Wang Ba gently pushed aside the broken, fragmented eggshells.
Seven of the eight Beast Eggs had hatched, but the remaining one had already lost all signs of life.
"Looks like a weak egg..."
Not every egg could hatch in time. Some creatures were born frail, and if they were too weak to break through their shells at the beginning of their lives, they would suffocate inside.
In the wild, some parents would usually help break the shells from outside, while creatures like Stone Dragon Lizards did not intervene, leaving them to natural selection.
Here with Wang Ba, however, he occasionally helped.
It was just that he had been far too busy lately and happened to miss it.
Wang Ba shook his head slightly, without feeling much.
There was no other reason-he had seen too much of it.
Besides, if it could not even break its own shell, it clearly would have struggled to live well even after hatching. Thinking of it that way, this was a kind of release.
He then turned his attention to the seven Stone Dragon Lizards that had hatched.
The most eye-catching of them was naturally the creature that had hatched from the enormous Beast Egg. It looked almost exactly like a Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard.
But it stood a full two body heights taller than its siblings from the same clutch.
Even without its tail, its body was already as long as Wang Ba's arm.
Had its movements not been distinctly immature, Wang Ba would have thought it was already several months old.
When Wang Ba saw it, it was chewing on its own eggshell, so it clearly had not hatched very long ago.
Wang Ba left it alone and instead looked at another little creature that had caught his attention.
He casually picked it