The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 838 - 0835: Volcano Cluster (Fourth Update, Alliance Hierarch Extra 4/150)

Chapter 838: Chapter 0835: Volcano Cluster (Fourth Update, Alliance Hierarch Extra 4/150)

The objective of the last task was to discover the origin of the cultivation system of the native tribe and understand the current development of the native tribe, but Liszt felt that he had not clarified these points.

Hence, the task’s completion came as a great surprise.

“Or maybe what Qui said was the actual history?”

Ancient mages had come to Flame Island and fought alongside dragons, killing many evil dragons, including one named Moon Dragon. They probably died too, buried in a mountain called Holy Mountain, and the descendants of the magicians began to expand from Holy Mountain into the forest, becoming what’s now known as the Moon Slayer Native Tribe.

The native tribe was divided into various sized tribes, each governed by magicians who, however, were rather inexperienced.

Liszt stroked his chin, “So the Jade Dragon, Fire Dragon, and even the Smoke Dragon all took part in that ancient war?” He suddenly remembered the hind leg of the Jade Dragon, the clean cut on the leg of such a sacred being; could it be the work of the Moon Dragon?

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But then the question arose again, what kind of dragon was the Moon Dragon, and if there exists a Moon Dragon, might there also be a Sun Dragon, or even various Star Dragons?

Could these dragons be categorized under Star Dragon Attribute?

Of course, this was just his idle speculation, not even sure if the Moon Dragon was actually related to the moon, his gaze then shifted to the newly transformed Smoke Serpent Script.

“Task: Now that you have some understanding of the native tribe’s situation, developing the tribal area becomes a top priority. Why not find Holy Mountain and delve into the secrets of the ancient mages? Please explore Holy Mountain. Reward: Ruins Entrance.”

“Holy Mountain!”

Qui had never been to Holy Mountain and had no clue about its location, but that was unimportant.

The Knight Order had already prepared to mount a large-scale hunt against the Moon Slayer Tribe, and he was also ready to take action himself. Known to himself and his enemies, since he now understood that the Moon Slayer Natives posed no significant threat, as a Dragon Knight, he naturally dominated the entire Flame Island without concern for any obstruction.

However, Liszt did not immediately start searching for Holy Mountain.

He decided first to complete a task he had never had time for—drawing the geographical map of Flame Island. Currently, Flame Island was only outlined by Ach, with no data on the island’s interior topology, which was a hindrance to the overall development of Flame Island.

So, he acted upon his thoughts.

After arranging the task of capturing the Moon Slayer Natives, he mounted the Formless Dragon Bard and began exploring from the Whirlpool Great River Basin. He didn’t fly close to the ground but swept over from high above, constantly using the sextant to calculate his position and map the terrain against the outline of Flame Island.

His first focus was the southeastern part of the island, consisting of hills and plains, with not many mountain ranges except for Whirlpool Mountain, the rest being smaller hills.

Lush and almost entirely enveloped by the green primeval forest.

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This vast area had a few Moon Slayer Native Tribe settlements, but their activity area was not extensive, probably because they had yet to find a foothold in this wild forest—the signs of magic power were very active in the forest, implying a large number of Magical Beasts inhabiting it, making it difficult for the Moon Slayer people to contest with Magical Beasts for living space.

It took five days to roughly map the terrain of the southeastern part, finding two slightly smaller river basins besides Whirlpool River.

These were all potential residential areas.

Then he moved on to inspecting the central part of Flame Island. The forests gradually thinned, and the terrain flattened, with only sparse trees exposing barren land in some areas. Apart from two mountain ranges running east to west in the center, there were no other complex terrains, crossed by a river larger than the Whirlpool River.

On the ground, dots of Moon Slayer tribes were visible, not forming cities, but existing in the form of primitive tribal settlements.

After finishing the central terrain map, it was already late September.

Liszt then tirelessly continued to patrols the northwestern part of the island, and after just three days of searching, he suddenly found a group of volcanoes emitting smoke.

Within the Crystal White Trajectory, these volcanoes were all bursting with dense Volcanic Super Magic, belonging to active volcanoes.

“One, two, three, four… a total of nine active volcanoes!” Liszt’s heart burst with immense surprise, as he had been fretting over Leo’s delayed volcanic training, and unexpectedly, there stood nine active volcanoes, each brimming with volcanic super magic.

“Bard, let’s head to the largest volcano crater!” Without informing Little Fire Dragon Leo, sleeping inside his body, he continued to ride the Formless Dragon forward.

The volcanic cluster was spread across a vast plain, each crater a typical cylindrical volcano.

Some volcanoes were tall, some were short; some were large, some were small, with some covered in trees and others bare. There were also several dead volcanoes that, weathered and damaged, had become part of the forest. Only those nine interconnected active volcanoes still emitted billowing smoke, stretching to the horizon.

The Formless Dragon flew vigorously, arriving above the largest active volcano, immediately revealing the gigantic crater at its center, filled with continuously churning magma.

It seemed like it could erupt at any moment.

“So big!”

Liszt exclaimed.

The diameter of this volcano crater was definitely over two thousand meters, slightly oval in shape, broader east-west and narrower north-south. The exterior of the volcano was bare, devoid of any vegetation, with only thick black rock, its inner walls sloping towards the center where the magma sprang from channels, each channel at least a hundred to two hundred meters in diameter.

This volcano was countless times larger than the one Liszt had seen on Dodo Island.

Especially when he rode Formless Dragon Bard into the interior of the crater, he felt like a fly entering a bottle, suddenly realizing how vast the world was and how insignificant he was. Circling the inner wall of the crater, Liszt then rode Bard back to the top of the crater.

He jumped off Bard’s back and stood on the razor-like circular mountain peak of the crater.

On his left was the bottomless crater, and on his right, the sloping mountain body. From its shape, one could imagine that there had probably been a volcanic eruption here one or two years ago. The crisscrossing and cracked ravines were the best evidence left by the flowing lava.

“If this volcano erupts, how powerful would it be?”

Liszt could hardly imagine.

After observing the scenery for a long time and calming his shock, he signaled to Bard to cloak himself: “I’m going to release Leo here for training, Bard.”

“Woo yi ya!” Bard wasn’t a dragon that vied for favor.

He showed no interest in the naive Little Fire Dragon and immediately hid his form, flying towards other craters.

Thus, Liszt summoned Little Fire Dragon Leo.

Boom!

Flames soared up, quickly transforming into the black-red scaled Little Fire Dragon Leo, with a wingspan and body length of twenty-six meters each, already surpassing the size of an adult Formless Dragon in its juvenile stage.

“Oh ho!” Leo let out a majestic roar, and the next second, the entire dragon suddenly froze, dumbfounded as it stared down at the huge crater below.

“Leo, I promised you I would find a volcano crater for your training, and now it’s time for me to fulfill that promise!” Liszt, with his hands behind his back, looked indifferently at Leo, “Train well here, I’ll often come to see you and bring you the food you need.”

“Oh ho!”

Leo glanced at Liszt, uttered an affectionate roar, then folded his wings and dived, in a free-fall motion, towards the volcano crater.

The next moment.

He plunged into the scalding magma, disappearing without a trace.