Goblin Dependency

The lizard's body, naturally close to transparent and crystal clear, flickered like a poor signal.

It seemed to intermittently escape into other dimensions, shifting between solid and ethereal, disappearing in an instant, and then reappearing after crossing a great distance.

The speed at which it moved through the soil suddenly surged to an exaggerated degree.

...

Meanwhile, deep underground.

Nurtured by the abundant life energy that voluntarily came forth, Alton, who had grown to the youth dragon stage nearing adulthood, was not driven out of the nest by his cheap red dragon mother.

He lay idly on the pile of Gold Coins.

The dragon tail gently swayed, brushing away the rubble and dust that had fallen on the body.

His vertical pupils glanced at the bare stone ceiling where sounds came from, yet it did not pique his interest.

To suddenly find himself attached to the body of a red dragon was intriguing at first, but after so many days, even the half orc nature felt tired of it.

"I hope it can end quickly, ideally I can go back today."

Alton thought this in his heart, suddenly feeling drowsy, yawning, retracting his wings and limbs, curling up to sleep.

...

"Bang boom!"

In the forestland littered with the remnants of a sandstorm, a booming explosion was suddenly heard.

Like a fish leaping out of the water, accompanied by splattering mud stars, a large figure completely covered in mud suddenly sprang out from the ground.

It exerted so much force that it struggled to maintain its balance, falling and rolling twice on the meadow before struggling to rise again.

Evidently, the survival trump card just played, like a gecko breaking its tail to survive, had a significant impact on Dodd.

His originally nearly transparent, crystal-like body turned back into that half-transparent, murky form it was before evolution, even the glow from the single horn on his forehead was visibly dimmed.

But fortunately, he eventually managed to return to land alive.

And the red dragon deep underground seemed unaware of his presence.

"Huff… Huff…"

Breathing heavily, Dodd's recovering brain rapidly spun, analyzing the situation.

He did not believe that the mighty red dragon he had just glimpsed belonged to the lone adventurer.

On one hand, as the arranger of the Secret Realm, he knew clearly that all ritual participants, when they first descended, were all born as infants.

It would be impossible to start directly in the adult form of a powerful demon.

Even if the development speed accelerated, given the ordinary dragon's growth cycle, this short period was simply insufficient.

Furthermore, considering how deeply hidden the other party was, and likely without much change in position since descending, the adventurers who could find them were few, and thus the life energy they could absorb was relatively limited, making it virtually impossible to grow to such a degree.

Therefore, from Dodd's gradually recovering judgment, the lone adventurer might have simply attached onto some kind of kin under this giant dragon, surviving until today leveraging its master's power.

Even if considering the worst-case scenario, that the adventurer was unbelievably lucky, with odds smaller than one in ten thousand, truly attached onto a red dragon hatchling…

Even now, it likely isn't fully grown, at most in the youth dragon stage.

"As long as I can reach the stage of five evolutions, maybe…"

Algae Scale kept encouraging himself in his heart without giving up hope.

After all, he was merely a step away from five evolutions, and as long as he could absorb even a tiny bit more life energy, he would undergo the crucial transformation since descending to the Secret Realm.

At that time, restricted by the increasingly shrinking Secret Realm boundary, even if there were a red dragon hatchling, it would have no choice but to leave the protection of its parent and face him alone.

Thinking of this, his attention involuntarily shifted to the team perceived by his senses, a group of four adventurers who, unbeknownst to him, had gotten very close.

"There's still a chance… there's still a chance!"

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