Chapter 48
By the time Claudius returned, the battle of the Dragontooth Soldiers against the port of Santa Cruz had begun. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info This wasn't a surprise attack, and the magic messages between the temples had already spread the word that an unknown armed force had appeared on the island, especially since they had dragons behind them. Three elite hundreds, this is not a military force that the port of Santa Cruz, with a total population of only 2,000, can resist.
The battle did go very fast, the Dragontooth soldiers requisitioned the livestock in the village and some of the farmers to transport equipment for them, and then after assembling and firing a few ballistae at the fence gate of the port of Santa Cruz, the port of Santa Cruz was declared demilitarized, in other words, surrendered outright. An island with a population of only about 3,000 people has so-called nobles - such as the family of the self-proclaimed Count of Santa Cruz. But it's understandable, after all, the island was discovered and named by their ancestors, and Santa Cruz is also the name of their family. But all this has become a thing of the past, and the entire force under the command of the Count of Santa Cruz is no more than thirty warriors, and the dragon's tooth soldiers are professional soldiers......
This family was not destroyed because they did not resist. Not only that, but they haven't even lost their dominance over the island in a sense - just one more force over their heads. Out of their own customs, the Dragon's Tooth soldiers simply ordered the entire island to submit in name only, while paying a certain percentage of food and labor. The walls of the port of Santa Cruz were demolished, and materials were used to build a military camp next to it that could accommodate 1,000 people.
How the Dragon's Tooth Soldiers ruled that Santa Cruz Harbor, Claudius knew it through a mysterious psychic connection. Strangely enough, he could sense the general actions of the Dragontooth soldiers, but he couldn't sense the slightest news of the so-called number one subordinate, the Flame Mushroom Man. Now that the injuries on the red dragon's body have long been healed, not only that, but he found that his strength, physical fitness, and speed have increased, and as for things like IQ and charm, he can't judge. "Anyway, as long as the strength reaches a certain level, the so-called rhetoric or something is useless." Thinking of this, this guy snorted at the cave wall next to him with some satisfaction. Flames erupted from the nostrils, creating a jet more than ten meters long that melted the cave wall into a pit. The interior of the cave where Claudius was located was already full of potholes, and the walls of the cave were full of runners, which were the traces of condensation left by the melting of the rock.
Years had passed, and Claudius' main activity during this time was sleeping, occasionally carving a mess with his claws into the walls of the cave, and as for studying something as tall as magic, this guy had long since been thrown to the island of Java - and he had recently awakened a spell called wayfinding, which he could cast like a warlock. Speaking of other developments, Claudius finally turned all the zero-level tricks into spell-like instincts, and the number of spells he had as a dragon vein warlock was still quite large, and all the zero-level tricks plus a few first-level spells were already very good geniuses if they were of the same age as humans - there were not many sixteen or seventeen-year-old humans who could cast first-level spells at will.
In the past few years, the storm that has enveloped Hell Island has barely dissipated, and the entire island now has no need to worry about the lack of fresh water resources - it is estimated that more than 400 millimeters of rain falls every day, which is already a record for a very heavy rainstorm every day. All the low-lying areas of the island have now been turned into ponds, the entire coastline of the island is full of waterfalls, and the waters surrounding Hell Island, which are several meters deep and tens of meters wide, have become freshwater......
Claudius could now hear the rumbling of the earth, and the earth had been shaking very slightly at every moment of the last few days. Claudius knew very well that a big change was coming, "It's funny that in that place called Santa Cruz Island, the priest of the woman in Amberie didn't try to destroy the temple of the goddess of the earth, which is also a miracle. Perhaps Perot played a role in this. "He's been bored lately, and he's still having time to think about these issues while waiting for the mutation, of course, mainly to absorb the little knowledge that is left in the dragon inheritance.
On this day, Claudius did not know what day of the month, and the mutation he had been waiting for for for a long time finally happened. Just when the sky was just a little brightened, blue and red flashes lit up the sky, and Claudius, who had been awakened by the restless magical elements, stood on the platform in front of the cave and looked at the sky, "It's spectacular! The next moment, a huge tremor came. Claudius didn't know if it was an earthquake on the Richter scale, but what he noticed was the feeling that the whole island was being thrown up three or four meters, and then the island was full of huge cracks and landslides, and the huge shaking lasted for about thirty seconds, and then suddenly stopped.
By this time the whole island had been torn apart, and as far as Claudius could see from the sky, the whole island had been divided into four pieces, based on the center of the island. Fortunately, this guy was able to rescue the Endless Water Pump in time, and as for the gold coins that were thrown casually in the cave, the red dragon didn't care about it at all. But now his cave remains intact, neither split nor collapsed, and it happens to be on the largest fragment. Not long after, an even bigger tremor erupted, and the sea water, which had been roaring and making a terrifying sound, was suddenly blasting open. Claudius watched as a huge dragon turtle was helplessly swept up in the fierce current, and then the next moment it was blown apart by the bursting seawater. The sea boiled in an instant, and the huge crack of the cross crack continued to expand in the violent tremors, and the fragments of the split continued to fall apart in the vibration, and now even Claudius's lair had collapsed, and the highest point of the original Hell Island had now collapsed to only about twenty meters high.
But in the next moment, the shattered island began to grow taller, accompanied by an earth-shattering rumbling sound, and the ocean set off a huge wave that had never been seen before, spreading out in all directions. Claudius watched with satisfaction as a black spot in the sea grew larger, and then in the midst of the explosion of steamy and hot rubble, a crater grew rapidly, and dark red magma erupted wildly, boiling the surrounding water. Huge pillars of smoke connected the heavens and the earth, and the previously collapsed islands were rapidly growing taller, and beneath them were huge volcanic cones.....
The spectacle of fire and water lasted for a whole day, and when the shaking finally ended, a huge volcanic island with an area of about 40 square kilometers, a diameter of more than 400 meters, and a height of more than 1,000 meters, had taken shape. The eruption had calmed down, and the island was covered with a thick layer of ash about five to six meters thick, while the crater was still bleeding magma, expanding its size in the sea. The torrential rain poured down, and the rain clouds that were pushed away during the eruption shrouded again, and the huge rainstorm washed a large amount of volcanic ash into the sea, suffocating countless sea creatures, but also making the island bigger and bigger, and the ash and rain on the island merged into mud and flowed throughout the island. "Now, this Hell Island lives up to its name....." said the red dragon, who had watched the whole day with great interest, the thick smell of sulfur in the air and the overflowing fire element made the guy extremely comfortable.