At the top of the dark cave, a silver figure floated silently.
Cecilia felt better than ever before.
The magic power within her body was like a surging river, and her limbs were filled with explosive strength. That annoying toxin had been completely metabolized by her body during a deep slumber; not only did it leave no side effects, but it also allowed her to turn misfortune into a blessing, completing her first slumber transformation of the Young Dragon stage.
Strength, speed, magic power—a comprehensive enhancement!
More importantly, she had broken free from those damn vines and awakened the innate talent within the True Dragon Bloodline: "Elemental Flight"!
The Little Silver Dragon could now leave this godforsaken place at any time.
But she didn't.
How could the great Silver Dragon Cecilia, the Dragon Mother's most beloved daughter, flee so dejectedly? What a humiliation...! This despicable Earth Dragon must pay the price!
Her peculiar train of thought quickly formulated a perfect revenge plan. Step one: eat all the food hidden by that Earth Dragon to make it starve! Step two: wait for it to return, and when it sees the empty nest, it will surely fall into despair and rage. Step three: while it's in a state of mental chaos, descend from the sky and give it an unforgettable lesson with a fully enhanced [Paralysis Breath]!
Perfect!
Cecilia couldn't help but admire her own world-shaking wisdom.
She had already scavenged everything edible in the cave, even licking the pot clean... Now full and satisfied, she hung in the air, patiently waiting for her prey to return—
...She couldn't wait to see the other party beg for mercy!
The more Cecilia thought about it, the more excited she became, with even the tip of her Dragon Tail wagging slightly.
She waited and waited.
Finally, the sound of rustling footsteps came from outside the cave entrance.
It's here!
Cecilia took a deep breath, and a faint silver magical glow began to gather in her throat. She could already imagine the terrified expression that would appear on that stupid and hateful face of the Little Earth Dragon when it saw her!
However, just a second before she was ready to let out a triumphant roar, a dark bottle spun through the air and was tossed in from the cave entrance.
With a "pop," the cork popped out.
Was that a... glass bottle?
Cecilia was stunned.
The next second, the alchemy jar exploded in mid-air, and a thick, pungent green smoke instantly burst forth, enveloping the entire cave!
"Cough! Cough, cough! What the hell is this?!"
Violent coughing caused Cecilia's half-charged breath to be interrupted on the spot, and the pain of magical backlash made her head spin.
Poison? It's Poison again!
What else can this despicable Earth Dragon do besides use Poison?!
Through the thick smoke, a short blue figure wearing a strange mycelium mask rushed in like a ghost.
The figure's speed was astonishing; it didn't even move in a straight line, instead stepping off the side rock walls, making a turn, and leaping high from a blind spot that Cecilia completely didn't expect!
Bang!
A heavy impact was felt in her abdomen.
Between the weakness of being Poisoned, the backlash of the interrupted breath, and this sudden heavy blow, Cecilia felt the magic power in her body instantly dissipate under the triple strike.
The elemental power lifting her body vanished.
"Wuu—?!"
Accompanied by an unwilling cry of grief, our previously high-spirited Silver Dragon Young Miss "crashed" on the spot, falling heavily onto the hard rock floor.
As the poisonous smoke slowly dissipated, she finally saw the full appearance of the attacker—
A round blue body, a huge mouth, and the signature fin on its head... it was exactly that Little Earth Dragon!
"You hateful... despicable creature!" Cecilia struggled to get up, only to find a large net woven from countless vines already descending upon her, pinning her firmly to the Ground.
This time, the binding even had a bit of an artistic flair, with a bow tied on; unfortunately, it completely failed to showcase her graceful curves as a True Dragon—
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The Little Silver Dragon was still cursing with all her might, but Caesar was already too lazy to pay her any mind.
The Little Earth Dragon leisurely took off the mycelium mask on its head and pulled a small trailer made from a giant centipede's carapace into the cave. Only then did it turn around to look down at Cecilia in the net.
In a brand new, pure Draconic Language carrying a hint of majesty, it spoke: "My apologies. From today onwards, you shall call me... Lord Earth Dragon."
As he spoke, Caesar slowly raised his front claw.
On those originally white claws, an ominous purple glow was now shimmering.
Cecilia's loli-voiced cursing came to an abrupt halt.
She stared fixedly at Caesar's claws, her beautiful dragon pupils constricting instantly.
"This... this elemental composition is... [Poison]?!"
She couldn't believe her eyes.
How could an Earth Dragon master elemental power other than "Ground"?! This completely overturned the common knowledge of Bloodlines that the Dragon Clan had held for millions of years!
Caesar grinned, revealing a smile enough to give any Young Dragon nightmares, and approached her step by step.
"Be good and call me Lord Earth Dragon."
"Don't... don't joke around!"
Fear caused Cecilia to burst with her last bit of strength; she opened her mouth and a silver breath suddenly blasted towards Caesar!
However, instead of wariness, Caesar's eyes lit up with excitement.
He also opened his mouth.
A scorching Dragon Breath, carrying an aura of destruction, gushed out and collided violently with the silver breath!
The two energies wore each other down in the air, eventually turning into a chaotic magical turbulence and dissipating into nothingness.
"What?!"
Cecilia was completely dumbfounded.
A breath?
That was actually a Dragon Breath?!
An Earth Dragon had not only mastered a second element but also a breath that could only be used in adulthood...?!
How is this possible! Just what kind of monster is this?!
Caesar didn't have time to explain pokémon skill mechanics to her.
He grabbed a corner of the vine net. With his physical attack attribute already increased to 40 points, he had no trouble lifting this Silver Dragon, who was a size larger than him but had a slender build.
Then, he lifted the Little Silver Dragon along with the net and slammed her heavily to the side—!
"Kua—!"
Just like that.
Our great Silver Dragon Lady Cecilia was beaten to her knees on the spot.
The victor, Caesar, walked with a splayed gait, wobbling over to his "kitchen" area.
He threw the "Myconid Meat Chunks" he had brought back from the swamp into the pot, then raised his purple-glowing claw and lightly slashed at the meat.
[Poison Jab]!
Purple toxin was injected into the fungus meat along the tips of his claws, and those meat chunks quickly turned a strange deep purple.
He nodded with satisfaction, lit the Red Dragon Stove, and began to stew a brand new pot of "poison milk Mushroom Soup" that emitted an even thicker purple smoke.
Cecilia lay weakly on the Ground, watching the other party skillfully handle the ingredients, her face filled with unwillingness and humiliation.
She couldn't understand why her perfect ambush plan had turned out like this.
But soon, a fragrance richer and more enticing than any before wafted over... This scent seemed to possess magic, roughly forcing its way into her nostrils, seducing her taste buds, and Awakening her body's craving for that "poison milk."
Her stomach growled traitorously.
The hateful Earth Dragon carried the pot of thick soup bubbling with purple bubbles and walked up to her step by step.
In a translated-style Draconic Language, he coaxed her like a devil's whisper:
"You see, resistance is futile. All your actions were within my expectations."
"Do you want to live? If you want to live, drink this obediently. This is your only choice."
"..."
Cecilia lay weakly on the Ground, her Silver Dragon face filled with unwillingness and humiliation, but her body trembled slightly because she smelled the fragrance that was even more enticing than before.
Looking at her like this, Caesar could no longer suppress the surging impulse in his heart.
He suddenly leaped, his body striking an extremely strange pose in mid-air, nearly like the starting stance of the Toad Style, and instantly landed in front of Cecilia, bringing his large Earth Dragon face extremely close—
The Earth Dragon's face was distorted with extreme excitement, and his golden vertical pupils were locked onto Cecilia's complex dragon face, which was filled with shock, humiliation, anger, and Confusion.
Do you know?
In a tone that was almost perverted and extremely enjoyable, he announced word by word:
"I've always wanted to see this expression of yours!"
After a slight pause, Caesar delivered an even more precise taunt, striking directly at the Silver Dragon's arrogant heart.
"This expression of envying me!"
As the words fell, Caesar Brain's increasingly perverted "Jiejiejiejie" wild laughter echoed throughout the cave.
Together with Cecilia's wretched state, the readers' observation, and the rising purple poisonous soup in the pot, it formed a powerful and somewhat absurd "World-Famous Painting."
Cecilia was stunned.
Cecilia was humiliated.
Cecilia... smelled the fragrance!
The mushroom soup, with the high-quality Myconid flesh added, emitted a fragrance that was simply the ultimate PLUS version of the previous one, dominantly drilling into her nostrils and crazily teasing her taste buds and stomach.
Her body's craving for "poison milk" had already become an instinct.
Humiliation was trembling, but appetite was also trembling.
Finally, under Caesar's demonic gaze, she still succumbed and passively drank the bowl of soup.
As the new generation of poison milk went down, Cecilia felt an even deeper sense of weakness spread through her body, and she went completely limp. But that extreme deliciousness also left her mind blank, falling completely into physiological submission.
Caesar watched her reaction with satisfaction.
Captivity plan, step two, complete.
But his goal didn't stop there.
Under Cecilia's gaze of extreme terror, he roughly pried open an intact dragon scale on her body, revealing the tender new flesh beneath, and then... stuck out his tongue and licked it.
[Ding! High-purity "dragon-type" factor detected, absorbing...]
[Experience Points +50!]
This time, the experience points prompted by the System were more than ever before!
A Dragon Element energy, far purer and more massive than before, poured into Caesar's body. He clearly felt that his physical strength, speed, and even the magic power (MP) within him had improved noticeably!
As expected, after a sleep and an "upgrade," the Little Silver Dragon's experience output was even higher quality!
Cecilia looked at the Earth Dragon in front of her, who was buried in licking her wound, and saw the faint light emanating from him as he absorbed the energy; she was completely shocked.
"You... you can actually... absorb Dragon Element?!"
Dragon Element?
Caesar's licking motion paused, and he came back to his senses.
Right, he seemed to have forgotten to ask what the power System of this world was all about.
He stopped, scooped another spoonful of soup with a vine, and waved it in front of Cecilia.
"Want to know why I can absorb it? Want to know why I'm stronger than you?"
Caesar said in a coaxing tone: "Tell me everything you know about this world. What are elements? What is the Dragon Clan? If you satisfy me with your answers, this pot of soup will all be yours."
Thus, under the coercion and temptation of the poison milk, the arrogant Silver Dragon Young Miss bowed her noble head once again, tears glistening in her eyes.
Humiliated, she began to recount in a trembling voice.
"Azeria," her loli voice began with this name—knowledge that came from the Silver Dragon's Legacy memories and the library of the "True Dragon Imperial Court."
"In this world, the foundation of all things consists of Eighteen Basic Elements..."