Lutharin stretched out his arm and tightly embraced Xia Lin. "Lin, don't be afraid. I'm here. I brought you here to give you a gift."
Xia Lin turned to look at him. "A gift? What kind of gift? A wolf cub?" Xia Lin's eyes lit up as he recalled the wolf cub from when he was the second son of the General's Mansion.
Lutharin was taken aback. "You want a wolf cub? We can take one with us when we leave. But the gift I want to give you isn't a wolf cub. Let's go deeper. What I've hidden is inside."
Not fearing the pack of fierce wolves, Lutharin released his demonic aura. The wolves whimpered a few times and scattered. Lutharin and Xia Lin successfully entered a cave behind the wolves. They walked about a hundred meters into the cave, and there was an opening in the ceiling. A ray of sunlight shone down on a huge egg.
There were also magic marks on the egg. Lutharin said, "I added magic to the egg to imitate the temperature of a female dragon incubating eggs. Counting the days, today is the day the little dragon will hatch."
"A dragon? Lutharin! You mean there's a dragon inside!" Xia Lin's hands trembled with excitement. He never thought that in this life, instead of raising wolves, he would be raising a dragon. It was so high - class. Although it wasn't an Eastern dragon, which was a bit of a pity, a Western dragon was still extremely awesome. He had always envied the Dragon Mother.
Lutharin was glad to see Xia Lin showing so much fondness for the egg. Fortunately, when he had wanted to swallow the egg whole, he had thought of giving it as a gift to Lin. He had even thought that if Lin didn't like the dragon egg, he would fry it and share it with Lin.
"Lin, it's about to hatch. Do you want to take it back and wait, or wait here?"
Xia Lin's gaze was fixed on the dragon egg. When he heard Lutharin's question, he didn't answer but just nodded.
Lutharin suddenly regretted giving the egg to Lin. Lin already cared so much about the egg before it hatched. What would happen after it hatched!
"Or..." Maybe he should just eat the egg. Dragon eggs were highly nutritious!
But before he could say anything, Xia Lin interrupted him. "Be quiet. Wait patiently!"
Lutharin snorted and conjured up a clean cloth, spreading it on the ground so that he and Xia Lin could sit and wait.
The waiting time was long. More than an hour passed, and there was still no movement from the egg. Lutharin yawned impatiently. "Lin, why don't we go back and wait? Maybe I miscalculated. It won't break out of the shell for a while."
Xia Lin shook his head. In contrast to Lutharin, he was very patient. "Let's wait a bit more. There's no rush."
After another ten - odd minutes, the two finally heard a faint "click" sound. Soon, the sound became more and more distinct, and the cracks on the dragon egg grew larger.
Now Xia Lin's eyes were as bright as those of the wolves outside. Under his eager gaze, a cute little head pushed open the eggshell and popped out.
The little dragon blinked its beady eyes and let out an "aoo" sound at Xia Lin, the first creature it saw after being born.
But the sound wasn't majestic at all. Instead, it was very cute. Xia Lin watched like a "loving mother" as his little cub ate its eggshell and then pounced into his arms.
"Aoo." Mom, mom...
"Be good, little cub. Dad is here. Dad will take you home now."
The word "home" woke up the drowsy Lutharin. Finally, they could go back!