Chapter 103 - Fear in Me
"What kind of monster is this? Why are we ... fighting this monster? Is it insane?"
Looking back at everyone who saw this scene, this question could not help but appear in their hearts.
They were covered in ice cold, and many of them were unable to move in fear and collapsed to the ground.
The dragon-men and dragon-fish who were still alive did not go on hunting these humans, but fell to their knees, many of them looking up at the standing dragon with a frenzied expression!
It was as if he had become the only one in the world.
Even if the flames of the sky were still dazzling, they could not reach him!
"God! This is God! A god who belongs to us! A god of absolute power! A god of destruction who can destroy everything! Our Dragon God of Destruction!"
One of the dragons roared with excitement, and tears of emotion even flowed from his eyes.
When the other dragons heard this, their bodies shook and they roared with fervour.
"God! The Dragon God of Destruction! Oh oh oh oh!"
"Awesome! That's amazing! Not bad for Rand! I knew it! These humans want to go against him! They're just asking to be killed! Ha ha ha ha! What a bunch of fools! It's all over now!"
The little female dragon cried out in excitement.
It hovered in the sky.
The little black dragon's flying form stopped in mid-air, craning its neck to watch the sparks explode in the sky, and gulping.
He had already thought of Rand as a great power, but apparently! It wasn't enough!
Tiamat was on top!
Rand, the dragon, was definitely a legend, wasn't he?
He was only ten years old! Just a baby dragon like him!
According to the Dragon Heritage, a normal dragon, even a red dragon, must be almost an old or very old red dragon to have the strength of a legend, right?
And the other five-coloured dragons would have to be almost grown to the Ancient Dragon stage!
How old would they be at that time? 400, 500 or even nearly a thousand years old! The difference between the two could not be calculated with reason!
And the most terrifying thing of all! This guy Rand! The speed of growth is getting faster and faster!
Is this guy ... really born of the same mother as us?
There shouldn't be any doubt about that.
So what is the question? Why is he so strong?
Could ... the problem be the father?
That incompetent bitch of a dragon, Saffice! There must be other dragons besides the one with him and Fiona's father!
That's right! That must be it!
And that dragon must be very strong! At least a demigod? No! Maybe a dragon god?
Hiss ...
As soon as he thought that, little Ed couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air as he felt he'd found out the truth!
It was horrible! How in the world did that incompetent she-dragon Sapphius manage to hook up with the Dragon God?
It didn't make sense!
He recalled his mother's appearance, dried up, darkly scaled, not at all strong, and smelling bad from time to time, even if they, the dragons, had an appreciation for the beauty of most creatures.
But the dragon god who had an affair with Sapphis was not too picky about his food, was he?
You are a dragon god! Why do you want a female dragon like Sapphis when you can have any female dragon you want?
The little black dragon was inwardly making up stories about his mother.
He hadn't noticed that his interests seemed to be quite different from the average black dragon.
Snort~~~
A huge stream of heat gushed out between Rand's mouth and nose.
The shot of Hybrid Dragon Inferno Jade just now was not a low drain on him, but it was enough, and with the remaining stamina, it would not be difficult for him to deal with these already demoralised and frightened remnants of the army in front of him!
He slowly scanned the room and finally turned his attention to Count Dorn in the distance!
Even from several kilometres away, Rand could clearly feel the fear in his opponent's eyes!
"Ah!!!"
The Count of Dorn shouted and tried to stand up, bracing himself on all fours.
As a result, there was a snap.
What was normally a simple movement was now impossible to do!
"How ... could I! I ... I actually can't control my body out of fear ... anymore?
This ... this can't be! It simply can't be!"
Count Dorn's face twisted and his mind roared.
He looked at the slowly approaching dragon in the distance, unable to regain control of his body.
The normally unbelievably simple movements, the normally powerful body, simply didn't seem like his own in general!
"It can't be! It can't be! I'm a 17th level great warrior! Count of the entire Dornish domain! The master of nearly 300,000 lives! How could I possibly be afraid of a mere dragon!
My body! Give me back my power!
Count Dorn shouted like a madman.
At that moment, he finally straightened up again, and even though he was still trembling, a glow of joy appeared on his face!
He lifted his hands and clasped his beloved colt at his side, trembling as he put one foot in the stirrup and prepared to mount his horse.
The colt seemed to sense his master's poor condition and leaned down slightly.
The Count of Dorn's entire body was already up in the air, just as he was about to straddle the dragon's colt!
Zee !!!!
A beam of purple ion streams came down with a vengeance! It landed with a bang on the dragon pony!
"Metaphor !!!!!"
The dragon colt hissed and instantly went berserk! Its entire body seized up and flung Count Dorn, who was still in mid-air, off! After that, it ran wildly towards the front!
Its buttocks were already completely on fire! It was like a red-red fire horse under the wind and lightning!
"Red Dragon! Come back! Come back!"
Just as he landed, Count Dorn shouted wildly at his fleeing colt, but it was to no avail, and he could only watch as he watched it fade away.
It was only then that his body shook again and he slowly twisted around, when he realised that the evil dragon, was only three kilometres away from him!
"No! I must escape! I absolutely cannot die here!"
With his heart beating wildly, Count Dorn did not care about anything else, but slowly squirmed on the ground on his hands and knees!
As he squirmed, he shouted to his surroundings.
"Men! Someone! Take me back to the city! I will reward you with a great deal! Come on!"
His voice was so loud that it could be heard even from miles away.
But, no one dared to come even an inch closer to him! Because! The terrifying, demon-god-like dragon was closing in on him!
Count Dorn climbed with difficulty.
I don't know how long had passed.
Pang! Pang! Pang! Pang!
There was a tremor and a roar behind him.
Count Dorn was shaking even more, he didn't even have the strength to crawl!
Until the shaking stopped and his head felt like it was being pinched by something! A pain followed, then his whole body was light!
He was lifted up and twisted around!
And there was the evil dragon who called himself Rand Sapphius Oakburn!
"Are you afraid of me? Dear Mr. Earl."
The evil dragon in front of him spoke, his voice low with a hint of mockery.
"Afraid? You're kidding! How can I be afraid of a fire-breathing lizard! Don't get too cocky lizard!!! Do you think you've won?"
The Count of Dorn was shocked and enraged when his cover was pierced, and he roared as if he had gone mad!
He seemed to have lost sight of the consequences!
The attitude was a little unbelievable!
But ... his body was still shaking!
"Hummmmmmm~ Unable to accept reality? Poor wretch! At this moment, you don't even have the qualifications to stand in front of me!"
The giant dragon roared low, his words piercing Count Dorn's chest like a sharp arrow, making him furious.
"Shut up! Shut up! I don't need a lecture from you, fire-breathing lizard! Shut the fuck up!"
Count Dorn shouted, suddenly opening his mouth to spit at the dragon.
It seemed to be the last of his stubbornness!
But the spittle flew in mid-air and was evaporated by a flash of flame.
"Your stubborn mouth and trembling body really make the dragon feel ridiculous!"
The dragon's expression grew gloomy.
Slowly, it poked out a claw and placed it on Count Dorn's leg, then gave it a gentle squeeze.
CLICK!
"Ah !!!!"
There was a crunching sound.
Count Dorn's entire leg was crushed!
The intense pain caused him to let out a miserable scream.
But that wasn't the end of it, soon, his other leg, too, was crushed!
The pain was so excruciating that it practically made him faint.
But the great warrior's toughness still made him tough it out, but at this point he couldn't maintain that stubbornness, even on the outside!
He remembered himself as a young boy, weak, timid and cowardly, always preferring to be alone in his room, and had it not been for a chance encounter that changed his life, he feared he would still be like that.
He thought he was a great warrior of the 17th rank, that is, a tough man, a strong man.
But that was when he realised that he seemed far from as tough as he thought he was.
Otherwise, how else could he have been so frightened by an evil dragon that he had lost the strength to even run away?
At this moment, the shell that had been on Count Dorn, for decades, was mercilessly peeled off!
The Earl of Dorne suddenly collapsed, tears flowing from his mouth and nose!
As the dragon's claws touched his arm, the Count of Dorn could not help but shout.
"Stop! Stop! You can't do this to me! You won't be able to do this to me, or you'll be sorry!"
CLICK!
"AHHHH!!!"
The dragon was not intimidated by his threat at all and continued to crush his arm in a slow and surreal manner.
At this moment he was down to his last arm!
The flesh and blood of both legs and one arm had been crushed flat, the flesh and bone mixed together like a flat piece of shredded parchment.
An injury of this magnitude could no longer be easily recovered, even by a senior priest's holy healing arts!
"Ah!!! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! If this continues, my master will never let you go!"
The Count of Dorn cried out in agony and broke down in a roar.
The dragon's movements finally stopped.
"Your master?"
"That's right! My master! My master is a legendary undead archmage! You let me go! I can forget everything that happened before! Pretend nothing happened! As long as you let me go!"
"Forget everything? Are you kidding me? You know how much I've lost because of your stupid choices!
Hundreds of nature elves! That's tens of thousands of Kinthal!
Tens of thousands of Gentals! I lost tens of thousands of Gentals because of your stupid words!
And you want me to forget about it?
You bastard! You've got to be kidding me!"
The dragon was furious and crushed Dorn's other arm, causing him to scream deafeningly.
The dragon listened to the scream with a small sound of pleasure, and a moment later roared again.
"You mongrel! Don't worry about it! I won't let you die! I will let you live! I will let you live! You'll live on and on and on!
And look forward to your master! And see if he will come to save you, you wretch!"
At these words, the Count of Dorn could not hold on any longer! His eyes rolled up and he fainted.
Instead of crushing his entire body with his hands, Rand looked back as if he were carrying a rag, twisted his head and shouted.
"My minions! This battle! Victory is ours! Now! Let us go to the city of Dorn! Enslave all the lords! Receive the wealth that is mine!"
"Ohhhhhhhhhh!"
A crowd of draconians and dragon-fishmen roared and ran towards Rand.
Rand scanned the area and saw that nearly half of the dragon-fishers had died in the battle.
Several of the dragonlings had died as well.
The losses were definitely not heavy, but the ones that remained, each one looked to be in a murderous mood.
The two dragon cubs also wailed in response to Rand's call, and then their party started on their way.
But they hadn't gone more than a few steps.
The little black dragon flew to Rand's side and then stared at his chest.
The two holes in his chest, which had been about thirty centimetres deep at the beginning, were now much smaller.
The speed of blood flow, too, had slowed down a lot.
Seeing this, the little black dragon's pupils shrank, and then shouted.
"Rand! You! Look, your chest is actually still bleeding! It must be very painful! I'll lick it up for you!"
The creature roared, and lunged straight for Rand's arms.
Rand was a bit baffled, but didn't stop, just watched the little black dragon lying on his chest, licking it around.
But he didn't stop for a moment.
The little female dragon looked a little puzzled and strange from the side, but with a look of more or less contempt!
Not again!
I remember when Rand was injured more than three years ago, when you were forced to do it!
Now you're being so aggressive?
Do you have any more shame?
Or do you think this will make Rand feel better?
To shake Fiona Safis Oakburn from her position in Rand's heart?
Don't be ridiculous!
A weakling like that! How can she be compared to her?
Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle!
The black dragon cub licked this way and that.
Suddenly, it shook all over.
It fell down from Rand's body.
It let out a somewhat painful howl, after which it even rolled on the ground!
This sudden change of events caused all the people and dragons to be stunned and look on in some disbelief.
"Hey, hey, hey! Ed! What are you doing, you stupid bastard? Putting on an act? Wanting everyone to feel sorry for you? It's disgusting to watch a dragon!"
The little female dragon scolded somewhat viciously.
As a result the little black dragon was still thrashing and wailing.
But gradually, something astonishing issued.
Only to see that the body of the little black dragon actually began to slowly expand at a speed visible to the naked eye!
His scales, too, were rapidly turning red and black.
After a few minutes, the little black dragon, which was originally six and a half metres, turned into about seven metres, with dark red scales all over its body!
A small horn even emerged from the tip of its snout, and some sharp barbs sprouted from its back.
Whimper, whimper, whimper, whimper!
The little black dragon lay on the ground, panting violently and spewing out a stream of black smoke from its snout.
The green grass around it was entangled in the black smoke and withered rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
At this moment, the little female dragon and the other dependents were dumbfounded.
After a long while, the little black dragon stood up with a face of wild joy and said.
"Hahahahaha! I feel so full of power! Fiona! Let's fight! This time the victory will be mine!"
"You! You! You! How did this happen all of a sudden? What the hell is going on?"
The little female dragon muttered to herself somewhat incredulously, and suddenly seemed to think of something, glancing at Rand's still bleeding chest and exclaiming
"Rand! Your chest is bleeding so much! It must be very painful! I'll come and lick it for you in a minute!"
And with that, without a word, he pounced on him.
Seeing this, the little black dragon was shocked and rushed to pounce as well: "Bastard!
"Bastard! Fiona! Didn't you say before that I was the shame of the dragons?
Didn't you say you were the King of the Red Dragons? Where has your pride gone? Why are you licking the scales of other dragons too? Do you still have a face?"
The two dragon cubs' target was extremely clear: the blood on Rand's chest.
They fought to be first, even flying in mid-air to hit each other!
The little black dragon Ed, who was no match for the little female dragon at all, actually fought with the little female dragon to even the odds.
This situation annoyed the little female dragon to no end.
The little black dragon, on the other hand, was pleasantly surprised!
Before, Fiona had been the only one to beat him up! But now? He was no more powerful than the little dragon!
And that was even if he hadn't fully recovered!
If he had recovered, would Fiona, that arrogant idiot, have dared to be arrogant with him?
As the little black dragon fought, he couldn't stop laughing, as if he was thinking of a better future.
This made the little female dragon even more furious.
When Rand saw this, how could he not understand the reason?
It must be because of the magnetic field of life!
The special magnetic field that could make creatures mutate and evolve, just by enveloping other creatures, had the special effect of making humans mutate into dragon-men and fishmen into dragon-fishmen.
Not to mention the blood of Rand, who is the magnetic field itself?
This effect is bound to be even more amazing!
Thinking back to three years ago, the little black dragon Ed had also licked his blood but had not shown anything special.
Perhaps he was still weak then? Or maybe he had licked too little blood and the effect was not obvious.
But at this moment, this black dragon cub, it seems, has broken through a valve and finally completed its metamorphosis.
This was ... so much fun!
Rand grinned and grabbed the little black dragon with one hand!
Without a rival to stop it, the little female dragon finally got what she wanted, lying on Rand's chest and licking it up.
Blackie didn't dare resist Rand, he could only look on reluctantly!
No way! No way! I've only just surpassed Fiona! How can I let her overtake me again?
I can't!
Rand! I beg you! Heal your wounds quickly!
The little black dragon prayed frantically inside.
But it didn't help much.
It wasn't long before the little female dragon also howled and fell to the ground, rolling around in pain.
It didn't take long.
Her body too began to swell and her scales turned from bright red to deep red!
Panting and panting, her hot breath set the grass beneath her on fire!
A few more minutes pass.
The little female dragon grows to seven metres in length, becoming about seven metres seven, with her trademark little horns sprouting from the tip of her snout and barbs growing out of her back!
She rose from the ground with a roar and lunged straight at the little black dragon!
This time! With renewed absolute power, she overwhelms the little black dragon and throws right and left! The little black dragon wailed and shouted for mercy.
Rand watched from the side for a moment, suddenly thrusting his claws into his chest and pulling them out again.
By this moment, it was hanging with bright red, dripping dragon blood.
Rand swept a draconian who was watching with bemused eyes and probed his dragon claw.
"Lick!"
"Thank you my Lord for your gift!"
The dragon-man roared with excitement and instantly took a lick.
The others looked on, one envious of the other.
But ...
"Wooah!!!"
No sooner had this dragon man finished licking it than he burst out with an earth-shattering scream, and the flesh and blood of his entire body twisted up uncontrollably, bursting into a cloud of bloody paste under everyone's gaze!
This was a shock to the crowd.
Even the two dragons stopped fighting.
But immediately, they felt nothing again.
After all, wasn't this what happened when they fed on the dragon head mushroom and dragon scale grass before?
There would always be weaklings who would fall down on the path of evolution!
Rand didn't take it too seriously either, and gave another gentle thrust to his chest and a mention.
Then gestured for the next one.
Boom!
The result naturally spoke for itself.
Next! Next! Next!
Dragons for dragon-fishers! Ten in a row! All exploded and died!
At this point, even these dependents were a little scared even though their brains had been affected a little.
He felt that it was perhaps because these dragonlings and dragonfish had evolved more perfectly, or perhaps their level of life was too low compared to that of the dragons, and they could not withstand the power contained in his blood!
He replaced two more dragon cubs to try.
But the effect was far less pronounced than it had just been, and nothing even changed.
With that, Rand terminated the experiment.
He resumed his march with the two dragon cubs and the dependents.
There were still many soldiers lying on the ground, so overcome with fear and despair that they had little heart or strength to continue their escape.
Rand and his party were not even interested in paying attention to them.
The senior professionals, on the other hand, had long since run off with the exhausted archmages to nowhere.
But, unfortunately, there were still three Archmages left behind!
These three unlucky people, originally, there were also some senior professionals who ran with them in their arms, but then a few of them simply left the three unlucky people behind because they were too scared of Rand.
It couldn't be helped, after all, Archmages were generally worth more in the eyes of the rulers compared to other High Professionals.
What's more, the seven Archmages had just made a nine-ringed Final Judgement that, in the eyes of the others, almost cost the evil dragon his life.
How could the evil dragon not hate them?
If they continued to hold on, they might be directly targeted by the evil dragon, and wouldn't they then not even have a chance to escape themselves?
And so, there were three senior professionals who abandoned the three Archmages and fled as fast as they could.
"Oooh uhhhhhh~"
Having just overdrawn and cast a Ninth Circle spell, these three Archmages were all in extremely poor condition, and they were covering their heads and moaning in some pain, even though Rand had come not far from them, they were not in much of a mood to pay attention.
"Will you, all of you, become my slaves and study spells for me?"
The dragon suddenly spoke, asking in a deep voice.
"Oooh errrrrr~"
Several of the Archmages were still moaning and none of them spoke up.
"Looks like they're overdrawn and brain-dead! Well then ... go to hell!"
The gargoyle whispered, his eyes gushing with purple light! A beam of ion streams shot out! It hit the head of an Archmage!
Bear!
The Archmage's entire body, starting from his head, was on fire and he began to moan and beg for mercy!
But the dragon had no intention of stopping, dissolving his entire body into a puddle of char!
At that moment, he spoke again.
"Will you become my slaves and study my spells for me?"
Just as before, the words were as plain as day, but in the ears of the two remaining Archmages, they were as deafening as a flood of bells!
They would die if they didn't answer!
This evil dragon was not taking them seriously at all!
"Willingly, willingly, we are willing to serve you!"
One archmage roared in a hurry, and the other, sensing the gaze of the dragon towards him, roared likewise.
"Very well! I like obedient, useful slaves! You lot! Take them with you!"
Rand said, barking at the draconians behind him.
Soon, several draconians carried the two archmages and continued on their way.
The city of Dorn, was not really far from this battlefield.
Rand slowly walked on the earth, the Children of the Earth were restoring his strength and magic at a very fast pace.
Half an hour later.
His wound had long stopped bleeding and the hole had shrunk to about ten centimetres free!
Nearly half of his physical strength and magic power had been restored!
He didn't wait any longer, but shook his dragon wings! He went straight up into the air! He shoots out a column of crimson flames and quickly leaves!
A hundred kilometres away.
The city of Dorn.
The streets are still peaceful, and no one seems to be worried about failure, even when they know that the Count of Dorne is leading an expedition!
It is still peaceful and prosperous.
The streets were laden with the laughter of pedestrians.
"What is that?"
On the city walls, a soldier in charge of the lookout suddenly reached out and pointed into the distance, and a soldier next to him sniffed and looked in the direction.
Only to see a dozen kilometres away.
A crimson light was looming.
He was not sure what to make of it.
But he took out his magic binoculars and looked.
There was a dragon with flames in the sky!
Under its dancing wings, purple light erupted! It was approaching at breakneck speed!
Suddenly, at the moment the soldier was watching him.
The dragon jerked its head, and its red, tyrannical eyes met the soldier's eyes!
"AHHHH!!!"
The soldier shrieked in horror and his binoculars fell straight to the ground!
The soldier next to him was startled and hurriedly asked
"Hey! What's wrong with you? What did you see?"
"A dragon! A huge dragon covered in flames! Yes! How horrible! He's spotted me! He's coming this way! He must have come to kill me! It's over ... It's over! I'm going to die!"
The soldier screamed in terror and backed up, and when he was not careful, he hit the battlements behind him and fell backwards!
Behind them was the ground, which was 15 meters away from them!
And behind them was the ground 15 metres away! At this moment of crisis, another soldier pulled him to his feet!
Then he slapped him across the face! He shouted.
"Idiot! Get back to your senses! It's just a dragon! What's there to fear! The crossbow is right next to us!
Quick! You need to set off the alarm! I'll control the crossbow and attack the dragon!"
The terrified soldiers came back to their senses and did as they were told!
But they didn't expect that in just a few moments, the dragon had already crossed the distance of several kilometres!
The huge body of the dragon drove the sky into flames!
Even though it was still several kilometres away! The silhouette could still be seen!
The two soldiers were in a hurry, they rushed into action!
But just at that moment!
Zee !!!!
A dazzling beam of purple ion streams exploded!
Across a distance of several kilometres! It landed on one of the Dragon Hunter crossbows beside the two men!
The two soldiers' faces instantly twisted!
Cold sweat was pouring down their faces!
They look back at the crossbow!
It had been completely set alight! Sparks were coming out of it!
"No!!!"
One soldier shouted, and actually jumped down towards the next battlement!
But by then, it was too late!
A roar erupted!
The whole crossbow burst!
The whole crossbow burst into flames! The flames engulfed the two soldiers!
Rumble!!!
The loud noise from the city walls was easily noticed by the inhabitants of the city, who stared at the huge explosion of flames on the walls in astonishment and bewilderment.
Until ...
BOOM!!!
The sky blotted out! Shadows descend! An immense dragon with a terrifying might suddenly sped through the sky hundreds of metres high! Bringing up clouds of fire!
The whole street, after a few seconds of silence, erupted in screams of terror!