I, The Dragon Overlord Chapter 29 - Dragons and Gods.

A dragon’s growth is divided into several stages: baby dragon, juvenile dragon, adult dragon, prime dragon, elder dragon, and ancient dragon.

A normal adult dragon would need roughly 200-300 years of growth to mature. As babies, they were quite weak and at most could only defeat a few minor beasts. At this point, they could not live on their own and had to rely on their mothers for feeding and protection.

Dragons were reclusive creatures for the most part. While a few would live with their mating partners as tigers did, in a truly independent spirit, their children would often leave home after becoming juvenile dragons.

This was also the most dangerous period in a dragon’s life. They were not exactly strong, but they were not weak either. One could hire a fairly competent adventurer party to get rid of them. In addition, this was the first time they left their parents and had to fend for themselves. They would need to learn many things through experience. In this period of time, dragons would live carefully and hide deep inside forests. They would try to find areas without powerful creatures and would wait to evolve.

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After this, they would become adult dragons. By this point, few adventurers could actually face them. The bulk of those that tried would end up as dragon food.

After adulthood came the prime stage of their lives. By then they were already equivalent to legendary rank powerhouses. They existed at more or less the peak of dragonkind, and only few legend ranks could guarantee that they could kill them, especially given their ability to flee if necessary.

Then came old age. This is where most dragons stopped progressing. At this point, even legendary rank powerhouses would find it hard to kill them. The most reliable way to do so was to gather several legendaries and attack it en masse. At this stage, dragons would begin to spend more of their time sleeping in order to conserve their energy. They typically stopped looking for trouble at this point, and would often pass away in slumber. Only a handful of talented dragons could break through this stage and become ancient dragons.

Ancient dragons were the longest-lived and wisest of the mortal dragon race. They were revered by all of dragonkind and could draw out respect from even the brashest of dragonkin. While they were not demigods, their strength could rival them.

This time, Louie borrowed the energy left behind by the Intelligent Brain to carry out the first evolution, directly crossing the baby dragon stage to the juvenile dragon stage.

His body was now twice as long, reaching 10 meters in length. Moreover, he always felt that he was different from other young dragons. Specifically, he thought himself stronger than they were, but he understood this to be nothing more than his speculation.

[Host need not guess. Be it speed, strength, vitality, or other aspects, the host is far stronger than other dragons of this world. A portion of your body was also strengthened by sci

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