Chapter 59

As time passed, Claudius's body sank deeper and deeper into the magma. www.biquge.info About ten years later, the magma had submerged the red dragon, twenty years later, the red dragon had sunk to the mouth of the passage between the newly formed magma chamber and the magma lake below, and twenty-five years later, Claudius had sunk into the magma in the center of the crater. As for the mushroom people, after dropping over a dozen corpses, they managed to escape the attack of the dreadclaw from underground, escaping to the top and sealing the rift. Although these mushroom people have strong defense and strength, their combat power is simply pathetic to a certain extent under the skill bonus, that is, the life of a farmer. The dreadclaw's claws were able to tear through the bodies of these half-metal, half-organic mushrooms, but after trying to tear them apart, the dreadclaws sadly found that they couldn't eat them! The crater's blazing red light mixed with the sun's rays was not suitable for the Dreadclaw, so they actually retreated back to the dark regions after the attack, but all this mushrooms were unbeknownst to the people.

No one has set foot on the land of Hell Island for many years, there are no ruins or labyrinths in this place, the dragon's lair has long been destroyed by volcanic eruptions, and there are indeed many congealed metal pieces in the volcanic rock, but the value of these things is not worth the risk of people crossing the sea and then spending months through the jungle to climb the volcano, digging up and sifting through the valuable gold and silver under the daily eruptions..... the name "Crimson Calamity" has become a legend, There are such legends every ten years or so in the land of Ferron, but many of them are gone—or replaced by legendary dragon-slaying poems from the bards.

The topography of Hell Island has changed considerably over the years, and with the eruption of volcanoes and the gradual elevation of the strata, the original cross-shaped island has long since disappeared and expanded into a large island of hundreds of square kilometers with a slight cross shape. With the exception of the central volcano, which has grown to a height of more than 2,000 meters and has no vegetation but lichens, the rest of the island is already overgrown with tropical and subtropical vegetation - depending on the altitude. The four-headed sea monster still haunts the four directions, and from time to time they will fight in adjacent places, completely ignoring the rule that everyone eats under Amberi's men.

As the volcano grows taller, the magma lakes and magma chambers inside also grow taller and larger, which is one of the reasons for the elevation of the strata, and the entire island is dotted with hot springs and geysers, and many air pockets will regularly spew hot sulfur from them. In addition to the plants and insects on the island, the huge rainfall makes the plants extremely lush, and all kinds of poisonous insects also breed all over the pits and valleys. The most dangerous part of the island, apart from the four sea monsters, is the cracks on the island, which are usually covered by plants and can fall if you accidentally step on the air, and the bottom is either lava or sinkholes tens or hundreds of meters deep, and there are even some cracks leading to the dark areas.

On the sea, the volcanic smoke from the eruption of this Hell Island forms a plume of smoke that can be seen as far away as Santa Cruz Island. Santa Cruz Island has also changed dramatically over the decades. With several more villages, more rainforest cleared, more fields to produce more wheat and potatoes, and new bakeries and houses in Port Santa Cruz, the population has grown considerably over the years – 10,000 people.

The barracks of the Dragon's Tooth Soldiers have not changed much, they are still those soldiers, and they can't even tell how old they are, as a race born from the Dragon's Tooth, their lifespan is far longer than that of humans. However, a new soldier appeared in the barracks, a half-human, half-dragontooth soldier who had crossed with a human, and although his skin was as pale as his father's, he did not have the pale red pattern that was naturally generated. These half-dragon tooth soldiers are also geniuses of war, although they are not born elite infantry like their fathers, but they also have an advantage in learning all kinds of combat skills, and their learning ability is even better than that of the genuine dragon tooth soldiers - this is an ability inherited from the human mother, these guys are naturally as good at learning non-combat skills as humans in terms of cobblers, blacksmiths, etc. These people also have a longer lifespan than humans, almost equivalent to the average lifespan of humans and dragontooth soldiers, basically if they do not die on the battlefield, then they can live more than 300 years old, and the prime of life is as long as more than 200 years. The only regret is that their mothers are already old - the life span of humans in the land of Faerun, as long as they do not become warriors, mages and the like, ordinary civilians can live for eighty years.

The frequency of fertility between the hybrids between humans and dragontooth soldiers is not low, although it is not as high as the average woman can give birth to five or six children in her life cycle, but she can also give birth to two or three children. And there are also half of the female half-dragontooth soldiers - not as warlike as their brothers, but it is likely that they will marry the same half-dragontooth soldiers and give birth to a stronger next generation - but they should never reach the heights of their fathers...... Pure-blooded dragontooth soldiers were born from Claudius' teeth, and over the years, they have grown in strength and skill like dragons......

Now that the dragontooth soldiers have learned, it is better to force the inhabitants of Santa Cruz Island to learn how to build galleys. Although the Galen galleons used by the pirates of the past could not be repaired or replicated, the inhabitants managed to improve their shipbuilding techniques to the point where they could build larger ships that could use their sails and oars flexibly. The dragon tooth soldiers adhered to the rules at the beginning, and did not collect a large amount of fiscal taxes, they have always fixed the proportion of taxes, and the newly developed fields can even be tax-free for a certain period of time. And their children are more likely to cultivate their own fields and grow their own food—and with a racial advantage over human physical strength, these half-dragontooth soldiers are far better at farming than ordinary farmers.

But they had no fishing on the seas, and the half-dragons and their fathers had a new maritime profession - the ancient pirate profession, roaming the seas in galleys, forcing the merchant ships they caught up with to pay insurance premiums and looting the unfortunate ones who refused to pay. Of course, they were also very polite in clearing out the other pirates in their sphere of influence, and returning them to Ambery's arms without mercy. Even among the pirates were Amberi's priests and black knights, who gained great spell resistance from their creator, Claudius, and their strong bodies gave them the ability to swim and breath away, making it difficult to drown them. Moreover, the galleys were not equipped with such expensive things as magic cannons, but they were equipped with nimble ballistas and drawbridges, which in particular were a pirate's nightmare. A pirate ship that is caught and secured by the drawbridge will face the elite infantry rushing from the drawbridge, and what will basically be a massacre. And there are very few pirates who can have a tall Galen pirate ship......

The Dragonfangs controlled the surrounding oceans, and just a few years ago, they began trying to get closer to Hell Island to see if they could land there—and the Dragonfangs knew by perception that their master was in the crater.