Under the Red Dragon

“Heh, you think I'm joking with you?”

The red dragon's thorn-covered face revealed a strange ferocity, its snow-white fangs gleaming with a cold light, and its scarlet eyes devoid of any desire, filled with complete rationality and indifference.

“Fafna, the reason I let you manage the Golden City isn't because I value your flesh and beauty, but because I value the bit more intelligence you have than a monster. Now it seems your intelligence is only a tiny bit more than a monster's.”

Karon's eyes were calm as he looked down at Fafna's changing expression. The giantess felt like prey being watched by a predator on the prairie, a chill rising from the base of her spine straight to the top of her head.

“Next time you use such crude methods instead of having important matters to discuss, I will really eat you, Fafna. I'd rather you come to me to claim credit and rewards, rather than trying to influence me.”

“Hoping to use your beauty and body to achieve some purpose,”

Karon's pupils grew brighter, with faint flames flickering in his eyes. His dragon might gathered and descended, causing even the exceptionally strong-willed Fafna to turn pale.

If Karon didn't value the psychic energy Fafna provided and her diligent management of the Golden City for the dragons and himself, lacking merit but not effort,

He would have long ago sent this giantess back to the slave camp to add bricks and tiles to his and the dragon's castles.

He was a red dragon, and if he had such needs, he would certainly not lack beauty.

Even the green dragon Antajena, although the green dragon's dragon form wasn't considered beautiful in the red dragon's aesthetic, he could have Antajena transform into an elf, whose beauty might not be inferior to the giantess.

Even if his tastes were more unique, he could even use the magical knowledge he learned from those mages to summon succubi from the abyss of hell.

Although Karon knew the charm brought by his appearance and power, his will was always clear, and he keenly noticed the giantess Fafna's sincerity mixed with a bit of deliberate flattery and fawning, which must have other purposes behind it.

“My master, king of the dragons,” the voluptuous Fafna knelt down, her body hanging with heavy, full, and moist fruit, like a delicate flower swaying in the wind.

Fafna trembled and said, “Your gaze is like a torch that illuminates all darkness, my thoughts cannot hide from you. I have come here because I have reached adulthood, and the bloodline talent from the ancient demigod, the three-headed sea siren Dicarytes, is driving me to find a powerful being sufficient to bear my bloodline talent.”

“The talent of the ancient demigod, the three-headed sea siren Dicarytes?” Karon's mind flashed with the memories of the dragon heritage. The ancient siren who occupied the North Sea among the seven seas of the Aikania world was a powerful demigod existence.

This demigod enslaved countless creatures in the sea and liked to devour the souls and flesh of countless passersby and creatures. She was the ruler of the North Sea in ancient times. She formed a partnership with a giant king, advancing and retreating together.

Even when facing the overlord of the sea, the bronze dragon clan among the dragons, she never retreated half a step.

In ancient times, after the Titans' and dragons' long war, in the giants' war against the dragons, this demigod siren and her partner, the hill giant king,

Were both torn apart by the great creations of the five-colored dragon god Tiamat, the powerful five-colored dragon princes, and their souls fell into the endless abyss.

It is still rumored that deep in the North Sea, there exists the palace and ruins of that demigod siren.

However, Karon didn't know what kind of bloodline talent this ancient demigod, the three-headed sea siren, possessed, but from the rumors and his psychic root's counteracting of the ogre giantess Fafna's bloodline induction, it must be related to the mysterious soul.

Sure enough, as the giantess Fafna recounted, Karon was able to truly understand the bloodline talent of this giantess, which was quite powerful.

The giantess's soul-devouring talent can be said to be more overbearing than the dragon's enslavement spells, capable of devouring and accommodating the opponent's soul, forming a master-slave symbiotic relationship, allowing the giantess to be like an extra head, capable of possessing all the abilities of the devoured object.

Moreover, most of the other party's qualities and attributes would be supplemented to the giantess, allowing the giantess to gradually possess the same qualities and attributes as the other party.

In other words, Fafna can evolve in the direction superior to herself based on the symbiotic relationship of the soul.

“Hmm,” Karon was also a little surprised by the talent possessed by the giantess Fafna. He guessed some of Fafna's thoughts, and also had the tempting dragon idea of simply throwing Fafna into his laboratory as an experimental product.

His scarlet pupils stared at the expression on the giantess's face, and he asked, “So, you are coveting the power of that red dragon, Fafna.”

“Yes, my master, I beg your grace, let me use my talent, in order to better serve you and the dragons.”

Fafna dared not use her charm ability anymore, but chose to sincerely and directly state her purpose. This trick had never worked in front of the red dragon, even if she had entered adulthood and her charm ability had been enhanced, it had never shaken the will of this red dragon.

At this time, Fafna was a little suspicious whether the other party was really a brutal, lecherous, greedy, and chaotic red dragon who couldn't control himself. Even if his will was firm, how could there be a creature that could completely control its instincts?

Karon didn't even take a second to think, he rejected the giantess Fafna's request. Even if this giantess's talent was quite useful to him. A fierce light flashed in the red dragon's eyes, and his tone became a little fierce,

“Fafna, I think these days of comfortable life have made you forget some things, even if that red dragon is reduced to my prisoner, only dragons can enslave dragons.”

“A trapped dragon is not something you can overstep,” Karon said, and his long tail swung out, whipping Fafna, who was kneeling on the ground, like a whip, sending the beautiful and moving female demon flying.

Pfft,

The giantess Fafna spat out a mouthful of blue blood in mid-air, and then fell to the ground.

Bang, bang, bang,

Karon's huge body stepped forward, walked to Fafna who was lying on the ground, looked down from above, and said indifferently, “Fafna, put away your little thoughts. I am already tolerant enough to allow others to make mistakes, but if there is another time, you can only be crushed by me.”

“Go back and think about how you can use your abilities to create more value for me. When your merits are enough, I will not be stingy with rewards for you.”

Whirr,

Karon left the ogre giantess stunned in place, unfolded his wide wings that could block all of the giantess Fafna's vision, and rose straight into the sky on the wind.

Karon flew in the air, faintly hearing the farmers returning home in the twilight, humming dragon songs and some adapted songs about dragons as they returned to their homes.

These songs similar to country folk songs, sung by the bards recruited by the copper dragon Alfred, had begun to spread in the densely populated areas of the territory, and even some human children and the cubs of the dependents would occasionally sing a few lines.

Some diligent picok sprites, wearing hats woven from wheat ears and chestnut stalks, were still urging the overly hardworking farmers to return to their homes in the fields.

Even though this place was only a few dozen miles away from the mountain dragon nest, many wild beasts still came out at night. Although these wild beasts were only small animals and food to dragons and their dependents, they were still a fatal threat to ordinary farmers.

When Karon flew over the Golden City, the bells were ringing on the tallest bell tower in the Golden City.

The melodious bell sounded like a timer switch, and in an instant, lights lit up all over the Golden City.

Among the myriad lights, there were occasional songs sung loudly by the bards in the city.

Seeing this scene from the clouds in the sky, the red dragon felt a sense of accomplishment rising in his heart.

At the pier, large and small ships were docked in the port. Under the guidance of the guards in the shore sentry towers, many ships were queuing up to enter and exit in an orderly manner. Even in the evening, the flow of people in the entire port still seemed a bit hurried.

Karon looked down from the clouds and actually saw a large ship with the flag of the Orc Kingdom hanging on it. Many fox girls, famous for their beauty in the human countries of the continent, were curiously looking at this emerging city on the ship.

There were also many leopard-men guards on the ship, and many pig-men as slaves, surrounding an orc with a tall and burly figure, yellow-brown skin, and a face somewhat similar to a human, but more like a hybrid of a human and a pig, with a few protruding teeth protruding from his lips.

This was the orthodox bloodline of the ancient orcs, and the leopard-men, pig-orcs, and fox girls were said to be the bloodlines bred by the ancient orcs mating with extraordinary creatures of other races or some magical animals.

Karon couldn't help but click his tongue in wonder when he saw this. He felt that the tastes and aesthetics of those ancient orcs seemed to be comparable to those of the dragon race.

At this time, many pig-men slaves pulled a long string of slaves tied with ropes from the cabin, including not only orcs, humans, but also some lizardmen and barbarians.

It seemed that the business of the dragon territory had gradually become famous, and even the Orc Kingdom across the sea far away had already learned about it and wanted to sell slaves to the dragon territory.

Karon originally just glanced over, but among the slaves tied with ropes, a human with messy golden hair caught his attention.

It wasn't how surprising this human's appearance was, but in Karon's naturally dispersed perception, the life aura on this human's body was as messy as the hair on his head, with more than ten different life auras floating all over his body.

This human looked about sixty years old. In the human world, he was already considered an old man.

But in Karon's eyes, the vitality in this human's body was more vigorous than those of teenagers in their teens and twenties, but this human didn't have the aura of the seed of power and magic.

“This human is an ordinary person, but has extraordinary performance,” Karon's mind flashed with this thought, and he also developed curiosity and interest in exploring.

However, many things didn't need Karon to do himself now. He temporarily put this matter aside, skimmed over the harbor, and plunged into the sea after flying dozens of miles out of the sea area.

According to the now tailor-made diet, Karon's dinner tonight was sea fish from the sea.

Karon's body swam in the sea water. Although the red dragon didn't like the aquatic environment, he didn't hate it either. And Karon quite liked the feeling of swimming in the sea,

His strong body shuttled freely in the sea without any effort. Although his speed was not as fast as those of bronze dragons and sea dragons who were accustomed to aquatic life, it was still faster than many sea fish.

He searched for his target. Sea fish of ordinary size were just snacks in front of his huge body, and they couldn't even make up for the consumption of hunting.

Karon wanted to taste the taste of the sahuagin that the bronze dragons and blue dragons loved. Last time when the sahuagin invaded, he was only focused on killing and didn't have time to taste the taste of this creature.

As for whether this monster belonged to the category of intelligent creatures, Karon directly turned on the double standard mode of the bronze dragon. Anyway, it wasn't a humanoid creature, and he didn't have any psychological reaction when he ate it.

However, Karon was unlucky today. After the sahuagin's tribe was scattered, they were originally in awe of the dragon territory.

In addition, the dragon territory had issued a racial hunting reward for the sahuagin. Now, within a few dozen miles of the dragon territory's sea area, there wasn't a trace of a sahuagin to be seen.

Karon had no choice but to reluctantly catch a seven-meter-long marlin. This marlin was quite fierce. After failing to escape, it actually thrust its head forward with its slender, spear-tipped upper jaw to counterattack the red dragon, but it was slapped unconscious by Karon.

However, just as Karon was feasting, his naturally released perception detected a peeping gaze in the sea watching him.

He remained silent, while continuing to enjoy dinner, while quietly condensing his perception and exploring towards the source of the gaze peeping at him.

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But the other party was obviously very alert. When Karon's perception found the other party's trace, he only saw a long blue tail disappearing into the sea.

The tail of this mysterious creature was somewhat similar to the tail of a dragon, but the tip of the tail had a pair of webbed wings similar to those of fish.

“Could this creature be the sea-dwelling dragon that Dos and Akz had mentioned?” Karon didn't see the other party's full appearance, and he wasn't sure. The world was too big, and many magical animals wouldn't be recorded even in the dragon heritage.

“It seems that the other party has been secretly watching the dragon's territory, but it doesn't seem to have any malice,” Karon shook his head and didn't bother with it for the time being, but he had already planned to have the blue dragons Dos and Akz increase their attention to the sea.

The red dragon swallowed his prey and then resurfaced, flying towards his dragon nest.

In the following month, Karon basically spent his time exploring magic and inspecting the territory.

Now many things in the dragon territory have entered the right track. Although many are just roughly setting up some frameworks, fortunately, next, he only needs to continuously supplement and expand on the basis.

The blacksmith shop of the dwarf Kragon had gradually expanded in scale, and had moved outside the city to establish a dedicated iron casting workshop.

The letter from the dwarf Kragon had not yet been replied to, but the dwarf had recruited three dwarf blacksmiths from those adventurers. Under the teaching of the dwarf blacksmiths, the apprentices had gradually grown up, and their forging and smelting technical experience had become richer, greatly increasing efficiency for a time.

Even specialized institutions for raising and taming beasts have been established, named Beast Gardens, dedicated to artificially breeding and optimizing meat-producing species for the territory, and cultivating and optimizing various poultry and labor animals.

Many wild horses, wild cattle, and wild sheep from the grasslands, which breed quickly and can be used for both meat and labor, are captured and domesticated. This place is also a favorite of the black dragon Rosani.

During this time, Caron's exclusive laboratory was also completed with the generous donations of those mages. It's just a rather simple laboratory, located in the canyon surrounded by the dragon nests in the mountains, which was once the location of the young dragons' nests.

However, what Caron cares about is not the laboratory itself, which is entirely made of stone, but the precious magical instruments and equipment used for research and exploration, as well as the knowledge to use them.

If Caron had to raise these things himself, even spending several times the amount of gold coins, it wouldn't necessarily be more complete than what these mages brought.

So, during this time, Caron also had to take some time to ask the mage Hughes for this knowledge, which is essential for his future research.

In these busy days, Caron almost forgot about the human man who aroused his curiosity on the orc ship.

Fortunately, he had instructed the Imperial Guards guarding the dragon's nest to notify Fafna, the governor of the Golden City, to buy all the slaves from the Orc Kingdom.

However, he doesn't have time to explore the secrets of this man for the time being, because the gnoll Yugu sent a message that the fully equipped exploration team has been assembled and is waiting for Caron's order.

So Caron instructed the dragon group to maintain normal operation of all affairs after he left the territory, and the dragon territory would be temporarily supervised and managed by the white dragon Germot and the blue dragon Dos.

The red dragon flapped its wings and came to the cliff in front of the plane magic teleportation gate.

At this time, a team of heavily armed warriors had already stood in formation under the leadership of the gnoll Yugu. In Yugu's training, the gnoll barbarians already possessed the same discipline as ordinary human soldiers.

Each of these tall gnoll barbarians is wearing full-body iron armor, making them look twice as tall. The gnoll leader Yugu is also wearing a heavy set of armor, only revealing his head with thick blood-colored mane.

Each iron-clad gnoll warrior held a sharp hunting gun. Although the hunting gun seemed a bit long in the forest, it was the fastest weapon that could be made in the dragon territory, requiring only a simple flat gun head and a sturdy wooden pole.

These gnolls also hung several ironwood short spear javelins on their waists, and held a wooden tower shield half their height in their right hands.

With such comprehensive protection, unless they encounter a close-range volley of crossbows or a large number of magical torrents, these elite gnoll barbarians can be dealt with.

But the several mid- to high-level mages and gnoll casters standing behind these elite gnoll barbarians are not to be trifled with.

If it weren't for the need to leave many mages to maintain the operation of the plane teleportation gate, there would be even more casters entering the Green Wild Forest together.

Then there were hundreds of kobold soldiers carrying follow-up food and supplies. Although these kobolds also carried weapons, Caron didn't expect the kobolds' combat effectiveness on this trip.

The role of these kobolds is to guard and maintain the outpost base where the teleportation gate is located in the Green Wild Forest plane.

And to make preliminary probes, after the life probes of more than a dozen kobold dependents, these mages finally determined the specific location of the plane teleportation gate, choosing a place where there was no one.

Caron's huge body descended from the sky, and then transformed into a dragonborn form.

Although the upper limit of strength of this exploration target plane is not high, Caron's huge body is also easy to become a target of concentrated fire. Before personally determining the situation in the alien plane, Caron chose to act in a low-key manner.

When those dragon dependents saw the figure of the red dragon, they saluted and shouted excitedly: "Our King!"

Caron nodded and greeted the squinting mage Hughes and his party who came over.

"Caron," the squinting mage Hughes asked for the red dragon's opinion. Although the exploration was proposed by these mages, the person in charge became the red dragon.

"Let's go, I also want to appreciate the demeanor of the alien plane," Caron responded.

Those mages injected their magic power into the magic circle of the plane teleportation gate. In the huge magic circle, the magic crystals, each the size of an adult's fist, were lit up one by one, and a tall teleportation gate slowly rose in front of everyone.

The gnoll Yugu took the lead, leading the gnoll barbarians who raised their tower shields into the plane teleportation gate, and teams of fully protected warriors stepped into the plane teleportation gate.

Then came hundreds of kobold auxiliary soldiers carrying supplies and gnoll casters, and finally Caron and the eight mages including Hughes.

When crossing the plane teleportation gate, Caron could feel that his consciousness appeared to be briefly stagnant and blank, but he subconsciously urged his heart energy to wrap his soul and consciousness.

In the next instant, his consciousness, which seemed to be frozen by time and space, returned to normal operation and gradually became active.

But Caron's eyes could not see anything except the endless, distorted curtains of time and space woven from various messy light and space-time curves, and his perception could not extend out, turning into a bird trapped in a black cage.

Caron didn't know how long it had passed, it seemed like only a few seconds, and it seemed like several days. In this distorted sense of time, he had crossed a long space of immeasurable distance.

When Caron regained his normal perception and five senses, what came into view was no longer those chaotic and dazzling curtains, but blue sky and white clouds, and green fields and forests.

The forest was extraordinarily quiet, and there seemed to be an invisible sound barrier covering all sounds from the outside world.

But the moist and gentle breeze came, which made Caron know that a new world had unfolded its mysterious veil in front of him.