Chapter 39: 40 Where did the dragon come from?

Ya-Feng Town, Adventurer's Guild branch.

Mirabelle crashed into the branch president's office.

Oberon glanced at his intelligence department chief with dissatisfaction and lectured:

"Not knocking on the door, acting flustered like that, what does it look like."

"No... it's bad," Mirabelle panted, intermittently, "Detection crystal... monitored... strong magic power..."

"Monitored strong magic power tremor?"

Seeing Mirabelle out of breath, Oberon simply helped her finish.

"It's just that the magic tide broke out two days early; don't make a fuss."

The current Oberon looked like he had everything under control, completely different from the anxious look when he first learned about the magic tide.

The two cities around Ya-Feng Town—Fisherman's Port and Norwid—had both promised to send troops to suppress the magic tide.

It would take two or three days to arrive at Ya-Feng Town.

The magic tide was always weak first and then strong, so even if it broke out now, the pressure in the first few days wouldn't be too great.

He had recruited a large number of adventurers in advance to deal with the monsters running out in the first few days, which should be more than enough.

By the time the magic tide developed to a point where adventurers couldn't handle it, the army should have arrived.

So, there was absolutely no need to panic.

Looking at Mirabelle, she still wasn't seasoned enough.

Oberon shook his head slightly, looking disappointed in Mirabelle.

He elegantly picked up the small cup on the table and took a sip of the moon wine produced from the archipelago.

However, Mirabelle's words didn't seem finished, and she continued:

"Not... not just magic power tremor... there's also resonance!"

"Cough, cough—"

He coughed out all the wine he had just drunk, and Oberon subconsciously retorted:

"Impossible! If a magic tide occurred in another dungeon, headquarters couldn't have not notified me!"

"It's not a dungeon within the United Kingdom," Mirabelle finally smoothed her breath and said urgently, "It's the Dragon Cliff Dungeon over in the Hermit Empire!"

!!!

Dragon Cliff Dungeon, one of the six large dungeons in this world, located in the far north of the Hermit Empire, close to the wasteland.

The monsters inside were mainly dragon beasts, and their strength was a big cut higher than the Amethyst Dungeon.

And the so-called resonance refers to the situation where the internal spaces of two dungeons that break out in the magic tide at the same time become connected.

In this situation, the saying "the intensity is not high in the first few days of the magic tide" doesn't apply.

Because the first floor on your side might be directly connected to the deep zone on the other side.

And the other hazards of resonance depend on the object of resonance.

This time, resonating with the Dragon Cliff Dungeon, which was far stronger than Amethyst, was clearly a very dangerous one.

"But... but how is this possible? This, this spans more than half the continent!" Oberon still didn't want to accept it.

"Branch President!

Dungeon resonance has nothing to do with distance; what's important now is to quickly think of a way!

Relying on adventurers who haven't made corresponding preparations, they will collapse at the first touch when encountering dragon beasts!"

Mirabelle's tone rose, looking like she was going crazy with anxiety.

If the magic tide really destroyed Ya-Feng Town, neither she nor Oberon would have a good end.

"You, you go and send all the power in the guild over.

Let the logistics department take out all the items for dealing with dragons and send them all to the gate!

I'll contact the troops and have them speed up their journey."

Mirabelle nodded and was about to leave, but was grabbed by Oberon again.

"By the way, don't announce the resonance; just let our people take the items."

"..."

Mirabelle looked at Oberon, her eyes filled with a trace of fear.

She understood that Oberon did this to prevent the adventurers from "retreating in the face of difficulties."

Currently, it seemed to be a correct choice.

But... how ruthless!

The completely uninformed adventurers, facing the mutated magic tide, would undoubtedly suffer heavy casualties.

Oberon was going to use their lives to drag out this magic tide...

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"Rush out of the dungeon... destruction..."

Get lost!

Banish the fuzzy voice that suddenly appeared in his mind.

Is this what influences dungeon monsters?

The voice was quite magnetic.

But it didn't seem to have any use on him.

Compared to this voice, the monster that appeared on the fifth floor made Lin Jun panic more.

Dragon!

Are you kidding me?

When that head poked out completely from the rift, Lin Jun's entire mushroom was collapsing.

Are there dragons in the deep zone?

How come I didn't know?

The "dragon" body appeared... Lin Jun breathed a sigh of relief instead.

This isn't a dragon!

It was a monster that walked on four legs, resembling a dragon but not a dragon.

Pulling up the panel, it also displayed its identity.

[Race: Dragon Beast - Blade-Tailed Whip Dragon]

[Level: LV42]

Dragon beast, a fairly large classification.

Any monster with a bit of dragon bloodline could be classified into it.

He thought it was a real dragon and was scared.

However, even a dragon beast wasn't weak; just the scales on its body provided LV5 magic resistance.

His mushroom cannon hitting it would be weakened quite a bit.

So, what would this dragon beast do?

Attack him?

Or rush straight to the upper floors?

One could see the Blade-Tailed Whip Dragon’s tail lengthening segment by segment, its dark red scales slightly raised, and the bone blades on both sides fully extending outward.

When all the bone segments were fully extended, that tail actually extended from the original 2 meters into a 10-meter-long blood-colored whip.

It twisted its butt, and the long whip wrapped with the sound of wind, swinging toward the Puji.

Fortunately, Lin Jun had been prepared.

[Assault Ejection LV5]

The Puji jumped backward in unison, dodging this whip attack.

No wonder it's called a Blade-Tailed Whip Dragon; the name can be said to be very appropriate.

But it really had to be fought!

The whip dragon's tail had just swung a circle when the Puji's mushroom cannon shots landed on it.

The giant body size of five meters made it almost impossible for the Puji to miss.

More than a hundred mushroom cannon shots blasted onto its body, and even with the highly resistant scales, the Blade-Tailed Whip Dragon was blasted into a bloody mess, only able to wail incessantly in its dying breath.

Honestly, Lin Jun wasn't lacking in firepower.

Compared to it, those two agility-type beast-men of similar level were much harder to deal with.

But there was nothing to be proud of, because this was clearly just the beginning.

Two more dragon beasts of different breeds rushed out from the rift.

One of them actually had wings and rushed into mid-air the moment it came out.

Looking at that speed, it was the agility-type he hated...

As monsters poured out from the rift continuously, the battle quickly entered a white-hot stage.

And this was just the entrance with preparations.

On the other side, the rift guarded by only 30 Puji was miserable.

A two-headed dragon beast crawled out, and the Puji tried to attack, but the mushroom cannon shots were offset by the flames it sprayed.

Two Puji that were close were roasted on the spot.

As expected, it couldn't be guarded...

A black shadow suddenly swept out of the rift, circled in the air, and dived down fiercely...

Landing on the back of the two-headed dragon beast.

Two claws fiercely grabbed the dragon beast's double necks, the knuckles directly crushing the scales on the neck, and a large amount of blood seeped out between the claws.

Then the sharp claws pulled the dragon beast's neck upward, and no matter how the two-headed dragon twisted and sprayed fire, it was useless; until finally, the two heads were actually pulled off alive!

Too violent...

Lin Jun finally saw the appearance of this thing clearly.

A humanoid body, but wrapped in scales with a texture between cold iron and ink jade, the folded dragon wings were attached along the spine, and a huge tail dragged behind it.

Under the scales covering the cheeks, one could see a facial contour approximating a human.

[Race: Dragon-Man]

[Level: LV58]

The dragon-man's nose moved slightly, and the golden vertical pupils looked at the Puji not far away.

Seeing the plump and soft bodies of the Puji, it lowered its head to look at the hard dragon beast head in its hand.

The two dragon beast heads were thrown on the ground like garbage.

The next second, the dragon-man had crossed a distance of more than ten meters and picked up a struggling Puji.

Opening its mouth, revealing two rows of sharp teeth, it bit down with great anticipation—

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 41 =====