Translator: Exodus Tales
Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by Mianbao
Edited by RED
“It’s said that the dragon tamer academies are independent from all city states. They are more like a self-contained church government.” Zhu Minglang walked along the forest, and discovered the architecture of the Dragon Tamers Academy seemed classier than the city state.
After arriving at the site of the large class, he discovered it was a stone building built on flat ground. The outer wall was made with countless moon-white cobblestones. A wooden staircase was outside, looping around the entire stone building until it reached the teaching hall located high up in the building.
There were balconies extending from the lobby in all four directions. When Zhu Minglang was climbing up the stairs, he happened to see an avian pseudo-dragon raised by the Academy landing on the balcony. It was fitted with a leather saddle. It was either the teacher’s mount, or one of the rich students was purposely showing off.
A Pseudodragon Bird was the offspring of a Pterosaur and a Great Bird Dragon. The Academy had tamed quite a number of them. One only needed to establish a soul bond to use them as their personal mount. They could similarly be exchanged for with course credits, but they weren’t something that could be exchanged for just by completing missions like eradicating fish demons.
Zhu Minglang was still early for class. He found a seat near the middle and sat down.
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Soon, several other familiar faces sat down, too. Other than the few youngsters sharing a residence courtyard with him, there was also the tall and cold young master who had enrolled on the same day as him, who sat right in front of Zhu Minglang.
The teacher hadn’t come in yet. Zhu Minglang casually flipped through the book he had borrowed.
“Have you heard? Recently there’s been a gilded fire dragon going around massacring in East Dawn City. Those fierce rebels of Wutu are no longer overstepping their boundaries, and many people in Ancestral Dragon City are talking about the Master Dragon Tamer commanding this gilded fire dragon,” one of the students spoke up.
“That’s Luo Xiao, the Master Dragon Tamer recently recruited by the Li Clan. I heard he’s rather ruthless.”
“There are no men who don’t go to the battlefields to make a name for themselves. I’ll go conquer a city when my wolf spirit dragonizes. At that time, I welcome everyone to be my guest in my city. This city master will surely entertain you well, hahaha!” Hong Hao said.
This person owned a Big Wolf Spirit. It was incomparably fierce. What he was most passionate about every day was bringing his Big Wolf Spirit and finding someone to compete with. In their residence courtyard, with the exception of Zhu Minglang, all the other residents had been ruthlessly trampled on by Hong Hao and his Big Wolf Spirit, and he had become the overlord of the residence courtyard.
Being competitive was indeed one of the methods for many creatures to open their dragon gate. There wasn’t any problem with this residence overlord’s method of raising his spiritling, just that the expenditure for medicine was a little high…
“If it’s dragonizing, Nan Ye should be the one to do it first. His spiritling can already release some low level magic. His dragon was a Dragon Child to begin with, it’s just that it is still in its growing phase. When it grows into an adult, it’ll be a pure-blooded Great Dragon. He’s different from us, who still need to search bitterly for the path to the dragon gate,” Li Shaoying countered, unable to stand Hong Hao’s arrogance and throwing a wet blanket at him.
Zhu Minglang couldn’t help but shake his head when he heard what Li Shaoying said.
This Li Shaoying was simply asking for a beating. Who would ever speak for someone from another residence courtyard like that? If he kept acting like that, the medical ointment his uncle gave him wouldn’t be enough for him!
That Nan Ye person Li Shaoying was talking about was precisely that tall and cold young master who had enrolled into the Academy with Zhu Minglang.
-So this guy had a real dragon to begin with. No wonder he didn’t care about the spiritlings in the Dragon Storage Hall.-
The tall and cold young master, Nan Ye, just sat in his seat, not talking to the classmates around him.
A faint smile hung on his face, probably feeling proud from Li Shaoying’s bootlicking.
Some words felt lacking when spoken by yourself. The effects would be completely different if they came from someone else, however!
Those words had turned the tall and cold young master into the center of attention all of a sudden. Even the female students, who were originally talking among themselves softly, looked his way!
“”My wolf spirit dragonizing is just around the corner. Don’t talk to me about an infant Dragon Child; isn’t it still being looked after in a little nest? Who knows, my wolf spirit might just treat it as meat and eat it in one bite,” Hong Hao said nonchalantly.
Nan Ye frowned in dissatisfaction. He turned his head around, staring at Hong Hao, and said in disdain, “Perhaps you’re not clear on the difference between a dragon and a wild beast. Even in its infancy, it can tear your wolf spirit to pieces.”
“I don’t like fighting with words. In our residence courtyard, everyone with the exception of Zhu Minglang was beaten black and blue by me. If you’re that capable, try fighting with him!” Hong Hao replied.
Zhu Minglang was stunned.
-What kind of speechcraft is this?
-I’m just sitting here being the quiet invisible man I am. Why am I at the cusp of trouble again?-
The students sharing their residence courtyard didn’t expect Hong Hao to play such a card. Li Shaoying was about to speak up to set the matter straight, but Hong Hao glared fiercely at him.
Zhu Minglang took a deep look at Hong Hao.
-And here I thought this guy was an aggressive and competitive buffoon.-
He wanted to test Nan Ye’s strength, but was afraid of Nan Ye’s dragonling, and so resorted to this cheap trick. Not only that, he could also teach Zhu Minglang a lesson for not getting chummy with the group in the residence courtyard!
“Is that right? If I remember correctly, you’re that guy who asked for a spiritling from the Academy like a beggar on your enrollment. You think you’re all that after a month?” Nan Ye mocked, shifting his gaze to Zhu Minglang.
-Beggar?-
Zhu Minglang was very sensitive to that word!
On his enrollment day, he was only dressed simply; it wasn’t to the point of being like a beggar!
This fellow was intentionally humiliating him!
“So that thing you’re carrying is your enrollment spiritling, a wild white chicken? You’d better hold on to it tightly. I don’t even need my Green Dragon to make a move; I can strangle it to death with just one hand,” Nan Ye continued piling on.
Zhu Minglang grew uncomfortable hearing that.
It was fine humiliating him, but he’d never endure him humiliating little Baiqi!
“Yi…!” The sleeping White Ice Morning Dragon let out a soft cry and slowly opened his eyes.
He uncoiled its tail, circle by circle, like ripples, and gently spread its wings. His pure white, frost-like feathers radiated a crystal-like luster, noble like a princess waking up to the morning sunlight.
Beating its wings, the exquisite White Ice Morning Dragon flew to the demonstration stone platform at the front of the classroom, his diamond-like resplendent eyes staring proudly and coolly at Nan Ye, who had spouted those conceited words.
Zhu Minglang had thought little Baiqi would be ignorant of the world around him in his deep sleep. Unexpectedly, Baiqi was just as sensitive as him!
“So pretty. What dragon is that?” a few female students couldn’t help squealing. They were instantly attracted by the White Ice Morning Dragon’s unique and beautiful appearance.
“Some chicken dragons rely on their bright feathers to live. Maybe you haven’t seen a real dragon before,” Nan Ye said with extreme contempt.
He pressed his right hand on the back of his left, activating the spirit domain in his left palm!
“Spirit domain! Nan Ye already has a spirit domain!”
“Nan Ye really is a Master Dragon Tamer! But he just enrolled!”
Spirit Domain! A Master Dragon Tamer’s spirit domain could take in a dragon’s soul contracted to them. Before a human and dragon both crossed their first dragon gate, anyone who raised spiritlings didn’t have the ability to summon or recall them, because they had yet to activate their spirit domains.
“Hou!!”
A roar boomed out of nowhere. It was more shocking than a fierce tiger’s in the mountains. A green imprint appeared in Nan Ye’s palm. The imprint was shining with a very strong light, which shot at the demonstration stone platform at the front of the classroom.
Light and shadow intertwined. An imprint, magnified tenfold, appeared. It stood in the air, like a realm gate to another world.
“Hou!!!” Another long roar boomed out again. A two-meter tall, green forest dragon covered in thick green skin stepped out that gateway.
Its head was as big as a huge lizard’s, its nostrils emitting green air, a number of its teeth showing.
It had a strong chest, and a bulging abdomen, the surface covered in tough scales. The claws of a wolf spirit, or the teeth of a crocodile spirit, could basically not hurt them from the front.
The Green Forest Dragon was standing straight. Its rear limbs were incomparably strong, giving off the feeling that it could break a stone plate with a stomp. Its front claws were relatively shorter. It seemed to still be in its infant stage; its front claws still hadn’t grown into sharp claws that could rip apart wild beasts.
A Green Forest Dragon!
Hong Hao’s complexion paled in fright when he saw the Green Forest Dragon’s true appearance.
Luckily he had arranged for Zhu Minglang to go test his strength, or his Big Wolf Spirit might really have been bitten in two by it!
Compared to this Green Forest Dragon, his Big Wolf Spirit really was only a wild beast, with no features of a dragon!
None of the fifty students of the same cohort in the hall expected Nan Ye’s dragon to be so mighty.
To put it in perspective, it was still in its infancy! It had such a physique while still in infancy, and a dragon’s might that suppressed all creatures!
When this Green Forest Dragon reached adulthood, what kind of a terrifying being would it be?!
“There’s a clear difference between a dragon and a wild chicken,” Nan Ye said in disdain.
Compared to a Green Forest Dragon, a White Ice Morning Dragon was indeed too petite. However, a contest between dragons wasn’t purely determined by their sizes.
The White Ice Morning Dragon flapped his wings, slowly rising into the air, his long tail hanging down as elegantly as usual.
Like a butterfly stopping in front of a bunch of flowers, the White Ice Morning Dragon beat his wings, hovering in the air.
His feathery wings seemed gentle, but a strong air current was being raised in his surroundings, slowly gathering into a tunnel of air.
“Yoooou…!”
Baiqi suddenly retracted his wings. The entirety of his petite body plunged into the wind tunnel. The speed of his dive instantly surged explosively, and the wind tunnel grew several times stronger in that instant, supporting the White Ice Morning Dragon’s charge toward the Green Forest Dragon!
Peng!!!
The Green Forest Dragon’s body was like a boulder. The wind driven by the White Ice Morning Dragon struck the Green Forest Dragon’s chest, the strongest part of its body, like a drill.
The Green Forest Dragon slid backwards, and slammed into the stone wall heavily, shaking the entire hall!
“Huowu!…” The Green Forest Dragon fell to the floor, crying out painfully, unable to get back up on its feet.
The White Ice Morning Dragon dispersed the air current he had controlled. Then, he landed his petite body on the Green Forest Dragon’s head, and used his long tail to slap the Green Forest Dragon’s nose, like an old-fashioned senior disciplining a naughty kid.
Everyone in the hall was at a loss for words at the sight!
How could such a ferocious Green Forest Dragon be so weak?
And how could that harmless looking petite creature erupt with such terrifying power in an instant!?