Free Web NovelChapter 524: Chapter 41: Eternal Punishment Dragon (Part 2)
For the empire, slaves who have made contracts with demons are worthless, and the imperial leadership will not squander resources and power to release these slaves from their contracts with demons.
These slaves will not be truly accepted by the empire either; their final fate is simply to become slaves to giant dragons, dedicating their labor on the empire’s land.
Some casters have even whimsically proposed initiating transactions with these slaves’ masters—the demons—to let those demons use resources and treasures in exchange for the large group of slaves held by the empire.
However, recently, the coordinate of the material plane where the Golden Empire resides has been marked as a dangerous place without faith by many demons, so this work continues to be unable to engage with the demons willingly.
"Forget it, let’s follow the old way, strip off the clothes of these slaves, scour their bodies for gold and wealth, then send them to the slave camp,"
White Dragon Camid lowered its head in boredom, turned around to walk to the next post, muttering to itself: "The power of these demons has already extended beyond Icaria World to the sub-element plane, perhaps I should suggest to Karon to be a bit careful."
But in the distant city, suddenly echoed the distant resonant bell sound, soundwaves surged high and soared, reaching beyond the outskirts, making the vertical pupils of White Dragon Camid instantly burst with two beams of light.
Dong, dong, dong,
Different from the usual bell rhythm, the urgent resonant bell sound is a warning, also the horn sound of the dragon group.
Swish, a sudden gust rolled up from the ground plain, White Dragon Camid stretched its wings and flew straight to the center of the city.
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Green Dragon Ali held a young child in its mouth, descending on the city head of Bay Stream City, gently placing the child down; the bell of Bay Stream City also began to ring at this moment, the melodious resonant bell sound echoed in the sky above the entire city as Blue Dragon Carlette struck it. freewebnovёl.ƈom
This is a bell sound that only dragons can ring, and it’s not that Carlette is being overly dramatic, but the distant forest is being destroyed at an enormous speed, giant trees being knocked down, the dense forest being crashed by enormous creatures, forming a broad avenue forward.
Under the bell’s resonance, many defense corps warriors of Bay Stream City began to mount the city walls, lining up armed forces. Large armor-piercing crossbows started their gears, huge crescent crossbow arrows as thick as a man’s arm began to accumulate enough force to pierce through steel plates followed by the indentation of gears.
Elf archers and gunners were already in place, a solemn atmosphere enveloping the sky above Bay Stream City.
From the distant forest came enormous sounds, increasingly closer, an array of urgent gigantic footsteps, like giants trampling the earth in a rampage.
Blue Dragon Carlette flapped its wings and landed, standing beside the solemn-faced Green Dragon Ali, yet the two dragons’ vision had long ignored the beast tide running wildly, even though beasts dashed with urgency, directly crashing onto the city walls made of boulders.
Cracking their brains open upon impact, only to be stepped on by the herd behind, becoming a pile of broken corpses.
"Is that," Blue Dragon Carlette raised its head to gaze afar, voice filled with gravity, "Storm Giants, a group of Storm Giants."
"The problem is," Green Dragon Ali’s cheeks twitched, its dry voice spoke out, "these Storm Giants too are fleeing in desperation, what dreadful existence is pursuing them."
The dense forest had already been destroyed, revealing vast gaps, the dragons and warriors on the city walls could now see, appearing in the thin forest were the fleeing figures of Storm Giants.
There were altogether over ten Storm Giants, but their height was fearfully imposing, the last Storm Giant at the back was already almost as tall as Bay Stream City’s city walls.
Though the city walls of Bay Stream City when initially built were merely defenses against beasts and monster species’ impacts, without enough manpower at the time only built up to sixteen meters high, they were nonetheless robust enough to withstand most situations and war impacts with walls stacked by boulders.
Yet facing Storm Giants whose standing height averaged over ten meters, these previously seemingly solid city walls that provided a sense of safety to city inhabitants now appeared rather fragile.
It felt as though those giants could easily topple the entire section of walls just by swinging their weapons.
Hiss,
Blue Dragon Carlette’s teeth leaked air, placing its forelimbs on the city wall, seriously said: "Even so, we can’t directly abandon the city and flee, I’ve already rung the bell and only need to hold on, await the dragon group’s aid."
"I won’t abandon you and the city, fleeing by myself," Green Dragon Ali’s mouth twitched, its head gently nodded toward a distant point, hoarsely said: "However, looks like we’ll be hard to hold ground, maybe the dragon group reacts a bit slower, arrives here only to collect our corpses."
The size of those Storm Giants was already enough for the two dragons to take them seriously, but the hunters chasing this group of Storm Giants also brought an insurmountable pressure to the two female dragons.
Even facing an adult Silver Dragon Chris Tianna dared to bare fangs the two dragons faced, the pressure increased immensely facing the nearly twenty-meter-tall One-Eyed Giant. freeweɓnovel.cøm
The strength of dragons is closely tied to their age-size ratio, same for these giant species.
But dragon size includes their tails, a twenty-meter dragon versus a twenty-meter giant, is not on the same concept or level.
Even though One-Eyed Giant is merely a subordinate giant species, but growing nearly twenty meters tall signifies it has lived hundreds of years, grown to peak stature.
Yet the two female dragons were still merely juvenile dragons.
Moreover, the One-Eyed Giant who chased the Storm Giants wielding a gigantic hammer wasn’t alone. Among the trampled forest by giants appeared shadowy massive forms.
There were equally enormous giant species like the Stone Giants wrapped with rock bodies, plodding slowly alongside the One-Eyed Giant Lord.
And Mountain Giants famed for their strength to lift hills, these Mountain Giants were few in number, but their size was vastly more immense than the variant Hill Giants, exceptionally enormous and robust, standing beside the One-Eyed Giant Lord, appeared even mightier than this One-Eyed Giant Lord.
Also, the character-contrary Wood Giants, this giant with a temper equally volatile as Fire Giants, covered with layers of ring-patterns alike ancient wood growths looked tattooed almost like tough skin totem.
Moreover, groups of giant-like species and giant subspecies, including ancient Ogre species, these ancient Ogres deemed giant bloodline subspecies revered the same ancestral blood as the giants.
Legend states all true giant bloodlines trace back to the Father of Giants–An Nan, this powerful God of Giants.
In giant genealogy, Titans are merely high-grade creations among giants, still part of true giants, the Father of Giants An Nan is the origin of all Titans and giants worldwide.
The various offspring of An Nan were those who created the divine spirits of Titans and giants globally, and among Storm Giants, their rulers like Biaoting Venerable are also the remnants of Father of Giants An Nan’s power echoing.
Regarding their enemies from yore, the two female dragons’ inheritance naturally contains much knowledge for understanding, seeing chased Storm Giants rushing toward the city, the warriors on the wall raised their alert to the maximum.
Blue Dragon Carlette took a deep breath, proudly roaring: "Legion prepare, all departments in position!"
"Stop, dragons, perhaps we are friends,"
Huge sounds mixed with thunder, issuing from the Storm Giants’ mouths.
Panic-stricken, fleeing Storm Giant Garcia yelled: "I am Garcia, Young Master of the Storm Giant Tribe, coming to the Dragon-ruled Country, seeking refuge under the protection of Storm Giant’s friend–Karon Gogomola!"
Blue Dragon Carlette halted its command, exchanged glances with Green Dragon Ali, then roared in a deep voice: "Then stop your steps, stand at two hundred meters away, wait on the spot!"
"But," Garcia quickly shouted, "the One-Eyed Giants behind, they’re catching up!"
"I said, wait on the spot!"
Blue Dragon Carlette’s expression turned hard, standing on the wall, spreading its wings, loudly shouted: "All warriors, target shift, crossbows ready, casters prepare, aim at rear!"
