Daily AFK life from a young dragon

Chapter 25: Selection of Dependents

"Seventeenth place?"

Leon saw his ranking on the Blackstone list.

However, this ranking list does not mean that Leon's strength can really rank 17th among the dragons.

After all, this is a performance list.

The more dragons you defeat, the stronger they are, and your ranking will naturally rise. This is a practical list, but we cannot rule out the possibility that there are dragons that are just playing it safe and slacking off.

Although the Jade Academy has various policies to motivate the little dragons, not all little dragons are willing to put themselves through this.

However, the list is still very valuable.

Leon also took a look at the rankings of Eddie and the other three.

Eddie ranked 100th.

Saiga ranked 78th.

Pana ranked 99th.

Seeing this ranking, Leon couldn't help but glance at the dazed white dragon hatchling.

Although the other party is also in the dragonfly stage like them, it is more than three years old after all. Its size is not much smaller than Saga, and it is very close to the second stage.

Logically speaking, the ranking would not be much worse than Saiga.

"Too cowardly." Leon shook his head in his heart.

But it was too lazy to spend energy to change Pana. Becoming stronger was a motivation for itself. Otherwise, the motivation brought by external things would eventually stop when the external things were lost.

Just think of it as hiring a younger brother to run errands.

Not to mention, from the perspective of the dragon clan, Pana actually looks quite to Leon's liking, and just looking at her is a pleasure to the eye.

But don't get me wrong, this is not the reason why Leon took White Dragon Pana as his younger brother.

At least not the main reason.

"Let's go, it's time to go back." Leon said slowly.

Three little dragons followed closely behind it.

The life of a young dragon is actually very dull.

This is true even in Emerald Academy.

Every day I either sleep and grow, or eat, and the rest is studying hard.

Although practicing magic and cultivating fighting spirit can indeed enhance the strength of dragons and speed up their growth.

But for dragons that can grow to level 7 or 8 or even higher just by eating and drinking, this effort is not very meaningful in the eyes of many dragons.

This is just like the second generation of rich people starting a business from scratch, working hard to earn 10 million, and then turning around to find that they have tens or even hundreds of millions of assets just by inheriting the family business.

The boring time passed by.

On the tenth day after the Dragon Castle ranking battle ended, Emerald Academy sent resources.

"Your Highness Leon, this is a reward for you."

It was still the elegant kobold maid who came to Black Dragon Castle with two servants to meet Leon.

Under the expectant gaze of the black dragon hatchling, the kobold maid opened the reward on the silver plate.

There were two items on the silver tray.

On the left is a light blue prismatic crystal, about the size of a thumb, with thick liquid seemingly flowing inside.

Leon recognized this thing, and a hint of surprise flashed in his dragon eyes. "Water magic core! And judging from the strength of the magic power, it should be at least a fourth-level magic core!"

"Your Highness, this is the magic core taken out from the sixth-level monster 'Water Arrow Giant Turtle'. It is a sixth-level magic core." The ogre maid smiled while covering her mouth.

Uh. From the perspective of the dragon clan's aesthetic standards, this kobold maid can indeed be called a beauty, and a mature woman at that - ahem.

However, Leon was not very interested in this. He was more interested in this sixth-level water magic core.

The magic core is the essence condensed in the body of a monster and has many functions.

The three most common uses are: the first is to make it into a magic wand, the second is to make it into a spell scroll, and the third is to be made into potions with various effects by alchemists.

They can also be swallowed directly to increase their strength (this is what most monsters in the wild do, after all, they have no other way.)
"But with my current strength, I'm afraid I won't be able to digest this Water Arrow Giant Turtle Demon Core directly." Leon said to himself.

After all, this was a sixth-level monster. An adult white dragon was only seventh-level.

Although the gap between the sixth and seventh levels is huge, and is the threshold to becoming a truly strong person, it must be said that the Emerald Academy is really generous.

"Keep it first. Even if I don't swallow it, keeping it by my side can speed up my growth. When I have the ability in the future, I can swallow it directly, or make it into potions, or create magic equipment." Leon thought to himself.

It directly picked up the magic core of the 'Water Arrow Giant Turtle' and swallowed it into its stomach - the dragon's stomach has multiple spaces, which can be used for storage in addition to digestion.

Many dragons will put their most precious treasures into their bodies.

Not only is it safe, it can also bring greater blessings to the dragon.

After swallowing the magic core, Leon felt that the water element energy gathered around him had increased a little. For a young dragon like him, the benefits accumulated over time were considerable.

Leon turned his gaze to another item on the silver plate—a golden metal token with a miniature magic circle engraved on it. It looked like a magical equipment.

Sensing Leon's doubts, the Kobold maid explained softly,

"Your Highness Leon, this metal token is called the 'Follower Token'. With it, you can choose a student from the Jade Academy to be your follower."

Dragon Castle Plains is only a part of the Emerald Academy. In other areas of the Emerald Academy, a large number of monster elites are also being trained.

Gnolls, Kobolds, Lizardmen, Snakemen, Trolls, Ogres, Murlocs, Wolf Dwarves, Minotaurs, etc.
As long as they have certain training value, the Jade Academy will recruit them as students.

There are two main options for these monster students.

First, after graduation, you will join the Emerald Dream and be assigned to serve under the various dragons as a grassroots officer. If you are outstanding enough, your status will rise all the way, and you may even be given dragon blood by a powerful dragon and be accepted as a subordinate.

Second, when he was studying and practicing in the Jade Academy, he was picked up by the princes in Dragon Castle.

"Your Highness Leon, I want to remind you that the dependent token given to you by the academy is the highest level golden dependent token. It allows you to choose any monster student in the academy as your dependent."

At this point, the Kobold maid paused for a moment, her tone becoming more serious and earnest. "Even if its talent is the strongest in the Emerald Academy."

"Okay, I got it." The black dragon weighed the golden token with its claws, and a hint of interest appeared in its eyes.

While training little dragons, you can also train a large number of talented monsters.
The Green Dragon Queen 'Ysera' is worthy of being the queen.

Less than half a year after arriving at the Emerald Academy, Leon had already felt the power of the Queen's methods.

"Mother's decision to seek refuge in the Emerald Dream was perhaps the right one."

Being a wild Dulong? — There is always the danger of being hunted.

Or gather a bunch of weird monster followers and become a lord dragon? ——That would also be a risk of being conquered.

It would be better to directly seek refuge with a big force like the Emerald Dream.

It's nice to sit under a big tree and enjoy the shade.

Everyone knows that the Emerald Dream gathers a large number of evil colorful dragons and monsters, but who dares to come to the Emerald Dream to slay dragons?

Over the past thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of years, any creature that dared to come here and challenge the majesty of the Green Dragon Queen has probably been turned into fertilizer to nourish this land.

(End of this chapter)