31. The Learning Celes
Actually, the two problems could be completely categorized as one.
As long as little Celes could transform into a half-dragon, the problem of her large appetite could be partially solved. After all, preventing a large amount of meaningless energy consumption was the top priority at the moment.
To make Celes transform into a half-dragon, she had to start from the core…
Learning knowledge.
Based on her understanding of dragon education, Reina gradually discovered that the amount of knowledge and the ability to learn were the keys to a little dragon’s growth. Therefore, Reina planned to use some more direct methods to teach Celes how to use magic.
Of course, for Celes, there were other more direct and understandable ways.
She used her clone to lead the little dragon to an open space in the garden and “summoned” Calysia to demonstrate for Celes.
“Magic is the expression of integrating the magic power in the air and in the body, and then releasing it in a certain form…”
“Let’s just use magic directly. Celes will definitely be able to learn it.”
Reina said confidently. She knew that Celes might have a power to see through the essence of things, and she just needed to show it to her.
Calysia understood her meaning in a second and summoned a small ice ball, throwing it out.
Celes tilted her head and opened her mouth…
“Wait a minute!”
Reina’s eyes widened and she stood in front of Celes.
Wasn’t this dragon breath?! Did Celes want to breathe fire?
What Reina didn’t expect was that she actually used her tongue as the output for her magic, spitting out a small ice ball that rolled on the ground and came to her feet.
“Mommy, am I amazing!”
“Very… amazing.”
As expected, a genius.
The ice ball was originally very large, about the size of five watermelons, but Celes’s internal temperature was very high, and it melted it. When she released the ice ball, the moisture in the air instantly decreased, and it became a little dry.
“As expected, you learned it after seeing it once. Celes, there may be no dragon in this world stronger than you.”
“Mommy! Mommy!”
Although Celes’s IQ was not low, and her vocabulary had gradually expanded in the past few months, her way of expressing happiness hadn’t changed much. Her chin came over, and she proactively let Reina caress her head, and then, as if afraid of neglecting Mother Calysia, she specially nuzzled against her with her head.
“Little Cal, transform into a dragon and then back, let her see?”
Reina suddenly had great confidence in Celes’s learning ability.
“Watch closely, I’ll only demonstrate once.”
Calysia’s entire body was enveloped in a purple light, and suddenly, she transformed into a huge dragon, soaring into the sky, as if she could directly burst the entire garden. The giant dragon was 500 meters long, like a giant standing there, incredibly shocking.
Celes looked at the dragon, which was twenty times her size, and instantly lost her arrogance. Of course, she had also seen Calysia transform into a dragon before, but her mother hadn’t deliberately become so big at that time.
The previous few times, she hadn’t seen clearly. And this time, she felt she could do it.
If she could do it, then Mother Reina would praise her and give her more delicious food.
When Calysia transformed back into her human form, a light flashed in her eyes.
Then, she began to accumulate the magic power in her body, holding her breath, her head lowered, as if she were charging up a destructive dragon breath.
Then, some purple power enveloped her body. And this time, Reina also saw clearly that she could be certain that it was not some ordinary magic, but her own light magic!
“Awoo~”
The little dragon let out a sound. It was clear that transforming into a half-dragon was a little difficult.
No wonder. After all, both the difficulty of learning and the control of magic power had to reach a certain level, not to mention that the little dragon was actually using my light magic… It was simply not giving me, this orthodox God of Light, any face.
Thinking of this, Reina decisively began to take Celes to the library to learn to read.
“Celes, do you know this word?”
“I do!”
Reina nodded in satisfaction.
“What about this one?” Reina found a slightly more common word.
“I do!”
“You probably don’t know this one,” Reina said, pointing to a slightly more obscure word.
“I do!”
Wait? This isn’t right!
How could the little dragon know everything? She should have been completely clueless about the words in these stories. It’s only been a few months, my dear daughter…
But just as Reina remembered that this was a storybook, she was enlightened.
She would often read storybooks to little Celes. Although Celes would usually just lie there and sleep, she could also use her own abilities to successfully learn.
There was no need for Reina to deliberately teach her.
She was a genius, a true heaven’s favored daughter.
Soon it was time for dinner. Reina sent her clone to cook and left the little dragon to play in the garden.
She planned to talk to Calysia about the school, about what to name it and future arrangements.
“You mean the school? Just pick a name at random.”
“Be a little more serious. This is also a very important matter. It might be passed down for thousands of years, and the name of the decision will only last for a few years.”
“…Let’s call it the Leka School, the first letters of our names.”
“That doesn’t sound very good either. Isn’t it a bit too vulgar?”
Reina held her teacup and thought carefully.
“How about Lekadis? It can also be used to name the city near it.”
“That sounds much better.”
Reina drew the name in her notebook and touched Calysia’s head: “Little Cal, why do you look so unconcerned? The child’s education is very important.”
“Anyway, you’re not pregnant now, right? Isn’t there only Celes now?” Calysia said with a mischievous smile. “But there will be three later.”
“Isn’t it all your fault? What did you say? Getting pregnant too early will lead to misfortune. Ah, you’re such a dummy.”
Mentioning this, Reina was a little resentful.
Saying it would lead to misfortune, in fact, it had another meaning.
Because every time she got pregnant, Reina’s interest would decrease, and the ways to play would also become fewer. Reina would become completely devoted to the child and “forget” Calysia. Thus, the current situation.
Resting for a few months and then having a baby, anyway, they still had a long time, and having a baby later wouldn’t affect anything. And besides, she was still incubating the egg, waiting for Light and Agnes to hatch.
“Anyway, I don’t support it, you dummy.”
Reina said, blushing.
“Why do you look so emotional?”
Calysia smiled:
“Little Reina is actually begging me to have a baby. You didn’t want to before.”
“I’m not begging you to have a baby now, hehe~”
“Ah, ah, you dummy,”
Saying that, Reina was about to go and cook.
This time, the dishes were still mainly a large amount of meat, with an appetite dozens of times that of a normal person. It could basically fill the entire dining room, so the meal time would often last for a long time.
But when Reina went to the garden, she discovered that Celes was gone.
