Chapter 277 Scoia'tael and the Red Dragon
"The Red Dragon will naturally not allow too many monsters around its lair, so the Ferenz clan can often enjoy purity. Only this year..." Gabo agreed with Petrit's words. , shook his head.
After getting along for a period of time, Gabo seemed to have figured it out and began to communicate with the Fuchs dwarves in the team. Although not close, they gradually began to have a tacit understanding about some Mahakam customs.
In fact, Petrit still has issues with Zygling, but Gabo is an exception. After all, Gabo made an act that could be called "betraying the clan" in order to prevent Zygrin from massacring Fuchs, which made Petrit feel ashamed of Gabo.
Coupled with Lan's mediation, the relationship between Gabo and Petrit has eased a lot. This was a good start, and the two dwarves were later the leaders of the two clans in Cintra. The easing of their relationship can also make the two clans get along more harmoniously in the future.
At this moment, Gabo was concentrating on explaining, and at the same time looked at Petrit, as if there was another story about the red dragon.
However, he found that something suddenly attracted the attention of Dwarf Fuchs. Not just Petritt, everyone in the team except Gabo looked in the same direction.
In the snow-covered Mahakam Mountains, a rising black barrier suddenly appeared. It was the thick smoke produced by burning materials. A fire of this magnitude could definitely not be caused by just one or two trees being set alight. Even if Lann and the others said that an entire village had burned down, they would have believed it.
Petrit murmured to himself: "There seems to be a black pine forest in that direction. Could it be that it was struck by lightning and caused a forest fire?"
Lann frowned because he found that the direction of the fire was Milva and the others. The direction in which the mark is located. After the flames burned, Milva and Kolgrim suddenly stopped moving.
"We haven't seen much thunder in the recent weather, Petrit."
Gabo shook his head, but he didn't expect that before he finished speaking, a "thunder" explosion echoed in everyone's ears.
"Roar -"
This is not thunder falling from the sky, but a roar coming from the throat of a vicious beast! And in the entire Mahakam, the only one who can have such a huge momentum is the one Petrit was sighing just now - the
red dragon, Kelturis!
"Keturis?" Petrit jumped up, "It finally came to help the Ferenz clan clean up the monsters around it?"
Unlike the excited Petrit, Lann's expression was not optimistic. He looked in the distance towards the direction where the billowing smoke and the roar of the sky-shattering dragon were coming from, and he estimated in his mind that that was where Milva and Kolgrim's marks were.
Something must be wrong.
"I don't think it came out simply to help clean up the monsters." Geralt had the same idea. "The emotion in that roar was wrong...the one at the foot of Mahakam Mountain was wrong too." The next second, Lann
, A bright emerald light radiated from his body, and the [Teleport] skill was activated without any hesitation this time.
"Kolgrim and Milva are in that direction. I'll go check the situation first, and then you can just head towards the place where the fire is." After leaving
these words, Lan disappeared from sight, leaving only two faces looking at each other. of people.
"Speed up," Geralt said. The knights of Sintra and other warriors responded with a roar, and the sound of horse hooves suddenly became as rapid as a storm.
Among the people, only Saskia's expression was different. When she heard the dragon roar, she began to feel unspeakable worry.
——Lan
's vision gradually became clearer, the blazing white spots began to fade from his sight, and the surrounding scenery began to become clearer.
The first thing that filled my ears was the sounds of killing and screaming.
Lann activated [Flash] without hesitation, letting the bright emerald light envelope his body again. The effect attached to the skill made the surrounding time slow down as if it were 0.1 times faster. Although Lann's movements were also slowed down, his thinking was not stagnated.
This allows him to quickly scan the situation on the field and mobilize his thinking to make a response plan.
This time he chose Milva for [Teleportation], and the most eye-catching thing now was the surprised female attendant in front of him. The snake sect demon hunter Kolgrim was not far away from her, and behind him were scattered Cintra soldiers. These highly trained soldiers could not even form a decent formation at the moment.
Trying his best to turn his gaze, Lan also saw a lot of dwarves beside his own people. There are probably hundreds of them, and although some of them have beards, their faces still look a little younger - compared to Gabo and the others - these dwarves are very close to the Cintra people, and some are even moving behind the cavalry team. Shrinking, wanting to seek shelter.
But there are some dwarves who are far away from Lann's team. They seem to be braver and better at fighting, more equipped, and older. And they also have an accessory that Lan is very familiar with - squirrel tails.
Scoia'tael!
These inhuman race guerrillas who are still dormant and causing trouble in the eastern part of the northern country really appeared in Mahakam just as Heileila said!
This Scoia'tael are all very pure dwarves, which may be why they are able to penetrate deep into this mountain range. And they kept a considerable distance from Lan En's team, and there was even a faint confrontation inside.
I don't know if they are enemies, but at least they are definitely not friends.
And Lan still remembered the purpose of coming here: because of the fire that shot straight into the sky and the thundering dragon roar.
This time, before he could turn his gaze, he could already faintly feel his cloak being blown by the hot wind, and the hot waves of fire were about to lick his body.
There are his own soldiers in front of him, and there is no room for dodge. Lan En didn't even turn his body, he just turned his wrist with his palm facing back.
[Alder's Seal·Bearing·Magic Explosion]!
The next second, the scorching flames and the biting cold wind collided fiercely. Lann felt that his magic value continued to drop like diving, while the dragon spraying flames on the other side did not give in.
The air where hot and cold meet is constantly twisting, compressing, and evaporating. The small open space experienced two distinct worlds of ice and fire, and finally at an extreme point -
with a "boom", an explosion occurred!
A huge shock wave swept around, and the confrontation between the flames and the cold wind finally stopped.
Lan En seized the opportunity to apply a layer of [Quen's Seal] on himself, and then flew out upside down. In mid-air, he also pulled Milva to protect her from the frontal damage of the explosion, and finally the two of them crashed into the group of guards behind.
"Lord Lannister!"
Without enough time to respond to the excited shouts of his servants and soldiers, Lan shook his head and jumped up without support. The people on the Cintra side had a backbone after Lann appeared, and the originally loose formation suddenly solidified.
Lann stared at the enemy without squinting: "What's the situation now? Someone come and tell me briefly."
Looking at the young dwarves running around, the Scoia'tael dwarves who were at a distance from the team, and the dragon who was confronting Lan at the moment. With a few small jumps, Kolgrim arrived at Lann's side nimbly and began to explain——...
After
the army was divided into three groups, Kolgrim and Milva immediately came to the Ferenz clan, with a souvenir from the great elder. , they communicated fairly smoothly with Vavznek Ferentz.
They soon joined the dwarf "clean-up" team, and with their rich experience in hunting monsters, they helped the Ferentz clan uproot one monster nest after another.
If things continue to develop like this, Kolgrim and Milva can definitely easily cooperate with the dwarves to successfully clear away the monsters around the [Witch's Lair], and they can start discussing rewards and support when Lann and his party arrive. Problem.
The turning point came not long ago when the traveling dwarves returned home.
Since the young man who had gone out had not yet returned, Kolgrim and others headed to the foot of the mountain under the entrustment of the parents of the dwarf Ferenz. With the keen senses of the witchers, they soon discovered the traces of a large group of dwarves. However, when they discovered these young dwarves, they discovered that there were Scoia'tael beside them.
As a guerrilla force fighting against humanity, the Scoia'tael never had enough manpower. The current racial conflicts in the North are not as severe as those in Lann's memory in later generations. Unless they have direct hatred with humans, most non-human races living in human society still want to live an honest life.
So the Scoia'tael focused on the dwarves who returned home after traveling. Most of these dwarves plan to return to their hometowns because they were bullied in human society. They have a natural rejection and even hatred of human society, and they are a good source of soldiers for the Scoia'tael.
For this purpose, the Scoia'tael sent a large number of dwarf members to sneak into Mahakam. They blocked the roads of the traveling dwarves returning home according to their respective clans, trying to persuade them to join the Scoia'tael before they returned to their gathering place.
Kolgrim met the Ferenz dwarves just as the Scoia'tael had just met them. If they hadn't taken care of these young people who didn't have a faction yet, the Scoia'tael would have probably started fighting with the human side of Cintra.
Now one side wants to bring the wanderers back home, and the other side wants to replenish the army to "resist human tyranny", and the young people of the Ferenz clan themselves are a bit wavering. The two waves of people have been living awkwardly at the foot of the mountain for several days. Squirrel The party also had several conflicts with Kolgrim and the others.
During this process, the Scoia'tael and Cintra teams have been harassed by surrounding monsters, and they can barely cope with it.
Until the red dragon fell from the sky.
...
The story is not short, but Kolgrim speaks very quickly and is good at focusing on key points. He explained the situation clearly to Lan in just a few times.
"So the most urgent situation now is to deal with this dragon." Lann concluded, "But the Scoia'tael must also be on guard."
Kolgrim nodded heavily.
At this time, the giant dragon had also slowed down.
In the confrontation just now, Lann looked a little embarrassed. After all, shock waves of the same size will be affected differently by different body weights. Compared with Lann, who hurriedly met and flew out, the giant beast in front of him just shook its head, just like a human being facing a slightly stronger mountain wind.
Not only did he not suffer any harm, he was even eager to try. The red dragon felt that if it hadn't been for the explosion caused by the extreme heat and cold just now, his dragon flames would have been able to overcome his opponent's cold wind.
Lan took a deep breath. After all, the person in front of him was a dragon, and now he was truly his enemy.
Giant dragons should originally be classified as [remnants]. It is said that they are native species on the mainland and have been living to this day. But because there are too many types of dragons themselves, and some of them are really too powerful, scholars have classified them separately as "dragons". Even monsters that look somewhat similar to them can be classified as [dragon-like creatures].
It is said that giant dragons were once common creatures on the continent. They were considered representatives of magical energy and had ruled the continent many times. In the era when all kinds of monsters were invading the lives and safety of people on the mainland, giant dragons were the worst among them: their dragon flames were the nemesis of the city, and their voracious appetite and insatiable collecting habit were even more of a nightmare for humans.
Some scholars once wrote this when introducing dragons in books: The best strategy when facing a dragon is to pray to all gods. Atheists would be better off escaping first, as they might live a few more heartbeats.
It is rumored that when the warlocks created the demon hunters, their main purpose was to hope that the demon hunters could take on the responsibility of slaying dragons - and what is quite dramatic is that now the inheritance of demon hunters is almost cut off, and the dragons have almost disappeared. .
Nowadays, the number of giant dragons that can be found in the entire north plus the south can be counted on two hands, including all kinds of smaller and inferior goods. Ged had hunted a green dragon in Skellige. According to him, the guy was not much bigger than a horse.
But the dragon in front of him was obviously not the kind of thing that could be easily hunted.
It was lying on the ground with its body bent down, as if its body was bent down like a bunker.
Its pair of dark golden vertical pupils stared at Lann. Even if it had lived for thousands of years, it had never seen a human with such strange power. That kind of spell casting speed can almost equal the strongest known human warlock, but the way it appears is not a warlock's portal.
And looking at this human being who suddenly appeared, he was not dressed as a warlock, but looked like a -
"Demon hunter."
It was as if a big bell was struck in mid-air and condensed into these three words, and every sound in the sound A single vibration can cause the chest and abdomen to tremble at the same frequency, which is uncomfortable. And this sound came from the dragon's throat.
Lan En drew out the Sword of the Lake Lady behind him without giving in, and responded to the other party's greetings with a voice that was calm, steady, but as sharp as a sword:
"Red Dragon!"
(End of Chapter)