Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: New Skills
Hearing the name being given to her, the young fire dragon hatchling couldn’t help but roar in celebration as even she who seems to have quite the pride on herself despite being just born, takes the name as something really worthy of her, causing her to express such feelings by prancing around her liege without any care in the world.

After a few more minutes of them playing around in this blank space, both the young fire dragon and the human feels like they are being pulled away from this place now, causing them to just smile at each other as both their corporeal bodies in this realm starts fading into nothing, their consciousness coming back to their physical body with the two of them feeling like they understand each other more than before.

After feeling that there is another one that seems to be closely connected to his being, the Ruler of the Draconic Realm, Diluc, clenches his fist as he feels the newfound power he receives from the newly named Seraphina, causing him to smile in satisfaction once he starts feeling another element of mana in the air.

Feeling and somehow seeing the bright red specks of light once he uses his mana to interact with the surrounding mana in the air, he finally felt the greatest effect of this blessings, his ability to bend and control this fire elemental mana according to his own will causing him to feel quite entertained playing with them for a while.

Meanwhile, the dragonesses who are just a few meters around him just watches him play around and discover this strength he just acquired, even the new to the world Seraphina seems to possess enough intelligence to tell herself that she should allow this young man to just do whatever he is currently doing.

After finally feeling satisfied with how he can control the fire elemental mana now, Diluc then redirected his attention to the draconic beauties currently looking at him along with the young fire dragoness who has yet to attain her human form.

Summoning the gray floating screen to take a look at the strength of the young hatchling, Diluc then starts reading through the information of the dragoness he just named, the screen appearing causing the two dragoness who are both in their human form to take a peek on the screen as well.

The young man just allow them to do whatever they wants though given that he is just looking at the information of the hatchling who is the latest addition to their gradually growing family, all of them thinking that she’s definitely not going to be the last.

[Seraphina]

[Race: Dragon (Fire)]

[Age: (Infancy)]

[Cultivations]

[Magic: Vague Red Core (Combat power at Vague Orange Core)]

[Body Tempering: Early Skin Refining (Combat power at Early Muscle Conditioning)]

[Elemental Affinity: Fire]

[Skills: Draconic Blessing (One-time use, already consumed), Draconic Scale, Eternal Flames, Eruption, Dragon Roar, Dragon Claw]

[Overall Combat Power: 4-star]

After looking at the information of Seraphina currently displayed, Diluc pretty much confirmed that he, once again, nourishes another top-tier talent of the dragon race, an odd enough situation that made him perplexed given that all the ones he nourished until now shares two similar facts among all of them, the first one is that all of them are top tier talents even to the dragon race, and the second one being the fact that all of them turns out to be ladies.

‘Don’t tell me that the dragon race is dominated by its women?’ thinking of his experience so far, Diluc couldn’t help but imagine and think to himself, as this might be the only explanation for this event he encountered that seems to just be too impossible for it to be coincidental.

[The draconic race is neither patriarchal or matriarchal in nature, only the strongest dragon of one generation can claim the position of being the ruler of the race, and that defines whether that time period will be a matriarchal or a patriarchal rule for the dragons]

‘I see, yet another fact that I don’t know yet…’ the young man said as he starts stroking his chin as if he read another fascinating piece of information, before nodding satisfyingly as if his curiosity towards this subject is already sated.

[The world is huge, and you will learn more and more the stronger you grow.]

[For the record, you are the current ruler of the race]

Seeing the last line of words from the Dragon Herding System, he couldn’t help but start getting confused especially since he knows the current limits of his strength, while far exceeding his current cultivation realm, is still something within the lower level of the spectrum if the experts limited to this kingdom alone, not to mention the entire continent and the other places beyond that.

‘What do you mean by that?’ after reading the information, Diluc just suddenly starts to feel an unscratchable its in his heart, causing him to feel a bit antsy as he doesn’t want to let this question of his unanswered, which is exactly what happens as the floating grey screen refuses to elaborate further.

Dismissing this and putting those thoughts in the back of his mind for now though, he then focuses on the new skills that seems to be unique to Seraphina and possibly all the other dragons who possesses affinity to fire elemental mana, with him being the only one looking at the floating screen now given that his two lovers seem to be focused on playing with the young fire dragon hatchling once again.

[Eternal Flames (Passive)]

[Description: A skill unique to the creatures who had branched off from the union of the Prime Dragon of Light and the Prime Dragon of Destruction, a flame that grants all fire elemental dragons the chance to be reborn from the flames just like the legendary phoenix do, as well as allow them to burn everything around them in the process of this rebirth]

[Eruption (Active)]

[Description: A skill unique to the creatures who had branched off from the Prime Dragon of Destruction, it is a skill so devastating in the hands of the powerful that even other members of the dragon race tend to fear it just from its potency alone. Creates a massive surge of power for the dragon using it to utilize, improving all physical and mental faculty by consistently increasing the circulation of blood and even mana by invigorating them with the heat of the absolute flame controlled by the fire dragons, granting them an extreme strength for a set period of time depending on the dragon’s strength, tolerance as well as their mastery of this skill]

Once he finished reading through everything, the young man, the ruler of the Draconic Realm, couldn’t help but clench his fist in excitement, the two skills he acquired seems to be way powerful, as well as something with a lot of utility.

‘How many times can I use the Eternal Flame skill?’ as he watches the ladies and the draconic hatchling running around and playing on the fields of grass after descending down from the True Dragon Nourishing Tree, the young man asks, waiting for the system to appear, this time not leaving him hanging in the air unlike his previous question to it.

[You can use it as long as you have enough mana]

“How much mana will I consume per use of it then?” seeing the words on the screen, her then proceeds to ask the crucial question that will allow him to determine just now absurd this skill will be in the battlefield, where everyone’s lives, even the lives of the extremely powerful existence, is hanging by a thread each and every second.

‘Not like I see being in any large battlefield in the near future but, better to be prepared…’ he thought to himself as he finally saw the floating gray screen pop up with a new message once again, prompting him to read through the short message that made him quite pleasantly surprised.

[It depends on the damage that you sustained from the supposed death, with the highest consumption being fifty percent of maximum mana, and the lowest consumption being ten percent of your maximum mana]

Seeing this, the smile on Diluc’s face starts getting quite wider than it already is, showing just how happy he is for receiving such skill that will guarantee his safety even more somehow, making him praise himself for the decision of going on to buy a fire dragon egg on the shop once again.

“Things are looking better and better…” he mutters to himself as he watches the ladies playing around the vast empty fields of the main island of the Draconic Realm, with nothing but the True Dragon Nourishing Tree as well as the singular Magic Fruit Farm on it, deciding to descend down this massive tree as well after taking some looks at the three floating islands just some distance away from the main island.