Chapter 285 Red Dragon, you don’t want your child either…
No one knows about the Scoia’tael’s conspiracy, or it may be “no one knows”.
Lann stayed in the Ferentz clan for a long time, letting his subordinates complete tasks and gain experience. It's just that the experience he needs to level up now can't be gathered in a short time by relying on side experience and demon hunting missions.
When the experience bar was about three-quarters full, he knew it was time to go up the mountain. Because according to Saskia, the red dragon Kelturis also suffered serious injuries. After so many days, either the opponent has recovered from his injuries and is about to escape, or he is seriously injured and is about to die. Anyway, he has arrived at Lan Well, I have to go to the point where I have to meet the other person once.
Lann decided to follow the advice of professionals when it came to professional matters.
This time Lann went up the mountain without bringing anyone else except the Ice Giant and Saskia. If the dragon really recovers from its injuries, a monster that can fly and breathe fire in a wide area will be much more deadly to ordinary people than an ice giant. Lann does not want his soldiers to do such unnecessary things. Casualties occur.
At this time, Lann and Saskia stood on the shoulders of the ice giant, one on the left and one on the right. It felt like they were stepping on a moving fortress. Not only was the rugged mountain road as smooth as walking on the ground, but for the first time in his history, Lann did not encounter any foraging or frantic monsters on the road, and the journey was so peaceful that it was so peaceful.
Soon, the snow that can be seen everywhere in the Mahakam Mountains gradually disappeared, and the mountain road ahead began to reveal the hard-colored rocks below; then the surrounding temperature gradually increased, and it began to change from late winter to early spring.
The northern hill of the Witch's Lair is the lair of the red dragon Kelturis, which is an extinct volcano. Before the red dragons nested here, it was a natural forge used by the Ferentz clan to forge iron.
As the surrounding temperature rises, we get closer to the red dragon's lair; at the same time, there are also many burnt and half-burnt corpses of monsters around. These are what Chief Wavzinek said was killed by them. Lure the monsters that come to besiege the red dragon. Obviously, even if the red dragon loses most of its strength due to the drug, it still retains its fire-breathing ability.
And as the heavy footsteps of the ice giant passed through the mountains, the red dragon deep in the mountains also noticed the movements of outsiders.
"Ouch!!"
A sound like the roar of an ancient bell echoed across the valley. If it were an ordinary monster, it would definitely turn around and run away at this moment, frightened by the aura of the apex predator among them.
But the Ice Giant would not coddle this large lizard with wings. After looking sideways at Lan and showing no intention to stop him, the Ice Giant seemed to be inspired, like a huge bellows that began to inhale.
Lan En's body suddenly flashed with bright emerald light spots, and in a flash of golden light he appeared twenty steps away from the ice giant. The next second -
"Me! God!!"
It was as if someone had set up a giant in the mountains. The sonic cannon and the invisible wind waves spread out in all directions with the roar of the ice giant. Even the dust and fine rocks in the mountains were wrapped together, and they fled away into the distance as if they couldn't bear the deafening sound.
Although Lan ran to the side and blocked his ears, Saskia was still on the shoulders of the ice giant. She picked her ears like no one else, then took a breath and let out her own roar in response to the ice giant's roar.
"Roar—"
The gryphon badge on his chest trembled slightly. Saskia still maintains her body, obviously using magic to simulate the roar of her own body, but the majesty of the dragon contained in that voice has not diminished at all. After the roars of two dragons and one giant rang out one after another in the mountains, the surroundings became strangely quiet, and even the wind stopped making noise.
In the midst of the rustling, Lann's sharp demon hunter senses saw a few black spots rising and falling in the distance. Those underground monsters with wings or no wings, running on the ground, all panicked at this moment and hurriedly moved away. This mountain range.
After the sound waves and wind waves raised by the duo disappeared, Lann's golden light flashed back to the ice giant's shoulder and looked at Saskia.
The little dragon girl seemed to be thinking about something. After noticing Lan's gaze, she said hesitantly: "Kerturis is indeed injured, and his voice feels very weak. But there are some other emotions in it... I'm not good. To judge, perhaps you have to see it before you can be sure."
The one who knows dragons best is indeed the dragon.
It is estimated that the red dragon Kelturis could not tell from the footsteps that the person coming was an ice giant, so he roared and threatened. Not only did his physical condition become exposed now, it also made it easier for Lann and others to pinpoint the location of the nest.
It didn't make any sound after that. But Lann and others followed the clues and found a crater that was constantly emitting scalding heat waves. The ice giant frowned slightly at such an environment, but did not show any obvious discomfort. After all, although they live in snow-capped mountains, ice giants are also flesh and blood with biological structure. In some extremely cold times, they will even hide in the natural hot springs in the mountains to spend the winter. They are not the kind of people who encounter heat and fire. Elemental constitution like natural enemies.
...
At this moment, bursts of suppressed roars came from the cave, and Lan could taste the pain even without Saskia's translation.
Saskia's expression suddenly changed. When the ice giant was rumbling forward, she suddenly jumped off the giant's shoulder and stood in front of Lan. She hesitated for a while and then said: "Lan, can you
wait for me here for a while? , I will go in and negotiate with Kelturis first."
Lann frowned slightly.
At this moment, the suppressed roar deep in the cave suddenly lifted up and became more and more painful.
Lan seemed to understand something and nodded towards Saskia.
A burst of golden light enveloped the dragon girl's human-shaped body, and the ten-meter-long golden-green dragon body reappeared in the underground tunnel as the light extended.
"Ouch--" Saskia roared tentatively toward the depths of the cave, and an even more angry response soon came from inside. But Saskia was not discouraged, and after repeatedly responding with a friendly and undisguised voice several times, she finally softened the voice inside.
Then I saw the green dragon's wings stretched out, but they couldn't spread their wings inside the cave. Saskia used the force of the wind to run quickly, "rumbling" all the way into the depths of the ground with a momentum greater than the ice giant. It was obvious that he was extremely anxious inside.
Then, the red dragon no longer suppressed its painful roar, and rumbling vibrations quickly reverberated and spread in the spacious cave. Lann couldn't even bear the sound and felt his eardrums hurt, so he had no choice but to find a pair of earplugs from the inventory and put them on himself.
"My god?" After seeing Lan's strange movements, the ice giant made a curious voice.
Lann ignored the moving big man and waited until the roar echoing in the cave gradually became lower and disappeared before he signaled the ice giant to continue moving forward.
The cave soon came to the end, and a suddenly clear platform appeared in front of him. Different from the ordinary "nest", it looks more like the "residence" of a giant creature. Although there are no furnishings or sculptures similar to furniture, you can feel that the entire cave has an architectural and decorative style that is very different from human and elven civilizations but is harmonious and self-consistent.
The dragon is the ancient ruler of the continent. It is an intelligent creature and a non-human race. It is different from ordinary monsters.
And not surprisingly, Lan also saw a large amount of gold and silver jewelry inside, which Kelturis had found himself, and others had "contributed" to it.
Saskia has now returned to her human form and is standing next to Kelturis, looking at the red dragon with worried eyes. The clothes she wore when she arrived had already been turned into pieces when she transformed into a dragon. At this moment, she randomly found a set of armor that should be a collectible and put it on her body.
The red dragon huddled in the corner panting, and it no longer had any hostility towards Saskia. It looked miserable at the moment. It had not fully recovered from the injuries caused by the Ice Giant. Judging from its exposed head, none of the broken and broken scales and bone spurs had grown back, and even some of them had not grown back. Some are still embedded in the flesh and blood and have not been removed.
After feeling the movement of Lann and the ice giant, it weakly raised its head and said intermittently:
"Human... look at it. Look at Mahakam, look at those dwarves, look at the relationship between you and your giants. What I do..."
...
Although the dragon's body is huge, it is not the most eye-catching thing in the cave.
But dragon eggs, four dragon eggs.
The red dragon used all its strength to curl up into a ring, with four dragon eggs wrapped in its middle. Four strange gemstones with the color of volcanic lava were placed under a dragon egg to hold them up, emitting a faint red light to reflect the color of the dragon egg.
A dull, unpleasant color.
These eggs were about the height of an average dwarf, but their shells were pitted and unevenly thick. In some places, you can even directly see the organic fiber membrane inside the eggshell, as well as the jumping dragon larvae inside the membrane.
These dragon eggs were separated from the mother's body before they were even formed. This is what Kelturis calls "what Mahakam, dwarves, rann, and giants do."
The huge amount of abortion potion mixed in the tributes of the Ferenzi clan, the large number of monsters lured up the mountain by the dwarves, the violent movements of the dragon during pregnancy, and the fatal beating of the ice giant. This series of actions finally made Red Ronkerturis had a miscarriage and gave birth to these four underdeveloped eggs.
While Red Dragon and Lan En were talking, the beating larvae inside one of the dragon eggs suddenly lost its movement, and even the color of the exposed fiber membrane dimmed.
The red dragon couldn't help but let out a scream, causing the entire cave to tremble slightly.
Faced with this touching scene, Lan's expression remained unchanged.
"Don't complain to me, red dragon. The only people who will sympathize with your current situation are your own kind, or other monsters who have no regard for human life." Lann shook his head, "I fight with you to get rid of your claws and I rescued my companions from the flames; and the dwarves plotted against you to avenge the countless compatriots who died under your hands and release the anger that you have oppressed and oppressed for centuries." "Your end will not be the same
. It is worthy of sympathy, and can even be said to be natural."
Saskia glanced at Lann, but hesitated to speak. But having received a good education, she also knew that Lan En's words were correct.
"You brought my compatriots, who are not very smart... but are still kind-hearted little green dragons." Kelturis glanced at Saskia. Although he sneered at the little dragon girl's ideas, it was obvious that Saskia had just been killed. Kia helped it when it was in pain and gained its favor.
"Then why did you come here, human? To laugh at me like a winner? To take over my treasures all over the ground, or to take my life in response to the orders of those little men?" Lann chuckled
. Shaking his head: "Stop provoking with words. The dwarf cannot 'order' me. And since I brought Saskia here and allowed her to help you, you should know that I am not here to take your life." "
Unless...you really don't know how to appreciate someone."
After Lann finished speaking, the ice giant behind him also hit his chest very cooperatively. Immediately, a huge amount of magic wave spread on his body, and the oak bracelet stretched in his palm, and within two breaths, it turned into a long, knotted stick exuding a metallic color.
The red dragon's pupils shrank when he saw it. The stick hitting his head was definitely more boring than the ice giant's fist.
It glanced sadly at its four dragon eggs. Just as they were talking, the larvae in another dragon egg stopped beating. Although it had not completely lost the breath of life, it was obviously no longer visible to the naked eye. Able to hatch.
No, in other words, these four eggs are definitely incapable of hatching just by looking at their appearance. It's just that the red dragon still protects them with its strong maternal nature.
In many literary and artistic works, giant dragons have a strong "barbaric" color, including a disregard for the lives of future generations, but this is not the case. As mentioned before, the dragon once had a civilization that ruled the continent, and the more advanced the civilization, the higher the level of ethics and morality. The care of future generations is the top priority of these ethics and morals.
"If you don't want to kill me, then you are working as a lobbyist for those dwarves and want to talk? Do you want me to leave Mahakam?" The red dragon's scaly face showed a very humane and mocking smile, "But you see Look at my children, do you think there is anything else to talk about between us?"
"Humans, children of ancient blood. If you and your giants don't kill me now, then when my children... have the result, no matter what Regardless of the outcome, I will turn Mahakam into a sea of fire." Kelturis stared at Lann, "A dragon never breaks its promise."
Lann nodded solemnly: "I understand."
"But your guess is Wrong, I am not here today for the dwarves, but on behalf of myself and the country behind me to discuss the terms of your surrender to me." "
Surrender? Terms?" The red dragon's vertical pupils almost shrank into a slit. .
"That's right." Lann nodded, "You attacked my soldiers. As their sworn lord, I have the obligation to protect them and kill you. But now you obviously have no power to resist, and you have become My prisoner. According to our human laws, you need to sign a ransom clause and pay a ransom in exchange for your life."
Lann's words were like lighting a barrel of explosives.
"Captive? No power? In exchange for life?" Every time the red dragon uttered a word, his momentum became more explosive, "Humans, do you know who you are talking to? The achievements of stealing the continent have allowed you to support a country with a strength different from yours." Matching arrogance! You should know what a dragon is!"
The heat wave of wind pressure came towards you. If it hadn't been for the few almost dead eggs, the red dragon would have dragged its seriously injured body up to fight Lann to the death. .
But Lann took his time and showed no reaction in the face of danger. Not only his trust in the Ice Giant and Saskia, but also his confidence in the conditions he will give next.
"Of course, the terms are mutual. The ransom you have to pay includes the clause that you will serve Cintra for the rest of your life." "The
obligations I will perform towards you include the clause of 'rescuing your children. 'This item."
(End of chapter)