"This place, it feels a little …"
An Emerald Dragon and three Humerus Dragon fledglings were walking under a … big tree.
The trunk of this tree was ten meters thick, and there was a very big tree hole. In this tree hole, strange sounds were continuously echoing.
"Are we really going in?" The Blood Mist Master looked at the tree hole. It was dark inside, and he could not see anything clearly … This made him a little reluctant to go in.
"Don't worry, the elder is very gentle." After the Humerus Dragon said that, it shouted at the tree hole, "Elder! Is it here? We're here! "
"Gulp …" Suddenly, a sound came from the tree hole, and a … very small creature crawled out of the tree hole.
"It's … the elder?" The Blood Mist thought that the creature living in this tree was some kind of huge monster, but now, it was a creature that was thirty centimeters tall.
It looked a little like a scorpion without a tail. The moment the Blood Mist saw it, it … heard the sound it made.
"This time, you brought a green dragon," the elder said. The creature called Elder said, "Do you want to know the story of this green dragon?"
This creature spoke the language of the Emerald Dragon, but it was talking to the Humerus Dragon fledglings.
"You …" The Blood Mist questioned the creature before the Humerus Dragon fledglings did. "What … are you?"
"I was discovered by a green Emerald Dragon for the first time." The elder looked at the Blood Mist with the small and black eye on its head and said, "I am called the elder of the swamp, and I answer all the questions of the lost dragons … Now, do you have any special questions?"
"…" The Blood Mist wanted to say something, but it did not know where to start. At this time, one of the fledglings said, "The elder knows a lot of things, and it has always been willing to answer our questions."
"That's right. That's why I'm called the elder. The things I know are both elder and elder, "the elder said." But I also have my real name … "
"Real name?" The Blood Mist asked, "What … is that?"
"I am called Montmoc, the leader of a powerful creature race … one of the leaders." When the elder said this, there seemed to be a kind of 'sadness' in its voice. "My 'mother' created me and hoped that I would lead my entire race."
"Moreover, Mother … told me. It said that it had a 'nemesis' that it had to chase down even if it had to spend all of its life, so it gave me the command of the entire group. However … it discovered that I didn't have the ability to control the group. "
"I asked my mother for help, but I can't contact her anymore. I don't know where she went … It seems to have gone to a faraway place to track down an old enemy."
"I could only come to this place and live in seclusion, hoping to find my mother again at some point in time …"
After saying that, the elder looked very sad.
"Caw … We knew it would get better." "Yes, you will definitely see your mother again." All the baby dragons seemed to have heard this story before. They all expressed sympathy for him.
Although the blood mist could see that the elder was indeed very sad, it did not quite understand this kind of sadness.
It was mainly because what this elder said was very strange to the blood mist.
"So, what are you here for?" The Elder put away his sadness and said, "I know a lot of ancient history, such as when the Green Dragon was born, and when …"
"We are here to show you this!" Before the elder could finish, a baby dragon placed a crystallized egg in front of the elder.
"This!" The elder crawled to the egg and knocked on it with his forelimbs. Then he said, "I didn't expect you to find something like this. This thing is …"
"But what?" the baby dragon quickly asked.
The elder said, "It's just an ordinary egg." After saying that, the elder turned around and crawled back into the tree hole …
"Caw?" The baby dragon and the blood mist were stunned for a few seconds. When they came back to their senses, they immediately carried the egg and followed into the tree hole.
"This isn't an ordinary egg, is it? Elder. We found it in a very special place! " A baby dragon shouted in the tree hole. The moment it finished speaking, the whole dark cave suddenly lit up with a bang.
The dragons here also saw the scenery of the cave. There were all kinds of things piled up around the tree hole, including the bones of creatures and dried plants. There were also some strangely shaped objects, and there was a glowing object at the top of the cave.
The elder was in the center of the cave. He used his forelimbs to hold something that looked like a plant fruit and was slowly eating it.
"Do you think that it's not ordinary?" The elder's eating and speaking did not seem to conflict. He could eat the fruit and talk at the same time. "What do you think is not ordinary?"
"It's here!" The baby dragon brought the egg to the elder. Pointing at the crack on the egg, he said, "Look, it's full of crystallized eggs!"
"This really isn't normal …" The elder threw the fruit he was eating to the side, then carefully looked at the crack in the egg and said, "This seems to be occupied by crystallized fungi. They have changed the environment inside, but this egg itself is very normal."
"Is that so?" The baby dragon said, "But we think that place is very strange, so we brought the most peculiar thing here …"
While speaking, the baby dragons introduced the underground crystallized lake to the elder. After hearing it, the elder said, "The crystallization phenomenon … seems to be spreading recently. I've decided to follow you there and have a look."
"That's great! The elder wants to go with us! "The Skeleton Dragon fledglings immediately cheered. The Blood Mist watched them without saying anything.
It only felt that the elder was very strange, but it could not pinpoint what was strange about it …
"But you will have to wait until the next day," the elder said. "For now, you will stay here."
"Why?" The blood fog was confused. "Will it be dangerous at night?"
The Blood Mist said as it looked outside. It realized that the sky outside was slowly turning dark.
"It will be dangerous …" the elder said. "This night is called the 'Night of the Bones'. We have to hide in a safe place until the next day."
"… Night of the Bones?"
When the sun slowly set and the stars filled the sky, the blood fog finally understood why it was called that …
Through the light inside the tree hole, the blood fog could see that the skeletons outside the swamp had all started to move. They wobbled around, and there were more of them than the group of skeletons that chased them earlier. They filled the blood fog's sight, but there was something special about them. They would not come within 100 meters of the tree where the elder resided.
"Every now and then, they will take action in groups …" The elder looked at the several baby Skeleton Dragons that were already asleep and said to the bloody mist, "They will attack any creature nearby, but when it is close to daytime, they will start moving … They will all disperse and look for a new place to live and grow."
"You know them very well …" The blood fog said, "Why don't they come?"
"This tree will secrete a pheromone that they hate," the elder said. "So it is very safe here … You should rest early so that you will have the energy to move around during the day."
"I don't feel tired yet …" The blood fog kept looking at the wobbling skeletons and said, "I still want to see them …"
"Is that so? Then I'll rest first." After the elder finished speaking, he lay down together with the Skeleton Dragon fledglings, while the Blood Mist continued to stay awake and looked at the shaking skeletons in the distance.
The Blood Mist did not want to sleep because it had a feeling that something would happen if it fell asleep … However, as time passed, it felt like it was overthinking things.
Just as the elder had said, none of the skeletal saplings approached this place. As the day approached, the skeletal saplings began to disperse.
They did not return to their original pile of bones to lie down. Instead, they walked further away. It seemed that this group of seedlings was indeed looking for a new place to grow. Perhaps they would even leave the swamp.
"Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh —!!!"
The blood mist suddenly heard … a scream.
In the distance, the scattered seedlings gathered again. The blood mist noticed that they were gathering in a certain direction.
The blood mist looked in that direction carefully and saw … the figure of a dragon.
The dragon was covered in blood, and it seemed to be severely injured. It was being chased by a large group of skeletal saplings, but it was still able to maintain its running speed. It ran faster than the saplings.
"Isn't that the poacher?"
Although the blood mist could not see the dragon's face clearly, it could see the equipment the dragon was wearing. It was holding a crossbow in its hand. It was one of the poachers it had seen before.
"Why is it here … Gah? They … they're coming? "
The blood mist was surprised to find that the poacher had run within a hundred meters of the tree, and the skeletal saplings were chasing after it. They did not seem to be affected at all.
"Wait! Don't lead them here! " The blood mist hurriedly shouted, but the poacher immediately ran faster when it saw the blood mist. However, it seemed to be too injured and fell on the swamp.
Immediately, a large number of skeletal saplings surrounded it. They used the sharp parts of their bones to frantically cut its skin and flesh. The poacher's blood slowly spread on the wet swamp …
Most of the skeletal saplings were eating greedily, but some of them were also paying attention to the blood mist …
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