Chapter 140: Set Quota Complete - The Return of Simon!
The Ghost Basilisk was shedding.
The last time it had happened, her grade had changed, Kai remembered. He reached for the burned, flaky reptilian skin when Selene's hiss reached his ears.
-It's useless, master,- she said, calculatingly. -My normal shedding has nothing magical about it.-
She sounds more mature and detached in this state, Kai reflected, taking his hand back.
Once more Selene opened her mouth like a maw of a black abyss and pushed the bulge in her stomach outwards. In a few moments, a moist, red-brown egg slid out of her mouth. It looked like the fire had solidified as this scaled egg ages ago. The slimy liquid over it evaporated in no time, and no one could tell if the egg was once within her at all.
What havoc it must have been wreaking inside her? Kai asked himself, disbelievingly.
He crouched and lifted the egg.
It was hot.
...
[
Side Mission: The Birth of Drogon
