185. Incubating the Egg, Calysia
“Can you help me incubate the egg?”
To prevent herself from looking too weak, Reina asked in a different tone. Her suppressed embarrassment actually made her look even more shy.
“How do you incubate an egg?” Calysia said with a smile.
“Aren’t you a dummy dragon, this…”
Reina, who was about to say, “Isn’t this a very simple matter,” immediately stopped. Because incubating a dragon egg was really not simple.
First, you had to maintain the temperature around the dragon egg at all times and keep it as ventilated as possible. Although it was much more convenient with the warmth of the dragon nest, you still had to pay a little attention every five minutes. Even when sleeping, you had to reserve some consciousness to incubate the egg. Although normally, the incubation time didn’t need to be too long, Reina was a mother dragon who had to do everything perfectly.
So her requirements for her other half were also like this.
“It’s okay, I’ll learn. Little Vassal doesn’t need to worry.”
Calysia was very confident.
“Then you have to pay more attention,” Reina emphasized.
Saying that, she pulled Calysia to her side and lay down, then directly stuffed the dragon egg next to her belly. Calysia seemed to understand and changed her posture to lying on her side, holding the dragon egg with both hands.
“Yes, that’s right, hold it with your hands like this.”
But there was a problem…
She gently placed Calysia’s dragon tail on the dragon egg, but still felt that something was missing—why did it always feel like Calysia’s body was “leaking”?
She looked left and right, and after correcting Calysia’s posture with both her hands and tail, she nodded in satisfaction.
But before leaving, Reina still felt that something was not quite right.
“Master, are you incubating the egg with your heart?” Reina asked with suspicion.
“I’m trying my best!” Calysia explained. She really didn’t know the various techniques Reina used.
So, Reina, who was preparing to leave, immediately sat down and began to explain the numerous key points of incubating a dragon egg to Calysia. But halfway through, Reina had already given Calysia countless “chops” on the head. Because this dummy master didn’t know how to incubate an egg at all, and she hadn’t even seriously read the prenatal care manual she had written!
What a scumbag!
She thought about how to make her incubate the egg every day, but she herself knew nothing.
After more questioning, she discovered that Calysia… still only knew a little, but it was ultimately just the basics of prenatal care.
“It’s not that… I didn’t have time to read…”
Calysia was a little aggrieved and also a little guilty.
“If Master had spent more than eighty percent of my time studying, you would have learned long ago!”
“That’s not okay.”
“Bang.”
“Ah, it hurts~”
Reina sighed.
Seeing the other so improper, she could only retract her small resentment in the end and began to seriously explain the remaining precautions for incubating the egg to Calysia. After the explanation, Calysia began to “test.”
She held the dragon egg with her black-stockinged thigh and held the part of the dragon nest that wasn’t covered with both hands—that looked like the place where the little dragon’s head was. She couldn’t help but blush. It turned out that incubating a dragon egg was so shameful, it was something only a pregnant dragon could do.
Then, she began to hum a song, imitating Reina.
“That’s more like it,” Reina nodded in satisfaction.
For a moment, Reina found her master quite cute.
Her long, slender legs and full, youthful body, not considering her possessiveness, she was just a petite and cute young woman.
Recalling the 500-meter giant dragon, Reina decisively gave up this unrealistic idea. If she were bullied by Calysia in her true form once, she would probably be shrouded in the other’s “cruelty” for the rest of her life.
Fortunately, Miss Dragon King was just playing with her own legs, making cute movements that made her blush a little. Calysia quickly discovered the first problem—as long as the incubation posture was correct, the body needed to be tense, but as soon as the body relaxed, the temperature of the dragon egg could not be maintained within a certain range.
So, before Reina left, she asked for help:
“Isn’t this too complicated?”
“Isn’t this very normal?”
Reina clapped her hands. She stretched her body, which hadn’t been seriously exercised for several months, and felt completely “alive” again. She usually used her clone to act, which was not as exhilarating as her main body at all. Suddenly, she found that what Calysia had said made some sense… Could it be that because she had spent too much time incubating the egg, her main body was completely bound to the bedchamber?
And,
If it weren’t for her rationality subconsciously treating the Dragon King’s Palace as her “territory,” and Calysia being reduced to a “foreigner,” what would she do?
“You’ve worked hard, little dummy Master.”
“Can my name be a little more?”
“Big dummy.”
Reina took a deep breath.
Walking out of the Dragon King’s Palace, she discovered a second problem.
—Because she had used [Eye of Light] three times in a row, it was now very difficult for her to open her eyes again. Her next action time probably wouldn’t even reach an hour.
Fortunately, Agnes often cleaned the room. In any case, Reina wouldn’t be more tired than she had been in the past few months.
She originally wanted to go and check on Mura’s situation, but now she would soon be blind, so she could only dismiss this idea. For a moment, Reina regretted letting Calysia incubate the egg for her.
The goddess’s computational power was very strong.
She began to simulate in her mind what might happen next, such as going to see Mura tomorrow, confirming the progress of the anti-ritual the day after tomorrow, and confirming the training situation of the Four Realms Allied Forces the day after that.
Since her master had already started helping to incubate the egg, it meant that Calysia would not be with her in the following actions… that dummy always made her angry, it was a good thing she wasn’t following her.
But… something was wrong.
It was even more uncomfortable without her master by her side.
She was used to being accompanied by Calysia, and now that she was gone, she was not used to it!
Reina sighed.
Fortunately, the impact of the dragon race losing magic power was not very great, not to mention that she had taken a part of Dragon Slayer’s power.
Speaking of which, Reina remembered that it was already close to the end of December.
Unfortunately, there were no festivals this year.
The lifespan of dragons was very long, and their perception of the scale of time was different from humans.
Humans basically had a round of festivals every year, while many dragon festivals were only held every few years or even decades, and countless festivals formed a “cycle.” These were all the results of dragon astronomy.
Although there were often harmonious scenes, Reina hadn’t forgotten the current situation—the Four Realms Allied Forces were already ready for battle, and the “ambushed” Shadow of God would definitely react in the next step.
She walked to the front of the Dragon King’s Palace and happened to meet Liya.
Liya’s face was full of fatigue. She smiled and brought her some dishes.
—It had been an unknown number of months, and Liya would still help purchase ingredients for the Dragon King’s Palace.
“Thank you, Miss Liya,” Reina nodded slightly.
“Eh, Sister Reina?” Liya was originally waiting for Agnes, but she didn’t expect it to be Reina who greeted her. Because of her fatigue and exhaustion, she froze for a moment before she knew it was Reina. She had originally thought it was an illusion…
“Liya, did something happen recently?” Reina took the ingredients. She had no right to interfere in others’ lives, but this was also her concern for her subordinate.
“I’m training hard for the upcoming battle.”
Liya nodded slightly.
