Monster among monsters

'I can't sl...'

Before he could finish the thought, Ryan fell asleep.

Gracen, who noticed Ryan falling asleep, was confused, "why did he fall asleep? Shouldn't he be energetic since he was just born," Gracen asked while feeling both confused and worried.

Belinda, who heard him, sighed in exasperation and said, "Namari, How can you be this irresponsible? You have not told Gracen anything about dragons. You have been married to him for almost two hundred years," spoke, Belinda who no longer has, anger in her voice but just disappointment.

Namari, who heard her mother's disappointed voice, just brought her enormous head down, "I'm sorry, Mother, I forgot I was too caught up with other things," said Namari.

If Ryan had watched this scene, he would have, definitely been surprised. After all, a dragon that once looked so mighty and ferocious now looked like some sad child who had been scolded by his mother. Well, that's what was happening, but still, surprisingly to see, a gigantic dragon acting like a child.

Gracen, who saw everything, was also surprised, but for something else, 'Namari apologized, who would not apologize till she's proven wrong? Apologized before? Mother-in-law could even list what she had done wrong, mean she understood what she had done wrong,' he thought inwardly.

"Mother-in-law, can you please also explain to me what is happening," asked Gracen, who was feeling left out.

Belinda, who heard him, looked one last time at her daughter, just shook her head and looked at him, "Since my daughter hasn't explained it to you, let me," said Belinda.

"You should know that most monsters would become weak temporarily after giving birth right," asked Belinda.

Gracen nodded and said, "Yes, they do, but not to the point that transforming becomes dangerous for them; they can still do some simple things, such as transforming into their demi-human form."

"You are right, but you are forgetting a crucial thing here. She is not some 'normal' monster; she is a dragon, a race that is at the top of the food chain, a monster among monsters," replied Belinda with some pride in her voice.

'Yeah, how could I forget the most basic thing Dragons are not the same as other monsters,' Gracen thought inwardly.

Belinda who was not finished yet continued speaking, "And dragon's most treasured thing is their dragon heart although they are also physically way stronger than any other, being but their dragon heart also makes them even more of a monster which they already are,"

Gracen, who was listening intently, could already understand what his mother-in-law was trying to get at.

And Belinda who has also spent quite some time with her son-in-law knows that his quite smart unlike her idiot daughter, "you should already understand what I'm trying to say right,"

Before Gracen could reply or nod, he heard Belinda still speaking, making him stop in his tracks.

"Yes, they do not only give birth to a dragon but also a dragon heart, which absorbs ten percent of mana from the mother dragon heart, and before you say something like 'only ten percent' you should know there hasn't been an object or being who could absorb half of what a dragon heart can store," Belinda explained.

"What if they absorb more than ten percent," asked Gracen.

Belinda, who heard him, just smiled like a proud mother, "As expected of you, Gracen, you are quite smart, unlike someone," said Belinda while giving a side eye to Namari.

Namari, who knew her mother was talking about her, just looked down, wanting to run away from there but couldn't.

Belinda just ignored Namari and replied to Gracen, "That will determine their potential,"

"Potential,"

"Yes Potential When ten percent mana is absorbed it not only makes dragon hearts but also determines their potential,"

"And if the child absorbs ten percent to make a dragon heart, then their potential would be equal to who is strongest between the parents, and in your case, his potential should be compared to Namari,"

"And if they absorb more than ten percent, like twenty percent, then their potential should be two times of the parent, and in Namari's case, from what I can sense, her dragon heart is drained. Not even one percent of mana is left,"

"T-Then," Gracen stuttered.

"Yes, he absorbed one hundred percent mana from Namari making his potential ten times of Namari,"

Gracen looked at Ryan's sleeping face while slightly trembling and thought inwardly, 'You are telling me this little thing is going to be ten times stronger than Namari.'

Belinda also looked at Ryan's sleeping face but not with her usual strict face but with a face that was full of warmth and said,

"He's going to be called a monster by the dragon, not by other."