Yes, they are gradually absorbing the surrounding Origin Quality to grow... But what's the use of growing bigger if they don't break out of their shell!
It's already been almost a year, and Andor is nearly in despair. If the dragon eggs do not hatch this year, the likelihood of them hatching in the future will be very small. Not only that, but as the person responsible for this batch of dragon eggs, if the breeding ground declares the hatching a failure, he will undoubtedly be executed, thrown to the nearby sabertooth fish as cheap fish feed!
That's why Andor was so excited upon hearing that the crystalline dragon egg had hatched.
"Hope it's true, hope it's true..."
Muttering these words, Andor made his way through the various automated checkpoints - there are very few human operators inside the breeding ground, most everything is managed by automated alchemy machinery. The Empire employs many emerging technologies still under testing here.
