Four Split Personalities

[The Slumbering Dragonkin 7: Pass the Dragon King’s Test 5/5; Reach the Deepest Chamber of the Tomb 1/1]

[The Slumbering Dragonkin 7 completed, reward: 100,000 selectable experience points, automatically receive the next quest in the chain]

[The Awakening Dragonkin]

Quality: Unique Legendary

Content: Form a contract with the offspring of the Last Dragon King Poshu Gálòng 0/1

Reward: 150,000 selectable experience points, ???

[Note: It’s not too late to turn back now!]

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The moment the two of them burst through the door, Motan heard the system notification sound for completing the seventh ring quest and received the [The Awakening Dragonkin] quest at the same time. Since it didn’t have a number, it felt like it was the final step.

In any case, Motan and Ji Xiaoge just breezed into the legendary ’Deepest Chamber of the Tomb’ and immediately slammed shut the heavy door behind them, fearing that the First Generation Rune Body, which could come to life at any moment, would rush in and start a massacre.

Only then did the relieved pair turn around to examine this space...

This was also a stone chamber, like the previous ones without any complicated furnishings. The imagined intricate carvings and paintings, glazed tiles, and mountains of gold and silver were all absent. The room was less than twenty square meters in size, with a large stone platform in the middle, upon which lay an egg.

"Dragon Egg!!"

Ji Xiaoge shouted in excitement, quickly dashing forward, but before she could touch the egg, she was repelled by an invisible barrier and yelped as she crashed into Motan.

[Yeah, a Dragon Egg, what else could it be... a chicken egg?]

The voice that had previously reverberated in Motan’s mind spoke again, sounding somewhat listless.

"You can talk!"

Ji Xiaoge, who also heard the voice, was initially stunned, then struggled to climb off Motan, blinking her large eyes in astonishment and exclaimed, "The egg can talk!!"

[The egg can’t talk; it’s the great me inside the egg speaking. Do you have a hole in your head, woman...]

The thing... inside the egg on the stone platform dryly remarked, with a tone that was somewhat asking for a beating.

Motan held back Ji Xiaoge, who had taken out a frying spatula from her bag, and said with a wry smile, "Remember we agreed not to use it for cooking."

"It said I have a hole in my head!"

The girl glaringly stared at the egg, her expression filled with grievance.

Motan was speechless. He had guessed that the voice they heard upon entering the previous stone chamber belonged to this egg, and he was now sure that this was the offspring mentioned by Dragon King Poshu, although he hadn’t expected it to be awake.

[Would someone without a hole in their head think that an egg can talk?]

Before Motan could appease Ji Xiaoge, the egg spoke up again in their minds, its tone as annoying as ever.

"Cough cough, well, you might be a bit more polite, you know," said Motan, looking somewhat speechlessly at the over two meters tall giant egg and spreading his hands, "After all, we’re here to save you, Mr... Egg Brother. You must have been trapped for quite some years, right?"

[Who is your Egg Brother? I haven’t even been born yet.]

The egg snorted and no longer spoke directly into their minds but vibrated its shell to create an audible sound: "You’re right, I have indeed been trapped for many years. When that old tiger Gallon cast the seal, he was all absorbed in solidifying the space, thinking that there was no way I could awaken before hatching. But guess what, that old geezer had no sooner croaked, and I woke up right after, only to find myself preserved in this shell, unable to get out no matter what, nearly died of anger in there."

Motan and Ji Xiaoge looked at each other, both feeling a strange sense of familiarity...

Not that they were familiar with the situation, but rather with this increasingly offbeat style.

The two stayed silent for half a minute before Ji Xiaoge broke the silence. She tilted her head, looking distrustfully at the egg, and spoke fiercely, "So, you’ve been waiting all these years just for the two of us to come, and the first thing you do is insult my intelligence?"

"Yep, spot on. That’s exactly what happened."

The egg replied indolently, "Because I’m a pretty straightforward guy."

"Mor."

Ji Xiaoge, fuming, turned to Motan. She blinked her eyes, then yanked his arm, "Let’s go. We’ll leave it here to rot."

Motan forced a laugh, he hadn’t yet had the chance to speak when a deafening roar came from behind—

"I’m terribly sorry, I messed up!"

The two of them were dumbfounded on the spot. Including Ji Xiaoge, who initially just meant to spook the egg a little, didn’t expect it to be so... amenable. It was difficult to say whether it knew how to act according to the situation or was simply shameless, but its attitude changed pretty quickly.

"You were wrong?"

Ji Xiaoge still found it hard to believe.

"Yeah, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have been born."

The egg replied with a steadfast and powerful tone.

Sweat broke out on Motan, who said somewhat exasperatedly, "Actually, we were just bluffing you, not really planning to leave."

"Oh, the girl with a hole in her head."

"You say that one more time, and we really will leave..."

"Daddy!"

"..."

Motan rubbed his forehead, feeling that communicating with this egg was somewhat draining. In just a few sentences, he was already exhausted, so he decisively changed the subject, "So, over all these years..."