Chapter 24: Occasional Tenderness

Salota is not stupid, and it is not wrong to say that he is a dragon elder. He doesn't think highly of himself and doesn't want to be used as fertilizer.

Out of his enthusiasm for a comfortable life and his strong instinct for survival, the legendary dragon wanted to immediately send a "little miscellaneous" message that made him unhappy, and then destroy this old immortal message who didn't know how many points of blood he had similar to himself, pretending not to know, not knowing, and never seen it at all.

But he couldn't.

After years of study, he has become as proficient in spell casting skills as eating and drinking, giving him the ability to see through the appearance of things. And the content of the "bloodline contract" clearly pointed out in this letter, the spiritual senses of the spell tell Salotta that this is not an ethereal threat and intimidation, but an objectively existing established fact.

"I'm afraid that most of the ancestral blood relatives who migrated to this world from other planes had to make a decision to compromise with the dragon queen due to the pressure of survival," Salota rationally analyzed, although there is enough respect for the god of the evil dragon, but the long years of the Ash World without the belief in gods have made the old dragon born from this plane have the same devout belief in gods as the natives of this world: "The content of this contract is very similar to the style of Bato's Nine Prisons, and there is even a hint of the Styx contract [1] If I disobey it, I'm afraid that the entire dragon's nest will be in danger of encountering accidents under my bloodline......"

"I can only go to that hellish place and risk my life......"

According to the requirements of the conscription order, Salotta, who has already become a legendary, needs to lead his legion to the first layer of Bato Aphnanas to make a pilgrimage to the god of dragons, and he himself will serve under his command and be at his disposal for a hundred years, and the other adult blue dragons will have to stay for twenty years, and the young dragons will only need to endure for one to two years before they can fulfill their promise and return to the dragon's lair.

It's just that it was Aphnath, at the forefront of the bloody war. Salotta's far superior legendary power is not worth mentioning there, and the power of demigods and even gods can be annihilated from time to time. Lao Long had the most pessimistic speculation that he would be lucky enough to survive this war and that a few clansmen would come back.

Thinking of this, looking at the last descendant of the evil dragon who was struggling in the "force field cage" while sneering coldly at the old dragon who had read the conscription order, the malice in Salotta's heart became a little more.

"Old Dragon, do you have the courage to face the wrath of the Great Five Dragon Gods, or do you have the courage to face the curse brought about by disobeying the bloodline contract......?"

The hideous face of the legendary blue dragon, who was originally angry with this arrogant and rude messenger, suddenly calmed down, and then casually cast a spell to turn himself into a half-dragon human form about the height of the last descendant of the evil dragon, close to the force field cage, and said in a tone that was not impatient: "I have to say that I don't have that kind of strength, out of respect for the great dragon queen Lord Tiamat, I must abide by this contract and go to fight for her." ”

With the movement of his fingers, the unique secret imprint belonging to the old dragon is imprinted on the conscription order, which is a sign of the fulfillment of the contract. With the conclusion of the contract, the scales of the primeval dragon, which carried the will to summon Salotta to Bato, suddenly shattered into tiny ashes, drifting from the clutches of the legendary dragon that had taken the form of a half-dragon.

"Last question, are you considered powerful in your clan, and are you qualified to serve the Dragon Queen in person?"

Salota's strange question for no reason made the dragon envoy a little puzzled, but he still replied arrogantly in his eyes: "I am naturally a powerful warrior, and my ranking in the combat power of the clan is close to the first dozen or so ancestors who were originally created, but I have not yet received the glory of meeting the great dragon queen. Wait a little longer......"

Without waiting for the last descendant of the evil dragon to finish speaking, the old dragon with a clear expression, the face of the half-dragon man resembling a real dragon actually squeezed out an expression like a smile: "Then goodbye." "A long time ago, the Great Cracking Technique directly penetrated the force field cage and bombarded the body of the Evil Dragon Descendant, without wailing or flesh and blood, a legendary warrior who was still alive just now was directly split into fine dust.

"Godslayer, hmph, is there really such a weak god to kill you? Ignorant and stupid weak creatures have tainted a little bit of bloodline inheritance from the true dragon in vain. ”

If you are so weak, you can still be called strong in the group, so the overall strength of this group can be imagined; Salota knew that the god of the dragon was the mother of the five-colored dragons, not the mother of the last descendants of the dragons.

After dealing with this guy who upset him, Salota was in a better mood. It's been a long time since I've cast spells in battle, and I don't seem to feel rusty when I practice just now, so I will feel at ease when I go to a dangerous place like the bloody battlefield.

"Hey, little one, what are you doing there, what's wrong with your patrol?"

The young dragon paced in from behind the huge doorpost at the entrance of the Dragon Heart Hall, even if it was extremely developed, his true dragon body was no longer inferior to the ordinary young blue dragon. But he was still not much taller than a legendary dragon in the form of a half-dragon. "What kind of half-dragon is the old dragon's spell mimicking, it won't be a half-dragon or a half-giant......

I'm thinking about some boring questions that don't matter, but superficial deference is still necessary. After entering the Dragon's Heart Hall, Quest Fetan bowed his "giant head" of civilization to Salotta.

"Dear Lord of the Dragon's Lair, my teacher, Lord of Thunder Salotta," fortunately, the frequencies of many syllables in the dragon's language can represent different meanings, so that this long list of honorifics will not seem too heavy: "This is the twenty-sixth time that I have completed the hunting mission in the Dragon's Lair territory, and I submit a detailed report of this mission to you." ”

As he spoke, the blue dragon Quest stood up and cast a spell to show off his secret imprint, and Salotta was able to use the power of the spell to quickly scan the contents of the report in this esoteric imprint as long as he used the rules established in advance.

Looking at the people who hatched from the dragon eggs she brought back from her last expedition, Salota felt a sense of closeness in her heart.

The direct descendants who have the closest blood connection to themselves have all left the dragon's lair due to their inability to challenge the position of the master of their lair, and there is no hope of promotion, and even left this world to explore their own legendary path and establish their own nest. I'm afraid that in the future, unless I launch the Dragon Covenant when I encounter an unexpected challenge or am unable to fight alone, I may not be able to see each other again in this life.

Although the life of a dragon is long, and creatures who have experienced a long time will gradually lose their affection for their families, he is still only an extremely old dragon after all, and he has not experienced tens of thousands of years of life like the ancient dragon, so naturally he will not have such an indifferent heart.

The young dragons who remain in the lair, even the oldest adult dragons, are the bloodline of their own generations later. In addition to the extraordinarily "sturdy" little dragon in front of him, he was brought back to the dragon's lair by Salotta himself and hatched from the egg.

Emotionally, compared to the older "rebels" who are bent on defeating their father and becoming the master of the nest, this young kind, although it grows at an astonishing rate, may not threaten its position in the next thousand years, such a Quest is very popular with Salotta.

After briefly checking the information in the arcane sigil, learning of the attack on his tributary caravan and other hunting of huge beasts capable of threatening the dragon's nest, Salotta waved his hand to disperse the arcane sigil and stared at Quis cryptically. He knew that this little guy had something to hide, including the fact that he had found the copper ore vein before and secretly occupied and devoured it, but he understood very well that this was the nature of the blue dragon, secretly accumulating all his strength and working hard to become stronger, didn't he grow up like this before.

However, now it is different, although he is only a young dragon, he has the strength of a peak young dragon, Quis will definitely follow him and lead his powerful dependents to Avernath to fight, maybe he will encounter more opportunities for himself, but it is more likely that he will die due to misfortune. Thinking that this little dragon was as obsessed with magnificent spells as he was when he was younger, and that he also had no weak talent, Salota felt that he should teach him something before he went on an expedition to Bato.

With a wave of his hand, a huge spell book arrived in his hand from the platform where the old dragon used to lie on his stomach, even if the half-dragon man that Salotta mimiced was the size of a giant, the book was too big. The cover of the spellbook was made from the skin of a scroll dragon that Salota had killed when he had become an adult, and the thin, dense scales of fish scales glowed with iridescent light.

Flipping through his spell book, the old dragon found the corresponding page, and gently laid out the introduction of spells, spell casting tricks, and even the super magic expertise he was used to using to completely copy spells and rub them onto a new scroll. After completing this, he carefully closed the book, waved his hand and threw the spell book to the platform where he was resting, and handed the scroll containing the complex spell knowledge to the little dragon in front of him.

"Little Dragon, you did a good job patrolling, this is your reward - the Nine Rings Spell Demon Duncan Cleavage is also known as the Great Cleavage Technique, this is a powerful spell invented by a genius and powerful human spellcaster from the other world, but I think with your wisdom and ability as a blue dragon, you should be able to comprehend its mysteries......"

PS: [Note 1]: The Styx Contract is a kind of high-level contract in the DND series, which is higher than the level of the contract made by ordinary devils, and gods or creatures with the power of gods will use this contract to make an oath, and the price of breaking the contract is beyond the reach of ordinary weak gods.