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Gale's Dragon Evolution Training

In a world of status effects both good and bad, getting one’s physical form changed was actually somewhat ordinary. From getting shrunken down by Mini to having her very being altered by a Ring of Transformation, the Emerald Dragon girl, Gale, had gotten accustomed to her body altered in some way. In fact, her current appearance of a young adventurer girl with green hair, curved horns, green wings, and a thin tail wasn’t her original form either. Gale was normally a dragon - an Emerald Dragon who let her rider, Alain, mount her so she could fly him around on their adventurers together.

In the continent of Dragon Gate, however, Gale and her master had been cursed with two rings: A Ring of Mini which shrank her master to a miniscule insect-like size, and a Ring of Transformation which gave her a humanoid form. That wasn’t the only thing their adventures in Dragon Gate had given them either. During that time, Gale had also gained one more manner of changing form… 

Evolution.

“Awoo. When I evolved last time, it was like transforming and getting bigger at the same time, right? This should be easy. Hnggggh… Hngggggggh… Awoo? Did it work? Am I an Elder Dragon now?” the dragon girl asked while squatting and closing her eyes, trying to build up power in her body.

“Considering you’re still our size… nope!” The masked fox beastkin girl, Vio, was Gale’s adventuring party member and was supportive of her friend’s attempt to learn a new skill. “Miss Gale, maybe you can try focusing your mana towards your core. Right around where your stomach is. That’s how I use my ninjutsu.”

“Awoo? My core? Do I have one? I’m not a slime, Miss Vio, but okay. I’ll try. Hnggggggggh…!”

“I’d advise against this. From where I’m standing, it looks as if you need to relieve herself from a stomachache, Miss Gale,” a half-dark elf woman pushed her glasses up. The guild master of Niim Town’s Adventurers’ Guild, Bryn, was also Gale’s ally and party member that day. She and Vio were both staying a safe distance away from the dragon girl, aware of what would happen should she succeed in her goal for the day.

For their own sakes, the Mini party members of Gale’s team were also kept away from the dragon girl as she stood in the center of a clearing. Vio held two of them in her hands while Gale’s shrunken master, Alain, was confidently perched on the fox beastkin’s shoulder.

“The advice Iris gave us was that because Gale was able to do it once, she should be able to do it again by gathering mana from the Dragon Realm,” the Mini adventurer spoke loudly so Vio’s fox ears could pick up his tiny voice. “We should be on a mana vein so we should be able to access mana from the Dragon Realm.”

“I can ask the village chief if we need to,” suggested the tiny red demon in Vio’s left hand. The succubus, Est, was not actually Mini and shrunken. She was using a miniscule dummy as a proxy. The real Est was resting far away in an elf village while controlling the magical copy of herself. “She’s the one who helped Gale evolve the first time after all.”

“... Perhaps we should ask one of those two the elder dragons instead,” Bryn gave a counter-suggestion. The half-elf was embarrassed at the thought of communicating with the elf chief and did not want any form of communication with her mother figure.

“Mana goes loopy loopy… then go haaaaaaaah… and then bam…!” The tiny sentient slime girl in Vio’s right hand, Nim, added her thoughts to the conversation.

“That’s kind of hard to understand, Nim,” Alain chuckled at the tiny slime’s attempt to explain mana flow.

The adventuring party was attempting to have Gale learn how to change to the elder dragon form again after being told that it was possible to do so. Transforming from a normal dragon to a humanoid dragon girl was simple (even though dragons only learned that skill much later in their lives compared to Gale’s current age), but evolving to an elder dragon was another thing entirely. Elder Dragons were incredibly powerful beings who only gained such power after living for an incredibly long period of time and amassing enormous levels of mana. Gale had neither lived long enough nor grown big enough as a dragon to have the mana levels required to evolve.

”Awoo… Mana goes loopy loopy?” Gale repeated what Nim had said. Her draconic hearing had easily picked up the miniscule slime droplet’s voice. To help her with gathering mana, her friends had tried to emulate what the village chief had done originally by placing numerous elemental rings. Her eyes darted from one ring to the next in a circle as she held them. “Loopy loopy…”

“Gale?” Alain called the Emerald Dragon’s name. The Ring of Origin on his finger began to glimmer. He and the others could all feel a strong wind blow towards Gale. Mana began to spin around the dragon girl like a vortex.

“Then go haaaaaah? Awoo. Okay then. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” The Emerald Dragon concentrated harder. As she roared, the spiraling mana became a tornado and began to be absorbed into her body.

“Oh my. Is this a success?” Bryn asked, holding down her skirt to prevent it from lifting in the wind.

“Awoo… My body’s feeling hot…,” Gale mumbled to herself. Despite the wind, the energy she was absorbing heated her body up. She was sweating from the power she was gathering.

“Wow. I think it’s actually working!” Vio cheered. She closed her fists around the tiny Nim and Est in her hands to prevent them from being blown away. As for Alain who was on her left shoulder, he was holding on tightly. As a Dragon Rider, he was used to hanging on tight in stormy weather.

“Seriously? Nim’s suggestion is working? I didn’t see this coming!” Alain watched his dragon partner in awe as she absorbed more and more mana. The Ring of Origin was flickering even more. However, the dragon rider had used this ring before, and his memory made him hesitate. “Hm? This color is off.”

“Ngh… ” Thinking she was at her limit, Gale’s muscles tensed up. Her body sucked up every bit of mana from the vortex. Her body continued to sweat. She reflexively pulled at her striped green thigh highs to get some cool air to alleviate the stuffiness. “Just a little more…”

The Ring of Origin’s flickering sped up more and more and more. Alain finally realized what was wrong. “Blasted! Hold on, Gale! This mana hasn’t been converted to elder dragon mana ye=!”

“Bam!”

WRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHM!

With one single flex of her muscles, all of the mana Gale had gathered entered her system. The tornado of mana burst out in all directions. As experienced adventurers, Vio and Bryn leapt back and away as quickly and far as they could. However, as skilled as they were, they were unable to avoid being blown back by the shockwave.

“Ngk!”

“Hold on, Miss Bryn! I’ve got you!”

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! 

“Blasted! Vio, what’s going on?” Alain asked, having fallen into Vio’s purple top. The world around him was shaking, and it wasn’t just because Vio’s chest bandages had loosened up.

“U-Uh, Miss Gale evolved? I think? I barely used a substitution jutsu in time for us to get away from that,” Vio answered while looking up.

“Indeed. I don’t think this is a proper evolution,” Bryn remarked, also craning her neck back to try and see what was above her.

What was going on? Both Vio and Bryn wanted the answer to Alain’s question too. The two normal sized party members had to continue jumping further and further back because all they could see was skin - an endless wall of skin. They knew they were looking at their friend Gale, but they couldn’t tell just what part of her they were looking at. 

“H-Hey! Isn’t this way too big?” Est’s voice could be heard shouting from Vio’s clenched fist. The succubus whose real body was elsewhere was able to get a much better view of what was actually happening. “The Chief was forced to make a barrier to protect against a giant butt cheek! There’s an enormous crater north of Niim Town now too!” 

“What?” “Seriously?”

After hearing the message from Est’s dummy proxy,  Bryn and Vio attempted to get to higher ground to get a better view of what was going on. Up and up they went, but as high as they climbed, the wall of skin in front of them stretched in all directions. Sweatdrops that could fill a lake dripped down, knocking down dozens of trees by just the impact alone. The only thing they could tell about the skin colored wall that they were staring at was that it had wrinkles.

RUUUUUUMBLEEEEE! RUUUUUUMBLEEEEE! 

It was then that the wall moved.

“H-huh? Wait, I see what this is now.” Bryn was finally able to see what she had been looking up at when an immense shadow fell over her and the entire plateau she was on.

“Y-yeah. It’s Miss Gale’s foot,” Vio nodded, flustered as five sweaty toes flew overhead at impossible speeds.

“... Awoo… That was a lot of mana… My body’s burning up.”

A voice like booming thunder shook the trees and ground. It felt so loud that everybody in Dragon Gate could probably hear the speaker’s deafening words. Vio and Bryn both fell to their knees, unable to withstand it.

Due to his miniscule size, the powerful reverberations of the giant voice were too incomprehensible for Alain. He could not decipher what was being said, but he could tell from his connection as her partner that it was Gale who was speaking.

“That’s Gale?”

Indeed it was Gale. Although she had failed to evolve into her more mature Elder Dragon form, the dragon girl had grown so large that her legs could stretch from the Western Forest to the Eastern cliffs. Her feet could crush multiple adventurer towns without even feeling them. And the tallest mountain in the region couldn’t even pass her thighs while she was sitting down. 

WHUUUUUUMP!!!!!

“Ngk!”

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! 

“Blasted! Hold on everyone!” Vio shouted. She was grateful for the mask she was wearing because a salty and musty odor assaulted her senses. A smelly storm with the odor of Gale’s sweaty feet blew over multiple trees the moment a striped stocking fell from Gale’s hand to the forest below, covering acres of trees. “Mgh… W-wow, that’s a strong smell. It’s worse than my boots after a long day.”

“Forget about the smell. The town! Aren’t her legs stretching towards Niim Town?” Bryn realized.

The smell of sweat and feet didn’t come from just the stockings Gale had taken off. The original source blocked out the sun and sky, enveloping the plains, the forest, and Niim Town in shadow. Both of Gale's sweaty feet surrounded and covered the vicinity around the Adventurers’ town, generating a steamy fog as hot as a sauna.

“Did it work, awoo? Master? Miss Bryn? Miss Vio? Where are you?”

Gale’s voice echoed throughout Dragon Gate and the earth shook as she glanced around. From prior experience, she was able to realize that she had grown. In fact, she had grown even larger than she had ever been - even compared to when had become an Elder Dragon. 

“I-Is that Niim Town down there? A-awoo. Then Master and the others should be over… Ah. I guess everyone is between my feet right now.”

“I-It’s a good thing she figured it out so quickly,” Bryn spoke aloud while staring up at Gale’s imposing form. The gigantic dragon girl’s feet dripped enough sweat to flood the adventurer town if it all managed to fall onto the town. “Urk…! Miss Gale, can you move your feet away? The Poison bad status is going to affect everyone at this rate.”

“I don’t think she can hear us from down here, Miss Bryn. We’d have to get up to her ear,” Vio told the guild master while nervously looking up at Gale's feet. “Uh… And I don’t think I can climb that high up. Her foot alone is taller than Mount Renore.”

Up against their party member who had grown so big that her feet could be considered mountains, the fox beastkin and the half dark-elf were humbled and stunned at the sheer scale Gale had grown to. The slightest twitch of the dragon girl’s tail carved a deep canal and formed a new path for the forest river to take. A single beat of her wings created a typhoon-like gust that kicked up sandstorms in the wasteland. And her mere presence made the ground itself dip downwards.

“We’re going to have several new lakes by Gale by the end of today,” Alain mused, thinking about the crater Gale’s butt had created where they had previously been and the amount of sweat raining down from above like water meteors.

“Ahahaha…”

A weak and forced laugh left Gale’s mouth out of reflex. She herself was embarrassed after realizing just how BIG of a mistake she had made.

“S-sorry, everyone! I guess I messed up, awoo!”

Gale could tell just from looking down just how much damage her massive body had caused. The ground cracked and holes formed under her weight while her long stockings which she had taken off because it was too hot tipped over lines of trees within the forest. One of her socks was also draining the river with how much water it was absorbing. At the very least, the amount of sweat coming off of her feet was preventing a fire from starting from her body heat. Still, it was very embarrassing for her to admit that.

The gigantic dragon girl knew she was going to have to apologize and also take on some quests to clean up the land she had demolished when she shrank back down. 

There was one other problem, however…

“A-ah. Wait. How do I go back to normal again, awoo?”

Evolving into an elder dragon was harder than Gale thought it’d be, but what was going to be just as hard was figuring out how to shrink back down after getting so big.