Daily AFK life from a young dragon

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Dragon

Deep in the dark and damp cave.

From the huge circular nest made of rubble, intermittent crackling sounds could be heard.

'Where is this?'

A pitch-black dragon hatchling, its scales still covered in mucus, poked its head out of a dragon egg half the height of a human, and looked around with a confused look.

It remembered that its name was Leon, and it was an unknown office worker on Blue Star. It died suddenly at its workstation after working overtime.
'I have traveled through time and space and been reborn?'

Looking down at his short claws and receiving the inheritance information belonging to the black dragon in his mind, Leon finally came to his senses and understood his current situation.

It came to another world and became a newly born black dragon hatchling.

But Leon was not too panicked, because the numb life of a corporate slave in his previous life had long been boring to him.

It’s good to travel through time.

What's more, he became a powerful dragon.

Leon quickly accepted the fact and broke free from the half-broken dragon egg. He glanced at the other two black dragon eggs that had not yet hatched in the dragon's nest, then silently lowered his head and began to eat the fragments of his own dragon egg.

The dragon eggshell contains extremely rich nutrients, which can quickly harden the soft scales and claws of a newly born dragonfly, allowing the dragonfly to gain a certain survival ability.

Click, click.

Lion swallowed the last piece of dragon egg fragment.

Just when it was wondering whether to explore the dragon's nest, a loud noise was heard at the entrance of the cave where the dragon's nest was located.

It was as if a giant beast had crashed into the mountain, making a dull and roaring sound.

After the loud noise, heavy footsteps were heard at the entrance of the cave.

Leon turned his head and met eyes with the huge black dragon that had just entered the dragon's nest.

One big and one small, the big eyes staring at the small eyes.

Leon noticed the broken dragon scales and several deep scars on the huge black dragon's body, which were suspected to be caused by some kind of greatsword weapon.

Dark red dragon blood dripped onto the ground.

The injuries on the black dragon were terrible. Leon was sure that if it weren't for the dragon's tenacious vitality, an ordinary beast would have died from such injuries long ago.

"My child, you are finally born."

The badly injured female black dragon spoke, breaking the silent atmosphere in the cave. Looking at her newly born child, a hint of relief flashed in her dark yellow vertical-pupil dragon eyes.

The Dragon Mother slowly walked over, and the dragon blood dripping behind her formed a blood trail, which was shocking to the dragons.

Lion didn't say anything. He just looked at the corpse of a black beast shaped like a buffalo that was being dragged by the dragon mother's tail.

When Leon was puzzled by the creature in front of him, the black dragon's heritage information naturally told him that this was a wild bull.

The Bull has the strength of the second level when it grows up. Its meat is delicious. It is a social beast that often appears in swamps, wet forests and other areas. Its favorite food is swamp grass and black smiley mushrooms.
This world has demons, monsters, beasts, humans, elves, dwarves, giants and other species.

In a transcendent world where gods exist, there is naturally a cultivation system.

Beasts whose bodies are naturally nourished by the elements, monsters that gain special powers from their blood, warriors who absorb the elements to refine their fighting spirit, or spellcasters who refine their mental strength, etc.

If expressed in simple terms of levels, most of the living things in the world can be divided into levels between zero and nine.

To transcend the ninth level is to enter the realm of saints, which is to transcend the mundane and is also the path to eternal life.

The newly born black dragon hatchling is only at the first level, which means it is only slightly stronger than ordinary people who are not at the first level and those beasts whose bodies have not been nourished by the elements.

"Eat."

The dragon mother 'Sylvanas' lowered her dragon head and looked at her eldest son. The thick and long dragon tail behind her moved slightly, and she placed the bull weighing three or four tons in front of him.

Unable to bear the hunger in his stomach, Leon instinctively moved closer to the corpse of the bull.

There was a huge bloody hole on the twisted and thick neck of the bull. Leon looked up at the rows of hideous bone spurs protruding from the dragon mother's tail, and suddenly realized something.

It could almost imagine that when the huge black dragon flew across the sky, it saw the bull on the ground, and then pounced at a low altitude, with its tail wrapped around the bull's neck. Under the terrifying power of the dragon, the bull's bones and flesh were instantly twisted, and then the tail bone spur pierced through it, leaving a hideous bloody hole.

"Who could have left such a terrible wound on such a terrifying black dragon?" Leon was puzzled and worried.

It knew from the black dragon's heritage that dragons were at the top of the world's food chain, and there were few creatures that could rival them.

What's more, the Mother of Dragons is an adult black dragon.

"I don't know if that guy is dead or not." Leon thought to himself as he tore into the flesh of the bull.

It would be best if he was killed by the Dragon Queen, otherwise...
While Lion was eating, Sylvanas dragged her wounded dragon body, staggered to a place not far from the dragon eggs, lay down, and fell into a deep sleep with exhaustion.

Beneath it, there was a pile of magic stones emitting faint light, scattered gold coins, a small amount of silver coins, and a very few gems.

Elements are gathered from all directions by these treasures containing special energies, providing the Dragon Mother with the energy needed to heal her wounds.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Since returning to the nest that day, the dragon mother has been sleeping. If it weren't for the wounds on her body that were gradually healing and the strong dragon power that was emanating from her, Leon would have suspected that this huge creature was already dead. After all, her breathing became extremely weak when she was sleeping, and her dragon body didn't move much.

"I am bored."

The three-day-old black dragon hatchling is about the size of a wolfhound, with a big head, small wings, and a short tail.

It looks quite cute, and not as ferocious and hideous as a grown-up black dragon.

Leon lay on the ground with his back to the sky, revealing his belly covered with fine dragon scales. He looked at the inverted stone spikes above the cave with a bored expression.

A newly born dragon is very weak. Even a stronger human with a good weapon can have a chance to kill it.

Therefore, young dragons often stay in the dragon's nest, grow and shed their scales under the feeding of the dragon mother, until they have the initial strength to protect their own lives, and then go out for the first hunt in their lives under the protection of the dragon mother.

Starting from the weakest prey, step by step, as time goes by, when it can hunt strong enough prey with its own power, it will be driven out of the dragon's nest by the mother dragon and start an independent and free life.

With nothing to do, Leon was stunned for a while, and then continued to study the golden finger that accompanied him when he was born.

Closing his eyes, Leon saw a rough hexagonal stone groove in the void.

The more Leon looked at the stone groove, the more he felt that something needed to be inserted into it, such as.
Runes?

But Leon didn't find any rune-like things in this empty spiritual world.

There is nothing here except that lonely mysterious stone groove.

After studying for a while, Leon, feeling a little tired, withdrew from this empty spiritual space. Although he could not find the real use of the hexagonal groove, Leon discovered that by looking at the groove, his mental power would be consumed at an extremely fast rate.

When he first discovered the mysterious groove, he didn't pay attention and his mental energy was exhausted. He was so tired that he fell asleep. After waking up, Leon found that his mind seemed to have become a little sharper.

Leon guessed that looking at this mysterious stone groove might help to train one's mental strength.

It was not sure whether this was true. After all, it had only been three days, which was too short to confirm whether it was an illusion or not.

"It's a pity that the spells inherited from the Black Dragon cannot be learned for the time being." Leon, who was in a drowsy state, thought with some regret in his heart.

If it could learn magic, it wouldn't have to spend every day studying the mysterious hexagonal groove besides eating and sleeping.

The reason why Leon cannot learn spells now is because the mental power of the newborn dragon is not strong enough.

To learn spells, one needs to mobilize external elements, and to mobilize elements, one needs sufficiently strong mental strength.

Perhaps because of his rebirth, Leon feels that his mental strength is stronger than that of other dragonets (there is a detailed description of this in the Black Dragon Heritage, which Leon can use as a reference).

"It should be soon. It won't be long before I can learn spells."

With the anticipation of learning magic and the thought of the Mother of Dragons' tragic injury flashing through his mind, Leon fell into a deep sleep.

In his sleep, the dragon hatchling had a nightmare.

The dragon mother had her head chopped off by a powerful human's sword. Behind her, a group of adventurers cheered and jumped forward to peel off the scales and drain the blood of the dragon's corpse that had fallen to the ground. Their techniques were experienced and natural.

As it was just born, it was too weak and was fooled around by the human adventurers. Finally, after wasting all its energy, it was locked in a cage, waiting for an unknown fate.
"No!"

After an unknown amount of time, the young dragon woke up from its dream and let out an anxious growl.

After a moment, it realized that it was a dream.

After a moment of silence, Leon closed his eyes again, but this time he didn't sleep.

It entered that empty spiritual space.

Then he looked at the mysterious hexagonal rune groove again, quickly consuming the mental power that had just recovered most of it.

This is the only way it can think of to become stronger proactively.

It is true that dragons are at the top of the world's food chain, but they are also grown-up dragons.

As for a young dragon, the time required to grow to adulthood is quite long for a short-lived species - as long as three hundred years!

However, three hundred years may not even be one-tenth of the time for an immortal species like a dragon, whose lifespan can easily be several thousand years. Even at adulthood, a dragon's life has only just begun.

However, Leon felt that if he did nothing and just kept on giving up, he probably wouldn't be able to grow up leisurely.

The horrific injuries of the Mother of Dragons were still vivid in Leon's mind, which cast a great shadow on him. At the same time, it also pressured Leon to work hard to become stronger.

After finally arriving at such a magnificent fantasy world, it would be so painful if you didn't experience it well and your life was wiped out again.

"I just want to live well and experience the other world." Leon thought silently.

A hint of tenacity flashed in the dragon's pale yellow vertical pupils.

Anyone who threatens its life will die.

With this thought in mind, Leon looked at the mysterious hexagonal groove more carefully.

In this special state, its mental strength began to be rapidly consumed.

Time passed. In the blink of an eye, dozens of days and nights had passed.

(End of this chapter)