CH : 13 Magic Awakening, Trolls

According to my speculation, if there are tens of thousands of silver coins as ingredients for the feast, it might be able to give me a not so small boost.

Unfortunately, tens of thousands of silver coins. I'm afraid that the only way to obtain them quickly is to go robbing human cities.

"Forget it, simple is as simple does, only the strength of one's own strength is the most fundamental." I didn't care much about the luxury of my dragon nest, at least not yet.

At the very least, I, who was still very weak now, didn't care very much.

Whether it is my current identity as an evil dragon or my former identity as a human, I liked wealth very much.

But I will not be like those evil dragons who are influenced by nature, hoarding treasures in large quantities instead of using them to improve their own strength.

This seemed really foolish in my opinion.

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3rd Person POV :

Of course, this was only Babatos's individual dragon's perception.

There is actually another reason why the dragons love hoarding treasures. That is, being in the 'treasure' can speed up the growth of the dragon's body.

The 'treasure' here refers to magic metals, magic crystals, magic gems, magic equipment and other treasures with magic or mana elements.

The gathering of a large number of pure, magical treasures will attract the elemental/mana power within a certain range around them, and the enriched elemental power will accelerate the growth of the dragon's body.

Therefore, for dragons, treasures are not just for viewing and collecting.

I also understand this, but looking at it from my own perspective, it is more in line with my concept of growth to sacrifice treasures when I am weak to gain strength, so that I can get away from danger more quickly.

When you are extremely powerful and unrivalled, won't it be easy to accumulate treasures?

Do you need to make careful calculations and care about the little benefit of accelerating the growth of the dragon's body after accumulating a large amount of treasure?

Because of this concept, for a long period of time in the future Babatos's nest was empty of treasures.

It was simply not like an Evil Dragon!

After settling down for half a month, I adapted to the brand new environment around me.

I began to prepare enough ingredients for the next feast that was about to begin.

This time, without the support of the three tribes including the troll leader Gray, I could only rely on myself to accumulate the ingredients by myself.

As for the Black Blood Tribe?

The strength is too weak. Without Skye, hunting some powerful beasts would require a lot of dead dog heads.

Therefore, I had no plans to let them participate in hunting for the time being, but to let them dig mineral veins.

Although the fighting strength of the kobolds is weak, in the search for mines and digging mines they are good at it.

The kobolds of the Black Blood Tribe discovered an iron ore mine in the valley a month ago.

It's just that it was too inconvenient to mine, coupled with the tribe's initial establishment, manpower is not there, so it has been put aside.

However, after I came to settle here, the mining of iron ore was put on the agenda.

For the next feast, it is estimated that the iron ore will be able to be used as ingredients for the feast.

Black Blood Valley, under the pool.

Inside the humble dragon nest.

I, who had just finished eating a large amount of low-level monster flesh and blood, entered the dark space again.

I saw the gradual changes in my dragon body through the feast strengthening from the perspective of a bystander, originally thinking that this time would be as uneventful as the fifteen previous feast strengthening I was undergone before..

However, as it strengthened, a large number of bright blue shimmering lights suddenly gathered around the dragon's body.

After being gathered, these bright blue shimmering dots swarmed into my dragon body like bees returning to their nest.

With the influx of a large number of bright blue light spots, my dragon body gradually turned a dreamy blue.

"Is this the natural water element?"

In the dark space, my consciousness fluctuated.

The knowledge of dragon inheritance has been gently unveiled due to my stage of growth.

A large amount of knowledge poured into my mind and soul and was absorbed by me.

When my consciousness returned from the dark space, I was still sleeping in reality.

Time passed, and three months passed in the blink of an eye.

In the dragon's lair in the water pool, I slowly opened my eyes. A little confusion flashed through my eyes at first, and then I quickly realized what had happened to me.

Magic awakens!

The magical awakening that can only occur in the juvenile dragon stage happened to me when I was still a baby dragon.

The surprise came so suddenly that I forgot about my hunger.

"At the same time as my magic awakened, I also automatically mastered three spell-like abilities." which I was a little eager to try.

This is an extraordinary ability!

This made me, who had always used my own

arrogant dragon body for hunting and fighting, extremely happy.

"Darkness!" As the magic factor of the dragon's body surged, a black light rushed into a pool of water dug in the dragon's nest, and accurately hit a piranha with fangs.

I thought the nest was too deserted and raised dozens of piranhas in total.

However, because there was no feeding for three months, only the last and strongest piranha was left alive in the pool.

This piranha that had eaten dozens of its companions looked quite ferocious, but under the hit of the dark spell, it suddenly ran around like a frightened creature.

Seeing this, I nodded with satisfaction.

'Darkness', effect: deprives the creature of its five senses, and the casting effect grows with the strength of its own magic power.

A very practical spell-like ability.

In addition to darkness, the other two awakening-like spells are:

'Low light vision', effect: Give yourself or others special vision that can clearly see the surroundings in a dark and lightless environment.

'Identification Technique', effect: can detect the biological level of life, but cannot identify life that is much higher than its own biological level. (Note: Using identification skills will make the other party perceive you.)

Of the three spell-like abilities, except for the darkness spell, which assists combat, low-light vision and identification are all spell-like abilities that are completely auxiliary.

But they are all useful, and I am very satisfied with it anyway.

Take low-light vision as an example. Under normal circumstances, I really don't need it. Even in a dark environment at night, the unique eyeball structure of a giant dragon allows me to roughly see my surroundings without using spell-like abilities at all.

But if it is in an extremely pure dark environment or darkness created by using extraordinary abilities, the line of sight will be blocked. At this time, low-light vision is very useful.

The identification technique is similar and is generally not needed. After all, the inheritance of dragons is extremely powerful and there are countless recorded species. When I see the other party for the first time, the other party's information will basically appear in my mind.

Except for encountering some creatures that are not recorded in the dragon inheritance, or creatures that hide their strength, it is not used under normal circumstances.

But once used, it can play an important role.

After sorting out the changes after the magic awakening, I rushed through the water like a swordfish and flew to the ground.

At this time, it happened to be a scorching day.

I looked around and I saw a wooden warehouse built not far from the pool, and walked straight to it.

When I saw the iron ore piled high in the warehouse, I nodded with satisfaction.

It's different after you have a dependent.

I used the dragon's claws to pull out a few large cunks of iron ore, put them into my mouth, chewed them up and swallowed them.

The taste is not satisfactory, but it is definitely much better than soil.

After eating some snacks to fill my stomach, I unfolded my dragon wings, shook slightly, and quickly flew towards the direction of the Black Blood Tribe.

After a short while, I came to the sky above the Black Blood Tribe.

After unexpectedly sleeping for three months, I had to see how my dependents were developing.

Unlike the Black Dragon Lady, who doesn't care about the development of her followers' power.

"Huh? There are traces of battle." my expression condensed.

Compared to three months ago, the Black Blood Tribe has expanded in size again after three months compared to three months ago.

There are ten houses.

In addition, there are several huge animal pens in which domesticated beasts such as hares and wild goats are bred.

If it weren't for the remaining dark red blood and traces of battle on the walls of the wooden house, the Black Blood Tribe would still look peaceful and peaceful.

After a while, the kobold Skye hurriedly arrived.

When I asked about the tribe's battle traces, Skye was stunned, and then immediately explained,

"Some time ago, three wandering Forest Trolls accidentally intruded into this place. And after a final battle, I and the tribesmen didn't kill them but we capture them alive to see if we could tame them and use them as laborers for the tribe."

"Capture alive?" I became interested.

As I thought of the heavily armored forest troll warriors under the command of Black Dragon Lady Lyanna and the powerful forest troll leader Gray.

Trolls make excellent servants.

The five-color evil dragons are quite satisfied with this kind of servant who wasn't too weak, has thick skin, strong recovery ability, and great strength.

Whether they are working as coolies or cannon fodder, they are all quite outstanding.

Among them, forest trolls, a branch of trolls that control the magic-like ability of "plant control", are more useful than ordinary trolls.

After all, who wouldn't love a cannon fodder that comes with its own equipment?

"Take me over to take a look."

"Yes, Master."

In order to prevent the three wandering forest trolls from escaping, Skye ordered the kobolds to imprison them in the crypt.

This crypt is located at the back of the tribe. It looks like a big cave. The big hole is covered by a stone slab weighing more than one ton.

The stone slab removed, and the walk into the cave is very winding. There is a crypt cell the size of a small room in the innermost part. The overall space design of the entire crypt cell allows a short kobold to walk freely through it, but For a tall troll, it is extremely restrictive.

The kobold's talent for digging is most clearly reflected in such details.

Under Skye's instructions and my gaze, the six kobolds braved their way into the crypt.

Soon, a muffled thunderous roar came from the cave below, as well as the sound of the kobold being startled.

Not long after, six kobolds ran out of the underground cell with panicked expressions. The palm of one of the kobolds was bloody, and the gap looked like it had been bitten off by a beast using brute force.

"What's going on?" Skye's face darkened and he shouted angrily at the fleeing kobold.

"Chief, the strongest troll hasn't been starved out yet. As soon as we approached it, half of Aigu's palm was bitten off by it and he ate it, and then he started going crazy."

The leader of the kobold team, 'Aru', was relatively calm and hurriedly explained.

Hearing what Aru said, a look of surprise flashed in Skye's eyes.

The strongest level four forest troll was still fresh in his memory. If it hadn't been for some tricks and a large number of kobolds, it would have been difficult for Skye to defeat him alone.

However, Skye remembered clearly at that time that he had clearly shattered all the bones if it's body ah, so how could it still have the ability to attack? !

Although the troll's recovery ability is terrifying, and it is difficult to die even if its head explodes, no matter how awesome the recovery ability is, it still needs to follow the conservation of energy. The more serious the injury, the more energy it needs to consume.

Before incarceration has long been repeated their bones had been broken several times before being imprisoned. By the time they were imprisoned, the energy accumulated in the bodies of the three wandering forest trolls had already been exhausted.

In that state, even a small wound would take a long time to recover, and then they were starving for seven or eight days in a row without any food or water. How could the other party still have such a strong ability to resist?

"Master, I'll go down in person." Skye looked a little unhappy.

Being embarrassed in front of its master doesn't show its incompetence?

Naturally, his mood is not much better.

I looked at Skye calmly and nodded slightly.

I didn't blame Skye or the kobold either.

Kobolds are inherently weak in combat, inferior to ordinary humans, so it is not surprising that such reactions and accidents occur.

Anyway, as long as they can find ore for me and mine. Some small accidents weren't a big deal.

However, my 'generous and kind' character gradually calmed down the panicked kobolds.

Isn't it said that all evil dragons have bad tempers?

Their mission was not completed successfully, shouldn't they be killed at will by the dragon master's anger?

The six kobolds secretly observed the dragon master. After discovering that the dragon master really had no intention of punishing them, they felt joy in their hearts at first, and then this joy quickly turned into fanaticism.

Weak and low-level monsters like kobolds are very keen on following the real dragons. Even if the real dragons treat them as cannon fodder, reserve food, and even kill them for pleasure and vent their anger from time to time, there are still a large number of kobolds who continue to follow them.

Is this because kobolds are inherently cheap?

How can it be?

Just to survive.

It is better to be cannon fodder in the hands of an evil dragon than to be trampled to death by a powerful monster passing by at some point, or being wiped out by other powerful monster tribes, demons, human mercenaries, or adventurers.

Besides, if you follow the evil dragon, you have a chance to become a dragon descendant!

If a creature stays within a certain range of a powerful true dragon for a long time, its body will naturally absorb the true dragon's breath and become the type of dependent with the lowest potential among the dragonborn.