Picking Up Attributes From Today - Chapter 95
Chapter 95: The Flying Dragon Troops, Fighting For Magic Cores
“Double-Legged Flying Dragons possess two types of bloodlines, the Colossal Dragon’s and a griffin’s. When they mature into adults, they are comparable to Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts.
“As they are smaller and more compact than Colossal Dragons, their speed is lightning-quick. Adding to these claws and teeth as sharp as razors, they are an outstanding existence even among Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts.
“However, these aren’t the only reasons why Double-Legged Flying Dragons can firmly suppress other Drakes to become Fire Dragon Kingdom’s top elite troops. They have three more advantages over the others—high reproductive rate, short growth cycles, and high intelligence!”
Ol’ Amos explained with a smile, “A female Double-Legged Flying Dragon can produce 10 infants, and an infant needs only 30 years to mature into an adult. An adult Double-Legged Flying Dragon’s level of intelligence is comparable to a human’s!”
“No wonder.”
Realization dawned upon Meng Lei.
There were many types of Drakes—Raptors, Ground Dragons, Dragon-Hawks, Triceratops, Dragon-Rhinos, Dragon-Wolves, Dragon-Turtles, Wind Flying Dragons, Crimson-Armored Earthworms[1], and so on… All of them were Drakes, but only the Double-Legged Flying Dragons possessed all three of those characteristics.
Some Drakes were strong and powerful but awfully stupid, while some Drakes were highly intelligent but grew too slowly. A few Drakes had both characteristics but didn’t reproduce.
Therefore, even if these Drakes had dragon blood in them, they’d hardly be placed in important positions by the Dragon race. In fact, the Dragon race saw some Drakes as a disgrace and drove them out of the kingdom, e.g., the Sillies.
Sillies were a very kooky species of Drakes. They clearly had Golden Colossal Dragon blood in them, yet they were astonishingly weak and weren’t even a match for ordinary wild beasts in battle. Additionally, they looked very adorable and were mischievous and silly in nature. They were totally people’s number one choice when choosing pets.
However, the Dragon race saw these fellows as a disgrace and had tried many times to exterminate them. It was just a shame for them that the Sillies reproduced at a rate faster than even pigs, and they couldn’t wipe them out completely. In the end, they could only banish them. One could pretty much consider them weirdos among Drakes.
As he gazed at the Flying Dragon Troops on the horizon, Meng Lei sighed emotionally. “Double-Legged Flying Dragons are the most successful Drakes for sure!”
“You’re wrong in saying that!” Ol’ Amos shook his head and said with a smile, “The most successful Drakes are us Dragon People instead!”
“Uh… That’s true!” Meng Lei burst into laughter. “Would you believe that? How could I have forgotten about the Dragon People?”
“That’s normal.”
Roar!
Roar!
Roar!
As the Flying Dragon Troops got nearer and nearer, waves of dragon might converged to form a single majestic wave that spread throughout the sky and earth as it came crushing toward them.
“The Flying Dragon Troops!”
“It’s the Flying Dragon Troops!”
“They’re finally here!”
“But the problem is…”
Had it been any other time, the sight of the Flying Dragon Troops’ arrival would definitely have sent all the soldiers into loud, deafening cheers and the whole place into a furor. However, everyone’s countenances looked somewhat… strange today.
“The ant tide has already receded by now, though.”
“Shows how much they really care…”
In spite of that, no one dared to really comment much. The Flying Dragon Troops were elites; be it their overall strength or their status, they were much more powerful than frontier troops.
Who would dare to criticize them?
With a wave of his arm, Marquis Gould gave an order. “Sound the drums and blow the horns to welcome the Flying Dragon Troops!”
Bong, bong, bong!
Hoooonk!
At once, drumbeats that sounded like dull thunderclaps and the long, loud, and clear blasts from the bugle-horn rang out from the top of the Great Dragon Blood Wall. The sounds reverberated throughout the sky and continued endlessly.
Roar!!
Upon hearing the bugle-horn blasts, 100,000 Double-Legged Flying Dragon let out roars and howls one after another. The sounds merged into roiling thunderclaps that bore down heavily on the Great Dragon Blood Wall.
They were putting them in their place!
This was something that the Flying Dragon Troops often did, not only to display their might but also to upstage the host.
And true enough, when the regular soldiers heard the fearsome roars, their hearing failed, stars appeared in their vision, their faces turned ghastly pale, and looks of fear surfaced in their eyes.
“Those bastards!”
Marquis Gould was infuriated. Yet he could do nothing to stop them and could only watch helplessly as his soldiers dropped their weapons and clapped their hands over their ears as they let out agonized moans.
“That’s enough!”
An awe-inspiring voice rang out. The Flying Dragon Troops stopped their roars and stepped aside to open up a path. A Super-Double-Legged Flying Dragon, whose wings spanned over 50 meters and was twice the size of an ordinary Double-Legged Flying Dragon, flew out!
It had a fully ink-black body, plumes as sharp as steel needles, and a neck that looked much like a snake’s. It exuded vast, surging dragon might!
It was the highest commander of the Flying Dragon Troops and the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King… Duke Nicolas Granger!
“Duke Nicolas!”
Marquis Gould stepped forward and bowed, giving him an ancient and standard nobility salute.
“Marquis Gould.”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King transformed into a fierce and sinister-looking skinny, bony elderly man dressed in splendid long robes with a flap of its wings. He waved casually in a sort-of response.
Then, his eyes flitted across the Great Dragon Blood Wall and looked at the chaotic mess outside the city, awfully surprised. “Marquis Gould, your men have driven back the ant tide?”
Marquis Gould was dumbfounded for a moment there, not quite knowing how he should respond.
Had the ant tide receded?
Yes, it had!
But it had absolutely nothing to do with them, the frontier troops!
“Marquis Gould, were there unmentionable troubles?”
At the sight of how Marquis Gould seemed to find it hard to answer him, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King frowned lightly, and a look of perplexity appeared on his countenance.
“The ant tide has indeed receded, but we—”
Marquis Gould was just about to explain when a Double-Legged Flying Dragon suddenly landed on the ground, picked up a fist-sized ball, and started to eat it…
“A magic core! It’s a sixth-grade magic core! What delicious food!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon exclaimed as its eyes lit up brightly. Upon the sight of this, the other Double-Legged Flying Dragons also flew toward the ground.
The great fire outside the city had already been extinguished. Even the wall of fire in the canyon had also burned out due to exhaustion of fire elements.
With that, all the red crystals—the magic cores left behind by the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants—strewn throughout the place had been revealed. As the essence of a Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant’s magic power, it was very hard for magic cores to be burned into ashes, and they were also the only things that the ants could leave behind.
“Magic cores!”
“So many magic cores!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragons were overjoyed. Like old hens that’d just discovered rice grains, they made a mad scramble for them and started to peck at them!
They were usually garrisoned at the Double-Legged Flying Dragon Valley and could only eat bloody rams and dogs. How would they possibly have this many Sixth-Grade magic cores to eat?
Not only were they supreme delicacies, but they were also great sources of nourishment that could improve their strength. Thus, every one of them had gone into a frenzy.
“What a lot of magic cores!”
Upon the sight of this, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King’s eyes brightened. “My children are starving after hurrying all the way here. Marquis Gould, surely you don’t mind letting them have a good meal first?”
“Of course not!”
Marquis Gould shook his head lightly. However, he was dissing them inwardly.
In the entirety of Fire Dragon Kingdom, is there even anyone that’s greedier than you Double-Legged Flying Dragons?
Out of all the beast tides, when have you people not slaughtered, robbed, and eaten everything like aggrieved souls that had died of hunger in their past lives, leaving not even a single strand of hair for others? So why even bother asking such a redundant question at this point?
“I just knew that Marquis Gould wouldn’t say no!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King burst into laughter as he stroked his beard. Then, he announced loudly, “My children, these are Marquis Gould’s welcoming gifts for you. Enjoy them to your hearts’ content!”
Roar!
All the Double-Legged Flying Dragons roared as one!
“You damned dogs, how dare you steal my things!?”
[1] The Chinese term for earthworms is literally “earth dragon”
