Chapter 79 Deborah's Riddle, The Alchemy Horn Ring.

A month has passed since the copper dragon Deborah left Red Maple Ridge.

The copper dragon's goal was clear—to defeat the hybrid dragon that had made him taste defeat, then capture and train it, remove its evil nature, and lead it into the embrace of benevolent dragons.

The red-iron hybrid dragon, born evil, would definitely become a super evil dragon if it grew up.

On the contrary.

If we can get them to turn over a new leaf, it will be an extremely glorious achievement, a feat that is hard to replicate and worthy of praise and celebration!

That's what the copper dragon itself thought.

Its silver dragon father and red copper dragon mother also encouraged and praised it.

It's unclear what psychology it stems from, but metal dragons generally have the idea of ​​persuading evil dragons to do good.

For example, metal dragons like to steal, or even snatch, the eggs of evil dragons and raise them themselves.

Such examples are not uncommon among metallic dragons, and metallic dragons that can raise evil dragons into benevolent ones will be recorded in the metallic dragon heritage and highly rewarded.

The search for Galus was not going smoothly.

Marking alchemical tools, coins, and gems is not a skill that the young Copper Dragon can master.

Although its possessions were stolen, it was unable to locate Galus through these means.

Initially, the Copper Dragon returned to the place where it had been defeated by Garros, and began a thorough search of the surrounding area, starting from the abandoned mine infested with Rock Worms.

Dragons are extremely sensitive to the aura of other dragons.

Moreover, dragons have an unobstructed view when soaring through the sky and looking down at the earth, so they are extremely efficient if they are focused on searching for a target.

However, the wilderness is vast, and finding another dragon in the vast wilderness in a short period of time is not an easy task.

The previous week.

The copper dragon remembered the scent of Garus and discovered the Hemlock Hills.

Unfortunately, the place had been reduced to ashes, leaving only charred marks and turning it into a barren mountain. The copper dragon gained nothing.

Undeterred, it continued its search with high morale.

While passing over an oil field, the copper dragon was suddenly attacked.

Enraged, it discovered that the attackers were Blackrock Dwarves and immediately descended towards the oil field.

Upon discovering that the target was a metal dragon, the Blackrock Dwarves quickly halted their attacks. High-ranking officers in the garrison intervened, gifting the copper dragon some small toys from the southern kingdoms and playing a riddle game with it before finally calming its anger.

A mere young copper dragon is not enough to instill fear in the Blackrock garrison.

If it were any other young evil dragon, even a young red dragon, daring to descend upon their territory, it would inevitably be surrounded and beaten, or even skinned and dismembered.

However, metal dragons are different from evil dragons.

The evil dragons are solitary creatures, their relationships with each other are cold, and they have no powerful backers.

Metal Dragons place great importance on bloodline bonds and are extremely protective of their own.

When a young metal dragon is adventuring outside, it may have a conflict or disagreement with it. It's okay to injure it, but it takes skill to seriously injure it.

But if you kill him, the consequences will be severe.

Unless they can guarantee that they won't be detected or tracked, the wrath of the older and more powerful metal dragon could descend at any moment.

Magic flourishes on the planet Bernardo, and the civilizations of various races are highly developed. Dragons may not be the top rulers, but they are definitely dominant beings, especially the united and closely connected metal dragons.

It is said that...

Killing the golden dragon might even incur the wrath of the Dragon God.

The Principality of Blackrock belongs to the Lorthern Federation and is a member of the Orderly Nation. Knowing the troublesome consequences of provoking the Metal Dragon, it naturally will not attack it.

While at the oilfield camp, the Blackrock Dwarf explained to the Copper Dragon the reason for attacking it.

Groni, a dwarf sorcerer in the army, was ambushed by an evil half-dragon and blinded.

This hybrid dragon had previously sent its minions to steal their black oil from underground and destroyed two of their alchemical golems, making the garrison somewhat nervous. So when the copper dragon flew by, they mistook it for an evil dragon circling and probing, and launched an attack.

The copper dragon asked the evil dragon if it was a red iron hybrid, and received an affirmative answer.

It hurriedly pressed the Blackrock Dwarves for information on the whereabouts of the Red Iron Hybrid Dragon, but the Blackrock Dwarves did not know either, otherwise they would have already sent soldiers to hunt it down.

No clues were found.

The copper dragon left the oilfield site.

It wandered aimlessly in the sky above the wilderness, and whenever it caught a whiff of a dragon, it would go to investigate, but it never found Garus.

Even today.

The torrential rain made the fire-type copper dragon uncomfortable, and amidst the howling wind and rain, it began to consider giving up its pursuit of Garos.

Then it noticed.

Lightning bolts kept striking in the distance, illuminating the sky as bright as day. Strangely, all the lightning bolts struck the same spot, as if they were drawn together by some force, and the air was faintly filled with the aura of dragons.

Driven by curiosity, the bronze dragon flew over.

When it saw the target it was about to be struck, it was first slightly taken aback, then overjoyed and couldn't help but shout.

"You inherently evil hybrid dragon! I've found you!"

Garus looked up and saw the figure of the bronze dragon, and heard its shout.

Why are you shouting so loudly?

Also, how did this guy find me?

Galos was somewhat puzzled and wary.

After he robbed the bronze dragon of its equipment and treasure, he carefully and meticulously examined it and found no tracking marks or spells on it. Moreover, the young bronze dragon theoretically did not have any corresponding skills.

Of course, the safest approach is to throw everything away or destroy it.

However, Garus has not yet completely overcome the dragons' greedy nature.

The thought of losing the treasure to him was heartbreaking. He left it without noticing any tracking marks on it. Later, he met the fairy dragon Vera and had her check it again, but still found nothing unusual.

"It was my carelessness."

"My obsession with wealth made me subconsciously ignore potential risks, which is a major weakness that I need to address through targeted training."

Galos thought to himself.

He noticed it keenly.

On the copper dragon's horn was a glittering, gleaming silver horn ring, and the scales on its neck appeared to bulge slightly, as if some good things were hidden underneath.

Suppress the urge to directly seize it.

Garus gazed at the bronze dragon and asked in a deep voice:

How did you find me?

"Hehe, the answer is hidden in the riddle."

Deborah, the copper dragon, circled in the downpour, her scales gleaming from the rain. She grinned mischievously, cleared her throat, and began to chant in a melodious, rhythmic voice:

"It is formless and intangible, yet it can make the fools triumph and the wise fall."

"It works silently, yet it can turn the weak up and crush the strong."

"It is elusive, yet it can turn chance into inevitability and inevitability into chance."

"It is neither magic nor skill, yet it has brought you here today—to meet me again!"

"Tell me, hybrid dragon, what is this?"

(End of this chapter)