Alex chatted with the old smith while he worked for the next three hours as the sun slowly lowered over the horizon. Soon enough the chef sent word that the food was done so Alex said goodbye to the old man and walked over to the canteen. Unsurprisingly the runt was already there waiting eagerly for whatever amazing food Alex had hunted down this time. Alex could only chuckle at the sight of the slightly bigger than man sized monster acting like an excitable puppy. Still the chef didn't keep either of the two big eaters waiting and divided the stew into two parts with one being much larger than the other before giving them to Alex and the runt.-
The stew was rich and savory with just a hint of spice and tang to it that was quite nice to taste for Alex. The runt didn't care about the flavor at all and was downing it's bowl rapidly like it was drinking water. The chef shook his head in disappointment at this sight so Alex decided to cheer him up a bit. 'Don't mind the runt , he seems to take after the admiral and wouldn't know good food if it bit it.' Alex said with a chuckle and the chef smirked and nodded in agreement.-
Alex finished his own bowl of food much later than the runt since he actually wanted to enjoy his food. The runt looked tempted to try and steal some but the glare it got every time it attempted to get closer stopped it. For the meat in the stew Alex got three traits which wasn't hard to believe for him since it happened every now and then. [Pyrosis T6] , [lingering flame] , [fire resistance] were the traits Alex got but two of which merely went into his already obtained versions.-
The new one however [lingering flame] was a rare ranked trait that gave his fire attacks the blast blight property that teostras own had. It was only level one at the moment but Alex found it interesting enough to keep even if his [explosive poison] was better. While his [variant pyrosis] trait didn't grow stronger exactly Alex could tell that the amount of fire type energy he needed to raise it to the next tier was greatly reduced instead. With his meal finished Alex went to his nest for the night content.-
The next morning Alex woke up and stretched causing his joints to pop pleasantly before leaving his nest to the dim light of dawn. He casually strolled towards to closest exit to astera and greeted the hunter on guard duty before flapping his wings and taking off into the air. Today Alex didn't really have any particular plan about what to hunt and simply decided to follow the wind too see where it takes him. The answer to that question was straight into an ambush as while he was flying over an explored part of the wildspire wasteland he was attacked.-
Did you know that getting knocked out of the air by a boulder that had no business there hurt like a bitch , because Alex sure did at this point. He caught himself before he crashed into the desert sands below but the cracked scales and dull ache on his back told Alex that he wasn't hallucinating. 'The fuck just..' Alex didn't even get to finish his thought before he was forced to dodge as a large shadow crept over him from above alongside a whistling sound. "BOOM!" The unknow thing crashed into the ground after missing Alex which kicked up a huge plume of dust.-
When the wind blew the dust away a moment latter Alex finally saw what attacked him and mentally cursed. It was clearly an elder dragon as it had four legs on the bottom of it's body and wings on it's back. The reason Alex cursed however was that the thing was nearly twice his size and looked like it took every kind of steroid imaginable and lived in the gym. The elder had smooth sandy tan leathery skin and spikes coming from it's shoulders and elbows alongside a set of three long sharp horns on it's decidedly not friendly head.
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