Arcane Journey

Chapter 90 Treasure
In Brian's impression, he thinks that the appearance of the red dragon can be regarded as the most domineering among the colored dragons.

On top of their heads are two large, swept-back horns that can be straight or twisted and range in color from bone white to night black, with rows of smaller horns extending down the red dragon's cheeks and jaws.

Moreover, the red dragon also has the widest dragon wings among all colored dragons, not only referring to the actual size, but also the longest relative to the body length ratio.

From the appearance alone, it can be known that the red dragon does have the capital of arrogance, and it is worthy of being the strongest dragon species among the five-color evil dragons.

However, the adult red dragon in front of him felt a little funny to Brian, and it completely refreshed his three views.

His dragon body crouched at the entrance of the cave, just protruding the dragon's head. Even if the wide dragon wings were gathered behind him, it still couldn't cover up that bloated body.

Most of Longjiao's head is filled with plump dragon meat, so that the mighty and domineering appearance looks a bit round.

Brian could almost imagine how ridiculous the red dragon's dangling look was when it flew up.

However, now is not the time for him to think about these things.

Because he knew that Argotus, the 'dragon blacksmith', was as vain and arrogant as their kind.

Although he is pampered by duergars, he still feels restless all the time.

From the adult red dragon's behavior towards the gray dwarf, it can be seen that he has already sensed the fate he is about to usher in.

However, he didn't have a showdown with the gray dwarves, he just watched patiently and waited for the right time.

Apparently, Argotus felt he needed a real surrogate.

This is why Brian dared to persuade the Red Dragon so confidently.

"I heard that Lord Argotus's dragon egg was lost, so the two of us came to help you find the lost dragon egg under the order of Prince Eddie."

Facing the red dragon's lava-colored eyeballs constantly turning to stare at him, Brian calmly explained his reason for coming.

"Since you are looking for dragon eggs, then you two should communicate with the father of Lie Yan."

The gray dwarf priest lingered for a moment on the red dragon, Brian, and Hesaiah with a gloomy expression, then turned and left after leaving a word.

"Gatoka, I want to have a good chat with these two interesting surface people. You are not allowed to sneak into the scene secretly, and you are not allowed to disturb me in the name of delivering food."

The red dragon Argotus spewed a cloud of white smoke from his nostrils, bright flames flashed from his pupils, and warned the gray dwarf priest viciously: "Otherwise, don't blame me for taking a breath of the dragon and burning them all to pieces!" ash."

The gray dwarf priest paused, quickly turned around and nodded respectfully.

"Hey, surface people."

Seeing the gray dwarf priest leave, the red dragon Argotus was obviously relieved. He looked up at Brian and said with a little dissatisfaction:

"I declare in advance that the dragon egg is not mine. It was Gatoka who told me that this dragon egg can hatch a beautiful red dragon girl. Who would have thought that before I even warmed the egg, I would be ' Those bloody thieves from Gray Ghost stole the egg. This is related to my happiness for the rest of my life, so you must help me find this dragon egg for me!"

"Otherwise I will eat you."

As if feeling that his words were a little too weak, the red dragon brought his head closer to Brian again, staring at his light bulb-sized eyes, and threatened with grinning teeth:
"You have to know that I like to eat young humans and elves the most. Half-elves like you who don't have to tear humans and elves apart and stir them together are my favorite."

"Of course, there are also beautiful human girls."

He turned his head to look at Hesaiah, sniffed hard, stretched out his forked tongue and licked his lips, swallowed greedily, and added, "Especially virgins."

Looking at the dragon head that was close at hand, Hisaiah's eyes turned cold, her delicate body suddenly tensed up, and her right hand was unconsciously placed on the hilt of her waist.

She could feel that the way the red dragon looked at her just now really wanted to eat her.

Although she is no match for Red Dragon, she can still teach him a lesson and escape smoothly.

"Don't worry, we two are well-known treasure hunters in the Underdark, a dragon egg can still be easily found for you."

Brian resisted the pungent smell of sulfur mixed with lava, pressed the sword mage's hand, pulled her to his side, motioned her not to be impulsive, and assured the red dragon in front of him.

He knew the big guy wasn't joking.

Because red dragons are typical carnivores, their preferred food is indeed young humans or elves.

Moreover, their pursuit of young women's flesh is also well documented.

The dragons are adamant that such meat tastes the best, and some even force villagers to sacrifice maidens to them on a regular basis.

Because of this, the world regards the red dragon as the prototype of the evil dragon.

The Red Dragon is not ashamed, but proud.

They complacently believe that this evil characteristic is the closest to the nature and behavior of the true dragon family.

As for other dragons, they have deviated from this kind of 'purity' long ago, and they have completely embarrassed the real dragons.

Therefore, in order to restore the glory of the true dragon family, they must do everything they should do as evil dragons.

"Let's go then, I'll take you two to the scene where the dragon egg was lost."

The red dragon glared back at Hesaiah triumphantly, raised its head proudly, turned around, deliberately twisted its bloated buttocks, flicked its tail that was dragging on the ground, kicked up a cloud of dust, and crawled deep into the cave.

"Are we really going to follow?" Hisaiah looked at Brian worriedly.

"Yes." Brian gave her a no-worry look, and said with a smile, "Let's go, everything will be fine."

Although this adult red dragon has already developed a rebellious heart towards the gray dwarves, he also has self-knowledge. He is very clear that his current strength is not enough to fight against the gray dwarves' psionic priests.

Besides, this dead fat house red dragon raised by the gray dwarves is not a qualified spellcaster. If the two of them want to escape, the other party will have nothing to do with them.

Afterwards, the two followed the adult red dragon whose belly was about to drop to the ground, and walked towards the depths of the dragon's nest.

Walking in the deep tunnel, Brian couldn't help recalling the habitat characteristics of the red dragon.

In fact, the underworld is not the red dragon's favorite place to live.

Relatively speaking, they prefer mountains.

Red dragons prefer to nest in mountainous terrain, or hilly areas, preferably where they can perch high above their domain.

This puts them in frequent conflict with silver and copper dragons.

Although Yinlong's individual quality is not as good as that of Red Dragon, but he can't stand up to his kind nature and excellent temperament, so that the charming Yinlong can often shake up more than a dozen dragon-slaying teams just by talking.

Therefore, when the red dragon often clashes with the silver dragon, it will suddenly find that its enemies are fighting more and more, and in the end it can only run away with its tail between its legs.

As for the red copper dragons, which are weaker than the silver dragons, they are not so lucky. They often move around to avoid the red dragons.

Red dragons will look for large caverns that extend into the depths as lairs, and caves with certain volcanic or geothermal activities are welcomed by red dragons.

However, no matter what the lair looks like, there is always a high perch nearby, where the red dragon can proudly overlook other territories

Red dragons that live in dungeons will seek out hot or flammable areas for their lairs.

Because dungeons often lack high ground that offers panoramic views, red dragons living there are often content with long corridors or clearings near caves that offer good views.

That is, there is no balcony, and a playground needs to be added.

As Brian imagined, as they walked deeper and deeper into the underground cave, their vision gradually became wider.

And he could clearly feel that there were many traces of kobolds' activities here, so that he had to cover his mouth and nose lightly to block the strong stench.

Soon, a mess of kobolds appeared in his line of sight like rats, and after a quick glance, he estimated that there were at least a thousand of them.

This made him realize that this is the Red Dragon's 'Guardian of Flame', a force he formed himself to resist the gray dwarves.

From the number of these kobolds, he could see that there must be a wider fungal forest or underground river nearby.

Otherwise, these kobolds are just daily food and cannot be solved.

The two of Brian followed the red dragon through the kobold camp. These patrolling kobold soldiers, or miners, were so frightened that they prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to raise their heads.

Brian looked casually, and accidentally found a lot of kobold warlocks.

When the red dragon brought them to the most spacious cave in the underground cave, even his usual calm expression raised his brows in surprise at the scene before him.

Because what appeared in his line of sight was a treasure mountain full of gold coins, gems and a few magic items. Huge crystals were embedded in it, emitting dazzling rays of light, like tiny daggers stabbing his eyes.

These treasures were presented naked in front of his eyes, giving him the strongest visual impact.

On the contrary, there was no wave on the delicate face of the sword mage Hesaiah beside him.

Brian secretly made up his mind that when he was strong enough, he must kill the red dragon.

Argotus, the red dragon who returned to the cave, fluttered his wings and flew crookedly in mid-air, then lay leisurely on his golden mountain, as comfortable as taking a hot bath.

"Hey, people on the surface, step back and don't step on my gold coins."

As if realizing something, he raised the faucet again and reminded Brian dissatisfied.

Brian was taken aback, and realized that he had stepped on a gold coin, so he took a few steps back quickly.

Red dragons are the most greedy of all true dragons. They will even use any means to increase their treasure house.

Moreover, each red dragon clearly knows the origin and value of every small item in its treasury. Even if someone steals a copper plate from it, it will cause serious consequences, such as recovering a copper plate and slaughtering several small towns. of.

"Didn't you say that you want to show us where the dragon eggs were stolen?"

Brian looked away from the treasure mountain, and looked at the red dragon whose limbs and tail had sunk into the pile of gold coins, "Why did you bring the two of us here?"

"Look for a fucking dragon egg." Argotus shook off the two gold coins that fell on his head, and disdainfully exhaled two streams of white smoke from his nostrils, "I lost that dragon egg on purpose."

"This egg is related to the happiness of your lower body." Brian nodded thoughtfully, and asked pretending to be surprised, "Why did you lose it?"

"If I don't lose it, I will die when the dragon egg hatches." Argotus seemed to realize something, and quickly changed his words:

"If I wait for the eggs to hatch, other dragons will compete with me for jobs, which means that my income will decrease, and the decrease in income will mean that I will become unhappy. Of course I am not happy. Beautiful red dragon How can sister paper compare to these treasures of mine."

Obviously, the arrogance of the red dragon made it difficult for him to say that his life was not important.

Even by dragon standards, the red dragon in front of him was extremely arrogant and conceited.

Because dragons do not have a fixed Sima face, the legendary dragon expression only exists in carvings.

The expressions of some chaotic and kind metal dragons that Brian has seen can even make people feel ashamed (red copper dragon and brass dragon: mmp, who are you talking about).

He glanced at the red dragon, pretending to be ignorant and asked, "Then what is your purpose for bringing us here?"

Hearing Bryan's question, Red Dragon looked around and checked carefully, and after confirming that no one else was there, he straightened his expression and began to question the two of them.

The content of his questions was like a household registration check, including name and identity background, how to come to the Underdark Region, why he came to Aldus King City, and other detailed questions.

Brian had long understood the true intention of the Red Dragon. He signaled the sword mage beside him not to speak, and answered the questions raised by the Red Dragon in a clear manner, until he nodded in satisfaction. This is like interrogating a prisoner Questions are finally over.

"Surface people." After a long question, the red dragon put away his unruly expression and said to the two of Brian, "Now, I entrust you to do something for me."

Brian's expression changed, showing the appearance of listening carefully.

"I need you two to follow the instructions of the guardians of the flames and help them find the dragon eggs." The red dragon Argotus seemed to have thought of his plan long ago, and said clearly:
"After finding the dragon egg, take the opportunity to destroy it. In this way, if the guardians of the flames do not have a spare dragon egg, my work will not be shared by other red dragons, and the reward will not be deducted."

"If you help me complete this task." The red dragon stretched out its dragon claws and promised to Brian and the two, "I will capture a lot of treasure for each of you here as a reward for the task."

"Catch a lot of treasure at random. This is the first time I heard about this kind of reward. It's really like opening a blind box."

Brian looked at the red dragon's chubby claws, and felt that given the other's greedy personality, if he really wanted to grab it, he probably wouldn't be able to catch anything good.

"If you don't agree."

Seeing that the two did not reply, the red dragon became a little anxious. He exhaled two streams of white smoke from his nostrils, and flames leaped out of his lava-colored pupils. He grinned and threatened, "I'll just treat you as my friends tonight." Eat your snacks."

"Of course." The red dragon proudly raised the dragon's head, and added:
"You can superficially agree to my request, and then inform the guardians of the flames. What I need to remind you is that I am not afraid of you doing this at all, because if you do so, it means that you will not get any reward from me, and you will also Captured by treacherous gray dwarves as free labor."

"You have to know, I am a red dragon who keeps my word." He continued:
"Otherwise, with my strength, I would have flattened the entire city of Aldus long ago. It is because I agreed to the agreement with the gray dwarves that I have been diligent, hard-working, meticulous, conscientious, and arduous every day. Get up early and sleep late, forget to eat and sleep, concentrate on, single-minded, single-minded, and tirelessly help them ignite the furnace."

Brian signaled the sword mage beside him not to act rashly. He looked up at the red dragon lying on the treasure mountain, and said, "I can agree to your condition, but I think you have a better choice."

"A better choice." Argotus stretched his chubby neck.

"Don't you want to find a real agent and become the ruler behind the scenes of Aldus King City?" Brian smiled slightly and expressed his thoughts to the red dragon.

"The real agent? The ruler behind the scenes of Aldus King City?"

Argotus stretched out his chubby dragon claws and scratched his head, staring at two bulb-like eyes, and looked at Brian, "What's going on, let's explain it clearly."

"Actually, I already knew what happened to you, so the purpose of the two of us is not to help you find the dragon egg." Brian looked serious, and said to the red dragon seriously, "It's to help you find the dragon egg." You take over the city of Aldus."

"Really?" Red Dragon said a little excitedly.

After thinking about it for a while, he realized his gaffe, took another deep breath, and said as calmly as possible, "You are indeed a smart surface person, and you can think of me together. In fact, I have had this idea a long time ago, but We have never been able to find a suitable representative."

"You should know Gray Dwarf Prince Eddie Steel Shadow." Brian ignored his bragging and continued:

"He is ready to take over the city of Aldus, but he also deeply realizes that without the help of Lord Argotus, the most powerful person in the city of Aldus, it is impossible for him to rely on his own ability. Bring down the Deep King and the Keeper of the Flame."

"Very good. If Erdie is willing to be my agent and serve me, when he takes over the city of Aldus, I will definitely bring my flame guardians to help him."

"In this case."

Argotus scratched his head remorsefully, and then said with a little embarrassment: "I need you to help me find the lost dragon egg again. After all, this is related to the happiness of the rest of my life."

"Then it's settled. I will convey your words to the gray dwarf prince Eddie." Brian looked at the cute and silly red dragon in front of him, and said to him, " It’s okay to help you find dragon eggs, but you can’t let the two of us work for nothing.”

"Don't worry about this. After finding the dragon eggs, I will grab a lot of treasures for each of you as rewards for the mission." Red Dragon assured them.

"You're grabbing too much with one paw." Brian shook his head slightly, and said, "In my opinion, it's more cost-effective for each of us to pick two things."

"This"

Argotus looked at the two of them and hesitated for a moment, as if he was weighing how to divide the rewards to be more cost-effective.

Thinking that he would become the real ruler of Odus King City, he gritted his teeth, nodded with pain on his face and said:
"Okay! As long as you help me reach an agreement with Erdie and get back the stolen dragon eggs, I will let you two pick two items here."

"Since you are so sincere, the two of us will naturally complete the tasks you assigned seriously." Brian nodded in agreement, and then said:
"However, you have to know that the two of us are treasure hunters from the surface world. Our rule is that we usually need to pay half of the deposit before we can complete the task of the employer with confidence, so you must pay half of the salary in advance."

"It's absolutely not possible."

When the red dragon heard this, he became anxious again. Flames jumped out of the lava-colored pupils, and the wide dragon wings stretched out, like an old hen guarding chickens, covering all the treasures around him, "What if you two bring ran away with my treasure."

"So, you never believed us. If that's the case, then there's no point in us staying here."

Brian gave the red dragon a disappointed look, then pulled the sword mage beside him, turned around and left.

"Do you think the two of you can leave?" The red dragon lying on the treasure mountain was indifferent, and just snorted coldly, full of threats.

Brian smiled slightly, concentrated, and with a thought, a translucent portal appeared in front of them.

Afterwards, directly prepare to step into the portal and leave.

"Hey, don't go." Argotus quickly jumped down from the treasure mountain, and the piles of gold coins and precious stones clattered, "I'm just kidding you."

"I can agree to your request and pay half of the reward in advance." Red Dragon said with a smile, "But I also have a condition. When you choose treasures, you must cover your eyes."

"No problem, I agree." Brian readily agreed.

Then, in front of the red dragon, he closed his eyes and made a thought, using telekinesis to wave his hand.

In the big hole made by the red dragon's buttocks on the treasure mountain, a five-foot-long yew wood staff was suspended in the air and quickly fell into his hand.

"Damn it, you can find all of this!" The red dragon Argotus was dumbfounded when he saw the magic item that Bryan got, and cursed loudly while beating his chest.

Brian didn't bother to pay attention to the other party. When he saw Sisaiah happily taking away a belt of turquoise and moonstone, he immediately stepped into the portal and disappeared.

Only the stupid and cute Argotus was left alone, stunned in place.

When they were about two kilometers away from the red dragon's lair, Brian finally identified the attributes of the staff.

This is a smooth yew wood staff with a fire rune printed in the middle, and a ruby ​​with a faint luster at the top, and some arcane runes are etched inside the crystal.

Evocation Flame Staff +4
Type: magic weapon

Quality: Purple Excellent

Aura: Strong evocation aura
Equipment effect:

1. Holding this staff, the fire attribute spells released will increase the damage by an additional 15%.

2. Holding this staff, the fire attribute spells released will additionally cause explosive flame damage with intelligence adjustment value +3.

3. Holding this staff, when releasing fire attribute spells, the release speed will increase by 20%.

4. The top of this staff is inlaid with a star ruby ​​that looks flawless but oozes energy from time to time, and has up to 10 rounds of charging, which can activate three forms of fire magic, and restore the consumed charging at dawn every day can.

The first type: Consume 1 charge and release a ring of spells like 'Burning Hand'.

The second type: Consume 3 rounds of charge, and release a similar three-ring spell 'Fireball'.

The third type: Consume 5 rounds of charge and release a spell similar to the five-ring spell 'Advanced Explosive Flame'.

Explanation: This was originally just an extraordinary staff inlaid with star rubies. Since it was stored in the red dragon's lair for too long, as time passed, it absorbed the fire elemental energy overflowing from five adult red dragons, making this The quality of the staff has been qualitatively improved.

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(End of this chapter)