline after learning Xiluo’s Bloodline Refinement Technique, and they confirmed it with Xiluo.
• Xiluo agreed to teach the Wyrmlings the technique in exchange for thirty gold coins, and Gordon’s insults pushed the hesitant dragons to agree to pool their money.
• Xiluo and Gordon ran out of stored food, bought meat with gold coins, and later established a food supply by raising Ground Luo Beasts.
• The Wyrmlings sold their goods to human merchants and changed their eating and exercise habits to collect gold coins faster.
• A year passed as the dragons worked toward their respective goals.

Xiluo, Gordon, and Allen collected their earnings from Barbara while the Wyrmlings demanded refunds for the Bloodline Refinement Technique, which Xiluo refused. A Gold Dragon then attacked the Dragon Mother, and after the Dragon Mother and two Young Green Dragons drove him off, the Wyrmlings waited for Barbara to explain the battle.

• Xiluo, Gordon, and Allen gave Barbara their Gold Coins, and Barbara let them keep the money while praising their prospects.
• A Black Dragon and other Wyrmlings begged Xiluo and Gordon to return their coins after failing to awaken powerful mutated bloodlines, but Xiluo refused and sent them away.
• Xiluo and the others heard dragon roars and saw the Dragon Mother fighting an Adult Gold Dragon, while two Young Green Dragons joined the battle against the invader and his allies.
• The Dragon Mother and the two Young Green Dragons forced the Gold Dragon to flee, and Barbara ordered Lizardfolk guards to protect the Wyrmlings before flying off.
• Barbara returned about an hour later as the Wyrmlings gathered around her, eager to learn what the battle had meant.

Barbara reassured Xiluo and the wyrmlings that the defeated Nature Elves and their Gold Dragon posed no threat to Green Forest. Xiluo helped replenish the Ground Luo Beasts’ feed, then returned to his lair and absorbed the Tidal Crystal’s energy.

• Barbara explained that the Nature Elves and their Gold Dragon had been defeated by the Dragon Mother and Green Forest, calming the wyrmlings and Xiluo.
• Xiluo considered how rare Legendary powerhouses were and concluded that no such enemy was likely to attack Green Forest.
• Xiluo, Gordon, and Allen used magic to regrow grass in the Ground Luo Beast pen, allowing the beasts to feed.
• Xiluo returned to his remodeled, water-filled lair and swallowed the Tidal Crystal to absorb its energy.

Xiluo’s Thunderfall Dragon bloodline mutation increased his magic power, recovery, and water control, but he struggled to find new ways to earn gold coins after the young dragons stopped falling for his schemes. When the Gold Dragon roared again, Barbara ordered the wyrmlings to stay behind and flew out with the other dragons to confront him.

• Xiluo’s Thunderfall Dragon bloodline reached 10.2%, raising his magic power and awakening the Water Condensation Spell as his level rose to seven.
• The Gold Dragon continued attacking the Green Forest every seven or eight days, and the wyrmlings grew accustomed to his repeated defeats.
• Xiluo tried to draw Clyde and the Green Dragons into a new card game, but Clyde fled and Alicia and Koraman accused Xiluo of swindling them.
• After another distant roar from the Gold Dragon, Barbara ordered the wyrmlings to remain in place and flew away as Lizardfolk gathered around them.

Xiluo and the other Wyrmlings watched the Dragon Mother chase the Gold Dragon away, then discovered that intruders had drugged the Lizardfolk and entered Green Forest. The chapter ended with the dragons confronting four armed human adventurers as the Red Dragon hatchling eyed their equipment as loot.

• The Dragon Mother and the three Green Dragons drove the Gold Dragon into retreat and pursued him.
• The Red Dragon hatchling criticized the Dragon Mother’s restraint, while Xiluo defended her and the Green Dragons’ rules.
• Xiluo noticed the Lizardfolk and some Wyrmlings becoming drowsy, warned everyone of enemies, and dodged an arrow.
• A scarred archer, three Warriors, a Cleric, and a Spellcaster emerged and discussed their failed attempt to sedate the Wyrmlings with Soul-Loss Incense.
• Koraman and the other Wyrmlings mocked the intruders, while the Red Dragon hatchling admired their weapons and magic items as potential loot.

Xiluo recognized that the humans targeting the wyrmlings knew the Green Forest unusually well, while the dragons fought back against their carefully prepared ambush. The humans revealed they wanted to capture the young dragons, and the battle continued with Xiluo still singled out as a valuable prize.

• Xiluo assessed the six level 7 and 8 humans and suspected they had planned around Barbara being lured away and the lizardfolk arriving.
• Several wyrmlings charged the humans, but the hunter shot Abel and a warrior knocked him back with a shield.
• Gordon drove back one armored warrior, then fought a level 8 warrior while the hunter's arrow barely pierced his protected scales.
• The hunter and spellcaster discussed capturing the wyrmlings, and the spellcaster asked whether Xiluo was even stronger than Gordon.

Xiluo and the other wyrmlings fought an organized band of adventurers whose numbers, levels, and teamwork put the dragons at a disadvantage. Xiluo charged a level 7 assassin and impaled him with his horn, leaving the clash unresolved.

• The wyrmlings attacked the humans, but the level 8 spellcaster and cleric countered their magic while the warriors and assassins engaged them.
• Xiluo assessed the adventurers’ strength and realized the wyrmlings were outmatched, with a level 9 assassin approaching behind him.
• Xiluo chose to fight and charged a level 7 assassin, using his draconic presence to hinder the man’s attempt to dodge.
• The assassin’s dagger pierced Xiluo’s Rock and Earth Armor but failed to penetrate further, while Xiluo’s charge shattered the assassin’s Shield of Faith.
• Xiluo impaled the level 7 assassin with his horn and slammed him into a tree.

Xiluo and the Wyrmlings fought a group of Adventurers whose healing and attacks steadily wore them down, while the Lost Incense prevented the dragons from using their Breath Weapons. Xiluo used water spells to hinder the intruders, but the Wyrmlings were still losing ground.

• Xiluo wounded a level 7 assassin and threw him toward the level 9 assassin, but the Cleric healed the injured man and kept him alive.
• Xiluo realized he needed to deal with the Cleric, while the level 9 assassin, Hunter, and Spellcaster continued attacking him and the other Wyrmlings.
• Xiluo noticed moisture building as Little White Dragon and Gordon used ice and fire spells, then cast Water Condensation Spell to drench the intruders and create openings for Gordon.
• The Spellcaster dismissed Xiluo's tactic, but Xiluo kept splashing water over the attackers as the battle dragged on.
• Five or six Wyrmlings were brought down, and the exhausted Red Dragon hatchling struggled against the armored Warrior while Little White Dragon Allen continued supporting Xiluo from a distance.

Xiluo used a lightning attack to electrify the water around the attackers, then seized the opening to defeat the level 9 assassin. The wyrmlings overwhelmed the paralyzed attackers, while the surviving spellcaster escaped and watched the fight turn against his team.

• Allen felt despair as he watched Xiluo suffer and feared the wyrmlings would be captured and sold.
• Alicia and Koraman struggled against a level 8 assassin, while Alicia hoped Xiluo could save them.
• Xiluo lured the level 9 assassin into dodging his lightning ball into a pool, spreading electricity through the nearby fighters.
• Xiluo struck the paralyzed level 9 assassin unconscious and urged the wyrmlings to attack.
• The wyrmlings recovered quickly, attacked the paralyzed humans, and defeated most of them as the spellcaster escaped using a mud spell.

Xiluo turned the battle around with a lightning attack conducted through the water, but collapsed from his injuries after the surviving spellcaster fled. The wyrmlings retreated into the trees to wait for help, while Alicia praised Xiluo’s courage and Koraman reacted uneasily.

• Xiluo’s lightning breath spread through the water and wet clothes, paralyzing the adventurers and allowing the wyrmlings to defeat them.
• The surviving spellcaster fled, and Xiluo collapsed from his injuries and the drug in his body.
• Allen checked Xiluo’s heartbeat, and Gordon carried him while he and Allen licked his wounds to stop the bleeding.
• Alicia led the wyrmlings into the trees to avoid the lingering Soul-Loss Incense, where they waited for the Dragon Mother and Barbara.
• Alicia praised Xiluo for staying to save them, and Koraman grew gloomy as he listened.

After Barbara returned and treated the injured wyrmlings, Xiluo woke in the Mystery Sea and spent achievement points on Rapid Healing instead of Storm Breath. He recounted the attack to Barbara, who revealed that the attackers were favored by the gods, leaving Xiluo to question whether the Clear River Merchant Guild was connected to a Divine Favored.

• Alicia praised Koraman for protecting her, easing his anger and prompting him to vow to protect her.
• Barbara returned to the Green Forest, detected the lingering scent of Soul-Loss Incense, and healed the unconscious Xiluo.
• In the Mystery Sea, Xiluo gained 15 achievement points for defeating a stronger enemy and chose Rapid Healing, reducing his points from 40 to 20.
• Xiluo woke and, at Barbara's request, explained the attack and how the wyrmlings had been injured.
• Barbara said the attackers had been favored by the gods, and Xiluo asked whether they were connected to the Clear River Merchant Guild and led by a Divine Favored.

Barbara explained that the [Clear River Merchant Guild] were among the fortunate [Lucky Ones] from Blue Star, whose people had entered the world without supernatural powers. She left the wyrmlings reassured that Blue Star’s humans could not reach Domirank Star on their own, while insisting they posed no threat to dragons’ resources.

• Xiluo said the [Clear River Merchant Guild] had opposed Green Forest, and the wyrmlings erupted in anger before learning the guild might have Divine Favored.
• Barbara dismissed the guild members as fortunate [Lucky Ones], not Divine Favored, and silenced the noisy wyrmlings.
• Barbara explained that the Lucky Ones had appeared about seven years earlier, after gods in the Astral Realm contacted Blue Star, a world with over eight billion people.
• Alicia and the other wyrmlings were shocked by Blue Star’s huge human population, and Xiluo worried that its people might upset the balance of Domirank Star.
• Barbara said Blue Star’s humans had advanced technology and destructive weapons but no supernatural powers or means to reach Domirank Star by themselves.
• Barbara rejected the worry that dragons would lose their resources and claimed that cooperation with metal dragons and gem dragons could have let dragons rule Domirank Star.

Barbara explained how Blue Star’s Descenders gained bodies and divine protection, while Xiluo suspected the gods and Blue Star’s leaders had arranged a scheme to draw billions into worship. Learning that time passed five times faster on Domirank Star made Xiluo worry that his grandmother believed him dead or comatose, and the chapter ended with Alicia asking how many Descenders had arrived.

• Barbara told Alicia and the wyrmlings that only a small number of Blue Star believers received bodies on Domirank Star, and that Descenders needed money and recovery time to return after dying.
• Xiluo reconsidered the Alliance’s announcements and suspected they had encouraged Blue Star’s people to worship the gods and become believers.
• Xiluo wondered whether Blue Star’s leaders had been threatened or controlled by the gods, then dismissed the idea as beyond his power and resolved to focus on growing stronger.
• Barbara revealed that one day on Blue Star equaled five days on Domirank Star, prompting Xiluo to calculate that seven years there meant roughly a year and a half for his grandmother.
• Xiluo worried that his grandmother might think he was dead or in a vegetative state and wished he could see her again.
• Alicia asked Barbara how many Descenders had come to Domirank Star, fearing that even a fraction of Blue Star’s population would mean hundreds of millions.

Xiluo learned more about Blue Star visitors and the trouble some had caused, while Barbara revealed that the Gold Dragon had escaped again with an Adult Silver Dragon and Adventurers. After the wyrmlings recovered, the Dragon Mother strengthened their defenses and left the attackers’ spoils for Xiluo to distribute.

• Barbara explained that Blue Star visitors could become several lesser races but not dragons, prompting Xiluo to question how he had arrived as one.
• Barbara described how some Blue Star visitors had alienated nobles and Spellcasters through scandalous and reckless behavior.
• Barbara said the Gold Dragon had escaped the Dragon Mother with an Adult Silver Dragon and Adventurers, despite the dragons’ pursuit.
• Barbara reassured the wyrmlings and treated them, and the dragons moved the wyrmlings’ territory after they recovered.
• The Dragon Mother reassigned the negligent Lizardfolk and placed three hundred Treants around the wyrmlings’ territory.
• The Dragon Mother left the defeated attackers’ spoils for Xiluo to distribute.

Xiluo and Allen brought the recovered intruders’ equipment to Barbara, hoping to sell it quickly for gold amid the danger in Green Forest. Barbara offered them 40 gold coins for equipment worth 44 to 45, taking a ten percent profit, and awaited their answer.

• Xiluo and the wyrmlings valued the intruders’ equipment at about 44 gold coins and agreed to sell it to Barbara, with Xiluo offering to cover her profit share.
• The Red Dragon hatchling left to exchange his share for Blazing Flame Crystals, while Xiluo noticed he had been sleeping more than usual.
• Allen asked Xiluo to lend him gold coins so he could obtain a healing spell from Barbara, hoping to help the group in future fights.
• Xiluo agreed that a healing spell would help the team and took Allen to see Barbara.
• Xiluo asked Barbara to buy the equipment outright, and she offered 40 gold coins for it, taking only ten percent profit.

Xiluo and Little White Dragon Allen learned dozens of spells from Barbara under a contract requiring Xiluo to repay double their value in a hundred years. Xiluo then offered Barbara a far larger investment promising tenfold returns, leaving her dazzled by the prospect.

• Xiluo sold equipment to Barbara for 40 gold coins and asked to buy spells from her.
• Barbara offered the second-tier Healing Spell for 7 gold coins, and Xiluo persuaded her to invest spell knowledge in him in exchange for double repayment after he reached adulthood.
• Xiluo and Allen spent a day learning dozens of first- through fourth-tier spells from Barbara, and Xiluo signed a contract to repay 1,100 gold coins in a hundred years.
• Xiluo proposed that Barbara invest actual gold for a tenfold return, and Barbara reacted with excitement at the offer.

Xiluo persuaded Barbara to invest 400 gold coins in him, promising a tenfold return after a hundred years. He chose to use the money to buy Allen a staff that would help him cast healing and nature spells faster, leaving Allen determined to repay him.

• Xiluo convinced Barbara that investing in him could turn her 400 gold coins into 4,000 after a hundred years.
• Barbara explained that 400 gold coins represented nearly all the savings she could afford as a Young Dragon serving the Dragon Mother.
• Xiluo told Barbara he wanted to spend the investment on a staff that would speed up Healing Spell and low-level nature spell casting.
• Barbara realized the staff was for Allen, and Xiluo said he was investing in Allen's potential and loyalty.
• Allen accepted Xiluo's support and vowed to repay him a hundredfold, or even a thousandfold.

Xiluo bought Allen a staff and crystals, then tried to secure more investments from Cato and Weierde, but they refused. Suspecting they feared Green Forest would lose the coming war, Xiluo returned to the wyrmlings’ resting place with Allen and visited Alicia.

• Xiluo set aside 25 gold coins for Allen’s staff and arranged to buy Tidal Crystals and Frozen Crystals with Barbara.
• Xiluo suggested that Barbara seek investments from Cato and Weierde, promising her a sum matching their principal after a hundred years if they invested.
• Barbara returned and reported that Cato and Weierde had refused to lend or invest any gold coins.
• Xiluo suspected Cato and Weierde expected Green Forest to lose the coming war against the gold dragon and the elves, and he left with Allen after thanking Barbara.
• Xiluo went to Alicia’s hollow and knocked; Alicia came out, pleased to see him before noticing Allen.