Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 371 Elemental Leylines
Silvadiro, a top student who graduated from three national military academies, has always had a dream.

He wanted to have his own legion and wage a great war with his life.

For other intelligent races, this is a goal that can be achieved with effort. But for true dragons, even organizing a five-colored dragon squad is an impossible task, let alone forming a real dragon legion.

Unless he's willing to bring along some lower creatures to form a ridiculously powerful army of ogres and goblins, he won't be able to muster even a double-digit number of members.

There have been wars of evil dragons in history, but the powerful dragons that could summon three-digit numbers of true dragons were basically ancient dragons with names and identities in history. He was looking forward to encountering another war of evil dragons, but he probably won't have the chance to live to see it.

The helpless war dragons basically crave war their whole lives, but rarely encounter it. What's more troublesome for them is that simply participating in war is not enough; their most important task is to become the commander of the war and control their legions to fight.

Whether war brings death or destruction is none of their business.

Unable to fulfill their dragon ideals, they became fixated on the so-called "war game." Unlike the bronze dragons who captured people to chat with, this war game was extremely unfriendly to mortals.

"An extra piece enters my chessboard—is this the challenge fate has given me?"

The moment it was forced back by the Heroic Spirit, the Sapphire Dragon became excited.

Just as Emma had guessed, the Sapphire Dragon loathed outsiders interfering with its war game, but if it was certain that the outsider could not be ruled out, it would treat them as a new player in the war game.

Driven mad, they have gradually turned everything they encounter in their lives into part of a war game.

Since it's a war game, it's normal for the other side to receive sudden reinforcements, while your own side is at a disadvantage.
"I will win! Haha, interesting, a desperate situation? I will overcome it, the Lord of War will protect me!"

The predicament only excited it more. Emma was right; most gem dragons are a bit neurotic, and sapphire dragons aren't even among the most severely affected. Would a creature with normal values ​​spend decades studying military strategies it's destined to never use?
Perhaps this extreme hobby is what prevents these intelligent creatures from going mad during their long solitary lives, but in the end, it often makes them even more insane.

"Crack!"

Silvadiro, who had once again transformed into a dragon, had already disappeared underground.

This time, its target is not the shallow layers, but the deep ley lines that are inaccessible to normal people.

Gem dragons often possess semi-elemental bodies, which gives them a significant advantage when using certain spells. For example, as a resident of the earth elemental plane, they can almost instinctively use "wall-passing" and "fossilization into mud," and their semi-elemental bodies can easily pass through rock layers.

This is also the reason why its ambushes are so difficult to defend against.

"This is about it."

With its mouth wide open, the Sapphire Dragon continuously spews out sonic waves. While the Sapphire Dragon's sonic attack power is only third-rate, it is the most suitable ability when combined with its radar functionality and tactical system.

Especially when digging pits to explore the ley lines, this extraordinary power of exploration is the easiest way to get close to the essence of the ley line dragon.

They are often more sensitive in the extreme environments of the Earth Elemental Plane, in the dark, underground places, than on the surface.

“Found it. Now try to reverse its trajectory in a blown-up cavity. That should be enough.”

After realizing that he could not stop the adventurers from arriving, the Sapphire Dragon flipped through his tactical manual, which was at least four thousand pages long, and managed to find the tactical system that could be adopted at present.

As a player in a war game, only by taking the initiative can you gain an advantage, and only by gaining an advantage can you possibly win. As long as you are alive, it will continue to attack.

Can't win a direct confrontation? A sneak attack will be detected by that skilled ranger beforehand? I have another way.
"Boom!"

After excavating a vast underground chamber and igniting the fire element within, the eruption ignited the adjacent ley lines, causing a volcano to erupt. The ley lines reached a crucial point, only to find no land ahead, just an empty pit. Naturally, they had to change course.

The chain of elemental fluctuations caused the entire flow of elemental tides to begin to change.

The end result was that the magical garden that originally used this ley line to build a defensive position was completely destroyed, but this behavior itself was incredibly stupid.

"Would anyone blow up the State Grid just to stop the trolley next door from charging?! Wouldn't they be afraid of blowing themselves up?!"

In reality, even if Silvadillo ran fast enough, half of his body was already carbonized, and he was writhing in agony on the ground. But he had a happy smile on his face; war maniacs love big scenes.

At this moment, the entire Demon Realm descended into madness.

Silvadiro's actions directly caused a change in the course of a ley line. This is similar to changing the course of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers; who knows how many tributaries will be affected, causing them to overflow or dry up, and how many riverbeds will turn into swamps.

Volcanoes, torrential rains, blizzards—all the previous disasters erupted at once. Earthquakes and erupting lava brought annihilation to many lives, and many ancient monsters that had been dormant were kicked up. Their tides may be directly swallowed up by the surging elemental tides.

"The earth's veins are completely in disarray, and there is a high possibility of a continental collapse-level disaster. We must consider retreating as soon as possible." These words, spoken by the Heroic Spirit Emma, ​​are very convincing.

Many spellcasters lack understanding of the nature of elemental tides, believing them to be extraordinary substances obtained from other worlds. In reality, they are the foundation of this multiverse and the "essence" of the prime plane.

The basic elements such as earth, fire, wind, and water constitute all the matter in this world. These elemental planes have been part of the main plane since ancient times, and their relationship with each other is more like the different colored parts in a layered cocktail.

When the elemental tides rise, elemental particles enter from the elemental planes, allowing all life forms to feel the activity of "basic particles." As the intensity of elemental magic increases significantly, physical strength and other aspects also increase noticeably.

Normally, when elements circulate in the world, there is a relatively fixed channel that serves as a transport layer for "excess element sedimentation".

In a sense, it is the world's blood vessels and also a reserve of its "backup nutrients".

When the elements on the earth's surface are too abundant, it will absorb some and store them in the earth's veins to maintain balance. When the earth's surface lacks elements, it will release some of them. This is one of the world's immune systems.

Therefore, the elements circulating in the earth's veins are often extremely compressed products, or "conceptual" element crystals.

Under normal circumstances, even the most daring spellcasters would only dare to borrow (extract) a small portion of the elemental scraps from the ley lines. Only druids who have gained the approval of nature and the world dare to openly borrow the power of the ley lines. As long as they do not go too far, they will not be harmed by the ley lines, as they possess the ability to appease nature.

"The earth's veins have gone out of control. I can feel the anger of this land, and we are trying to appease it."

"Ahhhh!"

Watching a Grand Druid suddenly being sprayed into the sky by an underground fountain, the answer seems obvious.

Nature, the earth's veins, and even this land itself have been thoroughly enraged.

There's no point in trying to reason with an angry creature, let alone "angry nature."

"That damn dragon, realizing he couldn't win head-on, just messed up the whole board. Isn't he afraid of ruining himself?"

In reality, the sapphire dragon was already "cursed" by nature at this point, and it was about to face a series of cruel fates. However, it didn't care.

"This madman in the war game doesn't care about his own life or death as long as he can win."

(End of this chapter)