Red Dragon has magic

Chapter 210: The snipe and the clam fight over the fisherman...

"Hey guys, there's business again."

"Look, what is this?"

"Two big fat sheep, they came to our door on their own."

Leon and Cecilia had just walked into the market area when the bald gray dwarf Bernhard found his companions in the tavern.

In such a large city of gray dwarves, who knows if there will be any tough guys, so you can't act rashly in the city. Since you have tricked a group of gray dwarves with psychic powers out of the city, Cecilia has the opportunity to come into contact with psychic powers, so you can take a break for the time being and have a good look around.

The bazaar in the market area is filled with stalls selling all kinds of things, from weapons and equipment to magical materials and rare ores, from shark lizard meat to phase spider eggs.

Leon took a quick look and found no refined gold or mithril for sale. He thought that those rare metals would not end up in such a place. There were a lot of weapons and equipment, but they were all non-magical. They could not be said to have no value, but they were not worth their time.

"Look, that gray dwarf is talking to himself all the time." Cecilia was not interested in the market. She just didn't like spending money to buy things.

Leon followed Cecilia's gaze and said, "She's not talking to herself. There's a gray dwarf next to her who's invisible, but you can't see it."

Cecilia seemed to be embarrassed and a little annoyed. She had no real vision and usually detected invisibility mainly through hearing and smell. But now this market was filled with the noisy dwarven language and strange pungent smells, which greatly interfered with her hearing and smell.

There was nothing good to buy, especially since the gray dwarves treated the surface people and other people differently. After a casual stroll, Leon took Cecilia to eat. They had Underdark specialties specially prepared for the surface people. Otherwise, the gray dwarves' diet was extremely simple, with only bread and wine.

There is only one hotel in the market area that accepts surface people. It is built in a small cave complex at the north end of the market area. By the way, you can communicate with non-gray dwarf visitors in the restaurant and inquire about rumors.

Although he had just eaten outside, it did not prevent Leon from having another meal. After eating a thigh of the underground Los beast, the underground Los beast was an animal similar to a cow. When he saw Cecilia coming back, he sat opposite him and asked, "Did you find out anything?"

"The Mind Flayers have been quite active recently, and many adventurers have gone missing."

"The captain of the guard is recruiting adventurers to deal with a nearby watcher beholder."

"Rumor has it that a demon has appeared in the Flame Trail."

Cecilia chattered on for a long time until Leon had eaten and drunk his fill.

"Pretty boy." A group of orc mercenaries whistled at Leon and Cecilia for some reason.

There was no need for Leon to take action. All Cecilia needed to do was to take a glance and use her terrifying power, and those orc mercenaries would immediately become obedient. No one in the entire restaurant dared to approach them anymore, and all those eager eyes disappeared in an instant.

After having a good meal and a good drink, Leon went to sleep, but Cecilia insisted on sleeping next to him.

Silent all night.

The next day Leon and Cecilia went to the winery as agreed.

The dilapidated brewery was built of stone bricks, and its pillars were made from several petrified giant mushroom stems from a small giant mushroom forest nearby, emitting a strong sour smell.

The smell in the brewery was really bad. When Lyon was getting a little impatient, Bernhard finally arrived with his friends. There were six people in total, plus a displacement beast.

The Displacer looks like a sleek black panther, but it has six legs and two flat tentacles with thorns at the ends extending from its shoulders. The function of those tentacles is to create illusions.

“Everyone is here, let’s go.” Leon didn’t hesitate and continued based on the information Cecilia collected yesterday, “I remember that the way to the Ghost Road is this way…”

To leave the gray dwarf city and go to the Ghost Road, you must pass through the huge mushroom forest and pass by a fungus colony.

Leon first saw the Myconid, a kind of intelligent and walking fungal creature that pursues enlightenment and opposes violence throughout its life, and is willing to coexist peacefully with humans. As long as they behave friendly, they are willing to let visitors freely travel in their colonies and even provide them with shelter.

"That mushroom king is pretty powerful. Let's not get too close. Be careful of those spores that will turn you into something half-human." Bernhard said as he spat on the ground. "Don't give me a chance. Sooner or later, I'll burn them all to death."

Lyon looked at the spore servants covered with spores, there were drow, bugbears, hobgoblins... the most numerous were gray dwarves. He shrugged his shoulders without comment.

After passing through the huge mushroom forest, you will reach the Ghost Road. As soon as you step onto the Ghost Road, a group of brain-eating monsters like hounds appear in front of you.

The Brain Eater is like a walking brain wrapped in a hard shell with bestial claws and tentacles.

They are created by the mind flayers by extracting the brains of those under their control and using terrible rituals in order to roam the Underdark and hunt for themselves.

Those brain-eating monsters are miniature monsters, the size of a Shiba Inu at most, but their combat power is not low. Their challenge level is as high as 2, which is almost the same as a tiger.

"Damn it, there's a brain-eating monster here." Bernhard muttered.

He was not afraid of the Brain Eater, but he was afraid that the Brain Eater would be followed by the Mind Flayer, and those Mind Flayers were not easy to deal with. "Formation, formation. Everyone, pay attention, the Brain Eater is coming." Bernhard did not shrink back, and called his friends to rush towards the Brain Eater.

"Watch carefully." Leon reminded Cecilia to pay attention to the psychic energy.

Leon didn't understand psychic powers, so he could only watch the fun as an outsider.

The bald gray dwarf, who was a spiritual priest, used some control spell on the fastest brain-eating monster, but it had no effect.

The mohawk-haired gray dwarf soul blader yelled and grew to a gigantic size, then summoned a purple, dagger-sized psychic blade out of thin air.

At the same time, the brain-eating monsters also had psychic powers. Suddenly, they floated up in mid-air, and with a bow, they shot out a purple energy beam that hit a gray dwarf, causing the gray dwarf to cover his chest and shake his head. His body was not damaged, but his mind was broken.

"What do you feel?" Leon asked, "Can you see anything?"

Cecilia shook her head slightly and said, "I don't feel anything."

The fighting power of those gray dwarves is still good, especially with a strong displacement beast.

The displacement beast pounced, bit, and pulled out its two tentacles to kill a brain-eating monster. The brain-eating monster's attack was quite fierce, its claws did a lot of damage, it would also devour intelligence, and finally steal the body, but its resistance to attack was a bit poor.

A group of brain-eating monsters were quickly killed, but Bernhard's expression was serious as he said, "The brain-eating monsters have appeared. Those mind-flayers must be not far away. We can't go any further."

"What should we do if you don't leave?" Leon interrupted.

"What do you want to do?" Leon found that the gray dwarves surrounded him and Cecilia.

"Take out all the valuables." Bernhard swung his mace and hit the shield, looking at Leon, "Otherwise I will smash your heads like those brain-eating monsters."

“You guys are not…” Leon couldn’t think of a suitable word to describe the behavior of the gray dwarves. “Robbery?”

"It's robbery, we are robbery, so hurry up and take out all your things." Bernhard laughed, "Take out all your things now, maybe we can let you go and give you the chance to be slaves"

"Brother, don't waste your time talking to them." The bald-chinned gray dwarf raised his loaded heavy crossbow. "If you delay any further, those mind flayers will come."

“Okay, okay, we’ll give it to you.” Leon nodded towards Cecilia, “Let’s do it.”

"Got it." Cecilia stood up impatiently, stretched her neck, and with a flash of light, she turned into a large green dragon. She looked at the gray dwarves around her and said, "What did you just say?"

"They only know the Underworld Common Language and Dwarven Language, so they can't understand you." Leon patted the green dragon's leg, then used his energy to gather and disperse, appearing on a small mound nearby.

"Green dragon, green dragon, that's a green dragon! What the hell? Is that an illusion?" Bernhard shouted a few times in Dwarven. He also knew the common language unexpectedly, although he spoke it a little haltingly. "Green dragon, why did you trick us out here?"

Anyone with a brain would know that a green dragon absolutely does not need the protection of gray dwarves.

"You can actually speak the common language. I really underestimated you." Cecilia wrinkled her nose. "When you were plotting against us, you didn't expect that we were plotting against you from the beginning...Okay, I need a group of men. Follow me honestly, and I won't kill you."

Bernhard looked at the green dragon. Its shoulder height was only twice his height, not very big, probably not yet an adult. He didn't know why it came to the Underdark.

Looking at his own side, there were a total of six people, and a displacement beast... Bernhard was just about to speak when he saw a group of brain-eating monsters running over from a distance, followed by three mind flayers. They were humanoid creatures with octopus-like heads, twisted and stretched tentacles, and purple skin. They liked to feed on the brains of humanoid creatures.

Mind flayers are enemies of the duergar, and of any humanoid creature.

"Green Dragon, the Mind Flayers are coming... I think we should work together to eliminate those Mind Flayers before we talk about our own business." Bernhard was facing a formidable enemy, and his breathing became noticeably rapid.

"Guys, we can't save any more money, take out your best weapons..." Bernhard said, and found that the black-haired man walked towards the mind flayers and suddenly turned into an oversized red dragon.

The red dragon was covered in armor in the blink of an eye, and took out a huge platinum sword from somewhere. It chopped down a mind flayer with one sword, then turned around and breathed out fire to burn another mind flayer to death. The remaining mind flayer tried to escape, but the red dragon raised its claws and shot out a bolt of lightning to knock it down.

As for the group of brain-eating monsters, every one of them was chopped by the red dragon's sword, or simply slapped to death or stepped on.

It's over?

Hasn't this started yet?

Bernhard rubbed his eyes and was a little confused for a moment, blinking his eyes at the green dragon. He could fight the green dragon and escape by relying on his familiarity with the terrain of the Underdark, but how could he fight the strange red dragon? Killing the powerful mind flayer was like killing a chick.

(End of this chapter)