Chapter Summaries

Xiluo gathered Alicia, Abel, and Gordon away from the wyrmlings’ living area to share the spells he had learned from Lady Barbara. Although Alicia and Abel initially suspected a trick and Gordon warned that he might surpass Xiluo, Xiluo insisted the lessons were free and welcomed the rivalry.

• Xiluo brought Alicia, Abel, and Gordon together and led them away from the wyrmlings’ living area, while the tree monsters followed at a distance.
• Gordon insulted Alicia and Abel, and Abel retorted that Gordon had also needed Xiluo’s help during the battle with the invaders.
• Xiluo stopped their argument and explained that he had paid Lady Barbara to learn several dozen spells, which he intended to teach them for free.
• Alicia and Abel doubted Xiluo’s offer because he had tricked them before, but they sat down after he assured them there would be no wager.
• Gordon warned that learning the spells could make him strong enough to defeat Xiluo, and Xiluo encouraged him to grow stronger so their rivalry would continue.

Xiluo taught Alicia, Abel, and other dragons magical knowledge, then earned an achievement and spent points on the [High-Speed Casting] talent. Koraman saw Xiluo walking with Alicia and fled in shock.

• Xiluo explained Barbara’s spell knowledge to the dragons and distributed gold coins before returning.
• Koraman went to Alicia’s lair, learned she had left with Xiluo, and angrily refused to believe it.
• Koraman saw Xiluo and Alicia walking close together, roared in dismay, and ran away.
• Alicia thanked Xiluo for teaching her and promised not to share the spells without his permission.
• Xiluo distributed the remaining coins, returned to his lair, earned 10 achievement points, and redeemed [High-Speed Casting].

Koraman misunderstood Alicia’s outing with Xiluo, then apologized by giving her his silver coins after she explained they had met with other dragons to discuss defending Green Forest. Xiluo tested his High-Speed Casting and later received the requested staff and crystals from Barbara, while Green Forest remained peaceful.

• Koraman returned to his lair distraught after seeing Alicia with Xiluo, but Alicia explained that they had met with Abel, Gordon, and Allen to discuss protecting Green Forest.
• Koraman accepted Alicia’s explanation, apologized, and insisted that she take his silver coins.
• Xiluo tested several spells and found that High-Speed Casting reduced their casting times by about thirty percent across multiple tiers.
• Several peaceful days passed, and Barbara’s injuries improved as the Gold Dragon and elves made no further attacks on Green Forest.
• Barbara gave Xiluo and Allen the staff and crystals they had requested, then signaled for them to leave.

Xiluo consumed a Tidal Crystal, raising his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline concentration and improving his strength. He discovered that the concentrated water stored in his body let him fire a water jet and restore mana, and he wondered what ability he would gain at 30% bloodline concentration.

• Xiluo swallowed the Tidal Crystal and absorbed water from his pool until his thirst was satisfied.
• Xiluo saw that his Thunderfall Dragon bloodline concentration had risen from 10.2% to 26.8%, while his mana reserves increased to about 1.8 times those of an ordinary Blue Dragon.
• Xiluo left his lair and drew the attention of nearby Wyrmlings, including Abel, who praised his appearance.
• Xiluo fired a jet of water that damaged a nearby tree and cut through thin branches.
• Xiluo concluded that the water jet was a limited-range support ability that could quickly wet the battlefield and that the water stored in his body also helped restore his mana.
• Xiluo looked forward to reaching 30% bloodline concentration and discovering what new ability it might bring.

Xiluo tested his new Flush Breath and inspected the improvements in Allen and Gordon after their bloodline changes. He tested Allen’s Nature Life staff and saw how much it strengthened Allen, while the other Wyrmlings watched enviously.

• Xiluo named his weak new breath attack Flush Breath and described it as a support ability.
• Allen and Gordon approached Xiluo, and he saw that Allen had become a level 5 Mutated White Dragon Wyrmling while Gordon had become a level 7 Strong Mutated Red Dragon Wyrmling.
• Xiluo praised Allen and Gordon’s growth and said their increased strength would help them face attackers again.
• Gordon asked about Allen’s staff, and Xiluo said he had bought it to help Allen contribute despite being weaker.
• Xiluo tested Nature Life and found that it greatly reduced the casting time of Allen’s nature spells, while the other Wyrmlings watched enviously.

Two months after the battle with the assassins, the Wyrmlings discussed their dwindling protection and asked Xiluo to assess the danger. Xiluo remained the strongest among them as Allen and the others recovered, while the threat to the Wyrmlings’ safety persisted.

• Xiluo earned five achievement points for acquiring a fortune after Barbara gave him 400 gold coins.
• Over two months, Xiluo’s injuries and scales recovered far faster than expected, while Alicia and the Wyrmlings who fought the assassins still had tender scales and reduced combat strength.
• Abel complained that most of the Treants assigned to protect the Wyrmlings had been transferred away, leaving only fifty.
• Gordon mocked the Wyrmlings who wanted protection, and one of them angrily argued back as Alicia asked Xiluo what he thought of the situation.
• Xiluo checked Allen’s status and noted that the Little White Dragon had reached level 6, while Xiluo himself was level 8 with growing Thunderfall Dragon and Extreme Thunder Dragon bloodlines.

As the Dragon Mother's war against the Gold Dragon and the elves worsened, she ordered the wyrmlings to join the next battle. Xiluo accepted the order, and Barbara privately warned him to survive and lent him a Vitality Orb.

• Xiluo noted that the Dragon Mother was struggling more against the Gold Dragon as the fighting intensified and the remaining treants were moved away.
• Barbara announced that the Dragon Mother had ordered the wyrmlings to accompany her to the battlefield in the next battle.
• Xiluo set aside thoughts of fleeing and told the wyrmlings they should obey the Dragon Mother's order and face the enemy.
• Barbara privately warned Xiluo that the battlefield would be far more dangerous than the earlier intruders and urged him to prioritize survival.
• Barbara lent Xiluo her Vitality Orb, explaining that it could restore some stamina when activated with mana and could be used only once a month.

Barbara cast nine protective spells on Xiluo and led him and the other Wyrmlings toward the battle to defend Green Forest from a Gold Dragon and the Elves. The Wyrmlings reached a vast, bloody battlefield, where dragons and armies were already clashing, and their arrival went almost unnoticed.

• Barbara gave Xiluo a Vitality Orb, which he swallowed, and warned him about the battlefield while he reflected on how much she valued him as a debtor.
• When the war horn sounded, Barbara cast nine protective spells on Xiluo, then told the Wyrmlings that he alone received special care because he was the strongest.
• Barbara flew toward the battlefield, and the Wyrmlings followed her on foot after she shouted at them to hurry.
• Xiluo and the Wyrmlings emerged from Green Forest and saw six dragons and thousands of fighters battling amid spells, arrows, Treants, and siege weapons.
• The Wyrmlings’ arrival drew hardly any attention as they reached the battlefield.

Gordon charged into the battlefield, slaughtering human soldiers and evil creatures until a giant eagle and a Druid Black Bear joined forces against him. As Gordon called on the other Wyrmlings for help, they attacked or cast spells, while Xiluo still had not acted.

• Gordon charged at human soldiers, killed one with a headbutt, and sent several others flying with his tail before setting them ablaze.
• Elf Hunters shot at Gordon, and a green arrow pierced his shoulder, but he broke it off and continued attacking.
• A giant eagle struck Gordon with lightning as a Druid Black Bear charged him and forced him into a close-quarters fight.
• The giant eagle's lightning repeatedly disrupted Gordon, allowing the black bear to land a flurry of blows while Gordon's fireballs failed to hit the eagle.
• Gordon roared at the watching Wyrmlings to help; some charged the enemy while others cast spells, and Xiluo remained inactive.

Xiluo assessed the battlefield and joined the fight with lightning spells, helping Green Forest’s forces while trying to protect a wounded Black Dragon Wyrmling. The Gold Dragon then ordered the Elves and humans to stop attacking the child and let him retreat.

• Xiluo examined the combatants’ levels and judged that the Elves and the Gold Dragon had fewer troops but more powerful fighters.
• Xiluo cast Chain Lightning into a dense group of human and Elf soldiers, giving the Lizardfolk an opening to kill two enemies.
• Elf Holy Hunters and Spellcasters targeted the Wyrmlings, and a green arrow gravely wounded a Black Dragon Wyrmling.
• Xiluo used Lightning Orb and Chain Lightning to protect the wounded Wyrmling, but arrows and human soldiers continued to injure him.
• The Gold Dragon ordered everyone to stop attacking the Wyrmling and let him return once he could no longer fight.

Xiluo and the wyrmlings fought alongside the humans and dragons until a silver-armored human warrior wounded Dragon Mother with a Dragon-Slaying Weapon. Dragon Mother fled, leaving Xiluo and Allen frightened by the weapon’s threat to dragons.

• The Gold Dragon shielded a dying Black Dragon Wyrmling and urged the humans to stop killing wyrmlings, while Dragon Mother attacked him and an Elf Sacred Hunter struck at her.
• The humans and elves redirected their attacks toward other enemies, and Xiluo protected the wyrmlings while trying to attract as little attention as possible.
• The battle dragged on for nearly an hour, with the wyrmlings taking injuries and Xiluo repeatedly renewing Gordon’s protective spells.
• A silver-armored human warrior pierced Dragon Mother’s forelimb with a silver spear, then blasted her and the Gold Dragon away with an explosive sphere.
• Dragon Mother fled, and Xiluo and Allen recognized the spear as a Dragon-Slaying Weapon that could pierce scales and leave wounds difficult to heal.

Xiluo fled with the Wyrmlings after the Dragon Mother retreated, but he turned back to save the injured Allen from the pursuing knights. His Grease spell ignited into a wall of fire that threw the cavalry into chaos.

• The humans and elves celebrated the Dragon Mother's retreat, and the Green Forest Legion began to collapse as its followers fled or surrendered.
• Barbara and the other young adult dragons fled, while Xiluo used Chain Lightning to free Gordon from the Rockhide Giant Bear before escaping with the Wyrmlings.
• A group of knights pursued the fleeing dragons and speared a slow White Dragon through the wing.
• Xiluo noticed the knights closing on the lame Allen, stopped despite the others' protests, and spread Grease across their path.
• Xiluo ignited the Grease with lightning, raising a wall of fire that panicked the horses and scattered the pursuing knights.

Xiluo used a combined spell to block the pursuing cavalry and led the wyrmlings toward the Green Forest, but an Adult Silver Dragon caught up with them. Barbara attacked the Silver Dragon to buy the wyrmlings time, while the Silver Dragon summoned Frost Fairies to pursue them, forcing the group to scatter.

• Xiluo combined [Grease] and [Shock Spell] to create a wide wall of fire, then carried Allen as the wyrmlings fled from the cavalry.
• Xiluo asked Allen to use nature spells against the pursuing knights, and Allen grew vines that tripped their riders.
• A twenty-meter-long Silver Dragon caught up with the wyrmlings near the Green Forest, leaving Xiluo fearing capture and imprisonment or brainwashing.
• Barbara attacked the Silver Dragon with vines and collided with it, then shouted for the wyrmlings to split up and escape.
• The Silver Dragon summoned twenty or thirty Frost Fairies to pursue the wyrmlings, and Xiluo and Gordon fled west together.

Xiluo, Gordon, and Allen set the Green Forest ablaze to distract the Silver Dragon and escape the Frost Fairies. They fled beyond the forest, where Abel caught up with them, and the three hatchlings continued running together.

• Xiluo told Gordon to burn the Green Forest and asked Allen to spread the flames with nature spells.
• The Silver Dragon tried to leave the Green Dragon and extinguish the fire, but the Green Dragon restrained her while they fought.
• The Silver Dragon ordered the nearby Frost Fairies to put out the flames, giving Xiluo and Gordon a chance to escape.
• Xiluo and Gordon reached the edge of the Green Forest, where Abel caught up with them.
• Xiluo, Gordon, and Abel ran together for at least twenty or thirty kilometers.

After fleeing the Green Forest, Xiluo used the Vitality Orb to recover his strength and carried the exhausted Abel as the Wyrmlings escaped into the mountains. They slept beneath the stars, and Xiluo earned the Exile and Hero achievements in the Mystery Sea.

• Abel collapsed from exhaustion, so Xiluo used the Vitality Orb to regain stamina and carried him onward.
• Xiluo and the other Wyrmlings ran roughly seventy or eighty kilometers from the Green Forest to a mountain range.
• The Wyrmlings discussed their escape and worried briefly about the dragons left behind before falling asleep beneath a tree.
• Xiluo entered the Mystery Sea and received five achievement points each for Exile and Hero, bringing his total to 20.
• Xiluo noticed that the phantoms of Abel, Alicia, and Gordon had grown more solid, while Allen's phantom remained unchanged.

After the battle outside Green Forest, Gold Dragon Christo and Silver Dragon Trixie captured several Wyrmlings, while Descender Wali demanded compensation for his guild. Trixie froze Wali, and the Wyrmlings were left in the dragons’ custody; the chapter ended the next morning with someone crying for Xiluo to rescue them.

• The captured Wyrmlings accused Christo and Trixie of fighting unfairly, while the dragons said they would take the young Chromatic Dragons to Dragon Island.
• Wali demanded payment for the Clear River Merchant Guild’s losses and challenged the dragons, but Nature Elf Fennis offered to reimburse the guild.
• After Wali continued arguing, Trixie froze him in a block of ice, and Fennis and the others accepted the attack without intervening.
• Marquis Dorian’s representative approved Trixie’s actions, and the dragons departed with the captured Wyrmlings under guard.
• The Wyrmlings regretted not following Xiluo and doubted he would come to save them.
• The next morning, someone in the mountains west of Green Forest cried out for Xiluo to help.

Xiluo and the other dragon hatchlings settled in the Tart mountain range after learning that a powerful Titan Ape lived nearby. They established a temporary lair and began raising prey, and a year passed without trouble.

• A Blackrock Python swallowed Abel, but Xiluo, Allen, and Gordon killed it, and the hatchlings divided the Magic Crystal's future sale proceeds.
• Abel identified their location as the Tart mountain range near the Hurricane Kingdom and warned them about a Titan Ape in its center.
• Xiluo decided they needed a place with enough food and chose to remain in the mountains despite the Titan Ape's presence.
• The hatchlings caught animals to raise, dug a pool, and built a lair while avoiding the Titan Ape.
• The four dragons lived safely in their new territory, and a year passed.

Eight-and-a-half-year-old Xiluo and the other dragons struggled to find enough food, then encountered a group of Hyena-People and claimed them as followers. Xiluo reached the Cracktooth tribe and saw its obese matriarch, Bāyǎn, wondering how she had come to rule.

• Xiluo explained that the wild rabbits he was raising would take years to provide enough meat for the dragons, and the four hunted until they had depleted the nearby hill’s prey.
• On the neighboring mountain, Abel killed a Crown-Horned Giant Deer while Xiluo stopped a fleeing Hyena-Person.
• Tigu Lieya swore allegiance to Xiluo, who appointed her matriarch and learned that the Cracktooth Clan had seventy-three members under Bāyǎn’s rule.
• Tigu led Xiluo and the other dragons to the tribe’s cave, where they saw Bāyǎn resting as her attendants served her.

Xiluo killed Bāyǎn after she proposed mating with a dragon, then made Tīgǔ the new hyena matriarch and accepted the hyena-people’s submission. Gordon devised iron plating for his scales, and Xiluo’s test showed the armor could stop his claws without drawing blood.

• Bāyǎn told the dragons she wanted to mate with one to create a stronger, more intelligent race, and Xiluo struck her throat with his Thunderwater Gun before crushing her skull.
• Xiluo named Tīgǔ the new matriarch, and the hyena-people knelt and accepted the dragons as their lords.
• Gordon melted iron weapons and armor onto his scales, creating a heavy protective plating that impressed Xiluo and made Abel envious.
• Gordon challenged Xiluo to test his new defenses, and Xiluo’s claws left marks on the plating but did not pierce it or draw blood.

Xiluo assessed Gordon’s increased strength, divided the recovered treasure among the dragons, and examined a captured human-Merfolk Spellcaster who offered fifty gold coins for her freedom. After learning that her adventuring party included two powerful fighters and a Cleric, Xiluo considered how to verify her offer and handle the group.

• Xiluo had Gordon sprint and concluded that his new defensive strength came at the cost of reduced speed.
• The dragons argued over how to divide their treasure, then agreed to split the gold equally; Xiluo took a water-elemental staff and Allen received a defensive ring.
• Tīgǔ brought a female human-Merfolk Spellcaster out of the cave, and Gordon and Abel tried to eat her until Xiluo stopped them.
• The captive said she was from Niro City and offered fifty gold coins if Xiluo would let her go free.
• Xiluo asked Tīgǔ about the captive’s adventuring party, and Tīgǔ explained that the Warrior still delivered meat while the Cleric and Assassin had escaped.