CHAPTER XLII
The red dragon kept turning back and forth, always making him visible to the terrified seafarers, so that the fellows would not be left to chance—in fact, there was no need, given the speed of the ships of this world, it was impossible for them to escape the range of the red dragon flying in the sky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Info About a day later, under the threat of Claudius, they were forced to take out a third of the food and water, which Claudius spent several hours transporting back to the island.
The Dragon's Tooth Soldiers, who were quite experienced in dealing with famine, hid in the recesses of the mountains, wrapped themselves in cloaks and sat down to reduce their calorie consumption, while at the same time taking a portion of water to quench their thirst in an orderly manner, and they very consciously controlled their desires and reduced the need for edible water to a minimum. From Claudius's point of view, this group of dragontooth soldiers may really be able to survive two days with this little water. But now they didn't need to suffer so much - the water and dry food that Claudius brought back were for them to use at will, and then the red dragon turned back again—and sure enough, the Ambori believers were not intimidating, and they quietly turned the bow of the ship around, trying to sneak back to its original course - or some inhabited island, for in the Phil Islands there must be an altar of Amberi wherever it is inhabited.
Claudius found out, but instead of punishing him immediately, he ordered the crew to hand over a third of the second batch of food and water. When Claudius returned a few hours later, he attacked.
But as he attacked, several long, thick tentacles full of suckers with sharp teeth stretched out from the sea. "Hmph, is it very favored by Amberry? The moody madwoman ....." Claudius thought to the question, but his movements were not slow at all, and he pulled his body up very quickly, leaving the tentacles useless.
The next moment, the mighty stream of flames came overwhelmingly, and the first to bear the brunt was the unlucky huge sea octopus. The sea monster didn't show its body, it just stretched its tentacles out of the sea, but these tentacles alone were longer than Claudius's body length, and the size of this huge sea octopus was conservatively estimated to be more than fifty meters. However, no matter how big it is, the sea monster does not have fire immunity, so its tentacles quickly turn into roasted octopus legs in the flames...... Originally, the sea monster's thick skin was enough to make ordinary flames and even spells like fireballs useless, but Claudius's flame temperature was so high that this octopus had never encountered it. So its tentacles quickly appeared to smell of fragrant barbecue, and Claudius, who was passing at high speed, easily tore off the inactive tentacles, munching on them and praising the deliciousness of the octopus's tentacles.
The battered octopus was furious, its big bald head exposed to the surface of the sea, and let out a low howl, "This broken octopus doesn't even have a vocal cord, and there is no gas storage in its body, how the hell does this thing roar?" Claudius said vaguely, stuffed with octopus meat. The next moment, the creature spat out the flesh from his mouth and dived again—the target was the other tentacles that the sea monster stretched out, and the frozen gas and ice arrows that followed with the condensation of the cold ice.
The field was fully opened, and then Claudius used his speed and air pressure to compress a large amount of air into his lungs and air sacs during the dive, and then the guy made a beautiful pulling motion, and the flight was immediately followed by a huge cone-shaped flame spit. The hot flames swept across the sea, and even the canvas of the ships that were not within range of the attack burned, and the ropes had burned even earlier, and the sailors who were bare on the deck were tumbling on the deck in pain, their skin burned, but they scratched their throats with all their might—because their airways were burned by the hot air, and their swollen throats could not breathe at all.
And the target octopus is even worse, if this guy doesn't retract into the sea as quickly as possible, then the octopus's head will be like its tentacles, quickly turning into charred protein and then turning into carbon ash, this is no longer a grilled octopus leg that can be eaten, it is already bitter coke. As for the frozen gas and ice arrows, they all vaporized in the flames, bubbles rolled on the surface of the sea, and the surface of the sea boiled. Claudius flicked his head as he flapped his wings, fanning the hot steam towards the hapless sailboat.
At this time, huge whirlpools and sea spouts suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, and the cumulonimbus clouds in the sky suddenly gathered, the temperature began to drop, and a salty smell filled Claudius's nostrils. "Oh, that's not right." The red dragon sighed, and by this time there were almost no living people on the ship, and the red dragon pounced. Pieces of wood flew and the deck was torn open, and in Claudius' eyes, there was a magical glow in the captain's quarters in the aft tower. The red dragon smashed the tail tower, where he found a chest and a metal object with a fish's head carved like a hand pump in a well that shimmered with magical light. On another day on the ship, Claudius did not find any magical light, and at this time the storm was about to appear, Claudius also had a foreboding, this guy grabbed the treasure chest and the big dragon head, flapped his wings as fast as he could, and got out of the range of the storm as fast as he could—behind him, the rolling thunder roared and chased Claudius, but finally helplessly let the red dragon out of range. At the moment of detachment, Claudius could have sworn that he heard the hysterical screams of the woman......
If it were any other dragon, Eight Achievements would not be able to run, but Claudius accelerated wildly, desperately risking the risk of straining his muscles, and if he accelerated, he could increase his speed to more than 400 kilometers per hour in a short time, which can be said to be a first-class flight speed in the world of Faeron except for magical teleportation. The red dragon didn't think about anything like going around in circles, and he flew straight back to his lair. "Even with Ambori's power, it's not easy to tear a stone island apart - unless this madwoman descends and adds the power of her concubine." Claudius thinks so, even gods don't have an easy way to do all this in the main physical realm - they are not even as powerful as the mages in the main physical realm in this respect.
Returning to the lair, Claudius was delighted to find that the portable pump-like faucet he had obtained was actually a magical curiosity—the inexhaustible water pump. This strange artifact communicates with the water elemental realm, and is able to provide endless fresh water, which can provide a thousand gallons of fresh water per hour, which is definitely a nautical artifact. I don't know where the captain who hung up without knowing his name got it, or maybe it was the gift he received by pleasing his goddess. Claudius' valuation power told him that the price of this thing was about 30,000 gold coins.....
As for the treasure chest, this guy smashed open the bejeweled-looking chest and found that it was indeed a box of gold coins in the literal sense of the word. Claudius knew at a glance that it was about 3,000 gold coins, clearly and beautifully patterned. Any red dragon will be greedy for the first time, and then stuff the gold coins and the endless water pump into their deepest lair. Claudius, however, had something else in mind.