Chapter 53: The True Dragon
The small episode did not stop the trio from continuing further into the forest, and the next day they walked a long way, and then finally spotted the earthwalker before preparing to camp in the evening.
It was some huge footprints, probably because of the rain the other day, that had turned into small pools.
The bounty hunter crouched beside a pond, gestured with his hands, and then used his skills to make an estimate, and after estimating, he got back to his feet and said with some concern, "This guy is huge, much bigger than the one we killed last time." ”
"How big?" asked Panda.
"Last time it was about five to six meters tall, and now this one is at least twenty meters high, maybe even higher. ”
This data made the panda's stupid boldness can't help but widen his eyes: "What did you say? Twenty meters?
"You can't be mistaken, right?" the self-proclaimed handsome druid walked over to another pond and cast a spell that turned the water into a large ballball of water and threw it far into the nearby trees.
What appeared in front of them was a pit that could be used as a bath for ordinary people to lie in. There are distinct traces of four toes at one end of the pit, and more dents at the other end.
There's no doubt that it's a big guy.
The panda leaned over, compared it with his own pace, and then spoke in the chat channel.
[Panda: Excuse me, who remembers the earth-walking dragon we killed earlier, how long the soles of the feet were?]
[Sleepless Night: Front Foot or Hind Foot?] Its front foot is slightly smaller than the back foot. 】
[Panda: Probably ...... Hind foot bar. 】
[Sleepless Night: At that time, assuming that Sanyu's height is one meter eight, then the front feet of the earth dragon are about forty-five centimeters long, and the hind feet are about fifty-five centimeters long. The front foot is narrow and the tip of the claw is sharp, while the back foot has a blunt tip but the ball of the foot is open. According to preliminary estimates, it may have a similar movement pattern to that of a bear, running faster on all fours, but walking more easily on its hind feet. 】
[Panda: So...... If an earth-walking dragon is ...... It's probably the footprints of the hind feet, there are about one meter five or longer, and when you look sideways, it is estimated that it will be close to one meter, how big will it be?
[Yunero: I'll it! It's so big?!]
[Ah Mao: This guy is different from the one we killed before, right?]
[Mavi: Are you sure this is its footprints and nothing else?]
[Bounty Hunter: We have a long line of these footprints in front of us.] 】
[Emperor: This ...... I remember reading a news story about a gringo lying next to a fossilized dinosaur footprint, about the same height as a fossil. That dinosaur is said to be 35 meters in size!]
[Bounty Hunter: My identification skills tell me that this footprint belongs to a rock-based earth-walking dragon, which may be more than twenty meters tall and weighs hard...... Are we really going to hit it?]
There was silence in the chat channel, and everyone was frightened.
Such a large man can really be regarded as a giant dragon - not a so-called "real dragon" dragon, but a huge "dragon".
After a while, someone spoke again.
[Sanyu no dreamers: I think it's better to forget it, this head is too big......]
[Harmony: Is this really an earth-walking dragon? Not a real dragon or something?]
[Bounty Hunter: Surely the footprints of the Earth Dragon.] 】
[Sleepless Night: I have a question - if this Earth Dragon's size is so large, how did the adventurers who found it escape alive?]
This is indeed a very acute question, the Earth Dragons are not the kind of stupid beasts that lazily sleep when they are full, they not only have great strength, but also have a high level of intelligence, especially with an extremely strong sense of territory. If anyone intrudes into its territory, it will soon be hit with a relentless blow.
Now that those adventurers can see the Earth Walking Dragon, they must have invaded its territory. There is no doubt that they will definitely be attacked by the Earth Walking Dragons.
How did they survive without the ability to be resurrected?
So the travelers went to the gates of the town of Loka and asked Mario Loca about it.
At this question, they realized that they had made a mistake - those adventurers had not seen the Earth Walking Dragon at all, they had only seen the props used by the Earth Walking Dragon to mark their territory.
A pile of dragon dung.
Dragons' feces have a strange smell, which is a special way they use to emphasize territorial ownership. The smell is so weird that you can't tell if it's fragrant or ugly, but it's so strong that you won't forget it once you smell it.
It is precisely by relying on the effect of these feces that dragon creatures are able to enclose their territory well, and prohibit any other beasts from coming in to get a piece of the pie.
It's also interesting to say, and for adventurers, dragon dung is actually a very good catch. They can be smeared on the body to mask one's aura and scare off dangerous monsters, or they can be sold to alchemy workshops to refine the famous "ambergris".
Ambergris is one of the most expensive spices, and a small bottle can only be exchanged for ten times its weight in gold. But if you want to refine such a bottle of ambergris, the materials required are also amazing-from the sleepless skill data, it takes about hundreds of kilograms of fresh dragon dung to refine about fifty grams of ambergris. This also requires the dragon dung of a real dragon, and if it is an earthly dragon, or if it is not fresh enough, it will require more portions.
The Dixing Dragon that they killed at the beginning, when they dismantled the corpse, they got a lot of dragon dung. They are well stored by the dragon vein kobold "San Lang", waiting for time to be refined into ambergris.
Saburo's profession is the "Great Master", a legendary profession unique to some less civilized regions, and can handle all the gathering, processing, and manufacturing work single-handedly. But no matter in any aspect, it can't be at the level of legend, and it can be regarded as a panacea for production.
As a somewhat lazy guy, Saburo is rarely willing to make things with his hands - unless he comes across a subject that interests him.
Ambergris is precisely the subject he is interested in.
This stuff is not only an excellent incense, but also an extremely high-grade condiment. As disgusting as the source is, once you've tasted it, no one cares about its ugly origins.
Saburo doesn't usually have any hobbies, but he is interested in all kinds of food. When he was in the castle, he had been very enthusiastic about learning cooking with Sanyu, and he already had Sanyu's four or five points of skill.
However, the thing that Saburo hates the most is hard training, so he simply changes direction and intends to seek a breakthrough from the perspective of ingredients.
Recently, he has been researching dragon ingredients, and ambergris is one of his research directions.