Chapter 244 : Chapter 244
Chapter 244. Killing the Young Dragon
After running for a full day, Fulan and Anna finally found a place far from human habitation.
“Go set some traps outside. I’m going to start contacting the Northern Society.”
Fulan used that as an excuse to send Anna away. Anna was tactful enough, knowing that contacting the Northern Society might involve certain secrets, so she said nothing more.
She walked straight out without even looking back.
Fulan still waited a little longer. If Anna happened to catch her in the middle of dealing with the chest, it would be awkward.
Of course, with Anna’s combat strength, she could not really do anything to Fulan, and in the end it was Fulan who would decide how to handle the chest anyway.
Still, if Anna actually saw it, that would be a little awkward, would it not?
Fulan used Telekinetic Hand to lift the azure chest into the air.
Now that she knew there was most likely a living young dragon inside, the best option for her was to kill it directly and obtain a talent from it.
To Fulan, a young dragon that might one day reach the third tier was not actually that useful.
Even when this kind of dragon reached adulthood, it would probably still only be around the second tier. To truly reach the third tier, it would need at least around a hundred years.
By then, Fulan would either already have reached the fourth tier, or she would already be invincible within the third tier. What would she need this young dragon for?
Besides, once she returned to the Northern Society, she could rely on her connection with Elise to raise this dragon openly and legally.
But to be honest, merely being allowed to raise it legally was far from enough.
As a dragon that could one day reach the third tier—and one with tremendous value in marine environments—it was an irreplaceable strategic resource to almost every major force.
Some forces would gladly pay an enormous sum to have someone reckless enough steal this young dragon for them.
Fulan did not have the patience to guard against the theft attempts that would inevitably come.
If she were careless even once and let the dragon be stolen, that would be rather awkward.
Elise might help her, of course, but only to a limited extent. At most, she would probably send out some battle mages to search for it.
Just like the lord of White Dragon Harbor with his stolen property—once the young dragon had been taken so far away that no one even knew where it was, all he could do was helplessly watch it grow farther and farther from him due to one factor after another.
So the simplest and most efficient choice for Fulan was to kill the young dragon immediately and seize its talent.
After that, whoever wanted the chest could have it. And if there was some reward waiting at the Northern Society, it was not as though she could not make an effort to bring the chest back.
Fulan directly cast Fireball onto the bottom of the chest.
The fireball baked the azure chest, making its color seem even more vivid.
Because Fulan’s Fireball carried the Dragon Flame trait, the chest heated up especially quickly.
That action seemed to stimulate the young dragon inside. The whole chest suddenly gave a thud and lurched to one side.
Fulan paid it no attention at all. She simply continued increasing the mental power she poured into the spell, making the fire beneath the chest heat it even faster.
At that point, the young dragon also understood the danger it was in, so it began struggling with all its strength.
The chest was knocked back and forth by its struggles, rocking like a violently shaking ball.
But it did not take long for the young dragon to realize that physical methods were utterly useless in its current situation.
So it began using the spell-like ability in its bloodline. A layer of water mist appeared on the surface of the chest.
At the same time, an arc of electricity also appeared across the chest’s surface, but both were absorbed by the chest. At most, it was the kind of shock an ordinary person might feel from a brief touch.
This was a specially made chest designed specifically to capture this kind of young dragon, built to suppress the abilities of a Deep-Sea Golden Dragon.
That said, it truly lived up to being a dragon species that could one day reach the third tier. More and more water elements gathered around it, slightly slowing the rise in temperature.
With a mage’s Elemental Vision, Fulan could clearly sense the surrounding water elements converging in an abnormal fashion, reaching an extremely high density.
If her current Wind Elemental Affinity was at the fourth level, then the quality of the water elements before her eyes was at least equivalent to a sixth-level Water Elemental Affinity.
Fulan could not help sighing at how infuriating the difference between people and dragons could be.
When she had first arrived in this world, she had not possessed any elemental affinity at all, yet this kind of young dragon had it from the moment it was born.
If she had possessed that level of elemental affinity back in the City of Apprentices, then with just a Water Ball spell alone, she could have been unmatched within the Apprentice Tier.
A high-level elemental affinity brought with it higher elemental quality. Under identical casting conditions, the quality of the surrounding environmental elements was almost the single greatest factor affecting a spell’s power.
Although the young dragon tried desperately and gathered a great many water elements, all of it was futile.
Fulan’s goal was to transfer heat into the chest. Once the temperature inside reached a certain level, the young dragon would burn alive, while the chest itself would remain unharmed.
That way, she would not need to open the chest at all to kill the young dragon directly.
And the moment it ignited, Dragon Flame would teach this young dragon that a flame evolved to this stage had become something capable of burning dragons as well.
More and more water elements gathered in the surroundings, yet the heat never dispersed. The bottom of the chest had nearly turned a dark red.
Fulan could feel the exaggerated concentration of moisture in the air all around her. With a shake of her head, she could feel that her hair had grown slightly heavier, and a thin film of water had formed across her arms.
But all of the young dragon’s efforts were futile. It only knew how to draw in water vapor and use water to slow her heating process.
If this young dragon had been a little smarter and known some special method of cooling the chest itself, then Fulan might have had to wear it down here for half an hour before succeeding.
But clearly, this young dragon did not know any such thing. By the time the bottom of the chest had begun glowing bright red, Fulan could already hear a faint cry of misery coming from inside.
In the end, her 【Dragon’s Remnant Engraving】 talent detected that Fulan had killed a new dragon-type creature, and that she could choose one of this dragon’s abilities.
At the same time, a strange ripple rose across Fulan’s body. That was her protective spell 【Hard Scale Rock】 taking effect.
A familiar shriek rang out beside her ears. It was an undead screech. It seemed that this young dragon really did possess undead abilities.
It was just that this young dragon’s undead ability did not seem to come from its draconic nature. Among the abilities available for selection, Fulan found nothing related to the undead.
She used Telekinetic Hand to lower the chest, and the entire box began to cool, especially quickly in the chill of the Northern Frontier.
By the end, aside from a few scorched black marks on its bottom surface, the chest looked no different from before.