Chapter 20: 019 When a Dragon Starts Eating Dirt_1

Translator: 549690339

After discovering that his devouring ability was not limited to living beings and could be applied to all sorts of things, Otto felt like he had opened the door to a new world.

The stomach of a dragon allowed him to digest most materials in the world, so he generally didn’t have to worry about getting an upset stomach.

With this advantage, he had started to devour all sorts of strange things around him these days, making both Saru and Sofia feel like their worldview was collapsing.

Other people didn’t have that strange light ball in their heads, and they didn’t receive any feedback after eating things, so they couldn’t understand Otto’s feelings.

Please, a dragon spending its day eating dirt and gnawing on wood, where was the dignity of a true dragon?

If Otto hadn’t been restrained and didn’t eat everything around him without limit, Saru would have been worried that Otto had suddenly turned into a troll.

It was said that the stupid Kamia had almost recovered, with the lower half of his body that Otto had eaten regrowing and even becoming stronger.

Unexpectedly, the troll had become quite low-key lately and seemed to have grown smarter as well.

Leaving that aside, Otto’s current behavior was also very strange. Saru had never seen Cassiopeia pull up a tree like Otto and then chomp it down like a cucumber.

Witnessing this bizarre scene, Saru couldn’t help but question whether it was the right choice to follow this young dragon…

Sofia, lying on Otto’s neck, asked with some concern, “Is Big Dragon not getting enough to eat recently? If so, Sofia can help with hunting too!”

Although Otto felt there was no need to hide it from Sofia, he didn’t know how to describe his special ability to others, so he eventually decided to tell a white lie.

“Being picky is not good, you know. Only by absorbing all kinds of nutrition can you grow well!”

This was like a trick to deceive children, but the half-elf loli actually believed it.

Sofia blinked her eyes, seemingly struggling with the idea, before hesitantly asking, “Then… do I have to eat these things too? I might not be able to bite through stones and wood…”

If the half-elf loli really tried to gnaw on a piece of stone with her teeth, they might just shatter.

Imagining that scene, Otto’s mouth twitched and he quickly added, “Sofia and I have different body structures, so you don’t need to eat these things like I do. Just pay attention to having a balanced diet!”

The half-elf loli finally breathed a sigh of relief, and truthfully, she was quite worried.

What if Otto dragged her into eating stones, and was the dragon’s mind broken by eating random stuff?

Although it was just a white lie, Sofia was reassured and had many things to do.

So she jumped down from Otto’s neck and called out to her two ogre subordinates to continue with the task of renovating the cave.

The entrance of the cave had been expanded enough for Otto to easily pass through.

But Sofia was not satisfied with just that.

Under her command, the two ogres were using crude tools to process wooden materials.

Sofia wanted to make a set of wooden furniture for herself, as she was tired of sitting on the ground to eat and sleeping on bear skins spread over the floor.

Of course, she hadn’t forgotten to prepare a set for Otto, but given Otto’s size, it was too difficult, so that task would be left for last.

After soothing Sofia, Otto returned to his eating career, devouring all kinds of common stones, trees and even soil around him, which didn’t taste good.

Just like devouring living beings, eating items with repeating abilities didn’t have much effect.

Rare and powerful materials were hard to find on the outskirts of Nolan Forest, so most of the abilities he gained were low-level abilities similar to Rock Coating.

He had tried, like Rock Coating, this ability was quite good for ordinary species like lizardmen, and it took some effort to break the defense of Rock Coating.

But if it was his own claws, there was no difference between it and a layer of tofu.

Rock Coating was not reliable, not even capable of defending his own attacks, let alone Cassiopeia or the yet unseen Red Dragon.

Some abilities from plants, like Low-level Growth, surprisingly allowed him to sprout a small flower at the tip of his tail. This ability was of little use in battle, but it was nice for occasionally teasing Sofia.

Thinking that he might have eaten dirt for nothing, Otto was a bit annoyed and picked up a few pieces of scrap metal, tossing them into his mouth like beans.

The scrap metal he just ate was taken by Saru from the Lizardman Clan’s warehouse. Lizardmen didn’t have metalworking technology, and the usable metal was naturally scarce.

These scraps were either picked up or stolen from somewhere. Some unusable metal items were kept instead of being melted down, so they simply saved them.

After decades of collecting, the Lizardman Clan only had this small amount of scrap metal, which was now Otto’s snack, with Saru watching, heartbroken.

“Successfully devoured common wrought iron, gained Iron Coating…”

Another coating ability, a thin brown layer appeared below the Rock Coating, and its defense looked equally unimpressive.

But just as Otto wanted to give up out of boredom, the information on the light ball in his head started updating.

“Sufficient ability materials accumulated, system upgrade successful, enabling ability fusion function…”

This was something Otto didn’t expect, as he didn’t know much about the mysterious light ball in his head, let alone that it would upgrade and evolve.

Before he could think further, the information on the light ball flooded his mind.

“Rock Coating and Iron Coating fused, gained Stone-Iron Coating…”

“Advanced Regeneration and Low-level Growth fused, gained Advanced Proliferation…”

“Intermediate Thick Leather and Scale Armor fused, gained Thick Scale Armor…”

“Low-level Wild Beast Heart and Low-level Smell fused, gained Keen Intuition…”

…

Information continued to flood in, and as the rows of text jumped, Otto felt an intense exhaustion mixed with his surprise.

He was familiar with this feeling, and if nothing unexpected occurred, he was about to fall into a deep sleep again.

This time he would sleep for a long time, so he rushed to the depths of the cave and after briefly handing over with Sofia and Saru, he fell into a deep slumber.