CHAPTER 60: CHAPTER 58: URGENCY

The Dragon Nest Tribe is continuously developing, growing stronger day by day.

However, Austin’s experiment with extraordinary power has remained stagnant, with no progress in sight.

"Where exactly is the problem?"

In the laboratory behind the village, looking at Quik, the fox-faced man who was still twitching after sustaining an electric shock, the Blue Young Dragon kept pondering.

When modifying the beastmen with electric shocks, Austin felt a faint resonance in his bloodline with the beastmen undergoing modification. This resonance was unfounded, intangible, but when Austin used his magic power to convert into electric current to stimulate the beastmen, he could sense its existence.

This should be the instinct of the Dragon Race.

And bestowing the power of the Dragon Vein to the Beastman Race seems to be an innate privilege of the Giant Dragons.

"Could it be that my power is too weak, resulting in this outcome?"

Austin found himself deep in thought.

Since the electric current stimulation temporarily enhanced the beastmen’s power, it suggests that the hypothesis of Giant Dragons having the natural ability to impart power to their clan might be correct.

But right now, he can only grant temporary power enhancements to the beastmen, unlike the results seen in the inherited memories where adult dragons bestow power permanently to their clan.

In the inherited memories, the Dragon Vein Mages modified by the adult dragons were not like the beastmen modified by Austin, whose powers were depleted after a few days. Those modified by adult dragons experienced an enhancement in the essence of life and could continuously advance by devouring magical resources, even reaching the Legendary Realm.

But what about the beastmen he modified?

Not only did they lack the abilities of those Warlock Warriors, but even the enhancements in physique seemed temporary to Austin, like a battery charging during the electric stimulation. Once the charge finished, it gradually depleted and returned to its original state, far from the results of empowerment by dragon modification.

"Adult dragons are destined to be beings above Legendary, with no need for lower-tier clan members like Dragon Vein Mages, and most young dragons remain dormant during their early years, protected by their parents, without needing to develop a clan... Damn it, there’s too little information."

Austin felt a bit frustrated as the knowledge gleaned from inheritance was mostly common lore of the world and the continent. For beings that naturally reach Legendary at adulthood, there is often no need to involve deep, intricate knowledge.

Rationally, even if Austin doesn’t want to admit it, he understands deep inside that it is likely because his powers are too weak.

If calculated by the tiers of an Extraordinary Professional, Austin is merely at the quasi-Silver stage now, far from the Legendary Realm, thus naturally incapable of freely creating Dragon Vein clan members as adult dragons can.

He is well-aware of this point. Nonetheless, at this stage, the only method Austin has to significantly boost the power of his Beastman Race subordinates is through their modification towards the extraordinary path using his power.

Even though the Dragon Nest Tribe is developing rapidly at present, Austin can still clearly see the shortcomings within the tribe.

Maybe leveraging strict discipline and tactical prowess of military groups, the beastmen within the Dragon Nest Tribe have achieved peak among ordinary beastmen.

At the very least, Austin dares to say that within the entire Kawa Great Forest, in absence of an extraordinary individual, the army of the Dragon Nest Tribe is undoubtedly the pinnacle elite force.

Only, this world is ultimately a world with magical power. Putting aside everything else, even just Austin himself can handle an entire tribe without any issue.

Because the wooden and stone spears the beastmen use simply cannot pierce his scale armor.

Earlier, the clan members of the Dragon Nest Tribe could still assist Austin, but as Austin went through two transformations, the beastmen’s power could no longer keep up with him.

Take the last incident at the Spider Cave; the beastmen clan without extraordinary power were overwhelmingly outmatched by the Spider Magical Beasts, rendering them completely ineffective.

Even gathering more beastmen without extraordinary beastmen, unless one risks their life, it’s hard to provide significant assistance to Austin.

Austin gathered his clan to develop a powerful force, intending to plunder enough resources for his future progress, not to act as a caretaker for the beastmen.

Moreover, the sooner the extraordinary system is initiated, the greater the enhancement in the power of the Beastman Tribe will be.

This is why Austin even put aside the important task of pioneering and focused intently on experimenting to open the path to the extraordinary.

The failed experience at the Spider Cave increased his urge to press forward.

"If this path doesn’t work, I can only consider other methods."

In the laboratory, Austin sighed.

While his own modification ability is currently the easiest route for Austin to provide the beastmen with extraordinary abilities, an insurmountable obstacle suddenly appeared on this path, forcing him to consider alternatives in the end.

"Do we have to attack that Jackal Wolfman Tribe? But lately, that Jackal Wolfman Tribe has gathered over 500 Jackal Wolf People. According to Rodney, the Jackal Wolfman leader alone makes it a one to five disparity even if the entire Dragon Nest Tribe attacks..."

The Dragon Nest Tribe population has reached 133 people, but excluding the elderly, young, and pregnant beastwomen, gathering even around 100 is already quite good, not to mention that goblins, kobolds, and other naturally weaker beastmen than Jackal Wolf People make up half of them.

Even though Austin is confident in his military-formed army, this numerical disparity still worries him a bit.

Moreover, within that Jackal Wolfman Tribe, the Jackal Wolfman leader is a genuine extraordinary professional, possessing Bronze strength.

And given the sudden surge in the population of the Jackal Wolfman Tribe, there must be some significant secret within it. Otherwise, it wouldn’t suddenly increase by so many, with enough food to support it.

Such a tribe might even have some secret weapon. Even with Austin’s own power added, he still doesn’t have enough confidence to bring down that Jackal Wolfman Tribe.

Just as Austin was pondering, Quik, the fox-faced man on the experiment platform, stood up, still twitching from the aftereffects of the electric shock, and said haltingly:

"Your Highness, I might have figured out the reason."