Evil dragon has a warm heart-Chapter 173 - 172 Everywhere You Go You Leave a Trace

Chapter 173: Chapter 172: Everywhere You Go, You Leave a Trace

Chapter 173 -172: Everywhere You Go, You Leave a Trace

“Wherever one goes, one leaves a trace.”

This was the statement about the amber worm in “The Evolution Possibilities of Dragons.” Due to the translation, Adin Raging Sun’s wording was quite complex.

However, after Russell summarized it, he roughly understood what the amber worm was.

“Amber traps some small creatures inside it and then buries them deep in the earth. Those creatures, dead but not stiff, absorb some of the ideas floating between heaven and earth, and thus, with the impetus of the earth’s power, they revive as amber worms.”

These floating ideas could be the understanding of swordsmanship from a remnant soul, or they could be the vigorous life force of a cluster of thriving thorns.

Or they could be other odd and peculiar thoughts.

Glancing at the M-shaped mark on his palm and the surrounding Sword Butterfly Mark and Thorns Mark, Russell already had a general understanding of the origins of the sword butterfly and the thorn.

These two amber worms were born from these floating ideas.

“They have been reborn, but they are no longer the butterflies or thorns of the past, but traces of some former existence in this world reemerging.”

Russell muttered thoughtfully, “This is what it means… ‘Wherever one goes, one leaves a trace…'”

No matter how the land changes, even turning from warm seasons to eternally ice-bound, some things that have existed are still preserved. Through the passage of time, they shine again in another form.

This is the secret of the amber worm.

Russell shifted his gaze from the book and looked through the gap in the bookshelf out the window to the narrow sky beyond.

Suddenly he thought, “Since amber can preserve ideas and bring them back to life, what about fossils? Could there be such a thing as a fossil worm that revives an ancient fossil into a magical creature?”

But he quickly dismissed the idea, “That probably won’t happen. After all, amber worms can only have a chance to revive because they are completely encased in amber, unlike fossils.”

Fossils are the remains of animals that died and were preserved within rocks.

Mostly, what ends up as a fossil is skeleton tissue; the flesh is long since decayed and decomposed.

So with not even a complete body preserved, let alone the nourishment of the earth’s power to bring about a resurrection from death.

He turned the page.

Russell continued to read “The Evolution Possibilities of Dragons,” and soon found the section about pseudo-dragons, which included highly credible introductions.

The reason was simple: Adin Raging Sun had met the Dragon Domain Lord Wester Ginnari.

The so-called Dragon Domain Lord is a Knight who has formed a contract with a pseudo-dragon.

“When a phantom beast and a Knight share life and death together, there is a very small chance to break through the bloodline constraints of the phantom beast, advancing to a magical creature that is like a dragon but not a dragon—a pseudo-dragon! A pseudo-dragon’s power is comparable to that of a bipedal flying dragon, and it can warm a piece of land.”

The land warmed by such a dragon is called a Dragon Domain, and the Glowing Valley is one such Dragon Domain.

Therefore,

The Knight of a pseudo-dragon is called a Dragon Domain Lord.

And Wester Ginnari recorded in the book is such a fortunate Dragon Domain Lord; even his surname comes from his own pseudo-dragon Kinari.

“The Kinari has the head of a bird, the body of a dragon, hairless legs, and a feathered tail… It was originally a Fantasy Beast, the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird, transformed from an ordinary phoenix…”

According to the book, this pseudo-dragon Kinari initially was just an ordinary phoenix.

Russell read on: “The bloodline power of Kinari can infect phoenixes, turning them into a Primordial Beast Kind similar to a phoenix dragon… This Primordial Beast Kind similar to phoenix dragon can evolve into the Phantom Beast Kind ‘Mock-Kinari Dragon’… Further evolution might possibly bring back the pseudo-dragon Kinari…”

Wild Beast – Phoenix, Fantasy Beast – Golden Feather Phoenix Bird, Pseudo-Dragon – Kinari.

Primordial Beast Kind – Phoenix-like Dragon, Phantom Beast Kind – ‘Mock-Kinari Dragon,’ Pseudo-Dragon – Kinari.

“Similar… Mock… Pseudo… It’s still a gradual pathway, evolving step by step toward dragons,” Russell marveled.

One could say that this was an ordinary phoenix that, through countless generations of inheritance and the joint efforts of countless of its kind, found a hopeful path to evolve into a dragon.

When it evolved into a Phantom Beast, it had succeeded in the first step; then, through the life-and-death mystery passage to evolve into a Pseudo-Dragon, it had succeeded in the second step.

Pseudo-Dragons can infect their kind, and then help them to evolve into Pseudo-Dragons more quickly, which is the third step.

So Adin Raging Sun boldly guessed that there might be a fourth step, the one where Pseudo-Dragons evolve into true dragons. But this step is bound to be very difficult, and so far, he has not found sufficient evidence to prove this theory.

However, he is not a scientist, and a theory that seems plausible was enough to support his view that “everyone can be like a dragon”: “If Pseudo-Dragons can do this, why can’t Knights?”

This marked the end of the slim volume, “The Evolution Possibilities of Dragons.”

The title of the book is related to dragons, but in fact, it did not introduce dragon-related information; rather, it focused on the evolution of magical creatures.

Thus, it was eventually categorized on the shelf for magical creatures.

“It’s a very good idea, but the chain of evidence lacks the most critical step… how Pseudo-Dragons evolve into real dragons. Also, what is considered a real dragon? Great Dragons are definitely real dragons, but do Bipedal Flying Dragons count as real dragons?”

Overall.

Russell did not agree with Adin Raging Sun’s “everyone can be like a dragon” view: “Based on the scientific worldview I got from my old home on Earth… I believe that the evolution of phoenixes into Kinari is not to evolve into true dragons, but the essence of evolution is closer to that of true dragons.”

If there is one fundamental rule to the Transcendent Power of Dragon Sleep Continent, then Great Dragons are undoubtedly the closest to this rule.

So when phoenixes evolve into Pseudo-Dragons, it seems like they are evolving into dragons, but in reality, it is the enhancement of Transcendent Power that makes them closer to this rule.

“However… it seems Adin Raging Sun is ostensibly talking about dragons, but what he is actually referring to is the power of the land, which is Transcendent Power… that viewpoint isn’t exactly wrong.”

Of course.

This is just Adin Raging Sun’s personal opinion, and Russell didn’t fully buy into the rhetoric of the book; he could only say the content about amber and Pseudo-Dragons in the book was very valuable.

…

He spent the entire afternoon immersed in the library.

Russell had reviewed countless materials and had gained a clearer understanding of magical creatures and Dragon Sleep Continent.

“You stayed in the library all afternoon?”

At dinner, when Mel, Russell’s cousin, heard about Russell’s day, he was perplexed: “Really? You actually read those tedious books?”

“Of course, I can.”

“Why is that? Shouldn’t a Knight be riding horses and throwing spears and swords, Russell, I advise you not to be like those scholars, spending all day in the study researching all kinds of things,” Mel seriously advised, “No girl is going to like someone like that!”

Russell laughed and said, “Speaking of which, I’ve had the chance to earn the title of Grand Scholar.”

“What do you mean?”

“I invented cigars, you know.”

“Cigars are pretty cool, but they don’t really have anything to do with Grand Scholars, right?” Mel asked curiously.

“Before I invented cigars, I also invented reading glasses… well, strictly speaking, I also invented a type of Slag Earth Brick, which is more suitable for building houses than rock… and I’m still trying to invent some new things.”

Russell spoke leisurely.

This made Count Merlin astonished: “Reading glasses, Slag Earth Bricks? I don’t seem to have heard of these two things.”

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“Yes, Grandpa,” Russell replied, “these things have not spread yet, but my grandmother wrote a letter to Red Castle, maybe soon the Grand Scholars will come to inspect the reading glasses.”

Russell believed that once the Grand Scholars saw the actual reading glasses, they would definitely convene a round table meeting and recognize him as a scholar right away.

The reason was simple.

Many of these Grand Scholars were ordinary people, and as they got older, their vision naturally became blurred, and they would need reading glasses to help them see better.