Who would dare to criticize them?
With a wave of his arm, Marquis Gould gave an order. “Sound the drums and blow the horns to welcome the Flying Dragon Troops!”
Bong, bong, bong!
Hoooonk!
At once, drumbeats that sounded like dull thunderclaps and the long, loud, and clear blasts from the bugle-horn rang out from the top of the Great Dragon Blood Wall. The sounds reverberated throughout the sky and continued endlessly.
Roar!!
Upon hearing the bugle-horn blasts, 100,000 Double-Legged Flying Dragon let out roars and howls one after another. The sounds merged into roiling thunderclaps that bore down heavily on the Great Dragon Blood Wall.
They were putting them in their place!
This was something that the Flying Dragon Troops often did, not only to display their might but also to upstage the host.
And true enough, when the regular soldiers heard the fearsome roars, their hearing failed, stars appeared in their vision, their faces turned ghastly pale, and looks of fear surfaced in their eyes.
“Those bastards!”
Marquis Gould was infuriated. Yet he could do nothing to stop them and could only watch helplessly as his soldiers dropped their weapons and clapped their hands over their ears as they let out agonized moans.
“That’s enough!”
An awe-inspiring voice rang out. The Flying Dragon Troops stopped their roars and stepped aside to open up a path. A Super-Double-Legged Flying Dragon, whose wings spanned over 50 meters and was twice the size of an ordinary Double-Legged Flying Dragon, flew out!
It had a fully ink-black body, plumes as sharp as steel needles, and a neck that looked much like a snake’s. It exuded vast, surging dragon might!
It was the highest commander of the Flying Dragon Troops and the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King... Duke Nicolas Granger!
“Duke Nicolas!”
Marquis Gould stepped forward and bowed, giving him an ancient and standard nobility salute.
“Marquis Gould.”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King transformed into a fierce and sinister-looking skinny, bony elderly man dressed in splendid long robes with a flap of its wings. He waved casually in a sort-of response.
Then, his eyes flitted across the Great Dragon Blood Wall and looked at the chaotic mess outside the city, awfully surprised. “Marquis Gould, your men have driven back the ant tide?”
Marquis Gould was dumbfounded for a moment there, not quite knowing how he should respond.
Had the ant tide receded?
Yes, it had!
But it had absolutely nothing to do with them, the frontier troops!
“Marquis Gould, were there unmentionable troubles?”
At the sight of how Marquis Gould seemed to find it hard to answer him, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King frowned lightly, and a look of perplexity appeared on his countenance.
“The ant tide has indeed receded, but we—”
Marquis Gould was just about to explain when a Double-Legged Flying Dragon suddenly landed on the ground, picked up a fist-sized ball, and started to eat it...
“A magic core! It’s a sixth-grade magic core! What delicious food!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon exclaimed as its eyes lit up brightly. Upon the sight of this, the other Double-Legged Flying Dragons also flew toward the ground.
The great fire outside the city had already been extinguished. Even the wall of fire in the canyon had also burned out due to exhaustion of fire elements.
With that, all the red crystals—the magic cores left behind by the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants—strewn throughout the place had been revealed. As the essence of a Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant’s magic power, it was very hard for magic cores to be burned into ashes, and they were also the only things that the ants could leave behind.
“Magic cores!”
“So many magic cores!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragons were overjoyed. Like old hens that’d just discovered rice grains, they made a mad scramble for them and started to peck at them!
They were usually garrisoned at the Double-Legged Flying Dragon Valley and could only eat bloody rams and dogs. How would they possibly have this many Sixth-Grade magic cores to eat?
Not only were they supreme delicacies, but they were also great sources of nourishment that could improve their strength. Thus, every one of them had gone into a frenzy.
“What a lot of magic cores!”
Upon the sight of this, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King’s eyes brightened. “My children are starving after hurrying all the way here. Marquis Gould, surely you don’t mind letting them have a good meal first?”
“Of course not!”
Marquis Gould shook his head lightly. However, he was dissing them inwardly.
In the entirety of Fire Dragon Kingdom, is there even anyone that’s greedier than you Double-Legged Flying Dragons?
Out of all the beast tides, when have you people not slaughtered, robbed, and eaten everything like aggrieved souls that had died of hunger in their past lives, leaving not even a single strand of hair for others? So why even bother asking such a redundant question at this point?
“I just knew that Marquis Gould wouldn’t say no!”
The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King burst into laughter as he stroked his beard. Then, he announced loudly, “My children, these are Marquis Gould’s welcoming gifts for you. Enjoy them to your hearts’ content!”
Roar!
All the Double-Legged Flying Dragons roared as one!
“You damned dogs, how dare you steal my things!?”
Chapter 96: The Triple-Everything Troops, Beating Up The Dragon King
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
During Meng Lei’s mad bombardment of spells just now, the number of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had perished in his hands had exceeded several tens of thousands, leaving behind approximately the same number of magic cores, too.
A single sixth-grade magic core was worth up to 10,000 gold coins. He could definitely sell them for tens of millions of gold coins with all of them put together!
Tens of millions of gold coins!
How could he let them off?
Meng Lei had just so been thinking about how he should collect those magic cores when he saw what had just happened—100,000
