Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 113 Slicing the Gods

The white dragon Gemot came in a hurry, but left with great ease. He folded his gradually growing wings with white frost patterns and walked away with a turtle gait.

He also needed to take the unfortunate two-headed chimera down the mountain and hand it over to the temporary care of a gnoll who was good at taming wild beasts.

Before Caron's laboratory was built, this two-headed chimera had to drag its severely injured body to work hard for the territory.

The first thing the white dragon Gmot thought of was to bring the Chimera to the forest to serve as working beasts for farming. Chimera, which is intelligent and able to communicate, is more useful than those domesticated bison and dragon beasts. Now all the energy of the dragon group is almost focused on this aspect, so it is no wonder that the white dragon had this subconscious thought.

Even the blue dragon Carlit, who had transformed into a human, was now swinging a heavy hoe in a corner of the forest until it was smoking. The blue dragon Akzi, who used to be a model worker, now took the initiative to volunteer to take over the shift with other dragons and patrol the dragon territory for half a month.

Karon shook his head and shook off the idea of being lazy and hiding in the lava nest to take a nap.

To be honest, even in ancient times, when the dragon race ruled the world, the red dragon and his dragon group were definitely the most diligent group of dragons in governing their territory. Every dragon in the dragon group should be awarded a labor trophy made of gold and embellished with various precious gems.

The green dragon Antajiana and the black dragon Rossani control the birds in the sky and the beasts on the ground. Every day they need to listen to the news from these dragons' ears and eyes regularly to ensure the safety of the dragon's territory.

In fact, the benefits of this have already been demonstrated. The new stray red dragon near the territory is the result of this intelligence and defense system.

The blue dragon Doss was originally assigned to be responsible for all matters related to cooperation with the human pioneer camp, but now the relationship between the two sides has changed. The entire pioneer camp has become a city ruled by dragons, and the ogre giant Fafna is in charge of the affairs of the Golden City.

Logically speaking, the burden on the blue dragon Doss has been lightened, but on the contrary, Fafner is only the executor of the dragon's will, and the dragon still has the final say on many decisions.

And because of the suggestion of Bronze Dragon Alina, the future system of the Dragon Kingdom and the relevant structure of the specific kingdom government organization will also need to be considered by Blue Dragon Doss. After all, Blue Dragons are famous among the five-colored dragons for their extensive knowledge, and Doss's calm personality is also suitable for doing this kind of thing.

The blue dragon Doss also often traveled between Dragon's Nest and Gulfstream City to discuss with the bronze dragon Alina. Although Kalon had knowledge of various mature political systems and national structures in his mind, he never thought that the knowledge in his mind was necessarily correct.

He prefers to adapt to local conditions. The dragon territory has its own unique conditions and it is impossible to apply them mechanically, so he just gave Blue Dragon Dos some opinions for reference and let Blue Dragon Dos use this knowledge to formulate a kingdom system that is suitable for the rule of dragons.

This also resulted in the blue dragon Doss not only having claw marks on his forehead that lasted for a long time, but Karon also discovered that some of the tiny scales on Doss's head had also disappeared, similar to baldness among humans. Fortunately, the dragon's scales can regenerate, preventing the blue dragon from becoming a bald dragon.

And Clenaya is in charge of all the dragonborn. This is because the power of female red dragons can suppress those strengthened dragonborn. However, after everything is regularized, these dragonborn will be absorbed by the Royal Guards who are established to guard the dragon's nest.

Every dragonborn is strong enough to serve as the captain of the Royal Guards. Including the dragonborn centaur Chiron and the dragonborn werewolf Saha, the Royal Guards already have nearly twenty captains, and each captain now has only ten warriors under his command.

Because these dragonborns were influenced by the dragons, they were unwilling to recruit members who were thin and weak. They only recruited big guys who were over three meters tall and had outstanding strength. If a human who had experienced the test wanted to join the Imperial Guard, the minimum requirement was a height of two meters.

Therefore, although many followers are keen to sign up to join the Royal Guard, the green-skinned goblins and kobolds have been blacklisted by these dragonborn.

They can only select members from the centaurs and werewolves who have not yet joined the cavalry. However, the Royal Guards not only need to meet the requirements of strength, but also need to be tested for their loyalty to the dragon. Therefore, they have recruited very few members so far and can only lead some more outstanding warriors to fill the scene.

According to the plan, the first batch of the Imperial Guards will be expanded to at least 3,000 members through continuous replenishment in the future. Each of the current Imperial Guards captains will be promoted to Imperial Guards Centurion, leading the 100 Imperial Guards under them to become the Imperial Guards Wall that protects the dragon.

The blue dragon Akzi's duties remained the same, but Kalon had added some burdens to him. This hard-working dragon was now responsible for registering all the people in the territory and compiling a list of them.

This is an indispensable step in ruling an area, and the workload is enormous. It just so happens that Blue Dragon Akzi has now asked to inspect the territory himself, which makes it convenient to supervise the completion of this work.

Only the white dragon Gmot, in Kalon's opinion, has changed its way of thinking, becoming more organized and more complete than the other five-colored dragons. He plans to release the white dragon Gmot to open up new cities and develop surrounding territories like the bronze dragon Alina.

This is the experience that every dragon in the dragon group will need to go through in the future. Only through personal experience can one understand how to truly govern a kingdom, rather than being high and mighty and making unrealistic demands and policies.

The purpose of the White Dragon Gmot's training is not too far from the Dragon's Nest, in the land opened up at the foot of the Dragon's Nest. Although the best and most prosperous place in the Dragon's Territory is the Gold Coast City, the foot of the Dragon's Nest will eventually become the most central city in the Dragon's Territory in the future.

This will be the future center of political power, and perhaps also the economic center of the Dragon Kingdom. After all, this will be the place with the largest and tallest city, convenient land and water transportation, and a superior geographical location.

This is not subject to the dragon's will. Unless the dragon changes its nest, the vast land under the dragon's feet will sooner or later gradually evolve into a central city.

Instead of letting the city grow wildly and evolve freely, it would be better to include it in the plan from the beginning to guide the establishment and development of the city.

The future work of the Copper Dragon Alfred is also a key focus, but since the Dragon Territory does not have any talent in this area now, Alfred can only start from scratch. Karon also has a series of plans, waiting for Alfred to work for him.

The red dragon looked towards another mountain. The ogre slaves and the troll slaves captured during the constant raids by the gnolls were adding bricks and tiles to the dragon's castle day and night.

Those huge dragon beasts slowly climbed up the mountain carrying stones hewn from the quarry. With the help of these large creatures that can transport stones, the construction speed of the castle has increased a lot. Perhaps by the end of winter, this castle that has been built uninterruptedly for a long time will be completed and welcome its owner.

"It's because the foundation is too weak. As the leader of the dragon group, I don't even have a good place to meet others. I can't always meet others on this bare mountain top. That's too rough. When the Dragon Castle is completed, there won't be this embarrassing and crude situation," the red dragon turned and flew towards his nest.

Instead of soaking in his favorite warm lava bath, Karon went into his treasure cave. Now a dense circle of plants has grown around the edge of Karon's lair crater and the edge of the treasure cave.

They are all magical plants like ambergris and dragon blood and red flame grass, which are born under the influence of the red dragon's field radiation and blood power.

These magical plants flourished around the volcano's nest. Occasionally, under the stems and leaves of these plants, Karon would find a kind of beetle-like animal with a black shell that was only as thick as an ordinary person's little finger.

This animal feeds on the sap of these plants and tiny worms mixed in the volcanic ash, and its feces then promotes the growth of these magical plants.

Under the long-term influence of the red dragon, the red dragon's nest is changing into an ultra-small ecosystem. Even the red dragon does not know how the environment will evolve in the future.

This is a natural change in the world, full of unknowns and magic, but Caron feels that observing these changes may give him some insights into the real world, so he has no intention of harvesting these magical plants that seem extremely precious to the outside world, but lets them grow and evolve freely.

The current treasury is already rich in collections, with all kinds of gold gems, magic crystals and elemental crystals, as well as many magical minerals and products brought up from magma and molten lava thousands of miles underground. Some of these things do not even have relevant knowledge in the dragon's heritage.

But the dragon's talent for treasure appraisal let Kalon know that these were all good things, so they were all collected in the red dragon's treasury. In the red dragon's treasury, gold is almost the lowest value collection and the basic unit of value.

Sometimes, when Karon looked at his treasure house, he even thought that it should be divided into several areas. Low-value collections like gold should not be mixed with other high-value collections. He felt that he was a dragon with great taste.

Two huge snake eggs, nearly half a person's height, with shells as rich as the deepest night, were spit out by Charon from his stomach and placed in a corner, together with the old scales that the red dragon had shed.

These are the two snake eggs that Charon brought back from the Titan Python's lair. In this treasure trove of abundant magic power, I believe these two snake eggs should not be malnourished.

The old scales shed by the red dragon carry the taste and scent of the red dragon. Not only can they allow the life in the snake eggs that has not yet hatched to become familiar with the scent of its owner in advance, but they can also provide protection for the two snake eggs.

After all, the field pressure covering the entire red dragon's nest has become more and more terrifying. Now even the little female dragon Clenaya is not willing to come here to take a lava bath. Without the protection of the red dragon's breath, the two snake eggs might become dead eggs.

Karon vomited out the treasures he had confiscated from the Chimera Cave and the Titan Python Cave, and piled them randomly in a corner. The dragon's stomach was not very big, and now Karon's stomach only had some high-grade mithril and some refined divine iron excavated from the depths of the earth's core.

Charon intended to keep these things for creating his own magic weapons or secret treasures in the future, so he kept them in his stomach, using his own strength and blood to nourish these precious materials all the time.

Dragons can use magic weapons and magic treasures, but unlike other races, dragons can gain some of the abilities and characteristics of magic weapons and treasures by swallowing them.

Because the magic weapons and secret treasures cannot be fully utilized, they can only gain some abilities and characteristics, and there are restrictions. A dragon can only choose one magic secret treasure to be blessed. The extra ones will conflict or even become ineffective, so most dragons don't care about these things.

Even with the added abilities and properties of legendary weapons and secret treasures, the effects are minimal in the eyes of the dragons that have grown to the later stages, and divine weapons are not something that ordinary dragons can glimpse.

Therefore, even if many dragons snatched some magical weapons that suited them, they would just put them into their own treasure houses and treat them as collections.

But Charon wanted to make some different attempts. He didn't know whether it was a natural limitation or because dragons didn't need to use mental power to control magic weapons and treasures. These were worth exploring. Even if he failed, he would only lose some materials.

If successful, it would not only increase his understanding of the world's rules, but also give Kalon more means.

"It seems that there are still many things to explore before embarking on the vast road of transcendence. Fortunately, although knowledge is limitless, my life can also be boundless, until the end of time!" Karon stood on the top of his nest, overlooking the endless green fields, and uttered his own sigh.

Then he spread his wings and swooped down!

Autumn has arrived in this land. Although the climate is still warm, the bleak autumn wind still turns the endless grassland and parts of the forest yellow.

From the air, Kalon saw the fertile fields in the distance, and the crops that were bent under the weight were now full of plump fruits.

Many farmers were bare-chested, waving sickles, working hard to harvest crops, occasionally looking up and talking and laughing. There were also many children playing and fighting by the fields, or staying behind with the women to pick up the leftover food and bundle up the crops on the ground.

However, the dragon's followers on the other side of the river were much more rough. They buried their heads, stuck their butts out, and swung their sickles to chop fiercely, not caring about the many leftover crops.

The Pixies who were following behind to supervise the harvest were so angry that they flapped their little wings until sparks flew out. They flew around muttering and scolding the careless Kobolds and Gnolls.

These Pixies are both male and female, and each of them wears a hat and wreath woven from wheat ears or chestnut stalks, which represents their identity as agricultural supervisors.

These are the same tribesmen who were deceived by the Pikk Elf Riven. The Pikk Elf is even worse than the red dragon Caron in being inhuman. She even suggested not to pay these Pikk elves a salary, as long as Caron promised to protect the Pikk elves forever, and provide food for them.

Although the dragon's nature of being greedy made Karon want to agree, but Karon needed to build a kingdom with normal order. This behavior was not good and would easily make the Pik elves slack off, so Karon rejected the proposal.

However, the Red Dragon felt that the salaries of these Pik elves were still worth discussing. Anyway, it would be the elf Riven who would take the blame. In Caron's view, good friends were meant to take the blame, and a small black pot could not bend the elf Riven's small waist.

Karon landed in front of the orchard that was opened up when the dragons were young. Now the orchard was already full of fruits. Countless kinds of fruits exuded various fragrances, which refreshed Karon, who had been smelling the sulfur of volcanic magma all day. Karon's huge body gradually changed under the encouragement of the magic power in his body, from a red dragon with a length of nearly 16 meters and a wingspan of 32 meters to a humanoid monster with a height of 6.5 meters, red horns facing the sky, and covered with fine red scales.

A pair of broad wings also changed and shrank, becoming the same style as the red dragon's body proportions, fitting naturally and relaxedly on the back of the red dragon's tall body.

The entire huge head was proportionally reduced in size and became more streamlined, with long and thick spines growing from both cheeks, and spines on the broad and thick shoulders pointing upwards like shoulder armor.

There are sharp thorns growing on the elbows of the arms, and the hands have five flexible claws like the dragonborn.

The scales and thorns on the body can harden or soften freely under Charon's subjective will, and the claws on the hands can also be freely extended and retracted.

When not needed, it can hide its claws like a big cat, and when needed, they will pop out immediately and turn into a weapon to harvest lives.

This is the humanoid form that Kalon transformed into using the transfiguration he learned from his inheritance. In Kalon's current aesthetic, this is the humanoid form that suits his aesthetic. As for the human appearance, he thinks it is too delicate and does not match the majesty of a dragon.

Only those effeminate green and silver dragons particularly like to appear in the form of humans and elves.

Although Karon now prefers his original dragon form, this humanoid form is also a change for the convenience of some activities. After all, the red dragon's body is getting bigger and bigger, and it is not very convenient to go anywhere.

In the future, there will be many humanoid races, including humans, who will become citizens of the kingdom they rule, and the humanoid form will be easier to gain recognition at certain times. After all, when a huge red dragon stares at you with its cold vertical pupils, no one will not have some terrible thoughts in their mind.

This was also the last compromise that Kalon made for his kingdom.

Every tree in the dragon orchard is very tall, two or three times taller than their counterparts in the wild. No one knows how many weird things the green dragon Antajiana and the werewolf Yougu have buried under the orchard during this period of time.

Karon stepped into the orchard with his tall figure, frowning slightly. Even in his current humanoid form, his six-and-a-half-meter-tall body seemed quite limited.

The six-and-a-half-meter humanoid form is the minimum limit for the Red Dragon to transform into a human form. In this form, Charon can exert most of his strength.

Although Kalon's original form is not as clumsy as other dragons, his smaller body also means a relative increase in flexibility. It can be said that Kalon's current strength is not restricted much.

This is also the minimum limit for Charon to use Transfiguration. He is not willing to lower his own strength just to change into a humanoid form. In his opinion, this is a behavior that puts the cart before the horse.

His heart moved, and the newly born heart energy in his body began to surge between his flesh and blood. His body gradually became shorter, and his entire form shrank slightly in proportion. Until it was about three meters and five, Karon realized that his body had reached the limit of control.

With a click, Charon clenched his claws, feeling the power of this form, which was slightly lower than before, but not drastically reduced.

The dragon's heritage includes two kinds of knowledge: Transfiguration and Transfiguration. With Transfiguration, dragons can transform into the form of any creature they know, while with Transfiguration, dragons can enlarge or shrink their bodies at will.

However, polymorph is more difficult than shapeshifting, and not every dragon has the knowledge of polymorph.

However, Charon is not using the Dragon Transformation Technique to achieve the change now, but is using his own telekinesis to control his own body and flesh.

This power, born from Caron's flesh and blood and highly unified with Caron's spiritual will, is extremely magical. According to Caron's experience, he found that the power of mental energy reacts faster than the bronze certificate on the former noble Will Clarence.

The power seed of Bronze Certificate can achieve the effect of thinking and reacting at will, which is an extremely first-class reaction speed. It is countless times faster than the magician's magic power to outline the spell model and then release the magic. This is one of the reasons why some warriors can face magicians.

But the mental energy that Charon possesses is almost automatic. It moves as soon as his heart moves, and there is no need for reaction time. Its release is even faster than the red dragon's bloodline innate spells. Perhaps it is because this power is born between the mind and the spirit.

"Tsk, it seems that I have discovered an amazing ability," Caron wandered in the orchard, feeling the different vision. He was used to seeing the world in the form of a dragon, but now it seemed a little strange.

He walked into the depths of the orchard along the tree-lined avenues. These avenues were trampled out by the young dragons in the past, and were considered wide for the current Kalon.

Deep in the orchard lies a tall stone pavilion, which was once the resting place for young dragons. For the giant dragons now, the pavilion is probably only used to rub their scales and scratch their itch.

Karon looked towards the stone pavilion. There were two people sitting on the rough stone table in the pavilion. One was the young squinty-eyed wizard Xiuser, and the other was Countess Bathory, who had a pretty face, sparkling blue eyes and short black and red hair.

A male Pik elf was accompanying the two of them with his wings flashing, and two glasses of sweet-smelling honey wine were placed in front of them.

"Oh, it's Lord Karon," the Pik elf spotted Karon and hurried over to him. This magical creature did not rely on appearance to identify others, but relied on unique aura, so it was easy to discover Karon's true face.

"Go ahead and get me a glass of honey wine, a super large one!" Caron waved away the Pik elf.

The squinty-eyed wizard Xiusier and the short-haired Count Bartoli also stood up. Xiusier looked at Caron's humanoid form, and his squinting eyes finally widened a little. He exclaimed in surprise: "Caron, you are indeed a magical genius. It is rare for a red dragon to master the art of transformation at a young age!"

Count Bartoli performed a noble etiquette towards Caron and said, "Good day, honorable lord of the dragon group!"

Karon nodded calmly. He had no good feelings towards the squinty-eyed mage, even though they had worked together before. But after he suffered from the mage's conspiracy and had failed to teach the mage a lesson, he had no special enthusiasm for the mage.

"It's really rare. After all this time, Xiusier, you still haven't learned to open your eyes when you speak. That's disrespectful to others!"

As for Count Bartoli, he was a little better and responded: "Good day, beautiful lady."

The squinting-eyed mage's calm face suddenly showed a constipated look, and his neck swelled a little. Count Bartoli next to him laughed and watched with interest the rare scene of his smart brother being humiliated.

"Sit down, you're welcome," Caron motioned for the two to sit down, as if he wasn't the one who had just made the sarcastic remark. "Xiusier, I heard from Gmot that the conditions you offered this time are extremely generous."

Karon looked at the squinting wizard's calm eyes, tapped the cold stone table with his red claws and asked, "You said you could open a magic school in my territory, merge it into the Dragon Academy, and teach magic knowledge for a fee."

"You will also donate the improved papermaking and printing technology invented by your wizards during their experiments to the dragons for free. I don't believe that you are willing to pay these prices just to trade with me and earn some gold coins. Tell me, what is your real purpose! Or are you here to claim the return of your investment?"

Karon's eyes suddenly became stern, staring into Xiuser's eyes, and said solemnly: "Don't use other excuses to perfunctory me, unless you think that dragons are all idiots!"

"Of course not, Caron," Xiusser's expression became serious. "We invested in you only because we are optimistic about your future. We mages don't care about the benefits of those gold coins. This investment is only to enhance our relationship!"

Mage Xiusir stood up, took a deep breath, and said, "Karon, I can tell you something. That is the root of us scholar mages. This is our attitude and sincerity."

The expression on Caron's face softened and he nodded.

"In a distant time, after dragons ruled the world, just as elves and dwarves once ruled the world, there was an era created by many great wizards."

"In that great era that all wizards yearn for, magic civilization flourished to its fullest. Those legendary wizards created a great empire, the Magic Empire. The ruler of the empire was called the Magic Emperor. There was also a Magic Supreme Council to which only legendary wizards could be promoted!"

The narrow-eyed mage Xiusier couldn't help but sound a little fanatical. He waved his arms as if he was giving a speech on stage.
"In that great magic empire, there are hundreds of legendary wizards, and there are even quite a few wizards who have entered the realm of demigods."

"With the development of exploration and civilization, the magic empire conquered one plane after another. These mages were no longer satisfied with building magic towers on the ground."

"So they used their great knowledge to build countless groups of sky towers. Endless floating cities floated above the endless world, ruling over all living things. Their power was even comparable to the majesty of gods."

The squinting-eyed wizard's eyes widened, with endless yearning and envy on his face. "At the peak of their powers, these wizards even controlled the sky towers and endless floating cities to step into the void chaos to explore endless knowledge and mysteries."

"They even dare to reach out to the gods, blocking the faith and power of human gods, trying to cut off the gods' kingdoms for research. There are even crazy mages who want to capture the gods and slice them up for research!" The mage's face suddenly became a little frightened when he said this.
"However, at a certain moment, this extremely powerful magic empire suddenly collapsed overnight. The magic emperor was killed by the gods themselves, the Supreme Magic Council fell apart, and the endless sky towers fell into the land and the ocean like rain. The endless floating cities also fell into the endless abyss."

"The entire magic civilization was wiped out in an instant, and its history was covered up by time. The memory of this time only exists in the memories of some ancient gods and beings, and no record of it can remain in the world."

The wizard Xiuser swallowed, stopped talking, and looked dryly at Caron who looked like he was listening to a story.

"What a pity for a great civilization," Karon came back to his senses. However, in his opinion, although this magical civilization was courageous, it was obvious that their brains were burned out by studying magic.

Even a powerful race like the dragons that are spread across all the worlds do not dare to attack the gods easily. Although the dragon race has declined nowadays, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Even if there is only one ancient dragon in each plane, the power of the endless planes combined is definitely greater than that of this magic empire.

Although the power of the legendary wizard is unattainable in the eyes of Kalon at present, he would probably not be taken seriously in the eyes of the gods. After all, the legendary wizard only touches and masters the rules, while the gods themselves are almost equivalent to the origin of the rules.

"So, you scholars and wizards are the descendants of the Magic Empire, the remnant civilization?" asked Karon.

"Almost the same," the wizard nodded. "We know from history that a civilization of pure magicians is crazy. Magic civilization can be the pillar of civilization, but it cannot be too pure."

"So, why are you looking for me?" Caron seemed to understand.

"That's partly because we discovered a lot of lost knowledge and civilizations of the magic empire that were sunk in other planes through the memories left over from history."

Mage Xiusier spoke eloquently, "But the situation in each plane is different. Only dragons, creatures that have existed since the creation of the world, will not be severely suppressed and affected by each plane like other creatures. In this regard, even legendary mages are not as good as you dragons!"

Charon nodded. The reason why dragons are called perfect creatures is that they can not only survive in all environments, but also exist in almost all planes. Even some creatures stronger than dragons cannot do it.

For example, the legendary creature, the spiky-tailed lynx, regards dragons as prey.

(End of this chapter)