Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 110 New Power
The giant red dragon spread its wings and flew over his territory.

After continuous expansion, the dragon's territory has become extremely vast, more than ten times the original dragon family's territory, especially the newly conquered followers. Those jackals are particularly aggressive under the leadership of Yugu.

Even when accepting the task of reclaiming wasteland and protecting the reclaimed land, they would also find time to sweep the areas outside the surrounding territory.

Now the distance from the easternmost Golden Coast to the Dragon's Nest Mountains is about four hundred miles, and the distance from the Dragon's Nest Mountains to the westernmost forest area of the Dragon Territory is about one thousand two hundred miles.

With the Dragon's Nest Mountains as the center point, the distance to Gulfstream City, which is located near the southernmost city, is nearly nine hundred miles. This is only the forest territory that is actually controlled by the dragon.

This amount of territory has surpassed that of many principalities, and even some small kingdoms are not as vast as the dragon's territory.

The dragons had no idea of the vast grasslands, but the area marked by the dragons was even wider than the forests. Due to a severe shortage of manpower, the grasslands had always been left in a free-range state, and were only equivalent to a hunting ground for the dragons and their followers.

Even in the forests that the dragons pay special attention to, most areas are vacant and uninhabited, except for some powerful creatures that occupy the territory that have been subdued or expelled by the dragons.

Karon looked down at the situation in the territory from the sky. The sub-brain nodes were constantly estimating how many people would be needed to bring the current territory under actual control.

At present, the total number of active people in the dragon territory, including the dragon's followers, is less than 50,000. Sprinkling them into the territory is like pouring a few basins of water into a river, which can only splash a few water drops.

"It seems that using conventional means, it will take at least ten years for the population to grow to an ideal state," Caron thought silently. The population is not only the basis for controlling the territory, but also one of his sources of power.

"Fortunately, the followers I have accepted are all of the fertile ones. Not to mention the green goblins and kobolds, even the most powerful centaurs, although their fertility rate is slightly lower than that of humans, are enjoying the joy of reproduction almost every night and every day. In a stable environment, there will definitely be more and more newborns."

Karon had almost gotten used to multitasking. His secondary brain nodes were thinking about the development of his territory, while his main brain was scanning the forest beneath his feet, trying to search for a prey that met his goals.

The Red Dragon's mental power is now very strong. When he lets go of his perception, the situations within a radius of several miles are clearly visible in his perception. If he concentrates on exploring in a fixed direction, the distance he can perceive will be even farther.

A subtle grin suddenly appeared on Caron's thorny face, and his thick, long, white fangs flashed a cold light like a sharp knife under the moonlight. He found a prey and he had his eyes on it.

Under the bright moonlight, tall stone tablets stood in the jungle. Some of the hundreds of stone tablets had been eroded by wind and rain, while others seemed to have been broken in the middle by a huge force, revealing stone fragments of varying sizes.

But without exception, these stone tablets are engraved with many strange totems and symbols.

A huge and long python coiled under these tall stone tablets, rubbing its body against them constantly, as if it was scratching itself or shedding its skin.

Every scale on the giant python's body, which was as thick and long as a water tank, emitted a black light, a black light that could even swallow up the moonlight from the sky.

Under this huge and thick python, in the stone forest, there are countless white bones covering the ground. There are all kinds of creatures, including some fresh skeletons, which look very similar to the physique and shape of the trolls in the forest.

Unlike ordinary snakes, this giant python, which is more than 20 meters long, has four particularly thick and long fangs in its mouth, as well as countless fine and dense fangs.

The pair of yellow vertical pupils on the giant python's thick head were cold and beastly. At this moment, it was staring vigilantly at the red dragon that cast a large shadow from the sky. Its fangs were exposed and it let out a low, demonstrative roar.

"Titan Python," there is an introduction to this creature in Karon's memory inheritance. This creature is a natural extraordinary magical beast, not the kind that grows from an ordinary wild beast to a ferocious species, and then accidentally evolves from a ferocious species into a magical beast.

But it is different from other monsters, all of which have their own magical abilities. The Titan Python's magical abilities only bring one talent, which is the ability to devour almost all matter in the world to grow.

This is somewhat similar to the characteristics of dragons, but dragons cannot use all material energy to strengthen their own bodies like the Titanoboa. This is the growth path of the Titanoboa, so the Titanoboa can even wrestle with some dragons in terms of physical strength.

Each Titanopython can almost grow to the same length as an ancient Titan. It is a guardhouse pet and war beast that is particularly favored by the ancient Titans.

Due to their specialized physical growth, the scales on these Titan pythons have excellent magic resistance and physical defense capabilities. In the many wars between ancient Titans and dragons, many Titan pythons were tamed by the Titans and entangled themselves with those ancient Titans to fight together with them.

It is used as a meat shield and spell shield by the Titans, and the huge power of the Titan Python can also repel the attack of the dragon. However, this kind of creature is rarely seen in the main plane, and generally only exists in special planes.

Karon looked at the Titan Python. The occasional interlaced patterns on its black scales showed that it was not a pure-blooded one, but a hybrid python.

"No wonder it's so small." In Karon's opinion, the Titanoboa with a body length of more than 20 meters is also in the category of malnutrition. Snakes and dragons have different growth lines. The Titanoboa of more than 20 meters is only as thick as a water tank, which is already considered a relatively weak creature.

If the dragon is more than 20 meters long, then you might be facing a dragon that can fight against legends.

The red dragon spread its wings and hovered in the air, and a strong dragon might spread out, but the Titan Python on the ground was not afraid at all. Instead, it hissed and roared to warn the red dragon not to cross.

"Unfortunately, this creature is too stupid. Perhaps its muscles have blocked its brain, just like some mastiffs. Although once tamed, it is extremely loyal and will only recognize one master for its entire life. It is a suitable pet for guarding the house, but this mixed-blood Titan Python is already an adult and is difficult to tame."

Charon hovered in the air, the magical wind gathered on his thick dragon claws, and a tentative spell was thrown out by the red dragon, landing on the huge body of the Titan Python.

This is a slow spell, used to slow down the movement of living creatures, but the magical energy of this spell seemed to have encountered some kind of obstacle, and was then decomposed and absorbed by the giant python's scales.

"Tsk," what an outstanding magic resistance. You know, the red dragon's magic has an immeasurable magic output, and the power of its spells is one level higher than the spells cast by ordinary mages. But for this mixed-blood Titan python, low-level spells should hardly be able to work.

Although he knew that low-level spells and tricks would probably have no effect on the Titanoboa, Charon continued to cast spells from his claws.

The red dragon cast spells such as frost rays, undead strike, touch of fatigue, archery, fire blade, acid arrows, etc., and it was like a magic bomber that kept bombarding the Titan python that was coiled around its body and roaring softly, ready to strike.

Although the Titan Python has excellent resistance to magical elements, some of its scales still had slight marks under the bombardment of Charon's spells.

This was equivalent to a spell practice for Charon. It was usually difficult to find a living target like the Titanoboa, so Charon had to make use of it.

Moreover, ordinary Karons will use their prey to continuously practice their abilities and skills. On the one hand, it provides the sub-brain group with the opportunity to collect information data. On the other hand, Karons will not allow themselves to be too lazy and will seize every opportunity to grow.

Although this Titan Python is very powerful and some young dragons might be defeated by it, such as some white dragon species, but in Karon's eyes, it is just a thick and long spicy strip.

The red dragon has plenty of ways to deal with it. With just physical strength, Charon can easily crush this Titan python.

"Huh, it seems that spells targeting the spirit and will are very effective against this kind of opponent with outstanding resistance to physical magic," Charon flew slowly around the Titan Python, and the Titan Python's head turned with it. Although it was annoyed by the red dragon's constant spells and its eyes were gradually filled with irritability, it was still looking for opportunities very cautiously and insidiously.

At this moment, Karon cast a spell in his hand, which was a stun and rage spell targeting the will of living creatures, and immediately caused the Titan Python coiled around his body to react.

The Titan Python's thick and long body stretched out somewhat shakily, and its upper body bounced up like a spring. Its vertical pupils were filled with rage, and it opened its big mouth in vain to bite the leisurely red dragon in mid-air.

Clang, clang,
The python's upper and lower teeth intertwined, making a sound of iron clashing. The red dragon had already distanced itself from it, and even though the Titan python suddenly attacked, it couldn't touch a single hair of the red dragon.

In its rage, the Titan Python slapped its long tail in all directions, breaking the tall and wide stone tablets. Many huge stones splashed like charged shells, breaking the thick trees in the surrounding jungle and creating deep pits in the ground.

But the red dragon didn't care. Spells emerged between its claws and continued to bombard the Titan Python, which was attacking furiously but in vain. During this spell bombardment, an idea suddenly flashed through Karon's mind.

Each spell requires the mage to use his mental power to outline the spell model, and then mobilize the magic power to output magic power according to the spell model, and then release a complete spell.

An average wizard can only cast one spell at a time. A wizard with strong enough mental strength may be able to cast two or three spells at the same time, but there are still serious limitations.

Moreover, the strength of a wizard, apart from the level of power, lies in how many spell models the wizard can remember and skillfully outline.

However, no matter how powerful a wizard is, the number of spell models he can learn, remember and skillfully outline is limited, and releasing such spells also requires a certain amount of reaction time. In certain dangerous moments, many mages do not even have time to react, and are attacked and killed as soon as they release their magic.

This is also the reason why many magicians carry a large number of protective magic treasures and protective magic. Not every magician is proficient in instant magic skills and has the ability to react immediately. Even among high-level magicians and even holy-level magicians, there are not many who are proficient in such advanced magic skills.

Karon thought of the bronze certificate on the body of the former noble Will Clarence. The power seed born from this ancient practice has obvious advantages and characteristics. It can be activated as soon as you think about it. It can also absorb the power of the same source to temporarily supplement and enhance its own strength.

If the magic runes that cover most of the magic could be condensed into a seed of magic power like the power seeds of the Bronze Certificate, then when needed, these magic runes could be condensed into spell models driven by the mind.

This not only releases magic instantly, but also releases more than one spell. You can release a torrent of spells instantly and turn into a dragon-shaped magic bomber.

"It seems that I will also embark on the path of a weird wizard. At least I need to have a laboratory for experiments and some high-quality experimental subjects," Karon stopped casting spells and scratched his chin with his dragon claws as he thought.

The Titan Python below was still in a state of rage. It was not known whether it was too stupid or too stubborn. When it saw the red dragon stop, it did not run away. Instead, it proudly coiled its long and thick body around the tall stone tablet, raised its head and screamed.

However, Caron, who had gained inspiration from this spell practice, was impatient to continue playing with the giant python. He folded his wings and his huge body fell directly like a meteorite from the sky. The next moment, Caron held down the huge head of the Titan Python, which had a thick and long body and great power, and flipped it to the ground.

And Charon's hind legs stepped on the python's fatal joint with incredible precision, which is also the fatal "weak point" of all snake-like creatures. This is an inevitable flaw of snake-like life.

No matter how powerful an animal is, defects in its body structure will always exist, unlike relatively perfect creatures like dragons, which have no obvious flaws in their body structure.

The giant python probably realized that the end of its life was approaching, so it flapped its back half of its body frantically, but the flaws in its body structure were revealed at this moment, and the Titan Python's thick and long tail could not touch the red dragon's body at all.

The red dragon's sharp claws, which could treat hard rocks as tofu, had already dug deeply into the Titan Python's spine. No matter how hard the giant python's scales were, they could not help the Titan Python that was flipped over and had its belly exposed.

The Titan Python's final struggle lasted only a moment, but most of the stone tablets in the entire stone forest were broken by the giant python. And Karon did not hesitate to pierce the Titan Python's head with his forelimb claws, from the lower jaw upwards.

boom,
The giant python's heavy body fell to the ground, shaking up the rocks and dust.

Charon began to enjoy his midnight snack. He used his dragon claws to cut open the tough belly skin of the Titanoboa. Then, according to the habit he had developed since childhood, he first cleaned out the organs and internal organs of the giant python that could not be eaten, and then began to eat.

However, Charon did not cut and throw away the Titanoboa's stomach. The stomach of this creature, like the storage stomach of a dragon, has some kind of spatial magic properties, and its capacity is larger than that of a dragon's storage stomach. It is an excellent material for making some spatial magic equipment.

This stomach bag can be given to magicians in the future who have the ability to create space magic equipment. They can make space storage magic equipment. Whether it is used for transportation within the territory or for sale, it will be of great value.

And Karon didn't want to swallow the dirty stomach into his own storage stomach, so he kept the stomach of the Titan Python. Therefore, Karon was extremely careful when eating, because he didn't like the taste of the nine-turn large intestine.

Karon did not use his dragon fire to roast the Titan python. The flesh and blood of this monster has sufficient energy and nutrition. Roasting with dragon fire will cause the loss of a lot of energy and characteristics of the flesh and blood. Perhaps some characteristics can also benefit the dragon's body, so Karon rarely chose to eat this midnight snack, python sashimi, raw.

The flesh and blood of this Titan python was extremely rich in energy, and it also suited Karon's appetite, so Karon unknowingly hollowed out half of the python's body, which made his stomach bulge, revealing the inside of the python's body, which was as white as jade, and had thick spine covered with bone spurs.

The python's spine is very hard and can bear the weight of such a huge body. You can imagine the density and toughness of the bones. Therefore, Caron plans to cut off a section of the spine as his own teething stick.

During this period, Karon's body grew quite fast, so his teeth always felt itchy, and his crater nest was bitten by his teeth to make a large gap.

There is still some flesh and blood left, and Caron plans to leave it for the pioneering army that opened up Gulfstream City to have a taste of it, which can also be regarded as a reward from him as the lord to the army.

There are also the giant python's scales and skin. These materials with excellent resistance to magical elements are top-quality materials for making magic weapons and armor. Charon will not throw them away here.

Now, Kalon had no intention of wasting anything, and he tried his best to use resources perfectly. After all, every day when he woke up, he felt a headache when he thought about the large number of people in the territory who were counting on him.

To put it bluntly, during the initial development period of the territory, even if the followers ran out of money to wipe their butts, they would come to him for help. Of course, this is just an exaggeration, but there is no doubt that in order to develop the territory, as the highest decision-maker of the territory, he had to bear enormous pressure and responsibility.

Fortunately, he has now shared most of the tasks with other dragons and more capable followers. The worries are now others', and Charon can enjoy a rare moment of relaxation.

However, the habit has been retained.

As Karon enjoyed the satisfaction after eating, a faint white light appeared between his thick claws. The white light was like a closed cage, trapping the phantom of a python inside, which struggled and bumped back and forth.

This is the soul of the Titan Python that he killed. It is difficult for ordinary people to touch the soul of a dead creature. Even a wizard with strong mental power finds it difficult to detect any trace of the soul.

It takes special abilities to perceive and touch the realm of the soul, and Kalon possesses this special ability.

The faint white light emanating from his thick dragon claws is the key to his ability to touch souls. This is the power of mental energy, but it is not the mental energy provided to Charon by other creatures.

Instead, it was a power that was born from the combination of Charon's flesh, blood, spiritual will and mind under the long-term influence of the mental power provided by those creatures. It is a power that belongs to Charon alone, carries a strong personal imprint and will, and is even many times more prominent than the dragon's own field radiation effect.

Although the mental energy generated by oneself is still weak, it is very magical. This power born from the combination of flesh and blood and mind and spirit seems to be nurtured by these things together. The stronger the body, the stronger the mental energy. The firmer the mind and spiritual will, the stronger and sharper the mental energy.

However, Charon has not yet figured out more ways to use this power, but he has learned the ability to contact souls without any instruction.

The red dragon looked at the soul trapped in his claws. Although he wanted to explore the mystery of the soul, it was said that this was a field that only gods could be involved in. There was a lot of magical knowledge and rules about the true origin of the world.

But he knew that the time was not right yet and his ability was not enough to take the risk of venturing into the soul realm.

Even the souls of these dead monsters have their own owners in the world, or they belong to some natural spirits that are in charge of souls. These magical creations, born from the souls of living things, are so powerful that they are even equivalent to the incarnations of gods in the main plane. They are existences that the current red dragon cannot afford to provoke.

Or it could be the Beast Garden that exists in the endless starry sky outside the legendary plane. This is also a behemoth that the red dragon cannot fight against at present.

"Ah, my strength is still not strong enough," Karon sighed, releasing the restraint of his mental energy on his soul, and watched the soul of the Titan Python disappear in the real world, and its whereabouts were unknown. Even if Karon tried his best to spread his perception, he could not detect any trace of the soul.

Karon shook his head and stopped caring about it. He began to clean the traces of eating on his body, and then prepared to take away the rest of the Titan Python's body. But at this time, two subtle life fluctuations appeared in Karon's natural perception.

He walked towards the source of the life fluctuations. In the center of the stone forest, covered by rubble and broken stone tablets, half of the dark entrance to the underground cave was exposed.

Charon dug away the rubble and broken stone tablets that blocked the entrance to the crypt, revealing a deep crypt filled with a fishy smell. Two life fluctuations that were weak compared to the red dragon came from this crypt.

"It seems that this Titan Python is not stupid and stubborn, but has something that it needs to protect with its life," Karon sighed in his heart.

But he didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt. The strong prey on the weak, and that's the way it is. Even a dragon would be treated as prey in front of some powerful legendary creatures.

However, although the entrance to the crypt in front of them is quite large for ordinary creatures, the red dragon is too huge at this moment. If they try to force their way in, the entire crypt will be crushed by the red dragon, and it will be a pity if the snake eggs are smashed.

So Charon had to stick his butt out and carefully widen the cave, just like he did when he was a child, and at the same time used magic to slightly reinforce the top of the cave to prevent it from collapsing.

After widening the passage, Caron folded his wings and pressed them tightly against his back, then the dog sneaked in, crawling while clearing the passage.

After walking like this for about dozens of meters, we finally reached the deep end of the nest.

This distance is actually just the length of a Titan Python's body. Obviously, this Titan Python is the most powerful creature here. It does not need to dig the nest too deep to hide its tracks. It only built this nest to shelter from wind and rain.

Two huge black snake eggs stood upright on a thick layer of animal skin. Although these two snake eggs were not as big as dragon eggs, they were almost the same, just a little thinner.

Karon's eyes lit up, and he carefully swallowed the two snake eggs into his stomach. He planned to take the two snake eggs back, find a way to hatch them, and then use them to guard his own treasure house, or the treasure house of the dragon group.

This kind of magic python is extremely loyal. Once tamed, it will only obey the orders of its master. At that time, no one except Charon and those he allows can step beyond the door of the treasure house.

Moreover, after growing up, the Titanoboa is quite powerful, and ordinary characters are just appetizers in front of it.

In addition to the two snake eggs, Kalon also found some crude objects in the cave, stone-carved snake statues, some polished jewelry made of naturally occurring gemstones, and some gold ornaments engraved with snake patterns.

"Maybe the Titan Python I killed is the guardian beast and demon god worshipped by a certain ethnic tribe in this area," Karon had some guesses in his mind. These golden ornaments and statues are evidence of this, as well as the animal skins covering the ground.

Of course, the word "demon" is just a nickname for some powerful creatures. In the wilderness, many weak tribes will seek shelter from powerful creatures around them and worship these creatures as demons.

And even though the Titanoboa is a magical beast with some intelligence, it cannot do these things that require delicate operations without hands.

However, Karon was too lazy to explore now. This place was outside the dragon territory, and his hunting range was no longer limited to his own territory. He was not interested in conquering these tribes and expanding his territory.

He has not yet digested and consolidated his existing territory. Even with the red dragon's greed and desire for conquest, he knows that blind expansion will only slow down his pace.

He no longer needs to stay in his own territory like before, as the Red Dragon's range of activities can be said to be infinite.

With his speed, it is difficult for any creature to catch up with him now, unless he meets a legendary wizard. Otherwise, even if he meets a legendary warrior, it can only eat dust behind him.

Charon swallowed the golden ornaments in one gulp and ignored the rest of the stone statues. Then he crawled out of the cave, grabbed the Titanoboa's long body, spread his wings and flew away.

(End of this chapter)