A dragon lizard slowly crawled ashore from the mud, pressed its belly against the ground, and stretched its limbs to maximize its exposure to the rare sunlight of the central swamp.

Unlike most swamp creatures, dragon lizards love the sun, and the most popular thing these reptiles over 10 meters long do is lie on the ground and bask in the sun after a full meal. Usually, they are in a good mood at this time - that is, if someone passes by them at this time, the dragon lizard will not kill them immediately, but will catch them and play slowly until they feel hungry again or the sun goes down to end the life of these prey.

The dragon lizards are not worried that anyone will disturb them at this time, these giant lizards are said to have dragon blood - of course, the dragons vehemently deny this - in the central swamps, they are one of the most apex creatures, their lightning speed, invulnerability to scales, minions that can tear through metal, and flames that can melt rocks, ensure their status, and here, except for a few that exist, they have nothing to fear from any living creatures.

A slight tremor came along the ground, and without thinking, the dragon lizard had already determined the source of the tremor, which was caused by some kind of large creature traveling against the ground, in this swamp, only swamp pythons have such a size and way of traveling, and these pythons are one of the dragon lizard's favorite foods.

The temptation of good food makes the dragon lizard even more cheerful, and in the pleasant sun, the giant lizard crawls up lazily while calculating the time of the python's arrival - like most predators living in swamp mires, the swamp python has no sense of sight or hearing, and relies on smell to judge its surroundings, while the dragon lizard happens to be a good hand at hiding smells, all it has to do is stand quietly and bite off its neck when the poor creature arrives.

The python was moving fast, and soon after the dragon lizard was ready to eat, a large snake with a length of more than ten meters and the thickness of an adult's body appeared in its sight, and it was slightly different from what it expected that on the back of this giant python, two humanoid creatures were riding there.

But that didn't catch its attention, and in its opinion, the two creatures, who were pitifully small compared to the python, were no threat at all, and they could at best be regarded as an appetizer for themselves outside of the python's meal.

- This perception turned out to be the biggest mistake the dragon lizard ever made.

As the dragon lizard transitioned from stationary to forward with unimaginable speed, and struck the python in the neck with an accurate bite, a double-edged axe as huge as a wheel slashed at its head at the same time, and although the thick scales allowed it to escape the fate of being split open, the heavy blow still made it feel dizzy, and before it could recover from the stun, a sharp, thin object stabbed into its left eye.

The dragon lizard nearly went mad with intense pain, and it let go of the neck of the half-dead python and turned its head to spew vengeful flames at the two little bugs that dared to hurt itself.

"What is this?" The dragon lizard's flames did not hurt the dwarves and elves riding on the back of the python, and as he rolled down the back of the snake with agility, the tomahawk charged at least three opponents as tall as himself, while asking his companion in a loud voice: "This guy killed the python we caught, and it seems that we have to feast on snake meat before we reach our destination." ”

"Be careful," Heim deftly avoided the long tongue that the dragon lizard spewed, and the rapier in his hand instantly left a deep hole in the other's tongue, "That's swamp dragon lizards, they're dangerous. ”

The tomahawk had approached the dragon lizard at this time, and after a few days of recuperation, the dwarf with a stubborn vitality like a rock had completely recovered his health, and the killing of the giant python that he had managed to catch made him full of anger at the big lizard in front of him, and he swung a heavy double-edged axe to slash the monitor lizard's thick front legs.

The dragon lizard suffered a lot from the bloody hole in its tongue to the scales on its front leg that had been shattered by the successive blows, and the first sword made its left eye useless forever. The unprecedented damage finally ignited the monitor lizard's fury, and with a deafening roar, the dragon lizard quickly spewed another breath of fire at the elf that was rushing towards it, and then quickly lowered its head, and the huge mouth full of sharp teeth slammed into the dwarf who was beating its thigh with stone.

Before its mouth could touch the tomahawk, a hammer struck its jaw from below, so powerful that the dragonlizard's heavy head involuntarily tilted back under the force of the force, and before it could regain cover for the vital point of its neck, Haim's sword pierced through the gap between the scales and stabbed there.

"Its skin is so hard," muttered Tomahawk, looking at the corpse of the dragon lizard lying on the ground, "I have to sharpen my axe again." ”

"At least we defeated it," Nack said gently, taking the tomahawk out of the dragonlizard's mouth at the last moment, "this is most likely the last powerful creature we encountered before we set foot on the temple, and based on our previous experience, everything from here to the temple should belong to the territory of this great lizard." ”

"I'm afraid not," the usually calm elf's words revealed a little nervousness, "I think there is more than one master here. His eyes were fixed on the front, "Looks like we're in trouble." ”

Where the slain dragon lizard had just climbed ashore, two of its kind, at least twice as large, were slowly crawling towards them, their yellow eyes glinting with anger.

"Is that its parents?" said even the rugged dwarves as they took a breath in the face of the moving mountain-like behemoth, "they're at least twenty meters long. ”

A ball of flame the size of a human head shot out of the mouth of one of the dragon lizards like lightning and flew towards the three companions standing together, while the other dragon lizard swept a distance of tens of meters like a gust of wind, and pounced on the murderer of its own child, its long, sharp teeth glittering in the sunlight.

A cloud of white gas flew over the trio's heads, hitting the flames that were enough to turn them to ashes, and after bursting with a dazzling light, both of them were annihilated in the air.

"You arrived earlier than I expected," Rhaeggar's voice sounded behind them, "and it looks like you're on your way." ”

As he spoke, a large black shadow flew past the three of Haim, meeting the rushing dragon lizard, and slamming into it. It was the swamp monster that had been subdued by Rhaegar, and by this time, it had become a huge curtain-like object, tightly wrapped around the dragon lizard's body, and the terrible acid was secreting from the parts of its contact with its opponent, corroding the latter's body.

"I'll introduce you to my pets," Rhaegar and Willy said as they walked to the three companions, "Mel, the Swamp Monster, the most powerful creature in this swamp. The geist turned his face to look at his reunited companions, "I'm glad to see you, my dear friends. ”

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