Under the Red Dragon

Boom!

The young red dragon, Khediraus, crashed to the earth with his massive body and boiling dragon blood.

The force of his forward momentum and the impact of the fall created a deep, concave pit in the soft forest soil.

Terrifying shockwaves radiated outwards from the center of the pit, like a violent hurricane.

Dirt flew everywhere, and the leaves of the surrounding tall trees shook and rustled.

Several old trees near the pit snapped at their roots, their entire trunks uprooted and toppled outwards as if by a tornado, their thick, broken roots exposed in the loose soil.

Even the mages and gnolls in the camp, farther away from the battlefield of the dragon's impact, felt a gust of wind on their faces, ruffling the mages' long hair and the gnolls' manes.

“Is this the power of a dragon? Even with just its body, it can stand at the pinnacle of the world. No wonder these dragons always look down on mages.” The prideful heart of the high-level mage Luman instantly settled after witnessing this impact.

The gnoll leader, Yugu, had a similar thought. Even with his strength, falling from such a height would only leave him with a chance of surviving by luck.

If he was unlucky, he would enter the abyss on the spot, becoming a toy and war soul weapon of the gnoll king, Yeenoghu.

Not to mention that the young red dragon's massive weight would only amplify the force of the fall, but Khediraus didn't seem to be seriously injured.

The young red dragon Khediraus climbed out of the pit, the scattering dust and smoke unable to conceal his enormous, eighteen-meter-long body.

Streams of fiery, boiling dragon blood sprayed from his back and right ribs, splattering and dripping onto the blackish-gray soil, corroding it and producing a sizzling sound like cold water on hot oil.

Then, under the young dragon's powerful healing ability and muscular control, the wounds on his back and right ribs gradually closed, leaving only a few deep, narrow, blood-white wounds, with only a few drops of dragon blood leaking out.

“Very good, very good, you have successfully angered me, angered the great red dragon Khediraus,” the young red dragon said, his image slightly disheveled.

His wings, like tattered sails, drooped, and scales around several narrow wounds on his body had burst open.

Some parts of his scales had even fallen off, revealing the dragon's bare skin, like a red fish with its scales removed.

But the young red dragon's tone was still arrogant, and the fury of the evil dragon's blood grew fiercer, taking over the red dragon's entire mind.

His blood grew more and more turbulent, and hot steam and a strong smell of sulfur emanated from the young red dragon's scales, enveloping the entire area of the pit in a cloud of heat.

The entire sulfur-colored and scarlet cloud of heat quickly thickened, like some kind of diluted swamp, completely enveloping the area within a hundred meters of the young red dragon.

These clouds of heat were extremely corrosive and hot. Everything they touched was corroded, becoming charred and withered.

Even the soil underfoot turned into dry, scorched earth, as if all the moisture had been drawn out and all the heat had been absorbed.

And the young red dragon Khediraus laughed wildly in the dense cloud of heat, “You ignorant, insignificant dragons, I will no longer hold back, nor will I give you the chance to become my slaves. I've changed my mind.”

“Today, all the dragons must die, as well as those damned mages who deserve to die ten thousand times over. I will burn all of your flesh and blood to ashes and devour your bones, except for those two female dragons, hahaha.”

The wounds on his body gradually began to truly heal under the nourishment of the hot cloud of heat, and the dragon language in his mouth began to chant loudly. The young red dragon, who had awakened his bloodline magic, had decided to disregard his territory and unleash his innate bloodline spell.

The soaring dragon language came from the cloud of heat, the dragon language carrying a peculiar rhythm and cadence.

It was like an echo from an endless corridor of time and space, layer upon layer, yet it was difficult to hear clearly.

The chanted dragon language was like the call of elemental spirits in a dream, and these echoes resonated with a certain rhythm of the world, triggering the resonance of elemental power.

Elemental power began to deviate from its original trajectory in the real world, spontaneously gathering.

The earth began to shake, the loose soil and small stones trembling, and infinite magic power began to be absorbed and gathered in the resonance of the dragon language. An elemental storm was about to gather here.

This was the magical ability that the young red dragon Khediraus had obtained after his transformation into the youth stage, which could trigger and control the magma under the ground to surge upwards.

This power from the world was enough to break through the magic shields released by those high-level mages, completely exposing the bodies of the dragon group in front of the young red dragon.

And the young red dragon could bathe in the sea of magma and fire to obtain energy replenishment and spell enhancement. At that time, the young red dragon was confident that he could tear the dragon group apart one by one.

This was also the reason why the young red dragon Khediraus chose to build his nest here. The underground here contained almost endless geothermal energy and magma, which was the red dragon's favorite nest and battlefield.

However, the only flaw of this spell was that it was too slow to activate. The young red dragon could not control the earth like Kalong. He could only use magic to guide the endless magma and molten flow to break through the thick and solid obstacles of the earth.

But the dragon group obviously would not allow the young red dragon to do as he pleased. Not only was the earth shaking at this time, but the sky was also shaking, the wind was howling, and the air was twisting.

Kalong led the dragon group in a rush, then circled into the sky and turned back again, diving down.

Whoosh!

Bang!

At this time, the dragon group swooped down from the sky, carrying a more terrifying momentum than before. The sharp sound of breaking wind exploded across the entire sky, and one cloud ring after another appeared on the dragons' bodies like exploding clouds.

At this time, under the leadership of Kalong, the dragon group briefly broke through the resistance of the air and the limit of sound in a diving posture. The dragon group was like a falling meteor, cutting through the sky and arriving in an instant.

Upon entering the cloud of heat released by the young red dragon, all the dragons in the dragon group, including Kalong, actually felt a slight sense of stagnation in their rapidly advancing bodies.

Those clouds of heat seemed to have the density of water, able to slightly slow down the impact and speed of the dragon group.

Even the magic shields that enveloped all the dragons, shimmering with magical light, could not completely isolate them.

However, under Kalong's lead, the speed of the dragon group's charge was too fast, and these effects were insignificant.

In the next instant, the dragon group led by Kalong broke through layers of dense clouds and faced the young red dragon Khediraus directly.

“Damn it, how did these guys react so quickly,” the young red dragon Khediraus's throat organs vibrated.

He chanted dragon language magic, and the dragon spewed out a terrifying dragon fire from his mouth, rushing towards the dragon group.

At the same time, the young red dragon lowered his head and braced his horns, his limbs deeply embedded in the soil, his gnarled leg muscles ready to unleash the power of his entire body, and his thick tail charged up, ready to deliver a heavy blow.

Rumble, at this moment the ground trembled, and deep cracks began to appear.

In the deep cracks, endless dark red and golden-yellow intertwined magma and molten flow were about to break through the barrier of the earth's crust and release the power accumulated by the world for many years.

But in the next moment, boundless purgatory suddenly descended with the impact of the dragon group, and the surging heat and flames burned away all the heat and clouds from the young red dragon.

The endless magma was also blocked by the re-healed earth, vainly impacting the thick earth.

This was because the control of elemental power and magic power had been taken away by Kalong's domain and his own bloodline talent. Many of the silence spells of mages had some commonalities.

The dragon group's attack also arrived at this moment, and Kalong, carrying the momentum of falling from the sky, was not afraid of a frontal impact with the young red dragon.

He lowered his head and arched his thick horns to collide head-on with the young red dragon.

Bang!

A heavy crash sounded suddenly, and the magic shield released by the high-level mage and the protection he had added to Kalong shattered instantly.

Then, the thick dragon horns wrapped in mind power and earth power directly broke off the young red dragon Khediraus's horns.

Then, Kalong's thick dragon horns directly pierced into the young red dragon's hard skull, knocking the young red dragon Khediraus's entire body over, like a ball rolling in the air.

The young red dragon in mid-air crossed his head and tail, flying out like the sky was falling.

With a loud bang, Kalong's body also stopped its forward momentum in the impact of the heavy collision, but the dragons behind Kalong had already charged forward.

The female red dragon Kleineria on the left roared angrily, her sharp dragon claws slicing across the young red dragon's scales and then deeply embedding themselves in the young red dragon's body.

The juvenile blue dragon Aketz, on the right wing of the dragon group, pierced his dragon claws into the wound that the young red dragon had previously been scratched, and flew forward with the red dragon Kleineria, grabbing the young red dragon's body.

The juvenile blue dragon Doss and the juvenile green dragon Antajena filled in the gap at this moment, each using sharp dragon claws to tear the young red dragon's wing membrane and then grab the young red dragon's wing bones, working together.

The white dragon Camid and the copper dragon Alfred also rushed up in an instant, flying to the young red dragon Khediraus's back, and eight claws fiercely grabbed into the young red dragon's back in the slowly healing wound.

The claws went deep into the spine, firmly grasping the young red dragon's spine, and flapped their wings.

Only the juvenile black dragon Rosani, the thin black dragon who had originally fallen behind with the white dragon Camid, fell behind with a lewd smile on his face, reaching his claws into the young red dragon's chrysanthemum gate below his tail.

Aohouhouhou!

The young red dragon Khediraus suffered so many attacks in the moment he was knocked away by Kalong, and his whole body was already in excruciating pain, especially when he grabbed his spine, the pain was bone-deep, making a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

But the loss of the chrysanthemum gate made him change color in horror, making a scream.

However, the young red dragon with the spine controlled was no longer able to resist the dragon group's ravages, and even the thick tail that was difficult to swing on the wretched black dragon Rosani only scratched the black dragon's itch.

Whoosh!

The dragons joined forces and lifted the young red dragon into the sky with great effort, and then the blue dragon Doss and the green dragon Antajena broke the small wing bones on the young red dragon's wings, and suddenly shouted.

In an instant, the dragons simultaneously let go, throwing the young red dragon Khediraus from the sky.

Whoosh!

The young red dragon was like a heavy weight, unable to resist, and was no longer able to flap his wings. Like a big cat falling from a tall building, he kicked his feet and fell from the sky, weakly making his miserable cry.

At this moment, the young red dragon Khediraus actually felt a feeling called acrophobia.

Boom!

The young red dragon fell to the earth again, and his huge, tattered body was covered with deep wounds, especially the wounds on his back, which were already deep enough to see the bones, and the white, thick spine was exposed between the blooming flesh and blood.

His huge body spewed boiling dragon blood, staining the entire ground black.

Glug!

The young red dragon Khediraus's eyes were dull, and he was dying in the big pit, and a pungent dragon blood overflowed between his mouth and nose, and a blood bubble popped out between his nose.

Bang, bang, bang!

The dragons landed beside the young red dragon, a little excited. The powerful young red dragon was a difficult existence to defeat in the eyes of these dragons.

But now he was defeated by the dragon group, which undoubtedly greatly boosted the confidence of the dragons and gave them some training.

Kalong also swayed his head with some stars and walked up, standing in front of the young red dragon, overlooking the red dragon Khediraus, who was difficult to move for a while.

And those high-level mages who had firmly fixed themselves on the copper dragon Alfred with magic, including the squinting mage Hughser, were all pale and horrified, jumping off the dragon's back, and then vomiting wildly.

The squinting mage Hughser vomited out his breakfast while weakly saying: "Damn it, how can mortals have the beautiful dream of becoming a dragon knight? I (very dirty) don't want to ride on a giant dragon anymore. If there is a next time, I, Hughser, will be raised by goblins!"

But no dragon cared about those mages. The black dragon Rosani stepped forward, smiled, and then patted the young red dragon's head with his front paws.

Then he smeared the filth on his claws on the young red dragon's head and smiled: "Hey, why are you not rampant, young red dragon, tsk tsk, great. I also wanted to kill all the dragons in the dragon group, but there are more noble existences in the dragon group than you!"

The white dragon Camid learned Kalong's usual way of thinking, with a thoughtful look on his face, and gave the young red dragon Khediraus a definition. He looked up at the sun in the sky and said deeply: "Well, this is an ignorant fool, not even qualified to carry Kalong's claws!"

The copper dragon Alfred also sighed: "It's still good to be in the dragon group. If I were a single dragon facing this young red dragon, I would definitely run away without thinking about it, hey."

Copper dragons and yellow dragons are slightly different among metal dragons. Although they can also be raised by their elders, they are not as united as other metal dragons. Fighting also depends on their respective dragon vein circles, and they are not as closely connected as the dragon group.

“Kalong, what should we do with him? This young red dragon said before that he wanted to kill us. It seems that he didn't have any good intentions in the first place.”

The white dragon Germot walked to Kalong's side. The white dragon's way of thinking has deviated from those chaotic five-color dragons, and he thought about how to deal with the aftermath as soon as the event ended.

"We should just kill him directly. He wants to invade the dragon territory, kill dragons, and enslave them. Even if we kill him, the other dragons won't trouble us," the female red dragon Klynea said, her temper as fiery as ever.

It wasn't just that the young red dragon wanted to invade their territory; his words implied he wanted to treat her and the green dragon Antagena as toys.

As a red dragon, she knew these fellow dragons' nature all too well.

Not every red dragon was like Caron, able to control the chaos and desires of the corrupted dragon blood. Even Klynea, who had embarked on reviving the bloodline of her predecessors, couldn't do it.

The green dragon Antagena also agreed with Klynea's opinion. She furrowed her brow, her beautiful fine scales resembling green jade, and habitually moved closer to Caron, like a chick hiding under a rooster's wing.

While looking at the quiet Caron with an ingratiating gaze, she said with a hint of disgust, "Caron, my king, you must not spare this detestable red dragon. This chaotic and overestimating fellow will bring a lot of trouble to the dragonkin."

Caron was thinking. Of course, he wouldn't spare this young red dragon.

Letting go of an enemy with great growth potential was something no sane person would do, but he didn't want to kill the young red dragon directly either.

In his opinion, the decline of dragons in various planes wasn't just due to the hunting by other races; excessive infighting was also a major reason for the dragon race's downfall.

He didn't want his dragonkin to fall into this situation. Most importantly, he wanted to squeeze out every last bit of value from this young red dragon. Directly killing a dragon was, in Caron's mind, a huge waste, considering his resource utilization perfectionism.

Even sending this young red dragon to the dwarven artisan Kragon as a wind blower or flamethrower would be better than directly killing him.

Moreover, he thought he could use the corrupted dragon blood of this red dragon to cultivate some dragonspawn and turn him into a dragon-shaped machine for creating dragonspawn. Although his own dragon blood would create more loyal dragonspawn, Caron wasn't worried about rebellion.

Not to mention that the psionic energy, born from the connection between Caron's mind and flesh, allowed him to perceive the general and simple emotional activity of all beings around him.

Just Caron's own growth speed could suppress all congenitally deficient dragonspawn, preventing them from having any other thoughts.

As for the rest, it would just take time for ideological education. Anyway, this was a measure that the territory would have to implement in the future.

The blue dragon Dos saw Caron's thoughts. From a young age, the blue dragon had understood the red dragon's personality very well. Dos stepped forward, "Caron, how about we bring this young dragon back, forge an indestructible chain, lock him up, and then have him guard the dragonkin's treasure vault?"

The blue dragon Dos's large pupils flashed with the wickedness of a dragon. He laughed, "Let this red dragon look at the treasure vault every day but not be able to touch it. He wouldn't want other creatures to be able to touch the dragonkin's treasure vault."

For dragons, this was indeed an extremely serious punishment.

Looking at the treasure vault in front of them but not being able to possess it was a torment. This red dragon might even be driven mad by such torment.

Caron couldn't help but be amazed by the blue dragon's idea. 'You dragons always manage to come up with new tricks for me.'

But Caron felt that this wasn't foolproof. An indestructible chain wasn't truly indestructible. He was thinking about how to safely utilize this young red dragon.

At this time, the gnoll chieftain Yug came with all the gnolls to pay their respects to the dragons, and the mages also ran over under the leadership of the high mage Luman.

The high mage Luman wore a mournful face. Seeing the dragons was like seeing his own family.

He grabbed Caron's thick forelimb and cried, "Lord Caron, Lord Caron, you must make this detestable red dragon release the contract on me! I, Luman, have contributed to the dragonkin, shed… shed sweat for the dragonkin!"

It was fortunate that Caron didn't know the high mage Luman's previous thoughts, otherwise he might have couldn't help but retort, 'Why the sudden change of attitude?' But he still pushed the high mage's body away with a look of disgust.

But it wasn't surprising that the high mage Luman was so humble. This kind of enslavement magic originating from the bloodline couldn't be解除even by a Saint-level mage.

Unless Luman's entire core bloodline was extracted and replaced with a new body.

Or unless a bloodline nobler than the corrupted dragon blood in the dragons was found to replace Luman's bloodline, washing away the contract from the depths of his bloodline.

But such an act could probably only be done by gods and some extremely terrifying legendary figures. Although the high mage Luman was high and mighty among ordinary humans and could be considered a genius,

he couldn't even see the feet of these terrifying legends, even if he looked up to them.

"What contract? Let me see," Caron concentrated and looked at the high mage Luman.

A lifelike dragon horn mark, as if naturally grown in the flesh, was engraved on the high mage's forehead, just like the mean nobles engraved slave marks on the most conspicuous parts of slaves' bodies.

"Oh, isn't this the enslavement contract spell that only exists in the white dragon inheritance?" The white dragon Gemott brought its small head closer, its white scales covered with a faint layer of cold air, the white frost scales gradually transforming into the appearance of ice cubes.

Hearing this, Caron glanced at the young red dragon lying on the ground slowly recovering. The inheritances of the five-colored dragons were not connected to each other; they were all knowledge engraved in the bloodline by their predecessors.

And the white dragon's inheritance spell appearing on the body of a dragon of another color was possible in two cases, but only one case for a red dragon.

That was that the young red dragon's predecessor had killed a white dragon with this inheritance spell and then plundered the spell into its own hands.

As for the other situation, it would never happen, that was that the red dragon had combined with the white dragon, and the young red dragon was a hybrid of a red dragon and a white dragon.

But Caron could sense the pure red dragon bloodline of this young red dragon.

Moreover, the proud red dragons, even during their heat, would only treat white dragons as toys and would never let a dragon of an inferior dragon species in the eyes of the red dragons give birth to their offspring.

As for the white dragon forcing itself on the red dragon, well, it wasn't impossible. Caron's dragon claw touched his chin, and several white dragons with 'great reputations' in the endless star realm appeared in his mind.

But this spell solved Caron's problem. He temporarily ignored the high mage's cries and patted the young red dragon lying on the ground with his dragon claw.

"Stop pretending to be dead. If you dare to pretend to be dead again, I'll kill you," Caron said in a rather indifferent tone.

He knew that although the young red dragon's injuries were very severe, the dragon's vitality was not so fragile.

Moreover, the dragonkin hadn't caused any fatal damage to the young red dragon, only crippling his mobility.

Hearing this, the young red dragon Kedyros turned over in one clean roll and barely squatted up. Although his spine was exposed, it was not broken, so he could still control his body.

"What kind of monster are you? You are definitely not a red dragon. If it weren't for your domain suppression, I would never have lost so miserably," The young red dragon Kedyros was now completely without the arrogant aura he had before. Instead, he seemed to have lost confidence after being beaten.

"Even those red dragons who have grown to adulthood may not necessarily have their own domain abilities. You are just a juvenile dragon, why do you have a domain? Are you a bloodline left by the Dragon God in Akania?"

The young red dragon Kedyros widened his eyes. He was confident that he was a red dragon with outstanding talent, but he couldn't even touch the edge of the domain when he reached his youth. On the contrary, this juvenile red dragon already had his own domain.

Caron's huge head shook slightly. He was too lazy to answer the young red dragon's question, and too lazy to ask the other party's name. He just said coldly, "Hand over the knowledge of that spell, Dragon's Grace."

"Damn it, you should respect the noble red dragon," The young red dragon Kedyros was angered by Caron's condescending tone and couldn't help but roar.

Bang,

The little female dragon Klynea's slender tail swept over like a heavy siege hammer, knocking the young red dragon Kedyros to the ground, and then Klynea's thick dragon claw stepped on the young red dragon's head that had fallen into the dust.

The female dragon showed her fangs, and two puffs of sparks spewed out from between her nostrils. The dragon claw under her feet pressed hard on the young red dragon's head, and she roared in a low voice: "Watch your words, you stupid fellow. Caron is ten thousand times more noble than you. Don't let me have the idea of crushing your head again."

In the end, Caron, like a gentleman, only needed to speak and did not act, and obtained this spell that made him quite excited.

With this spell, if he encounters some stubborn dragons or dragons without the same interests in the future, he will have a proper way to deal with them, and he will not need to be stained with too much dragon blood.

He doesn't want to have things like dragon slaying aura or dragon slaying prestige on his body.

The young red dragon Kedyros was dragged back to the Dragon Nest by the dragonkin like a dead dog. Originally, these dragons were going to fly back with the young red dragon, but because there were no treasures accumulated in the young red dragon's lair.

It was also because the dragonkin were too used to the life of a lord dragon. They never thought that these wandering solitary dragons could survive safely and develop all day long. How could they have the opportunity to accumulate treasures?

So the young red dragon was dragged back by the disappointed dragonkin, holding his tail.

Along the way, there were dragons cursing and mocking the young red dragon for being a poor ghost dragon, among which the copper dragon Alfred cursed the most fiercely.

It was not easy to experience the first dragonkin loot sharing process, but he was greatly disappointed.

The copper dragon who likes to tell stories is quite a cultured dragon in the dragonkin. Various folk slang emerges one after another.

Unlike the white dragon Camide, who only repeats those few words: poor ghost, idiot, eyes are growing in the big butt.

Caron followed behind the dragonkin, and the sub-brain cluster continuously analyzed the model and the principle information of the Dragon's Grace spell. He had to master this spell as soon as possible, not necessarily proficiently, just need to be able to use it.

Then he can bring the young red dragon under complete control. In this way, he can safely pass through the plane portal with the mages and start his exploration and looting journey without any worries.