Under the Red Dragon

On the continent of Essos, at the edge of the Long Summer lands.

Whoosh, a colossal dragon's immense wings beat, stirring up gales in the sky as it chased its prey, which was nimbly darting through the air ahead, moving with slightly greater speed.

This was a dragon forty-five meters in length, its shimmering silver scales overlaying dark skin, possessing eyes of silver-gold, and sporting a fearsome draconic head adorned with several jagged horns of varying lengths sprouting from behind its head.

Although this dragon was not highly ranked among the dragons tamed by the dragonlord families of Valyria, it still possessed immense power and a colossal physique that mortals could only look up to in awe.

While these bipedal dragons of Valyria were capable of long-distance flight, they did not, like the dragons of the Akani World, enjoy wandering about aimlessly.

Bipedal dragons typically did not fly around without purpose, only reaching unfamiliar areas under the guidance of their riders.

Even the forty dragonlord families of Valyria, along with their hundreds upon thousands of dragons, were primarily concentrated in the Freehold, and around the Long Summer lands opposite the peninsula where the capital city of Valyria was located.

Although these bipedal dragons were considered intelligent by ordinary people, their behavior was still driven by wild instincts and inherent nature.

Thus, this enormous bipedal dragon relentlessly pursued a peculiar dragon ahead that appeared exceptionally frail, the bat-winged dragon with butterfly-like wings looking so small in comparison to the forty-odd meter long pursuer.

The body of the bat-winged dragon was only eight meters long from head to tail; it seemed as if the dragon behind only needed to open its massive jaws to bite the beautiful but weak bat-winged dragon in two with its sharp fangs.

However, the bat-winged dragon ahead was extremely fast and agile, always increasing its speed just as the dragon behind was about to catch up, as if enticing and teasing its massive hunter.

"Roar," the massive bipedal dragon seemed extremely irritated, provoked by its prey beyond endurance; it opened its enormous mouth, revealing jagged fangs of varying lengths.

Raging flames briefly brewed within the dragon's throat, transforming into roaring dragonfire that spewed forth towards the bat-winged dragon ahead.

Swoosh,

The sense of threat from the high-temperature flames caused the bat-winged dragon ahead to increase its speed significantly in that instant, vaguely transforming into a dazzling streamer, darting out of the dragonfire's range before the flames could touch its body.

After escaping the dragonfire's attack range, the bat-winged dragon even twisted its long neck, turning its head back, looking smugly at the enraged dragon, a pair of pupils flashing with a brilliance of wisdom that the dragon behind could not match, then emitting a provocative cry.

The dragon behind was even more enraged, flapping its membranous wings as it charged towards the bat-winged dragon ahead, which had slowed down again.

The black dragon Rosani spread its wings, circling in the clouds high above, its cold vertical pupils watching the situation of the two dragons below.

In the next instant, the black dragon Rosani narrowed its eyes, its wings slicing through the air, carrying a gale, and suddenly dived down.

The black dragon Rosani protruded its head and claws from the clouds, the dragon's majesty on its body blooming entirely at this moment, pressing down towards the enormous dragon.

The dragon, over forty meters long, was actually so frightened by the powerful dragon's majesty when facing the black dragon Rosani, which was only ten meters long, that its wings suddenly stopped, and then it suddenly fell from the sky.

Fortunately, these dragons were born knowing how to control their wings to roam freely in the sky; the enormous dragon hurriedly flapped its wide wings, stopping its downward momentum in mid-air, raising its head and baring its teeth, roaring lowly at the black dragon Rosani in the sky.

"Submit to me, you inferior dragon," the black dragon Rosani, although only a fraction of the other's size, possessed a true dragon's majesty and posture, making the other seem like a winged beast in the black dragon's presence.

The black dragon Rosani looked down at the other, wanting to communicate in the dragon language.

"Augh roar,"

The enormous bipedal dragon's pupils flashed with a beast-like light, striking an offensive pose, as if it could not understand the black dragon Rosani's words.

Because in the world, many beasts would emit roars to intimidate enemies in order to conceal their fear, and some beasts would also actively attack enemies when frightened.

Sure enough, the enormous bipedal dragon launched an attack on the tiny black dragon in the sky in the next moment, a massive stream of dragonfire surging from the dragon's mouth, spewing fire that scorched the sky.

The black dragon Rosani watched the dragon's reaction below, shaking its head slightly, issuing a disappointed sound, "It seems that you dragons are just beasts that cannot even speak,"

"Unable to speak, without inheritance, and seemingly without any wisdom, not even worthy of being called a sub-dragon, you base creatures, are you worthy of living in the world under the name of a dragon?"

"It seems that the previous few dragons were not individual differences; I thought they were just rare fools, but I didn't expect that your entire race is just beasts."

The black dragon Rosani spread its wings, diving down towards the other's dragonfire, but the expected collision of two behemoths in the sky did not occur.

The black dragon Rosani propped up a magical shield, braving the other's dragonfire, and in the rapid dive, controlled the terrifying impact with strong bones, muscles, and magical manipulation, as light and agile as a hummingbird, deflecting from the giant dragon's chest and abdomen, and sweeping across.

The giant dragon of forty-odd meters was within reach; the black dragon Rosani stretched out its sharp claws, and under extreme speed, the black dragon's steel claws plunged into the bipedal dragon's chest sac without any obstruction.

The bipedal dragon's tough skin and scales could not stop it at all, and a huge wound was cut open directly by the black dragon Rosani.

"Roar,"

In the next instant, the bipedal dragon, which was still surging upwards, roared in pain, its huge wide wings suddenly losing most of their power at this moment.

A huge amount of scalding dragon blood spilled from the bipedal dragon's chest, its massive body flapping its wings powerlessly and chaotically, falling from the sky, its shrill cries resounding throughout the sky.

Boom,

The enormous dragon crashed to the ground, emitting a dull thud, the scalding dragon blood corroding the grass on the ground, corroding the vigorously growing weeds one by one until they withered, and then igniting sparks.

The black dragon Rosani landed from the air with an elegant posture, gathering its wings, standing aside, watching the bipedal dragon lying on the ground writhing in pain, constantly tossing and turning.

Even though it was in a very weak state, this beast was still trying to counterattack the black dragon in pain.

The black dragon Rosani indifferently turned its wings into sharp blades, swept across, and cut off the entire head of the huge dragon in front of it, causing it to roll away.

Although in the true dragon inheritance of the Akani World, there are skills for the sky overlord to hunt all creatures, and each dragon has different skills.

But facing this seemingly powerful bipedal dragon, the black dragon Rosani did not even need to use any combat skills; it only needed to slightly manipulate its body to kill the other.

The chest and abdomen of the bipedal dragon are huge weaknesses that cannot be hidden in front of the true dragon; the bipedal dragon without forelimbs may still be able to rely on the hooks on its wings as weapons for offense and defense on the ground, but in the air, it is already the most fatal flaw.

This is also the reason why the true dragon species has always discriminated against these bipedal dragon species; they regard these dragons as cripples, and some races, such as the bipedal wyverns in the Akani World, are not regarded as dragons by the true dragon, but are only hanging the name of a dragon.

But even the bipedal wyverns in the Akani World are more intelligent than these dragons.

"Not a dragon species, just a beast, only this huge body is somewhat special, but unfortunately, even the strongest physical strength is just the light of a candle in front of the perfect true dragon, facing the sun in the sky."

The black dragon Rosani stepped forward, the black oil-like dragon blood making it frown its scales.

The black dragon carefully crossed the place stained with dragon blood, came to the dragon's abdomen, and then stretched out its dragon claws, easily cutting open the dragon's abdomen, taking out the dragon's huge heart.

The taste of the heart made the black dragon Rosani narrow its eyes involuntarily, and the contained energy also made the black dragon Rosani love it; after completely swallowing the entire huge heart, the black dragon jumped onto the dragon's huge body and began to eat.

Although the dragon's meat is of average taste to the black dragon, eating the flesh of these dragons can bring benefits to the black dragon Rosani.

Just like swallowing metal minerals can make the scales of the true dragons stronger, the skin tougher, the claws and teeth sharper, and the bones stronger.

Swallowing some magical creatures and extraordinary species will also allow the true dragons' magic and magical talents to grow and awaken faster in some aspects.

It is as if the true dragon race can absorb the advantages of the prey from the act of eating.

Although it is not as good as the World Devourer talent of the ancestral red dragon Caron Goggmora, even a talent weakened countless times is enough to allow the true dragon race to continuously become more perfect and powerful in growth and development.

This is also the reason why those lord dragons can far exceed the wandering wild dragons.

Since the black dragon Rosani swallowed the heart of the Tree of Life and many magical items, its own characteristic has undoubtedly been magnified.

After continuously swallowing several bipedal dragons, the black dragon Rosani not only satisfied its own food needs, but also gained some additional growth, some more obvious growth.

The black dragon Rosani could even feel that since swallowing these bipedal dragons, its growth and development had accelerated slightly, and its body had become stronger.

This also allowed the black dragon Rosani to open its stomach and try to eat more food.

Behind the black dragon, before that hill, there were already several huge bones lying horizontally, each huge bone, the smallest size had reached thirty meters in length, all of which were cut off their heads and lying here.

Here, is where the black dragon landed in this world, and the temporary foothold and garrison point chosen by the Imperial Legion warriors. Some spellcasters and scholars are doing research next to the dragon's bones and intact heads, and many specially trained apprentices are also brought, observing and recording around the dragon's heads.

The pioneer legion warriors set up a temporary camp in the dense forest on the hill, hidden tightly in the spellcasters' magic enchantment, even those dragons patrolling and foraging in the sky could not find the traces of the pioneer legion.

Until Rosani was full, gnawing the huge dragon until it was full of holes, even the solid dragon bones were used by the black dragon Rosani to grind its teeth, biting out marks everywhere, and then stopped its mouth and returned to the camp.

The sentry on the hill waved the flag, and several teams of strong warriors stepped out of the camp, using ropes and tools to carry the remaining dragon corpses back to the camp for research purposes.

Early on, a scholar, seeing the black dragon Rosani stepping into the camp, came to meet him and reported to the black dragon.

"Lord Rosani, all the preparations have been basically completed, and other things have been roughly figured out," the scholar holding a notebook, seeing the black dragon nod, quickly narrated.

"This world is divided into four continents, of which the one we are on is called Essos, and we are now located at the edge of the Long Summer lands next to Valyria, the civilization center of Essos continent,"

The scholar spread out the roughly drawn map of the exploration information of the dragon knights and the scholars, pointing out to the black dragon Rosani one by one.

".……, In this world, most of the mined mineral resources have been tested, of which there are three that can be used as alternative materials for casting mithril cores,"

"Moreover, the level of civilization development in this world is not high, and the utilization of mineral resources is very low, with considerable development value and utilization value,"

"In Valyria, there is also a method of casting magical alloys, using ores mined from the Fourteen Flames to be magically cast into special alloys. The weapons cast from this alloy have good performance and can be improved to be used as weapons for the warriors."

The black dragon Rosani had just finished eating, and was at its most patient time, so it narrowed its eyes and patiently listened to the scholar's long speech.

When the scholar stopped, it moved its head closer to the scholar and asked softly, "Regarding the real obstacles in this world, the deepest power, is there any evaluation information?"

The scholar opened the last page of the document and nodded, "Lord Rosani, according to the news passed back by the scholars who infiltrated the capital of the Freehold, the city of Valyria, and the information passed back by the mages who infiltrated the Oldtown Citadel in another continent, Westeros,"

"It can be known that although the magic of this world is thriving at this time, it is completely incomparable to the power of the Empire, and those gods with earthly prestige, although it is unknown whether it is because of their status as gods that they never descend to the world, or because of some restrictions, but the real direct power of all the gods is difficult to affect the world,"

"They can only use some means to show miracles to influence the activities of the mortal world," the scholar smiled slightly, "Except for the Lord of Light, R'hllor, who has currently definitely shown miracles, only his enemy, the Cold God, has undoubtedly left servants in the world."

"If that's the case, then let's begin,"

The black dragon Rosani raised its head, looking towards the sky, the door to its hometown had long been closed, although it had not been too long since it came to this world, it had already begun to miss its dragon nest, and miss the Empire of Dragons.

"Except for the dragon knights, all warriors and spellcasters infiltrate Valyria to establish precision teleportation plane coordinate towers within the city," the black dragon Rosani whispered.

"Once the Emperor of the Empire, Caron, personally descends, we can directly sweep away all the rulers there and raise the royal flag of our Golden Empire in this world!"

...

Nalia, cloaked in a black robe, her beautiful face and long hair concealed beneath a dark hood, slowly stepped into the sweltering, arid cave in the torrid air.

In the confined and dim space of the Fourteen Flames' mines, only torches placed dozens of steps apart illuminated the area, with shadowy figures moving like specters within the mine.

The Red Priest behind her, now also dressed in black robes, followed Nalia, the former Red Witch, through the mine.

The initial part of the journey through the mine was calm and deep, but upon entering the depths, a type of insect would occasionally emerge from the pits in the mine floor.

These insects resembled dragons in form but lacked wings; the larvae were about the size of a child's arm.

In Valyrian folklore, these insects were considered distant relatives of dragons, capable of breathing fire and growing to immense sizes like dragons, with an extreme aversion to humans.

Nalia's fire magic was ineffective against these dragon-worms, and only the Red Priest's weapon could repel the insects that stealthily lurked within the rocky soil.

Within these drilled tunnels, the charred corpses of slaves were frequently discovered, yet they failed to stir the hearts of these Red God priests.

The Red Witch's serene face was veiled in the dim light, but her thoughts were far from calm.

As a priestess of R'hllor, the Lord of Light, each time she witnessed the True God displaying visions of the future to believers in the flames, they appeared as fragmented and prophetic images, requiring interpretation by the priests based on their knowledge and circumstances.

This had been the case for many years.

However, this time, it defied convention, with continuous miracles presenting clear and direct instructions.

The figures of mages freely wielding spells still lingered in her mind; these mages were like the free wind, their magic requiring no cost to be wielded.

Whereas she, as a follower of the Lord of Light, had to pay a price even for simple fire spells to unleash her power.

"No, perhaps, this isn't my power, but borrowed power," Nalia couldn't help but think.

She clutched the item hidden within her ample bosom, and a sense of hesitation arose within her.

Hidden in her bosom was a key to open the door of destruction, and by using it, the entire Fourteen Flames would be destroyed, followed by all of Valyria.

Even the dragons might not escape such a cataclysm.

"Perhaps those mages' views aren't entirely wrong," the Red Witch sighed, looking at the figure waiting in the darkness ahead.

That person was also hooded, concealed in the darkness; Nalia only knew that the other party was the new leader of the rebels, said to be the leader of a new cult in the mines, whose god they worshiped was called the Many-Faced God.