Kill one monster, stack one poison, and I alone will poison my way across the world!

Linglong suddenly ducked down behind a low rock mound.

She stared intently at an open space a few hundred meters away, her breathing rapid, her eyes gleaming frighteningly.

In the center of that clearing was a huge nest made of dead wood and glittering ore.

Dozens of Dark Flame Dragon hatchlings, each only half a person's height and with dark red fleshy wings, were frolicking and playing around the nest.

Scattered around the edge of the nest were some crystal-clear white emulsions and a few red crystals that emitted a faint glow.

"We're rich! We're rich!"

Linglong lowered her voice and muttered nervously, her voice filled with undisguised fervor, completely unlike her previous stunned state.

"See those white things and red stones? Dragon milk! Dragon crystal! These are rare alchemy and forging materials. On the trading market, even a tiny speck the size of a fingernail can fetch an astronomical price!"

She tightened her grip on the crossbow and pulled a bottle of gray potion from her backpack.

"Su Chen, listen to me."

Linglong turned to look at Su Chen, her expression becoming extremely serious, even carrying a hint of warning.

"Although these young dragons are small, they are all level 42 flying monsters with ridiculously high agility. They can also breathe fire. Once we disturb them, they will fly into the air and breathe fire, leaving us nowhere to hide."

"I'll sneak over there, steal a few dragon crystals, and run. You stay here and behave yourself. Don't move around or use any skills, understand?"

Su Chen glanced at the distant nest, then at Linglong, who was preparing to release her stealth abilities.

It's just a level 42 monster, why would I need to stealth to steal it?

This is an elite monster in the Nightmare Realm! Wouldn't it be a waste of experience not to kill it?

"No need for that."

Su Chen said casually, raising his staff and gently tapping it on the huge nest.

A bright bolt of lightning shot out in an instant.

"What are you doing?!"

Linglong was so frightened that her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

This isn't just one of those patrol teams outside; it's an entire lair of monsters!

The lightning bolts ripped through the air and struck several young dragons hard.

"roar!"

The struck young dragon let out an angry, immature roar, instantly startling dozens of Darkflame Dragons around the nest.

They flapped their fleshy wings, turned their heads in unison, and locked their blood-red eyes onto the two people behind the rock bunker.

Linglong's heart leaped into her throat, and her mind went completely blank.

"You really are a poison..."

She hadn't even uttered the word "tumor" yet.

"boom--"

A blazing, surging wall of fire suddenly appeared.

The fire wall, tens of meters high, instantly swallowed all the young dragons in mid-air.

Followed by.

Huge purple numbers burst from the tops of the young dragons that had been hit.

"271267646!"

"271275712!"

"271283778!"

The countless damage numbers intertwined to form a ghastly green curtain of light.

Those dark flame dragons that were just about to take flight melted in mid-air as soon as their wings were half open.

Hundreds of elite level 42 dragons turned into a pool of bubbling, acidic water without even spitting out a spark.

[Hint: Successfully defeated the Darkflame Whelp (Level 42 Elite), gaining 50000 experience points]

[Hint: Successfully defeated the Darkflame Whelp (Level 42 Elite), gaining 50000 experience points]

……

Su Chen's experience bar moved forward a little bit.

A deathly silence fell once more around them, with only the glittering materials inside the nest still emitting an alluring glow.

Linglong stood there with her mouth agape, frozen in a pose as if about to flee, her entire body as stiff as a statue.

Hundreds of level 42 elite monsters... wiped them all out with just one skill?!

Are you even human?!

Several seconds later, she suddenly jolted awake and charged towards the enormous nest like a wild dog that had broken free of its reins.

"I'm rich! It's all mine!"

While screaming, she pulled a delicate mithril knife and a transparent glass container from her backpack, squatted at the edge of the nest, and began to happily scrape dragon milk and dig out dragon crystals.

Su Chen walked over slowly, looking at the green water covering the ground and the equipment that had been dropped.

Several hundred young dragons dropped over 200 pieces of common-grade equipment and 12 pieces of black iron-grade equipment.

He accepted them all without hesitation.

He walked over to Linglong, looked at the red dragon crystal that emitted a strong fire element, and reached out to touch it to check its attribute panel.

"Snapped!"

Linglong slapped Su Chen's hand without any hesitation.

"Don't move!"

She glared at Su Chen, but didn't stop what she was doing. She carefully used a mithril knife to pry the dragon crystal out of the crack in the rock.

"These high-grade materials are extremely fragile. Without specialized gathering skills and tools, careless handling will directly lead to a decrease in material grade or even breakage!"

Su Chen withdrew his hand and shrugged.

"Okay, then hurry up and pick them."

"Why are you rushing me? This is delicate work."

Without even looking up, Linglong stuffed a crystal-clear dragon crystal into her backpack, her mouth practically stretched to her ears in a wide grin.

"I killed all these monsters, so I get half of them."

"Okay, okay, half it is."

Linglong still didn't look up, muttering, "Anyway, you'll have to pay the handling fee later, so I'll just rip you off a bit more."

Su Chen: "???"

No, could you please not say what's on your mind?

"Five dollars... six dollars... now I've got my money's worth for enchanting materials for the whole year."

Linglong skillfully moved through the nest, scraping dragon milk and prying dragon crystals at lightning speed.

Fifty percent.

Seventy percent.

Eighty percent.

Just as Linglong's mithril knife pried up a fist-sized piece of top-grade dragon crystal...

"Buzz—"

The dark red ground beneath the entire lair suddenly trembled violently. The surrounding temperature soared exponentially, and the air became severely distorted due to the intense heat.

A huge red magic circle, covered with magma patterns, suddenly formed beneath their feet.

"roar!!!"

A deafening roar erupted from the depths of the earth, followed by a pair of enormous dragon claws covered in thick, dark gold scales that violently tore apart the center of the magic circle.

A violent hurricane, carrying the acrid smell of sulfur, swept across the land.

[Warning: Excessive plundering of nest resources detected, triggering area protection mechanism!]

A giant adult dragon, over thirty meters long and covered in dark red magma, crawled out from the ground.

Its vertical pupils, as large as houses, were fixed on Linglong, who was prying open the dragon crystal.

【Fire Demon Red Dragon (Dark Gold Rank BOSS)】

[Level: 45]

[Rank: Dark Gold]

【Strength: 11000】

[Agility: 18000]

[Stamina: 12000]

【Spirit: 14000】

[Skills: Molten Scale Dragon Body, World-Burning Dragon Breath, Sky-Splitting Flame Wings]

[Molten Scale Dragon Body: Reduces physical damage taken by 30%. Melee units will suffer fire damage reflection with each attack on the dragon body, and will also gain one stack of [Burning] (continuous damage over time, stackable). Receives mana equal to 0.5 times the Spirit value for 10 seconds.]

[Burning Dragon Breath: Deals fire damage to targets in a fan-shaped area every 0.5 seconds. Each tick deals magic damage equal to 5 times the Spirit, and leaves a burning zone on the ground for 10 seconds.]

[Sky-Splitting Flame Wings: Violently flaps wings to launch into the air, creating a fiery tornado before slamming into the ground. Immune to melee attacks while airborne, generating a fiery tornado in the area and its path, dealing magic damage equal to 0.5 times the Spirit and powerfully knocking the enemy back. Upon landing, a circular shockwave deals physical damage equal to 1.5 times the Strength and stuns the enemy for 2.5 seconds.]

……

A huge shadow instantly enveloped the two of them.

The small knife in Linglong's hand clattered to the ground, and she looked as if all her strength had been drained, her face turning deathly pale.

"Flame... Flame Demon Red Dragon... Dark Gold-level BOSS?!"

She stared in horror at the enormous creature that slowly opened its blood-red maw.

Su Chen looked up at the menacing dragon and raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Gathering materials can spawn powerful monsters?"

Su Chen turned to look at Linglong, who was almost collapsing to the ground, and asked speechlessly, "This secret realm has such a mechanism?"

"How should I know!"

Linglong was almost in tears, clutching her hair with both hands: "Before, when I came in, I would sneak in and collect a little bit, at most 10% before running away. How could anyone survive to collect everything from such a high-level nest guarded by a group of young dragons?!"