Chapter 243 : Chapter 243
Chapter 243. Deep-Sea Golden Dragon
“Our original guess was that the young dragon inside this chest was probably a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon.”
“Ah! What kind of dragon?” Fulan had never even heard that name before.
After obtaining the talent 【Dragon’s Remnant Engraving】 from the Spirit Realm, Fulan had deliberately gone looking through encyclopedias on dragonkind to see what useful dragon abilities might be recorded there.
But after reading through them carefully, she had ultimately given up on chasing those dragons.
Because not only magical creatures, but even dragonkind itself, had become something almost no one on the continent ever saw anymore.
Even the Earth Drake Fulan had hunted before could not really be considered a particularly pure dragon. At most, it could only be said to possess a trace of draconic bloodline.
As for those truly pure dragon bloodlines, they had almost vanished from the world long ago. Whenever one was discovered somewhere, it would attract at least a thousand adventurers of the first tier and above to hunt it down.
As a result, with many dragon-type creatures, even if you called them dragonkind, after generations of mixed blood with other races, it had become hard to say whether their main traits truly came from dragon blood at all.
Take, for example, the Earth Drake Fulan had hunted before and the second-tier wyvern she had slain in the Spirit Realm.
The second-tier wyvern she hunted in the Spirit Realm had been a very pure dragon-type creature. Back then, after defeating it, Fulan had been able to obtain a whole pile of abilities from its body.
For example, there had been the ability to make her large body lighter, allowing her to fly with relatively small wings; hard dragon scales; draconic elemental resistance; and more.
But when it came to the Earth Drake Fulan hunted later, the abilities she could obtain from it were pitifully few.
Fulan’s Spirit Realm talent only allowed her to obtain dragon-related abilities from the dragon-type creatures she hunted.
But in the case of the Earth Drake, not only did it show very few draconic traits from its outward appearance, but in reality too, very few of its characteristics were actually related to dragonkind.
For example, the scales on the Earth Drake did not even count as a draconic ability. Fulan could not obtain them at all.
At the time, the abilities she had been able to take were a powerful sleeping ability that let her heal difficult wounds through sleep, as well as draconic territorial majesty, which gave her a high chance of intimidating other magical creatures with the draconic aura on her body when fighting them...
So the fact that she had chosen the only useful one, 【Earth Dragon’s Breath】, had already been fairly good.
And it was not just the Earth Drake. Among most dragon-type magical creatures on the continent today, the draconic bloodline in their bodies had grown extremely thin, and abilities inherited from that bloodline had become correspondingly rare.
Meanwhile, the place where dragon-type creatures were actually most numerous and most concentrated was the Spirit Realm. There were a great many dragon-type creatures there.
Seen from that angle, when the Spirit Realm had granted her that talent, it had probably intended for her to hunt more dragons there and strengthen herself.
But Fulan still could not return to the Spirit Realm for now, because if she went up there in her current state, she would probably be caught by the Lord of Radiance on the spot.
Although by now she no longer felt as resistant to helping the Lord of Radiance develop followers, she absolutely would not go to the Spirit Realm before making sufficient preparations.
“The reason we guessed it was a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon was because the bloodline abilities of that dragon are extremely powerful at sea...”
In this age, when all major powers possessed some degree of strength upon the ocean, it could be said that whoever controlled the sea held the initiative.
White Dragon Harbor, as one of the Northern Frontier’s few port cities—and even one of the rare port cities on the continent not completely attached to a single major power—faced pressures that were easy to imagine.
And the Deep-Sea Golden Dragon was an exceptionally powerful dragon-type magical creature in the ocean.
Because it dwelled in the deep sea, the large numbers of land-based adventurers could not launch large-scale hunts against it.
Moreover, its abilities were overwhelmingly powerful at sea. It could be said that so long as one had such a dragon, it would certainly hold the advantage in same-tier naval combat.
“The lord of White Dragon Harbor already keeps three second-tier dragons. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t make such a huge commotion over this. But this is a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon.”
“If he can raise this Deep-Sea Golden Dragon properly, then it is almost certain that he will end up with a third-tier dragon.”
“A dragon like that is an invaluable treasure anywhere.”
Even the Church of the Goddess of the Currents was probably here because of the combat power this young dragon would possess once it matured.
Although they did not have a Spirit Realm talent like Fulan’s that could strip dragon abilities away from dragonkind, when it came to raising a dragon and turning it into actual combat strength— in this world, where dragonkind had more or less been hunted to extinction by adventurers, there was still a complete set of methods for doing exactly that.
Only then did Fulan understand why White Dragon Harbor and the Church of the Goddess of the Currents had stirred up such a huge disturbance.
On the continent, every time one advanced to the next tier, the vast majority of people were filtered out, and only a small minority could rise to a higher level.
And a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon—a magical creature destined to become third-tier once fully grown, and one that also possessed overwhelming combat power at sea at that—was exactly the kind of thing those people were bound to covet.
Besides, so long as people tried to seize such a thing, there was always some chance they might actually get it into their hands.
And the reason the lord of White Dragon Harbor dared send so many mercenaries to search for this young dragon was precisely because a dragon that could grow into a third-tier giant dragon was simply too dangerous to hold.
Unless one belonged to a fairly major power, there was no way to keep such a young dragon safe. So he was not worried that those mercenaries would secretly keep it for themselves.
Because he himself knew that if some mercenary really did get their hands on it, then their best option would be to trade with him, the man they had already signed a contract with.
Now that she knew it was a young dragon, would Fulan choose to keep it and raise it herself?
The answer was no. The resources required to raise a young dragon were simply too great.
If Fulan had that many resources, she would rather invest them in herself. She felt that with her panel, by the time she reached the third tier, if she poured all those resources into herself, she might even be able to beat three Deep-Sea Golden Dragons.
“But this thing that we don’t even know for certain is a young dragon also showed signs of empowering the undead during the earlier battle, so now we have no idea what is going on.”
“Either this thing isn’t a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon at all, but some kind of dragon-type creature related to necromancy... or it’s a mixed-blood dragon born from breeding with some undead-type dragon.”
After Anna finished speaking, she let out a long breath, then looked at Fulan with wide eyes, signaling for her to hurry and call for support from the Northern Society.
Not only would that spare Anna a great deal of trouble afterward, it would also let the families of her former teammates remain safe for the time being.
Fulan smiled at Anna, then used Telekinetic Hand to lift the chest and said,
“Let’s get out first. The traces of battle here, along with the wandering undead, might attract the mercenaries’ attention. We’ll find a safe and hidden place first, and then call for support from the Northern Society.”