Chapter 636 - 340: Blazing Meteor Klaus (2)
Chapter 636: Chapter 340: Blazing Meteor Klaus (2)
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Iron Hills.
Rock Oven Tavern.
The tavern was as lively as ever. One sturdy Dwarf after another sat in groups of three or five, or in pairs facing each other over drinks, loudly chatting as they raised beer mugs as big as small faces and gulped them down.
A red-haired burly man sat alone in a corner drinking. A closer look would show that his attention wasn’t on the ale, but on the outside through the nearby window, at the many pillars on the plaza where ferocious dragon heads hung from their tops.
This red-haired burly man was none other than the Elder Red Dragon Klaus, who had just arrived in Iron Hills. He had taken human form and come to the Rock Oven Tavern.
Klaus, whose Challenge Level reached as high as Level 25, had barely mastered the Ultimate Transformation Spell, allowing him to assume a human shape, but some of his special traits still could not be changed.
Such as the red hair, such as being male, such as those bulging muscles.
The moment he entered Iron Hills, he had seen the many ferocious dragon heads hanging from the central pillars of the city, among which the most eye-catching, naturally, was the enormous Blue Dragon head in the center, twice the size of the others.
Though he looked down on the other four-colored Giant Dragons, seeing a fellow member of the Five-Color Dragon Race slain and beheaded for public display still made Klaus feel rather displeased.
’Aisores, you idiot! You’ve utterly disgraced the Dragon Race!’
’So useless, yet he was still the leader of a dragon group.’
However, recalling the task the Mother of Dragons had assigned him earlier, Klaus did not erupt in a frenzy of violence, but decided to first gather information.
It was precisely for this reason that he had come to the Rock Oven Tavern.
"Jib, here’s to the Kingdom’s victory over the Aisores Blue Dragon Group!"
"Harrik, cheers!"
"Jib, if it hadn’t been for Lord Raine this time, I’m afraid it wouldn’t have been so easy for us to win."
"Lord Raine?"
"You don’t know? Well, right, you’re with the Tabu Sheep Heavy Knight Order. I’m in the Ironfoot Legion, I...."
As a Legendary Giant Dragon, Klaus naturally had the ability to sift through the conversations of hundreds of patrons in the Rock Oven Tavern and pick out the information he needed.
Raine?
His eyes narrowed slightly as a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
’So he’s the one who helped the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom defeat Aisores?’
’Could this Raine be that Legendary Mage researching Dragon Race bloodline fusion? Or even a Dragon Lich? So he’s the one behind the Dwarves, seducing and inciting them to kill the Five-Color Dragons?’
’I need to investigate this carefully.’
Klaus rose to his feet and walked toward the low-ranking officer of the Ironfoot Legion before him, the one named Harrik.
"Gentlemen, the drinks are on me. I’d like to hear more about your battle with the Blue Dragon Group."
"And you are...?" Harrik and Jib looked at the unfamiliar red-haired burly man before them, their slightly tipsy eyes filled with doubt.
"An Adventurer. I just arrived at Iron Hills and saw the glorious feat of the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom." Klaus signaled toward the pillars outside the window with his eyes.
"Hahaha, a glorious feat! Well said!"
"Cheers!" After several rounds, once the wine had thoroughly warmed them, Klaus walked out of the Rock Oven Tavern, his eyes filled with growing doubt.
He spoke in a voice so low that only he could hear himself:
"Seven-Level Teleportation Spell? A human youth in his early twenties?"
Klaus truly found it hard to overlap these two facts onto a single person.
"A Divine Favored? Otherwise how could he possibly do it?"
"A disguised Legendary Mage, or even a Dragon Lich?"
Klaus’s eyes slowly lit up.
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The next morning.
Iron Hill Royal Library.
In the spacious second-floor reading room filled with bookshelves, Raine was poring over records about Divine Abominations.
"Divine Abominations, malformed products of Divine Power, or creations of fallen Divine Beings... the vast majority of Divine Abominations were sealed by the Divine Beings back in ancient times... after the Age of Dragons, they became extremely rare...."
After finishing this entry, Raine couldn’t help falling into deep thought.
’In other words, if I want to assemble this Son of Qiqimaike, I’ll have to trace everything back to the source and find its origin first.’
This meant that his previous plan to gather four or five Sons of Qiqimaike and fuse them together currently had no clear path to implementation.
’In that case, what I can clearly execute right now is either to slay the other four-colored Legendary Giant Dragons besides the Blue Dragon, and thereby fuse an even stronger Multi-colored Giant Dragon Bloodline.’
’Or at least find two more Legendary Eye Demons, and together with the Wandering Eye Tyrant "Zergelos" and the Giant-eyed Tyrant "Hillarack" I’ve already obtained, fuse an even stronger Eye Demon.’
’But Legendary Eye Demons are probably even harder to find than Legendary Giant Dragons.’ Thinking of this, Raine frowned.
A moment later, with a flash of blue light, Raine arrived at the top floor of the Adventurer’s Association in Iron Hills.
"Help me look up any Elder-level Giant Dragons with bounties on record in the Association, hmm... preferably in the northern part of the continent." Raine walked up to the counter, handing over his identification plaque as he spoke.
The female receptionist before him, whose features bore a sixty-percent resemblance to Liya from Dorne City, was stunned the moment she heard Raine’s words.
Her eyes widened, her lips parted slightly as she stared at Raine. It took several seconds before she came back to her senses and hurriedly asked, "Um... um, my lord, I’m sorry, what did you just say?"
"Help me look up...."
With a smile, Raine repeated his request.
"A-all right, Lord Raine."
The receptionist, slightly flustered at first, accepted Raine’s plaque. After confirming that the tall young man before her was indeed a Silver Level Adventurer, and that what he’d just said was in no way a joke, she immediately started searching.
A few minutes later.
"Respected Lord Raine, here is the information you requested on Elder Giant Dragons with bounties who are active in the northern part of the continent." The receptionist respectfully handed Raine a stack of documents.
"Thanks!" Taking the intel, Raine nodded with a smile, then went to the turn of the corridor and Teleported back to the Iron Hill Royal Library.
"More than a hundred years ago, an Elder Red Dragon named Klaus was active at Mount Bamira north of the Vincent Duchy. It possessed an enormous body and extremely fast flight speed and was known as the ’Blazing Meteor’.... no news has been heard for at least ten years... it is presumed to have entered a dormant period."
Sitting on a long bench, Raine leafed through the documents at a leisurely pace.
"’King of Poison Vines’ Slax, an Elder Green Dragon, is entrenched in the southwestern corner of the Elf Forest and has repeatedly raided Elf Villages. However, its cunning and treacherous nature has allowed it to repeatedly escape the joint hunts of Elf Queen Bessany and Great Druid Irabien..."
"Avia Linsagos, known as the ’Wing of the Icefield’, stepped into the Ancient Dragon Level just two days ago."
Hm?
Raine’s gaze went back over the last entry for several seconds, quite surprised in his heart.
Wing of the Icefield? Avia Linsagos?
The old White Dragon on the Lankote Snowfield?
Bing Zhuo’s mother?
Now that was a coincidence!
And she was also a White Dragon, the weakest among the Five-Color Dragons, and had only just reached the Ancient Dragon Level, which should make her the easiest Legendary Giant Dragon to deal with.
’It’s just that if I’m going to hunt her, going alone is still a bit insufficient.’
Raine’s thoughts stirred, and he immediately thought of candidates for cooperation.
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Half an hour later.
Mountain Dwarf Elder Council.
"Elder Grenum, I’d like to ask, is the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom interested in hunting Giant Dragons?"
Elder Grenum had just taken a sip of ale and almost spat it out in excitement. His face flushed as he hurriedly swallowed and said, "Of course! Lord Raine has something in mind?"
"The Giant Dragon is valuable from head to tail. Dragon Scales can be used to make armor, Dragon Hide is an extremely rare carrier for High-tier Spell Scrolls, Dragon Bone can be used in forging... there’s just so much."
"Not to mention, the Dragon Bones and flesh from the Aisores Dragon Group we killed before have long been fully allocated, either kept for our own forging or already resold to the Adventurer’s Association and major Human Kingdoms and other great powers."
"Mm." Hearing Elder Grenum’s words, the smile on Raine’s face grew wider.
Just as he had expected.
The Giant Dragon was valuable all over, but dragon hunting itself was an extremely high-risk undertaking. No Adventurer Group could guarantee there would be no casualties in the process of slaying a dragon.
If he led the hunt, however, he was basically confident of achieving exactly that.
Leaving everything else aside, his Anti-Magic Field and Telekinesis Domain alone could cut a Giant Dragon’s combat strength by several degrees, and when that happened, with the Dwarf Elders—who were best at close-quarters combat—charging in all at once....
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