Chapter 46: Marching Giant-tooth Fish Person Army

After eating and drinking their fill, Lai Ang and the seven little dragons continued on their way.

Starting from the seventh day, they had already left the core area of the Emerald Dream's influence and arrived at the outer region where the Emerald Dream's influence was weaker.

Lai Ang and the seven little dragons grew increasingly cautious, no longer flying low, but instead retracting their dragon wings and began trekking through swamps, rainforests, and rivers.

Within the core area, most dangers were eliminated by the strong of the Emerald Dream, making it rare to even see a few wild magical beasts that had reached the Fourth Rank.

But in the outer region—

Roar! The eight little dragons trekking through a rotting rainforest suddenly halted their steps.

"What a powerful roar," second brother Ai Di couldn't help but whisper, somewhat startled.

Pana, Eldo, and the other three black dragon hatchlings that had not yet reached Third Rank all shrank their heads slightly, feeling a bit flustered.

"Big brother?" Third brother Sai Jia, the second-strongest in the group, walked up to Lai Ang's side with a solemn expression.

"Don't rush, the forest ahead is too dense; I'm controlling the Mage's Eye to get closer and scout," Lai Ang said calmly.

As the leader, it must not show even a hint of panic or fear.

Even though it felt a little uneasy inside.

Lai Ang's diverted consciousness controlled the illusory Mage's Eye as it darted swiftly through the jungle, approaching the source of the roar.

It "saw".

A huge golden-furred bear monster was pounding an ancient tree with its meaty palms.

The ancient tree, over ten meters in diameter, trembled like a sapling in a violent storm under the bear's blows, swaying on the verge of collapse.

Crack— the ancient tree snapped.

A grating sound of breaking fibers rang out as the ancient tree, unknown how many years it had grown, crashed to the ground, kicking up dust and smoke tens of zhang high; even Lai Ang and the dragons several hundred meters away could clearly feel the tremor transmitted through the ground.

"It's a Violent Gold Bear, about eight or nine hundred meters ahead—let's detour!" Lai Ang turned his head to the little dragons, his tone grave.

Violent Gold Bear, metal-affiliated, a powerful magical beast capable of reaching Sixth Rank upon adulthood.

Its traits are extremely strong physical defense and terrifying strength, because the two types of magic it masters are precisely those that increase strength and defense.

Adding a pair of bear claws as hard as gold essence, even a dragon of the same rank would not want to take a swipe from this behemoth.

Fortunately, this behemoth cannot fly; its only ranged attack is throwing things, such as stones or uprooting a giant tree and hurling it.

Therefore, upon hearing it was a Violent Gold Bear, the little dragons all let out a slight sigh of relief.

Although this magical beast is powerful, it poses little threat to winged, flying giant dragons.

What the little dragons fear most are magical beasts that are strong, can fly, or wield special types of magic.

After avoiding the Violent Gold Bear's territory, the little dragons journeyed on with only minor scares, crossing several hundred kilometers again, and after eleven days finally reached the outskirts of Fish Spirit Marsh.

Here, the problem that had long been ignored must now be addressed.

"Big brother, can you sense your dragon kin here?" Ai Di gulped down a frog the size of a head and turned his gaze toward Lai Ang.

Lai Ang closed his eyes, sensed carefully, then shook his head with some disappointment, "I can't sense it."

After signing the Dragon Clan Kinship Contract, the dragon master can locate their kin according to the contract's connection.

The stronger the master or servant, the deeper the contract's bond, and the farther the sense can reach.

"That dragon person isn't dead, is he?" Sai Jia muttered. Lai Ang glanced at third brother Sai Jia; that was also what he worried about most.

Although logically, Di Wugesi's strength before departure was not weak, he also had decent wilderness survival experience and brought a retinue of monster followers, so the probability of death should be low.

But if luck turned bad and they encountered an extremely powerful magical beast, then... "Most likely he's not dead; we'll continue searching the outskirts of Fish Spirit Marsh to see if we can sense him." Lai Ang had no other choice.

In this world there are means to locate, for example, an alchemist can craft an auxiliary item with ultra-long-range positioning capability.

Or, among the caster professions, there is a seven-ring spell called Divination; as long as there is a lingering aura, one can divine the approximate location of its owner, even their life or death status.

But obviously, these means are not accessible to Lai Ang.

"As long as he's within a hundred kilometers, I can sense his presence through the contract bond," Lai Ang thought to himself.

Its task for Di Wugesi was to take root in Fish Spirit Marsh and establish a tribe; the exact location wasn't predetermined beforehand and couldn't be. But because Fish Spirit Marsh becomes more dangerous the deeper you go, with more fish-person tribes, Di Wugesi would not venture deep into the marsh.

And as long as it's in the outskirts of Fish Spirit Marsh, although the area isn't small, spending some time would allow one to find it.

Premised on Di Wugesi still being alive.

"We'll follow the river and make a loop around the outskirts of Fish Spirit Marsh," Lai Ang told the seven little dragons.

Here there are many rivers and lakes of all sizes; whether black dragon or white dragon, their strength will increase in this aquatic environment.

Especially the black dragon, which here is as comfortable as a fish in water.

Lai Ang felt the water-attributed mana within his body become three times more active.

"Releasing water-attribute magic here would likely boost its power by ten or twenty percent," Lai Ang thought.

Moreover, the consumption would be even lower.

Plop, plop—eight consecutive splashing sounds as they dove into a river over ten meters wide.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye half a day went by.

"Stop."

In the rushing river, Ai Di and the others obediently halted and looked toward Lai Ang.

"Ahead there's a massive group of Giant-tooth Fish People migrating—no, they must be on the march!" Lai Ang narrowed his dragon eyes.

Fish people come in many varieties—lobster people, scaled fish people, swordfish people, deep-sea fish people. Giant-tooth Fish People are just one kind; they are short in stature, even shorter than humans by one or two heads, but their temperament is extremely ferocious.

Their giant teeth can crush hard stone.

Hmm? At that moment, Lai Ang's mind felt the contract bond with the Gray-scaled Dragon Person "Di Wugesi" twitch.

This indicates that his dragon kin is nearby within a hundred kilometers.

Viewing through the Mage's Eye the thousands-strong Giant-tooth Fish Person army in this river, Lai Ang's mood became somewhat complicated.

Could it be that the destination of this Giant-tooth Fish Person army is the tribe established by that dragon kin of his? After sharing this discovery with the little dragons, everyone eventually felt the speculation made sense.

"Then we'll follow behind this Giant-tooth Fish Person army," Lai Ang grinned.

Although these giant-tooth fish people number in the thousands, their strength looks rather ordinary.

Most of them aren't even First Rank, just trash fish.

(End of chapter)