Just to give an idea of how 'profound' the MC is: After trying everything he finds out that he would need the power of three dragons' hearts to maybe get back home. But dragons have gone (supposedly) extinct (he just makes no effort looking for them) so... F*ck! let's give up. (This scholar doesn't stop to think even for a minute that, maybe, just maybe, it could be a kind of unit of measurement for power.) Then, a short while later, he suddenly gets his hands (oh so very easily) on a dragon's egg. He says that those eggs don't spoil and that it should be possible to hatch it. So, naive as you are, you would think the guy would try to hatch it and then go on his merry way to find other eggs... Yeah, he does think about it but, still, no, two seconds later the plan is to eat it. Why? No explanation. But he hesitates because he doesn't know how to cook it and it would be a waste to mess up here since it's a legendary ingredient. So, you would naively think he will take his time to research (he's a cook, a scholar and the egg won't spoil)... but, no let's make a boiled egg! And then... (we didn't see that coming...) the egg hatches. Still being the naive reader that you are, you would think he would get excited, as a scholar and as someone needing three dragons' hearts to go back home... but no, how naive! I just wanted a boiled egg why do I get a dragon!