Chapter 356: The Lava Dragon
When the Lava Dragon turned into his humanoid form, the overwhelming energy that made it hard to stand in the cave dissipated to the point that it was bearable for everyone without coating our bodies in a thick layer of MP.
His energy was still present, but it wasn’t as powerful as when we entered the cave.
The dragon held his red, scaly egg in his hands and approached us, explaining that he had been protecting it from the devils that roamed the northern continent.
We already knew those details from Garon, so I asked if they had tried attacking him recently. However, the dragon said that once he went into full protection mode and covered the mountain with his energy, the devils’ advances stopped.
The dragon knew that the continent was going through a difficult time, with most of their citizens being mind-controlled by Baelzor.
Nonetheless, he expressed the fact that protecting the people wasn’t his responsibility and that he only cared about the safety of his egg.
I asked the dragon who the mother was, but he simply stared at me with confusion.
Thankfully, Vespera was there to explain that dragons were asexual creatures, so they didn’t need a partner to reproduce, and both males and females were able to lay eggs.
From what my companion told me, after a dragon grew large enough, they were able to take a piece of their heart and put it inside an egg made of their own flesh, which would later turn into a dragon fledgling.