pertwk Chapter 3 Too talented to bear the loss of his childhood sweetheart
Chapter 3 Too talented to bear the loss of his childhood sweetheart
Lei Ze held back for a long time.
"No."
"I'm not going, you guys have fun by yourselves."
Upon hearing this, several female juvenile dragons' eyes welled up with tears.
She still wouldn't leave, so she squatted down next to him and quietly watched him.
In the days that followed, Raize truly experienced what despair meant.
Life in Dragon Valley is incredibly boring.
These baby dragons spend their days sleeping, eating, playing, breathing, and fighting over gems.
Day after day, year after year, nothing new happens.
There were no cell phones, no computers, and no novels.
There isn't even a dragon he can communicate with normally.
He tried to communicate with those sub-adult dragons that were several hundred years old.
But the topics they always talk about are "whose scales are harder", "whose dragon breath is more powerful", and "who stole more gems".
What devastated him even more was...
From the day he hatched and came to Dragon Valley, he became the focus of all the female dragon cubs in the entire valley.
Every morning when he opened his eyes, the cave entrance was filled with all kinds of gems, ores, and shells.
They were all secretly delivered by the female juvenile dragons.
When he goes to the lake to drink water, a group of female dragon cubs will surround him, wanting to swim with him.
Raize was truly at his wit's end.
He lay down by the lake, looking at his reflection in the water.
It was a small black dragon covered in black scales.
Dark gold vertical pupils, majestic dragon horns.
Even in its young form, it exudes the majesty of a dragon.
No matter how majestic he is, he is still just a young dragon who can't even transform into human form!
According to inherited memories, dragons can only freely transform into human form after reaching adulthood at a thousand years old.
The thought of having to stay in this Dragon Valley Kindergarten for nearly a thousand years is unbearable.
Razer let out a roar of utter despair.
This is unbearable!
He flicked his tail and gently pushed aside the several female dragon cubs surrounding him.
Looking towards the direction outside the Dragon Valley barrier.
No!
We absolutely cannot waste a thousand years here!
A thought began to grow wildly in Lei Ze's mind.
He wants to improve his strength as quickly as possible to reach adult level.
Thinking of this, Lei Ze suddenly stood up.
Ignoring the curious gazes of the female calves around him.
He turned and walked into the cave behind him.
He's about to begin his cultivation.
In order to escape this thousand-year prison sentence.
For freedom!
He couldn't stand being in that lousy kindergarten for even a second longer!
The days in Dragon Valley stretched out endlessly by the passage of time.
For dragons, whose lifespan is often measured in tens of thousands of years.
A hundred years is but a fleeting moment.
For the vast majority of juvenile dragons in the valley.
This past century has been nothing more than a series of playful antics and frolics.
In carefree years, they slowly stretch their bodies and sharpen their claws.
But for Razer...
These centuries have passed, as monotonous as a cup of water that has been boiled repeatedly, bland and tasteless.
From the day he made up his mind to break free from this thousand-year "sentence".
His life in Dragon Valley consisted of only three things.
Cultivation, cultivation, and more damn cultivation!
He spends most of his time in the dragon's lair.
The elemental concentration in Dragon Valley is very high, making cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.
When he first started cultivating, he found that the rate at which his magic power was increasing was a bit abnormal. Only after reviewing his inherited memories did he realize that he had also awakened the talent of devouring.
Lei Ze got excited; wasn't this takeoff?
With each breath, the surrounding elemental energy is frantically absorbed into the body.
Each time it sleeps, it refines the absorbed energy into its own power.
Dragon Valley has specialized adult dragon hunters.
Every day, magical beasts are captured from the deep sea and the Dragon Island forest to feed the juvenile dragons.
Eating is also a way to ingest energy.
His Devouring talent was also at work.
Every bite of monster flesh and blood swallowed is broken down by the talent and transformed into the user's own bloodline power and physical strength.
Other young dragons take half a month to digest a single fanged demon boar, and they can only retain about one-tenth of the energy they absorb.
He could digest a demonic boar of the same size in just three days.
Its energy utilization efficiency is several times that of a normal baby dragon.
Days passed by like this.
As the newly hatched dragons grew, new little ones were brought in from the hatching caves.
Lei Ze remained steadfastly in the dragon's lair, like an outcast.
Five hundred years have passed, and so much has quietly changed.
Lina has grown from a baby dragon with a soft, childlike voice into a dashing young silver dragon.
The crimson dragon's breath grew increasingly scorching and violent, making it one of the best among the young red dragons.
Their growth was worlds apart from that of Lei Ze.
The first century has passed.
Most of the young dragons that hatched at the same time as him in Dragon Valley have only grown to seven or eight meters long, barely reaching the threshold of the silver level.
Lei Ze is already fifteen meters tall.
Covered in obsidian-like scales, each one gleaming with a cold, metallic sheen.
Its dragon claws on its limbs are incredibly sharp, capable of tearing through the defenses of high-level magical beasts.
His strength has reached the Gold level!
He's only one step away from reaching the Saint level.
The second century.
The third century.
Three hundred years have passed.
The young dragons in Dragon Valley, who were born around the same time as Raize, have just grown to seventeen or eighteen meters and entered the Gold level.
Raize has grown to nearly 100 meters tall.
The enormous black dragon lay silently on the ground, like a small black mountain.
His dragon horns had taken shape, the black horns soaring into the sky, symbolizing the majesty of the dragon race.
Its fleshy wings spread out, blotting out the sky.
With a gentle wave, a fierce wind can be stirred up.
His strength has already broken through to the Saint Realm level!
According to the growth pattern of dragons.
Dragons under 500 years old are all young dragons.
Five hundred to eight hundred years is the age of a young dragon.
Dragons that are 800 to 1000 years old are considered young dragons.
Only after breaking through to the legendary level a thousand years later can it be considered a true adult dragon.
Raize reached the peak of a young dragon in just three hundred years and is about to reach the standard of a young adult dragon.
Lina, Red Flame, and the others.
As always, they arrived outside his dragon's lair.
They were simply staring at Lei Ze's enormous figure.
There was now a sense of awe in his eyes.
They've grown up too.
Three hundred years have passed, and they have grown a lot.
Among young dragons of the same age, he is an absolute standout.
Now, they feel incredibly small.
Even just getting close enough to rub against his scales requires immense courage.
Razer was not unaware of this.
In fact, in the first hundred years...
Looking at the few little dragons that follow him around every day.
He had considered the idea of "cultivating a childhood sweetheart".
After all, they would be staying in Dragon Valley for nearly a thousand years.
Having a few familiar childhood sweethearts around is always better than being alone.
Moreover, dragons have long lifespans. Once they reach adulthood after a thousand years and transform into humans, they can leave Dragon Island together and travel across the continent of Mia.
He simply underestimated his own talent.
His growth rate is simply too fast.
The dragons that were about to reach the same age as him were still in the juvenile stage.
He had been running like a maniac, as if he were on steroids.
When the fourth hundredth year arrives.
Razer's body has grown to over two hundred meters.
He stood on the peak of Dragon Valley.
Fleshy wings, obscuring the sky, slowly unfolded.
A tremendous power surged within him.
The dragon's might swept across the entire Dragon Valley.
All the young dragons below the juvenile dragon level in the valley lay prostrate on the ground, silent as if trembling in fear.
He has reached the standard of a young dragon.
And Lina and the others.
In over four hundred years, it has only grown to a little over twenty meters long, barely stepping into the threshold of a young dragon.
That day, Leize flew down from the mountain peak and landed by the lake to drink water.
They happened to run into Lina, who was swimming in the lake.
When the silver dragon girl saw him, she instinctively wanted to swim over.
But looking at his massive, mountain-like body, they stopped in their tracks.
No one dared to come up and nuzzle his head against him like they did four hundred years ago.
Hongyan and the others stood far away by the lake, not daring to go forward.
Razer looked at them.
A flicker of helplessness and regret flashed in his dark golden vertical pupils.
The childhood sweetheart relationship is now completely over.