Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 246 The Injured War Dragon

"Everyone can see that the spirit-manipulated beast is dying. Why can't they treat it well? They arereal bastards without any conscience.” Sheridan was visibly upset when he saw that the creature wasbreathing its last and would soon die.

Seeing the beast's condition, Rocky thought of an idea and his eyes lit up. With eagerness that hecould not hide, he asked Sheridan how he planned to deal with the situation.

"The creature breathes, its heart beats, and it is a life form, just like we are. I will replace a suitable placeto bury it." And Sheridan was obviously grief-stricken.

"Sheridan, I am going out as I have an important task to attend to. I can bury it for you. You takecare of yourself." After Rocky said those words, he picked up the spirit-manipulated beast, flung iton his left shoulder, and left the beast farm.

"What has come over him? I wonder why he is showing so much kindness today," Sheridanmurmured to himself suspiciously, as he saw Rocky's receding figure.

What Sheridan did not know was that Rocky had not offered to bury the spirit-manipulated beastout of any kindness that he felt for it. He had other plans. Therefore, instead of doing as he had saidto Sheridan, Rocky took it directly to the laboratory he had built.

Once there, he addressed the creature and said, "Do not worry. I will help you. I will make sure thatyou feel no pain." Rocky knew all too well that it was in unbearable pain and agony. Therefore,without any delay, he put the spirit-manipulated beast on the cold operating table. Having donethat, he gathered a little spiritual power in his palm, placed it on its heart, and pressed it gently.The creature could not live and predictably died soon after that, as its heart, its arteries, and its veinshad been shorn into tiny fragments, and were now nothing but pulp.

With the spirit-manipulated beast dead, Rocky had obtained a free corpse to experiment on. Hewanted to practice how to operate on its dead body, and conduct some experimental operations onit, as that would give him an edge in the future.

Before Rocky knew it, he had been experimenting for three days.

And as the creature's corpse could not be preserved for long under normal temperatures, Rocky hadno choice but to bury it - the first cadaver he had experimented on. Therefore, he carried whatremained of it, found a large hole in the desolate forest that was near his laboratory, and buried itthere.

Rocky did what he had to, but he was not happy for he could not experiment longer on thecreature's body. Therefore, on his way back, he muttered to himself, "I need to replace a new deadbody to experiment on now," and started speculating how he could do it. Then, after he hadfinished his daily routine jobs, he started taming little Rubygon.

Recently, little Rubygon had revealed its wild nature by running away in the wild without takingRocky's permission. It was extremely unruly, and had it not been for Uriah's help, Rocky would nothave been able to restrain it.

Taming a spirit-manipulated beast was a complex and challenging job. It required a combination ofharsh and mild tactics. A new hand, Rocky was inexperienced in taming spirit-manipulated beasts inreal life. Although he had theoretical knowledge about it, as he had studied Beast Taming Skills,there was a tremendous gap between theory and practice.

In spite of his innate talent, Rocky could not bring little Rubygon under his control. He could notbreak its spirit, as it resisted both strategies. Neither a severe nor a soft approach impacted it. Nomatter what Beast Taming Skills Rocky used, little Rubygon stayed the way it was - wild anduntamed, like a spoiled princess, who did what caught her fancy without fearing or caring foranyone.

"You little thing, I swear I will tame you and teach you to be obedient. If I do not do that, I will takeyour name, and call myself Rubygon,” Rocky said, and stared at little Rubygon. It seemed that hehad been wrestling with little Rubygon.

In the following days, apart from his daily work, Rocky had one more thing to do - staring at littleRubygon, as they stood in the central field. Initially, both stared at each other peacefully. However,later, little Rubygon became impatient and got irritated with Rocky, so it started attacking him.Rocky also adopted harsh tactics and beat little Rubygon until it was blue.

After a few days, he found that little Rubygon had become obedient. Even the expression in its eyesconveyed timidity. Gleaning from how Rocky had been treating little Rubygon lately, it seemed thatonly violence could have tamed it. However, if that were true and little Rubygon was scared ofRocky, then that meant that his previous experiment had come to nothing.

Therefore, Rocky began to use the Beast Taming Skills he had learned, to tame little Rubygon.Additionally, he started taking it and Uriah to hunt for some menial wild spirit-manipulated beastsso that he could sufficiently exercise it.

Half a month had gone, in the blink of an eye.

And Rocky's efforts at taming little Rubygon had finally paid dividends. Now, most of the time, itbehaved properly and did as it was told. Although, there were times when it was disturbed, becameemotional, and was also disgruntled. However, on the whole, Rocky was satisfied with littleRubygon's performance.

After Rocky had finished his cultivation, he walked out of the abandoned house, and was pleasantlysurprised to see little Rubygon holding a hare that it had hunted, in its mouth. That was its way ofshowing its trophy to Rocky and to earn praise.

"Good job! I am proud of you!" Rocky said, commending little Rubygon. Seeing that Rocky washappy with its achievement, little Rubygon joyfully took the hare to an empty corner to feast on it."Last night, I refined the Dark Heaven Egg at the medium stage. Without a doubt, now I am veryclose to the fourth grade of the Earthly Stage. With two more Dark Heaven Eggs at the preliminarystage and the assistance of the Heaven Divine Lotus Seed, I am sure that I will reach the fourthgrade, soon," satisfied, Rocky muttered to himself. Right now, Rocky's cultivation was impressivelyquick. Combined with the Dark Heaven Egg, the Heaven Divine Lotus Seed, and the magical saliva,he had achieved significant promotions in merely one to two months; instead of a year or longer -the time it normally took others.

Yet in spite of all that, Rocky still had a long way to go to reach the Heavenly Stage, based on hispresent speed. That was because the promotion was more difficult to realize at the Earthly Stage'slater part, especially, beyond its fifth grade.

Therefore, in order to rise further and achieve more, Rocky planned to capture several more DarkHeaven Insects, which would make his cultivation easier with their Dark Heaven Eggs. However, itseemed that there weren't any more Dark Heaven Insects in the northeast military camp's area,which implied that Rocky would have to venture to the other camps’ jurisdictions. That, in turn,meant that he would need at least two to three days to make a successful round trip, as the campswere at quite a distance from where Rocky was.

Therefore, before he set out on his mission, he had to consider his plan carefully, keeping a long-term perspective to it. Also, his daily schedule was so packed that he found it difficult to extracthimself from it and venture forth.

As usual, Rocky went back to the beast farm of the northeast military camp to learn the Beast CuringSkill from Sheridan. In the fifteen days that he was there, owing to Sheridan's vast storehouse ofknowledge, Rocky had already progressed tremendously vis-a-vis learning Beast Curing Skills.Indeed, he had benefited a lot by learning from Sheridan. Once Rocky had imbibed from Sheridan,he combined the knowledge he had gained from him, with that of how surgeries were performed,using the techniques of modern science. Consequently, now, he was able to conduct a few basicsurgeries on some spirit-manipulated beasts. Undoubtedly, what he had achieved was abreakthrough and enhanced the way effective operations could be done.

After arriving where Sheridan stayed, Rocky met Thor and Joss, who had just reached the beastfarm.

"Brother," Thor and Joss excitedly called out to Rocky in unison. They had not seen him since histransfer to the beast farm, and his moving there. Ergo, their happiness on seeing him surged high,for it was Rocky who was responsible for the fact that no one looked down on them anymore. Hiscourage and conduct had also gained them respect and now no one considered them to bemembers of a rubbish team.

"How come you two are free today? What are you doing here?" Rocky asked, confused, as henodded a greeting to both of them, who had been members of the sixth team, earlier.

"Oh, Commander Marin sent us here. Yesterday, when she was leading our first and the third teamsto the frontier, we got ambushed on the way. Though we successfully repulsed the enemy under herleadership, her war dragon was so seriously injured that now it cannot stand up nor walk. So, afterwe had driven the enemy forces back, and returned safely, Commander Marin asked us to bringSheridan to where she is waiting, with her war dragon, to cure it..." Thor replied respectfully, as heheld Rocky in high esteem.

"Sheridan, someone is calling you," Rocky shouted to get Sheridan's attention, who was busyworking at the beast farm. Thor and Joss had described the encounter so vividly that he couldvisualize how severely the spirit-manipulated beast must have gotten wounded. Now that he knewthe gravity of the situation, he was also a little worried for Marin, as she had always treated him well.After finishing what he was doing, Sheridan walked out slowly and asked, "What's the matter?”"Commander Marin's war dragon was injured!" Rocky replied.

"What?" On learning that Marin's war dragon had gotten hurt, Sheridan was extremely concernedand became tense. With an urgency in tone, he said, "Why don't you send it to me and I will takecare of it?"

"That is not possible, as it can't walk, due to the grievous injuries it received. That is whyCommander Marin asked us to pick you up,” Joss said promptly.

Sheridan became even more serious and yelled, "What are you waiting for? Take me to CommanderMarin. Hurry!"

Thor and Joss became somber, nodded their heads, which meant that they would escort Sheridan toCommander Marin poste haste, and immediately they started heading towards where she wascamped. Rocky, too joined them, as he wanted to benefit from seeing Sheridan treat the war dragon- live teaching from Sheridan, was a rare opportunity, indeed!