Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 60 Dragonborn
As time goes by, the atmosphere in the Carthaginian Empire has begun to become somewhat tense. The emperor's strong desire for conquest has rapidly expanded under the impetus of those big hands hidden in the dark.

With the almost self-destructive supply of resources from the Dragon Territory, the empire's armaments gradually became sufficient.

The resources from the Golden Land brought sufficient food reserves to the empire through exchanges with neutral nobles.

With enough benefits exchanged, those nobles will no longer be stingy in exchanging resources.

But before the Carthaginian Empire took action, the neighboring human principality of Marino quietly launched an attack on the empire's southernmost province and successfully broke through the province's defense line.

Not only did they plunder food, weapons and other resources, but they also drove many people into their own territory.

The Imperial Emperor, Charal Caesar, was furious and sent two legions to support the already corrupted southern province front.

But the news leaked from somewhere, and two entire legions were ambushed and annihilated by the army of the Principality of Marino.

Even the legion commander who stepped into the holy land was beheaded in public by the holy land warrior chief of the Principality of Marino.

For a time, the Carthaginian Empire was in trouble. The emperor of the empire had the reason and strength to start a war, but the situation did not go as smoothly as he expected.

Karon was beginning to feel a little sleepy now, as his sleeping period was about to begin, but he suppressed his sleepiness and looked at the tall werewolf who had just returned from the arena.

The werewolf and the vampire went out together, but he was the only one who came back.

Luck no longer favors the vampires and werewolves, and this is a fight of life and death for them.

The werewolf's body was covered with scars, strips of flesh and blood were torn apart, and even the bones and internal organs hidden deep in his flesh were exposed. This battle must have been very brutal.

But there was no joy on the face of the werewolf who came back alive. He silently dragged his wounded body into the cell.

"Hey, how does the blood and flesh of a vampire taste? Haven't you always been clamoring to eat a vampire?"

The Centaur warrior had already understood his future destiny. He teased the werewolf, but there was no smile on his face.

"It's not tasty at all," the werewolf replied hoarsely, "but I swallowed his heart, and his fate will be forever linked to mine."

"Tsk," the Centaur stopped talking. The heart core of the vampire is the core bloodline of this race.

Maybe if this heart core is sent back to the blood pool of the holy land of the vampire and soaked for a few hundred years, the vampire will be resurrected again, but that possibility no longer exists now.

“Guard me,” the red dragon’s pupils were already filled with hazy sleepiness. He said in a deep voice, “I am going to fall into a deep sleep. When someone calls me to wake up, we will regain control of our own destiny.”

The silver-haired werewolf who had been hiding in the darkness suddenly brightened up his green eyes. He reappeared from the darkness, knelt in his cell, bowed his head and saluted the red dragon, "I will protect you with my life, Lord Caron!"

The Centaur warrior exhaled and knelt down with his strong body. "I, Chiron, the son of the orthodox Centaur tribe, will protect you with my life!"

The red dragon nodded, closed his eyes, and soon his breathing became regular and he began to fall into a deep sleep.

And those young dragons also fell into a deep sleep one after another during this period of time. Their childhood had lasted long enough, and it was time for them to enter the adolescence stage.

Perhaps the arena had no experience in raising giant dragons, and by the time they noticed, the dragons had all entered a dormant period.

They did not dare to disturb the sleeping dragon. A dragon with growing bloodline would be particularly violent, and they did not want to be torn to pieces by the dragon.

By the time they reported it, the top brass of the empire were no longer available to take care of these matters. They were busy trying to resolve the sudden crisis, so the managers of the arena could only let these young dragons sleep in the quiet underground.

The underground prison cells where the dragons were sleeping began to be intentionally ignored by the servants of the arena. They no longer dared to set foot in this underground prison cell, and the gladiators of various races who were also imprisoned on this floor also gradually ignored it.

As time passed, changes began to take place in the peaceful underground cell.

Each dragon creates a lair effect in the environment it often inhabits, although the lair effect of these young dragons is very small.

But because the space was too long and narrow, and the young dragons were too densely distributed, the nest effect gradually began to spread from the cell where the strongest Charon was located.

Gradually, they came into contact with the influence of other young dragons, and the nest effects between them suddenly produced a mysterious connection, which produced an unknown resonance under the mysterious connection.

Under the influence of the red dragon's lair effect, an inexplicable aura began to spread throughout the underground cell.

The young dragons who were in the process of bloodline growth continued to strengthen the nest effect of this resonance, and gradually all the gladiators of different races in the basement were affected.

Their personalities, which had been shaped by the boring and indifferent lives, gradually began to change. They became irritable and aggressive, and they began to desire the flesh and blood of their companions who had been at peace with them.

In addition, the attendants of the arena gradually ignored this place, and the starving warriors of various races suddenly broke out into a fight one day. Every cell was shrouded in fighting and blood.

They roared at each other and tore each other's bodies apart, deciding the outcome in the most brutal and simple way. Their sharp teeth and claws unleashed unimaginable destructive power on each other's bodies, blood flowed like a river, and flesh and blood were all over the ground.

The weak died at the hands of the strong, and their corpses were devoured by the winners. After being satisfied with their blood and flesh, these victors, who had been replenished with nutrients and energy, fell into a deep sleep like the dragons.

An extremely tough layer of skin began to grow on the surface of their bodies, and short thorns emerged from the skin of their cheeks, which had different appearances, transforming them into the legendary dragon descendants.

The most powerful centaurs and werewolves among these monsters are also undergoing some kind of mysterious and bizarre mutations under the radiation of the red dragon's increasingly powerful bloodline.

In the absence of food, the werewolves and centaurs, who also entered a deep sleep on their own using some magical method, experienced different changes on their body surfaces.

The blood of the centaur is not as good as the red dragon's ancestral evil dragon blood, so although his strength is stronger than that of the werewolf, he is actually more affected.

The Centaur's already tough surface skin was covered with a layer of red scales of the same color as that of a red dragon. The dense scales gave him stronger defense than before.

The centaur's tail also began to transform into a red dragon's tail. The hair on the fluffy horsetail began to fall off, and the regrown hair was short and thick, more like some kind of leather thorns.

His ears also changed to the upright ones of the Dragonborn, and his body grew stronger under the influence, his slowly beating heart making sounds like the beating of a drum.

The same miraculous changes also happened to werewolves.

However, the werewolf did not grow scales on its body like the red dragon. Instead, its hair gradually fell off, and a layer of extremely tough leather covered the werewolf's original skin.

The color of the regrown hair turned into white mixed with red, like a layer of fire burning on the white hair. Two wings emerged from both sides of the werewolf's shoulder blades. When they grew to a certain extent, a layer of red scales began to cover the new flesh wings. Two small dragon horns emerged from the beautiful hair on the werewolf's head. If the dragon horns had not grown longer and thicker over time, the werewolf's head would have looked funny as if it had four ears.

The bodies of the young dragons were also gradually changing as their blood grew. With the nourishment of the blood, their bodies gradually overcame the limitations of age and began to grow and develop again.

The originally fine scales began to grow larger and thicker, and the color of the scales gradually changed from bright to dark.

The same thorns of varying lengths as those of Charon began to spread on both sides of their heads, as if their bloodline growth had also been intertwined to some extent in the resonance of the nest effect.

The little female dragon Clenaya, who has been actively fighting and drinking the blood of her opponents during this period, seems to have found some kind of satisfaction in the evil dragon blood in her body.

The will of the evil dragon's blood quietly faded away, and a more powerful force was born from Clenaya's blood.

A smell similar to the ancestral blood of Kalon emanated from Clenaya. Although it was far less strong than Kalon's, there was no doubt that this red dragon had also successfully embarked on the path to success.

Ancestral blood, this is the most orthodox and powerful method for dragons. Since dragons are born from the Dragon God, the closer the blood of dragons is to the Dragon God, the stronger the power they possess.

Karon, the strongest red dragon among the dragons, his body is constantly adjusting as his bloodline grows.

After repeated practice in using his will to influence mental energy, Charon can now begin to let his will influence mental energy so that his body can spontaneously adapt and adjust as his bloodline grows.

Originally, when the five-colored dragons were born from the dragon god Tiamat, they basically had very strange body proportions.

The long neck, like a snake's neck, accounts for about one-third of the body, the tail also accounts for one-third of the body, and relatively speaking, the most important part of the body also accounts for one-third.

Although the red dragon's thicker neck than the other colored dragons conceals this overly weird proportion, Karon still thinks this proportion is too ugly.

Moreover, the overly long neck would appear more vulnerable when attacked, which is a weakness. After analysis by the paracerebral segment group, it was found that this ratio has more disadvantages than advantages for a red dragon.

So under the influence of Caron's will, and after analysis and control by the paracerebral segmentation group, his neck, which had already undergone some adjustments, gradually shortened in proportion to his body and became a relatively normal length, which did not look abrupt.

His neck grew even thicker as a result, with thick muscles and skin wrapped around it, perfectly matching his already mighty and ferocious head, showing an extraordinary sense of power and beauty.

His body thus becomes longer and stronger, allowing the growth limits of his organs to expand again. His blood vessels and various organs adjust to accommodate the increase in his body.
His blood vessels and various transmission nerves were widened as a result, and his heart was also growing, which meant that the blood and magic power flowing through his body would be even more turbulent in the future.

His explosive power has also been enhanced, and when his mind is overclocked he can unleash unimaginable power.

The tissue that originally grew on the back and the back of the red dragon's tail was like that of an axe bat's wings, and it turned into tough, leather-covered bone thorns that grew backwards.

These thorns are of moderate length, extending all the way to the back of the red dragon's neck. They look quite ferocious and are very intimidating to those who like to jump on its back.

The red dragon's wings originally had a pair of wing claws, but in fact, in the dragon's daily life and battle, these wing claws did not play any role. The dragon's flexible limbs were more practical than any wing claws.

The flapping of a dragon's wings serves more of a deterrent purpose; no dragon would expect to use its wing claws to harm its enemy.

So under Charon's will, the thickest claws on the wings gradually changed.

It turned into a claw-shaped membrane similar to bone nodules to protect the bone nodes of the dragon's wings, and the red dragon's wings looked smoother.

After the last time his wing bones were broken by the advanced magic flame ring, Karon also strengthened his wing bones.

The originally relatively thin wing bones grew thicker, the hollow bones gradually became denser, and the hollow space in the bones shrank.

The cost of this change was that the dragon's wings became longer and wider, far larger than the proportions of an ordinary dragon's wings.

These changes and the growth of the dragon's bloodline require massive amounts of nutritional energy and magical nourishment. The dragon's body is growing.

The nine-meter body gradually grew to eleven meters, but the red dragon's body became thinner.

Under the body's thirst, the magic power in the air began to be gathered and absorbed by the red dragon's body, but the other young dragons were also absorbing the limited magic power as they grew.

The magic crystals used for lighting and ordinary lamps were also extinguished under the influence of the dragons.

Under the influence of the red dragon's blood and magic power, the magic circle on the wall of the underground cell began to be slowly eroded, and the magic lines became blurred and gradually disappeared.

Cracks began to appear in the solid wall, and countless abundant fire elements came from the cracks. It was the breath of a fire elemental plane that existed somewhere unknown.

Influenced by the red dragon's lair effect and bloodline, the barrier between this place of fire element and the main plane of the world of Ekania was quietly broken, but because the magic circle covering the entire arena was too large, the aura was concealed.

The red dragon's body, replenished with elemental magic, began to become fuller. With sufficient nourishment of elemental magic, the red dragon's bloodline grew rapidly and some magical changes took place.

A deeper power is reviving and emerging from his blood.

The red dragon, which was full of magic power, had begun to radiate excess heat between its scales, and the misty magma gas covered the entire cell.

As time passed, the power of the red dragon spread throughout the underground passage, and drops of extremely condensed fire elements turned into flowing magma and dripped into the cracks in the wall.
Bang! A spark appeared in the ground which was already completely silent and dark.

The halo emanating from the giant dragons and the countless drops of dark red magma became the theme of the entire underground, as if it were a deep hell of fire.

Time passed day by day, so long that people thought this place had become an eternal dark hell.

Until one day, the red dragon heard a distant voice calling, "Karon, Karon, wake up, the time has come."

The entire dark underground suddenly lit up, that was the red dragon's opened eyes.

His red vertical pupils emitted an extremely fiery red light, and his deep voice spread throughout the deep and narrow passage, "Who is calling me!"

As the red dragon's voice fell, lights suddenly lit up in every dark corner of the underground.

Those were a pair of eyes emitting the same light, belonging to the dragon and the dragonborn!

(End of this chapter)