Chapter 1: Hatchlings
A hideous black head poked out of the eggshell, curved horns, sunken eye sockets, a body of soft and smooth scales, and a thick head and limbs that made it look quite strong.
The two-eyed thief spun around, and the young dragon called out its real name: "Karl Vladimiah Visanovich!"
A young dragon can call out his real name at the moment of birth, which means that he has accepted the knowledge inheritance from his ancestors, which means that the young dragon has successfully passed the first level of dragon life - it has not become a mentally retarded dragon because of the huge amount of memories that have blown up the soul.
"What is going on?" squirted out a mouthful of acid with Chinese characters, and didn't have time to complain about his real name full of harmony, Lin Ze, who was hungry and crazy, turned his head and dragged out the eggshell and gnawed it. The dark eggshell was stained with a lot of acid in the pits, I don't know if it was hunger, or if the dragon's taste was really different, these slimy mucus were indeed very delicious to eat in Lin Ze at the moment.
After eating the eggshells on the ground like crazy, Lin Ze still didn't come up with a clue in his heart, he just stayed up for a few more days and nights, how could he wake up like this?
Looking at the fine and smooth black scales, Lin Ze's mind flashed a lot of scattered memories, most of which were knowledge about scales - this is the inheritance of the dragon, and the dragon that has survived the impact of a huge amount of memories will gradually learn the knowledge left behind by these ancestors after being carefully selected by their ancestors in their daily life.
The black dragon belongs to a small dragon species among the colored dragons, and even after being hungry and crazy and gnawing the eggshell of a dragon egg, Lin Ze feels that he is slightly small. Surveying the dark cavern, and with the help of his excellent eyesight with dragons, he suddenly noticed something unusual, this tall and deep cavern was actually man-made! Yes, it was man-made, not dragon-made!
The entire cavern had been trimmed into a cube, the walls perpendicular to the ground were still carved out, and the passages on the sides were not large enough for an adult dragon to enter and exit, and look at the ghost-like statue overhead.
At least this is a difficult start!
"I don't know if I was abandoned by the dragon mother to become like this, or even the dragon mother was solved by someone. Looking at a rather large head, the young dragon crept in the direction of the passage.
โ...... Did the egg hatch?"
"No, the priest said it's been a few days, I just looked at it, and I didn't find it. โ
"Well, notify me as soon as it hatches, and someone from above has come down to name the young dragon as a war pet. โ
"Really, hurry up! I've been suffocated these days, and the souvenir that the adult black dragon left for me hasn't healed yet, and it's a sin to keep this place every day. โ
The intermittent conversation outside the door made Lin Ze bare his teeth, listen!, "Someone above named a young dragon war pet!"
It's terrifying! It's the beginning of a nightmare!
"Let's run, the young dragon without a mother is not as good as grass, and if you don't run, I'm afraid you'll have to kneel." After a quick touch of this tall and deep grotto, Lin Ze felt traces of water in a depression in a corner. If there is water, it means that there may be a waterway down there. This is it, dig it!
Waving a pair of newborn claws, Lin Ze buried his head in the frenzy. If you don't dig again, you won't be able to run away when the guards outside come in, although I don't know that the guys outside can beat a few of themselves at once, but a group of guys who can get rid of adult black dragons can't be a little dragon of their own.
After digging and throwing for half an hour, Lin Ze felt that his claws were sore, but as soon as he thought of the tragic situation after being caught as a war pet, Lin Ze felt that there was a raging flame in his heart driving him. With a momentum worthy of his real name, he kept hinting that he was not a rock underneath! It was not a rock with hard claws! This was all light! It was all his help to take off in the future!
Come on! Lin Ze, you are a dragon! You can't be cowardly! The dragon will never be a slave!
"Ahemโphew!" the young dragon squirted out a mouthful of a strong sour liquid mixed with stomach sour saliva, and when the rock was corroded, it began to dig like crazy again.
This is not the breath of the black dragon, the breath of the dragon is a product of both physiology and magic. When the dragon grows to a certain stage, a structure containing magical oil will grow in the basal vascular center between his upper stomach and lungs, and this glandular attached to the heart is a gland that only a true dragon has, and when the dragon needs it, it will extract magic from its body and mix it with the oil into the stomach, and from the dragon's esophagus, it will mix the special breath of the lungs and spit out to form a breath, which is much more powerful than the current acid.
It's a pity that Lin Ze is now a newborn young dragon, and it is already his talent to be able to carry out such a laborious excavation activity, and as for breathing, he will have to wait a few years.
"Oh no! The baby dragon has hatched!"
It didn't take long for Lin Ze to hear an exclamation from the passage behind him, listening to the disturbing shouts above, he was so frightened that the young dragon slashed one after another, but a few claws went down, and the front suddenly softened and turned out to be no longer those disgusting hard rocks but a piece of wet soil.
Following his inner induction of water, Lin Ze snorted and sneered into an underground undercurrent.
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The dark cavern was illuminated by a white ball of light hanging in the air, the acidic pits on the ground, the traces of hard chiseling on the rock walls, and the sculptures of the gods looking down on the beings above their heads were all visible under the illumination, and the white-bearded priest who could illuminate such a huge space with a simple illumination technique had at least a level close to the legendary spellcasting. The white-bearded priest wore a wide robe trimmed with gold thread on a white background, staring at the hole dug in the corner.
"Where did it go out?"
"Yes, by the time the guards found out, it was already like this. The captain of the guard on the side said in panic.
"Do you know how many times I have released the earth and rock formation in order to build such a dungeon in the swamp?" the old priest's voice grew louder and louder, and his extreme anger could no longer make him maintain his demeanor, "One hundred and seventy-two! Even a high-ranking warrior cannot be chiseled through this place by brute force! You even told me that it was pierced by a young dragon that was only half a day old? Or was it dug through by a black dragon hatchling!"
"Pastor Eugene's anger!" A group of knight guards knelt on the ground, and the captain of the guard hurriedly made up: "It hasn't hatched for long, and it must still be in the Swamp now, so I'll send someone to find it!"
"Strengthen the guards of the rest of the hatchery, and the rest of the dragon eggs must be strictly guarded! The people of the royal family must come down in three days, and they must find it before the royal family comes! If you can't find me, you will turn into a black dragon and hand it over!" The priest waved his hand angrily and motioned for the guards to hurry up, and he began to pray to his gods sincerely, asking them to forgive him for his anger.
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When the guard knights in the dungeon cave poured out, the young dragon Lin Ze had already entered a turbulent underground river along the underground undercurrent, and the underground dark river let out a rumbling roar, enveloping the black dragon who had just escaped from the ascension all the way south, and when the black dragon came out of the water again, it was a lush green in his eyes.
"What a fat pig's head. Cautiously diving back into the water, the dragon's eyes under the protection of layers of eyelids were blazing, Lin Ze looked at the wild boar on the shore and almost had a green light in his eyes, if it weren't for the fact that the difference in size between the two sides was too big, he would have pounced on it.
Clumsily eating a few fish at the bottom of the river to suppress the stomach of the young dragon to rebel, Lin Ze began to observe the forest he was in now.
Tall broad-leaved trees, towering peaks in the distance, and forest bushes where no human traces can be found, and feel the scorching sun overhead. Greatly, according to the experience of the earth, this should be a temperate or subtropical broad-leaved deciduous forest, with the four seasons, the ecological chain is complete, and the biodiversity is thriving, which is very suitable for hunting and being hunted.
But I should get rid of those perverts, right?
Lin Ze ran all the way along the dark river, and now he didn't even know where he was, but he remembered that the countless underground water systems that went around and around the fork in the road almost made him "motion sick".
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