Chapter 194: CH : 188 Bloody War I
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"It's not that I don't want to get rid of these secret magic marks, but that my magic skills are not as good as that of the green dragon, so I can only choose to let it go."
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Not long after Barbatos left, a huge emerald-green beast roared out of the giant white door. Under the gaze of a group of storm dragons, it entered the palace in the blink of an eye.
Soon, the angry roar of the dragon came from the green dragon's lair, and the sound shook hundreds of miles, frightening all the birds and animals.
Inside the palace.
The emerald-green beast transformed into a human form, becoming a tall woman wearing an emerald-green dress.
At this time, the woman stamped her feet angrily, creating deep pits on the palace floor. The reason she changed into a human form is that getting angry in dragon form would tear down the palace, which would make the already poor green dragon even worse. However, she had to vent her anger, so she changed into human form to do so.
"Damn it! I, Malina, have never suffered such a big loss in hundreds of years!" Ms. Malina gritted her teeth in fury.
Especially when she saw the gold coins left by the black dragon, she felt utterly humiliated!
The equipment and spells taken away were worth dozens of times the gold coins left behind by the black dragon!
"Let me see who you are!" Malina's eyes were filled with rage.
With a wave of her hand, the eyeball-like crystal on an inconspicuous gray staff in the treasure pile flashed, and a huge light curtain instantly appeared in front of Malina. This was the recording crystal she had specially placed since the last time the black dragon visited.
She saw the light screen with a flick of her white finger, and the light screen fast-forwarded in an instant, quickly reaching the moment when Barbatos broke in.
The fast forwarding stopped, and Malina focused on the light curtain. She saw the black giant beast walking leisurely from the entrance of the palace, and her eyes narrowed slightly.
Ancient black dragon?
Wrong.
The life aura was not correct.
For any true dragon, reaching the ancient dragon stage is a transformation of the essence of life. The black dragon in the light curtain did not exude that aura.
However, Malina did not deny that this strange-looking black dragon was very powerful.
If it were weak, it would have been impossible to treat the hundreds of spells she had arranged as mere trifles, akin to bathing in elements. The physical body alone had endured spell attacks strong enough to kill an average level-15 master professional. This black dragon was undoubtedly formidable. That body type could not be a decoration or an illusion.
"Legendary black dragon?" Malina frowned slightly, deep in thought.
But soon, she shook her head.
As a green dragon who specialized in spells and had reached the master level in spellcasting, her mental acuity and observational ability far exceeded that of ordinary dragons. She did not sense legendary qualities in this black dragon.
Of course, it was not ruled out that the black dragon's method of concealing its aura was extraordinarily powerful. However, Malina suspected the black dragon had not reached legendary status. Her intuition had always been accurate.
"Do I want to seek justice?" After roughly estimating the black dragon's strength, Malina felt a bit eager to give it a try.
If she couldn't beat him, she could at least run away. This was something Malina was very confident in.
"But what if this is a trap?" Malina asked herself, her suspicion growing. She had always been quite wary—an attribute common among green dragons. This was one of the reasons why their survival rate was so high.
What was there to be suspicious of? While chromatic dragons would not easily kill each other without special reasons, imprisonment or forced unequal contracts after defeat were not uncommon.
Malina struggled for a long time, took a deep breath, and finally decided to let it go. She resolved to find a new place to settle later.
Now.
"Idiot, come in here!" Malina called angrily.
The leader of the Storm Dragons walked in timidly, pressing against the palace wall. "Master, this is really not my fault."
"Shut up." Malina glared at the leader of the Storm Wyverns with disgust. She had once thought accepting a top-level monster with a mutated bloodline like the Storm Wyvern as a familiar was an honor. Now, she wanted to tear him apart.
"Now, move!"
"Ah?" The leader of the Storm Wyverns was stunned and said subconsciously, "Master, are you afraid—"
Before he finished speaking, he quickly shut up, for his master had already transformed back into her dragon form. The dragon's mouth was brimming with storm elemental power. Any delay would result in a ruthless baptism of the storm.
"Move! We will move now!"
Here, Malina was organizing the relocation of the Storm Dragons. Meanwhile, the atmosphere in Black Castle, more than two thousand kilometers away, was filled with joy.
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As soon as I returned to my lair, I first inspected the white dragon eggs. Sophia had arranged them meticulously. All the white dragon eggs were placed in a new room in Black Castle, surrounded by a large number of ice elemental crystals and magic cores in the dragon's nest. These provided the energy needed for hatching.
"Very good." I smiled with satisfaction.
At this time, the future dragon army had finally taken shape in terms of numbers. With over a dozen white dragon eggs and the dragons already in the nest, their numbers exceeded twenty.
With their birth, they would be guided by two mighty adult metallic dragons, whose combined presence alone would command awe and terror. With such a formidable assembly, even an army of ten thousand elite human warriors would stand little chance, their strength fading like dust before the raw, untamed might of dragonkind.
As for strength, I have patience.
Anyway, dragons have long lifespans, let alone me, who possesses the power of the void.
Take your time.
"I hope there will be more dragon beasts this time." I muttered.
It is estimated that I am the only dragon praying for dragon eggs to hatch into dragon beasts.
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Kingdom, Laputa River.
A large number of camps were built in the wetlands, where monsters with sticky skin, fish heads, and human bodies roamed.
Among them were strong green-skinned fishmen, about the height of ordinary humans, armed with harpoons. Shorter, thinner blue-skinned fishmen, standing around 1.34 meters tall, carried coral staffs.
This was the pioneer territory of the sahuagin Duke Babakar.
Sahuagin society was familial and hierarchical, with each sahuagin knowing their place. Their aristocratic system mirrored those of humans and other intelligent races.
Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, Duke, Sahuagin Prince, Sahuagin King.
For the sahuagin, who were strictly hierarchical, a title not only symbolized status and bloodline but also represented power.
The Sahuagin Duke was undoubtedly a master-level expert.
In the center of this depression stood a camp dozens of meters high.
At its gates, two green-skinned sahuagin guards, four-armed and towering at two and a half meters, stood. Their bodies exuded a strong aura of vitality.
These were Duke Babakar's bodyguards, high-level murloc warriors with noble sahuagin bloodline—manifested in their four arms.
With their strength, they could easily become nobles ruling over thousands of sahuagin civilians.
Inside the camp.
Two fishmen sat opposite each other. One was a three-meter-tall green-skinned man with six arms, the other a skinny, blue-skinned man under 1.3 meters tall, dressed in a gray robe.
On the wooden table separating them lay naked human children, their eyes closed, asleep.
The six-armed green-skinned fishman casually picked up a human child from the table and placed it into his mouth, chewing with an intoxicated expression.
"The taste of human children is so delicious. Even if you eat so much, you still won't get tired of it, Master Em. Don't you want to eat it?"
"Duke, can't you pay more attention to your image?" The thin blue-skinned murloc mage looked at the ferocious-looking six-armed green-skinned murloc and sighed.
The staff in its hand glowed slightly, grey magic flowed, and the two human children floated from the wooden table. Their originally peaceful, sleeping faces were now full of fear and distortion, as if they had encountered some kind of inhuman torture in a dream.
In the end, the two human children compressed and collapsed into two thumb-sized beads of flesh and blood. Strangely, the souls of the two young human children could be clearly seen inside the flesh and blood beads, unable to escape from the shell that was their mortal body.
Under the control of the sahuagin mage, one bead flew towards Duke Babakar, and the other was swallowed by the mage himself, mixed with the shrill howl of the soul.
"Is this the rumored flesh and blood soul bead?" Babakar glanced at the bead floating in front of him curiously, then grabbed it and put it into his huge mouth.
Along with the grunting, there was also a shrill soul howl.
Babakar tasted it carefully, and finally, his eyes lit up. "The mental power and blood energy have improved slightly. It is indeed the rumored flesh and blood soul pearl, which has such miraculous effects.
Master Aim, please make all these foods into flesh and blood soul beads."
The blue-skinned and grey-robed fish-man mage smiled slightly, waved his staff, and a stream of grey magic power wrapped around the remaining dozen children on the wooden table like tentacles. After repeating the previous operation, a dozen thumb-sized flesh and blood soul pearls were born.
"Half for each of us, Master Aim, please." Although Duke Babakar greedily wanted to devour all the flesh and blood soul beads, Master Aim's emotions still had to be taken into account.
This was a powerful necromancer with the title of 'Wailing Soul' among the sahuagin race. Even if Duke Babakar felt that his strength exceeded that of the other party, now that the other party was a guest, he still needed to win him over and let him contribute, so naturally, he needed to be polite.
Otherwise, Babakar, who had a violent personality, would not behave like this.
The two strong fish-men divided the flesh and soul beads and devoured them with satisfaction on their faces.
"If there were millions of flesh and blood soul beads, even a legend would be able to easily set foot among us. Unfortunately, this is impossible," the Aim mage said with emotion, intentionally or unintentionally.
When Duke Babakar heard these words, he paused slightly and couldn't help but ask tentatively,
"Why is it impossible? It's just one million lives. Although it's a bit more, there are tens of millions of our sahuagin family alone."
"Haha." Aim shook his head and smiled. "If it's so simple, then how can I still be a master?
The raw materials for making flesh and blood soul beads must be children under the age of two. It would be too difficult to collect one million children."
"That is indeed not easy," Babakar said thoughtfully. Of course, it was also true that a sahuagin duke who had lived for hundreds of years could not believe everything Em said.
However, the effect of the flesh and blood soul bead that was just swallowed was undoubtedly real, and it could not be faked.
Babakar made a mental note of this. But the main thing hadn't been done yet.
"Master Aim, we have finished our snacks. Let me tell you straight. Soon, I plan to lead an army to attack Lucerne Canyon. Come and help me. You can ask for whatever you want!" After saying that, Babakar looked directly at Master Aim.
Faced with the unabashed Babakar, Aim did not show any pretense and said, "I accepted the Duke's invitation to come here, so naturally, I had this idea. Since the Duke is so direct, I will tell you my request.
I want the soul of 'Cross' and the souls of all those who died in this battle."
It was really rude.
The corners of Babakar's mouth twitched.
But he was not a necromancer, and he could not harness the power of souls, so the deal was a win-win.
"I can agree to your second request, but I can't give you a definite answer to your first request. I have fought against Cross, and he is very strong, not weaker than me," Babakar said in a deep voice.
Cross was a strong man from the human kingdom who guarded the Lucerne Canyon. He was a level 19 berserker with extremely terrifying strength.
It was he who led the kingdom's army and blocked nearly a million murlocs in the area east of Lucerne Canyon, making it difficult for the sahuagin army to advance.
Of course, this also had something to do with the fact that the sahuagin army was afraid of the long-lost legendary strongman in the kingdom and had never dared to really go to war.
But this was before.
After several years of testing, the kingdom's weakness and defensive stance made the sahuagin side unable to bear it any longer.
"Don't worry, I will fully assist you, Duke, to kill Cross. With the two of us joining forces, he will definitely die," Aim smiled sinisterly.
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The sahuagin army, which had been in a stalemate with the kingdom for more than three years, was completely in motion.
Led by the sahuagin Duke Babakar, several sahuagin marquises, dozens of earls, and more low-ranking nobles as the core, a total of eight to nine million sahuagin troops were assembled.
The overwhelming army of sahuagin began to march towards the "Lucerne Canyon," a checkpoint in the hinterland of the kingdom.
Wherever the fish-man army passed, not a single blade of grass grew, and all life was extinguished and devoured.
Three days later, the Cuiye Mountains, which stretched nearly a thousand kilometers long, blocked the sahuagin army.
In the center of the Cuiye Mountain Range, there are two adjacent mountains that are seven to eight hundred feet high. Between these two mountains, a thick bluestone city wall that is more than two hundred meters high and several kilometers long stands tall. This is the famous Lucerne Wall in the Kingdom of Albit. Thousands of years ago, this magnificent defense line was built to resist the Sea Clan in the East. Nowadays, the Sea Clan in the East have long disappeared, but in the past, they were the servants and vanguard of the Sea Clan—the "Sahuagin"—who have suddenly invaded.
On the wide city wall of Lucerne, Kingdom warriors wearing armor were waiting, and crossbows with cross arrows and shining metallic luster were fixed on the city wall.
Behind the Lucerne Wall is a huge Lucerne Castle. At this time, a large number of soldiers quickly poured out of the Lucerne Castle to assemble.
The atmosphere was tense and noisy for a time.
As time passed, the warriors standing on top of the Lucerne Wall could already see densely packed monster figures in the distance.
The sahuagin army is coming!
The trumpet sounds, and war is about to begin.
The sahuagin army, numbering close to a million, finally stopped marching on the land several kilometers away from the Wall of Lucerne.
In the air, vast water elemental power began to ripple.
"No, they are going to cause a big flood!"
An old man in the kingdom's team of casters looked shocked. He looked anxiously at the marshal of Lucerne's human army—a tall figure two meters tall, covered in dark red magic-patterned armor. He is Cross, loyal to the kingdom and the strongest professional today.
A powerful nineteenth-level berserker known as the Crimson Skullbreaker.
"Can you stop it?" A dull voice came from under the dark red armor.
The master spellcaster 'Dakman,' who is the second seat of the Kingdom's Palace Mage Group, is the old man who just exclaimed. He shook his head with difficulty and said,
"It can't be stopped. It can only be interfered with. This magic power is too huge as it is fueled by too many casters."
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