Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 383 Violet Scales

Su Ming stood on the bridge, watching the silver dragon sail away before beginning to inspect the ship's operations.

Under the energetic leadership of Beianqi, the maintenance work on the engine room crews has already begun in full swing.

Meanwhile, the freshwater supply on the other side also began in an orderly manner under Yunier's meticulous arrangements.

After processing several requests, Su Ming thought for a moment and decided to go find Zi Jin. He planned to invite the girl to disembark and relax together, hoping it would help her unwind from the stress of the past few days of work and her low spirits.
But Zijin wasn't in the work area or the command center. Su Ming arrived at Zijin's cabin in the living area and knocked on the door.

After a short while, the hatch opened, and Violet appeared at the door. Stacy was also in the room. What surprised Su Ming was that Violet had a thick towel wrapped around her head, as if she had just taken a bath.

"Did you wash your hair?" Su Ming asked, somewhat puzzled.

He didn't smell the familiar berry scent, the kind of shampoo that Zijin usually used.

Violet hesitated and looked back at Stacy, who simply shrugged, indicating that she should speak herself.

The girl took a deep breath, raised her hand, untied the towel wrapped around her head, and used her fingers to brush aside the hair on her forehead that was slightly messy from being pressed down by the towel.

Su Ming looked closely and then noticed that there was now a purple scale about the size of a fingernail on the girl's smooth forehead.

Although the area is small, its boundary outline is already very clear, presenting an exquisite rhomboid base, and at the four corners of the rhombus, and even at the center, several very small, sharp, needle-like star-shaped protrusions extend out.

Under the cabin lights, the scale shimmered with a faint, magical glow, its textures flowing with strange colors, possessing a unique geometric beauty and a profound sense of fantasy.

Su Ming suddenly remembered that a few days ago, he had noticed an unusual redness on the girl's skin. He had initially thought it was a scratch from an accidental bump, but it turned out to be scales growing there.

"These are... newly formed dragon scales?" Su Ming guessed.

"Hmm," Zijin replied softly, pressing her fingers on the area below her collarbone. "Actually, I already have four patches here."

Since she was in her own room, Zijin was only wearing a thin, soft shirt. It seemed to have been unbuttoned just now, with one button undone, revealing a glimpse of her skin through the open gap.

Su Ming's gaze followed her words to the spot where her finger was pointing, and he immediately noticed that the girl glared at him with a "I knew it" look.

Su Ming looked away somewhat awkwardly.

"Hey, you're the one who led me to look there!" he protested, dissatisfied.

This is clearly a sting operation!

"If you want to see, you can." Zijin smiled mischievously and reached out as if to unbutton her clothes. "Anyway, you saw this spot when I was injured last time."

Upon hearing this, Su Ming's gaze immediately and involuntarily turned to Stacy, who was watching with great interest.

His movement reminded Zijin of the presence of a large third wheel in the room. She quickly lowered her hand, her cheeks flushing slightly, and even the tips of her ears turning crimson. "Ahem, I'm going out for some fresh air!" Stacy immediately coughed tactfully and headed towards the door.

Su Ming quickly raised his hand, "Wait, Stacy, please just tell me what happened!" He turned to Zi Jin, then his joking expression turned to worry, "I want to know how this change will affect you."

“This happened about a month ago,” Stacy stopped and replied. “Let me state my conclusion first: Violet’s body is indeed human. The cause of this phenomenon is the chimera.”

"Chimera?"

Su Ming tried hard to recall the concept of chimera, a situation that is actually quite common in the human world. A single body may possess two or more different sets of DNA.

One common source is the fusion of two separate fertilized eggs, where one egg is absorbed by the other early in embryonic development, resulting in an individual whose body is partly derived from another DNA source.

There is also a type called microchimerism, where cells from the mother and fetus can permeate each other through the placenta during pregnancy and remain in each other's bodies for a long time.

In other words, everyone will have micro-chimerism with their mother's cells, and vice versa.

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“These two areas on Violet’s body were cleverly implanted with the original parts of her fairy dragon body during her embryonic development,” Stacy further explained. “Now, as her human body has come of age, these sealed dragon traits have begun to ‘awaken’ and develop.”

"Did it cause her any harm?" Su Ming asked again, his expression serious.

“The scales below the chest aren’t a big problem,” Stacy said. “But the one on the forehead needs to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise it might affect the brain area as it grows.”

"Since there are risks, why not remove it now?" Su Ming asked.

Theoretically, the problem can be solved by removing the implanted chimera, as long as it is not a critical organ.

"Are you sure you want to do this? This was something that Master Howard the Copper Cormorant and Healer Sebastian the Silver Pheasant painstakingly and painstakingly accomplished," Stacy said solemnly. "The scales on her chest contain the seed of the Fairy Dragon's core magical talent—'Elemental Resonance.' And the one between her brows is the origin of her unique spiritual talent—'Whispers of the Stars.'"

The two titled scholars went to great lengths and made unimaginable efforts to achieve this status quo in preserving the Fairy Dragon's talents.

"These sound like very good things?" Su Ming asked.

““Elemental Resonance,” once fully integrated, will compensate for my current weaknesses in the four elemental magics, restoring my resonance-level affinity with the four elements of wind, fire, earth, and water. Zi Jin continued, her voice tinged with complexity, “The healer, Bai Xian, only told me that my potential would naturally replenish itself after I reached adulthood—I never imagined it would be through the growth of scales.”

"And what about this on your forehead?" Su Ming turned to Stacy and asked, "Didn't you say it would affect the brain?"

“To be precise, both of her scales need to be treated,” Stacy corrected. “These are unfinished matters left by the two titled scholars. But we need to go to the ancestral land of the dragons and use the ancient and powerful magic array there to complete the final work.”

Su Ming thought for a moment. He had already received an invitation from Dragon King Ge Lie, so this matter shouldn't be a problem. Besides, he currently had many bargaining chips to use to "communicate" and trade with the Dragon Clan.

(End of this chapter)