Chapter 96 The Gigantic Newborn Dragon
Five months passed in the blink of an eye.
The sky over the extreme northern Ice Field remained in a state of perpetual daylight, dominated by the sun and its bright light. Snowflakes danced in the air, and the biting cold wind howled fiercely under the sunlight.
The Black Sun Sculpture, which was being sought across the continent by the priests and paladins of the Bright Holy See, still lay quietly at the bottom of a deep crevasse where Brian had discarded it.
Meanwhile, as time passed, within the Ice Cliff Territory, inside the Dragon's Lair, a colossal being was slowly awakening, opening its pair of platinum dragon eyes.
Brilliant light shot from its pupils as Brian's consciousness emerged from the chaos.
He moved his body, causing dust to fall from his dragon scales and form a gray ring around him.
"This time, I slept and grew... for five months."
Brian shook his head, dispelling the last remnants of drowsiness from his mind.
Having slept for so long, he felt as if he had rusted, with a slight soreness between his muscles and bones. Instinctively, Brian stretched his dragon wings, wanting to loosen up.
However, as soon as he moved, he felt resistance.
He paused, looking around.
His broad dragon wings, as defined as the sails of a giant ship, touched the icy walls, and he hadn't even fully extended them.
He stood up, and his massive dragon horns immediately struck the ceiling.
"What the..."
Brian shuddered, instantly fully awake.
Just like the last time he awoke from the riverbed Dragon's Lair, the space within the Ice Cliff Dragon's Lair suddenly felt cramped to Brian.
But this time was different.
The riverbed Dragon's Lair had been custom-built to fit Brian's size at the time, so feeling cramped after growing was normal. However, the Ice Cliff Dragon's Lair was designed to match the size of the White Dragon Mother, which had always seemed spacious and vast to Brian.
Now, he felt the surrounding space was tight and confined.
The effect of using the Dragon Soul Stone for his growth sleep had exceeded Brian's expectations.
He lowered his head slightly to avoid hitting the ceiling with his horns and glanced at his gem bed.
What used to be just the right size for him to curl up on now looked as small and delicate as a child's cradle.
"How much did I grow this time?"
Brian's face lit up with excitement as he turned to the icy wall, using its smooth surface to observe his current appearance.
Two pairs of winding dragon horns extended back from his faceplate, becoming thicker and sharper. Small spines dotted his dragon claws, back, and tail. His scales gleamed, his dragon claws were menacingly sharp, and his dragon wings nearly covered the entire nest...
With a wingspan of twenty-four meters and a body length of twenty meters, even his shoulder height when on all fours was a towering four meters, like a standing building.
In terms of size, Brian had completely surpassed the White Dragon Mother and even exceeded the size of an Adult White Dragon, reaching the size of a Mature White Dragon.
An Adult White Dragon is a large dragon, and only those who live to be over two hundred years old can become gigantic dragons.
"Holy..."
Brian looked at his current self and couldn't help but take a deep breath of the frigid air of the extreme northern Ice Field.
His size had grown from a twelve-meter-long large dragon to a twenty-meter-long gigantic dragon, only slightly smaller than the Silver Dragon Luna. Due to Brian's burly and tall physique, he even appeared as large as Luna's true form.
"Normally, a Time Dragon Newborn Dragon is gigantic right after hatching."
"Does this mean I've officially become a Time Dragon?"
"At the very least, in terms of size, I'm definitely bigger than a Newborn Dragon."
A body length between eighteen and thirty meters classifies as a gigantic dragon. A Time Dragon Newborn Dragon is a gigantic dragon, on par with adult Gold Dragons, Silver Dragons, Red Dragons, and Iron Dragons. Brian had indeed reached this level.
In terms of age, he was still a Newborn Dragon, a three-year-old young Newborn Dragon.
However, this Newborn Dragon was quite large.
Besides the nearly doubled growth in size, Brian had two other significant changes.
First, he had gained another Black Scales Ring.
This Black Scales Ring wasn't around his neck; it extended from the shoulders of his forelimbs, forming a somewhat diamond-shaped irregular Black Scales Ring.
Brian had somewhat expected the appearance of a new Black Scales Ring.
He had seen that future Time Dragon with more Black Scales Rings.
The second change caught Brian off guard.
His pure white scales, similar to those of a White Dragon Newborn Dragon, had changed color!
The change wasn't drastic, but it was enough to make Brian look nothing like a White Dragon.
Brian's dragon scales had turned into a radiant silver-white, making him look like a life form sculpted from pure silver metal.
Silver-white... If Brian's head to tail grew some fringes, people would most likely mistake him for a Silver Dragon at first glance.
Even now, Brian looked more like a variant of a Silver Dragon.
The difference between silver-white and pure white was significant.
"If Luna or the White Dragon Mother saw me now... I wonder what their expressions would be."
They would undoubtedly be shocked to the core.
They might even question their own judgment.
Dragons identify their kin primarily through Dragon's Might and True Dragon aura. Even from a distance, without seeing the face, they can determine the other's identity. Although Brian's aura had grown much stronger, it was still essentially him.
Unless he deliberately concealed his aura, any dragon who knew him could identify him without seeing him.
Brian turned his body, admiring his aesthetically pleasing dragon form.
After some battles, his original white scales had acquired some rough marks, and not all parts were as shiny as a mirror. But this sleep had renewed Brian, with time washing away the rough marks he had previously accumulated.
In the space around Brian, elemental energy danced and leaped with incredible liveliness, as if celebrating his rebirth.
Brian could feel that his ability to command and control elemental energy had reached a new level, making spellcasting simpler and faster, and learning spells much easier.
He felt like he had advanced from being the "elemental father" to the "elemental grandfather."
Although he didn't know the level of control legendary Spellcasters had over elemental energy, Brian felt it couldn't be much stronger than his own.
As someone who could improve spells based on his own ideas right after learning spellcasting, Brian had a say in this matter.
Ordinary human Spellcasters couldn't even think about improving spells until they reached legendary status.
The aloof elemental energy wouldn't give them the time of day.
