Chapter 42: You Always Give Me a Surprise!
Just a short distance away on the beach, Billy's head popped up and looked smugly at Veit.
‘Veit, how does it feel to be ‘drowning’?’
Veit rolled his eyes and stopped controlling his body temperature, and soon, the temperature around Veit began to rise steadily, with a puff of white smoke rising around him, and the sand around him, beginning to go into a red hot state.
Subsequently, Veit then brought his body temperature under control again, and the temperature began to drop, and soon, the sand around Veit cooled down again.
The sand that cooled down, stuck together and became a whole, a rather fragile whole.
With just a slight movement from Veit, accompanied by a subtle clicking sound, the sand that had melted together around him, crumbled apart.
Stepping out of the gravel pit, Veit stretched his wings and looked at Billy with a smirk.
‘Want to do it again?’
Billy silently sank into the ground.
As expected, this guy's body, not only was it large, but some of the characteristics that he had shown before were also magnified!
Veit wasn't flat during his growth.
In the year before the slumber, Veit's body gradually appeared some, characteristics that he shouldn't have had in the first place.
For example, body temperature!
A red dragon's body temperature was second to none among all the giant dragon species.
And Veit's body temperature was even a bit higher than that of red dragons of the same age group.
These differences were also reflected in the weight, the thickness and hardness of the scales, as well as the sharpness of the dragon's claws and so on.
All of this showed that he really wasn't a silver dragon!
Veit hesitated for a moment when he saw Billy wimp out, and then headed towards the water.
He was hungry!
‘Dinnet, want to go underwater together to find food?’
Hearing Veit's words, Dinnet, who was frolicking with Celine and the others, stopped, then rubbed his stomach and turned to Isha.
‘I remember you said before that there are a lot of good-tasting aquatic dragon beasts living underwater, do you want to join us?’
Isha froze for a moment, then turned her head to look at Veit.
Veit hesitated for a moment and nodded when he saw Dinnet looking over together.
‘Alright, one more dragon, one more power!’
Said Veit and looked back to Saeryn.
‘What we brought back isn't necessarily enough to eat, you guys look around on the ground and see if there are any dragon beasts that can eat!’
There were many dragon beasts living in the Desedro Dragon's Nest.
In the year before the slumber, Veit didn't forget to read and learn about the dragon beasts while being punished for copying books.
After telling Celine about the external features of some edible, small dragon beasts, Veit led Dinnet and Isha towards the Moonshadow River ......
Entering the water, Veit's eyes couldn't help but widen!
No wonder it was called the Lunar Shadow Inner Sea by Isha, not only was the water so wide that you couldn't see the edge, even the depth was far beyond that of a normal river.
A place like this was indeed qualified to be called the Inner Sea.
Just as Veit was thinking about this, Isha swam to Veit's body and pointed towards the lower right, before plunging headlong towards the depths.
Although she was the same golden dragon as Ao, Isha, who would often come to the Moonshadow River, naturally had not bad water skills.
Although swimming was not as flexible and comfortable as Vette and Dinnet, who were born knowing water, it was enough for her to move around underwater!
Receiving the other party's gesture, Veit did not hesitate and directly followed.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated, the relationship between the two parties was lubricated by Celine and Dinnet, so it wasn't as full of fire as it was in the beginning.
On the other side, Dinnet had apparently also received Isha's cue.
He also followed Isha and dived towards the bottom.
Soon, the three dragons arrived on the riverbed.
Reaching the riverbed, Isha signalled for Dinnet and Veit to go over.
Once the two dragons came close, she pointed down towards the riverbed below, and then peeled back the surface sand, revealing a dark, rock-like object.
Isha then picked up the piece, pointed upwards again with her claws, and proceeded to swim towards it.
Following Isha's example, Viktor and Dinnet quickly found a similar piece and swam towards the top.
Holding the ‘rock’, Viktor was full of curiosity.
Into the hand is quite heavy, touch feel a kind of rough feeling, but, above the grain is quite regular, touch is like, uh ...... touch his own!
Yes, that thing was the touch of dragon scales!
Veit realised that this was probably some sort of aquatic dragon beast.
Soon, the three dragons surfaced one after another.
Isha pointed to the ‘rock’ in her arms, which was half the size of her body, and introduced: ‘This is the Mod Dragon Beast, there are many types, the one we are holding belongs to the small species, and its maximum size can only grow to be about the same as ours.
The stone-like outer shell is their shell, which is about as hard as a young dragon's scales, and cannot be eaten!
The edible part is inside the shell.
They are very timid, and the slightest movement will make them shrink inside their shells, but that's all you need ......’
Saying that, Isha stretched out a claw, then followed the closure of the shell and began to slowly stroke it, and soon, the Modron Beast in her hand began to tremble slightly.
Then, the two pieces of armour of that Modron Beast suddenly opened up, and Isha was quick to reach her claw in.
A moment later, she grabbed a large chunk of tender white meat and showed it to Veit and Dinnet.
‘This is the body part of the Mod Dragon Beast, it can be eaten directly, it's very chewy with a hint of fresh sweetness, the riverbed of the Moonshadow River is filled with these Dragon Beasts, it's enough to fill our stomachs!’
Saying that, Isha directly stuffed the large chunk of tender white meat into her mouth, and in no time at all, she ate it all.
Veit and Dinnet looked at each other, then followed Isha's example and quickly got out the meat inside the shell, and after having a taste, both dragons' eyes were glowing!
This stuff can be a lot tastier than the Booth Dragon Beast.
Of course, it wasn't without reason that the Booth Dragon Beast was chosen as the best food for young dragons.
Soon enough, Veit noticed that the meat of the Mod Dragon Beast contained much less energy than that of the Booth Dragon Beast, but of course, there was still no problem filling his stomach!
Finishing the meat in his hands in three or two bites, Veit greeted the two men, before he once again plunged into the water and went in search of the Mod Dragon Beast!
The three dragons were very efficient, and in about one magic hour, they had searched for hundreds of Mod Dragon Beasts.
Just like what Isha said, the number of this kind of dragon beast was really quite a lot.
Speaking of which, this kind of dragon beasts could look much weirder to Veit than dragon beasts like the Ball Small Dragons, except for their shells, they were just a mass of soft flesh.
Veit also didn't find teeth, eyes, or anything like that.
If it wasn't for the other party's armour growing a fine layer of dragon scales, he wouldn't have defined this thing as a dragon beast in any way.
Without mentioning these, apart from the Mod Dragon Beasts that Veit and the others had sought out, Celine and the others had also hunted some small terrestrial Dragon Beasts, which were enough to fill their stomachs!
Needless to say, the existence of the Mod Dragon Beasts made Celine and the others quite surprised.
But after eating it once, the Mod Dragon Beast was left with the impression of being very tasty in the minds of the dragons.
After eating, the crowd of dragons lay down on the beach.
Of course, not sleeping!
For the first time, they were not resting in the middle of a dragon's lair, but the sky as a quilt and the earth as a bed, a rather novel experience that made Veit and the others lose sleep!
The insomniac little dragons began to talk about the imaginary future.
I don't know when they fell asleep.
The humid moisture, mixed with the night breeze, blew on Veit's body, causing them to shrink.
The night was silent!
Early the next morning, Veit and the others woke up and started their second swimming training.
Of course, this time it wasn't Veit who brought it up, but Ao!
After seeing Isha go down to the water with Veit and the others in search of food, while they could only hunt small dragon beasts on the ground, Ao was deeply irritated by the pride of Isha, who was also a golden dragon!
He won't allow it, the other golden dragons will and he won't!
Ao had to learn, and Veit could only teach.
One dragon was taught, three dragons were taught, and Veit simply dragged the extremely reluctant Billy, and the slightly reluctant Celine along with him!
As for why Celine was slightly reluctant ...... she just didn't want her two days of holiday to be spent all on soaking!
But there is no way, Ao is determined to learn, Celine even if reluctant, can only agree to down.
This teaching, however, only lasted for half a day.
The sun reached the middle of the sky!
Ao's patience is gradually running out.
At this time, Billy suddenly spoke out, ‘What do you guys say, what does the opposite side of the Moon Shadow River look like?’
These words were like a seed of madness that fell into the hearts of several dragons, then quickly took root and sprouted.
Young dragons, it was the time when they were curious about everything around them!
Young dragons, it was precisely the time when they were bold and did not know what danger was!
Therefore, after a short period of staring at each other, Veit and the others instantly reached a consensus to go to the opposite side of the Moon Shadow River to take a look!
However, before they could fly out far, a huge dragon whose size far exceeded theirs and whose body was covered in crimson scales blocked their way forward!