Twenty years ago, Rinnascita, the night before the Saintess Coronation Ceremony, in the Saintess's private chambers.
"Gehinnom? Coming to see me so late, is something the matter?"
Her voice was clear and pleasant, entering the ears of Riel, who was wrapped in endless darkness and warmth.
However, Riel's state was still hazy at the moment; he only vaguely felt that this was a language he had never heard before, and then he was shocked by the fact that he had somehow learned another foreign language.
This was probably a gift from the Solaris world.
"Awoo... (master, I found something fun.)"
This was a deep and powerful voice, yet to Riel's ears, it inexplicably carried the playfulness and surprise of a young girl sharing her joy,
and he also didn't know why he could discern such complete meaning from a single syllable.
Had he learned another foreign language?
Could he really be a genius?
Next, Riel felt as if he was being lifted and moved by something; the weightlessness and swaying feeling instinctively made him uneasy, causing him to curl up into a ball.
"Oh? This is... an egg?"
Riel felt as if two small hands were holding him securely in their palms, and the owner of that sweet voice seemed quite interested as well?
"Awoo... (Yes, we found it in the habitat of our Pterosaur Echoes.)"
The beast-like roar was so deep and rough, even hoarse and fierce, yet to Riel's ears, it was entirely the feeling of a little girl happily and smugly presenting a wildflower picked from the roadside to her parent, waiting for praise.
"Logically, aren't seihai born directly after frequency aggregation? Are there seihai in egg form? Yet I can sense the life force within... Biological developmental stages like this shouldn't have any meaning for a seihai, right? What is going on?"
Humans invented a terminal called the "Pangu terminal," which has a function called the "Data Dock" that can absorb the Echos remaining after a Tacet Discord is killed, converting them into seihai that can be manipulated, utilized, or used to enhance human strength.
Because Rinnascita possesses the "Blessing" of the age lord yingbailaduo, the entities generated after frequency aggregation are not necessarily residual images; instead, they are mostly rational seihai that can be commanded by humans and are not hostile to them.
Therefore, in Rinnascita, the birth of some seihai can skip the step of killing a Tacet Discord.
The girl holding Riel grew increasingly curious, her fingertips instinctively rubbing against the shell, producing a rustling sound... Huh?
A shell?
Riel suddenly broke free from the comforting darkness and warmth enveloping his entire body, forcing open his tired eyes and moving his nearly numb limbs, only to find that the edge of the darkness was right at his feet, and it was very, very thin—he could push it open with just a little force.
Riel's consciousness and sanity gradually returned to his mind—Frequency? seihai? An egg?!
With just a few words, Riel deduced his current situation—he had transmigrated into Wuthering Waves! And he had become an egg!
Riel anxiously looked down—this was a matter of principle and dignity!
Phew~ It's a boy.
It just seems like he's not human.
It was too dark to see anything; he had just blindly felt around.
Since Riel's movements inside the shell were perceived by the girl outside, a wave of overflowing maternal love, along with the joy and curiosity of witnessing the birth of life, rose in her heart.
"Little fellow, did you hear my question and are you rushing out to answer me? Hehehe..."
Who is this? So narcissistic? Where did this little fairy come from?
Hearing this, Riel couldn't help but inwardly complain.
Just then, Riel was so happy to find that he hadn't been maliciously gender-swapped that he lifted his head and easily pushed open the eggshell, which no longer fit his size.
Just like that, a pitch-black, palm-sized little lizard, its body curled up inside the shell and a fragment of the shell resting on its head, met the gaze of the girl in front of him, who was excitedly crying out "Wah wah."
The girl had smooth, long golden hair, casually draped over her shoulders and flowing down to her waist, and she wore a loose Cleric robe woven with gold and blue. Her bright, azure blue eyes twinkled like stars.
Her skin was fair, without a single visible pore, her eyelashes were long, and she had a pair of pointed elven ears that made even a dragon want to pet them.
Darn it, I can't roast her now. This really is a little fairy, a little fairy in the complimentary sense!
"Awoo... (So beautiful...)"
Riel was stunned. A two-dimensional character appearing in three-dimensional reality—he had never seen such a beautiful woman!
It's just that she seems a bit illegal? Her age should be around sixteen.
But it didn't matter, Riel's current tiny body couldn't do anything anyway.
Of course, he recognized this was Calcharo, but he seemed to have just heard "Gehinnom"... If Gehinnom was still alive, it meant the Second black tide hadn't arrived yet, which meant she should currently be called: Fleurdelys.
"Hehehe, the little fellow has a sweet tongue~"
As the Resonator of the Age Lord, Fleurdelys naturally understood the language of seihai.
At this moment, she was smiling foolishly as she cautiously extended a finger toward Riel.
Only when her fingertip rested steadily on Riel's tiny dragon head and she rubbed it gently, realizing the little black dragon had no intention of resisting, did she relax her tense body.
Although this was a toothless little creature that hadn't even grown fangs, Saintess Fleurdelys, as the Age Lord's Resonator, was arguably the highest combat power among humans in Rinnascita at the time. Even if Riel were a fully grown Pterosaur Echo, he would be nothing more than a plaything—
—but what if Saintess Fleurdelys, who was loved by everyone and everything, was rejected by a special little dragon?
The Saintess would be very sad~
However, that didn't happen.
"Little fellow, what is your name~?"
Fleurdelys removed the fragment of eggshell resting on the little black dragon's head and fed it to Riel's mouth—she had read in ancient texts that in the Old Era, there was a powerful mythical creature called a Giant Dragon, and its first meal upon birth was its own eggshell.
Riel naturally didn't need to be told—no matter what the charming person in front of him fed him, he would eat it! Ah ah ah, awoo awoo awoo!!!
Drowning in Fleurdelys's beauty, Riel hadn't noticed his body's hunger.
However, Fleurdelys feeding him the eggshell was correct. After eating the shell, Riel not only found it delicious—an indescribable flavor—but his shriveled, soft muscles also solidified and grew slightly.
"Awoo... (I...)"
Just as Riel was about to state his name, Fleurdelys interrupted him,
"Oops, I'm so silly. How could you have a name when you were just born?"
Saying this, she first pointed to herself, then looked seriously into Riel's eyes and told him,
"Remember this: My name is Fleurdelys, and I am your master. From now on, we are partners. Understand?"
Riel was so captivated by her that he was utterly lost, squinting his dragon eyes and nodding with a smile.
Partners?
Wife!
Who said turning into a dragon was bad?
Becoming a dragon is awesome!
"As for you, wait for this Saintess to give you a name~"
Fleurdelys rested a finger on her chin, pursed her cherry-pink lips, and her eyes darted around playfully.
Riel felt that since he had transmigrated, and to Rinnascita at that, his name from before transmigrating was somewhat out of place and would likely make it hard to integrate; he might as well let her give him a name.
He immediately didn't interrupt or inform Fleurdelys that he already had a name.
Riel remained silent, just quietly lowering his head to eat the eggshell.
If he ate a little more, it seemed his teeth would grow in—currently, he was relying purely on the crushing force of his upper and lower jaws to break the shell, substituting for chewing.
"I've got it!"
The girl's eyes suddenly lit up. Even Gehinnom, the three-meter-tall white dragon obediently standing beside them, leaned its head closer, wanting to hear what this unusual little fellow would be named.
"Since you're so black, I've decided to call you—Amaterasu! This is a word I saw in an ancient Rinnascita text; it means 'the unceasing black flame sent down by the Gods from High Heaven to burn away all sin'! It's so cool! Do you like it?"
"Later on, when you grow up, I'll ride Gehinnom, take you with us, and the three of us will go out to punish evil and promote good! We'll eliminate Tacet Discords! Protect the people of Rinnascita! And proclaim the faith and miracles of Ember-Lado!"
There was one thing Fleurdelys didn't say out loud:
'Since he's so handsome even as a baby, he's definitely going to be a big, cool dragon later! When Amaterasu grows up, I can have our girl—the biggest, strongest, and most beautiful Pterosaur, Gehinnom—marry him! And then they'll give me lots and lots of little dragon babies! Ah~ Just thinking about it makes me so happy!'
Riel looked up in confusion at the girl, who was giggling to herself, lost in beautiful fantasies of the future, and internally displayed a question mark.
?
That ancient Rinnascita text you read, it wasn't called "XX Ninja," was it?
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