The last time the Blood Alliance Guards received orders to explore the terrain and resources, they naturally couldn't travel at night. Although the Weeping Blood Star in the sky dyed the sky red, it was completely impossible to rely on the faint red light to see the scenery in the distance.
So, Aggo and the others really had a hard time last time.
This time it was different. The goal was clear and there was no need to check if there were people or large animals nearby …
The Weeping Blood Star of blood and fire hung above their heads. Without the old, weak, women and children of Khalasa holding them back, Danny took the lead. The little silver horse galloped happily on the red sand, leaving a thin trail of red dust between the horse's hooves.
Chora and her Blood Guards were three horses behind Danny, followed closely by 20 Dothraki Roaring Warriors.
The rumbling of the horse's hooves spread far and wide. The sand lizard with reddish-brown scales poked its head out of the grass, as if feeling the tremors of the earth.
"Squawk —"
"Squawk — Boom —"
A sharp and rough cry suddenly sounded above their heads. The sand lizard the size of a wildcat was alerted and wanted to shrink back into the grass, but … it was a string of dark red flames falling from the sky.
The black smoke mixed with the smell of sulfur ignited the demon grass beside it.
The sand lizard screeched and escaped from the sea of fire. The next moment, the sky darkened and it rose into the air without any support. The pain of being pierced by sharp teeth in its weak abdomen had not driven away the panic in its heart. With a boom, a ball of flames swept over and the sand lizard completely lost consciousness.
"Thud thud thud …"
The horses trampled over the demon grass, which was ignited by the dragon flames, quickly sank into the shallow red sand, leaving only wisps of white smoke swaying with the wind.
Dani raised her head to look at the Dragon Whelps in the sky who were fighting for food. A satisfied smile appeared on her face.
The centaurs had a very good sense of direction. They did not take any detours and found the dragon bones at midnight.
Thinking about it, it was true that people with a bad sense of direction could not become Khalasa's scouts because the sea of Dothraki grass was even more difficult to identify than the red wasteland. The scouts were scattered in all directions, and the furthest they could go was a day or two away from Khalasa.
"Seven Gods, is this really the skeleton of a creature?!"
Even though she had heard many times that Bellerion could swallow a wild bull in one gulp, Danny could not help but exclaim when she saw the dragonbone the size of a destroyer.
The bones that were exposed above the sand were grayish-white. The deeper one went into the ground, the darker the bones became. Originally, only a small part of the skull was exposed. Last time, in order to investigate the size of the dragon bone, Rakarlo had dug up the sand that had buried the skull.
"If I were to completely dig up the sand, the project would be too big, and it would take a lot of time …" Danny climbed to the top of the two-story Megalosaurus's head. Looking at the burial ground that had accumulated into a curved hill, she began to hesitate.
Chora frowned as he looked at the huge skull and said, "Your Highness, what do you plan to do with this dragon skeleton? I'm afraid it's not realistic to transport them all back. "
"This …" Danny smiled bitterly. "To be honest, I did plan to transport it back. Not to mention how many gold coins the dragon bones can be exchanged for, just making it into a weapon … You've seen the power of the Dragon Bone Bow. It's a great killing weapon that warriors must have!"
"The Ma Min do not have the technology to forge dragon bone weapons. Only the best Khol blacksmiths can mold dragon bones into weapons." Chora shook his head.
"What do you think we should do? Leave it here and not care? "she asked.
Chora rubbed his chin and suggested, "Choose some dragon bones that are easy to carry back. Bury the rest here. In the future … we can come back to retrieve them if needed."
"The skull is too big and difficult to handle. Take the bones from the wings."
With Danny's order, the Ma Min began to work in full swing. They dug along the Megalosaurus' neck to its waist. They did not need to dig too deep, and it was enough to search for broken bones as much as possible.
The bone that Rakarlo brought back was a broken bone. The Megalosaurus seemed to be just as Danny had guessed, heavily injured and unable to fly. It fell from the sky halfway to the ground.
"Eh, this is … This bone is so thin. No …" A Ma Min stopped digging and picked up a 40cm long bone stick from the sand. He looked at it in confusion.
Following the path of "skull — neck — back — wings", the Ma Min dug a winding trench.
The sand was soft and much easier than expected. The trench was two to three meters deep.
When the sky was dyed a deep indigo color, they had already dug to the middle of the neck.
"Kalixi, there's a situation. It's not dragon bones. I dug up a human corpse." The Ma Min shouted loudly. The faint trembling of his voice made one feel his fear. "This is not a human. It's a devil. A devil's corpse. A human should not be like this."
"Devil, devil's corpse!" The other Ma Min who were working came over to take a look and also shouted in fear.
As the big boss, Danny obviously did not need to work. She had been training the little dragons at the side.
Hearing the commotion from the pit, she quickly ran over and looked at the Ma Min in the pit. She shouted, "There's no devil. Devils would not dare to get close to the Megalosaurus. Even if it's a dragon corpse that has been dead for many years! That must be a human … Uh … "
At first, she was still shouting loudly. But as the crowd opened up space and she saw the twisted corpse half buried in the brown sand, she was also shocked.
That corpse was really too scary. It was a corpse that was curled up like a fetus in a mother's womb. It was not a pure skeleton.
Its skin was like purplish black devil scales that wrapped tightly around the bones. One could see the thumb-sized "scales" that were as rough as old tree bark. They were densely packed and covered the entire body.
The arms that were curled up in front of its chest … Was that really an arm and not the claws of some creature?
Ten dagger-like fingers pointed at the sky, as if they were ready to attack at any moment, and were about to devour someone.
The corpse was as thin as a bony child, while its sharp teeth and claws were 20cm long. It was completely disproportionate.
What was even scarier was that the eyeballs in the corpse's eye sockets had not decayed or been decomposed by bacteria.
The dark purple eyeballs were also surrounded by black, asphalt-like mucus. It stared at the crowd "viciously" like a living person. Its mouth that was almost opened 180 degrees seemed to be roaring a devil's curse.
"F * ck …" After cursing in Earth's language, Danny immediately followed suit. "Seven levels of hell. Sir Jorah, you've seen a lot. Do you know what kind of people this is?"
She did not forget that this was a fantasy world. There were even Children of the Forest and Giants. It was not strange for goblins and gnolls to appear.
"He should be a human." Jorah was also digging in the pit. Hearing that, he walked to the side of the Ma Min who found the corpse first and took the pale white bone club from him.
"Your Highness, look …" He raised the bone and shook it in front of Danny. Then, he used the bone to make a few strokes on the left leg of the "demon's" corpse. "The corpse is missing a calf. It's the one in my hand. According to your previous conjecture about the origin of the Megalosaurus, a Megalosaurus escaped from Valleglia during the cataclysm.
Then, is it possible that it was driven away by a knight?
The Megalosaurus was seriously injured and fell from the sky. The knight fell and broke his leg. Hence, the calf bone was separated from the corpse. "
Aggo refuted. "Look at how long the calf bone is. It doesn't match with the thin corpse at all. If the corpse is really a human, then he is also a dwarf."
The calf bone that did not include the sole of the foot was over 40cm. This meant that its owner must have been a tall and strong man when he was alive.
And the curled corpse … was probably no more than 1.2 meters tall.
"It is said that the ancient ruins of Valleglia from the Land of Long Summer to the Sea of Smoke are still shrouded in the curse." Sir Jorah stood up and looked at Danny with a serious gaze. "From Valleglia to Slave Bay, there is clearly the Great Avenue of Valleglia left behind during the Fort of Liberty period. However, they would rather take a boat around the ruins of Valleglia and travel several times the distance. That road to Mataris is called the Great Avenue of the Demons. "
"Wasn't Valleglia destroyed by a volcanic eruption? How is it related to the curse?" Danny was confused.
"I don't know." Jorah frowned and guessed. "Maybe it's the vengeful spirit of the Dragon King from ancient Valleglia? As everyone knows, Valleglia is a civilization that has mastered dragon and blood magic. "
"Haha, you just said that this' Dragon King 'died horribly because of the curse," Danny pointed at the corpse of the "demon" in the pit and laughed. "Aren't you contradicting yourself?"
"If it's not a curse, why is there only one person in Valleglia and not a single dragon escaped? Dragons can fly. The magma of the underground fire is very scary, but if it can't burn the dragons, how can it kill all the dragons? "Jorah asked again and again.
"Maybe he was cursed and rode the dragon to Queers to seek help from the wizards," Ago interrupted.
Ma Min was scared to death at first. Now that he saw Kalixi and Jorah arguing in front of the "demon" for a long time, the demon didn't do anything.
Gradually, their courage came back.
"The wizards of Queers are indeed famous," Jorah said with a mocking tone. "But the reason why they are famous is that they often use fake magic to deceive the world. Even the Westeros have those blue-lipped liars."
"Then …" Ago thought for a while and pointed to the east. "He might ride the dragon to the Shadow Land on the other side of the Jade Sea. There are wizards and shadow binders everywhere. The witch who was burned to death by Kalixi learned the way to communicate with the devil there. "
"Why do you think he's going to seek help? Where can the magic skills be better than Valleglia's? "Jorah sneered.
"Whether he's planning to go to Asha to find the wizards, or he's lost his mind because of the underground fire and flew here randomly, it has nothing to do with us." Danny pointed at the demon-like corpse and ordered, "Don't touch it directly. Go look for tree trunks and weeds nearby and burn them on the spot. Valleglia believes in cremation, so I won't dishonor this senior Dragon King."
Ma Min immediately stopped digging, climbed up the pit, and went around to collect firewood.
At around nine o 'clock in the morning, Danny's three dragons breathed fire together and lit the firewood in the pit. Then, dozens of people hid under the sun with the giant's skeleton and continued to work in the evening.
Well, Danny lived the most comfortably. She set up home in the mouth of the Megalosaurus, and the thick skull completely blocked the sun. Lying on the clean jawbone, it was cool and comfortable, and especially interesting.
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