Chapter 2: Big Heads and Big Heads
After being hatched from the eggshell, Ques Fetan underwent a six-year brooding stage.
Like other blue dragons of the same age, Quest spends most of his time sleeping and eating.
Since dragons are born with a bloodline lineage, they will acquire basic knowledge at all ages, a process called "knowledge awakening".
In the young dragon stage, because the newborn dragons are too young to think and remember, they spend most of their time sleeping except for eating, due to their protective mechanisms.
The young dragons had to sleep to sort out the various knowledge that appeared in their brains, which was the first learning experience for this highly intelligent species.
But for Quez Fetan, this process of "intellectual awakening" is more difficult.
Learning is a gradual process of "receiving-understanding-memorizing" for any kind of organism, and it is difficult for learners to grasp knowledge through cramming education.
If educators only know how to indoctrinate blindly, the greatest possibility is to create a mentally deranged person who is full of specious knowledge.
Although it is "learned when you fall asleep", the legacy of this bloodline will not only give each dragon enough sleep time to complete digestion and memory, but will also be passed on in batches according to the different ages of the dragons.
Such rules are only normal physiological processes for ordinary young dragons, but for our protagonist Quis, it has become a huge test -
Although judging from his age, he is still just a newborn "young dragon". However, this process of "knowledge awakening" determines the amount of knowledge to be inherited, and is calculated according to the time when the dragon egg is laid, not after it is hatched.
Under this calculation rule, he needed to passively pass on knowledge even more than the oldest legendary dragon in the Blue Dragon's Lair, Sallota.
It's like when you go to school, the content that you would have to teach for the previous semester is compressed into one class, and such a course has been going on for more than six years.
If Quest hadn't had the ability to summarize and build "database" memories that came with his programmer background, and for unknown reasons that led to him having a more efficient ability to evolve and adjust his body than other young dragons, our protagonist would have been born as a young dragon and would probably be finishing before it began.
But luckily, the person who wrote the book always takes care of the protagonist.
Ques Fertan survived the passive teaching of the "improvement class" style all the time in the state of "eating and sleeping", and successfully passed the young dragon stage.
It's just that his growth at this stage has been affected by the excessive "knowledge awakening", which has caused his body to adjust accordingly.
His head grew too large, and this evolution increased the capacity of the brain to act as a carrier of thought, and on the other hand, the huge mouth was able to quickly chew and swallow while eating, saving more time for him to "indulge in learning".
For six years and seven months, the soul from another world and the body of the young dragon gradually became more and more alienated, and our protagonist Quest Fetan accepted the fact that he had become a fantasy side creature.
Blue dragons who have completed the knowledge inheritance and entered the young dragon stage will not be as sleepy as the previous young dragons.
During this period, the blue dragon will basically master one or two talent magic according to its own talent. At the same time, they will try to master and become familiar with using their bodies to hunt and fight.
The Blue Dragon Cub will be extremely active at this time, and this situation will continue until the Young Dragon stage.
Dragons of this period are very similar to humans in the "Bear Child" stage, and their destructive power is far greater than that of the "Bear Child".
At this time, the young dragons are already able to crush some large beasts in terms of size, and some of them will have even bigger ones if they are well developed.
And even the most ferocious wild ones are hard to compare with, and the amazing "bear children" dragons usually have one or two hands to cast spell-like talents, coupled with the breath attack they are used to, which makes the young dragons difficult and dangerous predators.
Of course, "difficult" is not "terrifying", and "dangerous" is not "deadly". In fact, dragons at this stage will cause many dangers to themselves due to their behavior similar to "bear children".
Their lack of experience and playful nature will lead them to encounter all kinds of dangers as they explore the world.
Most of the warriors who have completed the feat of "slaying dragons" are the kind of juvenile dragons who have escaped from the protection of the mother dragon like a stunned green and caused trouble everywhere like a "bear child".
At this stage, due to the good "family education" of the blue dragon, the social structure of the dragon's nest formed by ethnic groups, the specific adult blue dragon is uniformly educated and punished, so that its race has a higher survival rate of young dragons than other five-colored dragons.
Of course, it is not blindly forbidden, and the blue dragon group has a way for the young dragons to vent their exuberant energy.
Fighting between young dragons is a tradition of the Blue Dragon race, which allows them to train their fighting skills and establish their future status in the population.
Dragons basically have three forms of combat: breathing, spell abilities, and pure hand-to-hand combat.
The Blue Dragon's breath is a lightning breath, and an adult Blue Dragon will be able to spit out a strong and continuous electric current that can inflict lethal damage on opponents. The breath power of the average baby dragon is far from the same, and most of these attacks will not work against companions with extremely high lightning damage resistance.
As for the ability in terms of spells, the young blue dragon will generally awaken two or three types of magical abilities according to their talents, and cloud and mist skills, lightning strikes, and water creation (sewage techniques) are the most awakened abilities.
[Cloud Technique]: Creates a cloud that can confuse enemies.
[Lightning Strike]: Summons a powerful lightning bolt or a lightning net to deal damage to enemies.
[Water Creation (Sewage)]: Blue dragons who survive in arid deserts can use water creation every day to communicate with the water elemental plane to obtain water equivalent to their body weight for their own use, or to pollute water sources such as lakes.
There may be other talent spells that can be awakened, but most of them are more rudimentary abilities.
Only after they have studied and practiced the knowledge of magic seriously and diligently in the future can they truly want to master this powerful but dangerous skill.
Therefore, the young blue dragons fight each other, and most of the time they use hand-to-hand combat to win or lose.
Although there is a special adult blue dragon to guard them during the fight, there is no need to worry about casualties, but injuries and bleeding are inevitable.
The blue dragon, who belongs to the camp of the evil of order, believes that this is a necessary process, and that blood and pain will make the young dragon know how to measure strength and weakness, and know how to obey the order.
In this kind of competition, Quis is blessed with unique talents, and the title of Fetan means "giant skull" in dragon language.
As the saying goes, "physical strength is not lost", in the case of agility and protection, the larger size of the two sides of hand-to-hand combat tends to have more advantages.
This is especially true when it comes to having a monstrous head that can swallow almost an entire saber-toothed tiger in one gulp, making Quest a nightmare for any baby dragon who wants to challenge him.
Any opponent who fought with him, if he was accidentally bitten by that huge mouth, the skin and flesh could only be regarded as a minor injury.
There were even a few occasions when the adult dragon who oversaw the fight had to stop it to prevent Quis's opponent from being severely injured by him.
Of course, while the fight was stopped to avoid fatal damage, the blue dragon would not treat the young and vulnerable with preferential treatment. With the values of the Blue Dragon race, the strong, warlike and scheming are the qualified descendants of the species.
As a result, Quis, who often wins battles, usually receives additional rewards.
Although the precious gold jewels, the favorite treasure of this dragon, the adult kindred were not willing to give it to him. But more food distributions, some useful spell equipment, and more valuable written materials that recorded spell knowledge including but not limited to spell knowledge made Quis's strength skyrocket every day.
It is worth mentioning that after having a more adequate distribution of food, the baby dragon Quith grew extremely quickly, and soon got rid of the embarrassing situation of the "big head dragon".
"If it weren't for the fact that there was no problem with the color of the scales, I really doubt that you have the bloodline of a stupid big man like the red dragon!" This is the intuitive evaluation of the adult blue dragon who is responsible for taking care of the young dragon.
At this time, this blue dragon, who was once known for his huge skull, had passed the first juvenile dragon stage in his life and became a juvenile dragon.
His limbs have become thicker and more powerful, his hind legs are straight enough to support him to walk upright, his claws have become sharper enough to easily cut through hard granite stones, and his indigo scales have become tighter and more resilient, and the electrical charges in his body even crackle with every move.
These changes are a good thing for the blue dragon, and even the legendary dragon Salotta, who discovered him, has to admit that this little guy is stronger and more powerful than he was when he was young!
Of course, as a legendary dragon, Salota would not think that his status would be threatened by a small dragon, so he still had great expectations for the changes in the junior of Quest who he brought into the dragon's nest.
Maybe this is the introduction for me to pick up the desert ruins again.
It's just that a young dragon like Ques Fetan, who is oversized, is really not suitable to participate in the fight between his peers, and his current strength is not much better than that of a young blue dragon, and fighting him is both unfair and too dangerous for other young blue dragons.
So Salota decided to arrange a new way to drain the little dragon's exuberant energy.
Given that hundreds of square kilometers of desert near the Dragon's Lair had been swept several times by the Salotta Clan, there was no danger.
As a result, Quis Fetan was assigned to manage the servant dragons of various wurm species on the periphery of the dragon's lair, as well as patrol the territory of the dragon's lair prescribed by Salotta.
Through this job, Quis can get more opportunities to learn valuable spell knowledge as a reward.