Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 17 Gold-eating Beast

"Flying south from here, it will take a young dragon 13 or 14 days to fly across this forest. After crossing the forest, there are endless mountains and hills.
Even a giant dragon needs to fly for at least half a month to cross this mountain range. It is a place favored by all gods and a land promised by all gods to humans. Although it is not as wide and flat as the grassland, the plains between the mountains and hills are far more fertile than here, so it has nurtured many races. "

Carlit squatted on the platform built on the highest peak of the mountain range and explained to Caron the knowledge and experience she had.

Charon did not receive any knowledge about Transfiguration during his sleep, so now every few days after Carlit has had a good sleep, he will ask her for knowledge about Transfiguration.

After learning the knowledge and application skills of Transfiguration, he will ask Carlit to explain some knowledge about the world to him. After all, the world is always changing, and the inheritance in his mind is not omniscient.

In consideration of the rare ore that the Red Dragon had mined using his talent as a master at controlling metal elements, Carlit reluctantly agreed to the Red Dragon's request.

But now, Carlit no longer allows the red dragon to enter her cave, because Carlit has begun to feel a little threatened by the red dragon.

It's hard to believe that a teenage blue dragon would actually feel threatened by a young dragon. Although it's not much, it's real. Carlit chose to trust her intuition.

And the Karon sitting next to Carlit is no longer the little guy who could be knocked over with a breath. If nothing unexpected happens, the talent of this red dragon in front of him may make him the most powerful dragon in this dragon family.

Given the current warm relationship between Carlit and the red dragon, the blue dragon leader is looking forward to it. She hopes that the dragon group she established will continue to be strong and avoid being forced to disperse around the world like the blue dragon family she was born into.

When Carlit thought of this, she tilted her head and looked at Karon, reminding him emphatically, "Little Karon, if you need to pass through that mountain range to reach the human settlement in the future, you can sneak through it along the route I took. You cannot fly directly over the mountain range. Because there are many monsters hidden in that mountain range that even dragons cannot rival."

"I will be extra careful," Kalon nodded, and then asked curiously, "What kind of monsters are there in that place that can make the dragon so cautious?"

"In fact, I don't know much. Although the blue dragon family I was born in built a nest on the edge of the southern mountains, no dragon dared to easily cross the territory to explore the mountains, even if the blue dragon family has three adult dragons."

A look of fear appeared in Carlit's eyes. "But one day, for some reason, an adult thorn-tailed mountain cat appeared in the territory of the Blue Dragon Family. Maybe it came out from the depths of the mountains, or maybe it came from a lower plane. This thorn-tailed mountain cat easily killed the leader of the blue dragons, and then began to hunt the remaining dragons. I was lucky. I fled separately from the dragons in the family, and I succeeded."

The Thorntail, Charon knew this creature, a supernatural super hunter that looked like a huge black three-headed lynx.

This creature naturally becomes a legendary creature when it reaches adulthood. Except for not being able to use magic, it is a more powerful and perfect creature than a dragon.

This creature has the ability to move silently and is also proficient in hiding and lurking. Its unparalleled agility allows it to always be in a position to take the initiative in attack. It has too many powerful points.

It can be said to be a fully enhanced version of the dragon except for its ability to fly and perform magic. The dragon's proud body is as soft as paper in front of this creature. The highly poisonous spikes on the tail of the lynx can easily knock down a dragon.

If the inheritance in the dragon's mind turned into a piece of paper, the race of thorn-tailed mountain cats would be written in red with the word "high risk" in bold letters.

"The closest to the Blue Dragon Family's territory to the west is a group of hill giants. It is said that there are many giant bloodlines left in this mountain range. There are storm giants in the east of the mountains near the sea, and there are powerful Cyclops lords deep in the mountains. Moreover, the legendary celestial creature, the Supreme Titan, also drifted here and is sleeping in it." Carlit roughly told her what she knew.

"Hiss," Karon took a deep breath, and his recently inflated heart quietly calmed down. No wonder Carlit slept in the cave all day and had no interest in expanding the dragon territory. It seemed that she was scared by the beating, and now she probably just wanted to stay alive and accumulate strength.

Charon also began to wonder if his decision to travel to human settlements to learn magic was too hasty. Perhaps he should wait patiently until merchant ships appeared in the bay where the ogre tribe lived. It would not be too late to make a decision then.

With a crunch, Kalon fell on a small mound on the grassland.

Throw a piece of refined metal into its mouth, and use its sharp and thick fangs to bite the metal into pieces. The tough metal tastes like delicious chocolate under the dragon's terrifying fangs.

The red dragon licked its palate with its flexible tongue. Hmm, the taste was bitter due to its high iron content, similar to purer dark chocolate.

I picked out the metal I wanted to try from the pile of metals in front of me. The one with a high silver content had a cooler taste, a bit like mint chocolate. The one with a high gold content had a particularly soft and smooth taste.

Eating metal can promote the development of the dragon's skin and scales, making the dragon's skin tougher and its scales stronger.

But this requires long-term and large-scale eating, and this amount is just a drop in the bucket for a red dragon. Karon just tasted it out of greed.

Charon's talent for mastering metal and earth elements allows him to sense many things that are difficult for other dragons to detect when patrolling the grassland.

When he was patrolling in the sky just now, he sensed that there were many places on the grassland under his feet with a lot of minerals. There were many black minerals that covered a thick layer on the surface, and some were buried under the soil. If these places he sensed were connected together, it would obviously be a large open-pit mining area. With the current perception of the red dragon, it was difficult to detect the size of this mining area underground.

There is a thick layer of black ore on the surface and underground of this mining area, but Caron also found traces of silver and copper mines in it. A careful inspection will reveal traces of lead and zinc mines mixed in the ore. This is a treasure trove.

And there is a high probability that there is a gold mine under the soil, which can be distinguished from the associated ores in the deposit.

Charon was so happy that he was thinking about whether he should go back to the forest and reluctantly take in those bear goblins and green rats as workingmen.

At this moment, the soil covered by weeds beside a mound not far away was turned over, and a yellow shadow wrapped in a gust of wind rushed out from the grass. The weeds were blown away, revealing a dark underground cave.

The yellow shadow was moving extremely fast, but the red dragon's eyesight could still clearly capture all its movements.

The creature was about the size of a dog, covered in rough golden fur, with silver eyes with golden pupils in the middle, and eight powerful legs ending in six-centimeter-long copper claws.

This is a gold-eating beast. This creature likes to live in areas with rich gold veins and feeds on gold as a supplementary food.

The appearance of the gold-eating beast proved Charon's guess, but perhaps because the new blood was extremely powerful, the greed from the bottom of his heart instantly occupied the red dragon's head.

This damn thing actually dared to steal my gold mine. It spread out its thirteen-meter-wide wings, casting a shadow. The giant dragon roared and pounced on the gold-eating beast.

The gold-eating beast running in front felt the breath of the dragon and was scared to death. It had just escaped from the siege of those evil ogres underground and was inexplicably attacked by the dragon. The gold-eating beast with low intelligence did not try to find out the reason, but just ran faster on its eight legs.

But before it ran far, the normal grassland suddenly became strange. The flat grassland under the eight long legs suddenly became concave, and a pit appeared out of nowhere. The gold-eating beast fell into it before it could react.

The eight strong legs wanted to step on the bottom of the pit and jump out of the mud pit, but they found that they had no strength at all. The more force they exerted on the legs, the mud under their feet sank two points deeper. The eight legs were struggling in the mud pit like paddling.

Karon fell to the ground, stretched his head and stared at the scene in front of him. When he saw him coming, he immediately pretended to be a dead gold-eating beast in the mud pit. The fur of this thing is very valuable. The fur that is peeled off completely can be made into an extremely sturdy and exquisite leather coat by the merchant.

This leather jacket not only has powerful physical defense, but can also defend against damage from ordinary fire and a certain degree of damage from magic fire, so it is very valuable, with a value of about 15,000 to 20,000 gold coins.

The body of the gold-eating beast can also be melted. The incredibly dense body tissue of this size of gold-eating beast can produce about 150 to 200 kilograms of high-purity gold after melting.

It can be said that this creature is covered with gold coins. These are the basic knowledge passed down in the red dragon's mind and an innate valuation intuition.

Living gold-eating beasts have higher value, and after being tamed, they can be used to sniff out mineral veins to bring out more of their potential.

However, the intelligence of the gold-eating beast is equivalent to that of a low-intelligence wild beast, and it is impossible to communicate. Charon does not know how to tame the gold-eating beast, so he is hesitant.

Two heads quietly poked out from the entrance of the cave where the gold-eating beast drilled out. Under the crocodile-like heads were lizard-like bodies, and on their lizard-like claws were bone-like magical weapons. All of this showed their identities: dog-headed wizards.

The two kobold wizards were whispering to each other: "What should we do? The gold-eating beast has been caught by a real dragon, a cruel and greedy red dragon. If we go out to ask for it, we might be burned to death. We will definitely not get the beast back."

Another slightly larger Kobold wizard shook his head and scolded, "You are really an idiot. We just need to rely on this powerful dragon, worship him, and then ask the great dragon to give us the beast so that we can serve the dragon better. Isn't it easy to bring the beast back this way?"

"You're really smart," the smaller kobold smiled happily, "Then why don't we just attach ourselves to the more powerful blue dragon from before? It should be almost a teenage dragon."

"You are indeed an idiot," another kobold glared at his companion, "That blue dragon is too ugly. Look at the beautiful scales on this red dragon, its majestic body, and its majestic head. We kobolds should worship great true dragons like this. Besides, a grown-up red dragon will be more powerful than a blue dragon."

"You have a point."

The two kobolds retreated back into the crypt, and the sounds faded away.

"Then we must hurry back and tell the chief, lest the precious beast be eaten as a snack by the great true dragon."

(End of this chapter)