The inhabitants of the fishing village who were killed by the Abyssal Merfolk were put to new use, and their corpses were not "wasted", but were all used as rations for the Usan army to domesticate slave war dogs. These war beasts, which had become hungry after dozens of days of sea voyages, devoured hard-won food - in fact, the fleet had prepared sufficient supplies for them before setting out for the expedition, but unfortunately the "new weapons" that were temporarily added to the establishment were too gluttonous, and they ate up all the meat reserves of other troops, resulting in the loss of almost half of the Usang war dogs accompanying the army - they could only rely on cannibalism to obtain food.

But even so, none of the governors dared to restrain the alien slaves who were "new weapons". The huge iron cages containing them were placed in the bilges of specially modified warships, and the surface was covered with opaque canvas, and the beast slaves who were responsible for feeding the meat each time had to be prepared to serve as food, and in the sound of the "popping" electricity, they wore rubber clothing that could have a certain insulating effect, and poured tons of meat pieces around the iron cages with board carts.

Meat eaters despise, but when there is no meat to eat, the terrible blue-footed dragon snake will go berserk. Even if the cubs were controlled by the rear base camp of the Wosang and had to obey the orders of the slave owners and become part of the advance army, these cruel monsters still naturally had the prestige of the powerful at the top of the food chain. General U-sang from the professed warriors did not dare to come into direct contact with him under the premise of being sheltered by less than thirty spellcasters, and every blue-footed dragon snake dared to attack any living creature except for the strongest snake king within the population.

Even against dragons.

In fact, in the era when it was no longer possible to verify, the blue-footed dragon snake was already the natural enemy of the dragon. They are the result of an order submitted by the Giant God to the Biolabs of the Ancient Imaska Empire, and the goal of designing the creature was to create a biological weapon that would assist the Giant Race in challenging the Dragons. The original Blue-footed Dragon Serpent had the physique and strength of a dragon, and even among the giants, only the strongest Storm Giant could control these war beasts. They spit out a lightning breath similar to that of a blue dragon, powerful enough to turn most matter into char. If they encounter a stronger opponent, they will choose to strain them and swallow them alive. Rather than the giant's name for the "dragon hunting weapon", the ancient Imaska people were more accustomed to naming it after the shape of this laboratory creation, the blue-footed dragon snake.

They resemble a combination of a centipede, a snake and a crocodile. Its scales form a bluish to dark blue skin, while the scales on its abdomen transition to light blue. The blue-footed dragon snake can crawl on the ground or on the wall to hunt down its prey. As they age, they grow in size and develop more powerful three-toed claws. However, due to their longevity, most of the blue-footed dragon snakes can only grow six pairs of claws, but the king of the green-footed dragon snakes who came with the advance army of the Usang has a body length comparable to that of an adult white dragon, and its belly has as many as twelve pairs of claws.

Due to the colonization of the Imaska Empire in ancient times, it is not surprising that the world of ashes has traces of the blue-footed dragon snake, but this world is also inhabited by giant dragons. As a natural enemy, the Blue-footed Dragon Snake never nests within the dragon's territory, and if a dragon is found within tens of kilometers of its nest, they will have to kill or drive it away. Only when the dragon is too strong to fight against it, the blue-footed dragon snake will give up and leave for a new habitat.

Of course, this is not to say that they are afraid of dragons, although there are more dragons than blue-footed dragons in the entire multiverse, but in some areas the blue-footed dragon snake can often crush any local dragon with its numbers. Especially when there is a snake king in the group - this kind of first-born two-horned blue-footed dragon snake is not only as strong as an old dragon such as the white dragon or the red bronze dragon, but its population will only give birth to such a snake king when it exceeds 100 - such a blue-footed dragon snake lair gathers the strength of the whole clan, enough to fight head-on with a small group of red dragons. It's just that due to the lack of Storm Giants' domination, the dragon snake clan rarely makes such a choice.

And the Usang Empire took a fancy to the strength of the blue-footed dragon snake as a "dragon hunting weapon", so it used a large number of spellcasters to design and steal all their cubs and eggs to be hatched, thus forcing all adult blue-footed dragon snakes from the snake king down to wear slave collars and obey the orders of the commander of the advance army. Information obtained by the Senate from Brittany indicates that the first obstacle to conquest after finding a way through the Wall of Despair is the Blue Dragons who have been entrenched in the middle of Medici since ancient times, and that the Blue-Footed Dragons and Serpents are the secret weapon to restrain this formidable enemy.

"This precious ancient creature weapon is of great significance and must not be lost. This is the message of the uncle of the commander of the advance army, that is, the general of the Usang Empire, before leaving. For his uncle, who is a legendary warrior and has an even more legendary experience, General Usang has always been obedient to his words. Therefore, he did not hesitate to divert all the meat reserves of the entire fleet, just to feed the stomachs of the beasts that seemed to be in a perpetual state of hunger.

With the establishment of a beachhead near the Wall of Despair, special ships designed by skilled craftsmen have been transformed into engineering machines with different purposes. This was the custom of the advance regiments of the U-Sansang, and the slaves who had crossed the sea on these ships on the return journey were not taken into account by the commander at all, and in fact they had already been included in the battle damage table by the clerk by default. Thanks to the abundance of labor and the tools that the slave workers had at their disposal, the temporary base camp of the Uzons took shape at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just half a day it began to take shape: barracks for the freedfolk swordsmen and the governors, houses for the slave warriors of the "Dudu" to live in, temporary docks jutting out into the depths of the sea, towering watchtowers made of scaffolding, and corresponding facilities related to the army's diet and defecation...... These military buildings in the U-sang style appear one after another in the border areas that originally belonged to the Medici Empire.

After all these preliminary preparations were completed, the army of free folk swordsmen, the "Du Fall" slave warriors, and the beast legions such as war horses and war dogs had landed, and some of the baggage supplies were properly placed, and the main event began. The more than 800 mages who came with the legion, under the command of eight "centurions", stood in two teams above the waves, and they were arranged in pairs to form a passage of spellcasters. The decks of several modified special troop carriers, which were originally located at the core of the fleet, opened the reserved flaps, and the ropes of the ship's wooden cranes tied themselves to the huge iron cages placed in the bilges under the influence of spells, and then hoisted them out of the cabin using the force of machinery. At this time, two mages had already been prepared to cast a levitation spell on the iron cage and splash a calming alchemy spray respectively, and then the iron cage was transported to the temporary base camp on the shore through the transportation channel composed of mage troops.

The group of blue-footed dragon snakes that came with the advance army was more than 100 in size, and it took 5 specially modified troop carriers to carry them across the sea. The Usang mage forces were able to transport almost all of the cages ashore, only to have problems handling the last and largest cage. The Snake King, who held the population of the blue-footed dragon snake in this iron cage, was sprayed with a calming potion, and the monster was able to counteract the effects of the alchemy potion with its strong physique.

Not only that, but the mage's actions also stimulated the dignity of the snake king, and the cast-iron bars as thick as an adult's thighs turned red under his lightning breath, and several pairs of three-clawed toes toe toe a huge exit in the iron cage with a slight force. The King of the Dragonsnake broke out of the iron cage, venting its anger with a dull roar, and the sea water near its body boiled with a torrent of lightning, and small fish and shrimp that had been electrocuted rose to the surface in patches.

Even more terrifying things were yet to come, and the other blue-footed dragon snakes that had been pacified by the tranquilizer were all disturbed by the roar of their king, and in an instant, they rioted one after another in the iron cage. Although it was unable to break out of the cage like the Snake King due to its lack of strength, many slaves who were in charge of watching over these monsters were strangled by their long tails sticking out of the cracks in the iron cage or directly turned into charcoal by lightning breath because they stood too close. At this point, the overseers in charge also gave up on using their whips to keep the slaves calm, and they had to use spell collars that cost obsidian beads to take effect to forcibly stop the impending roar.

"Stop that monster!" General Usang stood on a high platform in the distance, pointing to the King of the Blue-Footed Dragon and Serpent, and shouted instructions to the mages accompanying him. Brittany, who stood beside him, was amazed at the panic now shown by the commander of the advance army, who had always seemed to be indifferent to everything, and at the same time he was sincerely admired by the secret weapons of the sea that the Usayans had kept secret. The failed heir who had fantasized countless times about wearing the golden crown of the Pharaoh of Medici in the future realized that he had been in danger of capsizing an entire fleet during dozens of days of sea voyages.

The centurion of the eight mage forces had to step forward, and if it weren't for the noble responsibilities of the Usang, who had been instilled in them since childhood, they would never have ventured into a close encounter with such a terrifying monster. Under the effect of the spell, the broken iron cage that had knocked over half of the deck was reconstructed, and the iron bars were woven around the caster's body into a small safety cage that could temporarily block the lightning around the King of the Snake, giving them a chance to approach the monster and shout: "Son of the mighty Ada, King of Dragons and Serpents, Lord of the Dragons and Serpents, Lord of the Beasts, please take a moment to calm your anger." According to the agreement you have signed with the Senate, as long as you provide services for this expedition, your people will not only be able to welcome back those heirs, but will also receive the right to live and reproduce forever on the island of Ishusu, to which the U-sangs belong. Otherwise......"

Before the mage could finish speaking, the huge monster had already snaked and flew to his side. Its powerful three-toed claws shattered the cage with a slight pinch, and before it could complete this action, the mage in the cage had already turned its body into a flowing water elemental sleeve and dragged it out. "You'd better keep your promise, or we'll take revenge on the Usang even if our clan is wiped out!" The language used by the King of the Blue-Footed Dragon and Serpent was the language of his natural enemy, the dragon, and before he could finish speaking, the terrifying monster transformed into the appearance of the caster who had just spoken to him, and the water elemental that the caster had turned into was blasted into a mist of water by a thunderbolt that poured out of nowhere at the same time.

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