Pale Emblem

Chapter 197 Dragon General
True dragons are born magical creatures. Their magic is not used directly to cast spells like human wizards, but to change the environment and build nests.

For a true dragon, building a nest is of great significance. Any dragon without a nest can only be considered a fake dragon.

Legend has it that a young dragon will find an ideal place to build a nest. It does not need to do it itself. The magic power released during sleep will automatically change the surrounding environment. Water, plants, and air will all mutate due to magic, and attract some animals, including intelligent species and wild beasts. In particular, dog-headed people are particularly sensitive to the magic breath of dragons.

When a dragon wakes up, it is often surrounded by a group of kobold slaves. They will take good care of the dragon's nest, collect treasures and food, and make sure the dragon lives comfortably and contentedly.

Of course, in addition to kobolds, goblins, gnolls, ogres or any other animals will try to please the dragon as long as they are near the dragon's nest.

The dragon's magic power will transform them into dragon veins, turning them into its slaves and even followers.

Some people always think that dragons can mate with any species and give birth to all kinds of dragon offspring.

This is absolutely a false rumor. Ancient scholars who studied dragons have long discovered that once a dragon awakens the ancestral mark rooted in its blood, it can rely on magical radiation to transform its dragon-born followers.

This process is similar to the contamination of the abyss demons, and it also indirectly proves that the ancestor of the dragon came from the abyss.

What fascinated ancient scholars the most was not the magical radiation of the dragon. They believed that the dragon used its magic to bring dreams into reality, but there was no solid evidence for this view.

However, all kinds of dragon vein servants and dragon descendants are transforming the dragon nest in an orderly manner. Scholars really can't imagine how the dragon vein kobolds and dragon vein ogres communicate and how they cooperate in nest construction.

Perhaps, it was the dragon that commanded its slaves and followers to build a dragon's nest and continuously expand its territory in the dream.

The stronger the dragon's magic power, the more dragon vein slaves it has; the more slaves it has, the bigger the dragon's nest; as the dragon's nest gets bigger, wealth grows; as wealth grows, the dragon's magic power grows, and the number and rank of its followers will also be improved symmetrically.

When the overall bloodline power of the dragon descendants reaches a certain limit, the dragon begins to build its own exclusive territory, and once completed it obtains a true name.

Ancient scholars never figured out the actual meaning of the dragon's true name.

One of the most popular conjectures is that the dragon's true name is to leave a unique mark on the elemental sea, which can at least be used for resurrection.

That’s right, real dragons can be resurrected.

When the power of a true dragon reaches a higher level, it can create an avatar. If the true dragon's original body is killed by a powerful enemy, as long as its domain is still there and there are enough dragon descendants, and a unique ceremony is held to call the dragon's true name, its avatar can grow into its original body and gradually restore the dragon's form, power and memory.

Only a true dragon with an incarnation is qualified to be called the Dragon King.

The magical power level of Dragon King Filuma is very high. Even in the medieval period 20,000 years ago, he was considered one of the top true dragons among the Dragon Kings.

The spellcasting ability of a true dragon comes from its domain, but the domain of a true dragon is not a spatial concept, but a magical network with concrete characteristics.

The characteristic embodied by Filumaat is [War]. Her title is [Filumaat, the Red Dragon Queen of War]. She occupies the highest position of [Red Dragon Commander] in the magic network, and below her are [Dragon Wing Warlord], [Raging Priest], [Dragonman General] and [Red Dragon Warmonger].

Every dragon family can become a node in the magic network of the [War] domain, and as long as Filumat grants them titles, the dragon family can obtain the corresponding spellcasting power.

However, Filumat cherishes his magic power as if it were his own treasure.

Even a high-level dragonborn like Chimera doesn't have much chance of earning the title of [Dragon Wing Warlord].

Firstly, Chimera's naturally powerful strength is enough to deal with most enemies; secondly, Filumat will urgently empower Chimera when necessary and unlock their magical powers in a timely manner.

However, the psychic array set up by Bettina caused Filumat to suffer a loss. By the time he realized that something was wrong, the psychic array had blocked his territory, and the high-level dragon chimera could no longer serve as a node in the magic network.

Filumat could only watch helplessly as his followers and servants were transformed into a terrifying giant floating snake.

To be honest, the Red Dragon Queen was a little worried. There was no information about the giant floating snake in her blood memory, and she had no idea about the giant snake's abilities.

Although Filumat had full confidence in defeating the giant floating serpent, he also admitted that the other party might be able to easily destroy his dragon nest and thus weaken his power.

Filmat's choice of the [War] field shows that the Dragon Kingdom is not peaceful.

To the west of the Dragon Kingdom there is a powerful force of pseudo-dragons who are constantly fighting with the goblins and orcs of the Dragon Kingdom. To the southeast of the Dragon Kingdom there is a tribe of Centaur bandits who often invade the territory of the Blackfire Orcs, burning, killing, looting, and coming and going like the wind.

The pseudo-dragons and centaur bandits are eyeing the throne of Mother Earth covetously. They will attack the Kingdom of Dragons if they get the chance.

As for the Disa half-elves, their situation is relatively good. There is no threat from external enemies, but there is a stubborn demonic disease within the alliance.

In addition, the rock giants and tree spirits transformed from the Taku and Hemer tribes roamed in the mountains near the throne. They did not like the Red Dragon Queen and even hated her.

If the holy covenant fraudulently drawn up by the great sage Malf was destroyed in the Dragon's Nest, these ancient elemental creatures would surely throw Filumat out of the Earth Mother's Throne without any delay.

As Malv once said to Firumaat: There will never be peace when you occupy the throne.

Look, new enemies have appeared. They created giant floating snakes. Aren’t they trying to fight for the throne of Mother Earth?

The Red Dragon Queen of War was good at strategy and decisive in her actions. She judged that this was a conspiracy against her by the enemy. Since the enemy was in the dark and she was in the light, and the incident happened suddenly, she should have adopted a conservative and cautious response strategy, but the aura and power revealed by the floating giant snake frightened even Filumat.

First, the floating giant snake absorbed the Chimera and the Wyvern. Filumat thought that if he sent Chimera or Wyvern to help the enemy, it would be better for him to raid the floating giant snake himself and catch the mastermind!

Secondly, the floating giant snake is huge in size, like a moving natural disaster. If we adopt the tactic of waiting for it to tire itself out and let it go to the Throne of Mother Earth, and then concentrate the power of the Dragon's Nest to destroy it, the Dragon's Nest will definitely be severely damaged.

Last but not least, Filumat believed that the mastermind behind this would not have expected that the Red Dragon Queen would come in person and catch them off guard.

Filumat had already made up his mind, but he accidentally sensed that a second-generation dragonborn was gathering a half-elf war group nearby, intending to attack the mastermind behind the scenes, and was fighting with one of the opponent's strong men.

This is definitely an unexpected surprise. If the half-elf regiment can destroy the enemy's magic circle in time, it will be of great help to Filumaat.

Unfortunately, that dragonborn half-elf spent a lot of money to buy the blood of Chimaira, and was an artificial second-generation dragonborn. Strictly speaking, he was not even a follower of Filumat, and his personal consciousness was very resistant to the will of his bloodline, so Filumat had little influence on him.

Normally, it would take two to three years for Chimera's blood to transform a half-elf dragonborn into a red dragon. Before that, Filumat would have to pay an extra price to dominate them.

No matter how big the cost is, Firumat feels that it is cutting his own flesh.

Now, even if Filumat is willing to pay the price to control this dragon-born half-elf, he does not have the corresponding conditions.

However, the god of luck favored the Red Dragon today. Dekker was shocked by Caligula, and his individual consciousness stopped functioning, and he could no longer resist the blood will of the Red Dragon Queen.

Filumat immediately took control of the half-elf dragonborn and used him as a magic node to extend the war zone here.

The Red Dragon Queen saw the enemy's situation clearly through Decite's eyes, and Caligula discovered that the most powerful dragon-born half-elf suddenly regained consciousness, and immediately realized that something was wrong.

He quickened his pace and ran up the hill.

Filumat frowned slightly. The giants recovered very quickly, but the time he could control the dragonborn was limited. If the giant rushed forward, even if he controlled the dragonborn half-elf to fight, he would still be blown up by the giant's punch.

The Red Dragon Queen not only has a strong fighting instinct, but is also a high-level spellcaster.

He raised his hand and pointed, and eight lion-shaped dragon beasts roared and rushed towards the giant.

These dragon beasts are dragon-veined war beasts bred from the Kadirea mountain lion using dragon blood potions.

They are 2 meters tall at the shoulder, about 3.4 meters long, and weigh more than 1500 pounds on average. They have a body shape like a lion, but have a large lizard head and a tail as thick and powerful as a crocodile.

In Filumat's opinion, apart from its terrifying appearance, the lion-shaped dragon beast is far inferior to a real dragon vein slave in all other aspects.

Of course, Disa the half-elf spent a huge amount of money to buy dragon blood potions from the Palace of the Dragon King for the dragon beasts and dragon riders.

The Red Dragon Queen, who had received the money, could do whatever the half-elf wanted. Anyway, the dragon's nest was full of dragon blood grass, the raw material for making dragon blood potion.

Although the bloodlines of dragon riders and dragon beasts are inferior and thin, the source of the dragon veins still comes from the Dragon King.

Through the second-generation dragon descendant Dect, Filmat launched a [War] field that encompassed all the dragon riders and dragon beasts present and controlled them.

He used the spell [Forced Recruitment] on the lion-shaped dragon beast, and then received the command [Go All In].

The muscles of the eight lion-shaped dragon beasts suddenly swelled, their blue-black scales emitted a dazzling red light, their bloody mouths opened to the limit, and they all roared towards the sky, as if they were enduring tremendous pain. Then their strength increased greatly, and they pounced down at an even faster speed.

The [Spell Command] of Dragon King Filmat forced the dragon blood in the lion-shaped dragon beasts to devour their life energy and then transform it into dragon vein magic, thereby greatly increasing their combat effectiveness. The price was the exhaustion of life energy to death.

Eight frenzied drakes should be able to hold the giant back for a while.

The Red Dragon Queen then cast her second dragon domain spell.

There are still more than 160 dragoons left on the hillside. They all rely on the dragon veins transformed by the dragon blood herb potion, but their blood is too thin to be considered dragon vein slaves.

To the Dragon King Filmate, these dragon riders were all trash. Not only was it difficult to command them, but the time he could control them was also short.

The only useful Dragonborn on the scene is the Great Lord Dekter.

Filumat originally intended to transfer his magic power to turn Dekter into a [Dragon General], but he changed his mind at the last minute and cast a spell on more than a hundred dragon cavalrymen first:

[Forced conscription], order [execution], and then order [reward].

Half of the dragoons on the scene immediately let out miserable groans. Their bodies were twisted, their muscles were atrophied, and their skin was cracking and withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This is because the dragon veins in their bodies began to devour their flesh and blood without restraint, and then converted it into magic power, which was transmitted to the remaining dragon riders.

Mainly transmitted to the second generation dragonborn Dexter.

The [Reward] command will use this magic to transform him into a [Dragon General], and the rest of the dragon riders will be transformed into [Red Dragon Warmongers].

Dekkert's bones moved under the skin, making a teeth-grinding sound, his muscle fibers grew thicker and denser, and patches of bright red dragon scales emerged from under the epidermis.

His body grew rapidly, bursting through his boots and armor, and he soon became a 3.2-meter-tall, sturdy, half-dragon, half-human monster.

"You...you are Lord Dicot?"

The chief servant of Master Novis of the famous Golden Oak family woke up and found that Dicket had turned into a monster. His aura was so terrifying that even he, a level six archer, was terrified.

The dragon general commanded by Filumat turned his head and stared at him, then opened his mouth and spit out a fan-shaped breath of dragon flame, burning the chief servant and Master Novis into charcoal.

The concentration of magic power on the hillside was constantly increasing. Those half-elves who were not from the dragon veins also absorbed a small amount of magic power. After being stimulated, they woke up from their shocked state one after another.

"Quick! Kill them all!" Dragon King Filmat gave orders to the dominated beings through his mind.

How dare these Disa half-elves take advantage of this queen? Humph, die!

The dragon vein half-elves raised their butcher knives against their former colleagues and killed them ruthlessly. In a short while, they killed all these thieves who "dared to steal the magic power of the Dragon King".

Under the infusion of dragon domain magic, Dicket completed his transformation and is now a fifth-level dragon general, equivalent to the strength of a golden knight.

18 red dragon warmongers were also successfully transformed. Although their number is small, they can also cast spells in the field of war by cooperating with the dragon general.

The remaining dragon vein half-elves were unable to transform due to insufficient magic power.

"Forced conscription!"

"Instructions... Go all in."

By this time, Caligula had already killed seven dragon beasts.

The Red Dragon Queen immediately sent those dragon riders who had not transformed to besiege Caligula.

Although the Dragon General has gold-level combat power, he is still defeated with one punch when he meets the Glorious God of War.

"Everyone follow me! Let's destroy the enemy's magic circle!"

While Caligula was fighting with more than 50 frantic dragoons, the Dragon King Filumaat controlled Dect and led 18 red dragon warriors to rush down from the other side of the hillside, crashing into the primeval forest, heading straight for the psychic magic circle set up by the Wolf Witch!