Chapter 58 - 57: Dragon Nest
In the time it took David to go out for a stroll, a group of High Elf prisoners of war, who had just returned to camp and had yet to get a good rest, swiftly prepared the materials needed for a second dragon-hunting trip under the lash of three Drow whips.
In truth, there wasn’t much to prepare; most of it was supplies to ensure they wouldn’t starve or freeze to death on the way.
As for the equipment needed to capture dragons?
Resources were scarce on the Old Continent. Although the Drow had taken those dead Dragon Eggs on a trading trip, David hadn’t yet sprung that audacious idea that would shatter the Chromatic Dragons’ worldview. So, they hadn’t used their precious transportation capacity to purchase iron chains.
But that didn’t stump the Drow, who always fretted for their master and rushed to address his concerns.
Hiatt had the Elf prisoners carry the fragmented iron chains previously used in the capture of the Red Dragon Lizrite and approached Lizrite herself, who was now facing a potential financial crisis and the risk of her psychological defenses crumbling.
With a piece of gleaming gold jewelry she had secretly kept from the Elf captives, Hiatt traded for Lizrite’s assistance: one blast of her Dragon Breath for smelting.
Under the mother Red Dragon’s searing Dragon Breath, the batch of dragon-trapping chains—originally used by the High Elves to guard against David—slowly melted and was poured into molds made from fired clay.
After cooling, breaking the molds, and smoothing the edges, a dragon-trapping chain with a diameter fully five times that of the original appeared, leaving Lizrite, who was an accomplice, in a stunned daze.