200: Hatching

While Su Ze and Chen Xin were talking, Feng Qingyi and Hanba also gathered around the Shadow Moon Wolf King out of curiosity, wanting to see him make a fool of himself.

"Pfft, when the master told me about this, I thought he was just playing a prank on me. I didn't expect... you'd actually be here hatching eggs, hahaha!" Feng Qingyi laughed heartily, clutching her stomach with one hand and pointing at the egg-hatching Shadow Moon Wolf King with the other.

Hanba also remarked in amazement, "Even in the bloodline memories I've inherited over countless years, you are truly one of a kind as a male demon beast hatching eggs. Remarkable!"

Hearing this, the Shadow Moon Wolf King buried his head into his belly, huddling with the demon beast eggs he was hatching to escape the mockery of the two Divine Beasts.

What choice did he have? He couldn't beat them in a fight.

Clearly, there were two female demon beasts right here, yet the master insisted on making him, a male demon beast, hatch the eggs. Sob, sob, sob.

Just as the Shadow Moon Wolf King was lamenting in his heart, he suddenly felt a demon beast egg that his nose was touching give a slight wobble.

"Hmm? What's going on?" He raised his head and looked over in confusion.

Then he discovered that among the dozen or so demon beast eggs he was hatching, two were gently shaking, and small cracks had already appeared on their shells.

"Oh no, did I just accidentally crush the demon beast eggs the master gave me? But it doesn't seem like it... could it be..."

Just as the Shadow Moon Wolf King noticed this, Feng Qingyi, who had been pointing and gesturing beside him, also saw the scene.

Her eyes widened as she pointed at the two eggs and said in disbelief, "They're born? They're actually born? He really gave birth?"

This sentence immediately drew the attention of everyone else, including Su Ze and Chen Xin.

Su Ze stepped closer and, seeing the increasing number of cracks on the eggs, said, "It really is. That was so fast?"

Chen Xin also took out a notebook and pen, recording as she spoke, "The demon beast eggs I picked for the Shadow Moon Wolf King to hatch were all types with short incubation periods that hatch easily, but the speed of hatching has indeed exceeded my expectations."

"Could it be that male demon beasts are even faster at hatching beast taming eggs than females?"

After proposing this hypothesis, Chen Xin immediately wrote it down, pondering about asking Su Ze to let her experiment more with the Shadow Moon Wolf King later.

Su Ze walked over to the Wolf King's side, patted his head, and said with a smile, "Congratulations! You're about to become a moth— father. How do you feel right now?"

The Shadow Moon Wolf King just rolled his eyes at Su Ze, offering no response.

Right now, his feelings were very complicated.

On one hand, he was a majestic male wolf; hatching eggs here was embarrassing enough, and yet he actually managed to hatch them?

But on the other hand, he truly felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in his heart... "Maybe... I've really been broken..." the Shadow Moon Wolf King thought to himself, wanting to cry but having no tears.

At this time, the members of the Thirteenth Squad who had beast taming slots but hadn't found suitable demon beasts yet, after obtaining Su Ze's permission, all scrambled to crowd in front of the Shadow Moon Wolf King. They all hoped that they would be the first thing these two little demon beasts saw the moment they broke out of their shells.

This way, by utilizing the Imprinting effect, the probability of successfully forming a contract would be greatly increased.

At the same time, they didn't forget to curry favor with the big hero of the hour, the Shadow Moon Wolf King, feeding him all the food they had in their hands.

"These guys are as excited as fathers anxiously waiting outside a delivery room for a baby to be born, except there seem to be a few too many fathers..." Su Ze couldn't help but comment as he watched the scene.

The two little demon beasts' struggle within their shells continued for several more hours. Just as Su Ze was about to lose his patience, one of the shells finally cracked open first, and a black crow demon beast emerged from it.

Everyone immediately crowded around, wanting to be the first thing the demon beast saw when it opened its eyes.

However, Su Ze felt that in this situation, Imprinting might not necessarily happen, but being frightened certainly would.

Sure enough, not a single person successfully contracted the demon beast.

Only the Shadow Moon Wolf King reflexively helped lick smooth its feathers, which were still covered in viscous fluid from just hatching.

The little crow immediately became reliant on the Shadow Moon Wolf King, hugging his large nose.

This scene also caught the attention of the squad members.

They looked at each other and seemed to have made up their minds.

They all had the same thought: "When the next demon beast hatches, I'll be the first to rush up and help lick its fur! I don't believe I can't do it!"

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long; the second demon beast egg was soon completely broken open.

However, this time, what emerged was not a soft-feathered avian demon beast, but a black hedgehog with sharp quills.

"This... forget it, I'll go first!" One person gritted their teeth and prepared to use their mouth.

At that moment, the little hedgehog, who had just opened its eyes and was about to feel a sense of reliance on the person in front of it, suddenly saw him open his large mouth and lunge toward the top of its head.

Startled, its quills stood up all over its body, threatening to pierce the person in front of it through and through.

Fortunately, Su Ze walked over from the side at that moment, pulled the man back, and said, "There's no need for that. If you want to contract a demon beast, I can actually help."

High-level demon beasts have a strong oppressive effect on low-level ones, let alone Divine Beasts.

For these newly hatched demon beasts, Divine Beasts could exert complete control, making them contract with whoever they wanted without needing to rely on Imprinting at all.

So, Su Ze called Sun Hao and Tao Lin over and had each of them pick one person.

Then, with the help of Hanba's command, the contracts were successfully signed.

As for the others, Su Ze consoled them, "Everyone, don't be discouraged; this is only the beginning."

"Once the Demon Beast Incubator is in place, we will have even more demon beasts. Everyone will have a chance!"

The crowd, who had been a bit downcast just a moment ago, immediately perked up, waiting for when the incubator would be delivered.

And beneath the Shadow Moon Wolf King's belly, several more demon beast eggs began to stir.