The female slaves fortunate enough to be chosen could thus turn their fates around. If they were lucky enough to encounter buyers with a hint of humanity, they were allowed to continue acting as foster mothers for the dragon beasts.
With such high profits, many imitators soon emerged. It reached the point that even Blue Dragons couldn't keep up with production. Eventually, they caught on to the trickery and started to change their tactics...
This led to traders branding them as the 'Miserly Blue Dragon'—they were such penny-pinchers that they'd skimp even on their own excrement!
This amusing episode indeed made David's eyes widen and his jaw drop.
Unfortunately, he saw no sign of whether the High Elves' conquest of Skanis had caused dragon dung prices to plummet back to market value, nor had he ever spotted a single ship engaged in the sea-route breeding business.
Just as David was biding his time, planning to make a big score by seizing a merchant convoy—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
