From Witcher to Lord of the Empire.

Chapter 277 The Scoia'tael and the Red Dragon
"Naturally, the red dragon will not allow too many monsters around the lair, so the Ferenc clan can often enjoy the peace, only this year..." Gabo echoed Petrit's words and shook his head.

After getting along for a period of time, Gabo seemed to have figured it out, and began to communicate with the Fuchs dwarves in the team.Although it is not close, they gradually have a tacit understanding about some customs of Mahakam.

In fact, Petritt still has opinions on Ziglin, but Gabo is an exception.After all, Gabo had made a move called "betrayal of the clan" in order to prevent Ziglin from massacring Fuchs, which made Petrit lose his face towards Gabo.

Coupled with Lan's mediation, the relationship between Gabo and Petrit has eased a lot.This was a good start, and then the two dwarves were also the leaders of the two clans in Sintra.The easing of their relationship can also make the two clans get along more harmoniously.

At this moment, Gabo is concentrating on explaining, while looking at Petrit, it seems that there is another story about the red dragon.

However, he found that the Fuchs dwarf was suddenly attracted by something.Not just Petrit, everyone in the team except Gabo turned their eyes in one direction.

In the snow-covered Mahakam Mountains, a rising black barrier suddenly appeared at some point, which was the thick smoke produced by the burning of substances.A fire of this magnitude cannot be caused by one or two trees being ignited, even if Lan and the others say that a whole village is on fire, they can believe it.

Petrit muttered to himself: "There seems to be a black pine forest in that direction. Could it be that it was struck by lightning and caused a forest fire?"

Lane frowned, because he found that the direction of the fire was the direction where Milva's imprint was located.After the flames burned, Milva and Kolgrim stopped moving abruptly.

"I haven't seen much thunder in the recent weather, Petrit."

Gabo shook his head, but he didn't expect that the sound of "Thunder" exploded in everyone's ears before he finished speaking.

"Ow--"

This is not a thunder from the sky, but a roar from the throat of a ferocious beast!As for the entire Mahakam, the only one who can have such a great momentum is the one Petritt was still lamenting just now——

Red Dragon, Kelturis!

"Kerturis?" Petrit jumped up, "It finally came to help the Ferenc clan clean up the surrounding monsters?"

Unlike the excited Petrit, Lan's expression was not optimistic.He looked in the direction of the billowing smoke and the roar of the sky-shaking dragon, and calculated in his heart that it was actually where the imprints of Milva and Kolgrim were located.

There must be something wrong.

"I don't think it's as simple as helping to clean up the monsters when it came out." Geralt had the same thought, "The emotion in that roar was wrong...the one at the foot of Mahakam before was also wrong."

In the next second, Lan En's body emitted a bright emerald-colored brilliance, and the [Teleportation] skill was activated this time without any hesitation.

"Colgrim and Milva are in that direction. I'll check the situation first, and you can just head towards the burning place."

After leaving such a sentence, Lan disappeared from sight, leaving only the people looking at each other in blank dismay.

"Speed ​​up," Geralt ordered.All the Sintra knights and other warriors responded loudly, and the sound of horseshoes suddenly became as urgent as a storm.

Among the crowd, only Sakia's expression was different. When she heard the dragon's roar, she began to feel an indescribable worry.
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Lan's vision gradually became clear, the white spots began to fade from his vision, and the surrounding scenery began to become clear.

The first thing that entered my ears was the sound of killing and screaming one after another.

Lann activated [Flash] without hesitation, letting the bright emerald-colored light envelope his whole body again.The effect attached to the skill slowed down the surrounding time as if by 0.1 times the speed. Although Lan's movements were also slowed down, his thinking was not stagnant.

This allows him to quickly scan the situation on the field and mobilize his thinking to make a response plan.

This time [Teleportation], he chose Milva as his positioning, and now the most eye-catching thing is the surprised female servant in front of him.The Snake Sect Demon Hunter Colgrim was not far away from her, and there were Sintra soldiers scattered behind him. These well-trained soldiers were unable to form a decent formation at the moment.

Trying to turn his eyes around, Lan saw a lot of dwarves beside his own people.There are probably hundreds of them, and although some of them have beards, their faces still look a little younger—compared with Gabo and the others—these dwarves are very close to the Sintra people, and some of them are even going behind the cavalry. Shrunk, seeking refuge.

But there were some dwarves who were far from Lane's team. They seemed braver and better armed, and they were older.And they also have a kind of jewelry Lann is very familiar with - squirrel tails.

Scoia'tael!
These non-human race guerrilla troops who are still dormant and disturbing in the eastern part of the northern country really appeared in Mahakam just as Herilera said!
The Scoia'tael are very pure dwarves, and perhaps that's why they were able to go deep into this mountain range.And they kept a considerable distance from Lann's team, and there was even a faint stance of confrontation inside.

I don't know if it is an enemy, but at least it is definitely not a friend.

But Lan still remembered the purpose of his coming here: because of the fire that went straight up to the sky, and the roar of the dragon that shook the sky.

This time, before he could turn his gaze away, he could faintly feel the cloak being blown by the hot wind, and the hot waves of fire were about to lick his body.

In front of him are all his own soldiers, and there is no room for dodge.Lan En didn't even turn his body, he just turned his wrists and palms facing backwards.

[Alder's Sign · Bone Biting · Magic Power Explosion】!
In the next second, the scorching flames and the biting freezing wind collided fiercely. Lan felt his mana value continuously drop as if diving, and the dragon that spouted flames on the other side did not back down.

The air where hot and cold meet is constantly twisting, compressing, and transpiring.A small piece of open space has gone through the two distinct worlds of ice and fire, and finally at the extreme moment——

"Boom", there was an explosion!
A huge amount of shock waves swept towards the surroundings, and the confrontation between the flames and the cold wind finally stopped.

Lan En seized the opportunity to apply a layer of [Quen's Seal] on himself, and then he flew out backwards.In mid-air, he even tugged Milva to save her from the frontal damage of the explosion, and finally the two of them crashed into the group of guards behind.

"Lord Lannister!"

Before he had time to respond to the excited shouts of his attendants and soldiers, Lan shook his head and jumped up without support.The people on Sintra's side had a backbone after Lann's appearance, and the originally loose formation suddenly solidified.

Lan stared at the enemy without squinting: "What's the situation now, come and tell me briefly."

He looked at the young dwarves running around, the Scoia'tael dwarves who were at odds with the team, and the dragon who was confronting Lan at the moment.Colgrim deftly arrived at Lann's side in a few short jumps, and began to explain——

……

Since the army split into three groups, Colgrim and Milva came to the Ferenc clan immediately, and they had a letter from the elder, and they communicated with Wavgenek Ferenc fairly smoothly.

They soon joined the dwarf "cleaning" team, and with their rich experience in hunting demons, they helped the Ferenc clan pull out monster lairs one after another.

If things continue like this, Colgrim and Milva can definitely cooperate with the dwarves to clear the monsters around the [Witch's Lair] with ease, and they can start negotiating rewards and support when Lane and his party arrive. problem.

The turning point came not so long ago when the traveling dwarves came home.

Because the young people who went out have not returned, Colgrim and others headed to the foot of the mountain under the entrustment of Ferenc's dwarf parents.Relying on the sharp senses of the witchers, they soon discovered the traces of the large group of dwarves.However, when they found these young dwarves, they found that there were Scoia'tael beside them.

As a guerrilla force fighting against humans, the Scoia'tael has never had enough manpower.Now the racial conflicts in the north are not as serious as Lann's memories of the later generations. Unless there is an indelible direct hatred with humans, most non-human races living in human society still want to live an honest life.

So the Scoia'tael set their sights on the dwarves who returned home after traveling.Most of these dwarves plan to return to their hometowns because they were bullied in human society. They have a natural repulsion and even hatred for human society, and they are a good source of soldiers for the Scoia'tael.

Based on this purpose, the Scoia'tael sent a large number of dwarf members to sneak into Mahakam. They blocked the road of traveling the dwarves' homeland according to their clans, trying to persuade them to join the Scoia'tael before they returned to the gathering place.

Colgrim saw the Ferenc dwarves just as Scoia'tael had just met them.If it weren't for the consideration of these young people who didn't have a camp yet, the Scoia'tael would have fought the human Cintra side long ago.

Now one side wants to bring the wanderers back home, and the other side wants to replenish the source of troops to "resist human tyranny", and the young people of the Ferenc clan themselves are a bit vacillating, so the two groups of people just stayed at the foot of the mountain for several days, Squirrel The party also had several conflicts with Colgrim and the others.

During this process, the Scoia'tael and Sintra teams have been harassed by the surrounding monsters, and they can barely handle it.

Until the red dragon descends from the sky.

……

The story is not short, but Colgrim speaks extremely fast and is good at grasping the key points, explaining the situation to Lane clearly in a few words.

"So the most urgent situation now is to deal with this giant dragon." Lann concluded, "But those Scoia'tael must be on their guard."

Colgrim nodded heavily.

At this time, the giant dragon has also slowed down.

During the confrontation just now, Lan En was a little embarrassed.After all, shock waves of the same size are affected differently by different weights.Compared with Lann who hurriedly faced and flew out, the giant beast in front of him just shook its head, as if a human being faced with a slightly stronger mountain wind.

Not only did he not get hurt at all, he was even eager to try.Red Dragon felt that if there was no explosion caused by the extreme heat and cold just now, his own dragon flame would definitely be able to overwhelm the opponent's cold wind.

Lan En took a deep breath. After all, it was a dragon in front of him, and he was now truly an enemy of the other party.

Giant dragons should have been classified as [remnants]. It is said that they belong to the native species of the mainland and have been living to this day.But because there are too many types of giant dragons, and some of them are really too powerful, scholars have divided them into [dragons] separately.Even monsters that look somewhat similar to them can be created into the classification of [dragon-like creatures].

It is said that giant dragons used to be common creatures in the mainland. They are considered to be representatives of magical energy, and they have ruled the continent once and many times.In the era when all kinds of monsters invaded the life and safety of people in the mainland, the giant dragon was the most: their dragon flames were the bane of the city, and their strong appetite and insatiable collection were the nightmare of human beings.

When some scholars introduced the dragon in the book, they once wrote: The best strategy when facing a dragon is to pray to all the gods.Atheists are better off running away, they might live a few more heartbeats for it.

It is rumored that when the Warlocks created the Demon Hunter, the main purpose was to hope that the Demon Hunter could take on the responsibility of slaying the dragon—and what is quite dramatic is that the inheritance of the Demon Hunter is almost cut off now, and the giant dragon has almost disappeared .

Now the entire north and the south can be found with two hands to count the dragons, including all kinds of smaller and inferior goods.Gerd had hunted a green dragon in Skellige, which he said was not much bigger than a horse.

But the dragon in front of him is obviously not the kind that can be easily hunted down.

It bends its body down and lies on the ground, that body is like a bunker lowering its body.

Its dark golden vertical pupils stared fixedly at Lann. Even if it had lived for thousands of years, it had never seen a human with such extraordinary power.The casting speed of that kind of spell can almost match the strongest known human warlock, but the way it appears is not the warlock's portal.

And look at this human being who suddenly appeared, the dress is not a warlock, but a——

"Witcher."

It was as if a big bell was struck in mid-air to condense these three words. Every vibration of that sound could cause the chest and abdomen trembling at the same frequency, making people uncomfortable.And this sound came from the dragon's throat.

Lann pulled out the Sword of the Lake Lady behind him without retreating, and responded to the other party's greetings in a calm, steady, but sharp-sharp voice:
"Red Dragon!"

(End of this chapter)