Chapter 2: CH : 2 Second Feast, Some Discoveries, and A Lesson (Re-edited)

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"Actually, I didn't mean to bully the two sisters just now.

I just have to make sure of my position as the big brother, so that I can take the lead when the Dragon Mother feeds us. And just now, I also left some room. I didn't take all the eggshells; otherwise, the Dragon Mother wouldn't have spared me.

Again, because eggshells contain special substances, they can rapidly harden the scales and bones of young dragons. Without it, it would take at least ten days. Very soon, the two sisters finished eating the eggshells.

Then they stared at the remains of the animal next to me, drooling.

Emilia couldn't help it. She pounced and was about to start biting, but I picked her up in one go.

"This is prepared for all of us by our mother. You can't hog it all to yourself."

Emilia roared and glared at me, while Hannah, on the side, looked at me pitifully with puppy dog eyes, hoping to get some more. 'Brother won't mind,' her eyes seemed to say.

"I didn't care about your threat at all."

Hearing this, Emilia fell silent. The relationship between evil dragons has always been indifferent.

This kind of thing probably won't be taken into account by Mother.

I thought for a moment. Still, I felt like I might have gone too far, so I tore off two pieces of meat and threw them at them.

'Let's consider this an exchange for the eggshells.'

Then I continued to rest with my eyes closed. Although the two dragon sisters were still a bit dissatisfied, they could only resign themselves for now.

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Before I knew it, 29 days had passed, in which I did nothing but sleep and eat while trying to save as much food as I could without starving.

There were only three hours left before my second feast. I was very excited about this, as I had many doubts about my skill Feast.

Soon I would be able to confirm some of my theories, and next time I would prepare my diet according to them.

While living here, I learned one thing: my mother was very lazy. In fact, describing her with the word 'lazy' would be an insult to the word lazy.

I am sure if we weren't here, she wouldn't even move her eyelids. The work she does wouldn't even count as the bare minimum. As young, we need a lot of food, but due to her being so lazy, we hardly get any. I am sure if there were child helplines for dragons in this world, I would like to report her.

Anyway, from the extreme laziness of my mother, I knew I had to start hunting, especially if I wanted to prepare for the Feast.

When the Feast began, and I felt an extreme hunger like I did when I came out of my egg, I quickly pounced on the rotting remains of different animals and two pieces of eggshells and started eating voraciously.

When I finished eating all there was, I looked at the progress bar that was still stuck at 40%.

It couldn't reach one hundred percent! My hunger grew even stronger. At this moment, I turned to look at the two dragon sisters behind me.

The aroma emanating from them seemed to tease me. Seeing my greedy eyes, Emilia and Hannah instinctively shrank their necks.

Emitting threatening low growls from their mouths, in their eyes, it seemed like I could eat them at any moment.

I could only resist the temptation of their scent. I then started picking up the regurgitated animal bones to devour.

"Crush, Crack."

After I finished eating all the bones, I again glanced at the blue screen in front of me.

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[The Feast Progress: 47%]

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Now I knew what I had to do. I had already prepared myself for this, but deep down, I knew it was going to be hard, and I didn't want to taste it. But as they say, beggars can't be choosers.

I would need to eat a large amount of food, and right now, the only ones left in the cave that I could eat were the dragon sisters and the black dragon lady. But if the dragon sisters were eaten by me, the Black Dragon Lady would definitely kill me and then allow me to be reborn again, and I couldn't fight the Black Dragon Lady—not at all.

She was on a different plane of existence compared to me, a month-old dragon.

So it seemed I had to rely on myself. In the end, I felt my hungry belly and finally made up my mind.

I carefully got up and walked outside the lair, finding my own remote corner that was not easy to be discovered. Looking at the damp black earth filled with rocks, I took a deep breath, and as the hunger grew, I really lost my mind.

As the insane hunger spread to every cell of my being, I bit down hard on the ground and swallowed a large chunk of black earth and rocks into my stomach.

That's right, my last resort was to eat dirt for two hours. I didn't know how many tons of black earth and rocks I swallowed, but it was right to eat it anyway. All the black earth and rocks that I swallowed were transformed into a strand of special energy under the effect of the skill Feast in a very short period of time.

This was the reason I was able to swallow such a massive amount of black earth and rocks without bursting open like a balloon.

When the progress of the Feast came to 100%, my sanity finally returned. Still, I was back in the familiar pitch-black space, as if there were no boundaries in the world. I was like a bystander.

Looking at my own body that kept getting stronger, I watched as my body slowly grew larger, the scales became harder and harder, my claws and teeth became sharper, and my limbs became stronger.

I was full of a sense of power. Every upgrade was completed.

A day later, I woke up, and the first thing I did was to feel my current body. The second Feast had allowed me to enter the third level of life, and my body length had grown to 3.25 meters. This time, the size didn't increase significantly, but the length was close to 4 meters.

I could feel that my bone and muscle density had increased by a factor of 0.5 by now. My current weight was probably heavier than the combined weight of the two little dragon sisters.

The cooldown time of the Feast was still 30 days.

Being a dragon with instinctive talent allowed me to clearly perceive the subtle changes in my body. At this moment, I was a bit stunned and disappointed at the same time. The enhancement effect of this Feast was obviously much smaller than the last one.

It seems that I was right: the quality of the food I ate during the Feast would affect the final enhancement effect.

I rubbed my sharp claws against the black scales on my body. Although the effect of this enhancement was very small, the biggest thing I got from the second Feast is that the defensive power of my scales had still increased by 30%.

It wasn't that big of a loss, as I now knew I could consume anything at the moment of a Feast, which opens so many doors.

Poison? Acid? Fire? Water? If so, who's stopping me from consuming planets? Stars? And why stop there—will I be able to consume Time? Space? Gravity? Weak and Strong Nuclear Forces? Dark Matter? Antimatter? Souls?

There are so many possibilities, and just like any scientist, now I have more questions than answers.

Sighing, I looked at my second results.

Eating different things affects different parts of my body. Yes, I do gain an overall boost, but special parts of my body get affected by what I eat.

I'm sure eating bones, dirt, and rocks affected my bones and scales, and if I had to guess, rocks and dirt affected my scales.

Now, just imagine if I ate iron? Bronze? Silver? Gold? Platinum? Tungsten? Or even uranium?

I am in a fantasy world, and from my dragon inheritance memories, I know fantasy metals like mithril, orichalcum, and adamantium exist in rare quantities.

Not to mention, the weapons made of these metals are further enchanted by magic.

Now I had the thought that I really wanted to find out the effects of these.

Shaking my head, I got out of my thoughts, as I couldn't even consume more than 2 meters of dirt, forget about consuming galaxies and stars. I would be burned to a crisp before I was close to them.

At the same time, I focused on my current problems. In order to have the next Feast enhancement reach a standard that I would be satisfied with, I was also determined to leave the dragon's den and start my first hunt. I glanced at the Black Dragon Lady, my extremely lazy mother, who was huffing and puffing in the depths of the lair, sleeping, as well as my dragon sisters, sleeping at the edge of the mud puddle.

Then, without a moment's pause, I walked towards the lair passageway and set off towards the outside world.

At the edge of the rotting swamps, a Black Panther beast was sitting vigilantly on a tree, its worried pupils gazing at the dense jungle below. Soon, the Black Panther's worried pupils revealed a hint of excitement.

In the middle of the dense jungle, a fat grey rabbit probed its head, then hopped to a fairy grass and began to lower its head to get a closer look.

While eating, the grey rabbit's ears were also vigilantly erect. It could be foreseen that, once an enemy was discovered, the grey rabbit would definitely flee into a burrow not far away without hesitation.

"Silently, the Black Panther with a slender body jumped to the tree above the grey rabbit's head, accompanied by the sound of the wind, but the faint sound of movement was also covered up. In the next moment, the Black Panther transformed into a bolt of black lightning and instantly pounced.

The grey rabbit on top of the grass died without getting a chance to run. The panther's tense nerves instantly relaxed, and it was ready to eat. The grey rabbit was hunted on the spot in the dense jungle less than 10 metres away from the panther. I was perfectly hidden, my eyes closely watching the panther.

Ready to eat, my footsteps slowly moved, and when my distance from it was only 5 or 6 metres, I stopped, not getting any closer.

With the panther's sharp reaction, it would be easy to startle the snake, and at this distance, I was confident that even if the panther reacted faster, I could still pounce on it. However, I didn't want to take any chances, as this was a fantasy world, and who knew if the panther would have some kind of skill. So, I let it relax. Just at the moment when the Black Panther lowered its head to the grey rabbit, I moved.

An athletic black shadow instantly swept out from the middle of the jungle, approaching the Black Panther at a terrifying speed. By the time the Black Panther realized the threat, I had already slapped my palm fiercely on its head, and the powerful force directly slapped the Black Panther, which was more than three metres long, to the point where its brain burst open. The Black Panther only had time to wail before its body flew out several metres away and transformed into a warm corpse. After a few convulsions, the battle ended. I walked over to the Black Panther's corpse and surveyed my masterpiece.

Nodding my head with considerable satisfaction, I grabbed the Black Panther's neck with my front paws. I didn't forget to grab the huge rabbit and came to the edge of the rotting swamp, laying down the Black Panther and rabbit's corpses. After swimming in the swamp for a while, I could see from afar where the dragon's nest cave was located.

I dived tens of metres down into the dragon's nest passageway, hearing movement coming from the passage. Emilia and Hannah, who smelled the familiar odor, were awakened. Their gazes looked over, and then they saw me, carrying the corpses of a huge Black Panther and a huge rabbit in my mouth, coming towards them from the outside passage.

Emilia and Hannah froze, looking at me. "Big Brother?" Hannah bristled a bit in disappointment.

"You went out hunting?" Emilia stared at the dragon's eyes in disbelief and asked.

"The guts are too big, right?" I threw the Black Panther and rabbit carcasses on the edge of the muddy pool, lazily glanced at my dragon brother and sister, and lightly grunted to show my disdain.

"Isn't it just going out for a hunt? As for being so surprised?" I pondered for a while and stopped caring about the two little dragons.

I walked over to the Black Panther and rabbit corpses, opened my dragon mouth, and brewed for a while before spitting out a conical acid. The acid stained the Black Panther and rabbit corpses and instantly emitted a noxious sound. Soon, the Black Panther and rabbit corpses were corroded beyond recognition. Immediately after, I threw the acid-flavored Black Panther and rabbit inside the mud puddle.

The Black Dragon's acid not only had huge killing power, but it could also play a role in preserving the freshness of the corpse. Normally, a beast's corpse would stink in four to six days and then start to rot, but after being spat on by the Black Dragon's acid, this time would be much longer. Half a month or twenty days would keep it fresh enough, and at the same time, the corpse's loss of nutrients from all kinds of elements would also be much slower and lower.

It is also due to the preservation effect of the Black Dragon's acid spit that I am certain with my current strength, I will be able to hunt enough prey to complete the progress of my third feast.

After completing this series of operations, I turned to look at my dragon sisters to warn them, "This prey was hunted by me, so don't get any ideas."

I told them clearly.

Forced by Big Brother's majestic iron fist, Emilia and Hannah obediently nodded their heads, stating that they would not spy on Big Brother's prey. I nodded my head, just to encourage strength. I nodded my head again. On the surface, I looked relieved, but deep in my heart, I laughed coldly. A few times, I would believe in their bullshit.

If the evil dragon could really be so well-behaved and obedient, it wouldn't be possible for it to be called an evil dragon.

However, for the sake of the safety of the prey I would hunt in the future, I planned to use this Black Panther's carcass as bait. I resolved that if my dragon brother and sister really had thoughts about my prey, I would definitely not show any mercy and would give them both an impressive lesson.

"That's good! I have to go out and continue hunting now," I said without moving. Then, without looking at the expressions of the two little dragons, I turned around and left directly.

Emilia and Hannah, who still didn't know what their own Big Brother was thinking, after seeing me leave, immediately looked at each other and silently nodded.

"This guy is too stupid, thinking that we are Silver Dragon kind of fools who will abide by a contract," Emilia said disdainfully. Hannah nodded along, though she was already patient.

"Enough talk, let's hurry up and fish up that Black Panther and rabbit." With the two little dragons working in unison, the bodies of the Black Panther and rabbit, which had just sunk into the mud not long ago, were thrown out. The two little girls no longer cared about my warning and pounced on the Black Panther's corpse first to feast on it.

"Take it easy, eat slowly, or you'll choke on it."

"Hannah, what are you talking about? Silly! If you eat slowly, what if that guy comes back later?"

Emilia subconsciously disliked it. Then, she quickly realized that Hannah was in front of her gulping, looking behind her with a horrified face.

Emilia realized something and warily turned her head to see me, who was giving her a kind smile.

The next moment, a muffled thud rang out in the dragon's nest as I landed a rising dragon fist directly on Emilia's jaw, sending her flying heavily five or six meters away.

Hannah looked at Emilia, who had been knocked out by a single punch, and then looked at the broken dragon scales and dragon blood stuck to my clawed fist, and couldn't help but back away.

"You… You... You don't come over, don't come over!"

I grimaced, spat viciously, and said, "Damn you! You ate my prey and you're still talking to me about conditions, right?"

Not waiting for Hannah to explain, I directly hit her with a crow-sitting-fly move, crushing her under my body. Then, I viciously struck her head left and right, with blood and broken dragon scales splattering everywhere, proving the heavy hand of my blows.

But after only 10 punches, I put Hannah directly into a coma. But coma aside, this kind of injury for a dragon is too light.

The next moment, I once again began to deliver blows to my dragon sisters left and right—dragon brother and sister, left and right—using all kinds of vicious and poisonous moves: the Divine Dragon's swinging tail, the hand-cranked electric fan, the Goddess of Mercy sitting on the big lotus, the Black Dragon hollowing out the heart. All were delivered by me with tigerish vigor.

After 10 minutes of 'Honoring the old and loving the young' with my dragon sisters, I threw the two tortured little dragons onto the ground.

I walked to their bodies and lowered my head, looking at the two little dragons, whose heads were broken and bleeding miserably.

"Still dare to spy on your Big Brother's prey?"

The two little dragons, whose consciousness was almost blurred, took a full dozen seconds before nodding with difficulty.

"It's good if you don't dare anymore. If next time my prey is stolen by you again, it won't be so simple."

I pretended to be ferocious and said rationally. Emilia and Hannah, looking at the ferocious me, their eyes immediately showed a trace of fear and dread.

Their Big Brother is so scary—scarier than any vicious dragon. The two little fledgling dragons hurriedly nodded their heads, their faces lying on the ground, honestly submitting to me.