CH : 257 Grey Dwarves, Multi Head And Magic Forest!
"Where are you from?" A gray dwarf with a beard, about 1.4 meters tall, looked at High Priestess Nadia impatiently.
"For the love of the great mistress, how many times must I repeat myself?!" High Priestess Nadia's voice cracked with frustration, her nails scraping against the damp stone walls of her cell. "I come from the other side of the Black Lake! My home—my temple—has been taken by a weird black dragon! And yet, you keep asking as if my answer will change!"
Her breaths came ragged, her body weak from years of confinement. The cold, unforgiving walls of her prison had become her only companions, the dim torchlight casting shadows that had long since blurred the line between reality and madness. She had lost count of the days, the seasons blending together in an endless cycle of darkness and hunger.
This was the hundredth time. A hundred times they had dragged her from the depths of her suffering, demanding the same answer as if her torment had erased her mind. Did they think the years had broken her? That the chains around her wrists and the filth-stained rags on her body had stripped her of her truth?
She let out a bitter laugh, hollow and sharp. "Ask me again, and I will say the same. Again and again and again. Until you finally listen—or until I rot away in this forsaken hole."
These damn gray dwarves were stupid and dumb.
"She shouldn't be a spy sent by the drow!"
After coming out, the gray dwarf approached another extremely strong gray dwarf. "Lord Sarath, it seems that the drow is telling the truth."
"But if there really is a weird black dragon coming to us, it will be difficult to deal with."
The gray dwarf named Sarath was extremely strong, with muscles as hard as boulders. He carried a mace taller than him and a giant axe on his back. His arms were wrapped with extremely thick chains, and there were two scars on his cheeks, making him look extremely fierce.
"It would be great if we could confirm that it is really a black dragon!"
Sarath smiled.
Recently, the gray dwarves and the jackals had formed a guardian alliance to fight other races underground, but this did not meet their expectations.
If it was really a black dragon, then they had hope of becoming the masters of this area.
The gray dwarf soldiers were a little confused. Why did they have hope of defeating the surrounding tribes upon hearing it was a black dragon?
After all, creatures like chromatic dragons were insidious, cunning, and extremely fierce. Such creatures would not bring good luck wherever they went.
But since General Sarath said so, it must make sense.
"Watch this drow elf carefully!" Sarath said and walked towards the palace in the city.
Many gray dwarves greeted him along the way. After all, Sarath was a royal general.
There were some other races in the city of Graxtug, but relatively few, as the gray dwarves were somewhat xenophobic.
Most of these races came for the weapons made by the gray dwarves. Of course, most of them were slaves captured by the gray dwarves.
After all, the gray dwarves were the most famous slave owners in the Underdark. Compared with their close relatives, the dwarves on the surface, slavery was their law, and darkness was their morality!
For the gray dwarves, the only fate of other races was to become their slaves.
Soon, the huge and magnificent palace appeared in front of Sarath. The gray dwarf guarding the door chose to let Sarath pass after seeing him.
After entering the palace, Sarath met the king of the gray dwarves in this area—Rex.
Rex was wearing heavy gray armor. He was the most powerful gray dwarf warrior among the gray dwarves. Legend has it that his strength is second only to that of the great gray dwarf high priest.
Even now, he still practiced every day.
"Your Highness Rex, I hope to take that treasure to deal with the black dragon!" Sarath knelt on one knee and said.
"I know what you mean. Do you want to enslave the black dragon?" Rex stood up, walked to Sarath, and patted him on the shoulder.
"It's a good idea, but I don't have the right to use the treasure!"
Sarath clenched his fists tightly. He knew what Rex meant because the gray dwarves were not united.
Dwarf warriors, slave owners, insect controllers, fire magicians...
Everyone had their own ideas, but if the gray dwarves were united, they would be the most powerful race in the Underdark.
"So, Sarath, you can take some soldiers to build a fortress next to the Black Lake. I will let the army give you the greatest support. According to the greedy nature of the chromatic dragons, the other party will definitely cross the Black Lake to plunder more treasures. You can defeat it and capture it alive. In this way, even if you don't use that item, you can sign a contract with the black dragon!" Rex gave his suggestion.
In fact, he was also helpless. Although he was the king of the gray dwarves, the high priest was above the king. Even the high priest's words could override the king's authority.
Rex, who had tasted the power of leadership, would not give up his rights easily.
Even the high priest couldn't take them away easily!
"There are several jackal tribes over there. I will let them take action too!"
"Yes, sir!" Sarath could only obey the order.
He had a premonition that he would not succeed in achieving his goal this time. It was already good enough to get the support of the army.
He had enough confidence to defeat the black dragon, and with the help of the army, he would have a better chance. He would try to sign a contract with it at that time. He urgently needed to use this black dragon to increase his influence!
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A few days later, I had reached the most critical part of the feast.
It was still the mysterious black space. After swallowing all the ingredients into my body, I watched the feast transform me as if I were a bystander.
But this time, it seemed different from the past. The transformation was more powerful—not just a change in body shape, scale armor defense, etc.
A few days later, a shocking dragon roar came from Shadow Island.
The blue undead flames flashed in the eyes of Arthas, who was guarding outside, and he knew that his master had awakened!
At this time, I looked very different in the palace.
First of all, my body size had become much larger.
Although my body length was 77 meters, my body strength had increased by more than one level. Two sharp bone spurs extended from the back of my head to the end of my tail, making my appearance more hideous and terrifying.
The most amazing thing was that I found another dragon head had grown on my shoulder, and both heads shared the same consciousness.
I felt very strange and looked at the panel.
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Status:
Name: Barbatos Caesar Volaric
Race: True Dragon
Biological Order: 19th (Beginner)
Occupation Level: Mage LVL 17 (Peak), Mountain Believer LVL 8 (Beginner)
Body Length: 77.9M
Vitality (VIT): 330.5
Current Feast Tier: 310
Feast Cooldown Time: 25 Days
Spell-like Abilities:
Transfiguration/Polymorph…
Spell Runes:
Zero Tier: Mage's Hand (Return to Nature)
First Tier: Water Blade (Return to Nature)
Second Tier: Water Element Strengthening (Return to Nature), Water Therapy (Return to Nature)
Third Tier: Acceleration (Return to Nature), Guard Barrier (Return to Nature), Fireball (Return to Nature)
Fourth Tier: Any Door (Return to Nature), Rupture (Return to Nature), Wrath of the Earth (Return to Nature)
Fifth Tier:
Sixth Tier: Water Dragon Technique (Return to Nature), Transportation Teleportation (Return to Nature), Instant Teleportation Technique (Return to Nature)
Seventh Tier:
Eighth Tier: Slave Soul (Entry 50%), Law Shock (Entry 10%), Anti-Magic Field (Entry 0%)
[Psychic Martial Arts: Rolling Stone Strike (61% Entry), Shunpo (5% Entry), Hundred Fissure Fist (3% Entry)]
Abilities:
Dragon Scales (LV 16), Dragon Breath (LV 16), Draconic Vitality (LV 24), Draconic Might (LV 7), Draconic Magic (LV 9), Fly (LV 15), Dragon Eyes (LV 7), Bite (LV 1t + 0.2), Claw (LV 1t + 0.2), Wild Scream (LV 7), Atomic Furnace (LV 5), Vibration Perception (LV 5), Telepathy (LV 5), Soul Chain (LV 5), Seed of Distortion (LV 4), Void Walk (LV 6), Armor Shredder (LV 7), Seed of Distortion (LV 5), Void Walk (LV 6), Meat Eater (LV 5), Reincarnation (LV 4), Son of Death (LV 3), Master of Blood (LV 5), Super Speed Recovery (LV 3), Black Water (LV 1), The Eye of the Dark Demon (Pseudo-3rd LV), Black Water (LV 1), Plant Growth (LV 2), Poisonous Aura (LV 1), Purple Thunder (Pseudo-2nd LV), Soul Swallowing (LV 1), Demonic Flame (Pseudo-2nd LV), Sovereign of the Four Elements (LV 1)
Multi-Headed Dominion (LV 1)
Effect: Your body has the power to adapt and evolve. With sufficient vitality, you can manifest and retract multiple heads at will—shifting from one to three or more as your strength grows. If a head is severed, you can willingly discard it to avoid fatal damage, though regeneration takes five days. As your vitality increases, the number of heads you can summon will expand. When not in use, additional heads remain hidden within your form, allowing you to appear normal until needed.
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At this level, my strength, speed, defense, magic, and mental power were already exaggerated.
Then there was the multi-headed ability. Growing another head was acceptable to me.
And the mother of evil dragons, Tiamat, is a dragon god with five heads.
One more head could enhance my combat power, but for me, this was just the same.
However, this head could also die for me, which was different. Imagine if the enemy had a powerful trick or artifact capable of killing with one blow.
I had to remember—this was a multiverse with gods, filled with all sorts of bizarre creatures and unknown threats.
No one would dislike having extra lives!
But having an extra head with Multi-Headed Dominion was like wearing resurrection armor—it meant an extra life!
If I grew a few more heads in the future, wouldn't that mean I had several resurrection armors?
When the enemy tried their hardest to kill me, only to find that I was still alive and kicking, wouldn't they be angry to death?
Wasn't this... invincible?
The more I look at my two heads, the more I like them.
These two heads are pretty handsome. The three-headed dragon King Ghidorah in my previous life is still not as handsome as me...
I had never looked at myself carefully before, but now that the two heads looked at each other, I found that I was so ferocious and elegant.
The four pairs of dragon horns on my head, the mouth full of double sharp teeth, scarlet eyes, and sharp bone spurs...
With this appearance, I look like a super boss-level evil dragon!
And the two heads have the same consciousness, so there is no need to worry about schizophrenia.
I found that I didn't need to deliberately control the two heads, as if I could control them naturally.
It was just like I was born with them.
I guessed that this multi-headed ability should come from the five-headed lizard.
But the strange thing is why the five-headed dragon lizard didn't use this ability before its death.
But I thought about it later—the talent might not only be the effect of the five-headed dragon lizard, but there might be other factors involved.
I looked at the other head, and my mind moved. Then the two heads seemed to overlap and turned into the previous single head again.
This made me very satisfied. Being able to switch freely is a good ability.
I decided that I would not let the second or third heads appear outside unless it was absolutely necessary. I wanted to keep as many trump cards as possible for myself.
But I usually dealt with strong enemies in the reincarnation space, and I could do whatever I wanted at that time.
If the enemy was dead, even his soul would become the son of death and be enslaved by me, so there was naturally no possibility of revealing the trump card.
I became happy when I thought of this. After making sure that nothing was missed, I opened the palace door and walked out.
Arthas came to greet me at the door. Arthas was not too surprised by my change. In his opinion, the master was originally very powerful.
"Master!" Arthas saluted.
"You did a good job!" I looked at the gray Shadow Island and observed the undead creatures walking around inside.
I felt that this environment inexplicably suited me...
The area of Shadow Island was acceptable, and I decided that this would be Arthas' exclusive base.
That is to say, this island would be a paradise for undead creatures in the future.
"Arthas, your strength seems to be getting stronger and stronger recently!" In fact, Arthas's strength made me feel a little puzzled.
After all, the strength of ordinary death knights is fixed, which means that the moment a paladin is alienated, their strength after becoming a death knight is predetermined.
But Arthas was different. He was injured because of the plane shuttle before, so his strength dropped a lot.
But his strength had been steadily improving over this period of time, and in some years, it might exceed the alienation period.
Arthas himself had no way to explain this situation clearly.
Is this guy a natural undead tyrant?
In fact, there were records of this kind of undead tyrant in my inherited memory, but this creature had not appeared for a long time...
Thinking of that mysterious existence trying his best to lead Arthas to corruption, and finally even attracting the bodies of three foreign god servants,
I had a better understanding of Arthas' uniqueness.
I withdrew my thoughts. No matter what, Arthas's loyalty to me would not change. The stronger he was, the more beneficial it would be to me.
The feast was enough to make me grow to a point that no creature could match.
I spread my huge wings and flew directly above Shadow Island.
"Arthas, expand outward!"
I instructed the death knight below before leaving.
I had always controlled Arthas' expansion before because his ability was too terrifying. He could transform dead creatures into undead creatures without any cost. This ability alone was enough to destroy the world.
But now I had figured it out. I had no more scruples. As long as there were enough resources, it would be fine.
Then I flew directly toward Charles City because some interesting things had happened on the ground at this time, and I had to deal with them while my strength increased.
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At this time, next to the Larkana Mountains, there was a temporary camp. A large number of dark creatures had gathered together, led by lizardmen, hobgoblins, and bear goblin warriors.
Roar, roar, roar~
The roars of various creatures made the place chaotic, but under the restraint of several strong half-dragons, they did not go too far.
At this time, the leaders of the three major tribes were gathered together, looking at a seemingly ordinary forest in the distance.
Their three major tribes and many dark creatures had expanded all the way to the Larkana Mountains according to the Black King's orders, but they didn't expect it to be quite smooth at the beginning.
They subdued some powerful monsters.
Later, they encountered a tough opponent and lost some men.
After their exploration and understanding,
This forest was guarded by a legendary celestial creature—a unicorn.
The unicorn had cast a powerful protective magic over this forest, and they had no way to attack it at all.
If it was before, they would definitely not have dared to go against the unicorn. After all, it was a creature placed in the material plane by the gods, according to legend. But since the Black King had given the order, they dared to touch even the unicorn.
"If it doesn't work, how about bypassing this forest for the time being?" said Mog, the leader of the hobgoblins, looking at the map in front of him.
"No! The risk is too great!" Red, the leader of the lizardmen, rejected this suggestion.
After all, if such a large forest was left untaken, it would be no different from leaving a dagger pointed at their heart.
If the unicorn sneaked into their rear while they were fighting other enemies, the consequences would be devastating.
The other two leaders also thought of this. They were all from tribes with a warlord system and were very clear about the importance of such a strategic location.
"And Lord Barbatos will not be willing!" said Gurte, the bear goblin.
Although the three of them put forward different opinions, they all tacitly avoided suggesting that their lord should personally deal with the unicorn. No one wanted to make the Great Despair feel incompetent over this matter.
"I have sent my men to inform the two adult true dragons. As subordinates of the Lord, they should also contribute to solving the problem we encounter!" said the leader of the hobgoblins.
Ordinary dark creatures naturally didn't know the identities of Geralt and Algerta, but for those who served under the higher-ranking black dragon, this was no secret.
"If they don't want to, our priest has proposed a way to break through this magic forest!" The lizardman leader suddenly said.
"What method?" The two goblin leaders were surprised and looked at Red.
"The unicorn is a sacred guardian, and her celestial realm covers the entire forest. If we capture some mortals, bless them with magic, and let them charge into the sacred realm, it will definitely work!" said Red, the leader of the lizardmen.
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