Chapter 10 The Tragedy of Northwind Castle
Gold coins flowed from the red dragon's mouth, and Chimera watched all this from outside the cave. In its greedy eyes, there was not only heartache for losing the treasure, but also a hint of resentment, but this emotion was fleeting, and he dared not show it in front of the red dragon.
Casius noticed all this, but he didn't care, and even had a sense of accomplishment as a minotaur.
For this chaotic and evil monster, it is useless to show favor, because Chimera is impossible to be unconditionally loyal to itself, and once it has the opportunity, it will try its best to devour its master and take the throne.
To use an old saying from the previous life, it is called "fear of power but not of virtue", which is the case for this monster.
The only thing the red dragon can do is to use its power and maintain its own powerful prestige, so that it can only be a subordinate forever and never have a chance to turn over.
[Metal scales upgraded to the maximum level (5230/5000)]
[Get new feature [Gilded Scales]]
[Gilded Scales] Ac+3 Constitution +1
[You have swallowed excessive amounts of gold elements, and the flowing gold will adhere to your body surface and deep in your heart.
You can actively activate [Golden Shell], and the gold in your body will form a coating on your body surface, greatly improving your armor value and changing the appearance of the scales to gold. ]
"Can the scales turn gold?"
Casius suddenly had some strange thoughts in his mind.
Because in his memory, there should be no golden dragons in Anzeta.
Is it possible...
Anyway, the life-saving things have increased again, and the red dragon is very happy.
He ignored the Chimera's extremely resentful look and just continued to let it lead the way to explore the Giant's Mouth Cave.
"Is it not the end yet?"
Casius thought.
This place is far more complicated than he imagined, and there are many extremely deep places in it, which makes people suspect that this is not a natural formation, but the creation of some dwarf craftsmen.
In the narrow cave not far away, bursts of hot white smoke and some magma splashed out, which made the red dragon feel a little familiar.
"Keep going in."
Casius signaled Chimera to lead the way.
But this beast who cherished his life just kept whimpering and begging for mercy, and refused to go in no matter what.
"Master, it's hot and dangerous."
"It will die."
After all, it surrendered to the red dragon to save its life.
Rather than letting its life be lost in the magma, it does not have the fire resistance of the red dragon.
"Strange place."
"But the elemental reaction is so intense, it is better to wait until you are fully sure before exploring."
"As for the name, it is called the bottomless cave."
Casius thought for a moment and decided to put it aside for the time being. After all, he is just a young red dragon anyway.
He was reluctant to be the king of this wilderness, let alone facing those unknown monsters underground. If a high-level monster like the eye demon appeared, he was not sure to win.
"You leave first."
"Thank you, Master."
The Chimera breathed a sigh of relief.
It didn't even care about the injuries on its body and ran to the cave where it hid its treasures, and quickly transferred the remaining hundreds of gold coins.
Even ignoring its wings that were about to break, it took its own gold coins and flew to the opposite side to find a place to bury these treasures.
"As expected of a guy with dragon blood."
"You are really thrifty."
Casius couldn't help but shook his head in contempt.
In this way, Casius used the outer cave of the Giant's Mouth Cave as his first nest, and temporarily closed the inner passage with rocks.
And the Chimera was driven by Casius to a small cave opposite the rock wall, as a servant of the red dragon, to guard his house.
In Cassius's opinion, the treatment he gave was already very good. At least he left some savings for it, right? Many modern companies don't have this treatment...
"Magic tricks!"
As Cassius's spell fell, a corner of the cave, a cubic foot area, became clean and tidy, and the bloodstains that had become smelly disappeared.
The red dragon was like a cleaner, using magic to clean the cave inch by inch.
"This brainless beast can really ruin a place. This cave should be a "blessed cave" in the novels of cultivation, but it turned it into a slaughterhouse." Cassius looked at the blood on the ground and couldn't help complaining.
There was another pile of bones in front. The red dragon was about to clean it out of the cave, but he saw the skull with goat horns again.
This skull didn't look too old, probably a few weeks, and there were still some pieces of meat on it, and flies were buzzing around it.
From the body shape similar to that of humans and the broken tailbone, it can be judged that this is a tiefling.
Tieflings are derived from human blood and look roughly the same size as humans.
However, the devil's bloodline has left a clear mark on their appearance. They have horns on their heads, a four to five-foot-long thick tail behind them, and their eyes are all solid color, and their skin is covered with various colors.
These ethnic groups with hell blood usually gather in human towns. They are not necessarily born evil, but they can always see the distrust and discrimination in the eyes of others.
Cassius thought for a moment and recalled the quest line of his previous life: "It's Tieflings, right? Could it be the batch in the [The Woe of Northwind Castle] quest?"
[The Woe of Northwind Castle]
[Northern Wind Castle, also known as Kovanarz Castle, is a city located on the border of the United Kingdom of the North. It faces the Storm Slopes to the north. There are more than 30,000 people in the city, including more than 1,000 tieflings. It is a territory ruled by the noble Earl Rackman. ]
[However, a hundred years ago, the old Duke Brad Rackman, suffering from the loss of his life, made a contract with the evil necromancer and transformed himself into an immortal vampire. Now he has awakened again and agreed to sacrifice a thousand lives for the necromancer within ten years to complete the great ascension. ]
[In the following months, many people in the city disappeared inexplicably, and even their bodies were not found. Bratt Rackman took the opportunity to hold a meeting and issued a notorious "bloody speech", pushing all the responsibilities to the tieflings known as "devil's offspring", claiming that they were sacrificing human lives for the devil. ]
[So, a "just" massacre began. Angry people rushed into the city and tied the defenseless tieflings to the stake. Regardless of gender, age or status, they were all burned alive on the charge of having an affair with the devil. ]
[And the tiefling paladin Medorash of the original city defense army fought to the death, escaped the capture of the duke's soldiers, and led 300 remaining tribesmen to flee to the north, that is, near Storm Peak, and established the tiefling refugee camp "Ruinous House". ]
One of the main tasks of the player in the early stage is to cooperate with the tieflings, expose the true face of Duke Rackman, and kill this brutal vampire.
And North Wind Castle is also the most important "main city".
"Is the tiefling refugee camp near this territory? Maybe I can occupy North Wind Castle through this quest line."
You must know that this is the player's main city. Once you occupy this city, you will almost gain control of the player. In the eyes of Cassius, who has experienced several versions of the previous life and knows the importance of the player, the benefits are too great.
Thinking of this, the red dragon called Chimera again, pointed at the wreckage on the ground and asked:
"Where did you meet these creatures?"
The Chimera came forward, sniffed with its lion head, and replied: "Horned humans, not delicious."
Casius looked at the broken wings of the Chimera, and it seemed that it had no ability to fly long distances.
He thought there was no need to rush, and his power was not strong enough, so he could first take the surrounding creatures under his command.
"Go back and heal your wounds first."
"Yes, master."