When the Giant Empire and the giant dragons competed for continental hegemony, they suffered the loss of not having air supremacy.
In order to protect their heads, the giants used evil giant sacrificial magic to control and transform the dragon's body.
Cutting off their forelimbs allowed them to focus more on flying in the air.
Replaced dragon tails with giant scorpion tails, making them better at aerial combat and with terrifying poison attacks.
Let their heads become larger and have sharper and harder teeth, making it easier to bite.
They even inherited the breath of the giant dragon, but the dragon soul had no choice. They could only absorb the most violent and savage beasts and stuff them into it, making them savage and warlike. They would not even fight against the giant dragon. feared, and treated them with hostility and hatred rather than reverence.
The first batch of primitive flying dragons were made from the corpses of various ancient dragons, so they all had giant or even super-giant bodies. Once they appeared on the battlefield between giants and dragons, they exploded with terrifying lethality. Countless truly giants The dragon was nailed to death in the sky by these patchwork bastards with poisonous tails.
The angry dragon god placed a curse on this hybrid. They will not be protected by any dragon god. As time goes by, the dragon blood in their bodies will become weaker and weaker, and they will become weaker and weaker until the blood... Completely cut off.
All the primitive flying dragons died on the battlefield between giants and dragons, but their dragon eggs are all over the world.
With beast souls stuffed in their bodies, they don't know what moderation is. They make full use of the dragon's lustful nature and leave their own bloodline all over the world. This also leads to the existence of many branches of the flying dragon. When you see the body covered with Don't be too surprised if you see bird feathers, or a wyvern the size of a puppy.
When the giant empire disappeared and the dragons were driven into the wilderness by other intelligent creatures, the bloodline of the flying dragons continued and dominated the wilderness sky for a long time.
At that time, a large number of dragon-slaying warriors emerged from various races. The dragons they killed were not actually real dragons, but primitive flying dragons with similar body shapes and appearances.
But what really caused these violent flying beasts to slowly withdraw from the stage of history was not the successive dragon-slaying warriors, but the curse cast down by the Dragon God at that time.
As generations go by, the dragon blood in the flying dragon's body becomes increasingly thinner, even if it does not mix with other races.
Their descendants are getting smaller and smaller, their intelligence is getting lower and their abilities are getting weaker and weaker. When they reach a certain generation, the first thing to lose is the dragon's breath, followed by language.
The original flying dragons have a low IQ, which is compared to those real dragons. Compared to real beasts, they are still higher, barely reaching the average human level.
To this day, this curse still continues. Super large bipedal flying dragons are rare. The mainstream is large flying dragons, and there are even some medium-sized flying dragons less than two meters long. If this continues, Even if the flying dragon species does not disappear completely, it is estimated that it can only appear as flying pets kept in captivity by intelligent creatures.
Shanoba has no interest in reviving the flying dragon race. She is not a real flying dragon. For her, transforming into a flying dragon is just an innate special ability. At her core, she is a human and a dragon. Warlock.
But if she had the ability to make her transformation ability more powerful, she would naturally not mind.
"Whether it is yes or not, we will know soon. When Yandi's plan is fully rolled out, you will soon usher in the fifth and sixth dragon-dog mutual aid upgrades. As time goes by, the upgrade of this ability will The higher the difficulty, the more powerful the abilities it brings.”
Gavin jumped directly onto Shanobah's back, not even using a saddle, as if he had taken root directly.
"Just the two of us?" Shanobah asked in surprise.
She had already reported to Gavin about the details of the group of wyverns in the Troll Mountains.
That is not a group of good stubble. If one of them is alarmed, the rest will swarm like birds, no less than five in number at a time.
In other words, this group of flying dragons has at least ten heads.
"To deal with a group of beasts with low IQs, the two of us are enough. I will explain the tactics to you on the way." Gai Bra was confident.
"Okay." Shanobah took off without hesitation, giving Gavin 100% trust.
My man is full of tricks, and he will definitely be planning to play some new tricks, so I will just wait and see.
The Troll Mountains are more accurately called the Troll Mountains. Compared with the Giants Run Mountains across the Giant Plains, the hills here are generally not very high. Most of them are small hills with an altitude of no more than a thousand meters, one after another. , when you are in it, you turn your head and look around, and you are surrounded by mountains.
When Shanobah's huge figure passed by at low altitude, the ground was full of figures running in all directions. Occasionally, there would be bold ones who raised their bows and arrows and threw spears, trying to attack them, but in vain.
The 30% speed boost provided by Dragon Dog Mutual Aid to Shanobah is no joke. It is an out-and-out internal blessing that does not conflict with the external blessing provided by magic equipment. Once she has sufficient financial support, she will naturally give priority to arming herself. Own.
Speed is her top priority, especially increasing the speed of movement after transformation, ranking first.
Compared with the Half-Moon Pony, which specializes in this area, Shanoba is still a long way off, but compared to most flying creatures, her speed is quite astonishing.
Before the bow, arrow and spear came close, it had already flown some distance away from the boss.
Even a highly skilled archer would have been deflected by the powerful air flow from the wings before those arrows and spears came close to him. Only a few of them could land on him. They were so weak that they could not exert their lethality at all. .
The City of the Colossus is located on the outskirts of the Troll Mountains. There are only a few hills surrounding it. Shanobah only regards this place as a source of troops for the kobolds and has no extra energy to develop it.
Here is still the original ecology, a world of monsters. You can see hobgoblin camps, goblin dens, trolls' rotten lairs and orcs gathering in groups to collect prey everywhere.
Shadows of them fighting for a few resources and food can be seen everywhere.
After the hobgoblin soldiers are exhausted on the Giant Plains, the hobgoblins in Blood Gap City can move to fight here.
Compared with those steep mountains, this kind of low-lying, continuous mountainous areas are the easiest to harbor dirt and evil practices, because these mountainous areas also produce a large amount of natural resources and can feed more living beings.
Boom! Click!
The deafening thunder and the lightning that pierced the sky fell from the sky very rhythmically, and struck heavily on a mountain not far away. They could be seen and heard even from a long distance away.
"What is that?" Gavin asked curiously.
"There is an abandoned temple of Talos, the Storm God. Although there is no priest to preside over it, it is whipped by thunder day and night." Shanoba replied, "This is considered a landmark building in the Troll Mountains. It is located in the Troll Mountains. In the very center of the mountainous area.”
"Let's go over and have a look." Gavin was very interested.
A temple known for its destruction appeared in the mountains, indicating that there was something mysterious about this place.
Talos, the God of Storms, also known as the Destroyer and the King of Storms, is in charge of a series of natural wraths such as storms, destruction, riots, fires, earthquakes, cyclones, etc.
He is the chief god of the Furious pantheon, leading the Furious Gods - Aulur, the winter goddess, Maura, the hunter god, and Umberlee, the sea goddess.
This is a god who is difficult to please. Many of his believers worship and believe in him, not out of love, but out of fear. They try to appease him with their faith and let him bring as little destruction and disaster as possible, but his temper is repetitive. Impermanence, he himself probably doesn’t know what he will do next second, let alone their followers.
But if you dare to despise him, he will definitely become furious and bring you endless revenge and destruction, which gives him the reputation of being avenged by the emperor.
He is an example of a conceptual god. Although he has very few believers, he has possessed powerful divine power since the beginning of his birth. Throughout the entire history of Faerûn, his power has never weakened, but has continued to grow - he She was born from the first battle between the twin goddesses, Selun, the moon goddess, and Shar, the night goddess.
Don't look at the fact that the Moon Goddess only has moderate divine power now. She is the out-and-out twin goddess of creation in the Toril plane. Everything here is closely related to her. Even if countless priests are split, she still has the majority of the gods to look up to. the power of.
The most important thing is that she has countless allies. Even the violent Talos has to take a step back in front of her and show her respect. It is truly clear that the only one who is her enemy is her twin sister. Shar, the goddess of the night.
Talos, the God of Storms, and the raging gods led by him, will be the most incompatible with Gavin's path, infrastructure, and other priests. As he progresses in obtaining these priests, he will have to deal with these gods. There will be more and more opportunities, in an unfriendly way.
really.
After seeing clearly the appearance of the mountain range where the Temple of Talos was located, Gavin showed an expression that was indeed true.
Where is a temple?
It is basically a lightning tower, made of steel inside and out.
No, to be more precise, it looks like it grew directly from that mountain.
Under the constant lightning strikes, impurities such as earth and rocks around the temple were shattered and blown away, revealing the blue-gray monolithic stones underneath. That is iron ore, an open-pit mine with very high purity. The entire mountain top This is probably the case.
If their kobolds bury a large number of flutter bombs here, they can mine countless iron ores in a blink of an eye.
Gavin looked at the surrounding terrain and asked, "How far are the flying dragons' lairs from here?"
"There are still about ten kilometers." Shanoba replied after recalling it for a moment.
"Then choose the battlefield here. I will go down and set up the battlefield. You are responsible for luring those flying dragons directly above this mountain. The more flying dragons you can attract at one time and the denser the better, it will be easier for me to focus the fire." Gavin Spread your dragon wings and glide towards the Iron Mountain where the Temple of Talos is located.
This mountain is a flat-headed mountain with a large head area, which is most suitable for carrying out one's cross-dimensional strikes.
"Lord, just wait and see." Shanoba, who already knew Gavin's full plan, was in high spirits and flew towards the distance at high speed without hesitation.
If Gavin's tactics work, they can extend this trick to all the flying dragons in the wild and form a flying dragon air force. She will naturally be the commander.
While waiting, Gavin walked around here and discovered that it was indeed an iron mountain. The lightning power that struck the Talos Temple was directed into the mountain range.
Countless years of lightning strikes have made the iron and stone here become somewhat unusual. It obviously contains powerful lightning power. The closer you get to the Talos Temple, the stronger it becomes. You can clearly feel it when you are still thirty meters away from the temple. Feel the huge power of thunder and lightning pulsating under your feet.
If such iron stone is used to forge weapons or staffs, it will definitely increase the ability of thunder and lightning.
Let Shanoba pay attention. If necessary, establish a branch mine here and mine it on a small scale to see if there are any unexpected gains.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Gavin didn't wait long when deep guttural roars came from the distance. They were very similar to alligators. What came out of them was not anger, but excitement, as exciting as a bull in heat.
Soon eight or nine huge figures appeared in the sky, dancing back and forth.
Although they all looked like flying dragons, Gavin could still recognize Shanobah at a glance. Her black wings were so iconic. The native flying dragons in the Troll Mountains that she attracted had obvious green stripes on their wings. Very similar to the troll skin.
There were seven flying dragons attracted by her, one big and six small.
The smallest one was only about four meters tall. When Gavin first met Sanoba, she was about this size.
The larger one was even more majestic than Shanobah, with a body length of at least over eight meters, close to the peak of super size, and a wingspan equal to his body length, which made him look bigger than he actually was.
This is not an adult flying dragon leading six minors, but the big flying dragon has become huge due to the influence of the local environment.
He is the flying dragon king in Shanoba's mouth, and he created this flying dragon clan with his own hands.
In order to prevent herself from being thrown away, Shanoba would deliberately slow down her speed from time to time, turn around and give the big flying dragon a mouthful of acid dragon breath.
Not only was the big flying dragon not angry, but it was even more excited.
Shanobah missed them and wanted to turn them into soldiers in her hands.
Why doesn't this big flying dragon miss Sanoba and want to include her in his harem to carry on his family line and give birth to more powerful descendants?
Because of the Curse of the Dragon God, the decline of flying dragons is a general trend. However, if more dragon blood can be mixed into this process, this will be greatly delayed. If it can be combined with a real dragon, the flying dragon born will have unique characteristics. Some of the colors of the ancestral flying dragon.
It's just that this situation is extremely rare. No matter how hungry the real dragon is, when it sees these hybrids cursed by the Dragon God, its first reaction is to attack and destroy them instead of combining them. The possibility of the flying dragon trying to overpower the real dragon is extremely slim and cannot be beaten. Put aside for the moment, in terms of speed alone, the two are not on the same level.
Sanobah is of super large size and has strong acid dragon breath, so she is naturally mistaken for the same kind by the large flying dragon.
Shanobah's intention of luring the enemy should not be too obvious, but these flying dragons are still pursuing her, and their IQ is not enough for them to notice this.
"Make a counterclockwise circle around the top of the Talos Temple." Gavin sent a message to Shanoba's mind, preparing to take full advantage of the terrain here.
Shanobah did as she was told without thinking, and while lowering her figure, she circled around the Temple of the Storm God from a distance.
Neither she nor the flying dragons following her dared to get too close to the temple, because if they were not careful, those thunders that appeared out of thin air would not fall on the temple, but on the temple. above their heads.
After circling the Talos Temple three or four times in a row, the flying dragons that were originally far apart began to gather together.
Roar!
The big flying dragon let out a deep roar, and the group of flying dragons behind him immediately split into two. He and the six smaller ones immediately changed direction and turned around to block Sanoba.
Although they are not too smart, they are not complete beasts, and some tactical tricks are self-taught.
"Fly directly to the west." Gavin, who was in an invisible state, once again sent a message to Shanoba's mind.
Shanobah immediately stopped spinning and flew towards the direction where Gavin was ambushing.
The two groups of flying dragons that were originally threatening to double-team were immediately thrown into the air, and they had no choice but to join forces again and pursue them.
There is a reason why speed ranks first among all factors in air combat.
No matter how powerful you are, if you don't have speed, it's useless if you can't catch up with the enemy.
The light of dreams.
The group of flying dragons that had just gathered together and flew not far away were immediately enveloped by a ray of emerald green light falling from the sky.
On the spot, five flying dragons whirled and fell heavily to the ground, and the sound of broken bones and tendons was clearly audible.
Only two flying dragons survived. One was the big flying dragon. This guy had 18 life dice and received a high extra will bonus. He actually withstood the pull of the light of the dream and was not directly affected. Drag into the dragon oak dreamland.
The other flying dragon that escaped the disaster was not that it was very powerful, but that it was unlucky. When it was circling around the Temple of Talos, it was accidentally struck by a thunderbolt and its wings were injured. It turned and flew a little slowly, located at Outside the scope of the dream light.
Gavin naturally gave priority to attacking the crowd and threw it outside.
Ouch! Ouch!
The two flying dragons who were still awake screamed at the same time, which revealed a strong sense of disbelief. Not to mention that their brains were not at the level of ordinary people. Even many knowledgeable people could not guess what was going on. thing.
How come they were flying so fast that their companions were all erect after being flashed by the emerald green light?
What the hell kind of magic is this?
There's a trap here!
After realizing it, they finally reacted and howled again. The two flying dragons didn't care about the life or death of their companions below. They turned around and left with their buttocks between their legs.
Gavin, holding the dragon oak staff, emerged from invisibility and said to Shanoba: "No need to chase them. Let's deal with these five first, and then go back and deal with the rest."
(End of chapter)
