There was a good bit more back and forth between Alex and the others before the conversation ended. The outcome was that a tunnel would be built to the underground forest but after that the people brave enough to go there were effectively on their own save for a single team of scholars who would be sent once a month. 'So how did things go on your end of things?' Alex asked the admiral with a feigned ignorance. "Well , we also found a new area though not as impressive as your own discovery. No sign of nergigante though so we've turned our attention to the three elder dragon species that've come out to play."
"Teostra the ruler of flame , kushala daora the whirlwind dragon and finally val hazok the rotten ruler. They started to show up around the new world shortly after we lost nergigante's trail in the recess." the admiral said with a grin. "Things have been quite interesting around here as we've been researching them to pin em down to try and draw nergigante out of hiding. You'll probably be going elder hunting yourself soon , right?" The man asked with a smug look since he clearly knows the answer to his own question. 'You know it.' Alex said with a toothy grin of his own before leaving the meeting to unwind for a bit in his nest.
He could only sigh when he found the area in a mess after arriving since the runt had tracked in dirt , blood and other bits for the last few weeks that have not been cleaned since. Clearly the admiral hadn't gotten the little wyvern to take a bath during this time since alex was forced to empty out his entire nest before washing the soft stuff he slept on and burning the rest of the cavern clean. This whole process took close to two hours with the cleaning of the soft bedding taking up most of it since Alex needed to be careful not to damage it in the process.
The little wyvern coincidentally strolled into the nest right after Alex was done and froze before immediately turning around and fleeing. 'Get back here you filthy bastard!' Alex roared as he chased the runt without hesitation. The runt made a mistake by trying to fly away from Alex only to get caught and slam dunked into the sea near astera. The little wyvern cried and whimpered at the unwanted bath but Alex turned a deaf ear to it since the runt was literally staining the water around it. 'How dare you go so long without bathing! Do you know how bad the nest smelled because of all this filth you've dragged in!?' Alex chastised the runt over and over ago until it wanted nothing more than to suddenly drop dead to escape.
The people at the docks of astera merely snickered at the runts misfortune and didn't move a muscle top help it since they all agreed that it needed the bath. The next two days were spent with Alex relaxing around astera before he finally decided it was time to go hunt the first of the three elder species , teostra. The reason for this was because of his heat and fire resistance traits that not even zorah could go through. Thanks to these and how physically powerful he was Alex knew that teostra was by far the easiest of the three for him to kill.
Using his game knowledge to his advantage finding teostra was quite easy as he knew about that sometimes there sometimes not lava path that led to teostras own nest. Unlike in the game where the player watches a cutscene with them struggling through the hot air teostra sent to keep them out Alex directly dropped from the sky on top of teostra. "CRASH!" At the last second the elder dodged to the side causing Alex to slam into the hardened magma instead of it's head. 'The hard way it is then.' he thought as he leapt to the side to dodge teostras counter attack. The two monsters quickly started to circle each other aggressively without any posturing or attempts at intimidation both knew that the other wanted their lives , and that was enough.
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