During the days of blissful idleness and abundant food, the hatchlings' first slumber quickly arrived.
The protected hatchlings didn't need to make any preparations; they only needed to eat enough food.
At least three times their body weight in food was required to sustain their growth and development during slumber.
Klenaya's injuries had long since recovered with the ample food supply. Kalon allowed her to eat with him, but she couldn't snatch food.
Kalon had priority in eating the fattest, most energy-rich, and best-tasting parts.
So, she was currently burying her head in the rump of a white-haired wild ox, gnawing furiously, even the hard bones of the ox were greedily chewed and swallowed by the Female Red Dragon.
Kalon, as usual, first ate the energy-rich heart, then the smooth and chewy pectoral muscles, and finally the delicious ribs—these were all Kalon's favorites.
Kalon only stopped eating when he couldn't swallow another bite, and even his breaths smelled of grease.
He painstakingly shuffled his way to a corner of the cave and lay down, his tail curled around his head.
His relaxed wings spread out, covering his eyes, with only a pair of flapping ears on top of his head and his winding red horns protruding backward.
Every Dragon cannot independently determine the duration of their slumber, and the slumber time also increases with age.
A hatchling's first slumber typically lasts about ten to fifteen days, as their not-yet-fully developed bodies can only sustain consumption for that long.
The second slumber is a month, and so on, until the young Dragon stage, when the Dragon's slumber time will be measured in years.
Today was Kalon's first slumber. He would sleep for about ten days to half a month, which was a crucial slumber for a hatchling.
During slumber, hatchlings begin to truly digest the Dragon's heritage and will awaken and generate their innate aura, Dragon Might.
Moreover, the body during slumber will also autonomously regulate its development based on the development of the bloodline, generating new organs, and the individual differences among hatchlings will become increasingly apparent.
Currently, the little Female Red Dragon Klenaya and little Kalon are almost identical, only Klenaya's scales are a few shades darker than Kalon's.
But once the first slumber is complete, the two Dragons will undergo tremendous changes, and many individual differences will be particularly noticeable.
Klenaya, who was originally a bit larger than Kalon, will far surpass Kalon in size upon waking from slumber. Kalon began to worry whether he would be able to suppress the stubborn little Female Red Dragon in the future.
Although based on the little Female Red Dragon's simple and crude offensive techniques, little Kalon felt it wasn't a big problem; fighting not only requires skill but also talent.
However, once the gap in strength and size reaches a certain point, a situation of 'one force overcoming ten skills' is very likely to occur.
Thinking of the not-so-distant future when he might be ridden over and lorded over by a larger Dragon, a scene of things turning upside down, Kalon would begin to feel an urgent sense of crisis to grow.
Moreover, after this period of reflection, he didn't know whether his sudden arrival in this world was due to luck or misfortune, but it shouldn't be that simple.
He had been living his life normally, and in a dream, he found himself in a different world. He also had many questions in his heart.
Alas, he didn't know when he would be as powerful and free as the Blue Dragon Mother Carlit. Perhaps with Carlit's power, he would have considerable self-preservation ability to begin exploring this world, and then slowly find the truth about why he came to this world.
Kalon peeked through the gap covered by his fleshy wings at the massive Blue Dragon lying in the cave, his mind filled with various thoughts.
Excessive fullness caused the blood flow throughout his body to slowly concentrate towards his stomach, and drowsiness gradually surged in his mind.
The little Red Dragon cub Kalon, carrying a sense of crisis and a longing for power, fell into his first slumber in his new Dragon life.
Kalon's consciousness once again arrived at the familiar scene. A strange feeling arose when he saw the mysterious colorless and formless vortex in his dream.
During slumber, all of a Dragon's consciousness sinks into the Dragon's heritage within the bloodline, digesting it with all its might, like a deeply sleeping mortal. Ordinary disturbances will not awaken a Dragon.
At this time, even if someone quietly sneaked up to a Dragon, they would not be discovered, and by the time the Dragon could react, it would be after several blows.
Often, the period of Dragon slumber is when many Dragon-slaying teams achieve their feats, which is also one of the reasons why most Dragons like to enslave many dependents.
Kalon's consciousness, accompanied by his body's slumber, sank into a vast, boundless, surging, seemingly endless river of blood.
This was the materialized Red Dragon bloodline within his Dragon's body, and also the hidden place of the Red Dragon heritage, Kalon's place of conscious slumber.
However, Kalon, whose entire consciousness was in slumber, could still sense, or rather see, the vortex hidden in his dream, as if a part of his consciousness was above the high heavens, overlooking the vortex, which resembled several concentric ripples of water, from an omniscient and omniscient perspective.
That part of his consciousness existed here with absolute rationality, indifference, and no fluctuations, controlled by nothing, not even Kalon himself.
But at a certain moment, this part of his consciousness suddenly sensed the crisis and longing within Kalon's consciousness, and thus spontaneously began to fluctuate.
The power of this formless, colorless, and silent vortex, which existed only in perception, was stirred. This unseen, untouchable power, existing only in the perception of the soul and consciousness, transformed into wisps of threads.
Piercing through the obstruction of space, they deeply rooted themselves into the materialized river of blood. The originally swirling vortex was left with only its most fundamental central point.
The heritage and treasures scattered within the bloodline were transformed into threads by the mysterious power infused by the vortex, slowly lifted, then bundled and woven into a mass, and finally solidified into a form.
The mysterious power also merged into it, and various incomprehensible and inexplicable principles and rules transformed into a piece of information that Kalon could understand, sinking into the consciousness at the bottom of the river.
And when Kalon's consciousness absorbs this information, he will understand the changes happening to him: the manifestation of his bloodline,
[Talent Solidification - Overlimit Growth].
The manifested bloodline talent power took root in the river of blood, becoming a source, gradually influencing the entire river of blood.
The talent power flowed along the river of blood through Kalon's body, nourishing and transforming the sleeping hatchling.
The power of the talent slowly permeated his bones. The Dragon's bones grew thicker during growth and development, and the framework of his body also enlarged. The hatchling's size was continuously growing, and the upper limit of his growth in size was also slowly increasing.
His size grew to that of an adult ox before temporarily stopping. This was not because he had reached the current limit of his growth.
He was currently only in an adaptive state where his body spontaneously adjusted to his current growth size, meaning his current body was just a basic version for future growth and development.
Only the basic framework had been built, expanding the bottlenecks and limitations of physical development.
The body needed to supply the remaining nutrients and energy to internal organs and tissues to adapt and coordinate development.
Under the nourishment of the bloodline talent, the hatchling's heart grew one size larger, its rhythm slowed, but the force of its beats became stronger. Each beat squeezed a large amount of blood through the expanded blood vessels, transporting it faster to other parts.
Many organs also developed and grew accordingly. Many magical organs began to grow within his body, and many tiny, completely magic-flowing meridian channels proliferated.
This was the Dragon, as a magical creature, beginning to perfect its body during slumber.
Many magic channels connected to the Dragon's wings, and many connected to the Dragon's throat, and a magic breath organ also began to form next to the original breath organ in the throat.
Originally, the fire Dragon's breath carried subtle magic, but now with a specialized magic breath organ forming, it meant that Kalon's breath would be extremely terrifying in the future.
Kalon himself didn't know what would happen when physical Dragon's breath mixed with magic Dragon's breath, which would also accelerate the elemental reaction of the Dragon's breath during the exhalation process.
This meant that in the future, Kalon's opponents would not only need both physical and magical fire resistance and countermeasures, but also had to pay attention to the post-reaction that occurred after the Dragon's breath was exhaled.
On the exterior of his body, the hatchling's changes were also extremely obvious. His originally vibrant and bright scales began to transform into a deep red.
His fleshy wing membranes, which were almost proportionate to his body, now exceeded his body length by twice as much. A layer of fine and thin red scales formed and covered them, turning them into scaly wings.
And the muscles of his four limbs gradually grew and became full. Unlike the streamlined shape of the Female Red Dragon, the Male Red Dragon's muscles were thicker, appearing exceptionally powerful.
The hatchling's delicate and somewhat cute head gradually became well-defined. Small spines began to grow along the sides of his statue-like cheeks, and his pair of winding backward-growing horns also became thicker, giving the hatchling a more fierce and ferocious appearance.
His originally delicate and relatively slender neck grew more muscles, layers of muscle enveloping the hatchling's neck, making it appear thick and strong.
The hatchling, still in slumber and developing, began to show his sharp edges, just like the Red Dragons in his memories.