"The rare record of the future Supreme Great Lord of Heaven being forced into illegal mining work—tsk, tsk, a rare treasure, priceless!"
Noah observed the scene before him of a black-haired boy holding a pickaxe, striking sparks within the mine. It appeared ordinary, with no special features, merely evidence of a group of unfortunate people being exploited.
But as long as one understood the identity and origin of the black-haired boy, who seemed small and weak and lacked the strength of other adult miners, they would realize the uniqueness of this image.
This boy, the son of an Ancestral Golden Dragon and a Blazing Angel, who aspires to become the Supreme Great Lord, has high hopes of achieving his goal, as his mother has nurtured him toward this direction.
As this boy works hard and continually progresses toward his lofty goal, the value of this video footage will climb correspondingly, like a rising tide lifting all boats.
"Hmm, I mustn’t let Ophelia see this!"
Although Noah recognizes the value of this recording, he is also aware of its potential danger. If Ophelia were to see it, even knowing she couldn’t win, she’d probably come swinging her sword to cause trouble for him.
"Better to keep this to myself for now."
Even though his son had already been taken by a Paladin across the ocean to the Alviss Continent, Noah felt no concern or urgency, considering it a routine journey.
The bloodline connection allows Noah to locate Iliad at any time. The agreement with the boy was that unless he was in mortal danger, Noah would not intervene, but on the contrary, in the face of mortal danger, he would immediately descend.
Currently, it seems the eldest, drifting on the ocean, faces little danger, with two Sea Dominators patrolling beneath the waves reducing the dangers of that route day by day.
Thus, Noah’s attention naturally shifted from his eldest son to his youngest.
The youngest, Terramus, with pure Golden Dragon bloodline, although still sleeping soundly, displayed traits different from ordinary Golden Dragons due to inheriting a part of the ancestral bloodline.
Noah observed that Terramus’s sleep duration was gradually decreasing with each cycle, while his appetite grew increasingly large in contrast.
This aspect was normal, but the progressively reduced sleep time, perhaps influenced by his ancestral bloodline, caught Noah’s attention.
Noah discovered that upon his ascension to Legend, at the most pivotal moment in a dragon’s life, his dragon form instinctively, without self-awareness, carried out an exceptionally aggressive act, invading the Fire Element Realm and devouring seven Elemental Monarchs in succession to accumulate energy for the ultimate transformation.
If it weren’t for his foster mother Selena informing him and showing him the footage, Noah wouldn’t have known about the incident.
He himself had felt nothing; after awakening, he merely felt an indescribable comfort and pleasure throughout his body.
During this period, Noah exhibited extraordinary traits distinct from ordinary dragon species, one of the hallmarks of an Ancestor Dragon.
The dragon species, being entities that surpass all worlds and dominate the top of the food chain across numerous planes and material realms, possess undeniable strength.
However, dragons also have numerous vulnerabilities that cannot be ignored; the Deep Sleep Period that inevitably arrives with time is one of them.
Although each deep sleep is a transformation enabling dragons to reinvent themselves and significantly boost their power without any effort, this unique racial property compels them to develop a love for hoarding wealth. Without adequate preparation and accumulation of extraordinary resources, they could perish from exhaustion during the sleep transformation.
This isn’t precisely an intolerable flaw; after all, what extraordinary species or professional doesn’t need to consume resources to grow stronger? Dragons merely prepare for the next stage in advance.
The truly lethal aspect is that during deep sleep transformation, dragons are in a vulnerable state, utterly defenseless.
Dragons may counteract this by seeking hidden lairs, building sturdy fortresses, recruiting servants, nurturing the Favored, among other methods.
Yet none of these are completely foolproof measures, not as effective as remaining conscious during this period, able to move freely and strongly counter external threats.
For most contemporary dragons, achieving this is wishful thinking, but for Noah, he could counter this flaw through his status as an Ancestor Dragon.
His extraordinary traits have now been etched into the bloodline and inherited by his offspring. Although Terramus has yet to truly enter his first Deep Sleep Period, the decreasing sleep time is proof of this.
Normally, during the five-year hatchling period after birth, dragons spend at least more than half of their time in slumber.
This ’at least’ is due to the Colorful Dragon Clan lowering the average. This group, with little nurturing instinct and a high probability of abandoning their offspring, forces them to fend for themselves during their early years.