Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 181 Silver Dragon 'Aurelia'

The two young dragons finished their first prey in less than half an hour. After eating their fill, Izzy even flew into the crater of an active volcano and drank some lava. After eating and drinking to his heart's content, Izzy flew back to the dragon's nest and slowly fell asleep in the treasure pile of the Flame Dragon Mother.

The Flame Dragon Mother quickly returned to the dragon's nest with another young dragon. She first went to check on Izar to make sure the little guy was safe and sound before she went to the incubation room to check on Agred and the dragon eggs.

As the Flame Dragon Mother slowly entered the incubation chamber, she was met with a huge red dragon devouring the dead dragon eggs. The bizarre scene before her made the Flame Dragon Mother tentatively ask, somewhat uncertainly, "Agred?" (Agred's fabricated true name for the dragon still begins with 'Agred')

Argreed swallowed the dragon egg in her mouth and replied, "It is I, the great Flame Dragon Mother."

Seeing this, the Flame Dragon Mother said happily, "I thought Ize was already surprising enough, but I didn't expect you to grow so big after taking a nap! Very good, are you hungry? I'll send someone to bring you some food right away."

Argreed quickly replied, "No need, Mother Dragon, I'm already full. I've eaten all five dragon eggs except for the one that hasn't hatched yet. I'm full and don't need to eat anymore."

"Alright then, my lovely child. When you're hungry, I'll personally take you hunting. Let me see just how impressive your dragon body, even larger than Izar's, really is. By the way, don't stay here any longer; this place is too small for you. Come with me; I've already arranged a place for you to stay." With that, the Flame Dragon Mother turned and left the hatching chamber. Agreed followed her, and led by the Flame Dragon Mother, they arrived at a huge cave, a 'Dragon Nest' that the Flame Dragon Mother had specially created over the years to raise her young dragons.

So Agreed settled here and successfully completed his first hunt. He killed a fire lizard leader with overwhelming force, using only his body, which was actually more terrifying than a young dragon, without using any magic. This made the Flame Dragon Mother express her gratitude to Tiamat for her blessing. This generation not only produced a dragon mage as talented as Izar, but also a pure dragon warrior like Agreed. This gave the Flame Dragon Mother hope that the red dragon race could once again resound throughout the continent, and she naturally attributed this achievement to the evil dragon mother she worshipped, Tiamat.

For this reason, the Flame Dragon Mother specially brought out a large box of gold coins to the secret chamber outside the dragon's nest where the Tiamat statue was enshrined for worship. As for why the Tiamat statue was placed outside the dragon's nest, please let me tell you the story.

Dragons are strange creatures; if there is any characteristic that surpasses their arrogance, it is greed.

Any creature associated with dragons, even dragon beasts, is particularly keen on collecting wealth, but they collect these treasures not for use, but simply out of a strong desire to possess them.

Even the most amiable metallic dragons will guard their treasures just like the stingiest human misers, even to the point of fighting with their allies and friends over it.

As for the five chromatic dragons, known for their evil, they are even more wicked. Even for their most revered queen, Tiamat, they would not set up a small shrine for her in their lair, because they felt that Tiamat's greedy eyes would covet their treasures. Therefore, Tiamat's shrine is usually placed outside the dragon's lair by the five chromatic dragons.

Red dragons are the most greedy of all dragons, insatiable and obsessed treasure hunters. They know the value and origin of every item in their treasure trove, as well as the exact location of each item. If a thief steals even a single inconspicuous gold coin, the red dragon will immediately notice and bring about the extinction of their race.

In layman's terms, the more powerful a dragon is, the more treasure it possesses. In dragon society, wealth is also a symbol of status. And without a doubt, judging from the scale of the treasures within the lair of the Flame Dragon Mother Aleister, she can certainly be considered a successful dragon.

Therefore, for the Flame Dragon Mother to offer a box of gold coins as a sacrifice was already a huge financial burden for the Red Dragon. It is no exaggeration to say that the Flame Dragon Mother can be considered one of the most devout believers in the faith of Tiamat.

Three months later, the last remaining dragon egg finally hatched, but unexpectedly, what hatched from that dragon egg was a female silver dragon!

This surprised the Flame Dragon Mother, since the pattern on the eggshell clearly indicated that it was a red dragon egg. Of course, it was not uncommon for red dragon eggs to hatch into other five-colored dragon species, but it was very rare for them to hatch into metallic dragon species.

Generally speaking, good-aligned metal dragons don't reproduce with evil-aligned five-colored dragons, let alone gold and silver dragons, which inherently possess a "righteous and noble" image. Therefore, it's highly likely that a violent red dragon forced itself on a silver dragon, resulting in the egg being found by the Flame Dragon Mother.

Therefore, this silver dragon should be a hybrid dragon, and in terms of appearance, she perfectly inherited the appearance of her silver dragon mother.

The first thing the silver dragon said after it was born was its true name, 'Aurelia Bidalás Abichel (a hundred words of its true name are omitted here)'. However, the Flame Dragon Mother's eyes grew colder and colder, because hybrid dragons were always seen as a symbol of curse by other pure-blooded dragons. Otherwise, given the silver dragon's way of doing things, the mother of this dragon egg would not have abandoned her.

Whether benevolent metal dragons or malevolent five-colored dragons, they all considered hybrid dragons not pure dragons, but rather filthy, failed products like other half-dragon creatures such as dragon beasts. Therefore, pure-blooded true dragons usually regarded hybrid dragons as despicable creatures that should be expelled or killed outright. Although some hybrids sometimes perfectly inherited the superior traits of their parents, achieving a synergy greater than the sum of its parts, biologically speaking, this was only a special case. Most hybrids suffered from various problems related to intelligence, personality, physical health, and even the soul due to genetic disorder. Moreover, hybrid dragons would generally leave to establish their own clans after reaching adulthood, or even break away from the dragon race that raised them. This led to the dragons' growing discrimination against these hybrids (although I personally believe that the main reason was actually internal discrimination among dragons, which forced these hybrid dragons to leave their groups). From then on, the dragons, adhering to the principle of "better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free," always treated hybrids as deadly!

Now, Aurellia has proven in the Dragon Language that she is a hybrid dragon who has passed through the dragon lineage, which has made the Flame Dragon Mother even more determined to kill her. But just as the Flame Dragon Mother was about to strike, Izar suddenly stepped forward and used his sweet words and linguistic traps to save the hybrid dragon's life. In the end, the Flame Dragon Mother only made it public to declare that she had banished the 'silver dragon'.

As for why the Flame Dragon Mother would call this hybrid dragon a pure-blooded silver dragon, it's mainly because if a hybrid is hatched from a dragon's nest, the other dragons will laugh at it for life. So, for her own face and because Aurellia looks pure enough, the Flame Dragon Mother had no choice but to resort to this tactic to save face. The main reason the Flame Dragon Mother compromised was because she didn't want to have a conflict with Izar over such a small matter.