Aura of red dragon
Chapter 198 Sleeping 【Please subscribe!】
Chapter 198 Sleeping 【Please subscribe!】
"Sleep well! Over the past 7000 years, I haven't had any decent sleep!" The Tarraques giant agreed.
Who would sleep happily when tied tightly by a pile of chains like zongzi?
"Where is His Majesty Mike going to sleep? We haven't asked about this question yet." Kalei the ancient blue dragon asked.
"Given the growing size, it is impossible to sleep in the small places before. It is best to find an active volcano." Blue Dragon Bishop explained.
"However, the active volcano is a little far away from the empire. I don't want to be too far away from the empire, and I don't want to bother my family members. For this reason, I choose a place deep underground in the palace, deep enough to obtain a steady stream of fire elements deep sleep."
"It turned out to be approaching the core of the main material plane." The ancient red dragon Apollo thought thoughtfully.
"It's there." Mike nodded, "Fortunately, I have already covered the dark area under the Demon Flame City, and there is no need to disperse the people."
The place where Mike sleeps is the asthenosphere, which is generally considered to be the main source of magma, where the fire element is very rich, and there is no need for his subordinates to constantly replenish the fire element with breath at the sleeping place like before.
The asthenosphere is also the place where the Tarraques Behemoth Gundam was imprisoned, but the place where Mike slept was under the palace, not under the dinosaur paradise.
"Are you talking about the place where I was sealed? The concentration of the fire element in that place is indeed very strong." The Tarraques giant nodded.
Even though I've been locked there, I just can't be happy.
After chatting for a while, the two ancient dragons returned to their respective territories, while Bishop Blue Dragon opened a portal first, allowing Malphite to return to his Murphy Province, where the largest building materials factory in the entire empire is located. The place.
Afterwards, Bishop Blue Dragon bid farewell to Emperor Demon Flame, and he was about to go into a deep sleep. After all, a long time ago, he was a mature dragon, and when he woke up next time, he would be an old dragon.
In the end, Mike and the demigod Tarraques Behemoth Gundam who had just been conquered by him were left in place.
"Aren't you going?"
"Let's go, let's go right away. It's not a problem to stay here. I was just contacting my prime minister and governor to tell those people that they can move back. Let's treat it as a trip to the capital at public expense." Mike smiled.
Fortunately, the ceiling here is high enough, otherwise, the dark area above may not be pierced by your "Plasma Element Fission Super Divine Power Extremely Giant White Beam Cannon".
"In my opinion, those are just food for us top predators." The Tarraques behemoth scratched the itch with its claws.
Mike rolled his eyes, "I don't care what you think, anyway, I don't allow you to hurt anything, unless the other party intends to hurt you."
"I know, I know that I don't need to be hungry, and I don't bother to use them to fill my stomach, there is too little meat."
Mike opened a portal, which leads to the dark area at the bottom of the palace of the Demon Flame Empire.
The dark area below the palace is basically the garrison and training ground of the Demon Flame Legion.
"Go in." Mike glanced at the Tarraques behemoth.
Gundam took the lead and entered it.
Mike passed by the other party and also entered, closing the portal after the body completely passed.
"The aura of these little guys really resembles yours. Are they all your followers? Among the weak, their strength is not bad." The Tarraques giant beast commented.
Although the other party's evaluation really made these dependents angry, but what they said was true. In front of a demigod like the other party, they were still just bugs that would be easily crushed to death.
Mike said condescendingly: "Don't get too carried away, Gundam. I think that the dwarf demigod who sealed you up must be because you didn't treat them as 'weak' people to you. People see, wanton massacre, will have a big battle with you."
"Don't mention him to me! I hate him to death!" Thinking of the old man of the hill dwarf, the Tarraques giant was annoyed.
"I always feel that the tone of what you just said just now doesn't dislike that dwarf demigod at all."
"It must be annoying! I have been imprisoned by him for more than 7000 years!" the Tarraques giant roared.
Smelling the smell emanating from the mouth of the Tarraques behemoth, Mike looked disgusted.
"Okay, okay, your mouth really stinks."
"Next, you just stay here until I wake up." Mike said, pointing to the ground.
"Go, go!" Gao Da said impatiently.
The dragon kept beeping at me, and if I hadn't been unable to beat him, I would have beaten him up long ago.
So, after Michelle looked at the Tarraques giant suspiciously, he plunged into the tunnel dug by his family members to the asthenosphere of this planet.
As he went deeper, Mike felt more and more comfortable, because the temperature was getting higher and higher, which made him very happy as a red dragon, and a large amount of fire elements were rushing into his body.
Finally, Mike came to the asthenosphere full of magma, where he slowly lost consciousness and fell asleep.
When he wakes up again, his strength and body shape will undergo earth-shaking changes again.
In the dark area before.
Since this dark area is far enough from the surface, and Mike did not sink to the bottom of the asthenosphere, but stayed at the top, it happened that the Tarraques behemoth had the gain of the evil aura, otherwise he would have been killed for a while. After that, there will definitely be a commotion.
So the behemoth of Tarraques is now soundly asleep, the sleep he hasn't had much of over 7000 years of incarceration.
Being able to sleep in a relaxed way has always been his dream and one of the things he wanted to do during his imprisonment.
However, the behemoth snores too loudly
As Mike, the supreme ruler of the Demon Flame Empire, fell asleep, so did the demigod-level Tarraques behemoth, the blue dragon bishop, and most of the five-color dragons.
The long-lived species have a lot of free time, and sleeping is one of their few pleasures.
So far, the graduates of the Dragon Academy have no subsidy anymore, so they can only temporarily stay idle in the previous city, and are appointed to some positions by the senior executives there, and become migrant workers.
And those five-color dragons who have the subsidy of the dragon's blood dependents are expanding their territory northward, for the magic flame empire!
Three years later, those graduates with dragon's blood relatives were united because of a marine disaster.
"Sister Shire, the new territory I just acquired was taken over by those damned Kou Tao Yuren!" A young white dragon cried.
The leader of the pioneers is the ancestral red dragon Charles Matilda Alastor.
"Plague of the sea, right?" Charles asked.
"No, not only the Kou Tao fish people, but also the Mermaid Mermaid. It seems to be related to the mermaid mage Lett under Grandpa Aix. I heard that the mermaid kingdom where he lived was destroyed by the Mermaid Mermaid. I don't know if it is It's not the same group of Mairo Mermaids." A teenage red dragon shook his head.
In the territory of the young red dragon, there were also Kou-tao fishmen, but very few. He found that there were Mailuo mermaids commanding those Kuu-tao fishmen.
"Mairo mermaids? I think these guys should have been sent back by a demon lord more than ten or twenty years ago. After all, those demons always like to play around, looking for opportunities to send the mero mermaids back to the main material plane. It is quite normal for them to wantonly destroy the sea.
Normally, we would turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, but now we can't. Who told them to endanger the territory of the empire? "Charles smiled and looked at the lord dragons who were attacked by the other side in the nearby territories.
(After returning to the main material plane, the domineering Melo Mermaid will seize the opportunity to wantonly attack those creatures weaker than themselves.)
Hearing the words behind Shire, these young lord dragons knew that this "little princess", who was loved by the Demon Flame Emperor, was going to take action to solve this matter.
"Lord Charles, do we need to report this matter?" the tauren Toren asked.
In the mind of this 90-year-old but still very young tauren family member, he thought it would be more reliable to report this incident to the senior officials of the Beiyang Bank.
"No, it's enough for us to do this by ourselves, and we don't need the help of Beiyang Province." Charles thought it was unnecessary to report everything.
"But you should inform the empire, right?" Torun suggested.
"Then just tell them."
Facing repeated suggestions from the tauren Torun, Charles chose to agree.
After that, Torun informed Ponte, a senior official of Beiyang Bank, about the incident.
The other party's answer was to let Charles do it with confidence.
However, he had a request, that is, to ask Shire to use the Nightcrawler squad trained by Vice Admiral Slack to investigate the situation of the Mero Mermaids.
It is still necessary to take a cautious approach to the Meiro mermaids released by the demon lords.
Maybe, they weren't just sent back for destruction, maybe they were preparing for the next abyssal invasion.
The original Melo Mermaid appeared only after touching a statue of Demogorgon.
Every mermaid who touched the idol went crazy!
Among them is a mermaid king.
The mad king ordered a sacrificial ceremony to open an alien passage to the bottomless abyss.Then the massacre of merman sacrifices turns the sea red, and the ritual is finally completed.
On the opposite side of the passage is Demogorgon's old home, where the murlocs lived hard for several generations, until the endless abyss twisted them completely and transformed them into savage and thick evil monsters, which gave birth to today's Melo Mermaid.
"You all know me, right?" Charles asked condescendingly.
The Kou Tao murlocs of the Nightcrawler team nodded.
"Since you recognize it, then go and do it for me. After you do it, I will let the vice admiral of the empire reward you for me."
"Yes!"
Soon, the Nightcrawler team was dispatched.
The sea caves inhabited by the Myro are filled with treasures and memorabilia looted from other creatures or shipwrecks.They will tie up all kinds of rotting corpses with seaweed and stand around the cave to mark their territory.
For the well-trained Nightcrawler team, finding such a place in the sea is nothing, after all, the specific location has been locked.
So it didn't take long for them to find the place.
The Nightcrawler team is very professional. They came quietly and left quietly, and went around the old house of the Mermaid in Miluo without anyone noticing.
This information was gathered to Shire, and Shire immediately chose to concentrate all the power of the five-color dragons belonging to the Demon Flame Empire that was active in the north of the Beiyang Province, and pieced together a large army.
The high-end combat power includes Shire herself and the tauren Toren, who has also been promoted to legend recently.In addition, that is the Nightcrawler team, and their professional level is all at the master level.
Charr chose to attack the mermaid's lair directly instead of rescuing the occupied areas.
This point was protested by the five-color dragons whose territories had fallen.
However, Shire didn't care so much, she still had this plan, which made those young dragons want to go to the king to sue her...
Fortunately, Tauren Toren came out as a peacemaker and explained the pros and cons to them before letting them stay and work together.
The coalition army formed by Charles is composed of dragon blood family members, and is very mobile. Even if the enemy finds out, it is too late to return to defense.
In the end, the mero mermaids who had not yet been born as legendary powerhouses were basically killed.
The news that the mermaid was killed was spread to the enemy-occupied area at once.
The leaderless "ocean disaster" Kou Tao fish people were also killed by the joint breath of the dragon blood army, which caused their population to drop instantly.
But this is not enough, at least Shire thinks it is not enough.
The speed of the Kou Tao murlocs increased very fast, and they would still cause this situation sooner or later.
After obtaining the fish egg inactivation formula from the senior officials of the Beiyang Bank, Charles took his subordinates to control the remaining super large number of Kou Tao fishmen and took them as his subordinates.
Treat their fellow tribes living in the deep sea in the same way that the empire treated the kuo-tao fishmen in the Underdark Region.
With more troops, Shire expanded more rapidly, and the total area of the island it occupied was even no less than a province of the Demon Flame Empire.
And her deeds were also known by more people, and then she was given the title of "Island Queen".
When Shire obtained this title, it was the tenth year after Emperor Demon Flame fell asleep. That is to say, it took her nearly 20 years to achieve such an achievement.
Although for an ancestral red dragon, such an achievement is nothing, but for other five-color dragons, it is indeed a good example for the empire to work hard to expand its territory.
Even Shire's two younger brothers, Ignacio and Elia Rolle, grew up hearing her stories.
That's right, it was Charles' younger brother, Ferrum's wife AKS, who gave birth to a second child while Mike was sleeping.
Since the ancestral dragons were all strong and weak in fertility, AKS did not produce as many red dragon eggs as the first time.
In addition, Mike's younger brother and younger sister also have a partner, but it is not their own older sister/brother, but two deputy senior officials around them, Reedus and Lela who were pulled out of the dragon scale by Mike.
It's not that they don't like their sister/brother, but considering what Mike said when they were young, they chose the second option, which is the spare tire...
The current situation is not bad. In the days when the Demon Flame Emperor was sleeping, the Demon Flame Empire was still advancing.
Thanks to xiaotang246 for the reward of 100 starting coins, thank you boss, the boss is generous.
(End of this chapter)
"Sleep well! Over the past 7000 years, I haven't had any decent sleep!" The Tarraques giant agreed.
Who would sleep happily when tied tightly by a pile of chains like zongzi?
"Where is His Majesty Mike going to sleep? We haven't asked about this question yet." Kalei the ancient blue dragon asked.
"Given the growing size, it is impossible to sleep in the small places before. It is best to find an active volcano." Blue Dragon Bishop explained.
"However, the active volcano is a little far away from the empire. I don't want to be too far away from the empire, and I don't want to bother my family members. For this reason, I choose a place deep underground in the palace, deep enough to obtain a steady stream of fire elements deep sleep."
"It turned out to be approaching the core of the main material plane." The ancient red dragon Apollo thought thoughtfully.
"It's there." Mike nodded, "Fortunately, I have already covered the dark area under the Demon Flame City, and there is no need to disperse the people."
The place where Mike sleeps is the asthenosphere, which is generally considered to be the main source of magma, where the fire element is very rich, and there is no need for his subordinates to constantly replenish the fire element with breath at the sleeping place like before.
The asthenosphere is also the place where the Tarraques Behemoth Gundam was imprisoned, but the place where Mike slept was under the palace, not under the dinosaur paradise.
"Are you talking about the place where I was sealed? The concentration of the fire element in that place is indeed very strong." The Tarraques giant nodded.
Even though I've been locked there, I just can't be happy.
After chatting for a while, the two ancient dragons returned to their respective territories, while Bishop Blue Dragon opened a portal first, allowing Malphite to return to his Murphy Province, where the largest building materials factory in the entire empire is located. The place.
Afterwards, Bishop Blue Dragon bid farewell to Emperor Demon Flame, and he was about to go into a deep sleep. After all, a long time ago, he was a mature dragon, and when he woke up next time, he would be an old dragon.
In the end, Mike and the demigod Tarraques Behemoth Gundam who had just been conquered by him were left in place.
"Aren't you going?"
"Let's go, let's go right away. It's not a problem to stay here. I was just contacting my prime minister and governor to tell those people that they can move back. Let's treat it as a trip to the capital at public expense." Mike smiled.
Fortunately, the ceiling here is high enough, otherwise, the dark area above may not be pierced by your "Plasma Element Fission Super Divine Power Extremely Giant White Beam Cannon".
"In my opinion, those are just food for us top predators." The Tarraques behemoth scratched the itch with its claws.
Mike rolled his eyes, "I don't care what you think, anyway, I don't allow you to hurt anything, unless the other party intends to hurt you."
"I know, I know that I don't need to be hungry, and I don't bother to use them to fill my stomach, there is too little meat."
Mike opened a portal, which leads to the dark area at the bottom of the palace of the Demon Flame Empire.
The dark area below the palace is basically the garrison and training ground of the Demon Flame Legion.
"Go in." Mike glanced at the Tarraques behemoth.
Gundam took the lead and entered it.
Mike passed by the other party and also entered, closing the portal after the body completely passed.
"The aura of these little guys really resembles yours. Are they all your followers? Among the weak, their strength is not bad." The Tarraques giant beast commented.
Although the other party's evaluation really made these dependents angry, but what they said was true. In front of a demigod like the other party, they were still just bugs that would be easily crushed to death.
Mike said condescendingly: "Don't get too carried away, Gundam. I think that the dwarf demigod who sealed you up must be because you didn't treat them as 'weak' people to you. People see, wanton massacre, will have a big battle with you."
"Don't mention him to me! I hate him to death!" Thinking of the old man of the hill dwarf, the Tarraques giant was annoyed.
"I always feel that the tone of what you just said just now doesn't dislike that dwarf demigod at all."
"It must be annoying! I have been imprisoned by him for more than 7000 years!" the Tarraques giant roared.
Smelling the smell emanating from the mouth of the Tarraques behemoth, Mike looked disgusted.
"Okay, okay, your mouth really stinks."
"Next, you just stay here until I wake up." Mike said, pointing to the ground.
"Go, go!" Gao Da said impatiently.
The dragon kept beeping at me, and if I hadn't been unable to beat him, I would have beaten him up long ago.
So, after Michelle looked at the Tarraques giant suspiciously, he plunged into the tunnel dug by his family members to the asthenosphere of this planet.
As he went deeper, Mike felt more and more comfortable, because the temperature was getting higher and higher, which made him very happy as a red dragon, and a large amount of fire elements were rushing into his body.
Finally, Mike came to the asthenosphere full of magma, where he slowly lost consciousness and fell asleep.
When he wakes up again, his strength and body shape will undergo earth-shaking changes again.
In the dark area before.
Since this dark area is far enough from the surface, and Mike did not sink to the bottom of the asthenosphere, but stayed at the top, it happened that the Tarraques behemoth had the gain of the evil aura, otherwise he would have been killed for a while. After that, there will definitely be a commotion.
So the behemoth of Tarraques is now soundly asleep, the sleep he hasn't had much of over 7000 years of incarceration.
Being able to sleep in a relaxed way has always been his dream and one of the things he wanted to do during his imprisonment.
However, the behemoth snores too loudly
As Mike, the supreme ruler of the Demon Flame Empire, fell asleep, so did the demigod-level Tarraques behemoth, the blue dragon bishop, and most of the five-color dragons.
The long-lived species have a lot of free time, and sleeping is one of their few pleasures.
So far, the graduates of the Dragon Academy have no subsidy anymore, so they can only temporarily stay idle in the previous city, and are appointed to some positions by the senior executives there, and become migrant workers.
And those five-color dragons who have the subsidy of the dragon's blood dependents are expanding their territory northward, for the magic flame empire!
Three years later, those graduates with dragon's blood relatives were united because of a marine disaster.
"Sister Shire, the new territory I just acquired was taken over by those damned Kou Tao Yuren!" A young white dragon cried.
The leader of the pioneers is the ancestral red dragon Charles Matilda Alastor.
"Plague of the sea, right?" Charles asked.
"No, not only the Kou Tao fish people, but also the Mermaid Mermaid. It seems to be related to the mermaid mage Lett under Grandpa Aix. I heard that the mermaid kingdom where he lived was destroyed by the Mermaid Mermaid. I don't know if it is It's not the same group of Mairo Mermaids." A teenage red dragon shook his head.
In the territory of the young red dragon, there were also Kou-tao fishmen, but very few. He found that there were Mailuo mermaids commanding those Kuu-tao fishmen.
"Mairo mermaids? I think these guys should have been sent back by a demon lord more than ten or twenty years ago. After all, those demons always like to play around, looking for opportunities to send the mero mermaids back to the main material plane. It is quite normal for them to wantonly destroy the sea.
Normally, we would turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, but now we can't. Who told them to endanger the territory of the empire? "Charles smiled and looked at the lord dragons who were attacked by the other side in the nearby territories.
(After returning to the main material plane, the domineering Melo Mermaid will seize the opportunity to wantonly attack those creatures weaker than themselves.)
Hearing the words behind Shire, these young lord dragons knew that this "little princess", who was loved by the Demon Flame Emperor, was going to take action to solve this matter.
"Lord Charles, do we need to report this matter?" the tauren Toren asked.
In the mind of this 90-year-old but still very young tauren family member, he thought it would be more reliable to report this incident to the senior officials of the Beiyang Bank.
"No, it's enough for us to do this by ourselves, and we don't need the help of Beiyang Province." Charles thought it was unnecessary to report everything.
"But you should inform the empire, right?" Torun suggested.
"Then just tell them."
Facing repeated suggestions from the tauren Torun, Charles chose to agree.
After that, Torun informed Ponte, a senior official of Beiyang Bank, about the incident.
The other party's answer was to let Charles do it with confidence.
However, he had a request, that is, to ask Shire to use the Nightcrawler squad trained by Vice Admiral Slack to investigate the situation of the Mero Mermaids.
It is still necessary to take a cautious approach to the Meiro mermaids released by the demon lords.
Maybe, they weren't just sent back for destruction, maybe they were preparing for the next abyssal invasion.
The original Melo Mermaid appeared only after touching a statue of Demogorgon.
Every mermaid who touched the idol went crazy!
Among them is a mermaid king.
The mad king ordered a sacrificial ceremony to open an alien passage to the bottomless abyss.Then the massacre of merman sacrifices turns the sea red, and the ritual is finally completed.
On the opposite side of the passage is Demogorgon's old home, where the murlocs lived hard for several generations, until the endless abyss twisted them completely and transformed them into savage and thick evil monsters, which gave birth to today's Melo Mermaid.
"You all know me, right?" Charles asked condescendingly.
The Kou Tao murlocs of the Nightcrawler team nodded.
"Since you recognize it, then go and do it for me. After you do it, I will let the vice admiral of the empire reward you for me."
"Yes!"
Soon, the Nightcrawler team was dispatched.
The sea caves inhabited by the Myro are filled with treasures and memorabilia looted from other creatures or shipwrecks.They will tie up all kinds of rotting corpses with seaweed and stand around the cave to mark their territory.
For the well-trained Nightcrawler team, finding such a place in the sea is nothing, after all, the specific location has been locked.
So it didn't take long for them to find the place.
The Nightcrawler team is very professional. They came quietly and left quietly, and went around the old house of the Mermaid in Miluo without anyone noticing.
This information was gathered to Shire, and Shire immediately chose to concentrate all the power of the five-color dragons belonging to the Demon Flame Empire that was active in the north of the Beiyang Province, and pieced together a large army.
The high-end combat power includes Shire herself and the tauren Toren, who has also been promoted to legend recently.In addition, that is the Nightcrawler team, and their professional level is all at the master level.
Charr chose to attack the mermaid's lair directly instead of rescuing the occupied areas.
This point was protested by the five-color dragons whose territories had fallen.
However, Shire didn't care so much, she still had this plan, which made those young dragons want to go to the king to sue her...
Fortunately, Tauren Toren came out as a peacemaker and explained the pros and cons to them before letting them stay and work together.
The coalition army formed by Charles is composed of dragon blood family members, and is very mobile. Even if the enemy finds out, it is too late to return to defense.
In the end, the mero mermaids who had not yet been born as legendary powerhouses were basically killed.
The news that the mermaid was killed was spread to the enemy-occupied area at once.
The leaderless "ocean disaster" Kou Tao fish people were also killed by the joint breath of the dragon blood army, which caused their population to drop instantly.
But this is not enough, at least Shire thinks it is not enough.
The speed of the Kou Tao murlocs increased very fast, and they would still cause this situation sooner or later.
After obtaining the fish egg inactivation formula from the senior officials of the Beiyang Bank, Charles took his subordinates to control the remaining super large number of Kou Tao fishmen and took them as his subordinates.
Treat their fellow tribes living in the deep sea in the same way that the empire treated the kuo-tao fishmen in the Underdark Region.
With more troops, Shire expanded more rapidly, and the total area of the island it occupied was even no less than a province of the Demon Flame Empire.
And her deeds were also known by more people, and then she was given the title of "Island Queen".
When Shire obtained this title, it was the tenth year after Emperor Demon Flame fell asleep. That is to say, it took her nearly 20 years to achieve such an achievement.
Although for an ancestral red dragon, such an achievement is nothing, but for other five-color dragons, it is indeed a good example for the empire to work hard to expand its territory.
Even Shire's two younger brothers, Ignacio and Elia Rolle, grew up hearing her stories.
That's right, it was Charles' younger brother, Ferrum's wife AKS, who gave birth to a second child while Mike was sleeping.
Since the ancestral dragons were all strong and weak in fertility, AKS did not produce as many red dragon eggs as the first time.
In addition, Mike's younger brother and younger sister also have a partner, but it is not their own older sister/brother, but two deputy senior officials around them, Reedus and Lela who were pulled out of the dragon scale by Mike.
It's not that they don't like their sister/brother, but considering what Mike said when they were young, they chose the second option, which is the spare tire...
The current situation is not bad. In the days when the Demon Flame Emperor was sleeping, the Demon Flame Empire was still advancing.
Thanks to xiaotang246 for the reward of 100 starting coins, thank you boss, the boss is generous.
(End of this chapter)
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