Became a Hatchling of the Grand Duke of the North

39 – Dragon of the Blizzard (3) /// (Notice: The previous episode has been edited because it was duplicated.)

The tribe of dragons is often referred to as a lizard.

But actually, that’s not so wrong.

Actually, most dragons except dragons are a lineage of reptiles with intelligence similar to snakes, crocodiles, lizards, and lizardmen.

If you have to judge its distance, it is a monitor lizard that is exceptionally bloated, with a distance closer to lizards than any other species on the ground.

It was a close match.

Perhaps the dragon tribe’s extreme dislike of the word lizard itself had a reasonable reason of its own.

The fact that they, as lofty and high-ranking intellectuals, are in fact the most similar to those insignificant and small creatures that roam the grass.

Anyway, for that reason.

Belonging to one of the reptiles, these dragons have a period of rapid growth from childhood.

Unlike most other mammals that grow at a constant rate, they grow rapidly in an instant through specific periods of time.

And that time is-.

ㅡ (Book: Excerpted from Arcana Siran’s ‘Memoirs of a Hundred Years. On the Ecology of Dragons’.)

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Buck buck buck.

It tickles me.

Han continued to scratch himself against a nearby wall.

Sometimes it nervously scratched itself as if it were rolling on a cold, rough stone ground, and other times it raised the blades of its claws that didn’t exist and scratched between the cracks in its scales.

[Kiii-.]

He let out such disapproval that he never liked the situation.

Lucia, who was watching him, opened her mouth.

[You must be in a bad mood.]

[It looks like that.]

The two officially became dragon saints through the contract with the guardian dragon, and through the connected inner string, they could feel the thoughts of Han, albeit vaguely.

[They say that shedding is when dragons are at their weakest. At this time, itching occurs because the skin surrounding the integument is floating, but I heard that the skin also becomes sensitive as it softens.]

Shedding is essentially a period of growth and weakening at the same time.

It wasn’t just about taking off the outer shell and growing.

Since the body becomes extremely fragile in order to shed at the same time, it is natural to feel uncomfortable.

For a dragon, it’s because it’s the moment when it becomes weakest.

The hard scales that surround their entire body are the softest, and they become vulnerable to external shocks, so their temperament becomes sharper instinctively.

It was a manifestation of natural instinct.

Anyway, for that reason.

In fact, Han’s inside has been filled with considerable displeasure for a long time now.

[Kiik!]

Nervously scratching himself, he refused even to be touched by his contractors.

I was just rolling around in his room.

I feel uncomfortable in my stomach.

But there is also a solution to such undercooked bloating.

Through the wisdom of her long ancestors, Grand Duke Lucrezia knew as well as she did.

[Lucia. Take the guardian dragon near the window.]

[Window… You mean? All right.]

While tilting her head at the instructions with questionable content, Lucia obediently followed them.

[Kiik! Key profit!]

She struggled with her body and picked up her unusually resistant guardian dragon Han, and placed it by her window.

It was a struggle at first.

However, as soon as he got close to the sunny window and began to receive the light, his dissatisfaction began to fade in an instant.

‘What, what is it?’

Han the Guardian Dragon.

He felt himself instantly calmed down in the clear, bright sunlight.

‘Oh… Oh?’

As soon as he started to receive sunlight, he felt something rapidly calming down.

The tickling fades away, and instead, it fills up in its place, a feeling like your body warming up.

[Kiii.]

He groaned and fell on his face by the window, closing his eyes.

It felt like the nerves that had been on edge were about to die.

It was a strange feeling, like ice cream melting warmly in the sun.

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How long had it been since Han started basking in the sun like that?

Suddenly, with his eyes completely closed to the point where he didn’t even know when he fell asleep, a strange noise started to ring in his ears.

Keep. Damn

[…?]

It was a strange noise.

It sounds like it’s cracking and tearing at the same time.

At first, it was a han that I ignored as if I was drunk with drowsy sleep.

Soon, the moment I realized that the sound was none other than the sound coming from the body of ‘Han himself’, I was completely sleepy.

Damn it.

Along with the sound, it felt like Han’s body suddenly grew bigger.

[Kiik?]

In that bizarre sense that I dare not even express.

Han awoke from his sleep. He opened his closed eyes.

‘…What’s going on?’

While wondering, he reflexively looked around me, and his whole body felt strange.

I could see that there were things that looked like skin on the outside.

‘What, what is it? This. What kind of fault is it all of a sudden?’

I’m not kidding. It was a real mess!

However, it seemed that other people were watching in wonder at his embarrassing scene.

[Wow. It must be right now!]

[Oh! The day will come when I will witness the growth of the dragon in my lifetime!]

It wasn’t just one or two that witnessed Han’s change.

From Lucrezia and Lucia, many of the family members of the castle were glaring at each other.

Some of the maids who watched from the other side of the door with their heads sticking out were even praying with their hands together with thrilled faces.

But the guardian dragon, Han.

At this moment, he had no choice but to focus only on his own drastic change.

‘This skin… Sheds and rises.’

Shedding.

He began to squeeze his body out of the hard outer skin that had begun to harden as his instincts forced him to do.

It’s like throwing off old clothes from before.

[Ki, kki.]

The process was arduous.

It was because it was heavy, as if a heavy weight was hanging all over the body.

It was not an ordinary task to take it off, as the previous skin had hardened and dried in the sun.

Even this was like a hard suit wrapped around the body.

From the head down to the two pairs of legs, wings and tail.

It was not common to take off all those things and stand up.

At least one breath was not enough, so he tried again and again to get out of his skin by exhaling and inhaling heavily.

[Cheer up! Guardian Dragon!]

[You can!]

I could hear small voices coming from the surroundings, but

Han, who was only paying attention to himself at this moment, couldn’t hear them properly.

However, the process of that effort came to an end.

Finally, Han succeeded in getting rid of the old outer shell that was like a prison that was holding him down.

‘I’m out…!’

He came out of the shell through a crack in his back,

As if to let the whole world know about the feeling of joy, he cried out loudly to fill the room.

[Kieek!]

He is congratulating himself on the success of his instinctive escape.

Diring-!

Han was able to face such a message containing new content that popped up in front of his eyes.

[Congratulations!]

[We have reached a new stage of ‘larvae’ by gaining sufficient growth from the dragon’s ‘larvae’ stage!]

[In line with the growth of the dragon, the ice attribute power increases from E grade to D grade!]

‘Oh?’

To the alarm of the message that popped up in an instant.

Han’s jaw dropped slightly in surprise and admiration.

He quickly called up the status window at the message that popped up in front of him and checked the current situation.

‘Again. My abilities have risen again.’

Attribute power. Another growth of a slightly unusual ability that is different from the characteristic.

With him, Han was able to feel his own attribute power that had become stronger.

Siss.

Now, it wasn’t all about him just summoning his abilities in a cold space like he used to.

Just by raising my willpower, I felt a cold chill wind creeping through the air around me.

The warm air inside the castle cooled down at his will.

‘Even the warm heat around me can now be turned into a cold element as I wish. It doesn’t feel like I’m forced to move anymore like I used to.’

More essential than that.

At the same time, it felt like it was moving more naturally.

[Kiii.]

Han looked down at him.

It hasn’t been long since she finished shedding, so he’s still in a fragile state. The color of his silvery white scales was also rather opaque.

It seemed like it would take some time for his scales to regain their jewel-like refreshing shine.

But there was something that touched him before that.

Han’s eyes twinkled.

‘The size has gotten a little bigger!’

Growth of the dragon.

It was their unique characteristic of inflating both the inside and the outside at the same time.