"The eggshell is cracked!"
"The hole is even bigger! You can already see the head!"
"Stand away! Stand away!" The dragon egg shook. shake. Shaking violently. The silver dragon's egg is not that big, only two feet long and one foot high. The mages who study it have to lie on the ground to keep it at the same height as the crack on the egg.
However, the dragon egg shook with such momentum that it looked like there were thousands of troops inside. Grete lay on the ice next to the dragon egg, staring at the cracked egg in fascination, imagining that the baby dragon would curl up into a ball, rush over like a small cannonball, and hit the inner wall of the egg shell with its head. .
Then retreat, then curl up, and then hit again - if it weren't for the baby dragon's parents squatting next to them and keeping a close watch, he would have jumped on top of the dragon egg and thrown a B-super spell, or a similar detection spell, to see where the baby dragon was. What's going on in dragon eggs!
Unfortunately it can't. Grete lay regretfully on the ice, staring at the dragon egg that had begun to hatch, watching the cracks getting bigger, bigger, and bigger.
Cerira lay side by side with him, turning her head to look at it for a while, touching the ice for a while to make sure that there was a magic barrier between Gretel and the ice, so that he would not be frozen; she turned her head for a while, concentrating on it. Staring at the dragon egg, he whispered to encourage the young dragon: "Push harder! Push harder! Rush again! Hey!" Katcha, split into a piece!
Katcha, break off another piece!
"Gretel, when I was little, was this how I tried to break out of the egg?"
"...You don't know what happened when you were a child, how can I know?" Grete replied in a low voice.
Cerela shrugged: "Of course I remember, but what I remember is the way I looked out from the egg... I remember the light in the dragon's nest, I remember the cold wind blowing in from outside the egg shell... What do I look like? Of course I can’t see it!”
"Hush! Be quiet! It's coming out soon!" Kachachachachacha! A big piece broke off! boom! There was a crash, a crash, and more than a dozen pieces, large and small, broke off from the edge of the crack.
A half-foot-sized hole was opened in the hard stone eggshell. After a moment of pause, the young dragon charged again.
This time, with a bang, a big enough hole was finally opened in the eggshell. Among the broken eggshells on the ground, a blue-gray baby dragon slowly crawled out.
His whole body was wet, and he was curled up on his eggshell pitifully. His head was big, his body was small, and his movements looked particularly clumsy.
"It can't even fly yet!" Cerela exclaimed in surprise. The wings of this little dragon are very small compared to its body. They stick to the sides of its body and it seems that it is difficult to unfold them.
Not to mention flying, the little guy curled up into a ball, with the tip of its tail wrapped around its body, and shivered on the eggshell.
For a while, he didn't show any sign of standing up. Next to her, the silver dragon Alicia looked at her child with a smile. After hearing this, she glanced at Cerela with an annoyed look and replied matter-of-factly: "Of course you can't fly. You won't be able to fly when you are born. You have to survive." After an hour, the mucus on your body will dry up and your wings will open, then you will be able to fly and fight!"
"How could I be so ugly when I was born? I have a big head and a small body, and I'm just a ball of dust!" Cerira turned her head in disgust.
Alicia smiled coldly, stretched out a finger, and pressed hard on her forehead, until she turned her head away: "You damn girl has forgotten your roots! You are staggering and following us. , forget it when you call 'Sister Alicia'! When you were little, you had a big head, a small body, and very small wings! The color of the scales also gets brighter as you get older - you were also blue when you were born. It's gray, but it turns to bright silver in adolescence!" Cerira stuck out her tongue at her, made faces, and puffed out air.
Grete had no time to pay attention to the bickering among the silver dragons. He stared at the young dragon with all his energy. A mage's hand had already been condensed in his hand, and the front end transformed into a small spoon, ready to reach out at any time——
"Aang, aang, aang!" the young dragon shouted loudly. Grete seized the moment and quickly put the mage's hand into the baby dragon's mouth, wiped it, and scraped it - very good, the sampling was successful, hurry up and do the test!
"Celera, weigh! Measure! Hurry up!" Grete rushed to the nearby laboratory.
Behind her, kacha kacha, kacha kacha, the young dragon pounced on its own eggshell, munching on it. Eggshells are the baby dragon's first meal. By eating all of their own eggshells, the baby dragon can absorb enough energy and nutrients.
At the same time, it adjusted slightly, the mucus on its body dried, the dragon wings spread out, and its arms and legs became flexible and strong. Next, it began to meet Long Sheng's first challenge - accepting the inheritance!
Awaken your true name! What factors are related to the young dragon's successful awakening of his true name? Its weight? What level was it born at?
Its energy? Or, its physical strength? Mental strength? For many years, the dragon clan has been divided into two factions on the issue of the awakening of young dragons.
One group believes that the success or failure of awakening is a matter of natural selection and natural elimination. As a noble dragon, only the strongest will be accepted as their compatriots; the other group believes that just like a dragon will feed and take care of its young dragons, Protecting young dragons, teaching young members of the same race, and providing all kinds of help to newborn dragons so that they can successfully awaken is what adult dragons should do.
However, regardless of the giant dragons of the natural selection sect, the dragons of the artificial intervention sect have been studying for so many years, but they have not found a rule. What kind of baby dragons are needed to 100% awaken the true name... The baby dragons in the same nest have Some looked thin and small, with stunted appearance, but managed to awaken successfully; some looked strong and strong, weighing one and a half times as much as their littermates, but failed to survive the awakening process; There are some dragon cubs whose parents are of the same race, and they are not mutated when they are born. They hatch well and awaken well - the probability of awakening is less than half; there are also some dragon cubs whose parents are not of the same race and mutate into heterogeneous dragons when they are born.
There are five eggs in a clutch, three failed to hatch, one failed to awaken, and the remaining one is amazing... In short, there is no pattern, as if it is just a random joke of the Dragon God, or when the baby dragon hatches , threw the dice casually.
Now, Grete has also come to challenge this rule. He left a set of equipment for Cerela to pick up the baby dragon, measure its body length, weigh it, measure its energy index, measure its muscle content... and measure the baby dragon's grip strength, chewing power, and flapping power of its wings. , the power of the dragon's claws stroking... The most important thing is that a row of small electrode patches fell around the baby dragon's head, constantly measuring its brain waves and mental power values: "87! 88!—— 95! 103! It’s still rising, 115, 117. Gretel, would you like to take another sample and test it again... I feel like it’s getting stronger!” Gretel threw himself on the instrument wholeheartedly.
The roots of the oak stick poked out and penetrated deeply into the energy center brought here specially. The crown of the tree spread out, and the crystal clear fruits buzzed and rotated.
Another branch is connected to the computing center, which continuously inputs part of the calculated content into the mobile tower spirit, which is processed and analyzed by the tower spirit: "Chromosome scanning is completed..."
"Chromosome recording completed..."
"Chromosome analysis... The analysis completion rate is 20%... 25%... 37%... 42%..." Before the analysis was even halfway through, Serela's shout was heard.
Grete rushed back, quickly resampling, remaking the samples, and resending them to the microscope.
On the screen of the computing center, another progress bar instantly appeared, and the growth rate of the original progress bar began to slow down: "The second batch of chromosomes is being scanned..."
"Chromosome...the number of extraordinary points, 107...the number of extraordinary points...chromosome 1, point 21, point 59, point 68..."
"Chromosome 2, point 7, point 15..." Ah, it's so troublesome. Gretel stretched out his hand to cover his face, pressed his thumb between his eyebrows, rubbed it, and then rubbed it again: in terms of the number of extraordinary points, the number of extraordinary points of the young dragon, and the number of points of the silver dragon beast, Very close - both are just over 100.
As for the number of the extraordinary point, we need to wait until the scan is completed and brought back to the tower for comparison. However, there is no definite evidence now.
Moreover, it would be best to have 10...20...hundreds of baby dragons. Only by comparing those who have successfully awakened with those who have not, can we draw conclusions.
It's just possible! The number of dragons is too small, and the samples are too small, so the conclusions drawn may not be reliable, or in other words, most likely unreliable!
"My real name... Niklas Kiruit Luciano Burgan..." Just as he was thinking this, the baby dragon's childish, yet majestic shout came from the hall next door.
Thank God, this young dragon successfully awakened its true name! After successfully accepting its parents and even its elders, giving it strength and memory, it became a wise dragon capable of casting spells, instead of a confused dragon beast!
"The mental power index is 157! The moment before awakening, the mental power index is 157!" Cerela shouted.
Gretel quickly entered the relevant readings into the computing center and walked back quickly: "10 minutes after birth and 45 minutes after birth, the number of extraordinary points has not changed! It means that he has not made an essential leap on the road to extraordinary..."
"Next! Next dragon egg, next dragon hatchling!" Grete and Cerela stayed in the nest of the silver dragon Alicia for ten days and witnessed the hatching of five dragon eggs.
Among them, four hatched successfully and one failed; among the four baby dragons, two successfully awakened and two became dragon beasts.
Finally, Grete said goodbye and returned to the Mage Tower with a large pile of information, frowning: one of the young dragons that successfully awakened has a mental power of 157, and the other has a mental power of 143; the one that failed to awaken has a mental power of 148, and the other has a mental power of 139.
So... what is the decisive factor in whether the awakening is successful or not?
