The Understated Dragon Lord novel Chapter 411

"Beauty, how would you like to 'train' me?" Daniel asked with a sly grin.

"Scram! You're so inappropriate!" Beauty retorted, refusing to continue such an indelicate conversation. She was a proper lady, after all.

By now, Soldier had prepared all ten questions. Beauty examined them and saw, to her irritation, that Soldier had included not only addition and subtraction but also multiplication, division, equations, and even square roots.

With a mocking chuckle, she said to Soldier, "You were once a king on the battlefield, now stooping to test a hen with such complex problems. Don't you feel one bit ashamed?"

"These are all arithmetic questions. It's what he agreed upon. If the hen can't solve them and loses to me, the country kid has to kneel and call me 'grandpa!'" Soldier insisted, clinging to his ploy.

Daniel laughed confidently. "Rest assured, Soldier, I said this hen is smarter than you, and it certainly is! A problem with equations and square roots? Piece of cake!"

He had to be confident because, in truth, the hen couldn't solve math problems on its own. Daniel used his own draconic abilities to guide the hen's consciousness and have it write the correct answers.

As soon as Soldier finished presenting his problems, Daniel had all the solutions ready. When it was time to calculate, he would simply have the hen write down the pre-determined answers quickly and without error.

Beauty was uneasy, doubting that a hen, no matter how miraculous, could tackle such advanced math, nearly comparable to a college-level exam.