Jose closed his eyes, consciously gathered the fire elements around him, and guided the fire elements into his heart.
Half an hour later, he suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were full of surprises, his heart seemed to be a bottomless pit, absorbing a huge amount of fire elements without any change.
No change is the biggest change. His intuition told him that he was in the right direction, and he continued to guide the fire element into his heart.
A day passed, and my heart felt slightly warm.
Three days have passed, my heart is like a warm baby in winter, but it is far from reaching its limit.
A week passed, and Jose felt hot all over, as if he was burning.
At this point, he had almost reached the limit, he stopped absorbing the fire element, opened his eyes, and saw the dancing flames on his body.
"It's really burning!"
Mirror image!
The mirror image technique can create a mirror image that is exactly the same as the body. Although the mirror image has no entity, it can perform various actions. It is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake with the naked eye.
This magic is generally used to interfere with the judgment of the enemy, and it can also be used as a mirror under special circumstances.
Just like now, Jose looked at his mirror image in amazement.
Like a phoenix, the mirror image was covered with a coat of flames, and the air around the crimson flames was scorched and distorted. Compared with the degree of distortion of the air on the surface of the magma, the temperature on his body might be even higher.
There is also a small sun-like golden area at the heart, with the sun as the origin, golden irregular cracks spread to the surroundings, covering the entire left pectoral muscle, which looks mysterious and dangerous.
"The appearance is really cool, but I don't know how the specific effect will be."
After a series of experiments, Jose was ecstatic.
"very good!"
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Jose came out of the underground cave and returned to the Dragon's Nest. At this time, the flames on his body, the golden sun on his chest and other visions disappeared, and the violent fire elemental energy was locked in the [Phoenix Heart] without any leakage. .
He lay on the ground and fell into deep thought, his eyes were like two burning fireballs in the dark crypt, and the fuel that fueled the flames was called ambition.
All intelligent creatures with self-consciousness have ambitions, whether they are big or small.
Kindergarten children perform well in the hope that the teacher will reward them with an extra candy. This is ambition. Employees in the workplace work hard for promotion and salary increase. This is ambition. Leaders plan carefully to accumulate more wealth. This is also ambition. .
Jose has always had ambitions, and his ambitions are not small. If his strength allows, he doesn't mind holding the whole world in his hands.
However, when his family proposed to attack the Gray-tailed Centaur tribe and take the wealth accumulated by the opponent over the years, he refused.
Because he knows a truth: ambition needs strength to support it, otherwise it will only harm himself.
Back then, he didn't have the strength to take down a medium-sized centaur tribe.
And now, he has.
After some deliberation, Jose dismissed the idea of annexing the Gray Tail Centaur Tribe.
The power of the prairie is intricate, and there is no guarantee that there is a backer behind the gray-tailed centaur. Even though he is not what he used to be, but his identity is sensitive, it is better not to act rashly until he understands the comprehensive strength of the opponent, including the relationship network.
"Grow low-key, don't waste!"
Besides, there are many delicious, weak, and easy prey nearby—the native tribes in the forest.
It is not necessary to use force to annex the prey. It can be achieved by luring, seducing, and intimidating. Knowing how to use the brain may be the biggest difference between Jose and other red dragons.
He recalled the distribution of forces introduced by his family members, kobolds, jackals and goblins were the main residents of this area.
Many kobolds around are split from the Bloodtooth tribe. Under the oppression of foreign tribes such as gnolls, they still have some connections with each other. You can try to win them over. Goblins are weak and there is no large-scale tribe , the only tricky thing is the Gnoll.
There is a medium-sized gnoll tribe named Moskin nearby. When the Bloodtooth tribe was not yet divided, the Moskin gnolls were the strong opponents of the Bloodtooth kobolds, and they have stood firm for decades. I think they are the same as the gray-tailed centaur tribe. The level of power is even stronger.
However, there are several buffer areas between the Mosskin Gnoll tribe and the Bloodtooth tribe, so don't worry about them for now.
With a thought, Jose checked what his family members were doing through the spiritual connection established by the family contract.
Through visual sharing, he saw that Ergou was instructing the kobolds to climb trees and pick pine cones. The kobolds had nails on both fingers and toes, and because of their light weight, they climbed the trees quickly.
Pine cones were thrown down one by one and smashed on the soft soil. Underage kobolds shuttled under the trees, picking up the pine cones and putting them in baskets made of vines. Around the collection team were three men holding spears. Kobold warrior.
"It looks pretty efficient."
Turning his gaze to Suoda, the leader of the muscular kobold is training fighters in the cave.
On the spacious field, the kobold fighters who have been selected layer by layer practiced in pairs with wrapped spears, and each blow was merciless, causing the opponent to grin his teeth in pain.
On the edge of the field, there were kobold recruits practicing piercing against the stakes.
All of this is an improvement brought about by the abundance of food. In the past, kobolds who were busy with their livelihoods had no time to train.
Jose nodded again and again, and the two family members fulfilled their will very well, accumulating food widely, mobilizing horses and fighting hard.
"Come to my place."
After receiving the message, Suo Da quickly put down what he was doing, and not long after, he came to the cave where the red dragon was.
"Owner."
"Suoda, I heard that many kobolds split from the Bloodtooth tribe decades ago. Now, are you sure you can gather them all back?"
Suoda lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head: "Yes, thanks to your master, the Bloodtooth tribe has found new mines, and has a large amount of grain. The most important thing is that you are the great leader. I am sure to convince them but… "
"Just what? Just say it."
Suo Da looked up at Jose with a guilty conscience: "Master, the leaders of those tribes are not inferior to me in strength, and I'm a little worried that I won't be able to suppress them."
Jose's smile was half a smile. After more than ten days of observation, although it is not enough to see through an intelligent creature, it can also understand a little bit more.
My family brothers, although Ergou is smart, but easy to satisfy, while Suoda, the leader, likes to be competitive and has a desire for power.
Any animal with independent will has selfishness, and Jose is far from having no capacity for this. On the contrary, he thinks that desires are the motivation, and it is a good thing for the relatives to be competitive.
"If you can persuade them to join, you are the biggest contributor. I support you to become the great chief."
Suo Da's face brightened, "Thank you, Master."
"By the way, how is my brother now?"
"Master Cassie dug a pond in the living area No. 5, then fell into a deep sleep, and came out to have a meal during the period."
"Is the meat supply under pressure?"
Two real dragons have to eat half of their body weight in each meal, which is about four to five thousand pounds of meat. Even if they eat once every ten days, they need to hunt four to five hundred pounds of meat on average every day. This is only a few hundred pounds of blood for the population. It is no easy task for the tooth tribe.
"Master, please rest assured that there are many deer, deer, and wild boars in the mountains, and the blood-toothed warriors are brave and fearless."
After a pause, Suoda frowned slightly: "It's just that, master, winter is coming in two months, and I'm a little worried that the mountains will be covered by heavy snow, and our soldiers won't find enough prey by then."
After finishing speaking, Suo Da looked ashamed. As a family member, the master helped solve the food crisis of the tribe, but he couldn't hunt enough blood for the master.
Jose squeezed his chin and thought about it: "Perhaps we can hoard a large amount of forage and catch some herbivorous cubs to develop animal husbandry."
(end of this chapter)