In the easternmost mountainous area of ​​the underground ruins, fluorescent and flickering fungi climbed the uneven hilltops, reflecting a pale and morbid beauty.

In the silent underground world, there are only occasional roars and roars from a distance, adding a bit of their unique symphony to this dark space.

At this time, the footsteps of the soles rubbing against the gravel came from afar, and under the illumination of the luminous flora, the figures of Thorne and his party flickered hazy and illusory.

Looking at the cluttered hilltops, Thorne stopped and looked around.

The cold wind was blowing from the fungal forest in the south, and the air was filled with the faint fragrance of mushrooms and the faint smell of blood, which made the ranger who had already caught a trace of lava to frown.

As a ranger, it was easy for him to follow the traces of a few kobolds, but when he was about to approach the complex mountainous area where the Red Dragon players were hiding, he smelled a faint scent of underground lava.

So out of curiosity, he tried to find the other party's hiding place by judging the direction of the smell, but unfortunately it was washed away by a burst of fungus and **** smell, which caused him to rely on the ground walking traces to identify the direction.

"The Tiger Claw School in the Nine Swords School is very good at using scent to hunt and kill enemies." Thorne seemed to remember something, and then smiled helplessly.

After all, he just mastered the three genres, and he almost exhausted his energy, and now thinking about other things makes him feel overwhelmed.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, in order to attract the master's attention, the Fulong beast under Thorne's feet deliberately roared. When it sensed the master's gaze, it stretched out its front paws and wiped its nose humanely, and its scarlet eyes looked into the rubble. One of the complex passages.

"I ignored you, this little guy is born with a "sharp sense of smell", which is much more sensitive than himself. Thorne let out a laugh, waved his hand to signal everyone to set off, and immediately walked towards the passage guided by the Fulong Beast.

Although he is a ranger and has the ability to obtain animal companions, because he is often used to walking alone, no matter what he does, he always likes to do it himself, which causes him to forget animal companions even if he has them. As for not playing much value.

Thorne led the group along the complicated passages composed of gravel walls on both sides. After rounding and turning around, they finally found a natural cave that was half exposed on the ground. The smell of lava gradually dissipated into the air.

"It seems that there really is an underground volcano here, which saves me a lot of trouble." Thorne sniffed the faint smell of lava and sulfur and whispered to himself.

Because of the ancient weapons of the Desert Wind Sect, the first ritual is the crater on the Fire Elemental Plane or the Main Material Plane.

Obviously, the Fire Elemental Plane is a place he can't reach now, so naturally he can only choose to go to the lava of the crater.

Now that he has discovered the underground volcano here, when Torvi helps him gather the materials for the ceremony of fire, he will be able to carry out the ancient ceremony immediately. At that time, his long sword to slay demons will become an ancient legend. long sword.

"There is a situation! Found the intruder!"

Suddenly, an alarm with a barking sound sounded, and then a dozen gaps covered by fungal clumps were opened around the natural cave, and a dozen well-loaded crossbow bolts emerged at the same time.

With a metal sound, the six heavily dressed kobolds quickly ran out of the cave. They immediately erected sturdy metal shields and raised their swords to confront Thorne and his party.

Thorne glanced at the dragon-shaped relief carved on the kobold's shield, and at the well-equipped outfit of the six kobold heavy warriors.

I immediately understood that the Red Dragon player hiding here might not be as simple as the naive-looking salted fish girl from Sigrid.

From these only matching shields and longswords, and the light sound of the loaded bow and crossbow, he can judge that these weapons and equipment are at least close to fine products. It can be seen that this Red Dragon player has developed quite well here alone.

Then Thorne stepped forward and said with a non-hostile smile: "We are adventurers from the surface, friends of your red dragon leader Argotus, please help to announce."

"Presumptuous! You dare to bark the name of the leader of the holy dragon casually." As soon as Thorne's voice fell, the headed kobold warrior said sharply.

"Hey, adventurer from the surface? Or a friend of the leader of the holy dragon? Little guy, your lying skills are really bad, I think you should all be sent to the slave pen to help us grow mushrooms, especially that one The strongest big man..."

Another kobold warrior sneered, his scarlet eyes flashed, staring at the orc sword saint Kutaig, and knocked his shield a few times with his long sword like a demonstration, provoking the opponent with a very bad expression.

"Don't the two kobold warlocks who fled back didn't explain the situation here." Thorne glanced at the vigilant kobold warriors doubtfully and thought to himself.

Although it was easy for him to deal with this group of kobolds, the conflict between the two sides was not something he would like to see.

So Thorne, thinking that it is better to do less than one thing, turned around and turned his eyes to Sigaret, who was following behind him, and motioned the girl with the humanoid beast to talk to him.

Sigrid noticed Thorne's gaze, and immediately understood the meaning of the other party, and immediately smiled, ignoring the kobold's warning words, and walked up with a sheathed sword.

"It's enough for you to go and report. Why are there so many things, hurry up." Sigrid's voice was very soft, like a kindergarten teacher coaxing children, but for these stubborn kobolds Power is very strong.

Under the illumination of the Lighting Technique, her figure swayed gently with the cold wind, and all the kobolds were crushed by this invisible momentum, so they could not lift their heads on the ground.

Immediately after that, when Sigrid's momentum stopped, the kobolds all dropped their weapons, dragged a thin and long tail, and barked into the small natural cave in embarrassment.

"Okay, it's done." Seeing the kobold fleeing in embarrassment, Sigrid chuckled, and when passing by Thorne, she paused and asked curiously, "The one you used before can What kind of swordsmanship disappeared suddenly, can you explain it?”

"It's of no use to you either." Thorne saw the curious gaze of the other party, and casually responded, after thinking about it, he kindly comforted:

"Actually, as a dragon, your best fighting methods should be dragon wing slaps, claw strikes, bites, dragon tail sweeps, and dragon breath attacks. Fencing skills are of no practical value to you at all. So you're a little farther away."

"Because I am a dragon, I only need to sleep to increase my strength, so I have a lot of free time. Now I have finally transformed into a human form. Naturally, I want to use my favorite specialties to pass this boring time. This is my life, no, it should be called my Longsheng now."

The corner of Sigrid's mouth curled up with a smug arc, and she retorted to Thorne, then ignored the other party, but sat casually in the luminous flora, reaching out and picking a sparkling one. Noctilucent Mushroom, threw it into the air and watched the light slowly extinguish.

"Thorn, have you seen it? I've said before that the world is not that complicated. You just need to follow your own heart. You can see that this little girl is living a very comfortable life." The wolf came over, glanced at Sigrid sitting on the ground with a smile, and said to Thorne.

After listening to the goblin wizard's words, Thorne didn't answer, but gave him a faint smile, then pulled Andrina beside him away from him and waited on the other side.

The group did not wait for a long time. About half an hour, there were bursts of hurried footsteps in this half-buried natural cave in front of them.

Then, surrounded by many well-equipped kobold warriors, a red dragon with a body length of nearly six meters and a tail of about five meters long, covered with scarlet light scales, climbed out of the cave.

I saw the red dragon player stretched his neck, stared at a pair of big eyes, turned left, turned right, and looked at everyone with great vigilance.

When he swept his gaze to the Orc Juggernaut, the Goblin Wizard, and Thorne's Dragon Beast, he paused for a moment, and the scales on his forehead twitched involuntarily.

So the red dragon pondered for a moment, spoke fluent dragon language, and asked tentatively: "Are you guys from the surface?"

"That's right, we were entrusted by Carlos, your little nephew, to come here to find you." Thorne took a few steps forward and said.

"Don't come here! Hurry up and stop your steps!"

Looking at Thorne's slowly approaching figure, the red dragon was startled and roared immediately. At the same time, two puffs of smoke were sprayed from his nose. Then he spread his wings and floated in mid-air, his chest heaving slightly, as if it was brewing. what a horrible thing.

"You don't believe it?" Thorne looked at the red dragon floating in the air, his expression stunned.

Obviously this result was not expected by him, because he had already told the two kobold warlocks clearly the ins and outs of the whole incident.

Could it be that those two idiots made the wrong message? Thorne thought to himself.

"The great holy dragon leader, we really didn't lie, it was the ranger in front of us who saved my two brothers, and this ranger really helped us eliminate the most threatening rat man alone."

At this time, a kobold warlock with scars all over his body for some unknown reason walked out of the cave with the help of two strong kobolds and explained to the vigilant red dragon player.

"You, a little ranger, can clean up all the ratmen in the ratman camp?" The red dragon player floating in the air glanced at his subordinates, looked at Thorne condescendingly with suspicious eyes.

"What do you mean?" Thorne's eyes were slightly cold, looking up at the red dragon floating in the air.

"A group of lackeys from the original residents, I knew you wouldn't give up." The red dragon flapped his wings, shrank his body near the cave, and said viciously.

As soon as the words fell, a large group of well-equipped kobold warriors, kobold bowmen and a few kobold warlocks all surrounded them, forming a siege for their entire group.

"Please pay attention to the tone of your speech." Thorne frowned, his right hand involuntarily touched the position of the sword hilt, and said coldly.

He was scolded inexplicably, and felt a wave of hostility inexplicably. Thorne originally wanted Sigrid to appear to convince the other party. After seeing this situation, he felt that he had to teach the other party a lesson, and by the way let his Wake up.

As soon as the words fell, he immediately activated the "Flame Wing Charge" of the Desert Wind Sect, and his entire body turned into a dazzling flame, rushing towards the red dragon floating in the air at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

"boom!"

With a dull crashing noise, the body of the red dragon that suffered the frontal impact fell directly to the ground, and Thorne also took advantage of the situation to stabilize his figure in mid-air, and stepped directly on the red dragon's body when he fell to the ground. , the sharp long sword took advantage of the situation on his slender neck.

"Don't come here, I'll cut off his head if anyone dares to come."

Seeing that the red dragon didn't dare to move, Thorne took the opportunity to step on his head ruthlessly, letting him gnaw a mouthful of wet mud, and the long sword stuck directly to the scales of his neck, barking at everyone. As if the kobold who had already fried the pot threatened.

"Retreat for me!" The red dragon who was trampled on his head felt the burning pain from the blade, opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of red-hot mud, and roared angrily.

Immediately, the chattering kobolds stepped back honestly like good babies.

"Little guy, did I say you left your brain stupid in the cave, can't you tell the difference between good and bad?" The group of people who reacted later all walked to Thorne, and Malvasia took the lead. opened his mouth.

"Are you really...that kid from Carlos?" The red dragon, who was no longer struggling, stared at a pair of dragon eyes, was silent for a moment, and said slowly.

"What do you mean?" In order to prevent the red dragon from cheating, Thorne still stuck the blade to the opponent's neck.

"I'm really sorry, maybe I really misunderstood you." The red dragon, who was trampled on the ground by Thorne, was silent for a moment again, and said somewhat unnaturally:

"Two days ago, two drow players found my place with tauren, ogre and swamp bear, but I hid in the cave and they couldn't do anything about me, so they let me go before they left. The next harsh words, threatened to take me back as..."

The red dragon paused for a while and continued: "Then my two kobolds came back from the rat man camp, and they also said that all the rat people were wiped out. Then, you all came to recognize relatives, so for my own sake For safety reasons, I had to do it."

"But you are so cautious, aren't you still being stepped on?" Sigrid stepped forward, looked down at the red dragon that Thorne stepped on, and said with a smile: "This proves that you are In the face of absolute strength, it is useless at all."

"That's because I'm too careless. Who knows that this ranger doesn't talk about martial arts, but actually plays sneak attacks. If he fights head-on, I can spray him to death with a breath of dragon." retorted.

"Really? Mr. Young Dragon." Thorne looked at the stubborn red dragon, deliberately intensified his tone a bit, and then withdrew the long sword and a foot on the opponent's head.

The red dragon quickly got up and slapped the two dragon wings, shook the dragon head again, and sprayed two smoke from the nose, a pair of dragon eyes stared at Thorne and said confidently: "Half-elf ranger, don't be too proud, I... .Although I can't beat you now, my lifespan can kill you."

Thorne glanced at the stubborn red dragon, didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and walked towards the master Qingchen who liked to brush off the sense of non-existence, ready to explain a few words to him.

Now that the red dragon player has been found, he wants Sigrid to take him to find the swordsmith in the Underdark, so he doesn't plan to go back to the waterfall town with them.

"Hey, red dragon friend, is it comfortable for you to be naked like this every day? Are you not used to it?" At this time, the orc sword saint Kutaig, who was looking back and forth around the red dragon, suddenly popped out a doubt.

"...I have scales all over my body to protect me, so I won't bother you, old man." After listening to the other party's question, the red dragon seemed to feel the slightest chill, and shrank subconsciously, then turned and glared at Kutaig.

"Oh, by the way, Kutaig, you're not very curious about whether this young dragon friend likes warwolves or ferocious honey badgers, now you can ask in person." Malvasa, who was standing by the side, took the opportunity to answer a sentence .

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