Chapter 98: The Giant Dragon in the Starry Sky!
Not only that, Vetter purposely swam some distance towards the depths.
If it wasn't for the fact that the murky water was making him quite irritable, and that there wasn't enough air stored in his lungs, he would have even wanted to swim to the bottom.
Soon, Vetter swam to the very bottom of the waterfall, where not only was the current turbulent, but also, the direction of the current was already in disarray due to the force of the water slamming down.
If he was a Water Elemental Dragon, this place could be used as a hiding place to avoid the Abbey Dragon Beast.
Unfortunately, he was not!
The water current carrying a terrifying force fell on Vetter's body, causing him to clench his teeth for fear of accidentally spitting out the air in his lungs.
The turbulence around him affected Vetter's direction, but fortunately the sound of the falling waterfall was loud enough to allow him to determine the general direction!
Finally, as the air in his lungs was about to run out, Vetter made it through the waterfall from underwater!
Hearing the sound running behind him, Vetter rushed towards the water.
Whoa!
With a violent splashing sound, Vetter breathed frantically.
At the same time, his eyes didn't forget to vigilantly survey his surroundings.
In front of him was a huge irregular rock wall with a protruding rock that blocked the water flow from above, causing an area not covered by the waterfall to appear here below.
However, this area wasn't very large, the waterfall was just two or three meters behind him, while the rock wall was four or five meters in front of him.
On top of that, the protruding rock above him, under the impact of the water current, was constantly trembling, and could be washed down at any time.
Seeing this, Vetter didn't dare to waste any time and hurriedly stretched out his claws, digging up the rock wall in front of him.
Soon, a cave that was large enough to accommodate his ten meter dragon body appeared on the rock wall.
Seeing the cave take shape, Vetter hurriedly leapt out of the murky water and slipped into the cave.
Uh...... could only accommodate his ten meter body as well.
Glancing at his tail outside the cave, well, he forgot that his tail was as long as his body.
However, it didn't matter!
Plopping down on the ground, Vetter let his tail expand the cave a bit on its own while twisting his head and giving his whole body a set of zero-degree chills.
A light tap followed, and the shattered ice took away any slush on the scales, or even in the crevices of the scales.
Of course, Vetter's cleanliness fetish wasn't that bad.
He just loathed the feeling of being wrapped in a murky, viscous liquid, and mud and sand and whatnot, even if it was on his body, it didn't matter, but mud and sand amongst the crevices of the scales was a bit more difficult for the dragon to bear.
After cleaning up his body, Vetter glanced at his tail, which was still hard at work, and then turned his gaze to the dragon egg in his paw, and in his eyes, a few oddities were revealed.
Speaking of which, this dragon egg, in his own claws, had withstood the heat of his body intact, and after the heat, there was brought into the cold river water by him.
“Is it still alive? It shouldn't be cooked!”
Boom!
A huge rock was brought into the water below under the impact of the current.
Accompanied by a loud roar, the waterfall was directly right in front of Vetter, and at this moment, as long as he stretched out his claws, he would be able to touch the waterfall in front of him.
Vetter looked up above him, and sure enough, the rock that he had previously judged would soon fall, was impacted by the powerful current.
Casually wiping a handful of water droplets that had splashed onto his face, Vetter's gaze once again turned to the dragon egg in his paw.
The dragon egg was strong enough to be hardened against rocks, and the dragon egg was fragile enough that the slightest change in the environment would stop it from birthing a young dragon.
Vetter's body temperature was hot enough to melt rock, and this dragon egg had been in his grasp before.
To be honest, Vetter wondered if this dragon egg had already been cooked by him.
Also, it had been passed through cool water.
“Common sense in that world, hard-boiled eggs placed in cool water will be easier to de-shell ......”
Muttering something, Vetter slapped himself hard.
“What are you thinking, it's one of a kind, how can you shell it!”
The words were said, but Vetter still glanced at his stomach.
Of course, he wasn't preparing to actually eat the dragon's egg, he was just thinking about whether or not to eat the food stored within the scale space.
This big pit left behind by Desedro didn't know when it would be filled up by the Moonshadow River, and there was still a giant Abbey Dragon Beast's lair waiting outside.
This food in the scale space was his entire supply.
“No, at least not now!”
If he spent most of his time devouring the free elements in the air, he would be able to maintain his daily needs.
If that was not possible, the rocks around him were also an acceptable food.
Moreover, the elemental content in rocks was a bit higher than air.
With a stomach capable of digesting metal ores, rocks were naturally out of the question, it was the flavor that was a little harder to accept.
Whereas meat could allow him to recover his strength quickly, it wasn't a critical time now, so meat could be saved.
Thinking of this, Vetter could not help but let out a bitter smile.
Unexpectedly, he had fallen to the point where he needed to rely on drinking wind and eating dirt to maintain his daily needs.
As for the metal ores that Vetter devoured on a daily basis, as early as after Vetter had learned the “Acceleration Magic”, Bocco had stopped restricting the types of ores and their ratios that Vetter could consume.
Since Vetter's achievements in alchemy were not bad, there were always some metal ores in the scale space.
Of course, it was fine not to replenish metal ores, it wasn't something that was necessary, especially for Vetter, who could still be a young dragon now.
There wasn't much of a problem above replenishment, and Vetter's gaze was once again focused on the dragon egg.
This thing was a nuisance.
It couldn't just be buried somewhere, otherwise, everything he had done would be meaningless.
The Dragon Scale Space couldn't be put away either, it could only be brought with him, and moreover, it couldn't be subjected to too much stimulation, or else, it wouldn't gestate a young dragon.
After thinking about it, Vetter finally decided to make a collar, set it in it, and wear it around his neck.
If it couldn't hatch out that way, then it was probably meant to be.
As soon as he thought of it, Vetter took out a piece of metal ingot from the Dragon Scale Space's and used the high temperature of his own body surface to soften it, then pinched it into a flat metal ring.
Then he set the dragon egg on it, and after fixing it, Vetter pulled out several dragon scales of the right size and set them one by one.
Dragon scales possessed an extremely high magic resistance, in this way, even if he was hit by magic, with the outer dragon scales as protection, the metal ring underneath the scales wouldn't be easily broken.
Of course, after this thing was placed around his neck, then he wouldn't be able to continue to use the Blazing White Breath until after the dragon egg broke or died.
This was because Vetter was unable to control his body temperature when using the Blazing White Spitting Breath.
As a dragon who had already accomplished something in alchemy, it would not be too easy to just make a collar!
Soon, Vetter finished making the collar.
After setting the dragon egg on it, not to mention, the gem-like dragon egg really added a lot of color to the collar.
However, this was not a decoration.
Vetter once again took out a dragon scale and covered the location where the dragon egg was, although it was very little, it was still able to provide some protection.
Vetter then placed the collar around his neck.
Since the dragon scale was made from Vetter's own usual fall, the collar could not be seen at all after it was placed around his neck unless he got a little closer.
Of course, there was definitely a gap, as long as one took a closer look, one would be able to notice that Vetter had a circle of scales on his neck that was much smaller than the one next to it.
It had to be said that Vetter was still very good at choosing the location, the dragon egg was just above the space dragon scale, where there was Vetter's Achilles heel, the reverse scales that hadn't grown yet.
It was just right to be protected together.
Looking at the dragon egg on his neck, Vetter reached out his paw and gently tapped it.
“You must fight for me, if you can't hatch out, then I'll really have gone through this ordeal for nothing!”
However, what Vetter didn't expect was that just as his words fell, the temperature of that dragon egg, unexpectedly, increased for that brief moment!
Frozen for a moment, Vetter laughed!
“You fellow, you actually started gestating a long time ago!”
At this moment, all the grievances, all the suffering, Vetter felt that it was all worth it, what he had saved was not an egg, but a young dragon, even though he hadn't broken his shell yet!
After organizing his mood, Vetter began to think about his next problem.
The mysterious power hidden inside him, where exactly was it!
Thinking this way, Vetter's spiritual power began to probe carefully within his body.
Afraid that he hadn't probed carefully enough before, Vetter still started with the Dragon Crystal, then the Lungs of the Elements, and then the rest of his body.
After sifting through it over and over again, Vetter finally found it!
The heart, as the power source of blood circulation in the body, could in turn be seen as the core location of the physical body's power.
Within the heart, he felt a touch of unusual power.
Why did he say he felt it?
Because he couldn't see it!
Vetter didn't know what it was, but he was indeed able to feel that within the heart, there was a mysterious power.