Red Dragon has magic

Chapter 59: Urgent Needs
Leon watched the blue dragon leave like he did before, and to be honest, he felt a little regretful. This blue dragon spoke very nicely, and he wanted to listen. Moreover, after getting to know it, he found that the blue dragon had a good personality. Although it was still a little self-righteous, it was at least much better than the mother dragon and the dragon sister.

Lyon didn't think too much. He turned his head and looked at the dome castle that originally belonged to the fire giant. There was no doubt that now was his moment to enjoy his victory. He immediately flapped his wings and landed in the pit between the stone mountains, stepping into the boiling water.

The Fire Giant doesn't like boiling water, but Leon quite likes it. He doesn't even mind warm water. Of course, if he comes a little later, it will be even better if the Fire Giant succeeds in transforming this place and the boiling water turns into lava.

Leon discovered that the fire elements that had been chasing him at the order of the fire giant were now moving away from him. He was too lazy to chase them and kill them one by one. The steam bats had already slipped away. The remaining fire lizards, which were lucky enough not to die from his soul-taking chants, were intelligent. They immediately knelt down when they saw him... There was no such thing as kneeling for a snake body, it could only be said to be lowering its body.

"Pray to our new master." A tall salamander shouted, leading the remaining salamanders.

Having been the master of hobgoblins and orcs for many years, Leon now had some experience. He calmed the salamander with a few words and then stepped into the dome castle.

The fire giant is no mortal, he is tall and sturdy, not much shorter than Leon when he stands up, almost as tall as two floors. After using the enlargement technique, he is even bigger than Leon. The place where he lives allows Leon to move freely without any hindrance.

Leon walked into the dome castle, ignoring the fire elements that fled in panic because of his appearance, climbed up the tall throne at the end of the hall, looked around, and felt happier than ever before.

Leon was not too nostalgic about the throne. He just wanted to experience it for the sake of it. The main reason was that he couldn't sit properly on the throne. His big tail would not be comfortable no matter how he moved it. The most he could do was lie on the throne.

In a sense, this dome castle is actually not very big. After all, the body of the fire giant is too exaggerated. If you want the dome castle to be comparable to a human castle in specifications, with dozens or hundreds of rooms like a human castle, you really need to hollow out a mountain. Even with the help of magic, the construction difficulty is too high. For this reason, Leon quickly found the room and treasure house where the fire giant lived.

The room where the fire giant lives is nothing special, but the treasure house is not simple.

Compared to the huge treasure house, the number of gold coins is strictly speaking not much, and it really cannot be counted. After all, the value of a gold coin is not low. However, when neatly placed on the huge table, together with silver coins, copper coins and gems, it is still enough to dazzle people's eyes.

In addition to money and gems, there are quite a lot of miscellaneous weapons and equipment.

This is easy to understand. The fire giants' subordinates are fire lizards, and fire lizards can be called living forges. The high heat they generate gives them certain advantages in the blacksmithing skills. They can soften and shape steel with their bare hands. They are among the greatest metal craftsmen in all planes and are not comparable to the hobgoblins.

For the first time, Leon had the idea of ​​becoming rich. He suspected that the blue dragon had actually been eyeing the efreet's treasury, so he looked for him as a helper. In the end, he only had to give up the territory of the efreet, which it was not interested in anyway... Since the efreet's treasury had so many things, the blue dragon's treasury must be no worse.

No.

The fire giants' territory is in the elemental plane of fire, so it's no big deal if they are bullied by the material plane.

The blue dragon's territory was in the desert, so it was better not to provoke it unless necessary. Moreover, it had never had any ill will towards him, so it was really too much to repay kindness with enmity.

Leon shook off a terrible thought.

Leon had not yet recovered from the surprise of gaining a huge fortune, and in a trance he heard a familiar ding-dong sound. Is there another reward?

He clearly didn't do anything, so it seems like he did something unexpected and it worked out well for him?
"Rob the rich to help yourself - my neighbor stores grain and I store guns. My neighbor is my granary. I plunder an enemy's treasure house."

"Ordinary reward: Shapeshifting."

Leon's attention was diverted.

Can you get a golden finger reward by looting a treasure house?
Leon remembered that he had robbed a hag's treasury before, but he didn't get any reward at that time... Could it be that compared to the fire giant, the hag's collection was not worthy of being called a treasury? In fact, he did not find anything useful from the hag.

Speaking of robbing an enemy's treasury, it seems like a pretty amazing thing, right? Why are there only ordinary rewards and no advanced rewards? Even though he didn't spend much effort to drive away the efreet... he actually let the efreet escape. Leon still feels unhappy when he thinks about it now.

His attention was now focused on the spells rewarded by the golden finger.

Isn't shapeshifting a high-level reward?

According to the transformation of the great demon, shouldn't only the great demon be able to transform?
Think about it again, the idea of ​​a monster that can transform into a human form is something that originated in later generations. In ancient mythology, it was not a very remarkable magical power for monsters to transform into human form. Many small monsters could do that. For example, in Journey to the West, any jackal, tiger or leopard can take human form, and any clam spirit can turn into a beautiful woman.

After thinking about it for a while, Lyon suddenly shook his head.

Why bother with all that mess? Just take it if it’s given to you. There’s no way to even trace the origin of the golden finger, so why bother with so many details?
Back to topic.

Leon carefully "read" the new knowledge he had just acquired, and he found that this shapeshifting technique was indeed not very powerful, and it was reasonable to put it among the ordinary rewards.

The reason is simple. His shapeshifting spell can only transform him into humanoid creatures, not other random creatures. It is totally incomparable to the ninth-ring spell, Change of Form, which can transform him into any creature with a challenge level lower than or equal to your level, and you can also use an action to transform into another form during the spell's duration.

What's more, this shapeshifting technique is not as good as the transformation that an adult metallic dragon can easily master. After all, in addition to being able to transform into humanoid creatures, it can also transform into wild beasts.

If you really want to transform at will, you probably have to wait until you get advanced rewards in the future, or higher-level rewards, if there are any, to learn seventy-two transformations, but that is a matter for the future.

In short, a shapeshifting spell that allows him to turn into a human is enough, and after turning into a human, he can run around, instead of being hunted down and killed as a red dragon. When he first bought a car for transportation, he thought about luxury cars, and when he first bought a house for basic needs, he thought about luxury houses. Leon couldn't help but laugh at his greed.

Leon smiled, then restrained his smile and used the shapeshifting technique to quickly shrink the huge monster.

(End of this chapter)