Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 171 Transformation
The once bustling mountains are now silent, with only the peaks standing tall.

Of the hundreds of bat-winged dragons, half have been tamed by the Dragon Legion and are stationed in a military camp on another mountain with their knights.

The remaining dragons all stayed quietly in the nest canyon halfway up the mountain to rest, or flew quietly around the mountains.

Although their cries will not affect the giant dragons sleeping in the dragon nests on the top of the mountains, but, do not disturb the sleeping dragons!
The dragon nests have become far away from the mortal world due to the continuous growth of the mountains.

The black dragon's lair had changed from a swamp to a lake covered with a thick layer of silt. The black fog that had originally filled the mountaintop had also become clear.

Under the continuous wind blowing between the mountains, it soon dissipated completely, and the heavy black fog was no longer seen.

But even in the former swampland, there was still life and plants growing and surviving, but now it has become like a barren and desolate land, seemingly peaceful, but life has disappeared.

The black dragon Rosani's sleeping place is not in this lake, but in another underground lair dug under the lake.

The black dragon's body was now lying on the ground of the nest covered with treasures, sleeping peacefully. Except for the black scales on his body, he looked completely different from the black dragon he once was, strong and dangerous.

The nests of the two young white dragons are two adjacent mountains, but now the frost has frozen the junction between the two mountains. Even in the hottest season, it is impossible to melt the biting cold wind in the mountains.

The trophies and collections were frozen into ice sculptures, standing in front of the cave of the white dragon Gmot. The white dragon Gmot, sleeping deep in the cave, no longer had scales like his brother Kamide.

As he grew in slumber and his bloodline was discovered, his scales became more like those carved from ice frozen on the stone walls of the cave, with an almost transparent white color, and the pair of dragon horns on his head seemed to be made of ice under the permafrost.

And his brother Kamide, the white dragon maintained the appearance of a normal white dragon, growing in sleep, and he buried his head in the small pile of gold coins and treasures.

But the bulge on Kamide's neck grew stronger with the passage of time, as if there was another head accumulating strength, ready to break free from its shackles and come into this world at any time.

The place where the blue dragon Doss sleeps, the area around the dragon's nest has long been completely desertified. The mountaintop that was once a place of life has now become another ecological environment.

Only plants that grow in the desert, occasionally brought by birds, can survive around a blue dragon's lair.

A thick dark cloud, even on a sunny day, still hangs over the lair of the blue dragon Dos. The pent-up power in the dark cloud occasionally touches, producing a series of lightning sparks and rumbling thunder.

The female dragon Clenaya's nest was no less noisy than that of the blue dragon Doss. With the help of Karon, a controllable branch was led out from the magma layer deep underground, turning Clenaya's nest into a small magma lake.

Clenaya finally got what she wanted. It is the instinct of every red dragon to absorb the power of fire to make herself grow faster.

Therefore, as if the sleeping Clenaya was never satisfied, she absorbed energy from deep underground, turning her nest into a small erupting volcano.

Fortunately, the territory has long been accustomed to the changes that will occur in the red dragon's habitat, and has already had a set of mature measures to deal with it.

The thick volcanic ash will be dispersed and directed, turning into nutrients to benefit the surrounding ecological environment.

Only the green dragon Antajiana, the last dragon lord to control the dragon blood among the dragon group, seemed relatively peaceful in her sleeping place, except for the gradually expanding twisted jungle around the Tree Nest Palace.

But compared to the commotion at the highest peak of the mountains, where the lord of the dragon group, Caron Gogmora, the red dragon monarch, sleeps, the commotion caused by these young dragons can only be described as a small fight.

The volcanic lair that was once heavily guarded was now empty from the top to the middle of the mountain. Even the most loyal and powerful imperial guards among the dragon's followers had retreated to the foot of the mountain due to the harsh environment and unbearable high temperatures.

The mountain where the Dragon Lord slept was almost completely covered by flames and smoke. The magma jets that shot up into the sky were more than ten meters high, hot and boiling, and the rolling torrents hit the magic circle covering the top of the nest.

But the energy source of the magic circle comes from the core of the earth at the bottom of the entire nest, so the magma cannot break through the magic circle reinforced by the red dragon layer by layer. It can only rush into the air in vain and then scatter everywhere.

Layers of magma and mountain ash accumulated on the top of the mountain, and then spread down the hillside, dyeing the entire mountain red and gray. Many of the magical plants that grew naturally around the nest had been picked and circulated in auctions and markets, but the remaining plants and the animals that grew here or migrated here were destroyed at the moment of the volcanic eruption.

Even the half-finished golem that the red dragon had once created was turned into ashes by the continuously erupting magma.

But these movements did not affect Charon who was sleeping in the magma lake, because the volcanic eruption caused by his powerful extraction of energy from deep in the earth's core naturally avoided the red dragon floating in the magma.

However, due to his long sleep, his body was soaked in magma, and a thin layer of dark red shell had begun to condense on the surface of the gaps between the scales on Karon's body, and his wing membranes were also stained with a dark red cortical layer.

Once a dragon enters adolescence, not only will its body gradually enter its peak growth period, but its magical ability and strength will also leap forward, just like the rising sun, gradually climbing higher than the sky.

And the sleeping Kalon Gogmora is entering his golden period of transformation.

But unlike other sleeping dragons, this red dragon's body did not begin to grow, but it was extremely greedy and absorbed more and more energy, accumulating it in its body.

He consciously grew his bloodline to its current limit before leaping up to embrace a more powerful transformation. This was also the result he obtained after studying the bloodlines of the fire demons from the abyss and various monsters with the same attributes as himself.

Large cracks have appeared on the stone walls around the volcanic lake, and streams of magma and fire are flowing out of the cracks.

This is somewhere unknown, the secondary fire elemental plane attached to the main plane of Ekania was attracted and torn apart by the dormant red dragon's talent.

The fire energy like a vast ocean poured into the volcano's nest. The already boiling volcano's nest was like purgatory descending. Incomparable high temperature descended. The red dragon's domain was absorbing this tremendous energy and growing.

Occasionally, one or two curious low-level elemental elves from the Fire Elemental Plane on the other side of the rift would peek out from between the cracks, trying to cross these channels and descend into the main material plane of Ekania.

But the red dragon's domain actively invited these curious elemental elves. Once these elemental elves accepted the call, they would be drawn into the red dragon's domain, then crushed and transformed into their own rising source of power.

In addition to the plane of fire element, there are also some gaps from which the breath of earth element and metal element comes. The majestic elements are absorbed and extracted from the planes from which these breaths come, and are absorbed and digested by the red dragon's body.

The excess elemental energy turns the rocks around the red dragon's lair into minerals, and various minerals are born around the red dragon's lair.

And those layers of cooled magma and mountain ash gradually turned into fertile soil, exuding a strong scent of earth element.

Two layers of domains that are somewhat similar to the red dragon's domain - All Things Turn to Ashes but have different attributes gradually took shape under the tremendous supply of energy, covering the entire dragon's nest. With a terrifying field suppressive force, they conflicted with and consumed the red dragon's original domain, but gradually became harmonious and integrated under the guidance of the red dragon's instinct.

In this situation, the two originally thick three-pronged dragon horns on Charon's head also changed, and were replaced by six long horns with slightly winding arcs growing from both sides of the skull.

Among them, the dragon horns in the middle of both sides of the skull are the thickest, and the other dragon horns are slightly shorter, but all are incomparably sharp.

While there were slight changes in his appearance, some changes were also taking place in Caron's body. In order to prepare for the upcoming transformation, another heart was quietly being nurtured that could carry and operate the terrifying blood and magic power.

Before falling asleep, Charon ate food several times his own weight, which was hidden in his stomach, which also had spatial properties. Even the storage stomach was filled with food filled with blood, flesh, energy and magic, and it was shattered in large quantities at this moment.

After being crushed, these foods are quickly dissolved and transformed into blood, flesh, nutrients and magical energy, which are transmitted to a place not far from Karon's heart through the organ intestinal tract connected to the stomach and the magic transmission organ.

These energies and nutrients were digested quickly, and blood vessels were born in the flesh and blood, then developed rapidly. After connecting with other organs of the body, a small red heart was quietly born in the center of the organ network like a drum, and grew rapidly.

Not until the new heart and its accessory organs grew to maturity and were almost the same size as the original heart did all of Caron's will quietly sink into the depths of the spiritual sea, enter a deep sleep, and usher in the true growth of his bloodline.

(End of this chapter)