Hyeonmu

## Base Stats

Allows the player to choose up to 4 eligible dragons to summon Kirin. Has a chance to give a Kirin egg. Limited to 1 egg per dragon; when it succeeds, it will no longer Summon.

## Official Description

### Hatch

The snake bites this Hatch to temper its shell.

### Hatchling

This Hatchling can sense the beginning and end of life.

### Adult

It is a Reaper Dragon and one of the legends of the Orient, the Dragon of the Four Gods.

It is a dragon with the body of a turtle and a snake. With a personality that pursues righteousness and hates evil, unlike its mild face, it likes to be at the forefront of battle. It is said that it grew up together with Sagwi, the serpent on its tail, and were trapped in a fate inseparable from each other. It is said to announce the beginning of life and death, and there are some people who see Hyeonmu at the time of birth or death.

## Story

### Legend of Hyeonmu

This is a legend from the Far East.

A village struck by a natural disaster, snakes and turtles quickly and slowly ran away to find the Land of Tranquility.

The snake couldn't get past the turtle, and the turtle was too slow to keep up with the snake. A large tidal wave began to engulf the villages and forests. The turtle bit the snake that was waiting for it and put it in its shell.

Quaaaaaaang!

Nothing survived on the earth where houses and trees collapsed and became a sea of water. The tortoise's shell began to float along the water left by the tidal wave.

Someone found the shell of the turtle floating on the water. The shell was strangely light, so people who wondered about it discussed cutting the shell with a knife.

The moment the shell split, there were no traces of the turtle or the snake, but a strange egg was found. No one could touch the egg because the energy of yin and yang was so strong, and is said to be the first Hyeonmu egg found in the East.

## Evolution

### Egg

It is an egg that can feel two energies. The combination of yin and yang is very strong and does not mix with each other.

### Hatch

It trains its shell from hatching. It mainly uses the teeth of the snake's tail, and trains both the snake's teeth and Hyeonmu's shell.

### Hatchling

Unlike hatches, hatchlings watch the beginning of life and death. At this time, the energy of Hyeonmu isn't very strong, so dragons don't run away. However, due to the violent tendencies of its tail, fights may break out by biting a dragon it doesn't like.

### Adult

It lives very close to aquatic animals and observe nature. When emergencies such as natural disasters or wars occur, the first thing it does is fight to protect the aquatic animals. It's a dragon that is good at protecting someone because it uses its hard shell and scales to block the opponent's attack.

It doesn't show itself often except for special occasions. Some say that this is because of the energy of Hyeonmu. It has a very strong energy, and sensitive dragons get goosebumps all over their bodies just by being near Hyeonmu and even avoid it. When spending time in the water, only the carapace of the Hyeonmu floats around, and those who see it are so large that they mistake it for a small island.

## Trivia

The harmony of Blue Dragon, Jujak, Baekho, and Hyeonmu needed for Kirin's summoning is a reference to the Eastern concept of the Four Guardians, repesenting the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise respectively. Hyeonmu (Genbu, in Japanese) is the black tortoise of winter that represents the element of water and the northern cardinal direction. Like Hyeonmu in Dragon Village Collection, it is often depicted with a snake on its back, due to a old legend that turtles could not mate with other turtles, but rather snakes.