Age of Adepts
chapter-192

Two green dragons.

One departed, one remained.

This undoubtedly made the night operation even easier.

However, the dragon that flew off left some bad implications in everyone's minds.

The place the opponent flew towards was very likely to be Blue Hillock City. Moreover, they were a Second-Grade Green Dragon and Third-Grade Dragon Knight. This combination made up for up the knights' weakness of being easily kited by spellcasters. If something happened to the adepts' base or Blue Hillock City, their previous efforts would be utterly wasted.

There must not be any damage back there!

Thus, Mary snuck out of Herdurand City and cast a spell to communicate with the three remaining adepts in Blue Hillock City, sending back information regarding the dragons and the dragon knights.

The original plan to hunt continued.

The dragon’s flight speed was exceedingly fast. If something were to truly happen back in Blue Hillock City, it would be pointless for them to hurry back. Therefore, why not stay here and continue with the plan? With their elaborate strategy, hunting the green dragon was entirely possible. Letting this opportunity go would be a pity.

With this line of thinking, these courageously bold fellows quickly gathered one last time in the mansion before leaving the noble's mansion separately, each of them wearing a wicked grin on their faces.

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The green dragon Rissana was bored.

As a teenage female dragon, Rissana was only 118 this year. This was the point a dragon’s long lifespan where they were the most active and energetic, and where they most longed for wealth.

As she had only been away from the Dragon Cliff for less than six years, Rissana had yet to have the time to create a den that belonged solely to herself. The knights' kingdom had built a luxurious and grand palace for her, and filled her quarters with shiny gold coins. But there were no treasures that truly caught her eye!

In these six years, she did not have the chance to go out on her own to plunder and loot wealth. Most of the time, she could only curl up in the superficial palace and sleep to pass the time.

Her days were mundane and boring!

This was a continent ruled by humans.

All kinds of large and small human cities were spread across the continent. Each of their treasuries were filled with wealth that would make a dragon drunk with joy. Sadly, most of these human cities had owners, and were under the protection and guardianship of the knights' kingdom. Within the knight’s kingdom, there were plenty of terrifyingly powerful beings that struck fear in the dragons!

To obtain wealth and authority that belonged to her, Rissana, that had just come of age, responded to the summons of the great knight Kalyk, becoming the contracted partner of a powerful Third Grade knight.

Rissana had heard from Kalyk that the venture this time was to go into Greenland Forest on a crusade against some evil invaders or something. Rissana was not interested in this!

She couldn't be bothered caring about these tiny bugs that squeezed their way in here using the plane’s loopholes.

Who was she? She was Rissana; the youngest, most beautiful, most powerful Second Grade green dragon in the most recent hundred years of the Dragon Cliff's history! The young dragons that pursued her could fill an entire dragon's valley; the poems praising her beauty could be read for three days and three nights in a row. The human knights that envied her power could form mountains and seas…

But now she could only curl up on the cold, wet stone floor, using one of her sharp dragon claws to toy with the corpse of a human servant, passing the time in boredom.

This was an extremely unlucky fellow, to have stood in front of the great Rissana when she was in a bad mood. Rissana had only breathed slightly more heavily, and the light-green poison mist that accompanied her breath had already crippled the unlucky fellow.

This unlucky guy was initially still able to struggle and twitch on the ground. But after Rissana let out another two poisonous breaths in her boredom, he completely stopped!

The other human slaves serving her were all shivering in fear– their faces a pale white. The disgusting smell of urine even came from one of them. Rissana lashed out with her long thorny tail, like a meteor hammer, and the pitiable fellow was turned into a spread of unrecognizable meat paste.

Just as she was getting increasingly bored, and was contemplating killing another human to relieve her boredom, the sound of cart wheels rang from the streets outside the square. The sorrowful shrieks and cries of the livestock wouldn’t stop as the loaded carts entered the square, one after another.

Was it time to feed?

This green dragon, that had just enjoyed a feast yesterday and wasn't too hungry, was lazing around and couldn't get her spirits up. Rissana raised the tip of her nose and sniffed. Instantly, she straightened her body, and her large dragon eyes fixated on one of the carts.

These were a bunch of goats whose bodies seemed to be somewhat skinny. These were goats that had been domesticated and bred for food, so the taste of their meat was far less delicious than wild goats. But the green dragon could smell a tinge of Dragonwine Fruit on one of the goats.

Dragonwine Fruit was a unique berry that giant dragons loved to gorge upon. Don't judge them on their small size. These Dragonwine Fruits had the special ability to cause giant dragons to fall into an intoxicated state and start hallucinating. Of course, the effect of Dragondrunk Fruit wasn't so obvious on other living beings and was limited to mostly dragons. Thus, this was a fruit that must be planted near any dragon cliff or valley.

Giant dragons were never good at taking care of such fragile plants. Moreover, they had large appetites, and the amount they gorged down every time was shocking. Giant dragons would usually enslave some weaker races for the explicit purpose of having them tidy their dens, guard their territory, and most of all, to take care of the dragons’ orchards that they so love.

Rissana did not expect to smell Dragonwine Fruit anywhere outside the dragon valley. Did this goat accidentally eat Dragonwine Fruits somewhere?

Still having some questions in mind, Rissana lowered her large head and opened her mouth. With a light curling of her agile tongue, she dragged the special goat into her mouth and had already started chewing.

The intense odor of the goat’s blood brought with it a tinge of the taste of Dragonwine Fruit. Yet upon more careful tasting, it seemed odd, as if there were some other mysterious substance mixed in with the goat's blood.

This feeling… this feeling was somewhat odd!

While silently tasting her food, the green dragon’s eyes opened wide. Something wasn't right. It seemed like she could no longer feel the existence of her tongue…

When she realized the unusual circumstance, an intense feeling of paralysis quickly spread through her mouth and rapidly reacher her stomach. Rissana could no longer support her heavy dragon body. With a loud thump, her body crashed onto the square.

The four hiding in the noble's mansion didn't dare delay once they saw the green dragon fall. Immediately, they used all the means at their disposal to rush to the dragon.

Adept Ferrier, who was a potions master, had indeed specifically strengthened the effect of the potion for the dragon. But attempting to completely incapacitate a Second Grade green dragon with such crude materials, especially a dragon that had a poisonous physique, was but a pipe dream.

The paralysis potion Adept Ferrier created could only paralyze the green dragon for three minutes. If they were not able to find a way to kill the green dragon in these three minutes, then none of them would be able to escape the angered dragon's pursuit once the drug's effects wore off!

The first to reach the green dragon's side was Greem, even though Mary had the greatest speed among the four.

A flame pillar reaching towards the sky appeared in the middle of the square, and the Flame Fiend that Greem had transformed into walked out of the fire with a wicked grin on his face. With a quick wave of the Fire Lord’s Scepter in his right hand, a Fire Deity, engulfed in violent flames, appeared nearby.

It looked about its surroundings before roaring and charging towards the mass of city guards standing on the outside of the square.

That was not the end of it. Greem strode forward, and the Scroll of Voodoo automatically flew into his left hand, its pages flipping rapidly. A powerful fire spell would instantly form every time the parchment stopped on a page, the spell violently blasting onto the green dragon's large body.

A savage Fire Core Explosion had just arrived, and another pillar of red flames would blast into the sky, with the green dragon at its center . The fire had just slightly died down when another Magma Fireball crashed onto the dragon's body.

It was literally one violent fire spell released with every step Greem took. When Greem's three-meter-tall form arrived before the green dragon's body, all five instantaneous spell stored within the Scroll of Voodoo had been expended, causing the surroundings of the green dragon's body to turn into a flaming sea of magma.

Besides powerful flame damage, the five violent spells Greem hurled out earlier also had tremendous physical damage. The green dragon's curled-up body had been blasted black. Even the ground it was on had severely caved downwards, as if a meteor had formed a crater there.

However, even after enduring the bombardment of such violent spells, Rissana's dragon body still didn't show too many signs of damage. While the individual dragon scales at the center of the explosions had been distorted and somewhat deformed by the high heat, the defense of the dragon scales, that were both resistant to magical and physical attacks, still deflected most of the damage from Greem's spells.

Greem threw aside the Scroll of Voodoo, seeing that the spell damage effect wasn't very good. He tossed out the Fire Lord's elementium core, then let out a loud roar. The flames all over his body started to wildly compress, quickly gathering into a gigantic executioner's blade in his hand.

At the same time, Mary's shadow, quick as a phantom, also appeared in the square.

The crimson longbow in her hand was instantly drawn to a full moon while and a single arrow, with crimson runes mysteriously floating around it, formed on the bowstring. Once her imposing aura and power had reached their peak, Mary let out a shout; the blood red arrow turned into a flash and immediately sunk into the green dragon's chest.

The green dragon's body was completely covered in emerald scales. However, while the scales on the spine and the sides of its body were the thickest and largest, the dragon scales on its throat, abdomen, and bottom of the neck were the thinnest and lightest.

Greem's bombardment earlier were mostly focused on these light dragon scales, and had already somewhat damaged the dragon. Under the scales’ collapse, bright red flesh became exposed.

Mary's full power shot from her crimson longbow had sunk into a part where there were no longer any dragon scales.

The arrow pierced into the body, and the violent, bloody energy exploded within the flesh of the green dragon!

A blood fountain suddenly spilled out from the dragon’s abdomen. One could see broken organs, pieces of meat ground into paste, and purple-black dragon blood in a sticky pool of bloody water.

Even though her body had been paralyzed, with no means to move, the green dragon Rissana still let out a sorrowful and pained moan. The call for help was obvious.

Just then Keoghan, who was enveloped in black smoke, and Ferrier, who had grown a pair of green wings composed of wind, also arrived on the battlefield.

On the other hand, the numerous vampires that Mary had brought turned into a swarm of bloodsucking bats, beating their wings as they surged into the square. Their target was the city guards standing watch near the square!