Chapter 7

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Gray recalled the time when he walked out of the safe house. He was thinking about how he would either sit and wait for death or risk his life.

At that time, he only had an ordinary kitchen knife in his hand, and on his back was a metal dragon egg that had no other advantages other than defense.

Facing the vast jungle and unknown monsters, he had nothing to rely on. He could only follow the strange feeling of the dragon egg and move forward.

But now, with the two of them cooperation, not only did the they kill the tier 2 gnawing rabbit to prove their ability to survive in the jungle, they even obtained a mana crystal that could accelerate the hatching of the dragon egg. He had successfully found a shortcut to hatch it!

Gray finally understood the value of his own troop, as well as the specific method to use it.

Although the existence of the dragon egg did not completely clear his worries about survival, it was enough for him to protect himself in this strange and unpredictable jungle. He could even use this as a basis to make a strategy to become stronger!

He could wait until the Dragon’s Might cooldown was over, then he could do the same as he did this time. He could find another mana crystal for the dragon egg, and strive to hatch the little dragon in the shortest time possible.

Since the dragon’s egg’s sensing range was only eight hundred meters, if there were no other prey within the range of eight hundred meters, Gray planned to explore further. After all, he had another task for today. After all, he had yet to find a water source.

Speaking of exploring, Gray suddenly remembered that he hadn’t seen any wild beasts along the way.

He had guessed that it was probably because he had come to a place where wild beasts were rare. After seeing the Dragon’s Might from the dragon’s egg, Gray strongly suspected that the Dragon’s Might had scared away the surrounding wild beasts. Only then was his safety ensured along the way.

This also gave Gray a reminder. If it was really the dragon egg that had protected him along the way, then rashly entering the jungle without the dragon egg would definitely be suicidal.

This conclusion made Gray feel some lingering fear. He didn’t want to think about what would have happened if he had stubbornly walked into the jungle with a kitchen knife.

Based on this conclusion, Gray planned to hide in the bushes for a while.

The description of Dragon’s Might was clear. Not only could the dragon egg no longer launch Dragon’s Might attacks, but even the normal Dragon’s Might had been weakened.

He didn’t know how much this weakening was, nor did he have the spirit to test the waters. Naturally, it was better for him to stay hidden obediently.

Moreover, his battle with the gnawing rabbit had consumed quite a bit of his stamina. Nearly an hour waiting for the cooldown was just enough time for him to recover a little.

Since he had nothing to do, Gray opened the chat channel, wanting to see how far the other Guardians had explored.

Compared to himself, who could only rely on himself, those Guardians with troops must have explored more useful things.

“Help! There’s no way to get out of my safe house.”

“I’m so hungry. Oh my god, can a big shot please give me some food?”

“Thanks for the invitation. I’m already eating my slime.”

“I’m so thirsty. My Demon Claw Wolf is too weak. It’s only level one. It’s still two days away from fully growing. Within a radius of ten miles, the beasts are probably able to beat me. If this continues, I’m afraid we’ll both die of thirst in this safe house.”

“Me too. My Gale Condor looks like a slightly bigger-than-average chicken right now. If I go out, I’ll be sending food to other wild beasts!”

“The person upstairs will tell you a piece of good news. You won’t starve to death. Troops will lose their loyalty points if they starve. Once their loyalty reaches below 60, they will defect. So there’s a high probability that you will leave earlier than you think.”

“Fuck, are you for real? I suddenly feel that there’s something wrong with the way my troop looks at me.”

Loyalty points? There’s such a thing?

Hunger would actually cause loyalty points to be too low. In the end, it would even cause the troops to betray them?

Gray suddenly had a bad premonition. His dragon egg did not eat or drink, and he did not know what kind of situation its loyalty points were in. If he went through so much trouble to hatch the dragon egg and in the end, if the dragon egg betrayed him on the spot, it would be a big problem!

Gray hurriedly opened the dragon egg’s attribute panel. As expected, he found the words “Loyalty: 100” in the entry. He opened it to look at the specific explanation.

[Troop loyalty value: Troop loyalty value reflects the troop’s recognition of the Guardian. When the loyalty value is too low, the troop will have negative emotions towards the Guardian. When the loyalty value is below 60, the troop will begin to have a probability of betrayal, and as the loyalty value continues to decrease, the probability of betrayal will increase.]

[Note: The dignity and pride of the platinum dragon god clan does not allow them to abandon their allies. As long as the Guardian does not explicitly express abandoning this troop, the loyalty of this troop will always remain at the highest level.]

Seeing the explanation, Gray felt slightly relieved, but at the same time, he felt a wave of joy.

Gray scrolled through the chat channel again. At this moment, most of the Guardians seemed to be in a state of hunger and thirst, unable to even ensure their own basic survival.

The reason for this was that most of the troops had yet to develop, or perhaps the troops had already developed, but they did not have any significant offensive power, causing them to be in a dilemma.

Gray suddenly realized that what he and the dragon egg were doing now was very rare.

While most of the people were still trapped in their own safe houses, he and the egg had already successfully killed a tier 2 beast, and they still had to continue exploring.

This was completely out of Gray’s expectations. He had originally thought that he had a troop that had yet to hatch, and was already at the lowest level among the Guardians.

However, he had not expected that a single egg would be more useful than a full-grown troop.

Gray looked at the dragon egg in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

However, although most of the people were still huddled in their own safe houses, it was not as if no one had begun their exploration of the forest like Gray.

There were also some types of troops, which even if they were still young, they were enough to provide life support for their own Guardians.

Gray saw a Guardian who claimed to be in possession of a top-class troop, the Golden Lion. He advertised in the chat channel that he was willing to part with some of the food he had obtained from hunting in exchange for other supplies.

Below the message was naturally a wave of cheers and praises.

Gray was also interested. He suddenly thought that if he could obtain mana crystals through trade, then the hatching of the dragon egg would be right in front of his eyes.

Although it was extremely difficult for him to kill the gnawing rabbit, in front of a Guardian who possessed a powerful troop, a tier 2 beast was probably not a difficult problem.

With this thought in mind, Gray opened the trade interface excitedly..