Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 73: Charon's Spell

Karon's body is now extremely large, with a wide wingspan of more than twenty meters. Some low castles built by human nobles are only this high.

When he soars above the sky, it is equivalent to a castle flying. Moreover, this red dragon's wings and body structure are different from those of ordinary dragons, which makes his flying speed much faster than other dragons.

When he flies at full speed, he can even create a sonic barrier. The strong winds unintentionally stirred up by his wings when flying can blow over short and thin creatures such as green goblins and kobolds.

However, there is no need to fly at full speed when hunting, as that would consume too much physical strength and magic power. Karon just soared slowly in the sky, carefully searching for the prey he needed.

Those ferocious species that were intelligent and able to communicate were ignored by Charon. Although these creatures were strong and produced a lot of meat, they had now been incorporated into the dragon's nest's defense system and became one of the dragon's own people.

He soon found his target, a lone male elephant on the prairie.

This male elephant was more than seven meters long. One of its two yellow-stained white tusks was broken, and its body seemed a little staggering. It was obviously a loser who had failed in the competition with other male elephants for mating rights and leadership in the summer.

This creature is difficult to grow and needs to eat a lot of grass to grow a little meat.

If the number of these creatures were not so small, they would have been completely hunted down by these dragons in order to protect the ecological balance in their territory.

However, this lone male elephant is not within the protection range of Kalon. Although this creature has a huge body, strong power and long tusks, if it is alone, it will be preyed upon by the ferocious carnivorous species on the grassland.

Rather than feeding other beasts, it is better to satisfy the dragon's appetite.

Kalon stretched his arms flexibly in the sky and swooped down like an eagle rushing towards its prey from the sky. His sharp claws penetrated deeply into the body of the male elephant, who was not aware of the danger and was using his trunk to roll up food.

Although the weight of this giant elephant is measured in tons, the red dragon's strength makes it easy to lift it.

The dragon's four powerful claws pierced through the elephant's back like iron hooks. It lifted the elephant up like an eagle catching a rabbit and flapped its wings to fly towards its nest.

Although there are not many creatures on the grassland that can threaten the red dragon now, the red dragon has already become extremely cautious. He will not eat in the wild without any precautions. He will bring the food back to the nest and enjoy it slowly.

Bang, the heavy prey was thrown by Karon onto the rocks next to the mouth of the volcanic basin, and Karon began to enjoy his dinner.

After getting enough food, Charon jumped into the lava lake that was about to fill the entire volcanic basin. The lava had begun to flow out of the basin through the relatively low terrain.

Fortunately, not long after the magma flowed out, it solidified into strips and blocks due to mixing with sand, gravel, soil and drying by wind. With the passage of time, the solidified magma will become part of the rock that makes up the mountain.

Karon first took a nice swim in the hot lava lake to wash off the occasional blood of his prey and the dandruff between his scales.

Then he stopped and prepared to cast a protective spell for his nest, which was an inherited spell that he awakened when he transformed from a baby dragon to a young dragon.

This spell is called Waking Dream, which forms a warning spell similar to an all-round protective shield within a certain range.

Although this spell has no killing power, it is particularly important for dragons.

Because under the blocking warning of this spell, any creature, even astral creatures and etheric creatures, that enters the warning range of this spell will be discovered, and then the dragon's active perception will be awakened.

This spell is more important to dragons than any other destructive spells, because every time a dragon transitions to the next age group, it needs to enter a long sleep while its bloodline grows again. The more powerful the dragon, the longer it sleeps.

However, even adult dragons or even legendary dragons can be killed by other creatures who want to slay dragons after they fall into a deep sleep. There are many such examples in Charon's inherited memory.

This kind of innate spell that emerged from bloodline growth always seemed like a lottery in Caron's eyes. Fortunately, Caron was lucky this time and won this extremely useful spell.

However, this spell requires the dragon's magic power to continuously supply energy, and was originally cast on the dragon itself.

But Karon intends to use the abundant magic power in the volcanic magma lake as the energy node to supply this spell, and the spell will be cast in the entire volcanic basin, covering Karon's nest and the entire mountain.

This way, Charon will have an extra layer of security when he sleeps in the lava lake in the future.

The way of casting spells awakened from the dragon's bloodline is different from those magics. The red dragon only needs to use its own will to control the magic power in its body and resonate with the spell seeds in its bloodline.

Then a layer of faint invisible ripples rose from under the feet of the red dragon and spread in all directions, and then covered the entire volcanic magma lake like a cover.

This spell is extremely hidden, and it is difficult for creatures other than Charon to detect it. Even those masters who are proficient in stealth and stealth would find it difficult to find traces of Waking Dream Yiru without knowing it. Charon also dug a wide cave on the higher side of the volcanic basin, which would be the cave where he would store his treasures.

The high threshold blocked the flowing magma, but then there was a passage leading straight down, which was equivalent to a natural trap.

If you rashly enter the red dragon's cave without knowing it, you will only fall into the deep cave. If there are any lucky adventurers who can break through the siege and come here, they may fall into this simple trap due to carelessness.

After digging a tunnel about a hundred meters long downwards, Karon avoided the lava channels spewing magma and dug a wide cave into the mountain.

The cave is extremely dry due to its proximity to a hot lava channel.

Karon used his natural talent for controlling the earth to repair the cave, reinforcing the cave's stone walls to the point where even his dragon claws couldn't easily destroy them.

Then he vomited out the rare minerals and gems of various colors that were treasured in his stomach. Among them was a fire magic gem as big as a fist and as crystal clear as red blood. This was a good thing that Karon found underground.

Finally, Karon used the dragon language to activate magic power and released a spell on these treasures that almost all dragons must learn - Treasure Guard.

Under the effect of this spell, if anyone tries to take even a little bit of the treasure without Charon's permission, the carrier will feel nauseous and vomit.

The only way to avoid vomiting is to put the treasure down, otherwise the effect will increase and gradually become too heavy to move.

Of course, if this person is stronger than Caron, he can also find a way to avoid this effect.

After completing this series of protective measures, Karon climbed up the passage with confidence and stepped back into the lava lake that was constantly rolling out the smell of sulfur and flames.

These abundant fire magic powers poured into the red dragon's body, making it feel a little sleepy.

So he closed his eyes and sank his whole body into the lava lake. He could finally sleep peacefully.

The huge amount of violent fire magic, which is considered to be a huge amount for other creatures, even other dragons, wraps around the body of the red dragon, making the peacefully sleeping red dragon seem as if it is in the embryonic stage.

The energies that seemed violent to the outside world also became docile under the body of the red dragon, transforming into trickles of gentle energy that began to permeate every scale and every inch of skin on the red dragon's body.

The red dragon's red and golden scales became softer under the abundant energy, and a layer of flames rose faintly.

Under the nourishment of the firelight, these red scales slowly became darker.

The other magic powers mixed in with the fire magic powers were also pushed away by the flames on the red dragon's body, squeezed in the rolling magma lake, and gradually condensed under the powerful pressure of the excessively abundant fire magic powers.

As time went by, tiny crystals began to sink and float in this ever-flowing magma lake, emitting a strange glow, just like precious gems.

But even the most precious gems in the world cannot compare with these crystals, because these crystals are pure magic crystals condensed from other types of magic under powerful pressure.

These are the magical gems that are extremely precious in the eyes of mages. They not only provide what mages need for their practice, but are also necessary materials for many magic arrays, especially high-level spells, which require gems containing pure magic.

Only some earth and metal magic powers could approach the red dragon's body under the pressure of such abundant fire elements, and were absorbed one by one by the sleeping red dragon.

This is the talent of the awakened King of Earth and Metal from the Red Dragon, which grows by spontaneously absorbing the necessary elemental magic power.

The body of the red dragon floating in the magma lake is also growing slowly with the nourishment of massive elemental magic power. Under his super-limit growth talent, the massive magic power is like being attracted by a black hole and begins to slowly gather with the red dragon's body as the center.

An elemental storm with the red dragon as the center began to form in the lava lake.

At first, it was just like a breeze blowing through the splashing magma. As time went on, the heavy lava and the impurities contained in the magma began to rotate like a slowly stirred whirlpool.

Affected by the power of the red dragon, countless magma rose up from the underground lava channels and overflowed, splashing in all directions in the swirling vortex, turning the entire volcanic basin into an extremely dangerous forbidden area.

The excess magma accelerated the pace of overflowing the magma lake, and the gurgling lava emitting high-temperature heat and sulfur spread from the top of the mountain downwards.

The steaming hot wind and the smell of sulfur gradually enveloped the entire mountain.

(End of this chapter)