Under the Red Dragon

The arrival of summer has made the already dense forest even thicker, with the lush canopy blocking the harsh sunlight from above.

When walking in the particularly shady woods, one must be especially careful, as the accumulated fallen leaves can easily expose one's position, making the predator a target for other, more powerful creatures.

Especially adventurers, who, if prepared, can overturn many powerful creatures.

But if they accidentally encounter some unexpected powerful beasts or ferocious animals, it is often the ordinary adventurers who are overturned.

The group of adventurers in front of them are very adaptable. In order not to startle their target prey, they use grappling hooks made of thick ropes to move on the tall trees like apes that can flexibly leap through the jungle using branches.

Agile adventurers who practice martial arts can be even more flexible than those apes.

These adventurers have set their sights on a magical tiger living in this jungle, a female tiger with two cubs.

This kind of magical tiger is born a ferocious species, and when it grows to adulthood, it naturally possesses the ability to become ferocious.

The fur of this magical tiger is not only gorgeous and exquisite, deeply loved by the nobles, but also a magical material that can carry the power of magical runes, which is also very useful for the mages.

Most importantly, magical tigers are naturally creatures with sufficient spirituality and intelligence, some even smarter than newborn white dragons.

If you catch a cub of a magical tiger, you can sell it to those nobles and merchants who like to use various magical creatures to cultivate pets and knights, which is a business that can make a lot of money.

However, the experienced people among these adventurers know very well that although the mother tiger with cubs in the current lactation period is extremely terrifying, what is even more terrifying is in the dark.

Male magical tigers often hide in the dark, staring at the every move of the female magical tiger and cubs.

If other creatures dare to break into the vicinity of the mother tiger and cubs' habitat, the male magical tiger will directly attack until it kills the opponent, instead of expelling it.

The adventurers carefully observed the surrounding situation. Outside the magical tiger's den, only the mother tiger was lazily lying on the ground.

Two cubs, one biting the mother tiger's ear and the other biting the mother tiger's tail, were playing and frolicking, and there was no trace of the male tiger's activity.

So the adventurer captain gave an order, and several adventurers who were quietly hidden in the canopy using grappling hooks took out the special long blowguns hidden behind their backs, and then began to apply an increased dose of special magic potion to the arrowheads of the blowguns.

This magic potion will quickly dissipate its effect in the air as soon as it sees the wind, but its effect is very strong. A small drop can knock down the largest herbivorous giants on the grassland.

This magic potion is a considerable expense for these adventurers, but if they can successfully capture the prey in front of them, then this expenditure is nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

After applying the magic potion, the adventurers aimed their blowguns at the mother tiger who had not yet sensed the situation. With a whoosh, a faint and imperceptible sound of wind swept past.

The mother tiger's ears had just perked up when she was hit.

This clever mother tiger sensed that the magic potion in her body was taking effect. The epidermis on her body, which grew beautiful magic patterns, lit up, and a power of wind element began to appear and spread on her body.

Roar, a high-pitched and penetrating tiger roar spread far away, startling a flock of birds in the forest, but the mother tiger also fell down in this short moment.

The two tiger cubs scurried into the cave in a panic, but the adventurers ignored them, instead reloading their blowguns and reapplying the magic potion.

Since the mother tiger has sent out a signal, the male tiger, who is not far away in this area, will definitely rush over, so simply knock down the male tiger as well.

Anyway, they are hiding in the trees. If the male tiger does not find them in the first time, he will check the situation of the mother tiger.

At that time, these adventurers can use the same trick again and easily take down this litter of magical tigers.

The rustling sound of passing through the forest came. Even in the state of full sprint, the soft pads under the magical tiger's feet passively reduced its movement during action.

A male tiger with a body length of five meters leaped onto the mound above the den. It vigilantly looked around.

However, after not finding any trace of the enemy, it did not check the fallen mother tiger in the first time, but raised its head and let out a tiger roar that penetrated the mountains and forests.

Roar, that was a warning signal.

The faces of the adventurers hiding in the dense canopy changed, and they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts, "Do even these beasts now live in groups? Or has some kind of change occurred in this forest."

But they didn't dare to expose their tracks casually. If prepared, these ordinary adventurers could easily knock down a magical tiger, but if the other party is prepared, this scene has to be viewed upside down.

They all held their breath and carefully restrained their movements.

Soon, something happened that the adventurers could not understand. The ones who came after hearing the tiger's roar were not other magical tigers, but a group of kobolds and green goblins holding哨箭 (sentry arrows) and various weapons.

This group of kobolds and green goblins first carefully peeked out from behind the tall trees to observe carefully. After discovering that there were no enemies, they rushed out angrily.

What surprised these adventurers was that the male magical tiger did not attack these kobolds and green skins who did not seem to have much combat power, but stood in place leisurely.

The leader of the kobolds is Bagg's nephew, maybe kobolds don't value these ethical relationships.

But after all, he is a relative of the kobold leader, so he can now be a patrol team leader.

The kobold captain carefully checked the traces on the fallen mother tiger, and immediately cursed: "Damn it, it was those humans who did it. Those humans must not have gone far, go find them."

The male magical tiger who was still watching from the sidelines heard the kobold captain's words and roared suddenly. The magic patterns on his body lit up, and a wind blade slashed towards the tall canopy, cutting off the branches.

The male magical tiger, who is sensitive and intelligent, had already discovered those humans hiding in the canopy. The smart one only revealed this fact now.

After all, it is now a magical tiger with a formal establishment, and it no longer needs to rely on its own strength. Smart beasts know how to take advantage of the situation, let alone it is a more intelligent ferocious species.

A unlucky adventurer screamed哇哇 (wawa) and fell down, landed on the thick fallen leaves, and was taken down by the surging kobolds.

"Damn it, you humans really cause us kobolds trouble," the kobold captain cursed and kicked the adventurers who were tied up and kneeling on the ground.

These adventurers all know the laws of living in this land. Although they are currently in a cooperative relationship with the dragon group, the ones they must not provoke are these dependents of the dragons.

Moreover, as the situation in Hobbes, the capital of the Cathay Empire, spread, the terrifying red dragon, the legendary monarch who returned to his territory from the human empire, has re-ruled this land.

These adventurers did not dare to anger the will of the master of this territory at all, so that maybe not only would they have to pay with their lives, but the entire camp would also be in a fate of being destroyed.

Moreover, with kobold bows and arrows pointing at them, they did not dare to resist casually, and could only jump down from the canopy one by one and be tied up.

"This vigilance point is the area responsible by Lord Chiron, I hope he won't be angry about this,"

The kobold captain was also a little uneasy, afraid of being punished by the more powerful dragonborn. After all, this matter is the will of the giant dragon, and it is right to be punished if it is not done well.

And when the powerful dragonborn centaur Chiron learned of this news, his reaction was exactly the same as the kobold captain.

"Damn it, you kobolds will only cause me trouble,"

Chiron was a little angry. These ferocious animals with enough intelligence to communicate are the mouthpieces of the dragons in the forest.

The flying birds in the sky are the eyes of the dragons, and the walking beasts on the ground are the mouthpieces of the dragons.

That is the will from the red dragon, which is the supreme and irresistible command in the eyes of these dragonborn.

Moreover, he and other dragonborn used physical persuasion to bring these magical tigers here, and now they were almost secretly hunted by humans, and it would be terrible if there were loopholes in this vigilance area at that time.

The current human camp and the dragon territory are cooperative parties, and these humans have not crossed the border, but they do not know the recent changes in the dragon territory, and he cannot easily dispose of these humans.

"No, I have to tell Lord Rosani about this and ask Lord Rosani what to do. I hope Lord Rosani won't be angry about this," Chiron thought to himself.