Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 291 The Vigilant Red Dragon

In the easternmost mountainous area of ​​the underground ruins, fluorescent fungus plants climbed the uneven hilltops, reflecting a pale and morbid beauty.

In the silent underground world, there are only occasional roars and roars from a distance, adding a bit of their unique symphony to this dim space.

At this time, the sound of footsteps rubbing against the gravel came from afar, and under the light of the luminescent fungus, the figures of Thorn and his party flickered dimly and unreal.

Looking at the chaotic hills, Thorn stopped and looked around.

A clear cold wind blows from the fungal forest in the south, and the air is filled with the faint fragrance of mushrooms and a faint smell of blood, which made the ranger who had already caught a trace of lava smell frowned.

As a ranger, it was easy for him to track the traces of a few kobolds, but when he was about to approach the complex mountainous area where the red dragon players were hiding, he smelled a faint smell of underground lava.

So out of curiosity, he tried to find the other party's hiding place by judging the direction of the smell, but unfortunately, he was all washed away by a burst of fungus smell and bloody smell, which made him have to rely on the ground To identify the direction of walking traces.

"The Tiger Claw faction in the Nine Swords school is very good at hunting and killing enemies by using scent tracking." Thorne seemed to remember something, and then smiled helplessly.

After all, he has almost exhausted his energy just by mastering three genres, and thinking about other things now makes him feel overwhelmed.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, in order to attract the owner's attention, the Fulong Beast under Thorn's feet deliberately let out a low growl. When it felt the owner's gaze, it stretched out its front paws and wiped its nose in a humane manner. It looked into the rubble pile with scarlet eyes. One of the complex passages.

"I ignored you, this little guy was born with the characteristic of "sharp sense of smell", which is much more sensitive than himself. Thorne let out a laugh, waved his hand to signal for everyone to set off, and immediately walked towards the passage guided by the Fulong Beast.

Although he is a ranger and has the ability to obtain animal companions, but because he is often used to walking alone, no matter what he does, he always likes to do things by himself, which leads him to always forget animal companions even if he has them. As for not being able to exert much value.

Thorne led a group of people along the complex passages made up of gravel mountain walls on both sides. After turning around, they finally found a natural cave half exposed on the ground. With the cold wind blowing, the pungent The smell of lava gradually dissipated in the air.

"It seems that there really is an underground volcano here, which saves me a lot of trouble." Thorne sniffed the faint scent of lava sulfur and whispered to himself.

Because of the ancient weapons of the Desert Wind Sect, the first ceremony requires a crater on the Fire Elemental Plane or the Main Material Plane.

Obviously, the Fire Elemental Plane is a place that he can't reach now, so naturally he can only choose to go to the lava in the crater.

Now that he has discovered the underground volcano here, when Torvi helps him gather the materials for the fire ceremony, he can immediately carry out the ancient ritual, and his long sword to kill demons will become an ancient sword. long sword.

"There is a situation! The intruder is found!"

Suddenly, an alarm sounded with a barking sound, and then a dozen gaps covered by fungal bushes opened up around the natural cave, and at the same time, a dozen loaded crossbow bolts emerged.

With a metallic sound, six kobolds in heavy armor quickly ran out of the cave. They immediately erected their solid metal shields and raised their swords to confront Thorne and his party.

Thorn glanced at the dragon-shaped relief carved on the kobold shield, and the sophisticated equipment of the six kobold heavy warriors.

Immediately understood that the Red Dragon player hidden here was probably not as simple as Sigrit's innocent-looking salted fish girl.

From the matching shields and long swords of these standards, as well as the light sound of the loaded bow and crossbow, he can tell that these weapons and equipment are at least close to high-quality goods.It can be seen that the Red Dragon player has developed quite well here alone.

Then Thorn stepped forward slowly, and said with a non-hostile smile: "We are adventurers from the surface, friends of your red dragon leader Argotus, please inform us."

"Presumptuous! You dare to call out the name of the leader of the holy dragon casually." As soon as Thorn's voice fell, the leader of the kobold heavy soldier sternly said.

"Hey, an adventurer from the surface? Or a friend of the leader of the holy dragon? Little guy, your lying skills are really bad, I think you should all be sent to the slave pen to help us grow mushrooms, especially that The strongest big man ever..."

另一名狗头人重装战士狞笑一声，猩红的双目忽闪一下，盯着兽人剑圣库泰格，还示威般的用长剑敲打几下盾牌，带着十分欠揍的表情挑衅对方。

"Did the two escaped kobold warlocks not explain the situation here?" Thorne glanced at the vigilant kobold warrior suspiciously, thinking to himself.

Although it was easy for him to deal with this group of kobolds, the conflict between the two sides was not something he would like to see.

So Thorne held the idea that one more thing is worse than one thing less, turned around and cast his gaze on Sigrit who was following behind him, and motioned for the girl of the humanoid beast to go to talk.

Sigrit noticed Thorne's gaze, and immediately understood what the other person meant, and then smiled slightly, ignoring the kobold's warning words, and walked up with the sheathed long sword.

"Just let you go and report it. Why are there so many things, go quickly." Sigrit's voice was soft, like a kindergarten teacher coaxing children, but for these stubborn kobolds The power is very powerful.

Under the light of the light technique, her figure swayed gently with the cold wind, and all the kobolds were crushed by this invisible momentum, so that they could not lift their heads on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, when Sigrid lost his momentum, all the kobolds dropped their weapons, dragged a thin and long tail, and burrowed into the small natural cave in embarrassment with barking barks.

"Okay, it's done." Seeing the kobold fleeing in a panic, Sigrit chuckled, and when she passed by Thorne, her footsteps paused, and she asked curiously: "The one you used before can What kind of swordsmanship suddenly disappeared, can you explain it?"

"It's of no use to you." Seeing the other party's curious eyes, Thorne responded casually, thought for a while, and then kindly comforted him:

"Actually, as a dragon, your best fighting methods should be dragon wing slaps, claws, bites, dragon tail sweeps, and dragon breath breath attacks. Learning fencing skills is of no practical value at all, so you It’s a bit far-fetched.”

"Because I am a dragon, I only need to sleep to increase my strength, so I have a lot of free time. Now I have finally transformed into a human form. Naturally, I want to use my favorite specialty to pass this boring time. This is my life, no, it should be called my Longsheng now."

The corners of Sigrit's mouth curled up with a slight smug arc, she retorted to Thorne, and then ignored him, but sat casually among the glowing fungus, and reached out to pick a shimmering fungus. Luminous Mushroom, throw it into the air and watch the light slowly go out.

"Thorn, have you seen that, I said long ago that the world is not that complicated, as long as you follow your own heart, you can see that this little girl lives very freely." Malvisa was driving the seat. The wolf came over, glanced at Sigrit sitting on the ground with a smile, and said to Thorn.

After listening to the goblin wizard's words, Thorne didn't make any answer, but gave him a faint smile, then pulled Anderina who was beside him away from him, and waited on the other side.

The group didn't wait for a long time, about half an hour, there were bursts of hurried footsteps in the half-buried natural cave in front of them.

Then, surrounded by many well-equipped kobold warriors, a red dragon with a body length of nearly six meters, a tail length of about five meters, and a body covered in scarlet scales crawled out of the cave.

I saw the red dragon player stretching his neck, staring at a pair of big eyes, turning left and right, looking at everyone very vigilantly.

When he glanced at the orc sword master, goblin wizard, and Thorne's Drake, he paused for a moment, and the scales on his forehead twisted involuntarily.

So the red dragon pondered for a moment, spoke fluent dragon language, and asked tentatively: "Are you from surface players?"

"That's right, we were entrusted by Carlos, your little nephew, to come here specially to look for you." Thorn said, taking a few steps forward.

"Don't come here! Stop your steps quickly!"

Looking at Thorn's slowly approaching figure, the red dragon was startled, and immediately roared, and at the same time sprayed two streams of smoke from its nasal cavity, then spread its wings and floated in midair, its chest heaved slightly, as if it was brewing something terrible.

"You don't believe it?" Thorne stared at the red dragon floating in the air, his expression startled.

Obviously, this result was unexpected to him, because he had already told the two kobold warlocks clearly the ins and outs of the whole incident.

Did those two stupid guys pass the wrong message?Thorne couldn't help thinking to himself.

"The great leader of the holy dragon, we really did not lie, it is the ranger in front of us who saved my two brothers, and this ranger did help us eliminate the most threatening rat man alone."

At this time, a kobold warlock whose body was covered with scars for unknown reasons came out of the cave with the support of two strong kobolds, and explained to the vigilant red dragon player.

"Only you, a little ranger, can clean up all the ratmen in the ratman camp?" The red dragon player floating in the air glanced at his subordinates, looking down at Thorn with suspicious eyes.

"Then what do you mean?" Thorn's eyes were slightly cold, and he looked up at the red dragon floating in midair.

"A group of lackeys of the original residents, I knew you would not give up." The red dragon flapped its wings, shrank its body near the cave, and said viciously.

As soon as the words fell, a large group of well-equipped kobold warriors, kobold crossbowmen, and a small number of kobold warlocks all surrounded them, forming a siege around them.

"Please pay attention to your tone of voice." Thorne frowned, and involuntarily touched the position of the hilt with his right hand, and said coldly.

Inexplicably being scolded, and inexplicably feeling a burst of hostility, Thorne originally wanted Sigrit to appear on the stage to subdue the opponent. After seeing this situation, he felt that he had to teach the opponent a little impressive lesson, and let his Clear your head.

As soon as the words fell, he immediately activated the "Flame Wing Charge" of the Desert Wind Sect, and his whole body turned into a dazzling flame, rushing towards the red dragon floating in the air at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to catch.

"boom!"

Accompanied by a dull crash, the body of the red dragon that had suffered a frontal impact fell directly to the ground, and Thorne took advantage of the situation to stabilize his figure in mid-air, and stepped directly on his body the moment the red dragon fell to the ground , The sharp long sword took advantage of the situation and rested on his slender neck.

"Don't come here, anyone who dares to come over, I will cut off his head."

Seeing that the red dragon didn't dare to move around, Thorne took the opportunity to step on his head fiercely, let him gnaw a mouthful of wet mud, and the long sword was directly close to the scales of his neck, barking at everyone. The kobold who seemed to have fried the pot threatened.

"Back off!" The red dragon whose head was stepped on felt the burning pain from the blade, opened its mouth and sprayed a mouthful of red-hot soil, and roared angrily.

Immediately, the chattering kobolds obediently backed away like well-behaved babies.

"Little guy, let me tell you, have you been so stupid in the cave that you can't tell the good from the bad?" Afterwards, the group of people who came to their senses all walked to Thorne, and Malvisa took the lead. opened the mouth.

"You were really... sent by that kid Carlos?" The red dragon, who was no longer struggling, stared at a pair of long eyes, was silent for a moment, and said slowly.

"Then what do you mean?" In order to prevent the red dragon from cheating, Thorne still pressed the blade of the sword against the opponent's neck.

"I'm really sorry, maybe I really misunderstood you." The red dragon who was stepped on the ground by Thorne was silent for a moment again, and said with a somewhat unnatural expression:

"Two days ago, two drow players brought tauren, ogres, and marsh bears and found my residence, but I was hiding in the cave, and they couldn't do anything about me, so they left me before leaving. The next ruthless sentence, threatened to take me back as..."

The red dragon paused for a moment, then continued: "Then my two kobolds came back from the Ratmen camp, and they also said that all the Ratmen had been wiped out. Immediately afterwards, you came to recognize your relatives, so for my own sake For safety reasons, I have to do this."

"But you are so cautious, aren't you still trampled under your feet?" Sigrit stepped forward, looked down at the red dragon trampled under Thorne's feet, and said with a smile: "This can prove that you A little thought is of no use in the face of absolute strength."

"That's because I was too careless. Who knows that this ranger doesn't talk about martial arts, but even plays sneak attack. If I fight head-on, I can kill him with a breath of dragon breath." retorted.

"Really? Mr. Young Dragon." Thorne looked at the stubborn red dragon, deliberately amplified his tone, and then took back the long sword and the foot that was on the opponent's head.

The red dragon quickly got up and flapped its two dragon wings, then shook its head, and sprayed two streams of smoke from its nasal cavity. It stared at Thorne with a pair of dragon eyes and said confidently: "Half-elf ranger, don't be complacent for too long, I... .Although I can't beat you now, my lifespan can kill you."

Thorne glanced at the hard-talking Red Dragon, didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and walked towards the Master Qingchen who likes to feel non-existent, ready to explain a few words to him.

Now that the red dragon player has been found, he still wants Sigrit to take him to find the master swordsmith in the Underdark, so he doesn't plan to go back to Waterfall Town with them.

"Hey, red dragon friend, is it comfortable for you to be naked every day like this? Are you not used to it?" At this time, Kutaige, the orc sword master who was looking back and forth around the red dragon, popped out suddenly. doubt.

"...I have scales all over my body to protect me, so I won't bother you too much, old man." After hearing the other party's question, the red dragon seemed to feel the slightest chill, shrunk subconsciously, then turned around and glared at Kutaige .

"Oh, by the way, Kutaige, you are not very curious about whether this young dragon friend likes a warg or a ferocious honey badger. Now you can ask in person." Malvisa who was standing by the side took the opportunity to answer. .

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　Thanks to the boss: the reward of the witty llama, thank you for your support! ! !
　　
　
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