White Dragon Lord

white scales covering her.
She was beautiful, robust, and magnificent. 

Facing the terrible behemoth in front of him, Xia Yu didn’t feel scared at all but felt a kind of blood-related intimacy and awe. 

‘She is my mother in this life.’ 

Guru~ Guru~

His belly began to protest.
The newborn Dragon needed to replenish his energy.
Without the slightest hesitation, he turned around and ate the crumbled eggshells. 

As a high-level magical creature, the giant dragon eggshell contained rich magical energy in addition to inorganic matter, which could effectively help a young dragon to survive the initial period of debilitation. 

After cleanly sweeping the eggshells and licking the white speckles off the floor, Xia Yu’s hunger had subsided a bit.
That said, he felt he could eat more so he timidly said to his mother in Draconic Tongue, “Hungry.”

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A few minutes ago. 

Salilina found it a little strange as she looked at one of the five eggs that kept trembling—which indicated the struggle of the cubs before they hatched out of the egg. 

She was a little confused; this was not the first time she had raised an offspring. 

Generally speaking, eggs from the same batch would hatch no more than two days apart, but according to her calculations, there was still around a week before the hatchings took place. 

‘Is it an anomaly?’

“Oh, it’s coming out!” 

The cub called out his true dragon name, and by the looks of it, he seemed healthy.
(Calling out a true name symbolises the successful acceptance of the dragon heritage.)

“Tiamat’s blessings!” 

“What a strong baby!” 

“He’ll be, at the least, two full laps larger than the ordinary cubs!” 

“Hungry!” 

Hearing the appeal, Salilina looked at the newly hatched cub, only to find Xia Yu’s clear eyes looking back at her, shining with the light of wisdom.
The sight shocked her. 

Among the five kinds of dragons—red, blue, green, black and white, respectively—white dragons were the weakest in strength and intelligence.
And unless, it entered adulthood or stepped into the legendary realm, getting baptised by the world’s laws and fundamentally enhances the essence of its soul, only then, will it obtain the wisdom rivalling that of an average adult human. 

Although the Dragon Inheritance came with the Draconic Tongue, memory and proficiency were two different things.
Under normal circumstances, the intelligence of a newly born white dragon was no different from a wild beasts’: it could only blubber, incomprehensibly.
Which was about the same as a newborn human baby.  

Only with practice and day-to-day communication with its mother, could a white dragon cub improve and gradually master the Draconic Tongue.
While the other dragon cubs were far better compared to the white dragon due to their marginally superior intelligence.

Though Xia Yu had only uttered a single word, that too in a nonstandard form, it was enough to prove his remarkable talent.

How could Salilina have known that the infantile cub in front of her held the soul of an adult? 

Salilina was stunned.
It took her a while to come back to her senses and she stopped thinking much about it.
To meet the cub’s request, she went out of the cave in search of food. 

Xia Yu looked at his image on the ice surface, except for his size—which was only as big as a pony—he looked like a striking copy of Salilina. 

“From now on, I am Amos Citlandim Buwanren Galili Aldridge, Hmm, aka Amos Aldridge.” 

To reduce any more exertion and tyring himself, Amos lay on the ground thinking about his new life as a dragon. 

He knew from his inheritance that the world he lived in was called Nordhill Continent and that its land area spanned about fifty times the size of the earth. 

In addition to sentient beings such as humans, elves, and orcs, there were also dragons, monsters, and many other extraordinary creatures.
The ancient dragon race was the leader among the exceptional creations. 

The weak and the strong was the perpetual theme of this world. 

After he was done scratching just the tip of the iceberg, which was his inheritance and the vast knowledge it held about the world, Amos set a goal for himself.
A goal to become stronger, then to live and improve the standards of his living. 

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