Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 15 Fire Dragon Insect (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
"Oh, gods." A Silver Blood Army soldier murmured involuntarily when he saw the monster slowly revealing its head. "What is that?"

Their segmented bodies were covered with rock-like shells, and they crawled out of the ruins like giant worms. However, these monsters had lizard-like heads, and their fine teeth rubbed against each other like sharp blades, making a headache-inducing sound.

The monsters had blood-red flames burning where their eyes should be, which looked weird, but in the eyes of Longzel and the others, they had a different kind of beauty.

Rei, who was protected by his brothers, suddenly thought of a creature he had learned about before, but before he could say anything, the monsters suddenly accelerated.

"Unsullied, form a formation!" Silver Scorpion roared and pulled down his visor. The Unsullied in the team lined up in an orderly horizontal row and threw their javelins at the accelerating worm monsters.

Without any pause, Aslan Longdel and Amos Fezel immediately gathered the surviving Silver Blood soldiers and raised their axes to protect the Unsullied's spears.

"Don't fight too long." Longzel stood in the formation. "Everyone retreat inland." He had just activated a blood magic that he had mastered. This magic was very simple and could detect danger by sensing the fluctuations of blood in the outside world. This magic, which he named "Blood Sensing", together with his other blood magic that he had been using all the time, which could detect danger by the temperature changes of his own blood, "Blood of Prophecy", was his important means of saving his life.

Although the liquid flowing out of those worm monsters was as hot as magma, it was essentially blood and could naturally be sensed by him.

The butler "Pterosaur" Yamor, who was responsible for guarding them closely, raised his long-handled battle axe. Standing seven feet (about 2.1 meters) tall, he looked like a giant and kept a close eye on the worm monsters.

The first round of spear throwing had a very obvious effect. Several worm monsters were pinned directly to the ruins and the ground by the spears. They seemed to sense that these strange things in front of them were not easy to deal with. Although more worm monsters were still crawling towards them, their speed had slowed down a lot. Only a few larger worm monsters were still approaching.

The javelin lost its effect. The rocky shell on the worm monster's body was smoother and harder than expected.

The largest worm monster dodged the last round of spears thrown by the Unsullied, and suddenly opened its mouth. A large ball of blood-red flames slammed into the Unsullied formation. Then several smaller worm monsters swam quickly in the flames, trying to break through the formation after the big worm burned the Unsullied to death.

Unfortunately, they were disappointed. The armor on the Unsullied emitted a silver and red glow, and the blood-red flames burned their bodies, but it could not cause any effective damage.

The red-robed monk Malach, who had been preparing beside Longzel, was finally ready. The tattoo on his face burned like a flame. The red-robed monk opened his arms and pushed gently. The large flame suddenly stopped and then burned in the opposite direction. Several small worm monsters that were close to him were directly burned and rolled on the ground.

The Silver Scorpion raised its spear and shook its head to signal the Unsullied to charge. The Unsullied raised their spears in unison and charged. The spears, also flashing with silver-red light, pierced through the rocky shells of the worms neatly, followed by the Silver Blood Army's battle axes. Several worm monsters that rushed over like long snakes were directly cut off by the battle axes, and the blood like magma spilled, stirring up bursts of black smoke.

The worm monster rolled in pain, but was held back by the Unsullied's spear. Lynn and Ago took a step forward at the same time, Lynn chopped its body and Ago chopped off its head. The longsword and arakh fell almost at the same time, followed by the "Widow in Black Dress" who passed by quietly.

As if it had sensed the danger, the worm monster rolled on the ground, not caring about the other worm monsters nearby, and spewed out large mouthfuls of flames everywhere as if they were free.

Then it stopped abruptly.

Aggo's sharp arakh split the hard shell of the worm monster's lizard head, and Longziel's Valyrian steel sword dealt it the final blow.

The worm monster's lizard head fell lifelessly to the ground.

Everyone took the opportunity to retreat quickly with the help of the Unsullied formation. In the distance, more and more monsters about the same size as the worm monster just now raised their heads.

Farther away, there was a vaguely visible huge figure that looked like a mountain range, slowly moving.

Longzel concentrated his mind, clenched his hands, and activated the magic left in everyone's blood. "Everyone, disperse and gather at the hill behind!" After saying that, he and Valar tacitly led a team to disperse and run towards the hill behind. The red-robed monk was also unambiguous, and with a wave of his hand, a large amount of flames enveloped the retreating people.

The mountain-like figure finally raised its head, looked around in confusion, and then opened its mouth, revealing a throat that looked like a dark red sun.

It was a worm monster that had been magnified countless times, with a black flame burning on its huge lizard head. Compared with its breath, the worm monster just now was as ridiculous as a candle touching a volcano.

Large areas of ruins were instantly ignited by black flames, and countless worm monsters rolled in pain in the flames and turned into ashes.

The giant beast shook its head in confusion and lay back down in its original position.

Only then did everyone show their heads from behind the hill.

"What kind of monster is this?" Valar looked at the burning ruins with some fear. Longzel thought of more.

Neither Valar nor Rey knew that they had actually seen a living dragon. He was still young at that time, his mother was still alive, and Rey had not yet been born, but he had already followed his father to learn and tried to manage the family affairs.

At that time, he saw a giant dragon that was somewhat similar to the monster he saw today, with the same slender neck, the same head full of sharp teeth, and the same powerful flames, but the blood-red dragon was full of true beauty, not the weird twisted beauty of the worm monster.

Korakshuu the Bloodthirsty Giant, companion and mount of Prince Daemon Targaryen of the Sunset Lands.

At that time, the prince had a considerable conflict with his brother, Viserys I of the Targaryen family. The dissatisfied prince, together with the "Sea Snake" Corles Velaryon, gathered an army, captured cities in the chaotic Stepstone Islands, and went to the Free Trade Cities from time to time to accept offerings from the governors.

His father was no exception. He invited the prince to his mansion in the name of the nobles of Volantis and Princess Senira, and presented a large amount of property and 200 elite soldiers. Longzier didn't know what his father had a secret conversation with Prince Daemon. Anyway, the prince was very friendly to him when he left. He also taught him swordsmanship and showed him the Valyrian steel sword "Dark Sister".

It was indeed an exquisite and gorgeous rapier, much better looking than his own "Black Widow".

Later, his mother died shortly after giving birth to Rey, and Prince Daemon personally rode a dragon to pay his respects. However, soon after returning to King's Landing, Prince Daemon, whose relationship with Viserys I had eased, fell out with the courtiers and the king again, and was permanently exiled by the king. The frustrated prince visited the manor of the Vareses family many times in those years and enjoyed the hospitality. Until he married Lady Laena Velaryon and settled in Pentos after marriage. His own father also sent a wedding gift to Prince Daemon.

Later, Prince Daemon and Lady Lanner also visited Volantis together and stayed at the manor of the Vareses family. However, Longzier did not see Korakshu or Lady Lanner's greatest dragon, Vhagar.

Of course, the manor that hosted the dragon and the prince has now been sold.

Longzel suspected that the secret agreement between his father and Prince Daemon was related to dragons. After all, his ultimate goal was to obtain dragons and realize his family's long-cherished wish. But he also understood that the Targaryen family, which monopolized dragons, would not allow outsiders, uh, outsiders who were not close, to master dragons. Although the most extreme King Jaehaerys I had passed away, the Velaryon family still had dragons. But he couldn't take the risk.

But the prophecy showed that he had to return to Westeros. As a blood wizard who possessed supernatural power, Longzel deeply understood that mortals were always just chess pieces on the chessboard of the gods, and the predetermined fate would be realized in another form even if they disobeyed it.

Unless he could take advantage of this predetermined fate, jump up and slap the gods in the face.

I can only hope that what my father planted back then will produce results.

I am not unprepared. Once this exploration successfully obtains a dragon, or a dragon egg that can be hatched, my back-up plan will be activated.

Hope everything goes well.

As he was thinking, an Unsullied suddenly fell backwards. Silver Scorpion immediately raised his spear and separated the crowd. "Don't get close."

Silver Scorpion remembered that in the previous battle, this soldier was bitten by a dying worm monster.

The Unsullied silently let his flesh fester, emitting thick smoke like burning. Longzel tried to activate blood magic to save him, but found that there was no blood left in his body.

There was only boiling flames, and countless particles undulating on his skin.

boom.

A pustule burst open, revealing a fleshy, miniature worm monster.

The red-robed monk Malach immediately stretched out his hand and clenched it hard. Flames rose from the Unsullied's body, burning the insects under the rising and falling pustules, causing them to scream.

"It's a fire dragon worm!" Rey shouted. "I read it in a book. It's a fire dragon worm!"

Longzel immediately realized what this was.

The Fire Dragon Worm is a mysterious creature recorded in the history of Valyria. It usually lives underground or inside volcanoes, has the ability to breathe fire and grows larger over time. After the destruction of the Freehold, some scholars who insisted that dragons were magical creations believed that the origin of dragons might be related to this monster.

"But shouldn't fire dragon worms be active inside volcanoes or underground?" Lin En asked doubtfully.

"Look." The young man with golden eyes, Hoffa, pulled Lynn's armor and motioned for them to look behind the hill.

"Is this a dragon?" Longzel's eyes suddenly widened.

Behind the hills is also an enormous ruin, with collapsed buildings, cracked crust, thick black fog and rivers like magma everywhere.

Next to a collapsed tower in the ruins, the skeleton of a giant dragon can be vaguely seen wrapped in the ruins.

Only then did everyone notice the discordance of the ruins.

There seemed to be a lot of newer things inside, surrounding the skeleton of the dragon.

"We may have found what we're looking for."

Valar muttered.

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