There was a slight vibration in the canyon.
It seems to be a relatively weak earthquake, and there is no obvious vibration feeling, but this kind of vibration is real, and it is still transmitted from the ground at a stable frequency. With a sense of rhythm. The remaining earth elements in the canyon stayed in place as if sluggish, gathered up after a while, and then drilled into the ground along the altar, and it is unknown where they entered the ground.
About tens of kilometers away from the canyon, on the edge of the Emerald Mountains, there is a dragon's lair built on a cliff.
Most of the locations of the dragon's lair are very precipitous. This is the first line of defense for the giant dragon. It is difficult to reach it by normal means, because there are cliffs all around. This point in the story of the tavern is very false, because the heroes all walked all the way to the dragon's nest. In fact, most of the time to enter the dragon's nest, you need to climb hundreds of meters of cliffs. tool. Heavy-armored warriors are the toughest at this time. If there is no spell-casting professional to bless the flying technique, it will take a while to climb up.
The geographical factor is only the first trouble. There are many traps near the dragon's lair, including very deadly spell traps.
If you are unlucky, you will find that there is a small labyrinth inside the dragon's lair, which is guarded by a lot of monsters. These are the slaves of the dragon, working and providing food for them. But most of the time, only old dragons will be guarded by monsters, and young dragons are not so confident that they can control those servants all the time.
This is the lair of a copper dragon.
There are obvious traces of man-made modifications around the dragon's lair. The giant dragon has flattened the stone wall near the mountain peak, turning it into a vertical 90-degree right angle. It is difficult for creatures that are basically unable to fly to come up. There is a large platform in front of the lair. The giant dragon also needs space to take off and land. It takes a lot of effort to fly by flapping its wings. When they hunt, they dive and then glide into the sky in an arc.
A copper-colored giant dragon crawled in the lair.
It looks almost the same as the legendary dragon, the only special thing is that its forelimbs are thicker, and the color of the pupils is already very pale, which looks like turquoise. The physical characteristics of dragons are important, because physical characteristics represent their most ferocious physical attacks. Dragon's breath is not the most deadly, many spells can resist dragon's breath, and shields can also block it. Experienced high-level adventurers know that dragon's wing flapping and dragon's claw tearing are more dangerous than dragon's breath.
This was originally a sleeping giant dragon, but it has now woken up.
It lay on top of treasures piled up nearly half a floor high, a dazzling golden light shone, and its ferocious dragon head looked towards the direction of the canyon. Dragons will be very hungry after waking up from a deep sleep, and they are more aggressive at this time. It sticks out its long and narrow crimson tongue, and rolls up a washbasin-sized metal ore from the side, which is as crunchy as eating chocolate, and its sharp fangs easily crush the hard ore. It took a few seconds to gnaw off a piece of ore, then licked his teeth with his long and narrow tongue, and said slowly: "Which idiots awakened the spirit of the earth? Aren't they afraid of bearing the wrath of the earth?"
After gnawing off a piece of ore, the red copper dragon regained a little energy. It stretched its huge dragon wings and came out of the lair. In front of the dragon lair was a platform tens of meters wide, but it still felt that the space was too small after it came out. The red copper dragon stood on the top of a steep mountain wall hundreds of meters high, overlooking the land in front of it, which belonged to its territory. The red copper-colored metal scales refracted light in the sunlight. This ferocious and elegant creature raised its head, and then jumped off the cliff with a sudden leap. After diving tens of meters, it flapped its dragon wings and soared into the air. In the blink of an eye, he rushed into the air thousands of meters high.
An invisible coercion spread, and the animals that migrated nearby because of the sleeping dragon fled frantically for their lives.
It didn't even look at those poor reptiles. It flapped its dragon wings and flew towards the plains a hundred kilometers away. There were strong clefthoofs, a mutant creature of rhinoceros, which could weigh about three tons, enough for it to eat. It's over.
The dark underground world.
In a dark red cave, a hideous creature that looked like a meat ball slowly opened its eyes.
The walls on all sides are dark red, as if they contain some kind of minerals. The awakened creature has a lot of eyes. It first opened the huge single eye in the center of its head, and then opened the eyes on the tentacles around its head. Its eye stalks are segmented like an earthworm. Its body is about five meters in diameter, without any body touching the ground, but the entire sarcoma-like head is strangely suspended in the air. Dozens of densely packed tentacles are covered with eyeballs, which make people feel scalp numb just looking at them like a dense formation.
"The spirit of the earth has awakened!"
Its huge mouth was covered with sharp fangs. It glanced around with cold and ruthless eyes, and then flew out of the cave in a levitation. It had been sleeping for more than ten years. The newly awakened beholder was hungry. It had consumed too much energy for further advanced mutations, and even its original servants had become food in its mouth. But that doesn't matter, as long as it is willing, it can charm more servants in the underground world soon.
An invisible web of perception spread out.
I don't know if it has advanced to the beholder elder or the giant-eyed tyrant, but it must be a legendary beholder flying out of the lair, and soon a group of gray dwarves entered its perception range. It flew over lightly and silently, without any sound, and the eyeball on one of the tentacles shot out a ray of light, shooting a gray dwarf through the head in an instant, and the remaining gray dwarves let out a terrified cry , Those who tried to escape were instantly killed by the ray, and the rest knelt on the ground and shivered.
The huge beholder opened its mouth and swallowed half of a gray dwarf's corpse. As the blood basin chewed, drops of blood and pieces of flesh spilled out. , those gray dwarves who survived all had dull expressions, kneeling in front of it respectfully and saying: "Master."
The sluggish eyes gradually recovered, and the mind imprint made by the charm spell had begun to take effect.
The gray dwarf's eyes became clearer, but he lifted up his companion's corpse respectfully, and began to serve his new master for food.
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Sauron and his party returned along the same road.
The halfling was still happily counting the gems, Gloria gently lifted her long hair and looked behind her, her expression seemed a little strange. Before she left, she seemed to feel something, which was energy fluctuations from the ground. Sauron was walking behind with Vivienne on his back. Suddenly, he seemed to have sensed something. The hair all over his body stood up, and he unconsciously held the scimitar with his palm. At the same time, he raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance. The halfling felt the same way as him. All the gems in Aladdin's hand fell to the ground, and he pulled out the short sword in an instant.
Gloria froze for a moment, subconsciously added an energy shield, and then looked into the distance with frowning eyebrows.
A ferocious and huge figure flew past like a shadow!
Sauron's face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "The Copper Dragon!"
It was an adult red copper dragon. It didn't even notice the tiny human beings who were blessed with the invisibility technique underground. It just woke up very hungry. The thing it wants to do most now is to catch an adult male clefthoof cow for a full meal. The entire team was taken aback by the flying dragon. All creatures within the area covered by the dragon's power were affected. The only thing that was relatively normal was the little girl on Sauron's back. She raised her little head and looked at it. The giant dragon in the sky murmured, "It looks so majestic!"
Vivienne didn't know what was going on in her little head, and there was a longing expression on her cute little face.
But at this time, no one paid attention to her.
After the giant dragon flew past, the others breathed a sigh of relief. Sauron couldn't help speeding up his pace, and the halfling also put away the gems, trotting forward to keep up with them.
This is an adult dragon.
With a legendary challenge rating, they don't want to encounter such a creature right now.
behind them.
The Druid who was tracking suddenly stopped in his tracks. He pulled out a feather from his messy hair, and then quickly chanted a spell, turning himself into an eagle in an instant. The eagle spread its wings and soared to a height of several hundred meters. After taking a look at the direction in which the dragon was leaving, it turned around and flew towards the other side. An adult red copper dragon sleeping near the Emerald Mountains has awakened. This matter must be told to Your Excellency the Earthwalker. Even if the metal dragon is kind-hearted, it is also very dangerous.
All dragons are a little moody!
When they saw a living dragon flying past, everyone had no intention of staying. They drove all night and finally returned to the original elf village the next day. The village is still very peaceful, and no creatures will attack the elves at will, because this will attract revenge from the forest patrol guards.
Deterring the enemy not only requires powerful force, but also some cruel methods!
The elves don't have much elegance when they take revenge, and they are also extremely bloody when dealing with alien enemies, otherwise the nearby ogres, half-breed orcs, and wilderness monsters would not migrate to other places one by one. Those elven patrolling guards had blood on their hands, and the number of creatures they hunted and killed would definitely not be less than that of Sauron now. Every race has a group of cold-blooded and ruthless fighters, they are different from ordinary civilians, their mission is to fight and kill!
Sauron and his party finally returned to the inn, and the halflings couldn't wait to start distributing the spoils.
Sauron got 40%, Aladdin got 30%, Gloria only got three elemental cores besides the first two crystals, and even Vivienne got about ten gemstones in the end. The little girl lifted the gems in front of Sauron with a satisfied face, because her palm was too small to hold so many gems, but her face showed a cute look of offering treasures. Sauron just touched her little head lightly, letting her put the gem away by herself. So she smiled and put the gem into the exquisitely embroidered silver-rimmed dimensional bag, which was already full of many things.
Sauron had the opportunity to take a look at the legendary item after the distribution was complete!
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