Under the Red Dragon

The gnoll chieftain, Yugu, received a message from a flying bird, informing him of the Red Dragon's summons. He immediately led the warriors patrolling the territory back without stopping.

Eager to prove his worth and ability, he led his strongest warriors on constant raids during the tribe's rest periods from cultivating the wasteland.

His activities extended beyond the southernmost Bay Stream City, though closer to the coast.

Many of the troll slaves building the dragon's castle in the mountains were acquired thanks to him.

Several smaller ogre tribes were also conquered by Yugu, this highly aggressive individual, and sent back as slaves.

Karon had also been watching Yugu's performance.

In his view, it was good for his subordinates to have ambition. The most important thing was whether the person had the ability to create value for him.

Now, Yugu's opportunity had arrived. Karon decided to send Yugu to the Greenwild Forest plane to establish an outpost and investigate the situation.

Within the territory, the other vassals, led by the powerful dragon-descendant centaur Chiron, were currently the strongest troops under the dragon.

Their combat power was superior to that of the gnolls, and they were accustomed to living and fighting in the forest, their excellent archery skills rivaling even those of the elves.

However, Karon did not plan to deploy the centaur warriors. On one hand, the territory needed these loyal warriors to guard it.

The loyalty of these warriors had already been proven, and Karon trusted these centaurs even more than the kobolds.

On the other hand, the newly subdued gnoll vassals were inherently aggressive. Karon believed these fellows needed to shed blood and expend their bodies for the territory to better integrate into it.

After all, fighting for a specific goal would make these guys more likely to develop a sense of belonging to the territory.

Rather than currently being forced into the territory due to the dragon's frightening power and strength.

This also aligned with Karon's principle of employing talent. You are highly aggressive, very good, I will give you a chance to invade another world.

Someone like the Bronze Dragon Alina, who preferred to govern the territory, Karon would not send Alina to the battlefield, even during the upcoming hunt for the unidentified wandering red dragon outside the territory.

Karon did not believe anyone was omnipotent. Even gods, as great as the Platinum Dragon God Bahamut, had things they could not do.

But for a ruler, as long as they made the best use of their people, they could be considered an excellent ruler.

Karon would not easily trust the mage Xiu Si'er's words just because of their previous relatively harmonious cooperation.

Moreover, endless years had passed, and no one knew what changes might have occurred in the Greenwild Forest. He would not rashly step into the Greenwild Forest without intelligence.

Yugu and his warriors, after running dozens of dire wolves to death, finally arrived at the foot of the mountains.

At this time, two more dragon nests were being built on the summit of the mountains. The Copper Dragon Alfred and the Bronze Dragon Alina were demonstrating their worth to win the recognition of the dragon group.

With the improved papermaking and printing techniques brought by the mage Xiu Si'er, the golden city's administrator, Fafna, had already publicly recruited artisans in the golden city.

Paper mills and printing workshops had gradually been set up, currently prioritizing Alfred's propaganda efforts.

Alfred had also organized and revised the stories told by Karon. The first batch of story novels had already begun to be printed.

They were being promoted through the golden city's channels and were intended to be distributed and sold by the merchant groups to other human kingdoms.

In this situation, Alfred had little time to build his ideal dragon nest, only selecting his mountain and residing next to the Bronze Dragon Alina's dragon nest.

The Bronze Dragon Alina was a workaholic, not only leading the pioneer corps in reclaiming wasteland and building cities in Bay Stream Land, but also taking the time to build her own nest.

Under Alina's diligence, the mountain she selected resembled a mountain pillar. The tip had been flattened, and the entire flat top of the mountain had been excavated into a huge, deep pit, like a huge, deep lake.

The Bronze Dragon Alina planned to wait until the entire lake nest was filled with rainwater before making the final modifications.

Now, there was a third waterfall cascading from the summit in the mountains, also a beautiful scenic line in the mountains.

Now, not only did the dragons' vassals like to come to the pool formed by the falling waterfall at the foot of the mountain in the afternoon to rest and play, but also many adventurers who had heard of the fame of the golden city came here to watch.

The Green Dragon Anta Gena, who was calculating every penny, had already planned to charge those who came to watch, but fortunately was stopped by the White Dragon Gremott.

The White Dragon Gremott did not like the Dragon Nest becoming like a circus. Free viewing was fine, only needing the forbidden army to guard the steps to climb the mountain.

"Stop, gnoll, only you can go up to the Dragon Lord's summons,"

The tall forbidden army, clad in full refined iron armor, like a tin can, stopped the gnoll team. The red cloak and the armor attracted all the attention of this group of gnolls.

The gnoll Yugu's unique talent and tall body were only average in front of the forbidden army. Saliva almost dripped from the corners of his mouth, like other dirty gnolls, greedily watching the fully armed forbidden army warriors in front of him.

"These are the fucking elite warriors. The warriors in the tribe are like goblins picking up scraps compared to these warriors,"

The gnoll Yugu had envious thoughts in his mind. He told his warriors to stay where they were and wait, while he excitedly went to the high mountain.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, the gnoll Yugu saw an unexpected figure, a short and thin green-skinned goblin listening to instructions in front of the tall red dragon.

In the eyes of the gnoll Yugu, these goblins were not as good as the strong cubs in the gnoll tribe in combat power. Besides yelling and rushing up in a swarm during battle and then dispersing in a swarm, there was no other use.

In the past, the gnoll tribes regarded this kind of creature as spare food.

The green-skinned goblin in front of him could actually receive the dragon's personal audience, which made him curious. He respectfully stood aside and pricked up his ears to listen to the dragon's instructions.

"Your most important task at present is to find a foothold in various kingdoms, establish branches of the merchant group, and collect and summarize their intelligence while establishing trade relations with other kingdoms. You don't need to be responsible for these things, just hand over the intelligence you hear to the intelligence负责人,"

Karon looked at the thin goblin in front of him. This goblin was called Shan Shan, Jin Guang Shan Shan's Shan Shan.

He was currently the most business-savvy goblin talent in the goblin tribe, and was also the temporary person in charge of Karon's preparations for establishing a merchant group belonging to the dragon.

As for whether he could be promoted to a full-time position, it would depend on the goblin Shan Shan's own ability and performance.

"Your merchant group doesn't need to deliberately inquire about intelligence. Remember, never actively expose your intentions, just let it happen naturally. The most important goal of the merchant group is to earn profits and develop trade relations for the dragon,"

Karon pondered for a moment, and then added: "Remember to go to Alfred before you leave and communicate with him about the agreed time, and then allocate a portion of resources to establish a store specializing in selling books. I want your dragon's bookstores to exist in all cities and towns in those human kingdoms. This matter, you can disregard losses!"

The goblin Shan Shan's eyes, shining with shrewdness, turned around and boldly patted his bone-revealing chest to guarantee: "Don't worry, my lord, I, Shan Shan, can't do anything else, but I can make money. I will definitely not let the dragon's bookstore suffer losses. This is my lord's order, I, Shan Shan, will definitely make it shine like a gold coin!"

Karon's lips curled up at the goblin Shan Shan's somewhat incoherent words. Having been in contact with humans a lot, he preferred to deal with these crude and direct monsters. At least he didn't need to use his brain to guess the other party's thoughts.

Speaking of which, humans were simply more contradictory and complex than all the creatures in the world. Once humans stopped acting like humans, the devils in purgatory and the demons in the abyss would also marvel and admit defeat.

But among humans, souls as pure and holy as light could also be born. They were saints that other races admired, and they were also the favorite souls of all believing gods.

"Very good, I am very optimistic about you, goblin Shan Shan, I remember your name, I hope your ability is as you say, then you will get the reward you deserve,"

The huge red dragon deliberately restrained his voice, fearing that he would blow the thin goblin Shan Shan directly off the top of the mountain with a breath.

And his movements were also very light, gently covering the goblin Shan Shan's ugly head with his dragon claws, and the sharp dragon claws also restrained their sharpness, for fear of accidentally killing this goblin.

When facing the dragon and these vassals alone, Karon never used the transformation technique to transform into a dragon-descendant form. Different objects must have different responses.

For these creatures who only respect power and violence, Karon will establish an impression of absolute rule with power and posture that surpasses them.

Dong, dong, dong,

The goblin Shan Shan knocked his head out of rhythm, and then happily retired. Being valued by the dragon was the best way for these vassals to surpass their social class, and he was already very satisfied.

"Master, gnoll Yugu has received the summons and has come to pay his respects," gnoll Yugu knelt on one knee, hammered his chest hard with his hand, and bowed his head.

The red dragon's thick head lowered, and his thorn-covered cheeks almost touched the top of the gnoll's head. A pair of gradually deep red eyes scrutinized the bowing gnoll leader.

Karon could feel the gnoll's body trembling unconsciously, which was caused by the red dragon's increasingly powerful majesty and pressure.

"Yugu, if the dragon needs the gnolls to shed blood, what will you do," Karon's words were like a blow to the head for the gnoll Yugu. The gnoll didn't understand if he hadn't done enough to make the dragon abandon the gnoll tribe.

But he didn't dare to hesitate at all, and answered decisively: "If the dragon needs the gnolls to shed blood, then the gnolls will cast the dragon's glorious emblem with their own blood, my lord, your will is the oracle that the gnolls should believe in!"

"Hehe," the red dragon raised his head, and the powerful pressure disappeared instantly.

Karon laughed thunderously: "Then I will give you a chance, Yugu, to find the dwarf craftsmen, the territory's craftsman officer Kragon, and let him provide your gnolls with three hundred sets of iron armor and weapons,"

"I allow you to establish a warband, select your bravest warriors, and your most capable casters. Your warband will follow me on an expedition to another weak plane!"

"This is your opportunity to prove yourself. If you perform well, you will get the reward you want," the red dragon looked down at the gnoll and said.

At this time, the gnoll Yugu felt like he had been hit with a sap and eaten a big sweet date. The dragon's words made his mind dizzy with surprise.

Karon was treating the gnolls like training a dog, and it seemed the result was not bad.

The gnoll Yugu did not suppress his excited mood. War was nothing to fear for the gnolls. Many gnolls even became adventurers in order to taste the flesh and blood of other races.

As long as the gnolls restrained their desire to eat humans, those human adventure teams would also accept these bloodthirsty gnolls.

"Where your will points, that is where the gnolls fall," gnoll Yugu did not hide his bloodthirsty gaze. For himself, even sacrificing the entire gnoll tribe was not enough.

As long as he existed, the gnoll tribe would not disappear. It could be said that Yugu was a枭雄character among monsters, and it was also the selfish nature of all monsters.

The overjoyed gnoll Yugu wanted to step forward and kiss the red dragon's toes, but was immediately kicked to the ground by the red dragon at an extremely fast speed, falling face first.

"Yugu, this is not what you should do, a warrior should have the demeanor of a warrior," Karon took two steps back. Although the gnoll Yugu was as clean as if he were not a gnoll at all, he still subconsciously rejected this behavior.

Only fragrant and soft bodies like the ogre giant Fafna were qualified to approach him and make such actions.

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This was the red dragon's open rejection and discrimination. He didn't care about his current psychology. He frankly accepted that he also had a mean and vulgar side. He was not doing it as a saint. He was a red dragon, a believer in dictatorial totalitarianism.

Then Karon instructed the bewildered gnoll on another matter, which was about the wandering red dragon around the territory. He needed these gnolls to take some actions to attract the red dragon out.

This wandering red dragon was a threat to the territory. If Karon didn't plan to explore the Greenwild Forest, he would be too lazy to care about the red dragon.

After all, Karon would become stronger every day. Karon's growth rate was unmatched by other dragons.

As long as Karon passed his adolescence and entered his teenage years, he was confident that he could easily solve it even if the wandering red dragon was a young red dragon.

Although it was a bit tricky for Karon now, the squinting mage Xiu Si'er and other high-level mages had arrived one after another, and it would be a waste not to use them.

Therefore, Karon planned to set the location of the plane teleportation gate on the western periphery of the dragon group's territory, which was exactly where the wandering red dragon haunted.

When the plane teleportation gate was built, Karon would tell those mages about the existence of the wandering red dragon.

In order to ensure the safety of the plane teleportation gate, those high-level mages would also take the initiative to take action.

Of course, it would be even better if the rogue red dragon appeared ahead of time. Even if that rogue red dragon was in its youth and had awakened its magical abilities, it would be tied up like a dragon-shaped rice dumpling under the siege of a group of high-level mages and dragons, at the mercy of Kalon.

Kalon wanted to deal with this red dragon before he started exploring the planes, and also arrange other things to eliminate all unstable factors.

"Go, Yugu, this matter brooks no failure," Kalon waved his claws, dismissing the gnoll Yugu, preparing to reorganize and build his legion.

The gnoll Yugu accepted the order and retreated, while Kalon flew back to his lair and burrowed into the treasure vault.

The entrance to the treasure vault, hidden under the vigorously growing dragon blood red flame grass and various magical plants, had become a bit narrower.

To avoid trampling on these valuable magical plants, the red dragon had to activate the bloodline magic in his body and transform into a dragonborn form.

Kalon ignored the rest of the treasures and went straight to the two huge black snake eggs.

The two snake eggs were now gathering the magic power of the entire treasure vault. With the nourishment of sufficient magic power, the life fluctuations in the snake eggs were gradually increasing.

Kalon was looking forward to seeing what these two Titan pythons would look like in the future under the radiation of his bloodline and the infection of his aura.

In Kalon's view, the dragon's bloodline was a kind of derivation and coverage of a certain rule with extremely high priority.

He didn't know what rules the Dragon God of Creation had put into the dragon bloodline. Some creatures that seemed to have the same bloodline as the dragon could also be infected by the dragon under the long-term influence and become monsters with dragon characteristics.

The research on the expansion of this bloodline would also be one of the topics in Kalon's future laboratory.

The two snake babies who had not yet been born might rather never be born than learn that they had been listed as experimental products by the red dragon.

Kalon felt that his future laboratory might be many times larger than his lair.

Just the research on the bloodline alone would require collecting the bloodlines of many unique creatures, and the more the better.

It would be best to have living creatures for Kalon to study, and at worst, specimens would be needed.

Kalon could imagine how terrifying his laboratory would be in the future, perhaps regarded by many creatures as the most vicious and inescapable hell.

After checking the condition of the two snake eggs, Kalon began to search in his treasure vault for the magic crystals condensed from pure magic power.

He picked and chose, selecting those magic crystals the size of fingers from his treasure, and then arranged a positioning teleportation magic circle in his treasure vault according to the knowledge of magic arrays.

The knowledge of space magic was too profound, and he didn't have that much energy to get involved in plane teleportation magic arrays yet. This positioning teleportation magic array was improved by him.

It was a positioning teleportation spell formed by combining the dragon's inherited spell - Egg of Protection with ordinary teleportation magic.

The spell - Egg of Protection, awakened from the inheritance of the dragon's bloodline, allows the dragon to enter a gap space between the void in place when it encounters life danger. At that time, the dragon cannot use any spells or abilities.

After the spell expires, it reappears in place, but under Kalon's spell positioning, once Kalon enters a dangerous state and is forced to use the Egg of Protection spell, this positioning teleportation gate will teleport the entire Egg of Protection to the treasure vault, realizing another form of plane teleportation.

This was also thanks to the sub-brain cluster. The current sub-brain cluster is equivalent to a biological computer that is constantly running.

In the case of summarizing a large amount of magical knowledge and spell models, the sub-brain cluster will improve the spells suitable for Kalon according to Kalon's needs and ideas.

Although Kalon could not create spells like those talented mages, improving spells and combining different spells was something that other mages could not match.

Kalon felt that this was the basic quality of a mage, instead of those fanatical mages who held a big fireball all day long and exploded everywhere. Those fanatical fire ball cults were vulgar heretics!

Buzz, buzz,

Along with the vibration of the air caused by the activation of magic power, a series of magical auras bloomed from the magic circle. Kalon knew that this improved spell had been successfully tested.

In order to maintain the uninterrupted operation of the magic circle, Kalon needed to test how much magic crystal it would consume to operate the magic circle for a day before he could configure the operating time of the magic circle.

"Tsk tsk, no wonder it is said that mages are a money-burning industry. Just maintaining the operation of this magic circle can bankrupt those wandering mages,"

Kalon raised his dragon claw, stroked his chin, and constantly observed the changes in the magic crystal.

"If it weren't for the abundant magic power naturally possessed by the magic node, the mages' magic towers would be burning gold coins every moment,"

Kalon thought of the old mage Lapps' white tower. The exterior was already tall and wide enough, and there were endless folded spaces inside the white tower. How many gold coins would it cost to maintain the operation of such a magic tower's magic circle for a day.

Kalon was a little surprised by the wealth of those mages. He even had the idea of ​​robbing several mages' magic towers.

Perhaps the wealth accumulated in a mage's magic tower could be worth the income that those small nobles had worked hard for a long time.

Kalon shook his head and tried to shake this dangerous idea out of his head.

It must be the instinct of the red dragon that made him have such a greedy but stupid idea.

A mage's magic tower is equivalent to a mage's war fortress. Kalon doesn't want to use his body to fight against spells named after disintegration and annihilation that may appear. Even adult dragons don't want to try this kind of spell.

At the foot of the mountain, the gnoll Yugu and his subordinates reunited, and then told these loyal and powerful subordinates the red dragon's thoughts and orders.

A tall gnoll barbarian raised his hand and said: "Boss, I think our battle group should be called the Brave and Invincible Gnoll Legion."

"Bah, you have no culture at all. It should be called the Bloodthirsty Gnoll Group," another barbarian shouted.

The gnoll Yugu shook his head and kicked over two silly guys. He spat and said: "I've decided, my battle group will be called the Wolf Pack from now on. Also, we have to find a way to lure out that damn rogue red dragon who doesn't know what god's guts he ate, so that Lord Kalon can deal with it."

"Then how to lure the red dragon," the gnoll spellcaster next to him came over.

Bang,

The gnoll Yugu kicked him out again, kicking the gnoll spellcaster away.

He shouted: "Then hurry up and use your big butt to think, and quickly come up with a way for me, otherwise I will send your big butt to those horny dragon beasts, and you are not allowed to leave the beast circle all night!"