Chapter 143 Dragons and the Dragon-Riding Family
Chapter 143 Dragons and the Dragon-Riding Family
Without any servants to open the door, Long Cang took out his key and opened the manor gate himself, leading Gui Hai on foot towards the rows of buildings.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling a little disappointed? The so-called powerful Dragon-Riding Clan is just a small family like this?"
Seeing the confusion in Gui Hai's eyes, Long Cang chuckled and teased.
Gui Hai nodded frankly: "I am indeed somewhat surprised. This place is quite different from what I imagined the Royal Dragon Family base to be."
Long Cang didn't seem to mind, leading the way and casually explaining, "There's nothing strange about it, because the so-called Dragon-Controlling Families aren't actually that rich."
"Dragon-type Pokémon are very strong, but the cost of raising them is also considerable. We are not good at business, and we are even less willing to sell Dragon-type Pokémon. Instead, we keep taking in Dragon-type Pokémon that have settled in this mountain range."
So our family has never been able to save any money, and even when we did, we didn't bother with those fancy but impractical things; we used it all on training our Pokémon.
Gui Hai nodded in realization.
Just then, Long Cang led them through the residential area and arrived at a somewhat remote place behind the mountains.
Upon arriving here, Gui Hai could clearly sense that Long Cang's mood seemed to have become somewhat heavy.
"Uncle Long, where is this place? Why do I feel the presence of ghosts?"
Upon hearing this, Long Cang slowed his pace slightly, remained silent for a few seconds, and then uttered two words: "Dragon Tomb".
Before Gui Hai could ask any further questions, Long Cang stopped in front of a hillside.
"We've arrived."
As Guihai looked at the hillside in front of him, he seemed to see the hillside behind the Tower of the Other Shore.
Like the Pagoda of the Other Shore, this small hillside is covered with tombstones.
Some of the tombstones are already mottled, as if they buried lives from long ago.
Some of the tombstones look very new, as if the burials were only recently completed.
And among these tombstones, Guihai saw several small shadows.
A triangular head peeked out from behind the tombstone, glanced at Guihai and Long Cang, and then quickly withdrew its head.
Gui Hai recognized what it was.
That was his target this time: Dragapult, a pseudo-legendary Pokémon of the Ghost and Dragon types.
"Xiao Cang, you've brought guests over?"
Just then, an elderly voice sounded behind Gui Hai and Long Cang.
Looking back, Gui Hai saw an old man who bore a resemblance to Long Cang.
Although he was called an old man, his hair and beard were completely white, but he was very strong and had a slight smile on his face, like an old dragon who had been through many battles.
“Father, you’ve come here again.”
Long Cang looked at the old man and said with a sigh.
Long Cang's father glanced at the faintly visible Doronmesia among the tombstones and smiled slightly: "Come and see these little guys."
As he spoke, Long Cang's father walked between the tombstones, and soon a small dragon flew onto his shoulder and affectionately rubbed against his cheek.
It was like seeing a relative, or like a child seeing their father.
Without Long Cang's explanation, Gui Hai already understood what was going on.
Ghost is a type of Pokémon that can be born without hatching an egg.
Some of the Ghost-type Pokémon may be reincarnations of dead souls.
One legend says that Dragapult is the reincarnation of a Dragon-type Pokémon after its death.
This is the Dragon Tomb, the place where the Dragon-riding family buries the lost Dragon-type Pokémon and their clansmen.
In other words, Draco Messia was likely born here from a deceased Pokémon partner.
Seeing the intimate relationship between Long Cang's father and the dragon Mesia, and then looking at the somewhat new tombstone next to Long Cang's father, Gui Hai already had the answer in his heart.
Long Cang watched his father playing with Doronmesia and sighed softly.
"Buried there is my grandfather's sonic dragon. My father often played with it after he was born, and he practically watched my father grow up."
Of course, it watched me grow up, but it couldn't withstand the passage of time. A few years ago, its life came to an end, and it was buried here.
My father was very sad at the time and often came to tend to this dragon graveyard. One day, the dragon Mesia suddenly appeared in the graveyard of the sonic dragon.
At this point, Long Cang smiled and said, "You have no idea how happy we were after we verified some things."
"It wasn't just my father, but also my second and third uncles; they came over often too..."
"Therefore, we are unwilling to disclose data about Dorgonmesia to the league."
Once the data is made public, it's easy to imagine how much covetousness these little guys will attract.
In addition, we are unwilling to send our resurrected relatives away, and we are even less willing to let them suffer more harm, so very few people use Dragapult in battle.
We think it's good enough to let them live peacefully here.
Gui Hai listened to Long Cang's seemingly self-talking narration, remained silent for a moment, and then asked, "Then why did you make that promise to me? I could have easily found Doromesia in the wild."
Long Cang suddenly smiled and patted Gui Hai on the shoulder: "We treat these little guys as family, but we will also respect their own thoughts and help them reproduce and expand their population."
"Although our breeding efforts have yielded very little results, and we only have the few Dragapults you see so far, we have managed to breed some new Dragapults, such as the ones that want to become stronger, like mine."
Entrusting excellent Pokémon to our trusted trainers is a way of being responsible to those Pokémon.
Gui Hai was relieved to hear this.
If Long Cang were to simply give him a Dragon Mesia just to fulfill a promise he made, Gui Hai felt he would be extremely disappointed, and it would also cause him to lose all sense of identification with Long Cang.
Now that it seems there are second-generation dragons born from these dragons, Ghost Sea thinks it's pretty good.
In particular, Long Cang's attitude towards Pokémon made him feel very comfortable.
"Let's go, I'll take you to see those Doromisias that have been bred and are willing to become stronger."
Long Cang pulled Gui Hai along and headed towards a place that looked like a breeding shed next to the Dragon Tomb.
As for his elderly father, let him continue to be alone with those Dorgonmesia.
Upon entering the breeding house, Long Cang greeted his third uncle, who was guarding the dragon tomb there, and then led Gui Hai to the breeding area for the offspring of the Dragon Mesia.
Guihai knew that pseudo-gods were very difficult to cultivate, but when he saw the number of Dronmesias, he still did not expect that the number of second or even third generations of Dronmesias would be so small.
In the breeding house in front of the Ghost Sea, there are several Dorano Balto and Doranoki.
It looks like it's a parent that has bred many of the dragons.
Then Guihai saw five or six Doromias playing freely in the breeding house...
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