A towered castle called the Dragon's Lair Outpost rises from the ground, tucked deep into the newly undulating hills in the heart of the Great Oasis.

It is surrounded by a ring of tall walls, and the houses in the walls are rustic but functional.

Today, the mountain where the Temple of the Twin Peaks is located is dead silent, and the mountain is devastated. Since the fall of the camel god, vines and weeds have grown wildly due to the nourishment of his divine blood, but the once lush old trees have not been able to revive.

From a distance, the withered hills look like dry skeletons, which makes people shudder. But what frightened the camel people the most was the army of the Dragon Clan that occupied this place.

Most of the elemental shamans, priests, and their emperors in the original Camel Empire were wiped out by the "Staff of God" that fell from the sky, and only a few Twin Peaks nobles survived.

Due to a lack of organization and management, these scattered resistance forces were no match for the warriors of the Dragonlord Clan, armed to the teeth. It only took more than half a month for the entire camel empire to fall.

In order to make up for the lack of troops, the desert kobold tribe forcibly matured a batch of cubs that had just hatched from eggs at the cost of consuming a small part of their vitality through a secret method to fill the army that was fighting in the island world.

Wherever they came to Jamaher, they conquered it, and every time they passed a farm, they occupied it. Invincible, invincible. However, with the surrender of a large number of camels, how to settle them has become another problem:

If these places are allowed to remain managed by the surrendered Twin Peaks nobles, or if they are left in a state of disorder, they will undoubtedly leave security risks, which will affect the "Scales of Eternal Order" Chamber of Commerce to seize benefits.

If the strategy of exterminating the camels is adopted and colonizing this place with the dragon clan of the ash world, one is likely to provoke the hostility of the subtle polar bear federation and cause unnecessary friction in the short term, and the other is that even if there is a secret method to mature, the population of the dragon clan will not be able to reach the scale of the original camel empire, which will also affect the business of the "Scales of Eternal Order".

After much deliberation, Quest decided to introduce a large number of rafters to land and live in order to reduce the proportion of camels in the area, and at the same time establish a system of dragon's nest outposts to encompass the entire camel empire.

As for those camels who have resistive emotions, the young blue dragon directly asked the dragon clan to use force and coercion to build a "gallop road" between the dragon's nest outposts under construction, so as to dissipate their "energy that has nowhere to place".

For months on end, all the camels are insulated from activities such as dancing, feasting, laughter, etc.

In addition to eating, drinking, and completing daily tasks, they also needed to drive the split-hoof ox carts full of blue-striped stones to deliver materials to their compatriots in the service of forced labor.

The main ones who oversee them are the desert kobolds and the war lizardmen, and if there are not enough people or the paving area is too remote, some young blue dragons who obey Quest will take over the supervision duties of the dragon clan warriors.

The brothers Mellors "Short Tail" and Gorgias "Iron Tail", as well as their mutual companion Anitos, were part of these "senior overseers", and they were almost all scheduled to work on a daily basis.

Flying and cruising, checking the progress of the project, quality acceptance...... The process was tedious, and it was a boring task for the undecided young dragons, but they were happy to do it.

Many of the young blue dragons who can't fill their work schedules even envy these three kinds, because whenever they don't have a job, they will be pulled by Quisla to "donate blood" - literally - to donate their own blood.

Collecting dragon blood has a lot to do with one of Quest's plans.

With the disappearance of the camel empire, the "bimodal-unimodal" dualistic class system was no longer stable.

Although many camel people are not yet aware of the strong pressure of the dragon clan, the instability of the social structure will inevitably breed chaos over time, which will affect the long-term peace and stability of the place.

As the ruler and a five-colored dragon on the side of order, Quest naturally needs to develop a new system of order, and this system must be firmly in his own hands.

Therefore, he wanted to create a "half-dragon", or "half-dragon camel", in the island world.

Admittedly, it's not uncommon for dragon-like hybrids to exist in the multiverse—in most cases, hybrids born of dragons combined with other creatures.

But Quest had no such intentions, and to tell the truth, he was only a child by the dragon's age standard.

Fortunately, this is a world where spells are prosperous, and you can use spells to create a "half-dragon camel".

However, in the initial experiment, the young blue dragon found that there seemed to be some problems with the transformation of the dragon vein with his own blood:

First of all, after devouring the camel god, he actually evolved the ability to regenerate at a super speed - the process of bleeding himself could not even withstand the speed of wound healing, and every time he bled blood, he had to deeply self-harm once;

Secondly, even if Quest was ruthless and constantly self-mutilating to extract blood, his blood seemed to have something special, perhaps related to his adaptive ability, and after being poured into other creatures, the test subject turned into a puddle of blood tofu and died in extreme pain.

That's why he forced his fellow clans in the Dragon's Lair Territory to "take the initiative to donate blood" to contribute to his research on the dragon vein transformation spell.

Of course, some of the younger ones are "slightly" unhappy about this, but they also know that the big fist is the truth. Besides, the blood that Quest collected from them wasn't much, at least for the size of the modified target.

The key step in the transformation of the dragon vein of the "half-dragon camel" is to soak the camel into a high concentration of dragon blood reagent, and with the size of the camel man, even if it is transformed into a "half-dragon camel", the amount of bloodletting required may be enough to make a young blue dragon on the verge of shock.

Most of the dragon blood used to really transform the "half-dragon camel" was the loot captured by Quisi after killing the ancient brown dragon that "dove occupies the magpie's nest" before.

The amount of blood contributed by the young blue dragons was probably only one-third of the total dragon blood potion needed.

This is mainly due to the control of the "half-dragon camels" - as "half-dragon" creatures, they maintain a natural reverence for the origin of their bloodline. As long as Quisi can command those blue dragons, the "half-dragon camel" can be pinched in the palm of his own hand.

When everything is ready, the first camel man to accept the transformation of the "half-dragon camel" is the former camel warlord Gelsang. Similar to how he became the first elemental shaman among the camels, he became the first "half-dragon camel" among the camels.

As the saying goes, "those who know the times are handsome", after the fall of the camel god, Gelsang, as the priest of the camel god, quickly accepted this fact. Instead of trying to resist, he actively lobbied the Twin Peaks nobles of the former Camel Empire to accept the rule of the young blue dragon.

This really surprised Quis, and even made a special inquiry about him: "Your current behavior is similar to your previous insistence on fighting the benthic devilfish." ”

At that time, the shaman master had just healed from his injuries, and after the fall of the camel god, the extinguishers had given up their suppression, and he stayed honestly on the small island where the mutated raft people lived, in a specially arranged seaside hut.

There was only a small bed in the hut with neat bedding, a small table beside it, and an old oil lamp on the table was the only source of light.

After listening respectfully to Quiss's question, Gersang nodded. His dark brown eyes shone with an almost fanatical determination to "work for the well-being of the camel people," he said word by word, staring into the eyes of the young blue dragon, word by word. It has never changed, but the form has changed, and I can only adapt to the new form. ”

It goes without saying that Gersang understands what this conversation means—that Quest wants to woo him and use his prestige among the camels to establish a new system of rule.

If the camel god had not fallen, and the camel empire had not collapsed, even if the camel emperor had a hostile intention to kill him, Gelsang would have chosen to support Caesar, whom all the Bactrian nobles had sworn allegiance to, and fight against the alien invaders.

But now, with no bones left of that Caesar and no heirs left in his lineage, Gersang would undoubtedly choose between the so-called "Bactrian aristocratic system of rule" and "the life and death of all the camels."

Rather than letting the angry young blue dragon support other puppets, or simply launch a genocide, he prefers to bear this "infamy" himself, in order to save more camels to live and recuperate in this world.

His words were concise, but they were true, true enough to be believed. Of course, what really dispelled Quest's doubts was the "Detect Lies" spell that was cast before the conversation, proving that Gersang was indeed true to what he said.

But even so, as a five-colored evil dragon, Quisi will not easily win the trust of a "smart man", and he still has a hand in the end - doesn't he claim to be "for the well-being of the camel people", so simply transform it into a "half-dragon camel" - use the dragon vein to transform the spell and put a shackle on Kelsan.

On the day of the completion of the gallop system that connected the various Dragon's Lair outposts, all the Bactrian nobles who actively or passively participated in the service, as well as some of the newly rising leaders of the dromedary, were ordered to come to the great oasis of the original camel empire to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony.

And at this ceremony, in recognition of Kelsan's exploits, Quest intended to give him a reward for dragon blood transformation in front of them.

The old camel elemental shaman stripped off his clothes and stepped into a cauldron carved from a single piece of crystal, only to be overwhelmed by the dragon's blood potion carried by the desert kobolds.

After falling into the cauldron, the dragon's blood potion quickly coagulated into a blood cocoon, enveloping Kelsang tightly in it. About a third of an hourglass hour or so later, the Blood Cocoon bursts, and the first "Half-Dragon Camel" appears in the island world:

Under his skin, the pale brown scales were absent, and the muscles up and down his body were tense, without the slightest sense of old age;

A pair of dragon-like wings stretched out from its back, and with a slight wave, the whole person rose from the ground and hung in the air;

A circle of blue scales wrapped around his neck, like a necklace, and his cheeks became thin like an eagle, and he opened his mouth to spit out a bolt of lightning.

The eyes of all the camel leaders present showed uncontrollable envy and jealousy—a subtle smile appeared on the corner of Quis's mouth when he noticed the change.

After the Bactrian and dromedary, a whole new class emerged among the camels.