"There are Five stages to learning a dragon's innate ability, Scale control to 10% complete mastery,
First of the five stages are, Scale sensing, for this to succeed, you have to be able to sense all your scales individually, and you have succeeded when you know how many scales you have, so start meditating and sense your scales"
it had been three days since he started counting his scales with just his sense of touch,
According to his own thought-process, The diamond like scales surrounding him should have been a part of himself
Which, by extension, means that his Rebirth Instinct should work and he should have been easily able to pass the first stage of his scale control ability
But, unfortunately, that was not so, The scales seemed to be more of a cloth or armor than a part of himself, as his instincts were completely out of touch with them,
So he had to gruelingly, count his scales using his unique draconic senses of touch,
