The work of patrolling the territory of the dragon's lair can be a bit boring and time-consuming for a young or adult blue dragon.

They prefer jobs that can improve their strength or increase their wealth.

For example, raiding cities or extorting caravans from the outermost part of a former territory, or responding to the call of some existence to fight in exchange for payment.

But for Quest Fedan, this kind of work is the most desirable.

Not only can you avoid the attention of the cunning and suspicious elders of the same kind, but also avoid the various noises that those "bear children" dragons want to challenge themselves every day, and you can concentrate on growing up obscenely.

So the young blue dragon would measure the land ruled by the dragon's nest with the shadow of the dragon's wings every day

The land area of hundreds of square kilometers is not huge for a creature like a dragon that can fly at high speed, but it is also a large territory.

And although most of the resources or relics have been explored and excavated by the legendary dragon Sallota, as long as there are a pair of eyes that are good at discovery, there will still be some small surprises for the diligent young dragon who is good at exploring and discovering.

For example, during his first round, while digging tunnels to hunt down a giant sandworm, Quest discovered a vein of copper and copper that was very beneficial to him.

One of the benefits of the vast amount of knowledge awakened by the inheritance is that it allows Quest to know some of the secrets that powerful dragons will only know after the old dragon stage.

For example, consciously devouring some metal ore during the process of growth can make the dragon's body stronger.

For a dragon like the Blue Dragon, who has an innate talent for electrical attributes, eating some metals with good conductivity such as silver, gold or copper can not only make the body more robust, but also enhance some of its own magical talents by eating a large amount.

This is knowledge that the average adult dragon does not know. Although the dragon's teeth are sharp enough to chew metal, and the stomach acid is strong enough to digest most inorganic matter, the efficient energy utilization system allows them to survive for a long time even if they simply "eat dirt".

However, with plenty of flesh and blood prey, most dragons will not choose hard metal ores as food, not to mention metals such as gold and silver, which bring dragons far more sensory pleasure than as food.

However, after all, Quis has the soul of an otherworldly programmed ape, and things that are good for him, although the taste is not good, but the thinking ability brought by rational thinking can force him to adapt.

After nibbling on some chalcocite and chalcopyrite, he could clearly feel his digestive system working.

"This can be digested and absorbed, it is really good teeth, good appetite, and delicious food. ”

He thought to himself as he ate Tuquis.

The knowledge of science and engineering in his previous life was still in his memory, and he knew that metals were made of atoms, and the ores he devoured were some copper-rich metal compounds.

The process of digestion is the process of absorbing copper and a small amount of iron atoms that are useful to the blue dragon, and enriching them to the bones, teeth, claws, sharp horns and other parts.

At the same time, the other ingredients are not excreted and wasted, but are directly turned into energy in the body through the digestive system. This energy is even able to stimulate the growth and fission of the body's cells.

To put it simply, the dragon is like a digestive machine, eating more and growing faster, even if it eats "dirt" all the time. With plenty of energy to absorb, the juvenile dragon is growing in size every day. Swallowing a large amount of metal did not cause heavy metal poisoning, but made him grow more rapidly than his counterparts who only ate flesh and blood.

Although the ores are not delicious, there is some discomfort in the process of digestion. But it has to be said that the dragon's stomach and intestines are perverted at the efficiency of converting matter into energy! Even Quiz sometimes finds that his body seems to be gradually adapting to this process of digestion.

This situation does not exist in the knowledge of dragon inheritance, and the young dragon guesses that the reason for this should be related to the fact that he may have undergone some modifications in the dragon egg before he was born.

But in the end, it was a good change, and Quest quickly adapted to this reality, and would take the initiative to dig and look for it every day when patrolling to see if he could find more veins that could be used for his "food".

After the first vein was discovered, there were indeed some veins that were discovered, but most of them were shallow poor ores, and the overall scale was not large, and most of them had traces left by the dragon's excavation.

This made Quis guess that he could know this way of supplementation, and there was no reason why the legendary dragon Salotta, the ruler of the territory, should not know.

It is possible that at some stage when he was young, he also took the initiative to look for metal deposits and eat "soil" for tonics. It's just that as you grow older, whether you have such a strange talent for adaptability, the benefits of this method will eventually reach a certain saturation state.

"For a dragon of that strength, I'm afraid there won't be too many types of edible metals that are useful to them. Unless it's Adamantite or Mithril, eating a lot of ordinary copper and iron can at best make their own skin appear some beautiful patterns, and it has no practical effect. ”

Of course, this is for dragons like Salotta, the king of the blue dragon population, and for Quis, who is in the growing physical period, these extra "extra meals" are undoubtedly of great use.

"As the saying goes, I have a mine in my hand, and I don't panic. ”

After eating the last piece of metal ore with a small vein exposed on the surface, the young dragon burped before flying into the sky to continue his daily patrols.

At this time, Quesi's body size was seriously oversized compared to the blue dragon of the same age. But it's not because it's fat, it's because it's too strong. When the juvenile dragon spreads its wings, it leaves a shadow that can hide a colony of more than a dozen wild camels, and its length is close to more than 60 feet (about 20 meters) if you count the dragon's tail, which is only slightly shorter than its body.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that his Blue Dragon's iconic horns were still hideous and his scales were still indigo, it would even make his fellow Blue Dragon Lair think that he was actually a red dragon close to adulthood!

That's right, after accepting the patrol job, Quisi, who has just entered the juvenile dragon age stage for less than three years, has already thrown his peers of the same age nearly two age levels in terms of body size.

And the difference in size, for the dragon, is often the most intuitive manifestation of the difference in strength......

In the patrol work, in addition to being able to get enough food, Ques has a new harvest -

Your own minions!

"Any society needs a lot of workers at the bottom to be the cornerstone. ”

The Blue Dragon Population is no exception, and the "cornerstone" of their population is made up of dragon-descended creatures that depend on it for survival.

Desert Kobolds [Note 1] Three major tribes:

"Strong teeth",

Sharp Claw,

"Healthy feet".

Coupled with an objective number of wurms, they form the legendary blue dragon Salotta's "Dragon's Nest Family", and they are also the servants of the blue dragon population.

"The strong win the victorious"

For the Dragonborn and Wurm who believe in the strong, Quest's intimidating size and Salotta's appointment have been used to patrol the territory.

The harvest of these dependents was of great help to Ques Fetan. Some of these Dragonborn pairs have unique abilities that can help him with many things.

Rattle Patu is a great helper.

As wurms, rattletails don't live as long as dragons, they age five times faster than dragons, so they reach the age of archaeosaurs at 240 years old, and very few live beyond 300 years.

The rattletail had no wings, a membrane between its claws, sharp teeth in its throat, and a tail like a rattlesnake.

Like the blue dragons that live in the desert, rattletails are adept at digging, they can easily dig a passage through the sand, and can use the magic-like ability "Sand to Stone" to turn the fine sand of the passage walls into sand and gravel reinforcement.

Quest fell in love with the rattle-tailed dragon.

Although he had gradually accepted the fact that he had become a blue dragon, he still couldn't completely ignore why he had such an unscientific thing as crossing over.

The place where the dragon egg was found, Quest believed, must be the place where he was most likely to find the problem that caused him doubts.

Therefore, the skill of the rattle-tailed dragon comes in handy, and with the assistance of the rattle-tailed dragon, whose talent is no less than his own in playing "hole theft", Quest believes that when exploring the ruins of ancient civilizations, he is bound to be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

What's even more convenient is that rattletails over the adult have loop-shaped neck folds on their necks, and they can use instant action to open their neck folds, and when fully deployed, rattletails can use their neckfolds to deflect some spell damage.

Of course, the level of spells that Rattletail Dragon can bounce is not high, and some low-level spells with "Spell Increment" and "Spell Penetration" super magic effects are also likely to be unable to effectively defend.

But that's enough, after all, the ancient ruins of this desert region, the more dangerous and valuable places, have almost all been explored by the ruler of the Dragon's Lair, Salotta. The rest of the place is mostly of little value, relatively dangerous, and dangerous.

Leave it to wurms like Rattletail to dig up those ruins, and even if you run into some magic traps, you can save the day through the natural abilities of the race.

Discover first and then explore, wurms like Patu can first search within the range marked by Queth, and then hand them over to the young blue dragon for in-depth research and exploration after discovering the exact location of the ruins. This allows Quest to dig his secrets in a more efficient way.

All he needed to do was regularly inspect the wurm's work, as well as some of the gains they might have gained from their extensive search in the early stages.

[Note 1] Desert Kobolds: Kobolds have scaly skin ranging from dark brown to black, and they have two light-colored horns on a dog-like head, shiny eyes, and a mouse-like tail. They can speak dragon language, but the sound is like a barking dog. Kobolds are biological relatives of dragons. However, there is one most important difference between them, and that is that kobolds are cold-blooded creatures, while dragons are warm-blooded. As a cold-blooded humanoid, kobolds are sensitive to temperature. Kobolds who live in the hot desert areas are more mobile and slightly taller than other people living in the wilderness or underground, similar in height to adult humans. Like all kobold tribes, they are accustomed to clinging to blood relatives of powerful dragon tribes, and they are eligible for dependency through the service of dragons. The number of kobold tribes is limited by environmental resources, and it is rare to exceed three digits. Under some conditions, a dragon-bodied kobold with wings and the ability to fly will also be born. (It can also be called Odd urd, which is the equivalent of wing in dragon language, which means wing.) However, if the dragons of the tribe do not offer protection, the kobolds are usually killed by their own kind, not out of jealousy, but also because of some conflict left over from ancient times.