Chapter 384 The Dragon Escapes
After the auction, Richard returned to the territory with his soldiers. After returning to the territory, he immediately organized manpower and stockpiled supplies and food. After all, he needed to lead about three or four thousand people to fight the legendary dragon this time.
Three or four thousand soldiers, plus the Warcraft horses, consumed about ten tons of food every day. Relying on the Starlight Bottle and the Legendary Space Bag, they could only support a dozen days at most.
The marching speed in the primitive jungle was very slow, and roads needed to be opened.
After entering the mountains, even with a professional army, they could only march about fifty or sixty kilometers a day.
However, compared with two years ago, the situation in the northeast of Harland has improved a lot.
Although the elves of the Bolton family are few in number, there are also thousands of contract slaves to build the territory, and they have been repairing roads in the past two years. A road has been built from the Twin Star Castle to the elf settlement for 30 kilometers.
In addition, a small path has been trampled out from the elf settlement to the Demon Hunting City for 100 kilometers.
The Demon Hunting City is located in the original dragon vein dog-headed cave. This small castle is considered the forward base of Harland and has been in operation for two years.
At first, Wilde led the demon hunter squadron to garrison. After Wilde was promoted, the castle was managed by the demon hunter squadron leader, the fifth-level warrior Cassano.
In the past two years, the Harland Territory has been trying to find a way to supply the Demon Hunter City. Now, more than 600 tons of food and more than 200 tons of war supplies have been accumulated in this castle, and there are about 500 garrisons in the city.
Although the number of garrisons is small, the quality is very good. In addition to the Harland Demon Hunter Squadron, there are about 300 scattered demon hunters.
These demon hunters come from various regions in the northern border, and most of them are professionals. In small-scale battles, their combat effectiveness is very good.
It is precisely because the defense of the Demon Hunter City is not weak that the legendary black dragon Ramos did not rashly send troops to take back this place.
Entering August, the Harland Territory has made preparations. Richard and Grand Duke Jonathan decided to set out together on August 3 through letters to fight against the legendary dragon.
For this operation, Richard decided to go all out with his elite troops.
Harland led the first battalion, the first battalion of the Warcraft Cavalry, the first squadron of the Guard Battalion, the special squadron, the demon hunter squadron, the elf squadron and other elite troops to gather together. Among the 3,000-man army, the number of professionals reached about 1,500.
On the sixth day of August, Richard led his troops to the Demon Hunter City. At the same time, Grand Duke Jonathan also led his elite troops to the Forward Castle.
The Forward Castle is about 100 kilometers away from the legendary black dragon's lair, which poses a greater threat to Ramos. Although the threat from the west has increased, Ramos still decided to deal with the opponent in the east first.
In the last battle, although Ramos defeated Stareno and annihilated more than 5,000 human soldiers, he also lost a lot of manpower.
The Dragon Vein Dogheads were completely wiped out, the wyverns lost about half, and the jackal soldiers lost 600. In just two years, except for the jackal soldiers who made up the gap, the remaining arms could not be replenished.
Compared with two years ago, the power of the legendary black dragon has weakened by about 20% to 30%. The army led by Richard and Grand Duke Jonathan is much stronger than last time.
Ramos concentrated most of his strength and once again led the wyvern to dive towards the army led by Duke Jonathan. Last time, it was the legendary dragon that led the way and defeated Stareno in one fell swoop, which determined the outcome of the battle.
Unfortunately, Ramos' opponent this time was Duke Jonathan. Although the legendary dragon's combat power was very strong, Grand Duke Jonathan still successfully restrained Ramos.
Without Ramos, the powerful attack arrow, the aerial assault of the wyvern was easily blocked by Duke Jonathan's army.
The aerial assault did not succeed, and the ground attack was also a big loss.
Although dozens of terrain dragons had a strong impact and caused more than 500 casualties to Grand Duke Jonathan's army, they also lost more than 20 of them. Even the half-dragon soldiers under Ramos suffered about 20 casualties in the ground battle.
Seeing that he could not defeat the army of the Forward Castle, the legendary dragon Ramoos had no choice but to withdraw.
In this battle, Grand Duke Jonathan lost 600 soldiers and killed about 1,000 enemies. Although most of them were gnoll cannon fodder, he killed 50 to 60 dragonborn.
Ramoos could not defeat Grand Duke Jonathan, and the outcome of this battle was a big loss.
On August 9, Richard led the soldiers led by Harland, and after a hard march, he finally met with Grand Duke Jonathan near the Dragon's Nest.
After a day of rest, both sides immediately launched a fierce attack on the Dragon's Nest.
The Dragon's Nest is a natural medium-sized magic well. Ramoos has been operating in the Dragon's Nest for many years and has arranged a variety of large magic arrays.
It will take a hard battle to break through the Dragon's Nest.
Duke Jonathan led his troops to attack the Dragon's Nest from the east, and Richard led Harland to attack the Dragon's Nest from the west. Both sides launched the battle almost at the same time.
Richard led the first brigade and walked in front. Thunders came down from the top of the mountain. It was a large five-ring magic fire thunder ball.
When the thunder fell, Wendy held the lightning staff and released a series of lightning spells.
Lightning bolts were released from Wendy's hands and accurately hit the fire thunder ball in the sky. The lightning and fire thunder collided with each other, causing a violent explosion and releasing pieces of white light and smoke.
After blocking the fire thunder ball, flames poured out from the dragon's nest. It turned out to be a large four-ring magic flame spell.
Wendy had just released the six-ring magic chain lightning and had no more energy to attack, but now the Harland Mage Association has a lot of helpers. Annie and the five-ring elf mage Eve attacked almost at the same time, releasing the four-ring magic freezing rain. In an instant, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and heavy rain fell within a square kilometer. In just one or two minutes, all the flames were extinguished.
On the dragon's nest of Ramos is a medium-sized magic well, which can store about five times the magic power of a small magic well.
Because of the abundant magic power, five kinds of intermediate magic are arranged in the dragon's nest, which can release fifty large spells.
After the flame spell ended, the half-dragon mage on the mountain immediately manipulated the trap and released the four-ring magic rockfall spell.
More than a dozen boulders fell from the top of the mountain. Heath and Butler joined forces and released the spell of turning fossils into mud at the same time to resolve the rockfall spell.
There are many mid-level magicians in Harland now. Richard, Sofia, and Wendy have not made any moves yet, and the magic traps on the dragon's nest have been resolved one by one.
Because of the containment of Duke Jonathan, there are about sixteen magics that landed on the head of Harland's army.
These sixteen magics are all large-scale magics, with a much larger casting range than standard magics, and consume more magic power. In order to block these twenty magics, the Harland Mage Association has nine mid-level magicians, eleven three-ring magicians, and forty-six one- and two-ring magicians who have exhausted their magic power. Even Wendy, who is six rings, has consumed 80% of her magic power and handed the lightning staff to Richard.
Ramos was monitoring the battlefield in the dragon's nest. Because of Grand Duke Jonathan, most of his attention was focused on the east. There were fifty large-scale magics on the dragon's nest, and thirty-four of them landed on the leader of Jonathan's army.
Although Grand Duke Jonathan recruited magicians, the magic power of Grand Duchy of Stannic was far inferior to that of Grant Kingdom. In addition, the nobles were hypocritical and sent all kinds of people, so the magic power was still dominated by the Jonathan family.
The magic power of the head of Jonathan family was average, not as good as that of Duke Harland. The mage group could not stop the thirty-four large-scale magics.
The mage group could not provide protection for the soldiers. After the magic trap was released, there were about three hundred casualties under Grand Duke Jonathan.
If it were not for Harland's holding back one-third of the magic power of Dragon Nest, fifty large-scale magics would be aimed at Grand Duke Jonathan, and the casualties would probably increase to about two thousand.
After all, the later it was, the less help the mage group could provide, and the greater the casualties of the soldiers.
Even without Grand Duke Jonathan, fifty large-scale magics would hit Harland's army, which would also exhaust the magic power of Richard, Sofia, Undine and others. According to Richard's estimation, the Harland Mage Association could take on at most forty-three Dragon Nest spells.
The remaining seven spells could only be used to consume human lives, and the number of casualties would not be small.
After the magic power accumulated in the dragon's nest was exhausted, Ramos rushed down from the top of the mountain with the remaining soldiers.
Because Richard had no legends on his side, Ramos decided to attack him personally, wanting to attack the weak enemy first, defeat Richard, and then stop Archduke Jonathan.
So when deploying troops, it placed the terrain dragons, trolls, and half-dragons in the east, and took the wyvern to attack Richard personally.
Seeing Ramos swooping down directly, Richard immediately wanted to release the starlight bomb.
However, the legendary dragon flew very fast. If it could not be restricted, it would inevitably avoid the explosion center of the starlight bomb, and it might not be able to severely injure the opponent, so Undine and Sofia took the lead.
Sofia and Undine were both eight-ring mages, and the spells they released could already threaten legendary masters.
Sofia cast the spell first, releasing the seven-ring magic rainbow light chain. Two magical auras appeared instantly, binding Ramos' claws. Sofia used ten points of mental power to release a powerful spell. Despite the legendary dragon's magic resistance, it still couldn't escape.
At the same time, Wendy also attacked almost at the same time, releasing the eight-ring magic binding cage. Countless magic chains extended out and locked Ramos.
Sofia and Wendy attacked at the same time, limiting Ramos's range of movement. Richard immediately seized the opportunity and released the starlight bomb.
A white light descended from the sky and quickly hit the top of the legendary dragon.
In an instant, the ground under Ramos' feet shook, dust flew, and a dazzling white light appeared in everyone's eyes, making people unable to open their eyes for a short time.
The power of the starlight bomb is equivalent to the standard four-ring magic. Even if a legendary third-level knight is hit, he will die on the spot and cannot be stopped at all. However, the dragon's magic resistance far exceeds that of humans. This super-large magical creature has an extremely strong vitality. Although it was hit by the starlight bomb on the spot and was in the center of the explosion, it still did not die.
However, at this moment, Ramoos was already seriously injured and dared not continue to fight.
Ramoos flapped his wings desperately, and no one knew what secret method he used. He disappeared in the distance in the blink of an eye. His flying speed was much faster than that of the wyverns and lion ducks, making it almost impossible for Richard and others to catch him.
On the contrary, the wyverns that acted with Ramoos were directly killed by the starlight bomb, and more than ten wyverns in the periphery of the explosion were injured.
These injured wyverns were captured by Harland's soldiers.
A starlight bomb directly hit Ramoos to abandon the dragon's nest and escape directly. The remaining wyverns did not dare to continue to fight with Harland's army.
It's just that it's easy to come, but hard to leave.
Although the wyverns were determined to escape, they were stopped in the sky by Harland's flying troops. Harland's magic hot air balloon, lion cavalry, and wyvern knights attacked at the same time, blocking the nearby space. With the help of archers and magicians, Harland's army successfully captured eight of the fleeing wyverns. Of the more than 30 attacking wyverns, only six or seven managed to escape.
"Follow them and wipe out the wyvern's nest."
After the battle, Richard immediately sent a message to Driffin, asking him to take all the flying troops to catch up with the fleeing wyverns and wipe them out.
After the flying troops left, Richard led his soldiers to defeat the jackal army and took the lead in breaking into the dragon's nest.
Not long after Richard attacked the dragon's nest, Duke Jonathan also led his troops to defeat the half-dragons, terrain dragons, and trolls. Because Ramos went to Richard's side, Duke Jonathan had no opponent in this battle, and the casualties were only about a hundred people, but he successfully killed more than a dozen terrain dragons and captured more than twenty alive.
The dragon marrow fluid in the mouth of the terrain dragon is a very important treasure for the Jonathan family.
Unfortunately, once the dragon marrow fluid is taken away from this kind of monster with dragon blood, it may lose its life in the next few days. Even if it survives successfully, it cannot release breath spells. Without this killer, its combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened.
Moreover, the terrain dragon has a bad temper and its IQ is not as good as that of the wyvern, so it is very difficult to tame it.
It is estimated that it will take a lot of effort for the Jonathan family to cultivate a terrain dragon monster cavalry.
Although trolls and ogres are intelligent creatures, they are just cruel by nature and have the custom of eating people, so they were all killed by Duke Jonathan.
The half-dragons are also intelligent creatures. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, they surrendered to Grand Duke Jonathan. The Jonathan family was originally half-dragons, and it was impossible for them to discriminate against their own kind.
The half-dragons joined the Jonathan family and would soon submit.
After the two sides met, they began to discuss the division of the treasures in the dragon's nest.
According to the agreement, all the magical plants near the dragon's nest belonged to the Duke of Harland.
Richard asked the magicians to walk around the area and found more than 100 dragon blood fruit trees.
Seven or eight of them have evolved into advanced dragon blood fruit trees, and one advanced dragon blood fruit tree has matured, with three dragon blood fruits hanging on it. At this moment, the time to refine the legendary Styx potion is fully ripe.