Chapter 90 Treasure
In Brian's impression, he believed that the appearance of the red dragon was the most domineering among the colored dragons.
There are two large swept-back horns on their heads. These horns can be straight or twisted, and their colors range from bone white to night black. Several rows of small horns extend to the red dragon's cheeks and jaws.
Furthermore, the red dragon also has the widest wings among all colored dragons, which is both the actual size and the longest relative to the body length ratio.
Just from the appearance, we can know that the red dragon is indeed arrogant and worthy of being the strongest dragon species among the five colored evil dragons.
However, the adult red dragon in front of him felt a bit funny to Brian, and it simply refreshed his outlook.
His dragon body was crouching at the entrance of the cave, just sticking out the dragon's head. Even if the wide dragon wings were folded behind him, they still could not hide the bloated body.
Most of the dragon's horned head is filled with fat dragon meat, so that the mighty and domineering appearance looks a bit round.
Brian can almost imagine how ridiculous the red dragon's swaying look was when it flew up.
However, it is not time for him to think about these things yet.
Because he knew that 'Dragon Blacksmith' Agtus was as vain and arrogant as his kind.
Although he was pampered by the gray dwarves he supported, he still felt restless all the time.
It can be seen from the behavior of this adult red dragon towards the gray dwarf that he has realized what fate he is about to face.
However, he did not have a showdown with the gray dwarves, but patiently observed and waited for the right opportunity.
Obviously, Argotus thought he needed a real agent.
This is why Brian dared to convince the red dragon so confidently.
"I heard that Lord Agtus's dragon egg was lost, so the two of us, under the order of Prince Erdi, came to help you find the lost dragon egg."
Face The red dragon kept turning its lava-colored eyes to look at him, and Brian calmly explained his purpose.
"Since you are looking for dragon eggs, you two should have a good communication with the Father of Fire."
The gray dwarf priest looked gloomily between the red dragon, Brian and Hesiah. Ren Yilong lingered for a moment, dropped a word, and turned around to leave.
"Gatoka, I want to have a good chat with these two interesting surface people. You are not allowed to sneak into the scene secretly, and you are not allowed to disturb me in the name of delivering food."
Red Dragon Agotu Si blew out a cloud of white smoke from his nose, bright flames flashed in his pupils, and warned the gray dwarf priest fiercely: "Otherwise, don't blame me for burning them all to ashes with a breath of dragon's breath."
The gray dwarf priest paused, quickly turned around and nodded respectfully.
“Hey, surface people.”
Seeing the gray dwarf priest leave, the red dragon Agtus was visibly relieved. He looked up at Brian and said slightly dissatisfied. ：
"I'd like to state in advance that that dragon egg is not mine. It was Gatoka who told me that this dragon egg can hatch into a beautiful red dragon girl. Who would have thought that before I even warmed the egg, I was... The damn thieves of Gray Ghost stole the egg. This is related to my happiness for the rest of my life, so you must help me find this dragon egg!"
"Otherwise I will! "Eat you."
As if he felt that his words were a bit too weak, the red dragon leaned his head in front of Brian again, stared at the eyes as big as a light bulb, and threatened with a bared tooth:
"You have to know that I like to eat young humans and elves the most. Half-elves like you who don't have to tear humans and elves into pieces and mix them together are my favorite."
"Of course, there are also beautiful human girls."
He turned to look at Hesiah, sniffed hard, stretched out his forked tongue and licked his lips, swallowed greedily, and added: "Especially virgins."
Looking at the nearest With the dragon's head so close, Hesaya's eyes turned cold, her delicate body suddenly tensed, and her right hand had unconsciously been placed on the hilt of the sword at her waist.
She could feel that the red dragon looked at her just now and really wanted to eat her.
Although she is no match for the red dragon, she can still teach him a lesson and escape smoothly.
“Don’t worry, as two of us are famous treasure hunters in the Underdark, we can still find a dragon egg for you easily.”
Brian endured the pungent smell of sulfur mixed with lava, pressed the sword mage's hand, pulled her to his side, motioned her not to be impulsive, and promised the red dragon in front of him.
He knew this big guy was not joking.
Because red dragons are typical carnivores, their preferred food is indeed young humans or elves.
Furthermore, their pursuit of the flesh of young women is also well documented.
This kind of dragon firmly insists that such meat tastes the most delicious, and even some evil dragons will force villagers to sacrifice young girls to them on a regular basis.
Because of this, the world regards the red dragon as the prototype of the evil dragon.
The red dragon is not ashamed, but proud.
They complacently believe that this evil characteristic is the nature and behavior closest to the true dragon clan.
As for other dragons, they have long deviated from this kind of 'purity', which has brought shame to the true dragon clan.
So, in order to restore the glory of the true dragon clan, they must do whatever they should do as evil dragons.
"Then let's go. I'll take you two to the scene where the dragon egg was lost to check it out."
The red dragon glared back at Hesiah proudly, raised his head proudly, turned around, and deliberately twisted Lifting his bloated buttocks, he shook his tail that was dragging on the ground, raised a cloud of dust, and crawled deeper into the cave.
“Are we really going to follow?” Hesiah looked at Brian worriedly.
"Yes." Brian gave her a look that said don't worry, and smiled: "Let's go, nothing will happen."
Although this adult red dragon has already treated the gray dwarf He had a rebellious heart, but he also had self-awareness and knew very well that his current strength was not enough to fight against the gray dwarf psychic priests.
Moreover, this fat red dragon kept in captivity by gray dwarves is not a qualified spell caster. If the two of them want to escape, the other party will have no way to do anything to them.
Then, the two of them followed the adult red dragon, whose belly was almost hanging to the ground, and walked towards the depths of the dragon's nest.
Walking in the deep tunnel, Brian couldn't help but recall the characteristics of the red dragon's habitat.
In fact, the underground world is not the red dragon's favorite place to live.
Relatively speaking, they prefer mountainous areas.
Red dragons prefer to nest in mountainous terrain, or hilly areas, preferably where they can perch high and overlook their territory.
This often brings them into conflict with silver dragons and copper dragons.
Although the individual quality of the Silver Dragon is not as good as that of the Red Dragon, it cannot resist its kind nature and good temperament, so the charming Silver Dragon can often sway more than a dozen dragons with just a few words. squad.
So when the red dragon often clashes with the silver dragon, he will suddenly find that he is fighting more and more enemies, and in the end he can only run away with his tail between his legs.
As for the red copper dragon, which is weaker than the silver dragon, they are not so lucky. They often move around to avoid the red dragon.
Red dragons will look for large caves that extend deep into the depths as their lairs. Caves with certain volcanic or geothermal activity are welcomed by red dragons.
However, no matter what the lair looks like, there is always a high perch nearby for the red dragon to overlook other territories arrogantly
Red dragons living in dungeons will look for overheated or Flammable areas serve as their lairs.
Because dungeons usually lack high ground that can provide panoramic views, the red dragons who live there are often content with long corridors or open spaces near caves that can provide good views.
That is, there is no balcony, and a playground needs to be added.
Just as Brian imagined, as they walked deeper and deeper into the underground cave, their vision gradually broadened.
And he could clearly feel that there were many traces of kobold activity here, so much so that he had to cover his mouth and nose lightly to block the strong stench.
Soon, messy kobolds appeared in his sight like rats and scurryed around. After a rough glance, he estimated that there were at least a thousand of them.
This made him realize that this was the Red Dragon's 'Flame Guardian', a force he formed to resist the gray dwarves.
Through the number of these kobolds, he could see that there was definitely a wider fungal forest or underground river nearby.
Otherwise, these kobolds are just daily food and cannot be solved.
The two Brian followed the red dragon through the kobold camp. The patrolling kobold soldiers or miners were so frightened that they crawled on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads.
Brian looked around casually and unexpectedly discovered a large number of kobold warlocks.
When the red dragon took them to the most spacious cave in the underground cave, even though he had always had a calm expression, he was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he raised his eyebrows.
Because what appeared in his sight was a treasure mountain filled with gold coins, gems and a few magic items. Huge crystals were embedded in it, emitting colorful and dazzling light, like tiny daggers stinging His eyes.
These treasures were so nakedly presented before his eyes, giving him the strongest visual impact.
On the contrary, the sword mage Hesayah beside him had no trace of emotion on his delicate face.
Brian secretly made up his mind to kill this red dragon when he was strong enough.
The red dragon Agtus, who returned to the cave, fluttered his wings and flew crookedly in the air, then lay leisurely on his golden mountain, as comfortable as if he was taking a hot bath .
“Hey, surface people, step back and don’t step on my gold coins.”
As if he realized something, he raised his head again and reminded Brian dissatisfiedly. Brian looked startled and realized that he had actually stepped on a gold coin, so he quickly took a few steps back.
Red dragons are the most greedy of all true dragons. They will even use any means to increase their treasure trove.
And every red dragon clearly knows the origin and value of every small item in its treasure house. Even if someone steals a copper plate from it, it will cause serious consequences, such as recovering a copper plate and slaughtering it conveniently. A few small towns and stuff like that.
“You said you wanted to show us where the dragon eggs were stolen.”
Brian withdrew his gaze from the treasure mountain and looked at the red dragon whose limbs and tail had sunk into the pile of gold coins. "Why did you bring us two here?"
"Looking for some stupid dragon egg." Gottus shook off the two gold coins that fell on his head and blew out two streams of white smoke from his nose with disdain, "I lost the dragon egg on purpose."
"This egg has something to do with it. The happiness of your lower body." Brian nodded thoughtfully and asked, pretending to be surprised, "Why did you lose it?"
"If I didn't lose it, Waiting for the dragon egg to hatch, I will lose my life." Agatus seemed to realize something, and quickly changed his words:
"If I wait for the dragon egg to hatch, other dragons will compete with me for my job. It means that my income has decreased, which means that I will become unhappy. Of course I am not happy. How can the beautiful red dragon girl compare with these treasures of mine."
Obviously, the red dragon's arrogance made it difficult for him to say that his own life was not important.
Even by dragon standards, the red dragon in front of him is particularly arrogant.
Because dragons do not have a fixed Sima face, the legendary evil dragon expression only exists in sculptures.
The expressions of some chaotic and kind-hearted metal dragons that Brian has seen can even be so rich that it makes people feel ashamed (copper dragons and brass dragons: mmp, who are you talking about).
He glanced at the red dragon and asked, pretending not to know, "Then what is the purpose of bringing us here?"
After hearing Brian's inquiry, Red Dragon looked around and checked carefully. After confirming that no one else was present, he looked straight and began to ask questions to the two of them.
The content of his questions was like checking a household registration, including name and background, how he came to the Dark Territory, why he came to Aldus King City, and other detailed questions.
Brian had long understood the true intention of the red dragon. He signaled the sword mage beside him not to speak, and the regulations clearly answered the questions raised by the red dragon one by one until he nodded with satisfaction. The interrogation-like questioning of a prisoner finally came to an end.
"Surface people." After a long inquiry, the red dragon put away his unserious expression and said to Brian and Brian, "Now, I entrust you to do something for me."
< br>Brian's expression changed, showing that he was listening carefully.
"I need you two to follow the instructions of the Flame Guardian and help them find the dragon egg." The red dragon Agtus seemed to have already thought of his plan, and said clearly:
"Find After I found the dragon egg, I took the opportunity to destroy it. This way, if the Flame Guardians don’t have spare dragon eggs, my work will not be shared by other red dragons, and my reward will not be withheld.”
"If you help me complete this mission." The red dragon stretched out its claws and promised Brian and the two of them, "I will capture a handful of treasures for each of you here as payment for the mission."< br>
"It's the first time I've heard of this kind of reward for randomly grabbing a bunch of treasures. It's really like opening a blind box."
Brian looked at the red dragon's chubby claws and felt that the opponent With his greedy personality, if he were to grab a handful of them, he probably wouldn't be able to catch anything good.
"If you don't agree."
Seeing that the two of them didn't reply, the red dragon became a little anxious. He blew out two streams of white smoke from his nose, flames jumped out of his lava-colored pupils, and he grinned. The ground threatened: "I will eat you as snacks tonight."
"Of course." The red dragon raised the dragon's head arrogantly and added:
"You can Ostensibly agree to my request and then report it to the Flame Keepers. What I need to remind you is that I am not afraid of you doing this at all, because if you do this, it means you will not get any reward from me and will be betrayed. The gray dwarves captured him as free labor."
"You must know that I am a red dragon who keeps his word." He continued:
"Otherwise, with my strength, I would have pushed down the entire Aldus King City long ago. It is because I agreed to the agreement with the gray dwarves that I have always been diligent, hard-working, meticulous, conscientious, and arduous every day. He got up early and stayed up until late, forgetting to eat and sleep, and worked with all his concentration, single-mindedness, concentration, and tirelessness to help them light the furnace."
Brian signaled the sword mage beside him not to act rashly. He looked up at the red dragon lying on the treasure mountain and said: " I can agree to your condition, but I think you have a better choice.”
“Agatus stretched his chubby neck.
“Don’t you want to find a real agent and become the ruler behind the scenes of King Aldus City?” Brian smiled slightly and expressed his thoughts to the red dragon.
“The real agent? The ruler behind the scenes in Aldus Royal City?”
Agtus stretched out his chubby dragon claws and scratched his head. He stared at Brian with two eyes like light bulbs and said, "Explain what is going on."
"Actually, I We have long known what happened to you, so the purpose of the two of us coming here is not to help you find the dragon egg," Brian said seriously to the red dragon, "but to help you take over Odus. "King City."
"Really?" Red Dragon said slightly excitedly.
After thinking about it, he realized his gaffe, took another deep breath, and said as calmly as possible, "You are indeed a smart surface person, and you can think of me. In fact, I have already thought about it." I have this idea, but I have never found a suitable agent.”
“You should know the Gray Dwarf Prince Erdi Steel Shadow.” Brian was too lazy to pay attention to his bragging and continued:
"He is ready to take over King Aldus City, but he also deeply realizes that without the help of Lord Agtus, the strongest man in King Aldus City, he would not be able to do it with his own ability alone. Overthrow the King of the Deep and the Keeper of Flames."
"Very good, if Erdi is willing to be my agent and serve me, I will definitely lead him when he takes over King Aldus City. Let my flame guardians help him."
"In this case."
Agotus scratched his head regretfully, and said slightly embarrassedly: "I need it. You guys do something for me and find the lost dragon egg again. After all, this is related to my happiness for the rest of my life."
"Then it's settled, I will keep your words intact. He conveyed it to the gray dwarf prince Erdi without moving." Brian looked at the cute and silly red dragon in front of him and said to him, "I can help you find the dragon eggs, but you can't let us two. Just work in vain.”
"Don't worry about this. After finding the dragon egg, I will grab a lot of treasure for each of you as reward for the mission." Red Dragon assured them.
“You grabbed too many things with one claw.” Brian shook his head slightly and said, “In my opinion, it would be more cost-effective for each of us to pick two things.”
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Agotus looked at the two of them and hesitated for a moment, as if he was weighing how to divide the reward to be more cost-effective.
Thinking that he would become the true ruler of Aldus King City, he gritted his teeth and nodded with a heartbroken look on his face:
"Okay! As long as you help me reach an agreement with Erdi and find the stolen dragon eggs, I will let you two each pick two items here."
"Since you are like this Sincerely, the two of us will naturally complete the task you assigned us seriously." Brian nodded in agreement, and then said:
"However, you have to know that we are treasure hunters from the surface world. Our rules usually require you to pay half of the deposit before you can safely complete the employer's tasks, so you must advance half of your compensation."
"This is absolutely not possible."
When the red dragon heard this, he became anxious again. Flames jumped out of his lava-colored pupils, and his broad dragon wings spread out, like an old hen protecting its chicks, covering all the treasures around him, "What if you two bring it with you?" He ran away with my treasure.”
"So, you have never believed in us. If that's the case, then there is no point in us staying here."
Brian looked at the red dragon with a disappointed look, and then pulled him beside him. The sword mage turned around and left.
"Do you think you two can leave?" The red dragon lying on Baoshan was indifferent and just snorted coldly, full of threats.
Brian smiled slightly, concentrated, and with a thought, a translucent portal appeared in front of them.
Then, prepare to step into the portal and leave.
"Hey, don't leave." Agtus jumped down from the treasure mountain in a hurry, and the piles of gold coins and gems clattered. "I'm kidding you."
"I can agree to your request, Advance half of the reward." Red Dragon said with a smile, "But I also have a condition, you must cover your eyes when choosing the treasure." "No problem, I agree." Ryan readily agreed.
Then, in front of the red dragon, he closed his eyes and thought, using his telekinesis ability, he waved his hand.
In a large pit created by the red dragon's butt on the treasure mountain pile, a five-foot-long yew staff was suspended in the air and quickly fell into his hand.
"Holy shit, you can find all of this!" Seeing the magic items that Brian had acquired, the red dragon Agtus was dumbfounded, beat his chest and cursed loudly.
Brian was too lazy to pay attention to the other party. After he saw Hesiah happily taking away a turquoise and moonstone belt, he immediately stepped into the portal and disappeared.
The cute Argotus was left alone, confused.
When they left the red dragon's lair about two kilometers away, Brian finally identified the properties of the staff.
This is a smooth yew staff with a flame rune printed in the middle and a ruby with a faint luster at the top. Some arcane runes are etched inside the crystal.
Evocation Flame Staff +4
Type: Magical Weapon
Quality: Purple·Excellent
Aura: Strong Evocation Aura
Equipment Effect ：
1. Holding this staff, the fire attribute spells released will increase the damage by an additional 15%.
2. Holding this staff, the fire attribute spells released will cause additional explosion damage with an intelligence adjustment value of +3.
3. Holding this staff and releasing fire attribute spells, the release speed is increased by 20%.
4. The top of this staff is set with a star ruby that looks flawless but oozes energy from time to time. It has up to 10 charges and can activate three forms of fire magic every dawn. Hours restore spent charges.
The first type: Consume 1 charge to release a similar one-ring spell 'Burning Hands'.
The second type: consumes 3 charges to release a similar three-ring spell 'Fireball'.
The third type: consumes 5 charges to release a similar five-ring spell 'Advanced Explosive Flame Technique'.
Explanation: This was originally just an extraordinary staff inlaid with star rubies. Since it was stored in the red dragon's lair for too long, as time passed, it absorbed the overflowing energy of five adult red dragons. The energy of the fire element has qualitatively improved the quality of this staff.
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(End of this chapter)