Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

As soon as Leo felt sleepy, he went back to the manor where Cassandra and the others were resting. Though, he didn't get inside but instead choose to set-up a tent right beside the manor.

"Good thing I brought my trusted tent with me," Leo said to himself before laying down on his cotton mattress to sleep.

.....

The next day, Leo woke up early in the morning as he then went out of his tent to check on the progress of the Smiling Lion Village after Ethan told everyone the planned layout of the territory.

As soon as he got out of his tent, him right after saw that there were already plenty of signs of what to construct in that specific location spread out around the Smiling Lion Village. There were also a few buildings that have already begun construction.

Aside from that, the needed materials for the buildings were also already being put down nearby those signs, with a few people being seen carrying more materials. As to where they have gotten the materials, it's either from the nearby mine that Ethan had said that he had found as soon as they arrived in this place, the Emerald Forest beside them, buying them from the Emerald City, and the few materials that they have brought with them along the way.

"Good morning, Guild Leader Loki, hahaha!" Ethan quickly greeted Leo with a chuckle.

"Good morning, Guild Leader Loki," Elaine greeted while elbowing Ethan to make him stop teasing Leo.

"Just call me Leo when it's only us," Leo said with a smile. Although he had indeed agreed with being called Guild Leader Loki last night, he was still not feeling fully comfortable being called in such a way. It's just similar to how he doesn't feel comfortable being called Prince Leo.

"By the way, have you seen Eilajah?" Leo soon after asked. What he wanted to do today was hatching and taming the Magical Beast's eggs that he had gotten along the way. Consequently, he would also be learning more about taming Magical Beasts.

"Oh, I've seen him a while ago behind that unfinished building... I mean, the Magical Beast Center, over there," Ethan pointed at a building located nearby the wall to the northeast.

The Magical Beast Center that Ethan meant was a multi-purpose building that combines together the Magical Beasts' stable, Magical Beasts' breeding grounds, Magical Beasts' clinic, and many more related to Magical Beasts.

"Thank you," Leo said before making his way towards the Magical Beast Center. Though he stopped mid-motion for a while as he turned his head to look at Ethan before saying, "Keep up the good work!"

"I will," Ethan replied before continuing with planning the layout of the Smiling Lion Village. Although they have already finished planning on what to build, they still need to put everything in proper places.

"Say ah," Elaine raised her hand to feed Ethan rice.

"Ahhh," Ethan opened his mouth to receive a mouthful of rice while his eyes were still fully focused on what he was doing.

"Say ah, again,"

"Ahhh,"

"..."

As soon as Leo arrived at the Magical Beast Center, it didn't take that long for him to find Eilajah with Steve, which was surprising, taking care of the ordinary horses, Ahmed's 5 Star Lightning Cheetah, and Lex's and Virgil's 5 Star Devil-Horn Horses.

"Good morning, Guild Leader Loki," Eilajah and Steve both greeted in unison.

"Good morning, both of you," Leo greeted back. He then quickly proceeded to the main topic, "Anyways, let's begin hatching the Magical Beasts' eggs?"

"I'm ready any time," Eilajah replied.

"Can I watch...?" Steve asked, a bit hesitant as he doesn't know whether it was okay or not.

"Of course, you can," Leo nodded his head. Allowing Steve to watch them hatching and taming the Magical Beasts' eggs wasn't really a problem, as they don't really intend on hiding anything here in the first place. And besides, Steve is someone that works directly for him, so it wouldn't hurt him doing so. To be honest, he was even intending to allow Steve to watch them after seeing him being with Eilajah.

In his mind, he wants to let Steve know more about taming Magical Beasts. He's not really aiming to make Steve a Magical Beast Tamer himself, though if he can then much better, but rather he simply wants him to learn a thing or two about it. After all, the more Steve knows, the more beneficial it is for him.

"Here," Leo waved his hand, quickly taking out 10 pieces of Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, Sandpit Worm's eggs, and Sandstone Spider's eggs and putting them onto the ground.

Eilajah began looking at the Magical Beasts' eggs, checking their condition and other necessary things. But, as soon as he laid his eyes on the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, he paused and right after bend his knees to pick two of them up.

"Are you really sure that this is a Yellow Skinned Anaconda's egg?" Eilajah asked while observing the two Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs in his hands.

Hearing Eilajah's question, Leo thought for a bit before replying, "I am not really sure,"

Eilajah raised his head to look at Leo and quickly asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, you see, these Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs were born from the breeding of Yellow Skinned Anaconda and Golden Thunderstorm Python." Leo replied.

"Oh, so that's why..." Eilajah nodded his head as he stood up and showed Leo what he had noticed.

"Look, these Yellow Skinned Anaconda's egg has some kind of thunder-like shape around its shell, while this other one here doesn't have any," Eilajah said as he pointed out the difference between the two Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs. He then continued, "So, if I'm not mistaken, then this normal one here is indeed a Yellow Skinned Anaconda's egg while this other one here is a Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda's egg, in which, if we based on the fact that they came out from the breeding between Yellow Skinned Anaconda and Golden Thunderstorm Python, should allow this Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda to have the affinity of Thunder Element in addition to its natural-born Fire Element. We could say that this is a Fire-Thunder Element Yellow Skinned Anaconda."

Leo became a bit shocked after hearing Eilajah's explanation. He really didn't expect that there would actually be a third variation aside from the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs and Golden Thunderstorm Python's eggs.

"According to the book I've read about the Magical Beast Anaconda species, they normally lay around 20,000 to 30,000 Magical Beast's eggs during every breeding. However, since it was paired with a Golden Thunderstorm Python, a powerful species of Magical Beasts, then most likely there would only be 10,000 to 20,000 Magical Beast's eggs. After taking that number into consideration, then there should only be around 1,000 to 2,000 Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, a good five to ten percent chance," Eilajah said. He then added, "Anyways, that's just an assumption. To confirm the exact amount, I would need to look at all the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs you have first."

"No problem," Leo nodded his head before waving his hand, quickly storing all the Magical Beast's eggs on the ground inside his Storage Rings and right after giving 100 pieces of Storage Rings that contain all the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs, including both the so-called Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs and Golden Thunderstorm Python's eggs, to Eilajah.

He didn't have that much time to thoroughly sort everything during the time he was storing them, so he would just leave that task to Eilajah.

"Fewer than what I expected," Eilajah said after counting all the Storage Rings that he had received.

"The rest were destroyed during the fight," Leo explained.

"What a pity," Eilajah expressed the same thoughts as Leo. He then waved his hand, putting all the Storage Rings inside his Storage Ring, leaving only a single one on his hand. Afterwards, he took out all of the 100 Magical Beast's eggs inside that Storage Ring and carefully lay them down all on the ground. Once he was done with that, he then spread his Magic Power to check what Magical Beast's eggs it was, "80 are Yellow Skinned Anaconda, 15 are Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda, while 5 are Golden Thunderstorm Python. Not bad,"

Suddenly, silver and gold color light appeared above the Mutated Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs and Golden Thunderstorm Python's eggs, specifically silver for the former while gold for the latter.

Eilajah turned to look at Steve as he gave him two Storage Rings and said, "Here, store those Magical Beast's eggs with markings above them. Be sure to separate them depending on the color."

Without wasting any time, Steve quickly received the two Storage Rings from Eilajah and went forward to store all the Magical Beast's eggs with silver and gold markings.

After doing that, Steve then went back to Eilajah, intending to give him back the two Storage Rings. But Eilajah shook his head and said, "Hold it for a bit,"

"Okay," Steve nodded his head.

"Let's first hatch these ordinary Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs before going with the rest," Eilajah informed as he spread his Magic Power to the Yellow Skinned Anaconda's eggs again.

This time, Leo and Steve could clearly see in front of them a white light with green stripes flowing out from Eilajah's hand and slowly covering the Magical Beast's eggs.

"This would only take a few minutes," Eilajah said.