Chapter 40: The Green Dragon on Xuedun Mountain
Located in the north of Wales, also known as Snowdon Mountain, Snow Mound is the northernmost and highest peak of the entire Cumbrian Range, with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters above sea level that is rare in the whole of Great Britain.
Moreover, most of the entire Snow Mound Mountain has been fenced off to establish a national park, which is very much in line with the practice of the wizarding world, and some dangerous areas are fenced off as national parks, and Muggles are forbidden to approach at will in the name of protection, and this is also the Welsh Green Dragon Fire Dragon Sanctuary.
This method of protection can effectively prevent unnecessary casualties and at the same time prevent the occurrence of fire dragon sightings.
However, the disadvantage is that since it is a protected area, there must be wizards to guard it, and the Welsh green dragons are a large group, so there are more wizards needed to guard them.
Coupled with the fact that the Welsh Green Dragon has been responsible for the largest Muggle sighting in Britain to date, it is foreseeable that there will be no shortage of guards and guards.
And Zhang Jin is now standing at the foot of Xuedun Mountain.
It's almost the northernmost part of Wales, and it's the last stop on the entire Muggle journey, after which you'll have to use magic to explore it again in a wizarding way.
But now it looks like it's possible to use magic in advance.
Although Wales is the south of Great Britain, the climate is not too cold because of its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, but it seems to be different in Xuedun Mountain, the cold wind accompanied by snowflakes hitting the face, so Zhang Jin failed to find any tour group along the way, that is, he could only go on the road alone.
After all, there are only a few people who climb mountains in winter, and even fewer people who come to not very famous places like Xuedun Mountain in the wind and snow.
In addition, at this time, the Xuedun Mountain National Park was not open, and the Fire Dragon Sanctuary near the top of the mountain also had a Muggle expulsion spell, so Zhang Jin could only avoid Muggles and directly use magic to help get there.
Through casting spells, Zhang Jin can clearly feel the fluctuations of magic power on the mountain, and there are quite a lot, there are dragons and wizards, and a huge magic power comes from the top of the mountain, which is said to have been a volcano at one time.
When I came to the halfway point of the mountain, I sensed the fluctuations of the Muggle Expulsion Charm, and then took out the invisibility cloak, skillfully put a light feather charm on myself, and then a phantom charm, one is to prevent obvious footprints on the snow, and the other is to avoid the abnormality caused by the wind and snow, the invisibility cloak can only be hidden, this kind of abnormality caused by the outside world cannot be concealed, if you don't hide it, there will be an obvious humanoid silhouette.
From here up there should be the extent of the reserve, so be careful, and while English wizards are notoriously lazy, just in case.
A short distance up the hill came across several wooden huts, where voices were constantly being heard, sounding like they were having breakfast, and discussing the recent situation in the wizarding world, followed by praise for the savior Potter.
Slowly approaching, hiding in the dark and listening carefully, Zhang Jin still has this patience.
After about an hour or so, I finally got some useful information, the wizards in these cabins belonged to a small team, there were four people in total, there were three such squads, each guarding three roads in three directions, and on the other side was a steeper hill, basically Muggles could not go up, so there was no one left.
Then there is the number of fire dragons in this reserve, there are more than 300, which is completely beyond Zhang Jin's estimate.
According to the calculation that there are about 500 Welsh green dragons in the whole of Great Britain, most of them live in Wales, then the number of green dragons in Wales should only be 400 to 500.
Although Snow Dun Mountain is the highest peak in Wales, its area is not large, according to the living habits of giant dragons, although they prefer to live in the mountains, although they are typical group dragons, but it should be about two hundred here, right?!
Don't think that two hundred is a small number, the Welsh green dragon is the largest dragon in the wizarding world, and they are smaller, less aggressive than other dragons, and they like to live in groups, so there will be more of them, but they can't live like people.
They just don't like to fight and don't fight, how can so many dragons be friendly and harmonious all the time.
And the key is how to solve the problem of food, dragons eat a lot, although the green dragon is smaller, and it doesn't eat much, but that's relative to other fire dragons, compared to tigers, lions and the like, they are still very big and eat a lot.
And how could such a mountain possibly provide food for more than three hundred green dragons? Do you still want to go out hunting? Wouldn't it be nice to have this effort to settle down again?
You must know that the number of other fire dragon reserves is generally only about fifty fire dragons, and they are also semi-domesticated with human wizards to provide food.
It's hard to have such a large number of wild dragon reserves, such as another dragon reserve in Wales, the Brecon Hill Reserve in southern Wales, which has just over 50 dragons, and there are many more dragons than Snow Dun Mountain.
And in addition to these two protected areas, it is not reasonable that there are less than 100 Welsh green dragons living on about 30 times the remaining area of the entire Cumbrian Mountains.
They are all naturally wild, and there is such a big place outside that you don't go, and it must be strange to have to squeeze into a mountain.
And as you go up, you can clearly feel that the weather is starting to warm up again, and then the temperature gradually rises as you get closer to the top of the mountain, and the road gradually loses snow trails, begins to appear green, and finally a deep forest appears.
The climate has obviously moved from winter to spring, and it can be even hotter further up.
Zhang Jin couldn't be sure whether it was because of the mountaintop volcano or because there were more fire dragons.
Now it is less than 100 meters away from the top of the mountain, from here it can be clearly seen that this mountain is a typical ancient volcanic formation, its top does not have a peak, it is foreseeable that the top of the mountain must be a sunken basin, and according to the size analysis of the whole mountain, it is estimated that this basin is not small.
And since it is a basin, it is normal to have lake water, just like the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain in China, the crater at the top of the mountain degenerates into a basin, and then evolves into a lake.
And here you can already see a few green dragons hidden in the forest and meadow, and they occasionally make a soft sound, and the sound is unexpectedly graceful, like the song of a fairy.
Those green dragons are about six or seven feet tall and more than twenty feet long, that is, two meters high and six meters long, which is indeed small among fire dragons, only slightly larger than the Peruvian fanged dragon, and the average fire dragon can grow to nine meters long and three meters high, like a Ukrainian iron belly can even grow to nearly fifteen meters long.
The green dragon has emerald green skin, and its body looks relatively slim, if you hide in a branch or in the grass, you may not be able to find them, so Zhang Jin walked very carefully, in case it is not a joke to attract their attention, it is very dangerous to phantom under the breath of the fire dragon, unless you want to lose some parts of the body, it is better not to try.
When he was about to approach the top of the mountain, Zhang Jin chose a high slope to observe slowly, to see the situation first, at least to find out if there were really so many dragons, Zhang Jin didn't believe that the wizards sent by the Ministry of Magic really came up to count!