Make the dragon great again

Chapter 18 Surrounding Situation of the Dungeon
The three low-level dragons who received the source blood returned to the first three floors of the dungeon, while Adrian, who stayed alone on the ninth floor, was summarizing the results of this experiment.

"In the four experiments, no matter whether the main body took action or not, killing the intruder will get more void feedback than expelling the intruder. According to the previous summary, if the multiplier of the void feedback obtained by expelling intelligent creatures is sixteen, then The reward for killing is twenty;”

"However, the expelled intruders may try to enter the dungeon again in the future, and will spread the news of the existence of the dungeon, attracting more people to come... So in the long run, expulsion may not be less rewarding than killing, Maybe even more..."

The dragon's head lifted slightly, and Adrian was quite satisfied with the results of the experiment.

The growth cycle of giant dragons is considered long among long-lived species, especially for ancient dragons. Adrian wants to reach a level where he can ignore most dangers in this world as soon as possible. It is impossible to rely on slow growth Therefore, "Dungeon Master" will be his main identity for a long time to come.

In order to pursue a faster growth rate, the dungeon run by Adrian must not be like other dungeons, where all intruders will not die, and it is best to kill them all. Instead, people need to "break" from time to time. , Give him "experience";
Therefore, compared to killing every intruder, Adrian is more inclined to expel and drive them away, and after the opponent's strength grows, he calls friends to break into the dungeon again, while Adrian's own strength is It will rise rapidly as the adventurers go on and on.

This will form a roughly virtuous circle. As long as Adrian's own strength can always overwhelm the invaders, then this will basically be a perfect closed loop...

Of course, there are also some risks that cannot be ignored:

Maybe before Adrian himself relied on adventurers to gain experience for him and grow into a peerless great devil, a "dragon slaying brave" who surpassed him might be born in the adventures of generations;
Or, Adrian will attract a powerful enemy that he can't deal with at this stage, so that all his plans will be over before he has time to start, and he will also become a magic material in someone else's crotch mount or even in the warehouse...

But fortunately, Adrian's dungeon is located deep in the Great Mullin Forest, backed by the Roaring Mountains like a moat. The east and north sides of the Great Forest are surrounded by the kingdom of Gaia, and the south is also a place where the orc tribes spread. In the Great Swamp of Tus, it can be said that there is no threat to the current existence of Adrian in the surrounding area. He doesn't have to worry about a dragon slaying hero popping up at any time.

After all, Adrian's current strength is no worse than the "hero level" at the peak of the Gaia species. With one side of the forest backed by the moat and the other three sides being the living area of ​​the Gaia species, he almost belongs to this area The strongest group among them, a lot of people weaker than him, and almost none who are stronger than him...

The triple eyelids closed one by one, and Adrian, who was very satisfied with the results of the experiment, closed his eyes and thought about the plan for a period of time in the future.

"When I come back from the Quintus Swamp, I will farm and develop honestly... With the location of the dungeon, for quite a while, there are only three places I really need to worry about..."

"One is the Mage Dominion on a peninsula to the east of the Griffin Principality and the easternmost peninsula on the mainland - High Tower Forest;"

"Secondly, it is located in the southwest of the High Tower Forest and on the east coast of the mainland, the territory of a pure-blooded elf tribe - the forest of silver elves;"

"The third is the unknown existence of the suspected adult phantom creature that awakened in the ancestral land of the Bechymos Kingdom more than 200 years ago."

All of the above three have places beyond Adrian's ability to cope at this stage, let's analyze them one by one...

The first is the tall tower forest. The tall tower forest is a loose organization spontaneously formed by a group of Gaia magicians. The so-called tall tower "forest" means "forest composed of mage towers";
As early as the Second Era, the High Tower Forest had already existed. At that time, the human kingdom established at the same time as the Behemoth Kingdom was still very strong, and the High Tower Forest was the gathering place for the court magicians of that ancient kingdom;
Until this ancient kingdom collapsed and split, the leader of Gaotalin at that time, who was also a veteran of the ancient king's royal family, directly led the rest of Gaotalin's hero-level magicians, and arranged a large defensive barrier, enclosing the land and declaring independence and self-government. Since then, High Tower Forest has become a paradise for Gaia mages in the eastern part of the mainland;
There is a tall and quaint supreme white tower in the center of the tall tower forest, which is the core of the tall tower forest's defensive enchantment, and it is also the residence of the members of the highest council of the tall tower forest, and each of these highest council members is a "heroic" powerful magic division!
The hunted first princess of Bechymos, Anastasia, whose alias is Anna, her teacher is one of the current members of the Supreme Jury;

Although Adrian now thinks that he is not worthy of any "hero class", but he can't hold back the number of people on the other side. If Adrian, who is still only a young dragon, is surrounded and killed by the highest evaluation group in Gaotalin, I am afraid I can only run away...

The second is the forest of silver elves, which is located on the coastline of the southwest mainland of the High Tower Forest. As the name suggests, it is the forest where the silver elves live, also known as the "forest of silver".

Silver elves are pure-blooded elves, one of the longevity species. The "hero-level" limit of the Gaia species does not apply to them. It is said that adult silver elves have the strength equivalent to the "silver-level" human race. That's why it's called the Silver Elf, but Adrian is skeptical about this statement...

As a long-lived species, the upper limit of the peak strength of the Silver Elf far exceeds that of the Gaia species, but Adrian is not yet aware of how much it exceeds, but he only learned it from Anna, who is a genius magician in Gaotalin:

Above "hero" is "legend".

But one thing is certain is that there are definitely not many silver elves who have reached "Legend", just like the peak of the Gaia species is "Hero", but most of the adult race can't even reach brass...

In addition, this group of silver elves are all nerds, staying in the forest all year round to study their own topics of interest, and each of them may not come out of the forest once in hundreds of years, so they and Adrian, who are several countries away, It is difficult to have any intersection in the short term-this "short term" is defined by the standard of long-lived species.

Adrian can temporarily exclude them from the threat list, as long as they don't mess with this group of "thousand-year-old houses", then everyone will be able to live in peace.

The last one, and what Adrian is most concerned about at the moment, is the unknown creature that awakened in Bechymos' "ancestral land".

Adrian doesn't care about the Gaia kingdom, but Bechymos's royal family is a dragon-born family, and Anastasia, the first heir, has returned to her ancestors and awakened the power of the dragon's blood. Therefore, Adrian has the idea of ​​establishing friendly diplomatic relations with this country.

However, the current Bechymos Kingdom is not peaceful at home and abroad. As the first heir, the princess Anastasia was even accused of treason by her aunt who is also in the royal family...

And according to Anna herself, behind all this is the intervention of an unknown existence beyond the category of "hero" and reaching the level of "legendary"!
This is different from the other two situations.

The threat from the tall tower forest will at most make Adrian run away. As long as they don't provoke them in the Silver Forest, they will probably be able to live in peace, except for this unknown fantasy creature, which is a complete unknown;
Moreover, there is a vague conflict of interest between this thing and Adrian because of the Behemoth royal family...

"Headache, the ancestral land of Bechymos is closely related to the source of their dragon blood, I can't ignore it... harm! Let's think about this issue after returning from the Quintus Swamp!"

The pure white dragon shook his head, not thinking about these things beyond his ability for the time being, and walked towards the surface in a burst of white light, disguised as a half-elf.

……

After 'Mr. Ed' returned to the surface, he said that after the search was fruitless, everyone who couldn't wait to leave this area, finally set off again, heading towards the Quintus Swamp in the south of the Mullion Forest.

At the same time, a group of uninvited guests came to the northeast of the Great Forest, and to the town of Lannold, where Adrian had never been able to enter. They added a new opportunity to the town of adventurers who had just recovered from the weird atmosphere for less than a month. haze……

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To be continued (change first and then change).

The status has been changed this afternoon~
I am very grateful to Mo Shouyou who tipped 2000 starting coins as soon as he signed the contract, and Qi Wenjun who tipped 500 coins!

(End of this chapter)