Crossing the true dragon realm, and you call me Little Locke?

After dismissing Serafina, Shuoyang tossed the remaining branch and leaf source crystal to Melanthers.

He said to her, "This is your reward for this mission. Have you seen enough?"

"Of course that's enough!"

Melances accepted it, naturally overjoyed.

She originally thought she could only earn ten or twenty thousand yuan at most this time.

I'm planning to wait until I've saved enough money to see if I can buy a crystal from Shuoyang.

Unexpectedly, the reward for such a small job was this crystal.

This truly delighted Melanthus, since the copper dragons generally preferred spirits when seeking companions.

And the trust of these little guys is extremely difficult to gain.

Therefore, for her and young dragons like Serafina who are building their nests, a crystal that can automatically generate powerful and loyal followers is invaluable.

It is undoubtedly more tempting than ordinary gold and silver treasures.

Melanthes, fearing that Shuoyang might change his mind, put away the crystal.

He immediately said, "Boss, let's begin!"

"I'll go and get rid of those pests right away."

"Would you like to come along and supervise the work?"

"Don't rush!"

Seeing her so energetic, Shuoyang's heart skipped a beat.

He began to doubt whether Melanthers was reliable.

He then said, "That underground cave is quite deep, and there are over a hundred ground thorn beetles."

"I'll first find out the situation, then devise a plan and find some targeted Pokémon."

"It's not too late for us to take action later."

"No need for that!"

Melanthers waved her hand and joked with a smile, "Please don't question my professionalism, boss."

"I inquired about the situation underground with Ms. Adela as soon as I arrived."

"She said that the group of ground beetles has been waging guerrilla warfare against the elves you arranged for the past few months."

"They dug out nineteen relatively hidden entrances and exits in the mountains."

"But thanks to their preference for high-calorie prey and the fact that elves like to stick together, they are always exposed soon after they arrive on the surface because they attack fire-type elf groups."

"After being driven back underground by your elf squad and Lady Adela, we have very little food to obtain."

"So they must have run out of supplies in the last two weeks, because they haven't appeared again."

"The entrances and exits they opened up, I also used magic to block them up one by one, as instructed by Ms. Adela."

"We're just wrapping things up now, you don't need to worry."

"..." Upon hearing this, Shuoyang immediately became alert.

He asked, "You said those burrowing insects haven't been found in the last two weeks?"

"Yes," Melanthers knew what he was worried about.

She calmly explained, "Don't worry! They're probably just hungry."

"After I returned from the north to take over this mission..."

"I searched those tunnels with my squad, but there was no trace of those underground creatures with long ears."

"Oh, that's good!"

Hearing that she was indeed quite professional, Shuoyang breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, with a touch of gossip, he asked, "So, what was the deal with that female assassin the other day?"

"Aren't you guys very professional?"

"How did she manage to sneak into the group?"

"..." Melanthers fell silent.

She clearly didn't want to answer that question.

After all, although Shuoyang saved her that day, he also covered her in the blood and flesh of the female assassin.

She was afraid that her identity would be exposed and that Shuoyang would mistake her for a wild dragon that had invaded his territory, so she dared not cleanse herself immediately.

Furthermore, the Copper Dragon is one of the very few dragons that does not eat humanoid creatures.

So the memory of that day was not pleasant for her at all.

"I'm sorry," Shuoyang said, immediately changing the subject. "If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine."

However, while the red bronze dragon's desire to express itself is not as strong as that of the talkative brass dragon, it is still much stronger than that of other creatures.

Simply put, they couldn't hold back their words either.

Therefore, when Melanthes heard that Shuoyang was no longer listening, she wanted to speak again.

He waved his hand and replied, "It's nothing, she's actually a member of 'Galladland'."

"After I was born, my father seemed to have toned it down a little bit."

"And because I was closer to these younger members of the group, my father didn't harm them."

"This caused some discord between them and their mothers, the older members of the group."

"They think it's my problem, that I caused their 'dragon father,' and they've started to distance themselves from these humanoid women."

At this point, Melanthers couldn't help but raise his voice in a resentful tone.

She confided to Shuoyang, "Because they were afraid that my father would abandon Galadran, they began to be hostile and even hate me."

"That's why I came out and formed my own adventure team."

"She was my best friend. I thought she was different from those people, and that as long as she experienced some things outside, her morals and values ​​would be corrected."

"It turned out I was naive; she was actually the one who hated me the most among all my friends."

"The misunderstanding last time was actually a murder she meticulously planned."

"She wanted to take the opportunity to kill me, and if that failed, she would use it to expose my identity, cause a misunderstanding, and have me killed by you."

"She just didn't expect that the bronze dragons' attitude towards humanoids was completely different from that of the copper dragons."

"She didn't expect you to kill her to save me, instead of eliminating us, the threats that invade our territory, like my father did."

After saying that, she sighed, though it was unclear for whom she was sighing.

Shuoyang remained silent for a long time after hearing this.

He was shocked; he had thought that dragon-sexuality like Lena's was just an isolated case among mortals.

He never expected that the women in the Galadran Adventurer's Guild would be even more bizarre.

Male dragons... especially male metallic dragons, grow older.

They will naturally shift their focus from their ardent desire for a partner to the care and upbringing of their children.

Simply put, it refers to most male dragons after they enter old age.

It will automatically assume the identity of a father or elder.

This phenomenon is particularly prominent in dragons with strong family values, such as blue dragons, silver dragons, bronze dragons, and gold dragons.

Therefore, Galadaros's behavior was perfectly normal in the eyes of the dragons.

On the contrary, it was the women in the Galadran Adventurer's Guild.

In Shuoyang's eyes, it all had a bit of a ghost father attachment and Sterling syndrome.

She wanted to enter the Demon Father's harem, so she assassinated the Demon Father's biological daughter to arouse his lust and make him interested in her.

Shuoyang couldn't understand what kind of brain circuit this was.

He couldn't even quite distinguish between Melanthers and those women, who was the dragon whose way of thinking was more like a beast, as mortals described it.

So after a long silence, Shuoyang could only sigh as well.

I'm starting to regret being so gossipy.

He desperately needs a brain that has never heard of this ridiculous "family" relationship.

These women, whose minds were like those of lions, shook his worldview even more than the story of the druid he had heard before—the one who saved endangered beasts through shapeshifting.