Under the Red Dragon

The red dragon spread its wings and flew over his territory.

After continuous expansion, the dragon's territory has become extremely vast, more than ten times the size of the original dragon family's territory, especially with the newly conquered kobolds, whose aggressive nature under Yug's leadership is exceptionally strong.

Even while accepting the tasks of reclaiming wasteland and protecting farmland, they would still take the time to sweep through areas outside the surrounding territory.

Now, the distance from the easternmost Gold Coast to the Dragon Nest Mountains is about four hundred miles, and the distance from the Dragon Nest Mountains to the westernmost forest area of the dragon's territory is about one thousand two hundred miles.

And with the Dragon Nest Mountains as the central point, the distance to the Baystream City, chosen to be close to the southernmost part for settlement, is nearly nine hundred miles, and this is only the forest territory under the actual control of the dragon.

Such a territory area has surpassed many duchies, and even some small kingdoms cannot compare to the vastness of the dragon's territory.

As for the vast grassland, the dragon has not estimated it, but the area marked by the dragon on the grassland is even wider than the forest. Due to a severe shortage of manpower, the grassland has always been in a state of free-range, only serving as a hunting ground for the dragon and its minions.

Even the forest, which the dragon pays special attention to, has most of its area in a vacant state, desolate and uninhabited, with only some powerful creatures occupying the territory being subdued or driven away by the dragon.

Karon looked down at the situation of the territory from the sky, and the sub-brain cluster was operating to continuously estimate the population needed to turn the current territory into a substantial control.

Now, the dragon's territory, including all active population, including the dragon's minions, adds up to less than 50,000. Scattering them into the territory is like pouring a few basins of water into the river, only splashing a few drops.

"It seems that with conventional means, it will take at least ten years to wait for the population to grow to an ideal state," Karon thought silently, the population is not only the foundation for mastering the territory, but also equivalent to one of his sources of power.

"Fortunately, the minions accepted are all from that exceptionally fertile bunch, not to mention the green-skinned goblins and kobolds, even the most powerful centaurs, although their fertility rate is slightly lower than that of humans, are enjoying the pleasure of reproduction almost every night and day. In a stable environment, newborns will definitely increase."

Karon has almost become accustomed to the state of multitasking, the sub-brain cluster is thinking about the development of the territory, and his main brain consciousness is scanning the forest under his feet, trying to find a prey that meets his goals.

Now the red dragon's mental power is very strong. With the perception released, the situation within a few miles is clearly visible in his perception. If he explores in a fixed direction with all his strength, then the distance of his perception will be even farther.

A subtle arc suddenly cracked on Karon's thorn-covered cheeks, and thick, long, white fangs flashed under the moonlight like the cold light of a sharp long knife. He found a prey, and this prey was targeted by him.

Under the bright moonlight, tall stone tablets stood in the jungle. Some of the hundreds of stone tablets have been eroded and weathered by wind and rain, while others are like being directly broken in the middle by a huge force, revealing stone stubble of varying sizes.

But without exception, these stone tablets are engraved with many strange totems and symbols.

A huge and thick python coiled under these tall stone tablets, its body constantly rubbing against these tall stone tablets, as if scratching an itch, or molting.

Every scale on the body of this python, as thick and long as a water tank, exudes a black light, a black light that can devour even the moonlight falling from the sky.

Under this thick and huge python, in the stone tablet jungle, countless white bones are spread all over the ground, with all kinds of creatures, including some fresh skeletons, which look very similar to the physique and shape of those trolls in the forest.

Unlike ordinary snakes, this giant python, which is more than twenty meters long, has countless fine sharp teeth in its mouth in addition to four particularly thick and long fangs.

A pair of yellow vertical pupils on the giant python's thick head are indifferent and full of animal nature, and at this time, it is vigilantly staring at the red dragon that casts a large shadow from the sky, showing its fangs and making a low, threatening hiss.

"Titan Python," Karon's memory inheritance has an introduction to this creature. This creature belongs to a natural transcendent beast, not the kind that grows from ordinary beasts into ferocious species, and then accidentally evolves into a beast.

But unlike other beasts, all beasts have their own magical abilities. The only talent that the Titan Python has in exchange for its magical abilities is the ability to devour almost all substances in the world to grow.

This is somewhat similar to the characteristics of dragons, but dragons cannot do what Titan Pythons do, using all material energy to strengthen their bodies. This is the growth path of Titan Pythons, so Titan Pythons can even compete with some dragons in terms of physical strength.

Almost every Titan Python can grow to a body length comparable to that of an ancient Titan. This is a kind of gate-keeping pet and war beast especially favored by ancient Titans.

Due to the specialization in physical growth, the scales on these Titan Pythons have excellent magic resistance and physical defense capabilities. In the many wars between ancient Titans and dragons, many Titan Pythons were tamed by the Titans, wrapped around those ancient Titans, and fought with them.

They were used as meat shields and spell shields by those Titans, and the Titan Pythons' great strength could also repel the dragons' attacks. However, this kind of creature is rarely seen in the main plane and generally only exists in special planes.

Karon looked at this Titan Python. The patterns occasionally mixed on the black scales showed that it was not a purebred, but a hybrid giant python.

"No wonder it's so small," In Karon's view, a Titan Python with a body length of more than twenty meters also belongs to the category of malnutrition. Snakes and dragons have different growth linearity. A Titan Python of more than twenty meters is only as thick as a water tank, which is considered a relatively weak one.

If a dragon has a body length of more than twenty meters, then you may be facing a dragon that can fight against legends.

The red dragon spread its wings and hovered in the air, and the intense dragon power spread out, but the Titan Python on the ground was not afraid at all, but hissed and roared to warn the red dragon not to overstep.

"It's a pity, this kind of creature is too stupid, probably its muscles blocked its head, just like some mastiffs, although once tamed, it is extremely loyal, only recognizing one master in its life, and is a suitable pet for guarding the door, but this hybrid Titan Python is already an adult and difficult to tame."

Karon hovered in the air, and the wind of magic gathered on his thick dragon claws. A tentative spell was thrown out by the red dragon and landed on the Titan Python's thick body.

This is a slowing spell, used to slow down the activities of creatures, but the magical energy of this spell seemed to encounter some kind of obstacle and then be decomposed and absorbed by the python's scales.

"Tsk," It really is excellent magic resistance. You must know that under the red dragon's abundant and immeasurable magic power output, the power of the spell is one level higher than the spell intensity released by ordinary mages, but for this hybrid Titan Python, low-level spells should be difficult to work.

Although he knew that low-level spells and cantrips probably wouldn't work on the Titan Python, Karon still kept waving spells from between his claws.

Frost ray, death strike, touch of fatigue, magic missile, fire blade, acid arrow, and other spells were used by the red dragon, like a magic bomber, constantly bombarding the Titan Python, which was coiling its body, ready to go, and hissing in a low voice.

Although the Titan Python's magic element resistance is extremely outstanding, some scales still had slight imprints under Karon's spell bombardment.

For Karon, this is equivalent to a spell practice. It is usually difficult to find a live target like the Titan Python, and Karon has to make use of it.

Moreover, Karon usually uses his prey to constantly practice some of his abilities and skills when hunting, on the one hand, to provide the sub-brain cluster with the opportunity to collect information data, and on the other hand, Karon does not allow himself to be too lazy, seizing every opportunity to grow.

Moreover, although this Titan Python is powerful, some young dragons may capsize, such as some white dragon species, but in Karon's eyes, it is just a relatively thick and long spicy stick.

The red dragon has a way to deal with it. Karon can easily crush this Titan Python with physical strength alone.

"Eh, it seems that for opponents with outstanding physical magic resistance, those spells targeting the spirit and will are very effective," Karon slowly flew around the Titan Python, and the Titan Python's head also turned with it. Although it was annoyed by the spells constantly waved by the red dragon, its beast pupils gradually filled with tyranny, but it was still extremely cautious and insidiously looking for opportunities.

At this time, a spell fell from Karon's hand. This was a dizzying spell and a frenzy spell targeting the creature's will, which immediately caused a reaction from the Titan Python coiling its body.

The Titan Python's thick body shook and stretched out, like a spring, its upper body bounced up, its vertical pupils were full of rage, and it opened its mouth in vain to bite at the red dragon in the air who was waiting leisurely.

Clang, clang,

The python's upper and lower teeth staggered, making the sound of metal clashing. The red dragon had already pulled away. Even if this Titan Python suddenly attacked, it failed to touch a single hair of the red dragon.

Under the rage, the Titan Python's thick tail beat around, directly breaking the tall and thick stone tablets, and many huge stones splashed like charged cannonballs, breaking the thick trees in the surrounding jungle and smashing deep pits in the ground.

But the red dragon didn't care. Spells appeared between the red dragon's dragon claws, continuing to bombard the Titan Python that was raging and attacking but to no avail. In this spell bombardment, an idea suddenly flashed in Karon's mind.

Each spell requires the mage's mental power to outline the spell model, and then urge magic power to output magic power according to the spell model, and then a complete spell can be released.

Generally, mages can only release one spell at the first time. Mages with strong enough mental power may be able to release two or three spells at the same time, but after all, there are serious restrictions.

Moreover, the strength of a mage, apart from the level of power, lies in how many spell models the mage can remember and skillfully outline.

But even the most powerful mage has a limited number of spell models that he can learn, remember, and skillfully outline, and this spell release also requires a certain reaction time. In some dangerous moments, many mages do not even have time to react, and are attacked and killed before they can release their magic.

This is also the reason why many mages carry a large number of protective magic treasures and protective magic. Not every mage is proficient in instantaneous magic skills and has the ability to react immediately. Even high-level mages and even holy-level mages, not many mages are proficient in this advanced magic skill.

Karon thought of the Bronze Proof on the nobleman Will Clarence in his heart. The power seed born from this ancient practice method has obvious advantages and characteristics, and can be released as soon as it is thought of. Moreover, it can also absorb the power of the same origin to temporarily supplement and enhance its strength.

If the magic runes that cover most of the magic can be condensed into a magic power seed like the power seed of the Bronze Proof, then when needed, these magic runes will condense into spell models under the drive of the mind.

This can not only release magic instantly, but also release more than one spell, and can instantly release a torrent of spells, turning into a dragon-shaped magic bomber.

"It seems that I also have to embark on the path of a strange mage. At least I have to have a laboratory for experiments, and some good quality experimental products," Karon stopped releasing spells and scratched his chin thinking.

The Titan Python, which was still in a state of rage below, did not escape because it was too stupid or too stubborn. Instead, it triumphantly coiled its thick body around the tall stone tablet and raised its head to hiss.

But Karon, who was inspired in this spell practice, was already impatient to continue playing with this giant python. He retracted his wings, and his huge body fell directly like a meteorite from the sky.

In the next moment, the Titan Python, with its thick body and enormous strength, was held down on its huge head and overturned to the ground by Karon's outstretched claws.

And Karon's hind limbs accurately stepped on the fatal joint of the giant python, which is also the fatal "seven inches" of all snake-shaped creatures. This is an unavoidable defect of snake-shaped life.

No matter how powerful it is, the defects of the body structure will always exist, unlike dragons, which are relatively perfect creatures and have no obvious shortcomings in their body structure.

This giant python probably realized that the moment of its life's end had come, so the second half of its body frantically fluttered, but the shortcomings of the body structure were revealed at this moment. The Titan Python's thick tail could not touch the red dragon's body at all.

And the red dragon's sharp dragon claws, which could treat hard rocks as tofu, had deeply grasped into the Titan Python's spine. No matter how hard the giant python's scales were, they could not help the Titan Python, which had been overturned and exposed its belly.

The Titan Python's last dying struggle was only a moment, but most of the stone tablets in the entire stone tablet jungle were broken by the giant python. And Karon unhesitatingly pierced the Titan Python's head with his forelimb claws, from the mandible upwards.

Bang,

The giant python's heavy body fell to the ground, shaking up jumping stones and dust.

Karon began to enjoy his supper. He used his dragon claws to cut open the Titan Python's tough abdominal skin, and then, according to the habits he had developed since childhood, he first cleaned up the inedible internal organs of the giant python, and then began to eat.

However, Karon did not cut and throw away the Titan Python's stomach bag. This creature's stomach bag, like the dragon's storage stomach, has a certain spatial magical property, and is larger in capacity than the dragon's storage stomach, making it a good material for making some spatial magic equipment.

This stomach sac can be given to future mages with the ability to create spatial magic equipment to produce spatial storage magic items. Whether used for transportation within the territory or for sale, they would be extremely valuable.

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Karon didn't want to swallow the dirty stomach sac into his own storage stomach, so he kept this Titan Python's stomach sac. Therefore, Karon was especially careful when eating in the abdomen, as he didn't like the taste of 'Nine Turns Large Intestine'.

Karon didn't use his dragon fire to roast this Titan Python. The flesh and blood of this magical beast contain a lot of energy and nutrition. Roasting with dragon fire would cause a lot of energy and characteristics of the flesh and blood to be lost. Perhaps some characteristics could still benefit the dragon's body, so Karon rarely chose to eat this supper raw, like giant serpent sashimi.

The Titan Python's flesh and blood energy were extremely abundant, and the flesh and blood also suited Karon's appetite. Therefore, Karon unconsciously dug out half of the giant serpent's body before he was full, revealing the snow-white, jade-like, thick spine covered with bone spurs inside the giant serpent's body.

The giant serpent's spine is very hard and can withstand the weight of the giant serpent's huge body. It is conceivable the density and toughness of the bones. Therefore, Karon planned to cut off a section of the spine as his teething stick.

During this period, Karon's body grew a little fast, so his teeth had been feeling itchy. He had gnawed a large gap in his volcano nest with his teeth.

As for the remaining flesh and blood, Karon planned to leave these flesh and blood for the pioneering army of Bay Stream City to taste, as a reward from him, the lord, to his army.

Also, the giant serpent's scales and skin, these materials with excellent magic element resistance, are excellent materials for making magic weapons and armor. Karon would not discard them here.

Now Karon doesn't have the slightest idea of wasting anything. He tries his best to pursue perfection in the utilization of resources. After all, every day he wakes up and thinks that a large group of people in the territory are waiting for him, he feels a headache.

To put it bluntly, in the initial development of the territory, even if the familiars ran out of toilet paper, they would want to find him to solve it. Of course, this is just an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that if you want the territory to develop, the pressure and responsibility he bears as the territory's highest decision-maker are enormous.

Fortunately, he has now delegated most of the things to other dragons and more capable familiars. The troubles are now other people's, and Karon can enjoy a rare moment of relaxation.

However, the habits he had developed were still retained.

Karon enjoyed the satisfaction after eating. A faint white light appeared between his thick claws. These white lights were like a closed cage, trapping a phantom of a python inside, struggling and bumping back and forth.

This was the soul of the Titan Python he had killed. It is difficult for ordinary people to touch the souls of dead creatures. Even powerful mages with strong mental power find it difficult to detect traces of souls.

This requires special abilities to perceive and touch the realm of souls, and Karon has this special ability.

The faint white light permeating his thick dragon claws is the key to his ability to touch souls. This is the power of the heart, but it is not the power of the heart provided to Karon by other creatures.

Rather, it was born from the combination of Karon's body, flesh, and spiritual will with the heart, under the long-term influence of the power of the heart provided by those creatures. It is a power unique to Karon, with a strong personal imprint and will, even many times more prominent than the dragon's own field radiation effect.

The heart power born from oneself is still weak, but it is very magical. This power, born from the combination of flesh and blood, spirit, and mind, seems to be nurtured by these things together. The stronger the body, the stronger the heart power, and the firmer the mind and spiritual will, the stronger and sharper the heart power.

However, Karon has not yet explored more ways to use this power, but the ability to contact souls is self-taught.

The Red Dragon looked at the soul trapped in his claws. Although he wanted to explore the mysteries of the soul, which is said to be a field that only gods can touch, with many magical knowledge and rules about the true origin of the world,

But he knew that the time was not yet ripe, and his ability was not enough to bear the risk of getting involved in the soul realm.

Even these dead magical beasts, their souls also have their own belonging in the world, or some natural spirits in charge of souls, this magical creation nurtured by the souls of creatures, whose power is even equivalent to the incarnation of the gods in the main plane, which is an existence that the current Red Dragon cannot afford to provoke.

Or the legendary Garden of Beasts outside the plane, in the endless astral world, which is also a behemoth that the Red Dragon cannot currently contend with.

"Alas, my strength is not strong enough," Karon sighed, released the heart's restraint on the soul, and watched the Titan Python's soul disappear into the real world, whereabouts unknown. Even if Karon fully spread his perception, he did not detect any trace of the soul.

Karon shook his head, stopped paying attention to this matter, and began to clean up the traces of eating on his body, and then prepared to take away the remaining body of the Titan Python, but at this time two subtle life fluctuations appeared in Karon's naturally emitted perception.

He walked towards the source of the life fluctuations, in the center of the stone tablet jungle, where the rubble and broken stone tablets covered half of the dark cave entrance.

Karon dug away the rubble and broken stone tablets blocking the cave entrance, revealing a deep cave exuding a fishy smell. Two life fluctuations, which were weak relative to the Red Dragon, came from this cave.

"It seems that this Titan Python is not stupid and stubborn, but has something that needs it to protect with its life," Karon felt in his heart.

But he didn't have the slightest sense of guilt. The law of the jungle prevails, even dragons will be treated as prey in front of some powerful legendary creatures.

Although the cave entrance in front of him is quite large for ordinary creatures, the Red Dragon's body is too large at this time. If he forcibly squeezes in, the entire cave will probably be squeezed down by the Red Dragon, and it would be a pity if the snake eggs were smashed.

So Karon had to widen the cave carefully, sticking his butt up like he did when he was a child, and at the same time used magic to slightly reinforce the top of the cave to prevent it from collapsing.

After widening the passage, Karon retracted his wings, pressed them tightly against his back, and then sneaked in, crawling and opening up the passage.

After walking like this for dozens of meters, he reached the depths of the nest.

This distance is actually the length of a Titan Python's lunge. Obviously, this Titan Python is the most powerful creature here. It doesn't need to dig its nest too deep to hide its tracks, it just built this nest to shelter from the wind and rain.

Two huge black snake eggs stood upright on a thick layer of animal skin. Although these two snake eggs were not as big as dragon eggs, they were similar, just a little thinner.

Karon's eyes lit up, and he carefully swallowed the two snake eggs into his storage stomach. He planned to take these two snake eggs back, find a way to hatch them, and then use them to guard his treasure trove, or the treasure trove of the dragon group.

This kind of magic python is extremely loyal. As long as it is tamed, it will only obey the master's orders. At that time, except for Karon and those he allows, no one can cross the treasure trove's gate.

Moreover, the Titan Python's ability is not weak after it grows up. Ordinary characters are just appetizers in front of it.

In addition to these two snake eggs, Karon also found some crude utensils in the cave, stone-carved snake statues and some polished ornaments made of naturally generated gems, and some gold ornaments engraved with snake patterns.

"Maybe the Titan Python I killed is the guardian magic beast enshrined by a certain tribal group in this area, the magic god of sacrifice," Karon had some guesses in his mind, these gold ornaments and statues are proof, as well as the animal skins covering the ground.

Of course, the term magic god is just a general term for some powerful creatures. In the wilderness, many weak tribes will seek the protection of powerful creatures around them and regard these creatures as magic gods to worship.

Moreover, even if the Titan Python is a magical beast with some wisdom, it cannot do these things that require precise operation without hands.

But Karon is too lazy to explore now. This place is outside the dragon group's territory. His hunting range is no longer limited to his own territory, and he is not interested in conquering these tribes now to expand his territory.

He has not yet digested and consolidated the existing territory. Even with the Red Dragon's greed and desire to conquer, he knows that blind expansion will only drag down his pace.

He doesn't need to shrink back into his territory like before. The Red Dragon's range of activities can be said to be infinitely large now.

With his speed, it is difficult for any creature to catch up with him now, unless he encounters a legendary mage, otherwise even if he encounters a legendary warrior, he can only eat dust behind his ass.

Karon swallowed these gold ornaments in one gulp, abandoned the remaining stone statues, then drilled out of the cave, grabbed the Titan Python's thick body, spread his wings and flew away.