Chapter 137: Ukrainian Iron Belly Dragon (Second Update)
Nick LeMay and young Albus Dumbledore, the two of them followed those huge footprints towards the top of the mountain.
"Your great-grandfather, Brian Jr...... How's he doing?" asked Nick Lemay as he climbed the mountain on crutches.
"He died 30 years ago...... I wasn't born yet!" said the young Dumbledore softly, "but it should be the end of life, after all, not every wizard can have a near-infinite life like you." ”
"That's it!" Nick Lemay sighed, "Actually, infinite life is a very bad thing, you have to carry your responsibilities, you have to watch the people around you leave one by one...... Sometimes, I want to destroy that damn stone, but I just lack a little courage......"
"Really?" the young Dumbledore nodded awkwardly.
"A hundred years ago, Nick already had the idea of destroying the Philosopher's Stone!" sighed to the elderly Dumbledore beside him, "More than a year ago, he finally mustered up his courage...... You attended his funeral with me at the time, and you should remember that. ”
"Of course I do, Professor......" Jon nodded quickly.
"I didn't quite understand his thoughts at the time...... And now, I finally understand!" Dumbledore continued, "Sometimes, death is really a relief, and to live comes with pain and responsibility. ”
"You don't have to think about it so much...... "Jon said tentatively, "you're still young, and you have many years to live......"
"Really?" Dumbledore smiled, "I hope so!"
And the memory of Nick Lemay and Dumbledore stopped at the same time.
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"There's a cave here!" shouted young Dumbledore excitedly, as he bent down and sniffed hard at the dirt around the cave, "That's right, Mr. Lemay...... The smell of dragon urine on the dirt is the dragon's lair, and the dragon usually sprinkles its own urine near the lair to banish other creatures and magical beasts!"
"Really?" Nick Lemay frowned and glanced at the man-wide cave, "Such a small cave, a fire dragon that can enter and exit...... Can you really overturn a sailboat?"
He took out a bottle of yellowish potion from his pocket and poured it around: "Albus, let's take a few steps back...... This potion can draw out the fire dragon. ”
Dumbledore grabbed Nick Lemay and ran behind the bushes on one side, carefully observing the surroundings of the cave.
After a few minutes, an ugly head came out of the burrow, and a large lizard, which slowly crawled onto the pile of potions, sniffed vigorously, and within half a minute, two more came out one after the other.
"They're baby dragons!" said young Dumbledore, grimacingly, "So that cave just now was just laying ovaries...... A real dragon......"
"Quack......" The call of a flock of migratory birds suddenly sounded behind them.
Then, the shadows seem to obscure half of the sky.
"Oh my God!" Jon, who was "watching", couldn't help but cover his mouth, "Is this really a fire dragon?"
"yes...... I was just as surprised as you were!" said the elderly Dumbledore next to him, smiling.
A massive lizard descended from the sky, at least several times larger than Jon's imagined dragon...... It is at least thirty meters long (ten meters is already rare for an ordinary fire dragon), and its scales are shiny gray, its eyes are dark red, and its claws are particularly long, making it look extremely fierce.
"What are we going to do, Mr. Lemay?" shouted young Dumbledore, a little anxious.
Nick Lemay also seemed to be frightened by the big lizard, and he raised his wand with some trembling...... However, in the face of such a huge target, he couldn't aim for anything......
"Damn!" Nick Lemay said with some trembling, "how can a fire dragon be so big...... I haven't done this old bone in two hundred years!"
The dragon apparently spotted them as well and began to approach as well.
"Hey!" Dumbledore sighed, then dashed nimbly.
Jon finally understood why Dumbledore was only in his 20s at this time, and Headmaster Phineas Black rated him as the best graduate of Hogwarts in the last hundred years.
With a slight flick of his wand (not the old wand, but another), a stone on the ground turned into a falcon and flew towards the behemoth in front of him.
The falcon quickly drew the dragon's gaze away from it, and at the same time, several orange rays of light shot into the dragon's eyes.
"Eye Curse?" Jon asked softly.
"Yes...... I'm stopping it from moving forward for the time being!" nodded the elderly Dumbledore beside him.
The dragon let out a painful wail as Dumbledore scurried up to Nick Lemay, taking his apparition a little farther away.
"This dragon shouldn't breathe!" Dumbledore gasped as he said, "Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to get out of the way we are now!"
Nicol Lemay finally regained his strength and calmly raised his wand.
He nodded, "Leave it to me now, Albus......"
......
The scene in front of me began to slowly fade away.
Jon found himself slowly rising into the air, the scene around him dissipating, and in the blink of an eye, nothing was left but darkness.
Then he felt as if he was flipping his head in slow motion, his feet suddenly falling to the ground, the light around him was blinding, and he was already in Dumbledore's sunny office.
"How did it end!" Jon couldn't help but say, feeling like he was watching a movie and seeing the climax and being forcibly interrupted.
"That's enough!" Dumbledore explained with a smile, "and then Nick knocked down the dragon and we caught the young dragons...... For the first time in the wizarding world, we discovered the existence of the Polish iron-bellied dragon, which I named after the steely scales on their chests...... A few decades later, it seems to have changed to a Ukrainian iron-bellied dragon!"
"The largest fire dragon in the world, weighing up to thirty tons, more than ten times the size of a normal dragon, is so brutal that some clever wizards can easily die at the hands of their claws...... However, their large size limits their ability to breathe, and they are slow to fly, and of course they are still very, very dangerous...... There should be one in the deepest part of Gringotts to help the elves guard the most important vaults......"
Dumbledore glanced at the large clock on the wall.
"It's already ten o'clock, maybe your confinement should be over!" Dumbledore said mildly.