Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Seraphina
While they are waiting for the fire dragon to hatch out from its shell, the Ruler of this Draconic Realm, Diluc Leonhart, goes down as he is still anxious about the result of this incubation, deciding to get a fresh Magic Fruit right from the farm as it is only a few moments until the young dragon hatches from its shell, this timeframe just enough for him to pick up what he wants and return back on the True Dragon Nourishing Tree to witness the young fire dragon emerging from its shell.

As he arrives at the location, he couldn’t help but pay attention at the two draconic beings, beauties of an unrivalled level of their own, looking at the egg now losing its previous fiery red glowing luster, both of them showing not concern but rather excitement as they know what this signifies, the fact that the young one inside manages to successfully absorb all that energy being fed to her directly by the True Dragon Nourishing Tree.

“She’s about to come out~~~” Yggdrasil mutters as she saw a miniscule crack appearing right on the upper most part of the shell, the crack getting larger and larger as it bulges outwards, almost as if someone is hitting hit from the inside.

“A junior sister…” looking at the young fire dragon trying to escape from the confines of her shell, the taciturn Argenta said with a rare smile on her beautiful face, her eyes glowing in anticipation of being a senior sister for someone as she only experienced being the junior sister with the wood dragon standing right beside her.

As this continues, the cracked egg shell eventually starts falling apart from the structure of the egg, the falling parts exposing to the world another majestic creature on a reptilian form, a flame mane on its neck and burning through her horns, her reddish scales making her appear all the more regal-looking as it appears like numerous blood rubies are covering her skin.

After getting a peek of the outside world, the young fire dragon couldn’t help but growl at the first people it saw, all of them seemingly sharing the same smell as her, albeit the one right in the middle of the three, the one seemingly completely different from the two figures, being that of someone with a fainter familiar smell than the two, yet somehow, the very same figure feels the most familiar to it.

Poking its head back on the insides of the shell, this young one seems to be the most outgoing and quirky among all the dragons, numbering three now, that Diluc hatched, the young hatchling after doing so then quickly extending its still wobbly limbs to break out of the confinement of her shell, said shell exploding into smithereens and nearly spreads across the entire True Dragon Nourishing Tree if not for the Ruler of the Draconic Realm using his authority to stop every bits and fragments of the shells spreading through all directions.

After seeing what the young man does, the young fire dragon couldn’t help but roar at him, not because of anything else but pure admiration, seeing this show as a display of his power, causing her to look at him in awe.

“Are all dragons really this innocent at birth?” looking at how this young one acts, Diluc couldn’t help but ask more to himself rather than anyone else as he gathers the fragments of the shell around, handing it to the hatchling now moving towards him.

“You’re… a parent, liege, or well… a benefactor of the highest degree…” the taciturn Argenta explains as she clearly understands how this young fire dragon feels, the fact alone that she was nurtured since the very start of her life in a top-tier place something that is already enough for the young man, their liege, to earn her eternal gratefulness, not to mention the fact that he really cares for them as well.

“This might be due to your changing bloodline because of our blessings, my dear liege~~~” the alluring Yggdrasil added to her junior sister’s words, making Diluc understand the significance of the blessings he receives from all these dragons even more.

“So the blessings also increases my affinity with other dragons?” he clarifies, earning a nod from the wood dragoness as the Dragon Herding System pops up to confirm his speculation.

[Indirectly, yes, since each blessing enhances and change your bloodline into more of a dragon, a powerful one that perfectly mixes each and every single elemental affinity of the draconic race as is]

“Then why the closeness of the young ones? I once read that dragons are innately prideful being at birth” Diluc asked, quite curious about why he just seems to be a magnet for these draconic ladies.

[As already explained previously, depending on the dragon’s gender, they revere their liege in a different way, but always shows their loyalty to him one way or another, this might be the way that they revere you because of the precedence from the very first dragon you managed to get the blessing of]

As he reads the explanation of the system, the young man starts nodding as he understands it more and more, his eventual deduction being the fact that should he receive enough blessings from the dragons he will grow from now on, it might come to the point that he doesn’t even need to do a thing for those with draconic bloodline to revere him, a thought that causes him to look forward to his future even more.

After this round of explanation, he already saw the young fire dragon currently munching on its egg shells, the look of satisfaction on its face something that made the two draconic beauties, Yggdrasil and Argenta, to look at her with such adoration on their eyes as if they found a great toy to play with.

As much as they look at the new dragon like that though, they treat her like a new little sister for them to take care of, immediately playing around with her the moment she starts learning how to walk properly, prompting the young fire dragon to roar in joy as she chases around these two ladies that bears the same scent as her, the joyous figure of the three dragoness chasing each other and playing around causing their liege, Diluc, to smile as he never expected that he will experience such kind of warm life once again.

“Fufufu~~~ go now little one, chase our liege instead~~” after the two of them got intentionally caught by their current youngest sister, Yggdrasil giggles her heart out as she, along with the second dragon in the group, the taciturn Argenta, points towards their liege, causing the hatchling to roar at him as she starts rushing forward, causing the two beauties to smile as they take their turn to enjoy the show.

Meanwhile, the young man merely waits for this young one to approach him, eventually reaching arm’s length distance with each other, the moment they enter that range causing the young dragon to just stop on her track as she looks up at this young man, who seems to feel way more familiar to her than the ladies she just played with.

Seeing the look on the young dragon’s eyes, Diluc then smiles at it, holding his hand out and waiting for her to reach out to his hands, his waiting not going for too long as the young one touches him with its nose, the scorching hot temperature of its body receding into a gentle warm as it touches his skin, making both of them feel like they are connected to each other.

Closing both their eyes, the young man found himself in a familiar place that he only saw twice in his lifetime, thrice if counting this moment right now, but despite only being in this place for a few times, he already instinctively knows what to do as he follows the invisible treads that anchors his being here and feels like connected to someone else on the other side, the one on the other side appearing after not so long as it also follows the invisible threads towards him.

“I take it that you gave me your blessings as well?” Diluc said as he lifted the corporeal form of the young fire dragon, his actions and words causing her to roar with pride in her eyes, looking at him as if telling him that it is his honor for her to bless him, causing him to laugh his heart out as this gaze turns into a silly smile once he smiles at her.

“You want a name as well?” he asks as he returns the young fire dragon to the ground, earning him an excited growl as it prances around, circling him excitedly as if it is waiting for this exact moment to happen ever since they enter this place.

Seeing how the hatchling acts, Diluc couldn’t help but think of just how interesting dragons are as a creature, shoving this thought in the back of his mind for later times as he starts to focus on the name of this young one, his mind sparking with a hint of what he thinks is a great idea as he smiles before opening his mouth.

“A lady that embodies the burning flame in her wings, from now on, you will be named Seraphina, after the burning seraphim of myths”