I became a dragon in hell.

Diding folded his dragon wings and landed beside the lava lake. The diamond skeleton soldiers Caroline, Drake, and Thorne, seeing their king return, immediately ran to his side to check if he was injured.

Their king was still a young dragon, and it was normal that he couldn't defeat the immortal lich who had lived for an unknown amount of time.

"Have you absorbed and refined the soul crystals yet?"

"I have absorbed and refined it all. The strength of my soul fire has not changed, nor has the strength of my bones."

Caroline told Diding about her experience after absorbing and refining the Soul Crystal.

Drake and Thorne also told Diding about his experience after absorbing the Soul Crystal, and they didn't feel any significant improvement either.

"That's normal. Skeleton soldiers have evolved to your level, and you are already the kings among skeleton soldiers. The next direction of evolution should be to awaken your abilities."

Your current fighting style relies on strength and the rigidity of your bones. After awakening your abilities, you may be able to become skeleton mages and cast spells.

Soul crystals are still useful to you at this stage; they can enhance the 'thickness' of your soul fire. After absorbing and refining the soul crystal next time, carefully feel your own soul fire.

Caroline, Drake, and Thorne nodded; their current fighting style did indeed rely on strength and bone density.

"Caroline, I brought you a gift from my trip." Distin tossed the bright red dress he had fished out of the River Styx to Caroline. "Try it on to see if it fits. If it doesn't, I'll go back to the River Styx another day and pick out a few more for you."

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Caroline had just received the bright red dress and was about to say, "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty," when she heard her king say, "Go to the River Styx and pick out a few more."

She glanced at the bright red dress in the bone's hand, then looked up at the king who was grinning at her, screamed, and threw the bright red dress on the ground.

"My lord, the River Styx is full of things from the dead! It's unlucky, how could you give me something like that as a gift? I dare not wear it..."

"..." Distin said irritably, "Anyone who didn't know better would think you were alive. You're a diamond skeleton soldier, an undead. What's wrong with wearing a red dress that was fished out of the River Styx? Maybe this red dress was burned for you by your family in the human world when you were alive."

"Fine, if you're so disgusted by it, then Drake or Thorne can wear it."

Skeleton soldiers Drake and Thorne's eyes widened instantly; they were male skeleton soldiers and would never wear a female ghost's red dress.

"My lord, we will not wear the red dress of the dead, but we will wear the armor of the dead in the River Styx."

"Alright, next time I go to the River Styx for a bath, I'll see if I can collect a couple of decent sets of armor for you."

Diding used his dragon claws to hook up the red dress, preparing to throw it into the lava lake to burn it.

"Wait...wait, King..."

"What's wrong?"

"You're making me wear a skirt because you want to experience what it's like to lift up a girl's skirt?"

"..."

Diding raised her paw to throw the red dress into the lava lake.

Caroline saw this and hurriedly stopped her, "Your Majesty! Don't throw it away, I'll wear it. I can't let Your Majesty down."

After thinking for a moment, Diding tossed the red dress to Caroline.

How could such an upright dragon raise such a freakish skeleton soldier as Caroline?

"My king, Thorne and I are preparing to lead the Black Iron Skeletons to explore our territory and see if we can find any Soul Crystals within."

"No need to waste your energy. The territory I chose has no soul crystals or other crystals underneath, only tree roots."

He chose this place as his territory because there were no hellish soul crystals needed by the dead, vengeful spirits, and undead beneath this land.

Soul crystals are like oil; oil easily attracts large armies.

Soul crystals easily attract bone dragons and various lord-level undead.

The soul crystals he used to train his skeleton soldiers were all accidentally unearthed while digging tunnels.

"If you have nothing else to do, take the other skeleton soldiers to familiarize themselves with the tunnels I dug. As I said before, if you encounter a lord-level undead, try to avoid it. If you can't avoid it, bring out the crystal coffin I left in the territory."

If, unfortunately, you fall into the hands of another lord, do not forcibly extinguish the flame of your soul. Pledge allegiance to him, then strive to improve your status and strength, and wait for me to come find you.

"We will never betray the King!"

"Alright, alright, go cultivate."

After sending Drake and Thorne away, Destin placed his "childhood sweetheart" on the lava lake to roast, drying his blood-red hair that was dripping with blood.

Fortunately, no bloody tears flowed from his childhood sweetheart's closed eyes, otherwise he would have suspected that he had made her cry.

We must continue digging tunnels, radiating outwards from the territory as the center.

Digging tunnels has many benefits: it can temper one's own strength, allow one to dig up various soul crystals, and even uncover strange undead and unusual treasures.

Sometimes you can even find purple precious metals.

If he could find a few more eerie undead like his "childhood sweetheart" who liked to stick to him, he would dare to expand outwards and see if there were any places on the outermost edge of hell where undead could sneak back to the human world.

He didn't intend to spend his whole life in hell, where the sky was always crimson, with no sun and no moon.

The dark red earth was devoid of any green except for rotting corpses, ghouls, and various undead.

Anyway, he didn't see any flowers or plants in this area, only various dead strange trees, or corpse monsters disguised as dead trees.

"Hiss—"

A roar interrupted Destin's thoughts.

A bone dragon flapped its wings and stormed into Distin's territory. Caroline, Drake, and Thorne instantly went into battle mode, but when they looked up and saw that the intruder was a bone dragon radiating a silver glow, they returned to normal.

Silver Moon Bone Dragon, a bone dragon who frequently challenges the king and whose strength is similar to the king's... no... they used to be similar, but now she can't beat the king because the king has grown taller and his dragon body is larger than hers.

The skeleton of the Silver Moon Bone Dragon is only about eight or nine meters long.

The blood-red hair of his childhood sweetheart had stopped dripping blood. Distin placed the "childhood sweetheart" on his shoulder before looking at the silver moon bone dragon circling above the lava lake.

He dug the Silver Moon Bone Dragon out of the ground in his territory.

Because of this incident, the Silver Moon Bone Dragon kept saying that he had demolished her house and taken it for himself, demanding that she leave and return her house.

From being entangled with a fledgling dragon to becoming a young dragon.

During his hatchling stage, his dragon body was small, and he suffered many losses when fighting against the Silver Moon Bone Dragon.

He was even beaten to the ground by the Silver Moon Bone Dragon on several occasions. After entering his juvenile stage, his dragon body began to develop, and his size quickly surpassed that of the Silver Moon Bone Dragon.

From then on, he was the one who pinned the Silver Moon Bone Dragon to the ground and beat it up.

As they fought, they developed a relationship that was both "enemies and friends".

"Damn it, it hasn't been that long, how come your dragon body has gotten even bigger?"

The Silver Moon Bone Dragon Evelyn circled Distin once, the silver-white soul fire in her eye sockets flickering violently a few times.

"How many rotting corpses and zombies have you eaten?"

"Shut up, don't disgust me. I'm a vegetarian dragon. I never eat corpses or ghouls. When I'm hungry, I only gnaw on tree roots, and when I'm thirsty, I only drink lava."

"Liar! The aura of death on you is even stronger than that of a rotting corpse. If you didn't eat the rotting corpse, then you are... dead?!"