Chapter 108: Female!

Vetter thought to himself that sure enough, Antawana wasn't born in a dragon's nest.

It wasn't hard to imagine how much the young dragon had suffered in the wild to develop such a wary character as she had now.

“You haven't moved around extensively in that area where you live? If you've been active, you should have encountered a dragon's nest!”

“Dragon's Nest?”

Vetter froze for a moment, surprised that she hadn't encountered a dragon's nest.

While thinking this in his mind, his mouth explained, “It's a place where a large number of adult dragons gather, and they will adopt young dragons that don't have a dragon's nest.”

Antawana shook her head.

“And?”

Vetter fixed his eyes, goodness, a large piece of meat was gone, it seemed that she was really starving, thinking like this, once again threw over a piece of meat.

Receiving the meat, Antawana said while eating, “You are the only one I've seen of the same ......”

Originally, she was going to say of the same kind, but after glancing at Vetter, Antawana changed her words and said, “You're the only gargoyle I've ever seen.”

Upon hearing this, Vetter's gaze towards Antawana had a bit more pity in it.

Not all dragons would purposely discard their eggs around the dragon's nest, and there were some even more irresponsible parents who would just find a reasonably safe place to drop them and be done with it.

As for the reason for this, that would be known only to their parents.

“You're taking pity on me?”

Vetter, who had returned to his senses, saw Antawana looking at him with a furious face, and tracelessly averted his gaze.

“Not really, I was just thinking about things.”

Hearing this, Antawana gave Vetter a deep look, then lowered her head and continued eating.

“You lived in the Dragon's Nest?”

Vetter glanced at Antawana with some surprise, then nodded with slight emotion.

“Unfortunately, an accident caused me and the Dragon's Nest to get lost.”

Not only was he lost, but Desedro was lost as well.

“By the way, speaking of which, how old are you?”

“Thirty-seven!”

“......”

Vetter looked at Antawana with a stunned expression.

Wasn't this about his age?

How come the body size was not even five meters?

Suddenly, Vetter realized something; of the two years of rapid growth, the first year's growth, while noticeable, wasn't very fast, and that slumber in the second year was the key!

As for Antawana in the wild, let alone looking at the slumber for a year, the previous year was feared to have been spent in hunger.

It wasn't impossible that severe malnutrition had caused this situation.

“What about you?”

“Uh ...... forty-two!”

Antawana froze for a moment, then raised her head and looked at the behemoth in front of her that was ten meters long, and with its tail had reached twenty meters.

“You're a young dragon?”

Vetter nodded with a somewhat odd expression on his face.

Antawana was silent for a moment, then directly threw the half-eaten meat on the ground and left without looking back.

Vetter hesitated for a moment and didn't chase after him.

The dragon race had a strong sense of pride, and the gargoyles were even more so.

Vetter asked himself, if he were in Antawana's position, he would have made this choice as well.

He could accept the help of other dragons, but he couldn't accept such a large gap in strength between dragons of the same age.

Of course, there was no way Vetter would let her fend for herself.

He just wanted to give the other party a little time to use to calm down.

Anyway, he had already explored the surrounding area, and there were no dragon beasts capable of hunting black iron upper level young dragons within a radius of tens of miles.

As for how to arrange Antawana, Vetter had already thought about it.

That was to bring the other party along to Freedom City.

On one hand, it was out of sympathy, and on the other hand, he also wanted a companion.

Seeing that it was almost time, Vetter chased after Antawana in the direction she had left.

Soon, he found Antawana curled up in a tree hole.

Upon seeing Vetter, Antawana only opened her eyes for a moment, and then closed them again, paying no attention at all.

In her opinion, Vetter had just come over to her out of pity.

And she didn't need pity!

Seeing this, Vetter didn't say anything more and directly spoke, “Do you want to go to Freedom City together?”

Hearing Vetter's words, Antawana, who originally didn't intend to take care of Vetter, couldn't help but be attracted by the Freedom City in Vetter's mouth.

For a giant dragon, the word freedom had a unique meaning.

Opening her eyes, a pair of dazzling golden pupils turned towards Vetter.

“What is that place? The Dragon's Nest?”

Vetter plopped down in place and said in a casual tone, “You could say that, but there's a not-so-small difference between it and the Dragon's Nest.

Take me for example, at a glance, I can tell that I'm a young dragon coming out of a dragon nest, such that if I go to another dragon nest, it's hard for me to gain their trust, unless it's a dragon nest that they take the initiative to invite me to.

But the dragon nests that took the initiative to invite me, it would be hard for me to trust them as well.

Freedom City is different, it's a dragon city-state that welcomes any dragon to go there and won't retain any dragon for leaving.

To live there, one only needs to do so by following the rules.”

After a pause, Vetter lifted his dragon's tail and pointed the tip at Antawana's torso.

“What do you think, you're in good health?”

Antawana glanced at her torso and then at Vetter's.

“You mean, I'm not healthy?”

Vetter nodded.

“You could say that, normally, at your age, your body length should be over six meters, close to seven, but you are less than five meters long.

In those two years when you were just born, you shouldn't have had a good night's sleep, and you probably even rarely ate enough!”

Antawana shrank back, looked straight at Vetter, and said in a deep voice, “If you were trying to gain superiority over me, then congratulations, you succeeded.

If I may, I would like to take a break, may I ask you to leave?”

Vetter looked at Antawana breathlessly, was that what he was trying to convey?

“Calm down!

What I mean is that if this continues, there's a high chance that you won't survive past the young dragon stage.

Even if you survive past the young dragon stage, your strength will still open a large gap with dragons in the same age group, not so much in terms of magic, but the physical strength will be obvious.

For dragons of the same age group, if the elemental affinity level is about the same, then the strength will generally depend on your spell casting means and physical strength.

The former need not be considered for the time being, that was experience that had been precipitated by time.

The latter will give you a steady advantage against any gargoyle of the same age.

Do you want that?”

Did Antawana want that?

Of course she didn't want it!

No gargoyle wanted to admit that it was inferior to another dragon.

“You mean Freedom City can get me out of this situation?”

Vetter shook his head.

“You probably don't know that the first two years of a young dragon's life is a period of rapid growth, and under normal circumstances, you should reach a body length of about five meters by the time you're two years old.

The loss of this stage can't be made up for, unless you can turn back time to when you were first born.

And aside from those two years, there is also a rapid growth period, which is the Young Dragon period, by which time we will have grown from about fifty meters to about five hundred meters in just five hundred years.

It doesn't sound like a very fast growth.

However, if you do the math carefully, you can understand that the giant dragons in this period are different from one year to the next.

If you don't have a stable, safe, and reliable place to rely on, you don't need me to tell you that you know what you'll be missing out on.”

And indeed, Antawana straightened her neck at Vetter's mention of another period of rapid growth, barely thinking.

“I'm going to Freedom City with you!”

Vetter laughed softly, then stuck his tail out in front of Antawana's face.

“Well then, happy cooperation!”

Antawana hesitated for a moment before similarly extending her tail and touching it to Vetter's.

“Then let's go back to that tree's side first, we won't be able to leave this place in a short time, the upper reaches of the Moonshadow River, there's a little problem, and it will take a not so short period of time for the water flow to return to normal.”

While saying that, Vetter flew towards the stronghold he had built earlier.

Behind him, Antawana hesitated for a moment and followed.

After arriving at the stronghold, Vetter saw Antawana shrinking into a corner again, however, he didn't say anything.

It was normal for young dragons to feel insecure outside.

He had floated all the way down the Moonshadow River, spending eighty percent of that time inside the water, and wouldn't even go ashore if he didn't have to.

Fortunately, a few days ago, the time rune in Vetter's heart had regained a little more power, and now he had another chance to rewind time.

It was two times if the time rune was allowed to sleep completely.

In this way, Vetter was basically certain that every month's time, he would have one more chance to use Time Reversal.

This recovery time was still acceptable to Vetter.

Once again taking out a piece of meat from the Dragon Scale Space, Vetter handed it to Antawana.

“I don't think you had enough to eat just now!”

Seeing Antawana's hesitant look, Vetter secretly spat at the other party's twisted character in his heart while saying with his mouth, “In the wilderness, it's best to try to keep yourself in peak condition.