Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 42 Beast Tide Inference: The Dragon Must Be Stable
This bear's intelligence is truly limited.

The information provided is limited, but it is still quite important.

First, in the area where the unicorn demon bear is located, there is a rabbit-headed demon beast that is no weaker than the bear to the west, and a more powerful flying eagle at the cliff to the east.

As for heading north, that is, further up and deeper into the current Monster Mountain Range, powerful monsters may seem to be becoming increasingly rare, but the stronger the monster, the stronger its perception, and the larger the territory it often occupies.

However, in the Monster Mountain Range, under normal circumstances, whether it is a low-level or even mid-level monster, if it is just passing through a monster territory with an owner, or even going deeper into the Monster Mountain Range, these lord-level monsters will not stop it, let alone attack each other for no reason.

Just like in the wasteland, under normal circumstances, as long as they are not fighting over territory, there are rarely any conflicts between lord-level magical beasts.

However, the situation in the Monster Mountain Range is slightly different from that in the wasteland.

That is, in the wasteland below the Monster Mountain Range, low-level lord-level monsters protect their territory simply to ensure that they can hunt enough food to satisfy their appetites and grow.

In the Monster Mountain Range, simply hunting for prey is no longer sufficient to meet the growth needs of mid-level monsters.

Therefore, the main purpose of the monsters fighting for territory here has become the struggle for magic crystal mines and even some rare magic plants and potions.

The deeper you go into the Monster Mountain Range, the denser the magic in the surrounding environment becomes, and consequently, the better the quality of rare magical plants, potions, and magic crystals.

Therefore, here, the benefits of hunting monsters of the same or lower level are clearly not as worthwhile as competing for magic crystal mines and protecting the growth of individual magic plants before consuming them.

Therefore, in the Monster Mountain Range, battles between lord-level monsters often revolve around these.

Moreover, magical beasts grow much slower than humans. If the magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range all followed the rule of big fish eating small fish and devouring each other to grow, then the magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range would probably have become extinct long ago, and humans could almost win without a fight.

Of course, there is another main reason for this.

That is, the more powerful the magical beasts become, the more magical beasts with different attribute affinity devour the magic cores of magical beasts of other attributes. Most of the energy in these devoured magical beasts will be lost, and often only one tenth of the energy can be absorbed and used by the beasts.

Therefore, this is the real reason why mid- to high-level magical beasts do not easily fight and devour each other.

At the same time, precisely because powerful magical beasts do not have much appetite for low-level magical beasts, as time goes by, the number of low-level magical beasts growing up in the Magical Beast Mountain Range will naturally increase, making it more and more crowded, and the concentration of magical energy in the environment will continue to decrease.

Once the magic concentration in a territory drops to a certain critical point, lord-level magical beasts will usually drive the excessive number of low-level magical beasts that have grown up to the wasteland below the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

If it refuses to leave, it will naturally become a dessert for lord-level monsters.

Thus, the closer the wasteland is to the border of humans, the weaker the magical beasts will be.

At the same time, a pyramid-shaped power structure was formed with the Monster Mountain Range as the center.

As for the beast tide outbreak mentioned by humans.

This is naturally directly related, but the main reason lies in the roars and commands issued simultaneously by several near-overlord-level magical beasts existing on the mountain peaks outside the Magical Beast Mountain Range!

The spiritual message conveyed in these commands shared only one common phrase.

That is: "Hunting humans! Driving humans away!"

As a result, almost all the monsters below the sixth rank in the outer mountains of the entire Monster Mountain Range will swarm out.

Each Warcraft wave has a scale exceeding one million in number.

However, each time a beast tide attacks human territory, it naturally splits into countless large and small waves of monsters.

As for the beast tide faced by the Western Silver Lion Duchy, it was not particularly severe.

The reason is simple: the Western Silver Lion Duchy is just one of many duchies that can be considered the border of humanity, and it is not even considered very powerful. Therefore, the beast tides it often faces are not large in scale, and are not even very strong.

Twenty-five years ago, the beast tide only produced one fifth-tier beast and two fourth-tier beasts.

Based on the fragmented information provided by the unicorn, and after considering the information from York, Lin Ke reached the above conclusions.

Quasi-overlord level? Sixth tier?
Did they command all the monsters to start the beast tide?

Their intelligence is truly remarkable; these creatures are even constantly monitoring how humans are cultivating the wasteland.

Once they discover that human expansion has exceeded a certain critical point, that will likely be the time for them to unleash a monster tide.

Such a tacit understanding must have been instigated by a higher-level magical beast.

It is conceivable that deep within the Monster Mountain Range, there exists a powerful force that unites all the high-level monsters and constantly monitors the situation outside the Monster Mountain Range.

Thinking about these situations, Lin Ke felt overwhelmed.

Sixth-tier magical beasts are the eyes of some high-level magical beasts within the Magical Beast Mountain Range, so Lin Ke couldn't act recklessly at the foot of the mountain range. Therefore, at this moment, Lin Ke felt he was indeed taking a risk, but thankfully he chose to contract a magical bear immediately.

With our current strength, the right thing to do is to quietly gather low-level magical beasts in the wasteland.

Although at this stage, it also belongs to the Warcraft camp.

But now he possesses the pure bloodline and form of a dragon, and who knows what the high-level magical beasts inside the Magical Beast Mountain Range will think after discovering his existence.

After all, Lin Ke still doesn't know the current status of dragons in the Warcraft faction.

In fact, according to York, the traces of pure-blooded dragons had disappeared long, long ago.

Meanwhile, according to existing human records, in ancient times, dragons were a distinct species, disdaining to live among monsters or even rule them.

After all, pure-blooded dragons possess Saint-level strength as soon as they reach adulthood.

Therefore, the dragon race not only looked down on magical beasts, but also on humans, elves, sea creatures, and even orcs.

As for wyverns? Wyverns are nothing more than hybrid offspring of dragons who couldn't stand the loneliness and messed around with high-level, even saint-level and god-level magical beasts.

Even among humans, there are families in human kingdoms who possess dragon bloodlines and are known as dragon nobles.

It's easy to imagine how terrifying the sensation would be if Lin Ke's pure-blooded dragon identity were exposed.

Therefore, Lin Ke has already decided that he will no longer easily appear in the form of a dragon.

The form of the Gale Leopard perfectly solves this problem.

Thinking about all this, Lin Ke sighed. Sure enough, plans can never keep up with changes, not to mention that he didn't know much about this world.

"Alright, let's end this operation for now. It wouldn't be good if we got our eyes on those sixth-tier magical beasts on the mountaintop."

"Big Bear, you just stay and guard your territory. I'll let you know if you need anything."

"Remember not to wander off, and more importantly, don't let me get involved with other demons."

The one-horned demon bear was completely baffled.

He thought to himself, "Now it seems I really don't have to die."

So, upon feeling a dangerous, unknown shackle suddenly placed on its soul, it immediately nodded obediently like a chick pecking at rice.

"The bear understands. The bear won't say anything. Be obedient."

Lin Ke simply thought the silly bear was quite cute.

Then, Lin Ke checked the cooldown time of the Gale Leopard.

Six hours have already passed?
That's fast! I need to head back right away.

Unfortunately, communicating with this silly bear is really troublesome for Lin Ke, otherwise it wouldn't have taken so much time.

In addition, at this time, Linko also successfully saw the number of magical beast minions that the silly bear possessed.

It's difficult to keep them apart; there are only a dozen or so, and they're all bears.

One head is at the second rank, three heads are at the first rank, and fourteen heads have not yet entered the rank.

There's nothing we can do about it. After all, Warcraft doesn't have the same clear understanding as humans, and they don't really know how to train their minions.

Moreover, there are so many different magical beasts in the magical beast faction that even mid-level lord-level magical beasts tend to take care of and nurture their own kind and race. Therefore, the number of magical beast followers they have is definitely calculated based on the size of their own race.

As for other types of magical beasts living in their territory, they are almost ignored unless they pose a threat, and are even eaten as food. Therefore, they don't have many direct magical beast underlings.

Lin Ke didn't care about this.

That's it for now.

And so, right under the dumbfounded gaze of the One-Horned Demon Bear, the Rock Steel Dragon transformed into the Gale Leopard and soared into the sky!

Lin Ke left the foot of the outer mountain of the Monster Mountain Range and quickly returned to the Swamp Territory.

Meanwhile, after Linko gave York some detailed follow-up instructions through the oracle, Linko's third day of game schedule came to an end!

(End of this chapter)