Currently, the Crimson Nest has gathered most of the Chromatic dragons in the Tal plane. The number of Chromatic dragons that have reached the 19th order under its command is probably only a few dozen, and there is a high probability that it is not eighty or ninety, but thirty or fifty—or even less.
However, just such a group of dragons, coupled with a few legendary dragons and the Crimson Mother, is enough to cause great turmoil in the Tal plane in an attempt to dominate the continent and the plane.
"Decades later, the Black Wing Nest will be a replica of the Crimson Nest." A gleam of light flashed through the Black Dragon Lord's crimson eyes.
However, what surprised the Black Dragon Lord was that the batch of dragon beasts sent over by Carolina was just the first batch.
A month later, Carolina quietly arrived at the Black Wing Lair and opened any door under my strange gaze.
Opposite the arbitrary door was an underground cave somewhere unknown.
In the cave, there were dragon beasts that had fallen asleep. These dragon beasts were large and small, but generally speaking, they were mostly large. Many of them had a body length of more than ten meters, and the aura exuding from their bodies had reached a high order, marking them as adult dragon beasts.
Golden Scales, Silver Scales, Brass Scales, Bronze Scales, Copper Scales—Metallic Dragon Beast Gift Pack.
I was confused for a moment.
"This—"
"Your Majesty, as you can see, these are Metallic dragon beasts. I remember you said before, 'There is no limit on the type of dragon beast to look for.'" Carolina became a little anxious when she saw the Black Dragon Lord was stunned, thinking that the other party didn't recognize them.
These were the dragon beasts she had managed to steal.
Carolina went to the overseas Dragon Island and found several huge islands thousands of kilometers away from the Dragon Island. On these islands, there were a large number of Metallic dragon beasts.
But what made Carolina depressed was that there were special guardians on the dragon beast islands—one on each island.
Most of the guardians were powerful creatures like cloud giants.
Giants.
This is a powerful race comparable to dragons.
They are widely distributed across the astral material planes. Before the ancient era, an unprecedented fierce war broke out between giants and dragons. This war directly caused heavy casualties to the two astral overlord races. For countless years so far, they still have not fully recovered. It was the decline of giants and dragons that allowed the rapid rise of human gods and other races.
Up to now, the overall strength of human gods has surpassed giants and dragons, making them one of the overlords of the star multiverse. On the other hand, giants and dragons—although there are many dragon gods and Titans, and the strength of the groups is not weak—can no longer be called the Overlords of the Star Realms. They can only be considered as one of the powerful clans of the Star Realms.
Speaking of giants, all giant types can be divided into three categories:
The first type: Titans. There is no doubt that the God of Titans is a higher life form than ordinary dragons. Only the ancestral dragons whose bloodlines have returned to their ancestors can rival them. If there is no accident, a Titan can grow to the level of gods. This is also why Titans have the title of Titan God because every Titan is a reserve for the gods. (Demigods are also gods.)
The second type: True giants. True giants are the descendants of the Titan Gods. There are six types of true giants. They are arranged according to their strength: storm giants, cloud giants, hill giants, fire giants, stone giants, and frost giants.
Among them, the strongest storm giant is comparable to the red dragon, and the weakest frost giant is weaker than the white dragon—but in the same order.
The third type: Sub-giants. As the name suggests, the subspecies of giants are not as strong or as full of growth potential as true giants. There are cyclops, cloud giants, sea giants, black rock giants, multi-armed giants, and other subspecies.
Of course, in addition to these three types of giants, there are also some mutated giant species. These giant species are strong and weak, but because they are rare and unsystematic, they are not included in the orthodox giant race.
The cloud giants who guard the dragon beast island are only subspecies giants, not true giants. As mortal enemies, Metallic dragons generally like to tame giants and make them their guardians and servants. Chromatic dragons, on the other hand, often prefer to kill the giants they encounter and disdain accepting them as their servants.
The same goes for giants, such as frost giants. What makes them proud is to tame a white dragon. For many powerful frost giant tribes, if they want to obtain the title of frost giant warrior, they often need to hunt an adult white dragon alone or tame one.
However, although cloud giants are only subspecies giants, they can also possess master-order strength in their prime. Even very old cloud giants are relatively strong among master-order giants.
Although they are still not as strong as true dragons, the number of subspecies giants is much greater than that of true dragons. There are dozens of cloud giant servants guarding several dragon beast islands, and there are even a few powerful, extremely old cloud giants among them.
However, with Carolina's strength, there was no need to fear these cloud giants. But it was very difficult to take away the dragon beasts on the island without disturbing these cloud giants.
Carolina crouched for a full month before she found a time period when the cloud giants were negligent and took the opportunity to pack up all the dragon beasts on one of the islands and take them away.
"Of course I won't go back on my word. How many Metallic dragon beasts are there in total?"
The Black Dragon Lord asked in a calm tone.
Hearing that the Black Dragon Lord recognized these dragon beasts, Carolina finally breathed a sigh of relief, was extremely happy, and said indifferently, "Just over two hundred—well, to be precise, two hundred and twelve."
As she spoke, Carolina added, "If the situation allowed it, I could even bring you more than a thousand dragon beasts."
Carolina was not lying. There are six islands with dragon beasts in total. Just one island has more than two hundred dragon beasts. It is normal for six islands to have more than a thousand dragon beasts.
After all, this is a dragon beast population that the Metallic dragon clan of the Tal plane has accumulated for hundreds of thousands of years.
The dragon beast's lifespan is not as long as the true dragon's lifespan of thousands of years, but it is still more than a thousand years.
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Carolina left excitedly.
With 25,000 Black Wing Lair intermediate monster warriors, she teleported away through any door.
There were originally 212 dragon beasts. If one dragon beast was exchanged for 100 intermediate monster warriors, it should be 21,200.
However, I was happy and generously arranged for Carolina.
Of course, I also reminded her that these monster warriors eat a lot.
Carolina didn't care about this. Intermediate monsters are strong, and it's normal for them to eat more. Moreover, the 25,000 plus the more than 8,000 taken away before made a total of only more than 30,000 monsters. For the Crimson Nest's huge size, this was nothing.
Since the other party didn't care anymore, so be it.
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In the Black Castle.
Metallic dragon beasts and Chromatic dragon beasts were asleep.
I looked down at the group of dragon beasts, scanning them one by one, with a look of satisfaction in my red dragon eyes.
It has to be said that the Metallic dragon beasts stolen by Carolina were of high quality. There were dozens of adult Metallic dragon beasts that had reached advanced order, and some of them had even reached the peak of advanced order and were on the verge of breaking through.
There was no top-order dragon beast.
Maybe it wasn't stolen, or maybe there were no top-order dragon beasts on the dragon beast island at all.
I tend to think it is the latter. After all, the top-order dragon beasts eat a huge amount of food, and it is impossible for the Metallic dragon group to keep them for hundreds of years, especially as a group. And dragon beasts that have reached this order are not weak. If they are kept in a small place on an island, it will suppress their nature and lead to bad consequences.
"Therefore, I guessed that these top-order dragon beasts were probably released into the wild by the Metallic dragons.
While I was thinking, in the main hall of Dragon Castle, dragon beasts awakened from their slumber of transformation induced by the Void Bloodline and Twisted Seed.
The dragon beast woke up and saw that it was in a strange environment. There were a large number of dragon beasts around it, and at the front was a huge and oppressive black dragon looking down at it. It suddenly roared and felt at a loss, experiencing confusion for a while.
Suddenly, an invisible and immense dragon might sweep through space. All the dragon beasts felt fear, humming and bowing their heads under the pressure of the powerful homologous life.
Seeing that the situation was under control, the Black Dragon Lord turned his head, looked at the maid beside him, and ordered,
"Sophia, I will leave these dragon beasts to you to take care of them. If there is not enough manpower, you can mobilize all the guards and maids in Castle Black at will."
"Yes," Sophia nodded, but looking at the nearly three hundred large and small dragon beasts on the field, a sense of pressure arose spontaneously.
Especially considering some of the advanced dragon beasts, Sophia doubted whether she could survive if they suddenly attacked her.
Though she had secured the master's affiliation contract years ago, her innate cultivation talent was, at best, mediocre. After all, she was merely a humble village girl, touched by Tymora's fleeting favor; without such divine fortune, her life would have long since ended in obscurity. Yet, against all odds, she had climbed to the 12th Order. However, this achievement seemed lackluster compared to her peers. Many of Sophia's contemporaries—or even those who had come after her and lacked the advantage of a contract—had already ascended to far greater heights, reaching advanced order.
This was because, as the head maid, she ate relatively high-end ingredients and served the Black Dragon Lord closely at all times, thereby receiving prolonged bloodline radiation.
Otherwise, her level would have been even lower.
Sophia addressed the issue.
I thought about it and realized that there were indeed some hidden dangers.
Although these dragon beasts now possessed the blood of the void, their wisdom would take time to develop and grow, and they would still remain unintelligent beasts for a short period of time.
What if one day they became hungry, lost control of their animal nature, and ate the hard-working my little maids?
Most dragon beasts did not have this strength, but those dozens of high-order Metallic dragon beasts must be approached with caution.
Metallic dragons are kind, but Metallic dragon beasts are just beasts and cannot be compared to the Metallic dragons' alignment and personality.
"Then let Bertha, Isha, and Ava assist you."
The white-feathered, owl-tailed female crane 'Bertha' was one of the earliest followers to join me. She had high-order strength when she first followed me. Now, after more than ten years, her biological order had reached the sixteenth order. As a wind-type crane monster specializing in speed, in terms of speed and reaction, ordinary 19th-level creatures were not as fast as Bertha.
Ava is the leader of the Black-Feathered Harpy Clan. She has outstanding talents and has also acquired the Chi and Blood profession "Bloody Banshee." However, her time is still short, and her main strength lies in her fifteenth-order biological order.
Isha is the leader of the Miaofolt Harpy Clan. Her talent is no worse than Ava's, and she has also studied the Bloody Banshee profession. However, because her time in Black Castle was a few years shorter than Ava's, she is still at the fourteenth order, requiring a little more accumulation to break through to the master order.
After hearing this, Sophia breathed a sigh of relief.
Sophia was well aware of the strength of Bertha, Ava, and Isha. With the three of them, along with the cooperation of a large number of dragonborn servants and maids, these dragon beasts would not be able to cause trouble.
Sophia, who took over the task of taking care of the dragon beasts, began to get busy.
I did not go back to continue practicing magic this time.
The any door opened, and the black dragon stepped out of the Black Wing Lair.
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South Sea, offshore.
A huge light gate was suspended in mid-air, and a massive black dragon flew out of it, quickly transforming into a dragon-human form.
After applying invisibility and breath-condensing techniques to myself, I flew in a certain direction.
After a while, I stopped over an offshore island and looked down.
The island below was wet, muddy, and full of water.
Oval wooden houses stood on the water.
From time to time, sahuagins walked out of these small oval wooden houses.
Apparently, this was a sahuagin village.
I released my mental power unscrupulously, and the mental power at the advanced caster level was enough to cover this small island.
Soon, I found the target I needed, and my figure flashed.
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In an inconspicuous fishman cabin, a half-grown fishman boy was prying open shellfish, scraping the shellfish meat, and preparing today's food.
Silently, I landed in front of the fishman boy. The boy was stunned, and then he knelt down in fear.
"Sir, don't kill me," the fishman boy trembled, speaking the language of the sahuagin clan.
I have language proficiency and spell passive, so I could naturally understand what the fishman boy said. But it was precisely because of this that I was a little surprised.
"I thought you would scream for your tribe," I grinned.
"Sir, because I know that if I do this, I will definitely die," the fishman boy trembled, speaking nervously.
"Interesting, it's a good idea," I laughed.
The fishman boy heard the laughter of the majestic dragon man with dark scales in front of him. He was nervous yet happy for a moment and reminded,
"Sir, you may attract other fishmen to come here."
I stopped laughing and said casually, "Don't worry, I have set up a barrier here. Boy, I think you are good and qualified. How about you become my servant?"
The fishman boy was slightly startled, but he quickly realized that he had encountered an opportunity. He knelt down without hesitation and said excitedly,
"I do!"
I let out a laugh of unknown meaning, and with the tip of my sharp scale finger, a drop of blood and the shed old dragon scale formed a kinship contract, which entered the mind of the fishman boy.
"Eat more meat from now on, work hard to become stronger, and develop your own fishman tribe. Soon, you will be an overlord," I smiled.
Although the fishman boy didn't know why the black-scaled dragon man in front of him asked him to eat more, he was confused when he heard that the other party wanted him to develop his own tribe.
This fishman tribe was not his. No, the master meant to make him the leader of this fishman tribe.
The fishman boy reacted quickly, but just as he was about to speak, a sharp pain came from his blood and bone marrow.
The dragon vein transformation had begun.
I glanced at the fishman boy rolling on the ground, disappeared, and arrived at the incubation room of the fishman tribe. I randomly put some dragon blood for the densely packed fish eggs in the incubation room to absorb.
After doing this, any door appeared in front of me, and I walked into it, disappearing. During this process, the sahuagin warriors guarding outside the incubation room did not notice anything strange.
The next moment, I appeared in the sky and continued to search for nearby sahuagin tribes.
Every time I found a sahuagin village, I would use my mental search to roughly screen out sahuagins with good potential, then contract them as my own servants, and afterward go to the tribe's incubation room to spread the power of the void.
Among the contracted dependents, some fishmen were as weak as the previous fishman boy and held a low status in the tribe. However, there were also fishmen who were not weak in strength. They were intermediate or even high-order and held very high statuses, either as the most powerful warriors in the tribe, tribal leaders, or tide priests.
In a short period of time, I contracted a dozen sahuagins as my dependents, and at the same time, tens of millions of fish eggs absorbed the meager void dragon blood.
Above the sea, I, invisible in my dragon-man form, said to myself,
"With these seeds, that's almost enough."
As a black dragon, a true dragon with the water attribute, how could I not be a water dependent army?
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