"Nice going, Silis. You're now officially one of my strongest creatures," Logan said with a grin.
The massive dragon lowered her armored snout beside him, and Logan leaned in to give her a solid hug.
[Will get stronger. Just wait,] she replied through the Empathic Link, her tone steady, her will unwavering.
Logan chuckled. "Damn it, you're just as big as before. At least you didn't get any larger—I don't even know what we'd feed you if you had…"
He conjured a gust of wind and let it carry him up to her head. From here, nearly four meters above the ground, he could see the full scale of her transformation. Her once-long, serpent-like body had condensed, becoming denser, more muscular, more efficient. Where there was once a sprawling, fifty-meter basilisk, there now stood a 26-meter colossus of stone, amber, and might.
