The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

When Ryan came to the side of the ship, Menia and Reginald walked out of the cabin almost at the same time.

Several people looked into the distance at the same time.

What caught Ryan's eyes was a series of mountains to the lower right of the airship formation. At one of the mountain passes, a large amount of thick smoke was coming out, and a lot of fiery red magma was gushing out from time to time.

As time went by, the smoke from the volcano grew thicker and thicker, like a black wave rushing straight into the sky, instantly dyeing half of the sky black.

"Volcanic eruption?" Reginald frowned slightly.

"No, it's not just a volcanic eruption." Menia shook her head, as if she sensed something.

Ryan narrowed his eyes slightly. He also felt that there seemed to be a huge shadow flashing near the crater.

"hold head high!!!"

At this moment, a huge dragon roar suddenly came from the crater!

This dragon roar seemed to be able to penetrate the limitations of distance, and it actually made the people on the joint airship formation in the air dozens of kilometers away feel their hearts tremble.

Just when everyone was shocked!

"boom!"

A huge fiery red figure jumped out from the crater!

Immediately afterwards, the opponent spread out huge red flesh wings that blocked out the sky and the sun, causing the volcano behind it to erupt hundreds of meters high with magma and black smoke.

"Huh? Is this a fire dragon? Why is its shape so weird?" Ryan was surprised.

It's not like he hasn't seen a fire dragon before; he's even fought one against one.

But compared to the lava dragon 'Hermades' that fled away upon seeing him, the fire dragon in front of him was not only several times larger, but also looked even weirder.

The other party's body surface is not the kind of smooth and dense red dragon scales, but it is mixed with some kind of keratin or red coating, which looks bumpy.

"This should be an ancient fire dragon. It has been sleeping in the volcanic magma for a long time, and it is very likely to have undergone some kind of mutation." Menia naturally also saw the other party's strange appearance and a body length of seventy or eighty meters. Her pretty face became serious and she said.

The strange fire dragon that had just jumped out of the crater glided in the air for a distance, as if it was familiarizing itself with the surrounding environment.

At this moment, its pair of scarlet vertical pupils noticed the mixed formation of Federation and Empire airships not far away.

The strange fire dragon flapped its wings again, let out a loud and provocative roar, and flew rapidly towards the airship formation.

Although the formation consisted of more than 20 airships of different sizes, it was extremely conspicuous.

It's hard not to notice.

But Ryan keenly noticed that the strange fire dragon's red vertical pupils seemed to flash a strange look.

It was a strange look, like a deep desire for something.

"Huh? It seems to be coming straight towards us."

"It's a bit strange. We can tell from the first glance that our mixed airship formation is not to be trifled with."

"Logically speaking, dragon creatures are not stupidly intelligent, and they won't actively fight with enemies of similar strength." Ryan couldn't help but feel a little strange, and lowered his head to think.

After thinking about it, Ryan turned his head to look at the Red Queen Menia beside him. Facing this strange fire dragon that suddenly awakened, he felt that the Federation alone might not be able to resist it.

At this time, Reginald of the Earth Pulse also said in a deep voice: "Your Highness Menia, the strength of this strange fire dragon is very extraordinary. I am afraid it will be difficult for the Federation to deal with it alone."

"No hurry, wait a moment, don't forget, this is federal territory." Menia shook his head and said.

After hearing Menia's words, Ryan immediately understood what he meant and nodded.

Menia's meaning was very clear. This was federal territory, and the fire dragon came at this very moment, not earlier or later. The things hidden in it were very interesting.

Of course, the most important thing is that this incident will allow the Empire to have more initiative in subsequent negotiations with the Federation.

In the relationship between countries, what remains unchanged is interests.

"Report! Your Highness Menia, the Federation has sent a message, hoping that we speed up and leave the battlefield. The Federation airship formation will deal with this fire dragon." A messenger ran to the side of the ship and said.

"Well, speed up." Menia nodded.

After hearing the message from the messenger, Ryan couldn't help but admire Menia's judgment.

As expected of a royal family descendant, Menia has a natural sensitivity to politics.

Unlike the last time, which was a well-planned joint battle, this time it was a sudden event, and as expected, the Federation would try to deal with it on its own.

Ryan was not in a hurry. He turned his eyes to the front and watched how the situation developed.

But he suddenly thought of another thing and smiled bitterly.

"That's not right. If the Federation can't resist and Senator Trena on the flagship is in danger, I still have to take action."

"After all, I just promised Ms. Trena that I would be her guardian knight. I can't go back on my word, right?"

"I thought I was just a figurehead as the Guardian Knight, but I didn't expect that I would be taking real action so soon."

One minute ago.

Captain's room on the giant federal airship.

The sudden appearance of the strange fire dragon in front of him instantly destroyed the good mood of Vice Speaker Bertrand.

“Bang!”

Bertrand slammed the table and shouted angrily: "What is the intelligence department doing!"

"Just when our airship formation passed by, a strange fire dragon revived. Could this be a coincidence?"

"What will this make the Imperial delegation think?"

"If this happens again and again, it will only show that our federation is incompetent!"

"It will put us at a disadvantage in the cooperation negotiations with the Empire!"

The barrage of scolding silenced all the senior generals present, as no one wanted to offend Bertrand at this time.

Especially the general from the intelligence department, his face turned red with shame.

You know, except for strong people like Red Queen Menia, Earth Pulse Reginald and Ryan, most of the imperial delegation are ordinary people. Once the airship is destroyed by this strange fire dragon that suddenly appeared, there is no possibility of survival.

The main thing is that if a large number of the imperial delegation were to suffer casualties within the federation, the impact would be too severe.

"Mr. Vice Speaker, please calm down. I think that we should hold the responsible party accountable later, but we should immediately make battle deployments." The only person who dared to speak up and persuade them at this time was the beautiful congresswoman Trena.

Bertrand's expression eased slightly when he heard Terena's unique mature female voice.

He took a deep breath, calmed down his irritability, and said in a deep voice:

"Lieutenant General Ruiz, you will be in charge of commanding the next battle."

"Make sure to ensure the safety of the Imperial delegation's airship and eliminate the enemy cleanly and efficiently!"

"Yes, sir! Mr. Vice Speaker," the lieutenant general named Ryze immediately saluted.

Although he didn't understand the sudden appearance of the strange fire dragon, he could only do his best.

"The first and second airship formations speed up and block the bombardment horizontally!"

"In addition, please ask Swordmaster Tirion and His Majesty Hernandez to take action immediately and provide support."

“.”

Orders were quickly conveyed from Lieutenant General Ryze's mouth.

I saw two rows of medium-sized airships, five in each row, a total of ten airships. They slightly adjusted their direction and quickly blocked in front of the flank of the mixed formation, facing the attacking strange fire dragon.

Following the order from the commanders of each boat, the fire snakes on the sides extended and retracted, and dense shells poured out like a rainstorm!

But to everyone's surprise, despite the fire dragon's huge size, its flying trajectory was extremely agile.

It quickly adjusted its flying posture and easily avoided most of the shells, but the few shells that hit it failed to even break the protective fire ring on its body.

Suddenly, the strange fire dragon accelerated suddenly, crossed more than a hundred meters at a high speed, and came to a medium-sized airship that was blocking in the front.

The huge and sharp dragon claw grabbed the airbag of the airship fiercely. With just one grab, there was a "swish" sound, and several large cuts were made on the surface of the huge airbag.

The hot air inside suddenly gushed out, and as a result, the airship began to tilt rapidly and fall towards the ground.

The strange fire dragon's attack had not yet ended. Immediately afterwards, it kicked hard, flapped its wings again, turned its head, and spewed out an extremely hot dragon breath towards another medium-sized airship nearby!

"call!!!"

The entire airbag of the airship caught fire, and it fell rapidly at a speed even faster than the previous airship.

In just seven or eight seconds, the enemy destroyed two fully armed medium-sized airships at once, which shows how powerful they are!

at the same time.

Below the volcanic peak.

A group of people are fleeing for their lives.

"Pooh!"

One of them spat out the volcanic ash from his mouth, and while running quickly, he turned his head to ask the bearded burly man who was leading the group.

"General Richmond, this ancient fire dragon named 'Anguskin' is more powerful than we thought! If we had run a little slower just now, we would have been completely buried by the magma."

"Yeah, this is enough to make that crappy delegation from the Empire suffer." Another person echoed.

"Yeah." Richmond looked up and glanced at the two airships burning and falling rapidly in the sky with a smile on his face.

Although he remained reserved in front of his subordinates, he was extremely happy in his heart.

The stronger this ancient fire dragon named 'Anguskin' is, the easier it will be for the Zalal rebels to achieve their plan.

As the joint airship formation passed through this area, it awakened the dormant ancient fire dragon. They had also arranged an insider in the airship formation long ago. Once the ancient fire dragon awakened successfully, it would immediately open the box that sealed the Heart of Fire.

The Heart of Fire is a treasure that has special benefits for fire creatures, and fire dragons are no exception.

Although the ancient fire dragon might launch an attack directly without the need for the Heart of Fire after seeing the airship formation, they took into account that the empire had sent two dragon knights this time, and the induction between the dragons might cause the strange fire dragon to give up the attack.

So, to be on the safe side, they specially arranged the precious Heart of Fire.

In addition, they spent a lot of effort and cost to figure out the specific situation and sleeping location of this ancient fire dragon.

It is said that this is an extremely tyrannical and strange fire dragon in ancient times, named 'Anguskin'. It had a lot of bad deeds in ancient times and disappeared later.

At this time, in the center of the battlefield in the sky.

Suddenly, a light blue water column with a diameter of more than ten meters shot out from a medium-sized airship like a waterfall, shooting at the strange fire dragon. The one who made the move was none other than Hernandez, the powerful federal warrior who had arrived at the end of the Battle of Ghazrian.

"Chi! Chi!"

The strong collision between the water column and the high temperature of the strange fire dragon's body instantly caused steam to fill the area within a hundred meters around.

The strange fire dragon was hit directly by the torrent of water and flew backwards dozens of meters in the air, and suddenly let out a roar!

It had just flapped its wings to adjust its posture and was about to fight back.

Suddenly, a cross sword light dozens of meters long came like lightning under the cover of the diffuse steam!

It turned out that the light blue water column just now was a feint, and the real killer move was the cross sword light.

The one who took action was naturally the Federation Swordmaster Tirion.

"hold head high!!!"

The strange fire dragon immediately roared in pain!

I saw that the Sword Saint Tirion's "Super Divine Cross Slash" cut a cross-shaped gash in its lower abdomen, but the strange thing was that not a drop of blood flowed out of the wound.

"What!" Tirion looked shocked.

He knew very well the power of his own killing move.

The tactics he had just discussed with Hernandez, though simple, were very practical. In theory, it should be able to directly cause heavy damage to this strange fire dragon.

But unexpectedly, the opponent's defense was much stronger than they expected.

Hernandez is a middle-aged man with a mustache and wearing a blue wizard robe. He also whispered, "Oops, the opponent's defense is too strong."

"Besides, now that the other party has become alert, I'm afraid there won't be another chance for a sneak attack like this."

"We must contact the Empire immediately and seek the help of the Dragon Knights."

On the side of the Imperial airship.

Ryan narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at the cross cut on the skin of the strange fire dragon. Soon, he discovered the other party's secret.

The strange appearance of this ancient fire dragon is probably because it has been soaked in magma for many years and has merged with its dragon scales. Now, it has become a special existence similar to "lava armor".

Plus the protective fire ring on its body.

No wonder, even the sword master who was known for his offensive power was unable to achieve complete success with one strike.

At this time, the enraged strange fire dragon circled in the air, staring at the medium-sized airship where Tirion was with its vertical pupils. It did not move closer, but flapped its wings from a distance.

Suddenly, a huge fire tornado over fifty meters high rushed towards the airship where Tirion was!

Faced with such a powerful attack, Tirion had no choice but to dodge in a panic and quickly jumped onto another airship behind him.

"boom!"

The medium-sized airship he was originally on was naturally destroyed by the strange fire dragon!

At this point, the joint tactics of Tirion and Hernandez were completely declared a failure.

The strange fire dragon was angered by the series of attacks from the Federation and began to rampage despite the dense artillery fire from multiple airships.

Sometimes it swooped down and broke the airship in half, and sometimes it swept past quickly and used its sharp claws to break the metal chains of the airship's pod.

In just half a minute, the federal airship fleet lost six medium-sized airships.

On the giant federal airship.

The scene before him made Vice Speaker Bertrand's face so gloomy that water seemed to drip out.

"Mr. Vice Speaker, His Majesty Hernandez and His Majesty Tirion have sent urgent news. The combat power of this strange fire dragon is far beyond their expectations. The two of them are unable to resist it."

"Both Your Excellencies expressed the hope that you can immediately contact the Imperial Dragon Knights for support." A messenger quickly reported.