Chapter 64 Poisoning
The night wind rustled through the branches, the leaves rubbing against each other, casting long, thin shadows on the ground.
The moonlight, cut through the branches and leaves, fell on the Garus scales, forming scattered patches of light.
His hard body pushed aside the bushes, his claws pried open the vines, and he smelled the blood in the air. After searching the surrounding area for a few minutes, he stopped.
Look closely.
A small section of the severed serpentine dragon's tail lay quietly on the ground. The green dragon blood seeping from the fracture had corroded all the surrounding rubble and broken branches, forming a green liquid pool centered on the severed tail, which was still bubbling and continuing to erode the surrounding area.
"If there's poison in the blood, why doesn't it poison itself to death?"
Garus picked it up by its severed tail, then flapped its dragon wings and soared into the sky, flying back towards the direction of the Conifer Valley.
This time, I came out to check on my 'neighbors'.
Galos originally intended to investigate as many intelligent creature clans or powerful ferocious beasts and monsters as possible at once.
However, after discovering the existence of the Cliff Serpent Dragon in the Graymane Werewolf tribe and fighting with it, the dragon's wings were poisoned, and it lost the will to continue exploring, so it simply returned to the Needle Valley.
Not long after.
Garus flew over the Pinnacle Valley, folded his dragon wings, and landed at his usual training ground, a clearing in the valley.
On the west side of the open space, the fairy dragon Vera was lying on a treetop, swaying back and forth, fast asleep.
Galos's arrival did not wake it. It first sniffed, and then, as if it had suddenly had a nightmare, it began to swing its limbs and tail wildly, lost its balance, and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Snake! Snake! Snake! Don't eat me!"
The fairy dragon trembled like a quail and screamed in fear.
It just had a dream that it encountered a snake-dragon, was caught by it, and was about to be cruelly eaten.
However, upon opening its eyes, it found itself still in the Conifer Valley, facing a strong, red-iron hybrid dragon, without any trace of the serpent dragon, which relieved it somewhat.
But it immediately felt some doubts.
Because it could clearly smell the scent of a snake or dragon.
The serpent dragons love to eat dragons, and elves are also on their menu. They also love to eat elfin creatures such as Pixies and Flower Fairies. Fairy dragons are both dragons and elfin life forms, making them an absolute delicacy for serpent dragons.
It can be said that the serpent dragon is the natural enemy of the fairy dragon.
In the Fairy Wilderness.
Elder Unicorn loved to use the serpent dragon to scare the fairy dragon, and it always worked.
The fairy dragon was very sensitive to the scent of its natural enemies. Its little head kept turning around, sniffing the smell, and finally it fixed its eyes on Garus.
That's right, the scent of the serpent dragon came from Garos.
It flapped its butterfly-like dragon wings and flew toward Garus, circling Garus's body once.
It discovered that Galus was holding a piece of green tail in its claws. On the edge of its right wing, there was a dark green patch that emitted a foul odor. Several small scales had fallen off there, and the exposed wing membrane was festering and oozing pus.
"You encountered a serpent dragon? And you even got your hands on its venomous blood?"
"I'm worried," the fairy dragon asked.
"We encountered a cliff serpent dragon."
Galos moved forward on his right flank, carefully examining the dark green area corroded by the venom of the serpent dragon.
The intense pain is gone, replaced by numbness, especially in the palm-sized ulcer, where it is almost imperceptible.
Dragons are physically strong and naturally possess a certain degree of resistance to toxins.
Ordinary poisons have negligible effect on dragons.
However, the venom of the serpent dragon seems to have evolved specifically for internal strife and hunting other dragons, and it can cause significant poisoning to the bodies of dragons.
"The Cliff Serpent Dragon's melee skills aren't great, but its poisonous blood is really troublesome."
"Unless I can defeat it using ranged means, if I have to rely on melee combat, even if I can tear it to pieces, I may be seriously injured by the poison after getting too much of its venomous blood on me."
Galos thought to himself.
Severely injured – Galos had experienced this once during his early dragon stages.
He was three years old at the time and realized for the first time that he had the talent to adapt to evolution. Because he could not yet control the arrogance in his dragon nature, he excitedly flew to his limit and began his first 'sun-ground' exercise, wanting to become stronger quickly through drastic means.
The result was that he seriously injured himself.
It took more than half a month of rest for him to gradually recover.
Moreover, his evolutionary talent did not provide him with satisfactory feedback afterward.
This also made him realize that his evolutionary talent was more about gradual accumulation over time than about a sudden burst of intense inspiration.
There is no Iron Dragon Girl to protect us now.
If one is seriously injured and encounters other dangers, the risk of death is extremely high.
At the same time, the fairy dragon flew to Garus's wound and said anxiously, "Quickly cut off this piece of flesh so that the wound can heal faster."
Because Galos promised to play with it, and the bears in its territory also played with it.
This little thing seems to have forgotten that it was a prisoner forcibly kept by the 'slave contract' and has regarded Garus as one of its own.
"Need not."
Garus shook his head, rejecting the fairy dragon's suggestion.
He lifted the severed tail of the serpent dragon, and its wings slowly extended.
The edges were covered with a metallic structure. The wing blades, sharp as knives, sliced inch by inch across the severed tail, staining the 'blades' with poisonous blood and making a hissing, corrosive sound.
Occasionally, the movements were a bit too exaggerated.
Poisonous blood splattered onto Galos's wingspan, forming a dark green patch that sent shivers of excruciating pain through him, like being bitten by a thousand snakes.
Upon seeing this, the fairy dragon immediately widened its eyes.
I've never heard of the venom of the cliff serpent dragon causing dragons to go insane.
"What are you doing?!"
It circled around Galus anxiously.
On the other side, a fiery red dragon shadow passed through the pine needles and walked over.
Samantha was the same one who had caught a whiff of the cliffside serpent dragon.
"Making a fuss over nothing."
Samantha gave the fairy dragon Vera a superior look, raised her chin, and said, "Little one, you'll get used to it after you see more of this. Garus just likes it this way; it's its special hobby."
Upon seeing the red dragon, the fairy dragon shrank back in fear.
Samantha initially wanted to eat it, which still scares it a little.
However, because of Garus's warning, and because the fairy dragon was not even enough to fill a tooth gap, Samantha was not very interested in it and did not show any desire to eat it.
The fairy dragon Vera calmed herself down and acted less afraid of the red dragon.
Upon hearing Samantha's words, and recalling Garos's shocking actions towards the dragon's heart, it vaguely understood Samantha's meaning.
"It seems, it seems that way. Garos's interests are unusual. The first time I saw it..."
The fairy dragon subconsciously spoke to the red baby dragon.
(End of this chapter)
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