Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 24 Danger Approaches
After eating two fat mountain deer that Riven had carefully selected, Kalon curled up in his cave and fell asleep.

The gold and gems that the ogres had piled up with great difficulty were scattered all over the ground by him. Charon lay crouching in the colorful treasures, the shining scales on his body and the brilliance of the treasures complementing each other.

While Caron's consciousness was between half asleep and half awake, he began to consciously suggest himself, influencing his subconscious mind through hypnosis, and then affecting the energy generated by the mysterious rune - the vortex of mental energy. Caron temporarily called this magical energy.

It was indeed difficult at the beginning. His consciousness between being half asleep and half awake was unable to effectively produce a logical thought. Just like many people in a dream, they didn’t even know they were in a dream, let alone staying conscious enough to complete a logical thought.

Occasionally, when the waking consciousness is about to jump out of its own thoughts, it suddenly changes into another thought, just like the scenes in a dream that jump continuously without interruption.

But through his continuous attempts, he began to be able to seize the moment of clarity of consciousness and gradually extend the time of clarity of consciousness.

When he was able to maintain a clear consciousness and produce complete and logical thoughts for the first time, he suddenly sensed that there was a point of consciousness in the space where the mental energy vortex was located, looking down indifferently at everything in front of him. This point of consciousness had a mysterious connection with the runes hidden in the mental energy vortex.

At this moment, Karon suddenly understood that it was the root consciousness of all living things, his true nature and original spirit, and the entire space where it and the mental energy vortex were located was his own subconscious ocean, and the mental energy vortex was the eye of the sea in the ocean.

This was also the first time that he was able to actively observe the situation in this space, instead of being able to passively sense it only when he fell into deep sleep as in the past.

Karon's consciousness connected to his original true consciousness, and he suddenly felt that his consciousness seemed to have a real vision, and the field of vision in front of him was rapidly expanding.

He saw the blood of the evil dragon flowing in his body, like blood vessels like a rock wall, growing from small to large. His vision continued to expand, and his red body lay quietly in a cave covered with gold nuggets, gems and various rare minerals. At the entrance of the cave, the gold-eating beast was curled up on the ground, yawning out of boredom, and carefully wiping its face with its furry claws.

In addition, he could clearly see various magical elements that could not be observed with the naked eye but actually existed in the world. There were also unknown particle fluctuations in the various magical elements, which were colorful and brilliant. It was difficult to actually describe this feeling. Karon even felt that he could touch these elements as long as he stretched out his claws.

This feeling was like the deep meditation among magicians, or more like what Taoists in previous lives called observing the heaven and earth. However, this state was very mentally exhausting, and Caron only persisted for a few minutes before actively disconnecting.

This is the origin of biological perception ability. It is this ability that gives all living things in the world the ability to perceive. The strength of the perception ability is linked to the authenticity of the organism itself and the strength of its soul.

He made a rough estimate. With his current perception range, it was probably all the circular areas around his body with a radius of 100 meters. Of course, the thick rocks on the mountain walls would also hinder his perception. His perception range would be larger in open space.

Thoughts of joy surged in the ocean of his consciousness, and he began to fall into a true sleep. When his spirit recovered, he would begin to try to actively use the power of the mental energy vortex to give himself an experimental strengthening.

"Ang," the blue dragon Doss raised his head and followed Charon's command to surround the dragons. The young dragons landed on the thick branches of the giant tree, staring down at the green goblins who were screaming and panicking in the camp in the forest.

The leader of the Green Goblin Tribe was a strong goblin mutant. This brutal and brainless goblin wanted to lead the tribe to rush out and hide in the cave to escape, but few of his cowardly goblin subordinates followed him. Before he could rush a few steps, he was nailed to the ground by a volley of wooden spears tied with iron sheets by the ogre warriors who gradually surrounded him on the ground.

The restlessness and commotion in the goblin camp were quickly suppressed by the ogre warriors. The corpses skewered on spears made the chaotic and noisy goblins become quiet and orderly, and they lay on the ground and trembled.

But the young dragons began to blame each other. Even the green dragon Antajiana, who wanted to recruit followers the most, was unwilling to accept this group of dirty and smelly green-skinned dwarfs. Not to mention the proud red dragon Clenaya. She actually wanted the kobold warriors to kill all these greenskins and bury them in the dragon's orchard as fertilizer.

In the end, it was the blue dragon Dos who made up his mind. He learned a little bit of the skill of passing the buck from the red dragon, so he called the leader of the kobolds over and told him, "Bag, you will be in charge of these green goblins for the time being. Don't let them cause any trouble. You should learn to have order like you kobolds. The rest will be decided after Charon wakes up."

"Okay, Lord Doss." The Kobold leader Bag, who was given a name by Kalon, bowed his head humbly. "Then take our spoils back. According to Kalon's instructions, you Kobolds will also have a part of the spoils. Go back and have a good rest. The next battle will come soon. We must wipe out all the tribes in the territory that are not dragon followers before Kalon wakes up." The blue dragon instructed.

After saying that, the blue dragon took off into the air with the proud young dragons and returned to its nest.

The spirited young dragons were unaware of the dangers that lay ahead and that powerful enemies were on their way. A powerful tribe of ogres from the Fertile Bay were marching towards the Dragon's Nest Mountains through a jungle so tall that it seemed to block the view of an eagle in the sky.

The banshee enslaved by the ogre wizard flew quietly in front to explore the way and point out the direction. The tall ogre tyrant Morgo walked carelessly in the front. Two strong ogre warriors carried his weapon and walked beside him. It was a heavy long axe without any decoration at all. The blunt blade of the axe did not seem to be very sharp, but the power of the ogre tyrant was the best blade of this plain axe.

The old two-headed wizard, accompanied by all the wizards in the tribe, walked beside the giant monster's couch, which was lifted up by four brutal bear goblin slaves, in the middle of the hundreds of ogres.

The heavily protected giant demon Fafner was half lying on the couch, supporting her cheek with her right hand, and on her outstretched left hand stood a young forest banshee, who was the master of the next generation of banshees enslaved by the ogre tribe.

At this stage, the banshees are unable to fully master their own powers. The sounds they make unconsciously will have an impact on the minds of other creatures. A banshee who fully activates her innate abilities can even easily control powerful human warriors.

But at this moment, the banshee who was singing a melodious song was treated as a toy by the giant monster. Her seductive and controlling voice was regarded as music and was completely isolated in the small space on the couch. The other ogres could only see the banshee opening her mouth in vain but unable to make any sound.

Following the ogre team was a small group of humans, who turned out to be those brave merchants. Merchant Orsu was not unlike those merchants without background who occasionally came to try their luck or take risks to open up new business opportunities. He was born into a powerful family of treasurers in the Carthaginian Empire and often traveled between the empire and the orc kingdom across the sea.

Even in the Orc Kingdom, he has a deep background, as can be seen from the two powerful Orc warriors surrounding him at this moment. They are descendants of ancient Orcs, reserve soldiers of the Orc Royal Family, and Biao warriors.

The ten human warriors in the rest of the team were also wearing fine leather armor and sharp weapons, with a cold and sharp aura honed through life and death. Among them was even a wizard who held a very noble status in human society.

Originally, Orsu planned to use the leftover scraps and unused inventory from the trade with the Orc Kingdom to make a quick buck in the Ogre Tribe and leave. But when he heard the Ogre wizard say that the tribe was planning to conquer a group of young dragons and sell those baby dragons to him, he couldn't help but be very excited. He actually took the risk himself and followed along with his guards.

Orsu couldn't help but admire his own foresight. When he first led his family's merchant fleet here, he discovered the ogre giant monster that was so beautiful that it didn't look like a human creature. He was immediately shocked and thought about abducting the giant monster and presenting it to the bigwigs of the empire. In that way, he would definitely be appreciated and perhaps he could enter the official career and no longer be just a member of the treasurer's family.

But this rare giant monster not only possesses mysterious and powerful spiritual abilities, but the ogre tribe also has rare atavistic ogre tyrants and powerful wizards. It is difficult to accomplish this task by his own strength. Besides, this place is too far away. Moreover, as a businessman, long-term and continuous profits are also factors that he needs to consider.

So he gave up his plan, thinking that it might be more in his interest to cultivate a trader with controllable intensity. Now his foresight has paid off.

The mysterious dragons were the superior race in the world of Ekania, and were the partners and contract objects that almost all humans in the world dreamed of. As long as he could bring back these young dragons, those noble wizards and bigwigs in the empire would flock to him, and he would become very popular. His ordinary days would soon pass, and he would no longer need to rely on others to gain power, but would become a true noble.

Orsu's eyes became eager when he thought of this. Perhaps he could leave a dragon for himself and make a contract with the baby dragon. Then his newly founded family would have strong protection and support, and he would not need to worry about not being able to keep the baby dragon because he would bring back several.

Orsu stared at the falling night. He didn't realize how beautiful this wild land was.

(End of this chapter)