Although Ronragruk knew that Shirk probably wouldn't remain in the tribe, he knew that it would be difficult to find someone so eager to be the first one given the danger that implied.
Moreover, since Shirk was Yale's friend, he already assumed that would also have his bloodline improved at some moment before Yale's group left, and Ronragruk already considered that as an unspoken payment for Yale's help.
The next day, the experiments about improving Shirk's bloodline started, but given the level of difficulty they just worked a bit on it each day as trying to rush was dangerous for Shirk even tough Yale could use Time Healing to avoid major problems in Shirk's body after failing.
The rest of the day both of them still had plans, Ronragruk infused his Laws on the Storage Space and trained the three Dragon Race's Law Masters, but this part was quickly tossed to Yale since his powered-up strength was more suitable for the training.
Yale could only use that for a minute, but if he rested a bit and waited for the Storage Space to stabilize, he could use it several times the same day. However, that time all the battles were in an area hidden by a formation to avoid disrupting others so much every day with the battles.
Ronragruk also wanted to battle against Yale, but he understood that the others needed it while he just wanted to battle.
Of course, if Yale had battled inside the Storage Space, that problem wouldn't have existed as the only limit would have been his body endurance, but Yale knew that the Storage Space might collapse and expel Aiwai if a battle of such level happened there.
If Aiwai weren't there, Yale wouldn't mind if the Storage Space collapsed temporally since the rest of the people had left the Storage Space two days after starting to live with the Dragon Race.
After all, the tribe was a secure place, and since the stay seemed to be quite long, it was alright to let them live outside and see the western continent with their own eyes as long as they didn't go outside the limits of the area controlled by the tribe. Of course, they were warmly welcomed by the members of the Dragon Race because since everyone treated Yale with the same respect that they treat Ronragruk, those coming with him were important guests.
Needless to say, that Yale's battle against Ronragruk was deeply engraved in their minds and they knew that Yale alone was powerful enough to be a threat to the tribe if he were to turn into an enemy.
After all, even though no one believed that he could kill Ronragruk, they could believe that Yale was powerful enough to provoke a disaster for the rest. Everyone was glad of Ronragruk's act of befriending Yale's group from the start, and those who thought that Ronragruk was exaggerating treating them so well, shut their mouths.
Some days after the start of the experiments, the rest of the lizardmen tribe finally joined the Dragon Race, but the situation between them and the members of the Dragon Race was quite bad at the start.
After all, those lizardmen weren't the same as Yale's friends and both parties had antagonized each other in the past, so especially for the lizardmen, it was difficult to accept the situation quickly even though they knew that everything was a misunderstanding provoked by the Lizardman God Cult.
Fortunately, that wasn't something that the time couldn't heal, and after some months, they seemed more or less integrated since there wasn't any discrimination towards them.
The main difference among both species was that usually the lizardmen were excluded from any task that needed going out of the tribe because they couldn't fly, and it was strange that those who were at least at the Grandmaster Rank needed to leave for a task on the outside. Of course, no one took that as discrimination because they were just sending the members who fit more for the task, it wasn't different from sending those who excelled in walking stealthily to scout a dangerous area or those good at fishing to fish.
Yale and Ronragruk were quite pleased with the integration of both tribes, but the same couldn't be told of the rest of the important matters.
It had passed nearly a year when Ronragruk finished infusing the Fire Law into the Storage Space, and he still had to infuse two more, which discourage Yale quite a bit, since it was far slower than he planned to be. Ronragruk tried to spend more time on that the last two months, or else, probably the Fire Law would still be incomplete at the Storage Space.
The three Law Masters of the Dragon Race had also improved a bit on that span of time, but Yale was still able to defeat the three of them together in less than a minute, which gave the impression that the three of them were as bad as the start.
However, the problem was that Yale improved even quicker than them in the control of his powered-up state, and that overshadowed the improvement of those three.
Anyway, it was true that the three of them were still far lacking in power and could be considered among the weakest Law Masters. Although Yale improved his control in his powered-up state, he was at the same level of those three, and even though Yale could control more Laws, it shouldn't be enough to defeat the three in less than a minute.
Of course, he could just defeat them because it would be impossible for Yale to kill any of them in less than a minute if they battled together. In a battle among Law Masters of similar level killing each other was quite difficult, and although in some moments winning might be impossible, it couldn't be said the same about fleeing.
The third issue was Shirk's improvement of bloodline because, despite Yale's effort every day, he was still only half-way of having his bloodline improved. It was a fact that Yale and Ronragruk had underestimated the power of the dragon bloodline and how difficult it was to assimilate perfectly by someone who wasn't born with it.
If it wasn't because Yale could undo each mistake in the procedure with Time Healing and even Absolute Protection in the riskiest cases, maybe the whole lizardman tribe would have died before a proper method was found.
Of course, Shirk was the one who suffered that the most because although he didn't feel almost any pain as Yale was extremely careful when doing the experiments, he couldn't leave the investigation area, and despite having experience in living like that, it was still quite boring.
His only relief was the time when Yale was outside because since Ronragruk and Yale agreed that leaving him alone was bad in case something unexpected happened, they sent the daughter of the chief of the Dragon Race to take a look at him any time that they needed to leave the investigation area.
In the last years, that girl hadn't lived too much better than Shirk while being in the process of the bloodline upgrade because she almost never left her house due to her father's worries about her.
Since the day that the wife of the chief died, when the chief's daughter almost had the same fate, he turned overly protective with his daughter to the point that seeing her from far was considered a stroke of great luck by the males of the Dragon Race.
Of course, she didn't like it, but she felt that her father turned like that because of her own imprudence about leaving the tribe in secret and without anyone going with her, which ended provoking her mother's death while she departed to look for her daughter. In fact, if it weren't because her father was also on the way, she would have died just after her mother.
Even at that moment, the Dragon Race and those who attacked her were considered sworn enemies, but neither party dared to attack the other tribe.
Thus, she was quite happy when Ronragruk appointed her to take a look of Shirk because she missed interacting with someone that wasn't her father after such a long time.
The dragon girl was called Driwna, and she was at the Elder Rank despite being younger than Shirk. Driwna was one of the best talents on the tribe, and everyone expected that she would be next in becoming a Law Master. In fact, that was another of the reasons for her father being so overprotective with her.
Besides being talented, she was also considered a beauty among the Dragon Race, which made her extremely popular and before the incident she had countless suitors, but no one neared her since her isolation started.
However, she didn't care because she had never taken any of those suitors seriously as she considered all of them interested in the power and influence, they would win for being with her.
Maybe if some of them had shown intentions to help her to escape from the tribe to live in freedom, she would have been moved despite rejecting the offer, but no one had guts to do something like that.
What no one expected, was that Shirk and Driwna would turn friends immediately after knowing each other and soon would become even more than friends.