Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

The border between Andorcia and Testara is very long, and one section is what people on both sides call the barren canyon. This border can be regarded as the most stable one on the entire continent. For hundreds of years, I didn't move because it was too difficult to cross. Without the help of the Dragon Clan, fighting from south to north or from north to south would be a stupid act of self-defeating from a military point of view.

And no country wants to spend effort to fight for such a piece of land where even weeds cannot grow.

There are even more rumors that there are terrible monsters living in the canyon, and they will eat the bones of travelers who inadvertently break into it. Some people say that the reason why people can never return to this canyon is because of the swamp and miasma. The reason, but no matter what, there are indeed very few people who dare to set foot in the canyon.

Saranar didn't lift the invisibility magic on his body until he flew into the canyon.Holding his breath, he passed through the area blocked by the miasma, and then passed over a large swamp, and found a hole in the sky that was not connected to the ground.

There are very few naturally formed caves that can accommodate his size. He can only stuff the black bear weighing more than 200 kilograms in his front paws into the cave, and then transform into a human at the entrance of the cave.

A black dragon not much taller than a human ran towards him, and shouted at him in dragon language while running: "Brother!"

"Lucia, I've brought you something to eat." Sarannar dragged the black bear's body into the cave with one hand.

"Great brother, the prey in the canyon has become less and less recently, and I haven't eaten delicious meat for a long time!" Lucia cheered.

"I've wronged you." Salanar stroked the scales on Lucia's neck. He always felt that his sister should have grown fatter.

Usually dragons only regard dragons born in the same brood as brothers and sisters, and are relatively indifferent to other half-brothers or half-brothers, but Saranar and Lucia are exceptions. The same father gave birth to two litters of offspring, creating such a huge age difference between siblings.

Lucia lost her parents shortly after she was born, and lost her eldest brother a few years later. It can be said that she survived completely under the care of Sarannar.Her respect and love for Sarannar cannot be compared with ordinary brothers and sisters.

"Has Seth hatched?" Saranar was most concerned about this.

"It just hatched yesterday." Lucia happily took him to the depths of the cave. Along the way, several young dragons of different colors greeted Saranar in their own way, and the biggest one had already met Lucia. They are about the same height, and the smallest one is only the size of a puppy. Its tiny wings are drooping limply, and it is obvious that it cannot fly yet.

In the depths of the cave was a nest like a bird's nest, covered with soft animal fur and feathers, in which lay more than a dozen dragon eggs, and a shambling black young dragon.

The arrival of a stranger made the young dragon very nervous. He opened his toothless mouth and tried to make a roar with dragon power, but the cry sounded almost like a kitten. Word?

"Why do you still let him stay with the egg?" Sarannar hugged the panicked little dragon.

"Maybe it's because I feel that my mother is not around, as long as he leaves the nest, he will cry non-stop." My sister said in amazement, "It's strange, why doesn't he cry when you hold him?"

"It's very strange." Salanar looked at the little guy in his arms, and the young dragon raised its golden eyes to look at the human-shaped black dragon, as if realizing that it was his kind.

However, as soon as Sarannar put him outside the nest, the young dragon began to cry unique to the dragon clan, and finally Sarannar had to carry him back to the nest.

Seth the young dragon clings to an egg he knows and refuses to move.

"Maybe I'm worried that my mother won't find him when she comes back." Sarannar touched him appreciatively, "What a smart little guy."

"When can Xuefeng come to see him?" Lucia stretched out her claws to tease Seth, trying to make him let go of the innocent egg, but Seth bit her dissatisfied.

"I will create opportunities for her as soon as possible," Saranal said. "She can't wait to see her children."

Among the three children born to Sarannar's dead brother and the silver dragon Xuefeng, the hatched Seth is a black dragon, and the other two unhatched are silver dragons. Seeing that the little guy is as healthy and strong as his brother was when he was a child , Sarannar felt that all his hard work seemed to have paid off.

Lucia followed Sarannar every step of the way, and said expectantly: "Since my brother is here, can I fly to a farther place to play for a while?"

"I'm afraid not, Lucia." Sarannar sighed, "If you are accidentally seen, it will be very troublesome."

"Oh..." Lucia hung her head in disappointment.

"When you learn invisibility one day, you can play as you like." Sarannar patted her slender neck comfortingly, "How is your Transfiguration practice? Let me see."

Lucia backed away a few steps, turned herself into a cloud of black mist, and the black mist squirmed, taking more than three times longer than the black dragon to condense into a human form.

It was a young and beautiful girl who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. Her skin was whiter than snow, her eyebrows were as far away as Dai, and her golden eyes were so beautiful that she was enchanting. She was wearing a pure white light silk dress, and her appearance was just like that of Sarannar. Standout enough to be memorable.

"The eyes are too big, and the fingers are too thick." Sarannar still picks faults bluntly, "It needs to be improved."

"It's enough to look like a human being." Lucia muttered and complained in human language, "Why do we have to work so hard to cater to human aesthetics?"

"Don't be lazy, making yourself more beautiful will bring you a lot of benefits." Sarannar held the chin of this beautiful girl, carefully studied her face, trying to find out the imperfections, " Those stupid humans will be overwhelmed by your beautiful appearance and will grant you any request, even if they know that under the beautiful appearance is a multi-ton dragon."

"It's just a transfiguration technique. Is it really that useful?" Lucia looked at him innocently with her golden eyes wide open.

"Yes, even those big people who hold real power are no exception. They may not be as stupid as ordinary people, but their thinking and attitude will still be inevitably affected by their appearance, especially the appearance of the opposite sex." Saranal Looking at Lucia's overly simple outfits, "I'll bring you some more beautiful clothes next time. Dressing will also affect people's impression of you."

"Are human beings scary? My brother seems to value their thoughts." Lucia curiously fiddled with her waist-length hair. She didn't know how to deal with this easy-to-tangle thing.

"Humans are not like us. Their bodies are very soft and their strength is very weak. When alone, even the strongest warriors and the most powerful mages among humans, we can easily kill them." Saranar Combing her sister's long hair with her fingers, she said, "But human beings are also very tenacious, with good adaptability and fast reproduction. They can be found in every corner of the world. Our lifestyle is almost the same as that of our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago. However, they have been improving all the time, the future world will definitely be dominated by human beings, not to mention our current predicament, even if we are ten times stronger, we will not be able to kill them all, we can only learn to live in peace with them."

"It must be hard to live with humans, right?" Lucia looked up at him.

"It's not easy." Sarannar sighed softly, "Maybe I haven't done well enough. There is a saying in human beings called 'a big tree attracts the wind'. I thought that showing my strength could frighten them, but in the end My enemies are everywhere, and I don’t know if it’s too late to reverse the situation from now on.”

"It would be great if I could be stronger, so I could help my brother sooner." Lucia twisted her hair and said, "But I have to continue to drag my brother down for many years."

"Don't think so." Saranar said gently, "Since fighting side by side with humans, we have sacrificed more than one-third of our combat members to keep the giant eagle from Andorcia's defense line. For you Having won a safe living space, we racked our brains to deal with those cunning humans, cooperated and calculated each other, and even let Sylvia's two children risk being murdered to attract their attention. In order to protect you and the children, we sacrificed voluntarily because we all know that you are not a burden, but a hope for the future."

Lucia lowered her head: "I understand all these reasons, but sometimes I still think, if... If it weren't for me, my brother wouldn't have to bear such a heavy responsibility, and maybe he could live a happier life."

"I'm also very happy now." Salanar patted Lucia's head—he found that he liked to do this action more and more now, "I don't envy those kin who walk alone and do their own way, they may We can grasp the happiness of the moment, but only those of us who know how to endure will have a future.”

In a blink of an eye, more than a year has passed, the kidnapping of the dragon knight, the theft of the dragon eggs and other incidents have gradually faded out of people's sight, and the peace of the Dragon Peak has returned to the past.

In the depths of the cave of Sarannar, the leader of the Dragon Clan, today's lighting is flickering and dimming, which seems very unstable.

"That's right, just do it and let it continue to shine." Sarannar encouraged Silas, who was sweating profusely, in a gentle tone.

Silas held a crystal on the table with both hands, concentrating on using his meager magic power, trying to keep the light in the crystal.

"The light is too strong, so your magic power will be consumed faster, let it weaken a little." Sarannar instructed.

Silas tried, but the light in the crystal suddenly went out.

"I did my best..." Silas said a little despondently.

"Well, it's only been on for a while, but at least you've managed to make it light up," Sarannar said. "You've learned the basics of magic in just over a year, and you're already pretty amazing. Yes. As a reward, give me a kiss."