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Dionbaie was anxious in his heart, but he also understood the temperament among dragons, so he couldn't force the bronze dragon to make up its mind and could only try to persuade him.
However, the bronze dragon Aiden hesitated for a moment, then finally sighed with a somewhat complicated expression and said,
"Dion, I think we should stop. As long as I'm here, you'll be fine."
The implication of the bronze dragon's words was that if the secret method ended later and they were truly hunted down, it would be able to protect Dionbaie.
These words made the blond dragon knight's face stiffen, and he clenched the dragon spear tightly in his hand.
Seeing this, the badly injured Black Dragon King burst out laughing and mocked Dionbaie,
"Of course, considering that we are both dragons, if Aiden truly wants to protect you, then I can spare your life."
Arrogantâtoo arrogant.
The bronze dragon glared angrily at the black dragon and growled, "That's enough, Brons."
Seeing that the bronze dragon was becoming a little irrational, Brons stopped taunting him, snorted coldly, and turned to leave. However, in the next moment, he sensed danger and instinctively turned his dragon head aside.
A dark blue spear light, imbued with dazzling and terrifying power, grazed the black dragon's cheek and pierced a deep hole in the earth.
Brons turned around angrily and looked at the dragon knight and the bronze dragon.
The dragon knight Dionbaie flew away from the bronze dragon's back with an indifferent expression, looked down at Brons condescendingly, and said coldly,
"Aiden agreed, but I didn't agree to let you leave. Today, either you die, or I die!"
There was already a determination to die in Dionbaie's firm eyes.
If the Black Dragon King were simply allowed to leave, then without his restraint, the legendary warriors of the alliance would have to face one more powerful Black Dragon King. This could have a major impact on the situation and push the alliance army, which already had a very slim chance of victory, into the abyss.
Dionbaie's integrity could not allow him to do this.
"Dion!" The bronze dragon Aiden was a little anxious.
After fighting for so long, he clearly understood that even with Dionbaie's full cooperation, it still wasn't guaranteed they could kill the Black Dragon King Brons. The strength of both sides was actually quite close.
Even though Brons had been chased and beaten, if it came down to a real fight to the death, both sides had an equal chanceâlife and death were uncertain.
Without Aiden's assistance, Dionbaie alone was even less likely to be a match for the Black Dragon King, even with two pieces of legendary equipment.
Black dragonsâeven though they're the second weakest of the Chromatic dragonsâare still undeniably powerful creatures. Their racial value far exceeds that of humans. At the same level, true dragons can defeat several powerful humans.
Human beings can only narrow this gap through professional learning and the blessing of powerful equipment.
To completely eliminate this gap, one must either obtain a powerful bloodline and abandon their human blood or body, or learn some powerful class, or become an outstanding spellcaster. There are many paths, but each of them is extremely difficult and very specific in certain circumstances.
"Aiden, I understand you. You should return to Metallic Dragon Island now. I think, after all these years of following me, you must have greatly angered the elders of Dragon Island."
Dionbaie said calmly.
He knew the reason why Metallic Dragon Island had grown indifferent to the mainland races of today. Thousands of years ago, Metallic Dragon Island's gold dragon elder 'Ignis', who had reached the fifth level of the legendary realm, confronted the Crimson Mother. At the critical moment, a human legendary warrior retreated when his life was threatened.
This directly led to Gold Dragon Ignis being severely wounded by the Crimson Mother. Until now, thousands of years later, no news has been heard of His Majesty Ignis. Many strong individuals suspect that Ignis, perhaps after becoming a hero in that war, succumbed to his injuries and has already passed away.
That legendary human was once the most powerful and talented warrior in the Ryan Empire a thousand years agoâthe Peerless Sword Master, a peak warrior who also reached the fifth level of Legend.
The real history is that the Crimson Mother fought against Gold Dragon Ignis and the Peerless Sword Master at the same time. In the end, because the Peerless Sword Master retreated, Gold Dragon Ignis had to face the Crimson Mother alone. Ultimately, Ignis and the Crimson Mother dealt each other heavy wounds, and the Crimson Disaster receded.
Today, in the history taught on the mainland, the existence of the Peerless Sword Master has been erased and replaced by the kind-hearted legendary Gold Dragon Ignis, who fought the Crimson Mother alone to protect the mainland, and finally defeated her, causing the Crimson Disaster to recede.
It's not that the humans feel guilty and promote it this wayâit's because they fear the Metallic Dragons would use the Peerless Sword Master's betrayal to settle accounts. So, they cleverly elevated the Metallic Dragons and Gold Dragon Ignis to be the hero of the mainland legends.
As a hero, you can't do bad things, right?
This is to directly set up the Metallic Dragon and bind them morally.
So much so that Dragon Island cannot ask for compensation from the human side, because this has changed from voluntarily saving the mainland's life to saving the mainland's life because of profit.
This moment made many metallic dragons on Dragon Island feel suffocated.
This is why, when the Crimson Disaster struck again, Dragon Island's attitude was so indifferent.
Those old dragons from thousands of years ago still remember the scene vividly, and the fire in their hearts has not gone away.
Only some young metallic dragons can still be friends with humans.
Aiden, the bronze dragon, was one of them. Though now over a thousand years old, he had only been born during the tail end of the great war that ravaged the continent. His memories of that era were faint, fragmented echoes passed down through stories and scars rather than personal experience. He still struggled with the ancient dragon tongue, his speech marked by inexperience. Unlike the elder dragons who bore the weight of firsthand loss, Aiden had only ever known the war through the solemn tales whispered by his kinâlegends, not memories.
"Fighting alone? Are you looking for death?" The Black Dragon King looked at Dionbaie, who made the decision, with some surprise and shock, and his heart was ready to move. He really wanted to taste the flesh and blood of the second-level powerhouse in human legend.
Brons's gaze kept drifting toward the bronze dragon, his expression increasingly troubled. In contrast, the dragon's eyes shimmered with quiet hope, watching him with a childlike longing that only deepened the tension in Brons's chest.
'Just leave already, will you?' Brons seethed inwardly, his thoughts laced with bitterness. 'Your so-called friends have already cast you aside. Why cling to a place where you're no longer wanted?'
Brons waited patiently for a while. Seeing that the bronze dragon still didn't leave, it naturally didn't dare to fight. Otherwise, it would definitely force one person and one dragon to join forces. He suddenly said angrily,
"What a shame, this king is gone!"
Brons turned to leave.
A dark blue spear light struck from behind again.
Boom!
Brons' jet-black dragon claws, filled with dragon magic, grabbed the dark blue spear light and squeezed it violently, causing the energy to explode violently and emit brilliant blue fireworks.
"Dionbaie, you have completely angered me." Brons' vertical dragon eyes showed a cruel cold look.
At this time, after the brief interlude just now, Brons' original moderate injury has returned to a mild injury.
On the other hand, Dionbaie and Bronze Dragon Aiden, although their injuries have recovered somewhat, will find it difficult to recover after spending most of their energy.
The energy quality of those who have reached the legendary level is quite high. The effect of ordinary magic-replenishing potions is not as fast as that of one's own recovery. Only some extremely precious legendary potions have obvious effects.
But the preciousness of this legendary potion goes without saying. It is basically a life-saving potion. The average legendary strong person does not have enough wealth to spare such items. After all, weapons and equipment also require a lot of wealth.
The momentum of Black Dragon King Brons was extremely ferocious, and a mouthful of acidic dragon breath that had been accumulated for a long time bombarded the dragon knight with terrifying kinetic energy.
It has long been known that the dragon knight will not let him leave easily, so this dragon breath is the full-power version.
Dionbaie's expression was solemn. He obviously did not expect Brons to be so cunning, so it was too late to avoid him.
The long and thick dark blue dragon spear was sent forward, the tip of the spear carrying terrifying blood energy clashing with the incoming acid dragon's breath.
The dragon's breath was blasted to both sides by the spear light, but the terrifying impact carried by the dragon's breath also caused Dionbaie to retreat quickly.
At the same time, the ultra-high concentration of magic acid is also crazily corroding the blood energy above the spear light.
Feeling the rapid consumption of blood energy in his body, Dionbaie's expression changed slightly, and with the help of the inertia brought by the dragon's breath, his body deviated to the left.
Upon seeing this, Black Dragon King Brons stopped spitting acid dragon breath, his dragon eyes flashed, and a black light blasted towards the dragon knight.
Dionbaie, who had just avoided the dragon's breath, noticed the black light coming and did not dare to neglect it. He injected a large amount of blood energy into his legs and his body flashed to avoid the black light.
Seeing that the Darkness Technique failed to hit Dionbaie, Brons was not upset. Instead, he sneered in his heart and used the Cloud and Mist Technique. Suddenly, a massive amount of clouds and mist began to spread rapidly to the surroundings with Brons as the center.
"I want to see how much energy you, a human, have enough to squander." Brons sneered in his heart.
Comparing durability between a human body and a dragon body is simply courting death.
Do you think you are the son of God with divine blood? Have tons of energy to squander?
On the side, the bronze dragon Aiden frowned and watched the battle between one man and one dragon. As a bystander and a true dragon, it could naturally see what the Black Dragon King Brons was thinking.
Many times, when a dragon finds itself evenly matched against an opponent, it resorts to a revolting tactic: persistent harassment and delay. It wears you down, inch by inchâuntil your energy is drained, your life-saving tools exhausted, and all that remains is to await death.
This is one of the greatest flaws of the Professional system, yet also what makes the Order system superior in such scenarios. In the Order system, even if the energy within your body is depleted, your raw physical prowess remainsâdurability, speed, stamina, and strength endure. Even in unconsciousness, the body maintains its might, resisting blades and attacks with the same resilience.
But the Professional system, though it enhances the body, cannot match that level of innate endurance. The difference between them is vastâthe gap between heaven and earth.
Although he could see Brons' thoughts, the bronze dragon Aiden hesitated and still did not get involved.
If it gets involved, it could turn into a life-and-death battle.
Of course, the most important thing is that Brons just sent a message to it, saying that it can not kill Dionbaie, but as a price, Aiden cannot take action.
'That's good, otherwise after defeating Brons, Dion will continue to get involved in the battle with other strong men in the Crimson Nest, and may even anger the Crimson Mother, which will be even more dangerous.' The bronze dragon Aiden thought to himself.
Bronze dragon Aiden only truly cares about one personâhis partner, Dionbaie. To others, his concern is distant at best. Though bronze dragons belong to the lawful good camp, their definition of "law" and "good" tends to be narrow and self-focused. They follow rules they set themselves, and rarely act outside those boundaries.
This highlights a critical truth often overlooked: even within the same alignment, beings can be worlds apart in conduct and values. Take, for example, the grassland elves. Also lawful good, their laws are inclusive, expansive, and community-driven. Their creed teaches that all life has value, and so they'll go out of their way to help strangers in needâbe it a starving child or a wounded gryphonâso long as no malicious intent or wanton destruction of nature is involved. Even if their kindness costs them their resources, their reputation, or even their safety, they consider that a worthy price in service of their ideals.
Bronze dragons, however, prefer selective kindness. They might help a graceful elf but ignore a crude barbarian with the same wounds. Their idea of good must never interfere with their wealth, pride, or convenience. They'll defend a city if they like its music or beauty, but ignore a village under siege if it holds no personal value.
They often justify their choices with ancient customs or dragon honor codes, but it's clear that their actions revolve around what they valueânot what others need. To them, good deeds are acceptable only when they come without sacrifice.
Even among dragons, bronze dragons are known for this kind of conditional morality. And that's why, for someone like Aiden, Dionbaieâwho moves his heart more than his rulesâremains the only one who truly matters.
Aiden eyes were always fixed on the battle between Dionbaie and Brons.
Although Dionbaie is a little embarrassed and the energy in his body is constantly being consumed, he is not in danger for the time being.
After all, he has legendary armor, and the Brons can't do anything to Dionbaie until the energy is exhausted.
The bronze dragon Aiden felt slightly relieved.
Just delay it until the war is over.
As for who loses and who wins, this has little impact on Metallic Dragon Island.
Although the Tal Plane is only a medium-sized material plane, it is the top one among the medium-sized material planes.
Therefore, even if the Crimson Mother wins, she will dominate the main continent of Tal in a short time. In addition to the main continent, the Tal Plane also has two much smaller subcontinents, as well as a star-studded ocean and islands.
As for Silver Dragon Sandy, she has a large island covering an area of ââmillions of square kilometers as her territory in the North Sea, and there are many such islands in the North Sea. Among them, Metallic Dragon Island is a giant island, covering an area of ââmore than one billion square kilometers.
Even if the Crimson Mother dominates the main continent, how can she occupy these subcontinents, islands, and sea areas scattered in the Tal Plane?
We can only conquer the past one by one slowly.
But the problem is that the main continent is already big enough. From the southernmost point to the northernmost point, the straight-line distance exceeds 300,000 kilometers!
The area of the main continent alone is as huge as the surface area of two hundred Earths in the black king's previous life, exceeding one hundred billion square kilometers.
However, many places on the main continent are not suitable for normal life to survive. Most of the intelligent races are concentrated in the central region of the continent to reproduce.
Just like the northern region of the continent, which is shrouded in extremely cold storms all day long. The further north you go, the more terrifying the storms become. In some areas in the far north, only top-level creatures can survive, so the number of creatures there is pitifully small.
Throughout the vast Northern Territory, there are a slightly larger number of intelligent groups gathered, including barbarians, frost elves, frost giants, frost trolls, white dragons, high-level ice monster groups, ice elements, etc. In addition, they are basically all very small groups.
The same goes for the southern part of the continent where the Black Wing Lair is located. There are large tracts of poisonous ancient forests here. Except for green dragons, black dragons, and highly poisonous creatures, other normal creatures cannot survive in that environment.
The Dark Forest is already one of the forests with the best environment among the southern forests.
Territories like the Principality of Kass and the Kingdom of Albit , The Kingdom of Dal, and now nearly wiped out Six Kingdoms were all poisonous forests in ancient times. It took generations of development to expand to normal land that can support hundreds of millions of people today.
The battle between the Dragon Knight Dionbaia and the Black Dragon King Brons of the Crimson Nest is still going on.
Somewhere high in the sky, a red demon eagle with a wingspan of more than 20 meters was hovering, and the sharp eyes of the eagle reflected the figures of a large and small fighting figure.
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"Just wait for the opportunity."
My spirit possessed the Red Demon Eagle, and I said to myself.
If I want to take action, it must be a fatal blow.
Otherwise, if Dionbaia is allowed to run away, it will cause a scandal and offend a legendary second-level strongman, as well as the Ryan Empire, and even many strong men from the Pan-Continent Alliance may also turn against me and only have a bad feeling.
Therefore, once I take action, I must succeed even if I have to show my cards. However, I would like to avoid the situation.
I waited patiently for half an hour.
Suddenly, my spirit was shaken.
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