Under the Red Dragon

"Flying south from here, it would take a young dragon thirteen or fourteen days of full-power flight to cross this forest. Beyond the forest lies endless mountains and hills.

Even a dragon would need to fly continuously for at least half a month to cross this mountain range. That is a place favored by the gods, the promised land of humanity's gods. Although it lacks the wide, flat land of the grasslands, the plains between the mountains and hills are far more fertile than here, thus nurturing many races."

Carlett squatted on the platform carved out at the highest peak of this mountain range, explaining to Caron the knowledge and experiences she had.

Caron had not received any knowledge about transformation magic during his slumber, so now, every few days after Carlett had enough sleep, he would ask her about transformation magic.

After learning about transformation magic and its application, he would also ask Carlett to explain some knowledge about the world, after all, the world is constantly changing, and the inheritance in his mind is not all-knowing.

Seeing that the red dragon used his metal element control master talent to dig out rare minerals, Carlett reluctantly agreed to the red dragon's request.

But Carlett no longer allows the red dragon to step into her cave, because Carlett has begun to feel a bit of a threat from the red dragon.

It's hard to believe, but the juvenile blue dragon actually feels a threat from a young dragon, although not much, but it exists, and Carlett chooses to trust her instincts.

And Caron sitting next to Carlett is no longer the little one that could be overturned by a breath, the talent of this red dragon in front of him may unexpectedly make him the most powerful dragon in this dragon family.

With the amicable relationship between Carlett and the red dragon, the blue dragon leader has expectations for this. She hopes that the dragon group she has built will continue to be strong and be able to avoid being forced to disperse around the world like the blue dragon family she came from.

Thinking of this, Carlett tilted her head and looked at Caron, emphatically reminding him: "Little Caron, if you want to go to the land where humans live through that mountain range in the future, you can sneak through according to the route I came from, and you cannot fly directly over the mountain range. Because there are many monsters hidden in that mountain range that even dragons cannot match."

"I will be extra careful," Caron nodded, then curiously asked: "What kind of monsters are there that can make dragons so cautious?"

"Actually, I don't know much about it. Although the blue dragon family I came from established nests on the edge of the southern mountain range, no dragon dared to easily cross the territory to explore the mountains, even if the blue dragon family had three adult dragons."

A look of horror appeared in Carlett's eyes, "But one day, I don't know why, an adult spinetail mountain cat appeared in the territory of the blue dragon family, maybe it strayed out from the depths of the mountains, or maybe it came from a lower plane. This spinetail easily killed the leader of the blue dragon, and then began to hunt the remaining dragons. I was lucky, and escaped separately from the dragons in the family, and I succeeded."

spinetail mountain cat, Caron knows this kind of creature, a supernatural super hunter whose appearance is a huge black three-headed mountain cat.

This kind of creature naturally becomes a legendary creature when it becomes an adult. Except for not knowing magic, it is a more powerful and perfect creature than a dragon.

This creature has the ability to move silently, and is also proficient in hiding and lurking. Its unparalleled agility allows this creature to always be in a preemptive position. There are too many powerful points.

It can be said that it is an all-round enhanced version of a dragon except for flying and magic. The body that the dragon is proud of is like paper in front of this creature. The venom from the spikes on the spinetail mountain cat's tail can also easily knock down a dragon.

If the inheritance in the dragon's mind is turned into a piece of paper, then the race of spinetail mountain cat is a capital red pen with bold letters indicating the two words high risk.

"The closest to the west of the blue dragon family's territory is a nest of hill giants. It is said that many giant bloodlines are scattered in this mountain range. There are storm giants in the east of the mountain range near the sea, and powerful cyclops lords in the depths of the mountain range. Moreover, the legendary celestial creature, the supreme heaven Titan, has also been exiled here, sleeping in it," Carlett said, roughly describing the situation she knew.

"Hiss," Caron took a deep breath, and his recently inflated heart quietly calmed down. No wonder Carlett sleeps in the cave all day long and has no interest in expanding the dragon group's territory. It seems that she was frightened. Now she probably just wants to accumulate strength.

Caron also began to think about whether his decision to travel to the human settlement to study magic was too hasty. Maybe he should patiently wait for merchant ships to appear in the bay where the ogre tribe is located, and then make a decision.

creak creak, Caron lay on a small mound on the grassland.

He threw a refined metal block into his mouth, and his sharp, thick fangs crushed the metal block. The tough metal tasted like good chocolate under the dragon's terrifying fangs.

The red dragon's flexible tongue licked his palate. Well, the taste with a high iron content is slightly bitter, similar to the taste of pure dark chocolate.

He selected the metal he wanted to try from a pile of metal blocks in front of him. The one with a high silver content had a bit of a cool taste, a bit like mint chocolate. The one with a high gold content had a particularly soft and smooth taste.

Eating metal can promote the development of the dragon's body, skin, and scales, making the dragon's skin tougher and the scales stronger.

But this requires long-term and massive amounts of food. This amount is just a drop in the bucket for the red dragon. Caron is just greedy and wants to taste it.

Caron's talent in controlling metal and earth elements allowed him to perceive many things that other dragons could not discover when he patrolled the grassland.

When he patrolled in the sky just now, he sensed that there were many minerals in many places on this grassland, and there were many black minerals that could cover a thick layer on the surface, and some were buried underground.

If the places he sensed are connected together, it is obviously a large open-pit mining area, and even the red dragon's current perception is difficult to explore the size of this mining area underground.

There is a thick layer of black minerals on the surface and underground of this mining area, but Caron also found traces of silver and copper mines in it, and careful inspection will also reveal traces of lead and zinc mines in the ore. This is a treasure land.

And there is a high probability that there is a gold mine under the soil, which can be distinguished from the associated minerals of the ore bed.

In addition to being happy, Caron was thinking about whether to go back to the forest and reluctantly accept those hobgoblins and green-skinned rats as miners.

At this moment, the soil covered by weeds next to a nearby mound moved, and a yellow shadow wrapped in a gust of wind darted out of the grass. The weeds swayed, revealing a dark cave.

The yellow shadow was extremely fast, but the red dragon's eyesight could still clearly capture all its dynamics.

This creature is about the size of a dog, covered in rough golden fur, with silver eyes and golden pupils in the middle, and eight strong legs ending in six-centimeter-long bronze claws.

This is a gold-eating beast. This creature likes to live in areas with abundant gold mines and uses gold as a supplementary food.

The appearance of the gold-eating beast proved Caron's guess, but perhaps because of the particularly powerful blood of the newborn, the greed from the bottom of his heart instantly occupied the red dragon's head.

This damn thing actually dares to steal my gold mine. The thirteen-meter-long wide wings stretched out, the shadow covered the sky, the dragon roared, and pounced towards the gold-eating beast.

The gold-eating beast running in front felt the dragon's breath and was terrified. It had just escaped from the siege of those evil kobolds underground and was inexplicably attacked by the dragon. The low-intelligence gold-eating beast did not explore the reason, but its eight legs were faster.

But before it could run far, the previously normal grassland suddenly became strange. The flat grassland under its eight long legs suddenly recessed, and a pit appeared out of thin air. Before it could react, the gold-eating beast fell directly into it.

The eight strong legs wanted to step on the bottom of the pit and then jump out of the mud pit, but found that it couldn't use any strength. The harder it tried on its legs, the more the mud under its feet sank in. The eight legs were flapping in the mud pit like paddling.

Caron landed on the ground and stretched out his head to stare at the gold-eating beast in front of him, who immediately pretended to be dead in the mud pit after seeing him. This thing's fur is very valuable. The complete fur can be made into an extremely strong and exquisite leather jacket by merchants.

This leather jacket not only has strong physical defense, but also can defend against ordinary flame damage and a certain degree of magical flame damage, so it is very valuable, worth about fifteen thousand to twenty thousand gold coins.

And the body of the gold-eating beast can also be melted. The body tissue of this size of gold-eating beast is so dense that it can probably be melted into one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds of high-purity gold.

It can be said that this creature is full of gold coins. These are the basic knowledge inherited in the red dragon's mind and a natural instinct for valuation.

Living gold-eating beast are more valuable. After being tamed, they can be used to sniff out ore veins and can exert more of the gold-eating beast's function.

However, the gold-eating beast's intelligence is equivalent to that of a low-intelligence beast. It cannot be communicated with, and Caron does not know how to tame the gold-eating beast, so he is hesitating.

Two heads quietly poked out from the entrance of the cave that the gold-eating beast crawled from. Crocodile-like heads and lizard-like bodies, and bone-like magic items in their lizard-like claws, all showing their identities: kobold wizards.

The two kobold wizards were whispering: "What should we do? That gold-eating beast was caught by the true dragon. This is a brutal and greedy red dragon. If we go out to ask for it, we may be burned to death. We definitely can't get that beast back."

Another slightly larger kobold wizard shook his head and reprimanded: "You are really a fool. As long as we attach ourselves to this powerful true dragon, offer him tribute, and then ask the great true dragon to bestow that beast to us so that we can better serve the true dragon, wouldn't it be easy to bring that beast back?"

"You are so smart," the smaller kobold smiled happily, "Then why don't we simply attach ourselves to the previous blue dragon who looks more powerful? That should be a juvenile dragon soon."

"You are indeed a fool," the other kobold glared at his partner, "That blue dragon is too ugly. Look how beautiful the scales on this red dragon are, how majestic the body is, how dignified the head is. We kobolds should worship such a great true dragon. Besides, the red dragon who grows up will be more powerful than the blue dragon."

"You are right."

The two kobolds retreated into the cave, and the sound became farther and farther away.

"Then we have to hurry back and tell the leader, lest the precious beast be eaten by the great true dragon as a snack."