Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva!.

Chapter 543: Cultivation of a Young Dragon

At the beginning of March, after dealing with a number of company affairs, and with the Star Cluster members following up on the progress of the project, Tilan finally had some free time.

It seemed that it was time for the little guys to advance, and Tilan finally remembered the pet companions she had raised.

She has been very busy during this period, and during the time when Themisia was in charge of the body, she could not take care of it, so she asked the maids to help look after it.

"Are you asking about the white kites? They are all normal. They go out for a ride from time to time during the day and always come back in the evening." A maid in a red dress who was in charge of taking care of them replied.

"Big Spider, because you said we don't need to watch it too much, we just need to provide it with food, and it will usually come back every few days for a big meal."

"The white dragon usually stays on the rooftop to bask in the sun, tempering and accumulating magic power according to the branding array you set up. The other cold-scale dragon stays in the ice pool in the cold storage underground. Occasionally, we will go over to feed it the prepared nutrient cubes."

"I understand." The girl nodded and then walked towards the top floor.

Soon, she pushed open the door of the dome on the top floor. The space inside was a hemispherical observatory with a one-way translucent glass dome on the top. From the outside, it was an elegant, angular purple, while from the inside out, it was transparent glass.

Going up the spiral staircase, the highest place is a cylindrical platform, where a young dragon with snow-white scales that glows faintly is lying. There is a transparent golden gem between its eyebrows, like a miniature sun, emitting a faint heat.

When the girl approached, the young dragon opened its eyes, raised its head, rubbed the girl's palm gently, and then continued to lie down.

It's much bigger than before. I remember the first time we met, this baby dragon was still a sunlight indigo snake that could wrap around the girl's arm and stand up.

Now, the girl used her palm to compare and found that the dragon's neck was probably a little thicker than her waist.

Unlike humans who advance, supernatural animals tend to grow larger in size as they advance, so that they can accumulate more magic power and their bodies become stronger. If humans' weapons are guns and swords, then the weapons of these supernatural animals are their claws and fangs.

If it is an extraordinary animal that has not been artificially cultivated, its strength will often not increase so quickly, and its core model when advanced is mostly simple. But if it is an animal carefully raised by breeders, it will be much stronger. With human intervention, the advanced templates of these extraordinary animals can often keep up with the mainstream progress. Not to mention the various exquisite nutritious foods and ritual arrays provided by breeders can also greatly increase the speed at which they accumulate magic power.

With Tilan by his side, it only took this indigo snake 2 years to advance from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4. However, if it were left alone in the wild without any guidance or supervision, it might take 30-40 years. This is when it is smart enough to comprehend the advanced core model on its own.

As for the monsters above Sequence 6, it depends a lot on luck. There are generally not many of them in nature, unless they are special groups led by a powerful high-level leader monster, they will appear more frequently.

Pressing her fingers lightly on the gem between the young dragon's eyebrows, Tilan's perception spread along it, slowly outlining in her mind the flow of magic power in the young dragon's body and its current state.

The sunlight from the roof passed through the glass of the dome and fell on the scales of the young dragon, reflecting the glittering patterns and imprints therein. Then, along these natural patterns and imprints on the scales, the sunlight and Aigeka particles turned into a special light golden magic power, which was absorbed by the young dragon and entered its body.

Afterwards, these light golden magic powers with the attributes of 'sun' and 'fire' gathered in the young dragon's extraordinary core, and were refined once again along the complex veins in the core, precipitating into higher-level magic powers with the attributes of 'sun' and 'dragon', and then accumulated in the core.

Although the whole process is not fast, it is very stable and can operate spontaneously even when the young dragon falls asleep.

During this process, the young dragon will also slowly adapt to and master these high-level essence magic through the process of essence magic, so that it will have stronger control when advancing, can perform more refined operations, and be safer.

If you use the magic essence provided by certain spiritual medicines, although it can greatly reduce the time required to accumulate magic, because it is not the magic accumulated by yourself, the control is often poor, which makes it much more dangerous when advancing. If relevant measures are not prepared in advance, there will even be a risk of losing control. This is the pros and cons of extraordinary spiritual medicines.

After helping the young dragon to comb its hair and optimize the trajectory of its magic power, Tilan retracted her fingers, stroked the pale young dragon again, fed it some energy cubes to supplement the special elements needed for its growth, and then walked down the platform.

There is no need to worry about the white dragon for now. Judging from its appearance, it will be able to advance to Sequence 3 in about 4-6 years.

Although it is a bit slow compared to Tilan, this speed is actually quite amazing. After all, due to their size, Warcraft needs to accumulate more magic power. Moreover, the Dragon Sequence is very special and often requires about twice as much magic power as other sequences.

It's time to check on the Frostscaled Drake in the underground ice pool.

Turning the stairs, Tilan went down to the basement, and used her identity authority to open the underground ice storage and enter.

There is an icy chill in the air. The temperature here remains at minus 20 degrees Celsius all year round. You can feel the protruding ice ridges and fragments when you step on the ground.

Continuing to walk inside, when Tilan was about to enter the hall where the ice pool was, a figure holding a lantern appeared at the end of the corridor.

The other person looked up and saw Tilan standing in the ice storage, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Lord Tilan, why are you here?"

The girl shook her head. "I came to see the young dragon. But you, have you been guarding here all the time?"

The maid holding the lantern opposite was wearing a skirt with dark red rose lace and a red hood on her upper body. When she saw Tilan asking questions, she took off the hood, revealing her short golden hair covering her ears.

"Yes, I have been guarding here all the time, because there is a sarcophagus where everyone sleeps in the ice storage." She answered on her knees.

"How many maids are currently sleeping?" Tilan remembered that vampires would occasionally hibernate for a long time.

"There are currently 37 members of our clan sleeping. They will wake up one after another within a year and replace the other members working in the mansion." She answered in detail.

"I see. I vaguely remember Ran Bei'er saying something. The price you pay for longevity is that you need to enter a dormant state regularly, right?"

"That's right. During our sleep, we will repair our bodies and genes, and this process will consume a lot of our magic power. This is why our advancement speed is often slower than that of ordinary transcendents."

"The price of longevity..." Tilan thought thoughtfully.

"You go ahead and do your work. I'll go check on the baby dragon."

"Yes, Lady Tilan." After saying that, she stood up and slowly disappeared into the depths of the corridor.

Entering the hall on the 7th underground floor, the girl saw a bottomless black pool in the middle of the ground and the temperature of the air was exceptionally low.

It's probably minus 50 degrees Celsius, the girl thought. But for her, she doesn't feel cold. After all, she was born with the power of crystallization and stillness, which is also the source of the concept of cold.

Walking to the edge of the ice pool, Tilan dipped her fingers into the water, stirring it slightly, feeling the spread of the ripples and her perception spreading downwards.

After a while, the image of the young dragon deep under the water appeared in the girl's mind.

It's sleeping so soundly. It's not as agile as an indigo snake. It feels a bit clumsy.

Thinking back to the scene when they first met, she was helping out in a maid shop and this little snake wrapped around her legs, making her a little panicked.

After thinking about how to wake this guy up, Tilan moved her fingers, and a long ice spike condensed in the palm of her hand. Then one end fell deep under the water, and as her wrist moved, the other end knocked on the head of the sleeping cold-scaled young dragon.

Get up, the girl called out in her heart.

Underwater, the young dragon finally opened its eyes, dodged a bit when the ice spikes struck it, then swam away and emerged from the water.

Its scales are ice blue, while the inner skin is snow-white. The contrast creates a beautiful texture of ice blue and white. After emerging from the water, it floated up, swam slowly above the pool, and then came to Tilan.

"By the way, your colors have been swapped." Tilan remembered that this young dragon was originally a white tree viper raised in a glass house in the Butis Rainforest. Now, because of the advanced choice, it has become a young dragon with icy attributes, and its scales have become icy blue.

The Daylight Snake, which was originally indigo in color, became snow-white in scales as it advanced towards the "sun" and "sunlight" attributes.

After touching the little head of the tree viper, Tilan also combed and checked it.

Compared to the pale young dragon 'Zhu', this cold-scaled young dragon is much smaller in size and has less magic power than the other. This does not mean that its talent is inferior to the other, but that it lacks a suitable environment.

Under the dome of the observatory, sunlight can be gathered with the help of a special magic array there, and the magic power of the "sun" and "fire" attributes is relatively active, easy to transform and utilize, and naturally accumulates quickly.

On the contrary, the magic power of the 'ice' attribute carries the concept of 'slowness'. Even if the monster itself is immune, its speed will definitely not be as fast as that of the 'sun' and 'fire' attributes.

This situation is also reflected in the current supernatural factions. Highly active concepts such as "fire" and "sun" are mostly popular, while esoteric factions with concepts such as "ice" and "forbidden" are relatively rare.

In fact, in nature, absolute zero is only minus 273 degrees, but high temperature can be thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees.

It seems I have to help you ask if there is a suitable ritual array to assist in your practice, the girl thought.

But for now, she does have other ways to help this cold-scaled young dragon solve the problem of magic accumulation.

As she raised her finger, a jade flute made of ice appeared in her palm. After getting used to it, Tilan held the flute horizontally and began to play it slowly.

The clear sound of the flute slowly echoed in this underground world. Because it was far away from the outside world, she could play to her heart's content without worrying about disturbing passers-by and spectators.

Then, the sound of the flute rose and fell like a clear spring, like a trickle of water flowing through the mountains, like a nimble bird flying across the wilderness. As the girl played, the temperature around her became lower and lower, and a faint "ice mist" slowly emerged around her.

In the icy mist created by tiny particles of highly condensed magic power, the cold-scaled young dragon swam happily, and the scales on its body glowed faintly as it continuously absorbed the icy mist in the air.

In this way, time passed slowly, and after about 20 minutes, Tilan opened her eyes and put down the flute.

At this time, the temperature in the air was more than 200 degrees below zero. If she had not been able to keep the objects around her body unaffected, her clothes would probably have been torn into pieces.

With his palm slightly raised, the ice mist in the air quickly condensed and finally formed a flawless, transparent ice ball in the palm of his hand.

Holding the ice ball and placing it in front of the young dragon, Tilan loosened her fingers, and the cold-scaled young dragon swallowed the ice ball condensed from pure magic power in one gulp.

“Then just hold it and absorb it slowly.” The girl touched the baby dragon’s head and then let it return to the bottom of the water to rest.

After leaving the underground hall, she closed the door again and went to the place where the maids were sleeping.

"Lady Tilan." Seeing the girl coming, the maid who had been seen not long ago stood up.

The girl nodded slightly, then looked towards the hall filled with sarcophagi. There were about 130 sarcophagi here, and currently about a quarter of them were occupied by sleeping vampires.

Walking in front, the maid held a lantern to lead the way for the girl.

"What's your name?" There were so many maids in the mansion that Tilan sometimes couldn't remember them all.

"My name is Shayla, Lady Tilan." She said her name.

"How many maids are there currently who are at the same level as you, at Blood Eye Sequence 6?" Tilan was curious.

"Including me, there are 12 of us in total. Lady Ran Bei'er is the only one with Blood Eye Sequence 7, and she is currently in a deep sleep."

"Higher-Sequence vampires spend more time sleeping. Among the maids currently active in the mansion, there are only five Sequence 5 maids. The other Sequence 6 maids of the same level are all sleeping."

"That is to say, among these five people, except for you, only four of them are Sequence 5 in their daily lives up there, right?"

"That's right, but because of our special physique and cultivation sequence, our combat power is much stronger than that of our peers. Lord Tilan doesn't need to worry."

"Among the rest of the people, except for the 30 or so new companions, the rest are at the level of Blood Eye Sequence 5." She continued to add.

"Okay, I understand." Tilan walked past the sarcophagi one by one, occasionally placing her hand lightly on the closed sarcophagus to feel the condition of the maid sleeping inside.

Although the blood clan is powerful, its flaws are also obvious. No wonder their numbers have been small over the years and they have not become a powerful force. On the one hand, due to their bloodline and physique, they are excluded by major mainstream forces. On the other hand, their frequent dormancy also makes it impossible for them to maintain certain key positions. They can only do some auxiliary professions, such as scholars, artists, scientific research, combat categories, etc. If they are in key leadership positions, they have to find replacements frequently.

"Are there many forces or giant companies that know about your existence?" Tilan was quite curious.

"This... shouldn't be much." Shayla shook her head.

"In the early days of the Federation, our identity was very awkward. Although we were not a new race under the Dark Sun, we were also a highly modified and specialized race, very different from the mainstream group."

"At that time, because of the war in the Fifth Era, all the major mainstream forces had a strong sense of rejection towards us 'aliens', and bloody incidents often broke out."

"In order to avoid disaster, the vampires at that time had to hide their identities, disperse and hide among the crowd. Even if they had special abilities, they dared not use them. Also, because of their special physiques, they had to find places with sparse populations to settle in, so as to reduce the chances of being discovered."

"When we met you, our tribe had been quietly operating and multiplying in the Emerald Skirt for hundreds of years, and gradually had nearly 200 people. If it were in other star regions, the largest tribe might only have more than ten people. If there were more, it would greatly increase the probability of being exposed."

"Will the Inquisition still arrest you now?" Tilan thought, the Federation didn't seem to have any laws specifically targeting vampires.

"They won't arrest us specifically, but if they cite the 'Alien Safety Law', it would be easy for them to find a reason to arrest us, so it's a gray area that's neither black nor white."

"But with your protection and guarantee, those people from the Tribunal will not target us."

In fact, as long as these maids do not leave the mansion, basically no one will cause trouble. Moreover, if they follow the singer, if the singer's influence expands in the future, the image of the vampires as frequent servants will gradually improve among the people and become easier to accept.

After all, in the Sixth Era, the vampires were relatively well-behaved, and the True Red Empire in history had made contributions to mankind and was a frequent guest in many film and television dramas, so it was relatively easy to change their concepts.

After listening to Shayla's description, Tilan expressed her understanding.

"Take your time. I don't know what other vampires in the Federation are like, but if you stay with me, I will protect you well."

The pain of that war was truly profound.

The girl stopped and looked at the drawing on the distant wall. It depicted the end of the Fifth Era, when Isanisha led various tribes to fight against the "Dark Suns".

The whole painting was dark in tone, except for the place where Isanissa was standing, which seemed to be filled with a faint golden light, radiating to the surroundings and behind her. The great men in history stood behind her one by one, gazing at the black sun burning with blazing flames in the distant sky.

Even today, traces of that history remain inside and outside the federation.

(End of this chapter)