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Geller reacted the fastest and was closest to the door, so he rushed to the Dragon Vein sorceress at the first possible moment.
The Dragon Vein sorceress didn't say much. Light blue light condensed in her hand and covered the wounds on Geller's dragon body.
Geller squinted his dragon eyes comfortably. His injuries were healing, and his dragon scales were growing, which made him feel a little itchy.
However, the effects of hydrotherapy quickly wore off.
Geller opened his dragon eyes and looked at the tall Dragon Vein sorceress in front of him in confusion as if wondering why she didn't continue.
The Dragon Vein sorceress said expressionlessly, "The rules set by Lady Sophia are that the first hydrotherapy after each battle is free, and if you want to use it again, you need to pay with dragon coins."
Dragon Coin?
Geller suddenly remembered that after the battle, the female Dragonborn, Sophia, gave each of the four little dragons some black coins. The number of black coins each little dragon received was different. The woman said at the time,
"This is dragon coins, and it is also the currency you will use for a long time in the future. Dragon coins can be used to purchase monster meat, magic cores, elemental gems, gold coins, and injury treatment."
"There are currently two ways to obtain dragon coins. One is through the score of each battle with the teacher. The higher the score, the more dragon coins you will get. The other way is through personal improvement, such as improving the order of creatures, improving the level of professions, and even learning new spells, improving spell proficiency, etc."
At that time, the four little dragons were beaten by Emilia, Hannah, and Eirlys and were confused, so they didn't remember much about this. Now…
"I remember it. So, this broken thing can be exchanged for gold coins and gems?" Geller took out a black coin from the gap between his reverse scales and held it in his dragon claw, asking in disbelief.
The black coin was plain, with only a dark dragon head engraved on it. The two different shades of black highlighted the dragon's head.
The Dragon Vein sorceress smiled as her tails waved. She glanced at the black coin and nodded slightly. "Yes."
"How many elemental gems can one dragon coin exchange for?"
Yulia came forward, pushed Geller aside, and asked with shining eyes.
"I'm sorry, you can't exchange even one elemental gemstone, not even the lowest quality ones." The Dragon Vein sorceress shook her head slightly and then reminded, "In the dragon coin equivalent table drawn up by Lady Sophia, one dragon coin can be exchanged for one gold coin, and the lowest quality elemental gemstone is also worth dozens of gold coins."
"One dragon coin can only be exchanged for one gold coin?" Yulia was a little disappointed. After being beaten for so long, was it worth only one gold coin?
She suddenly thought, "What about the price of hydrotherapy?"
"Five dragon coins," the Dragon Vein sorceress replied with a teasing smile.
"Why don't you just go and rob it!" Geller on the side couldn't help but growl after hearing this.
However, the Dragon Vein sorceress's expression remained indifferent. "Hydrotherapy is a second-tier spell. In the Dragon's Nest, there are only twenty-one Dragon Vein Warlocks and three Dragon Vein sorcerers who have learned this spell. Also, in the human kingdom, the price for a spellcaster to use a second-tier healing spell is at least eight gold coins. Our Dragon's Nest is already very affordable."
This left Geller at a loss for words. As a creature with dragon heritage, he understood how incredibly rare spellcasters were compared to other professions. It wasn't the kind of expertise one could simply hire, not even at the most basic level. A Dragon Vein sorcerer discussing a 'fair price' was almost laughable, given the scarcity. Spellcasters proficient in healing magic were rarer still—unless they were Druids or practitioners of Faith-Based Professions. And when found, their services came at a steep price. Most creatures believed that the best defense was a stronger offense; if you could strike hard enough, there would be no need for healing. Only the long-lived races, with the luxury of time and the patience to master their craft, truly understood the value of healing spells."
"So now you understand. My time is precious, I am busy with my studies. If you have any questions about the price list, just go to the door of the room. A huge stone has just been moved there, and everything is written on it." The Dragon Vein sorceress was a little impatient.
She continued to release hydrotherapy, performing one treatment on Yulia, Saith, and Kevin, who were in a coma and then left.
The dragon servants who had brought in food trays also put down the food and left the room in an orderly manner.
Geller and Yulia looked at each other, then pounced on a huge metal plate, opened the lid, and the aroma filled their noses.
It was a whole roasted pig.
Pigs are mature domestic animals that Dragon's Nest introduced from humans through the Sieglinde family.
Their reproduction speed and growth rate are both first-rate. The taste is also acceptable.
Nowadays, Dragon's Nest has a special area for raising pigs and beasts, numbering tens of thousands.
The two little dragons tore into the barbecued pig meat hungrily and swallowed it madly. In the blink of an eye, they had each finished eating a pig beast weighing several hundred pounds.
They ate nearly twice their own bodies' worth of food in one go.
But even so, Yulia and Geller were very unsatisfied.
"The taste is fine, but the converted energy is too low. Castle Black is so stingy that they don't even supply the flesh and blood of low-order beasts," Geller said with some dissatisfaction.
He was somewhat envious of the roasted pork on other plates, but his stomach was so bloated that he couldn't eat anything. He could only return to the dragon's nest regretfully, lie down, and lick the elemental gems piled in the dragon's nest.
But he just licked them and didn't dare to eat even one.
Although he kept complaining, Geller understood that he could only grow up safely in the Dragon's Nest and Castle Black.
If you steal the treasure of the Dragon King, you might be driven out.
Even if he wasn't kicked out, his fate would definitely not be good.
"Hold on. I have to hold on," Geller thought silently, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
The dragon's body quickly digested the flesh and blood they had devoured while sleeping. At the same time, the rich wind element energy around them was also absorbed by the four little dragons, strengthening and restoring their bodies.
Kevin and Saith woke up later and ate the barbecued pork before falling back asleep.
The young dragon is lethargic.
They can often sleep for three to five days after eating once.
Therefore, the course schedule for the Dragon Preschool is also very flexible. Teaching will only start when the dragons have almost digested and recovered.
The teaching content is also very flexible, according to the progress of the little green dragons.
During the first three months, Sophia would always call Eirlys, Emilia, and Hannah to give the four little dragons some guidance in fighting.
As a result of each battle, the four little dragons would be taught a lesson. But at the same time, they also learned a lot and made rapid progress. Eirlys, Emilia, and Hannah only used their pure dragon bodies to fight, and their speed and strength were limited for the most part, giving the four little dragons a little chance to resist, but not a pure crushing.
Under such circumstances, three months later, the four little dragons had changed a lot.
First of all, the size of the four little green dragons had exceeded three meters. Compared with most green dragons of the same age, Kevin and his brothers were obviously stronger. If this continues for a long time, they will far exceed the ordinary green dragons of the same age.
Fight, get hurt, eat, and recover. Under high-intensity training, even ordinary creatures will be stimulated to grow faster, let alone dragons.
In addition to the growth in strength, the four little dragons' personalities had also changed significantly.
The most intuitive point is that they are no longer so arrogant and conceited and have learned to be tolerant and to bow their heads.
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Inside Castle Black, in a huge classroom covering an area of more than one square kilometer.
Sophia looked at the four little green dragons in front of her, their chests erect and full of energy, with a hint of satisfaction on her face.
"Three months have passed, and you have all made great progress. So, it's time for us to move on to the next stage."
The four little dragons, who had been somewhat complacent after being praised, suddenly became nervous.
What other vicious methods will this devilish female dragon use?!
Sophia didn't care about the vigilant eyes of the four little dragons at all and said calmly,
"The first three months were just pure fighting so that you could understand your own weaknesses, learn humility, and learn some combat common sense. From now on, you will learn professional knowledge.
"Warrior, spellcaster, knight, thief, druid, monk. You can choose to learn one profession, or you can choose to learn multiple professions, but after three months, you can only specialize in one."
Although a dragon's long lifespan allows them to learn and master multiple professions, in the early stages, weak dragonets, young dragons, and juvenile dragons need to quickly gain the strength to survive and protect themselves, rather than a bunch of miscellaneous and unrefined methods.
Even Lord Black Dragon himself has only learned one profession, the spellcaster. Maybe when the path of advancement of the spellcaster profession reaches a bottleneck in the future, he may learn other professions. However, if he encounters a very powerful profession that suits him, he may also learn it in advance.
"You plan to let a three-month-old dragon baby learn professional knowledge? Even a golden dragon baby wouldn't be so exaggerated, right?" Kevin couldn't help but ask.
Sophia glanced at him calmly and said, "It's up to you whether you want to learn or not, as long as your strength can keep up. However, if you fail the assessment next month, you will lose the right to live in the Wind Element Dragon's Nest, and the food will change from roasted pig beasts to raw pig beasts. At the same time, if your battle score decreases each time, the dragon coins you get will also decrease."
"Enough, enough! Can't I learn it? I am a dragon!" Kevin listened to Sophia chattering on and on about a bunch of bad things. Just thinking about it made Kevin feel his dragon scales tremble.
'It's just so horrible.'
Simply losing the right to live in the Wind Element Dragon's Nest would slow their growth, and without such a rich supply of wind element energy, their recovery from injuries sustained after the battle would also be slowed down. Over time, the consequences would be absolutely dire.
Especially since Kevin is now the strongest among the four little green dragons, and he has obtained the most dragon coins in the past three months. He cannot imagine what life will be like after losing this status.
Kevin uses the dragon coins he obtains to exchange for magic cores, elemental crystals, and monster flesh and blood, and then swallows them to achieve faster growth.
Of course, Kevin and the other three little green dragons were reluctant to eat the magic cores and elemental crystals they exchanged for dragon coins at first, and they all wanted to save them.
But each time he was beaten harder and harder, his injuries became more and more serious, and other little green dragons would also covet his treasures. He could not sleep well each time, fearing that his treasures would be stolen.
Finally, led by a greedy little green dragon who could no longer bear it, the four little dragons swallowed and digested all the treasures they had exchanged for their own growth.
"Very good. What about you three? Do you have any objections?" Sophia looked at the three little green dragons, Geller, Saith, and Yulia.
The three little green dragons shook their heads quickly, indicating that they had no objections at all.
Sophia nodded in satisfaction.
In the end, the four little green dragons chose the professions they wanted to study.
The eldest brother, Kevin, and the second brother, Geller, both chose the warrior profession.
The third brother, Saith, chose the knight.
The fifth one, Yulia, chose the caster.
"Saith, why did you choose to be a knight? Who are you going to ride? Are you going to ride yourself?" When Kevin saw the profession Saith chose, he couldn't help but laugh.
Yulia and Geller were also very curious about this and didn't understand what was going on in Saith's mind.
The knight profession focuses more on growing together with partners, but powerful dragons often act alone. Besides, how many creatures can keep up with the growth of a true dragon?
The speed of strength improvement is one aspect, which is much faster than that of a dragon, but what about lifespan?
You can't train a partner and then have him die of old age in a hundred or two hundred years, right? Which is just a few years in a dragon's mind. Without breaking through to the legendary level, most creatures generally only live for a few hundred years at most. Those who can live for more than a thousand years are all very powerful races.
"What's it got to do with you?" Saith retorted to Kevin.
Kevin sneered a few times and said nothing more.
He waited to see Saith become a joke later.
If the knight profession does not have a partner to grow within the early stage, then the speed of strength improvement will be very slow, and some professional secrets will not be able to be used.
Moreover, they currently have neither the time nor the strength to go out and search for monster cubs with sufficient potential.
Kevin and Geller looked at Saith with pity in their eyes.
However, Yulia noticed that Saith was full of confidence. She hesitated in her heart,
"Could Saith have a way to find a powerful monster cub?"
But how is this possible? Is there any other way?
Yulia pondered it in her mind, but soon she no longer had the energy to think about it and began the painful process of learning magic.
Among the Chromatic dragons, the green dragon has the strongest overall magic talent. Many young green dragons can master good spells.
However, learning spells from the young dragon stage is definitely torture for a green dragon.
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The third day of learning professional knowledge.
Today is a holiday for the four little dragons. Sophia, the teacher, is kind and gives the four little dragons two days off every once in a while to rest and relax.
Otherwise, long-term training and fighting might accidentally suppress and distort the psychology of the four little dragons.
In the Wind Element Dragon's Nest, Yulia, who was resting, suddenly heard a slight noise. The dragon's eyes quietly opened a crack, and she saw Saith quietly walk out of the dragon's nest.
What to do if you don't sleep?
Visit Dragon Fort? What's there to visit? Although the outside is still slowly building some buildings, there are no entertainment venues. Overall, it is very deserted.
The Monster City under construction outside Dragon Castle is in full swing, with tens of thousands of monsters working day and night. However, it has not been completed yet, so there is nothing interesting to see.
As for the monster tribe below the Monster City, the four little dragons are too weak and are not allowed to go there.
Although all the monsters in the Dragon's Nest are subservient to the Dragon Lord, not all monsters are bound by the subordinate contract. It is possible that some monsters may become greedy and secretly eat or try to sell the little green dragons.
As long as it is an intelligent creature, its behavior will be completely unpredictable unless it is completely under control.
A paladin can degenerate into a death knight, a fanatic can have his faith collapse and turn into a rebel who hates the gods. Nothing is impossible.
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