Ember Dragon

"Ow—"

Tina slowly got up from the ground, her face with claw marks still showing excitement, saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth, as if she was still savoring the slap just now.

Bai Long lowered his head and whispered: "Master, please forgive me, I misunderstood."

It seems that there is still a long way to go if we want to cure this white dragon's congenital mental illness.

Cassius sighed, stopped looking at her, and stretched out his dragon claws, releasing a clear magical image.

The image shows a vast blue lake surrounded by mountains. Hundreds of dragons of different colors are hovering above it, gathering around the lake and making loud roars.

This is Lake Tevar, located on the southeastern border of the Burning Empire, and it is also the "duel field" selected by Cassius for the dragons.

“So many dragons.”

Tina stared at the magical image in a daze. It was the first time since she was born that she saw so many real dragons gathered together.

"Why are they gathering there? Is there a precious treasure buried under that lake?" Bai Long tilted his head, and a hint of greed subconsciously flashed in his eyes.

This is Tinia's intuition as a dragon. Even the oracle of Tiamat may not be responded to by hundreds of real dragons. Perhaps only extremely expensive things can attract so many five-colored dragons.

"What do you say?"

Cassius said in a flat tone.

Tinia scratched her head, then realized something was wrong. Her expression suddenly changed, and even became ferocious: "Oracle! It's the oracle from the Dragon Queen! Those colorful dragons are all female dragons!"

She looked at the group of dragons in the magic image with ferocity in her eyes. Scales all over her body exploded and even her back arched, as if she had seen an enemy.

Tinia looked at Cassius anxiously and gritted her teeth and said, "Master, those lowly guys actually dared to covet your bloodline - I will tear them apart! I will make them regret coming into this world!!"

Cassius glanced at her and said, "Do you want to fight one against a hundred? Or do you want to incur the punishment of the Dragon Queen and become a traitor to the Five-Colored Dragon Clan?"

Tinija stammered, "Well, what should I do? Should I just watch you do that?"

Cassius said, "I will hold a traditional dragon duel at Lake Twar. Only the winner will be eligible to see me. I want you to participate and make the female dragons sent by the Dragon Queen fail and leave."

"I see." Tinia nodded thoughtfully, her eyes gradually becoming firmer: "Don't worry, Master, I will definitely win and will never embarrass you!"

Cassius nodded slightly, then took out a war hammer with an ancient shape and emitting white mist.

——This is part of Matalotok, the "Father of Frost".

As a divine weapon, Matalotok can differentiate into weapons that possess part of its power, and the one in Cassius's hand is one of them.

If the user gets Cassius's permission, this hammer can even release 70% to 80% of its frost power.

"Master, this is..."

Tina opened her eyes wide and licked her lips subconsciously. The cold breath made the white dragon feel extremely comfortable.

She could feel an extremely strong pressure - it was the breath of frost divine power, which was particularly attractive to an ice dragon like her.

This is an artifact!
Thinking of this, Tinia couldn't help but gasp. Could it be that Cassius wanted to lend her the artifact?
Cassius added: "Among the colored dragons that received the oracle this time, there are many powerful ones who are highly valued by the Dragon Queen. Even you may not be able to defeat them.

This differentiated Matalotok just happens to match your attributes, so I give it to you as a reward."

What? Reward?

In an instant, Tina's already not very full brain was filled with great shock and ecstasy.

This is an artifact!
Even if it is only a part of it, it is definitely of sub-artifact level and a priceless treasure. It can at least be exchanged for a mountain of gold.

Even a dragon god like Tiamat would regard it as a precious treasure.

In the eyes of the Five-Colored Dragon Clan, this kind of thing must be buried in the deepest part of the nest and swallowed into the stomach. No one must find it. Once discovered, they must be killed to silence them.

And his master actually waved his hand and gave it away as a reward! This was totally against the nature of a dragon!

No, is this a test from the master? Is it to see if I have any desire for his treasure?
The ogre told me that this should be called... temptation?

Thinking of this, although Tinija's eyes sparkled, she still suppressed her instinctive impulse and stood there trembling.

Seeing Bai Long standing there in a daze, trembling all over, Cassius couldn't help laughing: "Why, you don't want it anymore? Then I'll take it back--"

"Master, wait!"

Finally, Tina couldn't suppress the restlessness in her body anymore. She pounced on it, held the warhammer emitting icy power in her arms, and licked it continuously.

She looked happy and joyful, rolling on the ground like a pet dog that had gotten a new toy, and had completely forgotten Trump's earnest "warning."

After a long time, Tinia came back to her senses. She lay down in front of Cassius with a look of joy on her face, kowtowed repeatedly, and her tail kept wagging: "Thank you for the gift, Master! Thank you for the gift, Master!!"

Well, Bailong’s essence is a Husky, that’s right.

Cassius shook his head helplessly and said, "I gave you this war hammer so that you can use it in battle, not to bury it in your lair to test its power."

Tina nodded rapidly, she gripped the warhammer tightly in her claws, the runes on it instantly emitted an icy blue light, releasing a biting chill.

"boom--"

In the distance, the cold wind was howling and the earth was rumbling and shaking. A huge iceberg was slowly rising from the ground, and it could remain unmelted even in the scorching environment near Dragon Blood Mountain.

"Ow!"

The white dragon opened its mouth, moved its throat, and sprayed out the extremely cold liquid containing magic power in its organs as usual.

But this time, with the blessing of Mata Lotok, a thick ice-blue beam of light spurted out of her throat, and the rocks in the distance that were hit by the beam of light froze, and a layer of white frost covered the surface of the rocks.

The frost quickly spread to a hundred meters away, freezing everything around it. Even the moisture in the air condensed into pure white and light blue ice crystals.

The cold wind swept across the earth, and the strong chill came, even the sky turned a hazy white, mixed with countless snowflakes and ice crystals.

"Master, I am so powerful now!" Tinija showed ecstasy on her face.
“The Frost Father and the White Dragon are indeed very compatible. I guess Thorem also used a lot of ancient white dragon’s body materials when forging this war hammer.

"With this sub-artifact, Tinia's strength should have surpassed the ancient white dragon, and it should be more than enough to defeat the group of female dragons."

Cassius nodded with satisfaction, and with his claws he created a space portal to the south, saying, "Go, Tinia, don't let me down."

"Yes, Master, I will freeze those damn dragons into ice cubes!!"

The white dragon let out a long, happy roar, swallowed the war hammer into her stomach, then flapped her wings and dived into the portal.

Cassius stared at the magical image in the air and chuckled, "Now, there will be something interesting to watch."

The Burning Empire, Thrace region, Lake Tvar.

This lake is surrounded by mountains, with no access by road. There are many ferocious beasts and powerful monsters in the mountains, so it has always been a sparsely populated area.

But at this moment, it was more lively than ever before, with dozens of imperial helicopters hovering nearby and tens of thousands of elite troops on standby.

The most eye-catching thing was the giant dragons. Some of them were hovering in the sky, some were resting and waiting by the lake, and some were even fighting in a ball, with chaotic dragon roars intertwined.

In just half a day, there were only seventy or eighty dragons left near Lake Twar.

Green dragons, blue dragons and other dragons that tend to be on the side of order gather together and form small groups to fight against those strong ones and get a chance to stay.

The powerful and solitary red dragon, on the other hand, keeps to itself and treats any dragon present with ill-concealed hostility.

In their view, every female dragon present is a potential competitor who may take advantage of the opportunity to snatch away the chance to give birth to offspring with the "Dragon Prince" and gain the favor of God.

However, every red dragon was extremely confident, and they all believed without exception that His Highness Cassius would only be attracted to strong, agile and powerful female dragons like themselves.

As for the White Dragon?

As the shame of dragons, white beasts, few white dragons can reach Lake Tvar.

Even if there really was an extremely intelligent white dragon that came from afar, it would be easily driven away by the red dragon and would have to leave whimpering with wounds all over its body.

"Christina, you actually have the nerve to come here? Do you think that His Highness Cassius would be interested in a fool like you?"

The green dragon Vesuvila sneered, squinted his eyes at the blue dragon, and ridiculed it mercilessly.

The green dragons behind him also let out sinister and hoarse laughter.

In the war a few days ago, Christina's family suffered a great loss. Large tracts of territory were taken away by the metal dragon clan, and the treasures in the nest were also looted. The other five-colored dragons were happy to see this and gloated over it.

"That's because the reinforcements promised by Her Majesty the Dragon Queen have not arrived."

Christina stared at the green dragon, gritting her teeth, with lightning flashing around her body: "You'd better cover up the sour smell on your body, green-skinned lizard."

"Our Faria family was the first to receive the oracle. I met His Highness Cassius several years ago and he treated me as a guest of honor."

Behind her, several blue dragons flapped their wings, crackling electric light wrapped around their bodies, and they growled in protest at the green dragon.

The green dragon continued to taunt, "It is precisely because of your weakness and incompetence that you cannot even complete this task that Her Majesty the Dragon Queen issued the oracle!"

The blue dragon roared furiously with an electric sound: "Just wait and see! Green dragon, you can only talk nonsense, you won't even be able to see His Highness!"

"hehe."

In this tense atmosphere, Volkanis, who was not far away, laughed disdainfully. She was a mature red dragon, twenty meters long, and was fearfully called "the tyrant with flowing magma" by the nearby bards.

Volkanis lay on a protruding rock, looking down at the green dragon and the blue dragon, not hiding the contempt in her eyes.

"How pathetic! Look at your skinny and skinny bodies. You are only fit to huddle together for warmth like a bunch of lowly humans."

"How could the powerful and majestic Majesty Cassius look down upon such a weakling?"

Having said that, Volkanis stood up, puffed out his chest, showing the strong muscles that only belong to a red dragon, and his tone was full of confidence.

"Only a red dragon like me is qualified to fulfill the oracle and give birth to the strongest offspring for His Highness the Dragon Prince."

"We are the favorites of Her Majesty Tiamat, the natural rulers among the five-colored dragons, and we are also the ones who will lead the dragons to rule the earth again—"

"Ow—"

As the red dragon was making his impassioned speech, a powerful roar came from afar, mixed with the whistling of cold wind.

"Who is it? Who dares to disturb the great Volcanis?"

Volkanis turned her head angrily, two flames shot out of her golden eyes, and a white figure appeared in the distance.

"White Dragon?"

The red dragon opened his mouth, revealing a hideous smile filled with anger: "Ridiculous white beast, who allowed it to appear here?"

"And who gave it the courage to interrupt me while I was speaking?"

Seeing this, the other colorful dragons also looked up at the sky one after another, talking and making noisy noises.

"Another White Dragon?"

"It's ridiculous that a white dragon dares to come here."

"But have you noticed that the white dragon's appearance seems to be a little bit off?"

"Did I see it wrong?"

"A normal white dragon wouldn't make such a fuss." The green dragon Vesuvila wondered.

She observed carefully, her eyes rolling, "We all passed through from the south, but she came from the north, which is the territory of the Burning Empire."

"And this white dragon doesn't look right either. Could it be that she was sent by that prince?"

Thinking of this, Vesuvila whispered to the green dragon behind him: "Don't act rashly, wait and see what happens."

"That damn white dragon seems to be called Tinija? What a troublesome creature. She was the one who obstructed me last time and ruined my good deeds."

Christina recognized the identity of the white dragon and was filled with hatred.

The white dragon gradually approached Lake Tevar, and the other dragons could see her appearance clearly and exclaimed in amazement.

I saw the white dragon waving its broad dragon wings, its body agile and powerful, and the surface of its white scales covered with a layer of ice crystals, as if it was wearing armor, emitting extremely cold white mist.

What shocked the dragons even more was her size.

The size of this white dragon is even larger than that of Volkanis, a mature red dragon, and its length is probably over 25 meters!
"What a huge white dragon!"

"Is this, is this an ancient white dragon?"

"Why is she here? Logically speaking, a white dragon of this age would have lost its reproductive ability long ago."

Seeing this scene, even the middle-aged red dragon was stunned for a moment.

But Volcanis quickly came to her senses, stood in front of the white dragon, and angrily questioned: "Old man, I came here on behalf of the Dragon Queen's will, and was ordered to give birth to a child with His Highness Cassius!"

"Who allowed you, an old white dragon with one foot half in the grave, to come in here! Inferior dragons like you will always be lowly beasts!"

There is a huge gap in strength between the red dragon and the white dragon.

One is the strongest among the five-colored dragons, and the other is a white beast regarded as the benchmark of the dragon clan. There is almost a huge gap in combat power between the two sides. Even an ancient white dragon may not be able to defeat a strong and powerful middle-aged red dragon.

In Volkanis's view, teaching a lesson to this white dragon, which was at least an ancient dragon, was a godsend opportunity for him to establish his authority and make those ignorant dragons recognize their place.

More importantly... she can also use this to demonstrate her powerful strength and excellent bloodline, and maybe attract the attention of His Royal Highness the "Dragon Prince", gain his favor, and finally gain the favor of Tiamat!

Sounds perfect.

However, this arrogant female red dragon never considered from the beginning that she might lose. (End of this chapter)