Chapter 6: Buffer Scales
In the Sky Pit, on an open area before a cliff wall, the ground was covered with pits of varying sizes and depths, their formations resembling impact craters from heavy falling objects. It was unclear where so many falling objects could have come from.
Boom!
With a spray of shattered stones, a six-meter-long juvenile dragon folded its wings and plummeted freely from the sky, crashing heavily onto the ground and sending a ring of dust billowing outward.
"Pah!"
Garoth spat out the gravel in his mouth, shaking his head as he clambered unsteadily out of the impact crater.
His body, originally covered in dull silver-black iron scales that looked like cast metal, now had many areas replaced by layers of dark gray dragon scales. These new scales lacked the metallic luster, and the lava-like dark red patterns on their surfaces had disappeared.
The impact crater contained several shed dark gray scales.
Compared to before, Garoth's scales seemed to have become somewhat more fragile.
At first glance from a distance, Garoth now appeared neither fully black nor gray, and his overall aesthetic had slightly diminished.