The Journey of the Rainbow Dragon

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack from the front!"

There is a winding path hidden in the leafy forest.

There was no road here, but there were many corner carriages passing by, so they walked out of such a forest path.

At this moment, Ron and his party were walking on this narrow path. In front of the wildebeest was a group of traveling merchants they met on the road.

Businessmen know everything.

"It's a digger! Damn it, use the stone net! Don't be touched by its acid!"

The guard captain shouted urgently.

They are in trouble, a second-level monster, a burrowing insect!

Diggers resemble giant, many-legged insects, with long tentacles that twitch in response to the movement around them.

The ends of its legs are sharp claws, suitable for digging and catching prey. Its strong jaws can even bite small trees in two!

The guard captain at the head of the caravan directed the guards to attack this second-level monster in an orderly manner.

The merchants in the caravan were hiding in the carriages and shivering.

They were a small business group, and this was their first long-distance trade. Unexpectedly, they encountered a rare second-level monster like a burrowing worm halfway through.

It can be considered extremely lucky.

[Business group: A special group that emerged when multiple merchants pooled money together to hire a team of carriages and escorts so that even weak merchants could conduct long-distance trade. 】

Fortunately, the hired escorts were relatively reliable, and the leading escort captain was a silver-level warrior.

It can be seen from his weathered cheeks that he is at least forty years old.

Under his command, this second-level monster was ultimately outnumbered, with four claws no match for twenty hands.

As everyone attacked, more and more tiny wounds appeared on its chitinous carapace.

"laugh!"

The dying burrower spat out its final acid attack, covering a linear area 30 feet long and 5 feet wide in front of it.

"I come!"

The guard captain expertly held up the gray cotton stone net, and all the green acid sprayed on the net, making a hissing sound.

But in the end, the net was not corroded.

The escorts under the net found the right opportunity and immediately swarmed up and launched a righteous group fight.

Knives, axes, swords, and hammers were slashing and smashing against the shell.

"Pfft!"

In the end, the guard captain ended the encounter with a Western knife full of fighting spirit.

The sharp blade passed through the middle, cutting the three-meter-high burrowing insect into two pieces.

A brilliant victory!

[Comment from Ron. 】

Ron watched with interest as he watched the guards gathered together to cheer and celebrate.

One of the rainbow dragon's personality traits: He likes to watch stage plays, especially those of humans.

This also makes them the legendary dragons that are best at dealing with intelligent creatures (people) among the three legendary dragon species.

The group of people in front of them have become actors in Ron's play.

"I don't know if they will be so happy after another lurking digger launches an attack."

Ron thought to himself.

Ron and his convoy have been traveling for a month and a half on their way to the royal capital.

In about another week's journey, we can reach the royal capital of Ovia.

The reason why they walked so fast was because, except for a few trips to the village for supplies along the way, they basically never stopped at other times.

The two wildebeests were almost exhausted.

As a last resort, Ron bought two more wildebeests from the village he passed by, and took turns driving them so that he didn't die from exhaustion.

The apprentices in the car all had sallow faces and painful expressions, no longer the same demeanor they had in Oracle Town.

The long ride in the corner carriage made each of them suffer from motion sickness to varying degrees.

The caravan in front met by chance at the previous supply point, and both parties had the same final destination.

Seeing the badge of the Magic Academy worn on the carriage, these shrewd businessmen knew that Ron and his party must be accompanied by a magic master.

So I thought about it and wanted to go with Ron and his group. If they were in danger, they would have a helper to take care of them.

None of this mattered to Ron, so he just let them follow.

There just happened to be no programs on the road.

Ron held his chin up and enjoyed the crispy biscuits fed by Vivian beside him.

"Dong dong."

With his left paw gently tapping on the edge of the car window, Ron watched quietly as the female digger quietly approached the cheering crowd.

Monsters such as burrowers are generally solitary unless they are in estrus.

Apparently the husband of this digger lady died while hunting for her children.

And she wanted to give this group of cheering people a surprise.

"what is this!!!"

Panic and miserable cries came.

The female digger suddenly burst out of the ground, her four black pearl-like compound eyes staring at the target she had already aimed at.

She grabbed a young guard with her sharp jaws, then quickly retracted into the mud hole, crushing and secreting acidic digestive enzymes to make the prey easier to dissolve and swallow.

"Woo!! Woo..."

The caught guard just yelled under the influence of acidic digestive enzymes, and then stopped making any sound.

"Jack!"

"Damn, why are there two!"

The sudden attack caused chaos in the crowd. Everyone subconsciously looked for cover, but ended up bumping into each other.

"Get away!"

The guard captain stood up at the critical moment.

Brandishing his Western knife, he rushed into the crypt with only a pair of rat-skin boots visible outside.

Diggers use their powerful jaws to dig winding tunnels deep underground and often use this skill to hunt for food.

"laugh!"

A large amount of acid sprayed at the guard captain, but fortunately he kept holding the cotton stone net and didn't let go.

Bits of acid dripped onto his shoulders through the gaps, and quickly corroded after contact with the armor.

"Hmm!!!"

The guard captain endured the severe pain and rushed to the digger.

The khaki female digger obviously didn't expect this human being to be so crazy, and rushed up against its acid juice.

"brush!"

Life and death are all in one thought.

The guard captain used all his strength to arouse fighting spirit and attached it to the sword.

A beautiful horizontal slash decapitated the Digger.

The head with four compound eyes fell into the crypt with a pop.

"Pull me up! Prepare some water!"

Only then did everyone on the surface react and reach out together to drag the two people out of the cave.

Unfortunately, the guard who was attacked had lost his breath.

His neck was almost severed by the sharp mouthparts of the female digger.

A team member was holding a water bag to clean the wounds of the guard captain who had been corroded by strong acid.

The guard captain ignored his injured arm and endured the severe pain to instruct everyone to take safety precautions.

This time everyone no longer cheered, but silently packed up the three corpses.

【A narrow victory】

Ron commented again.

If the female digger could directly kill the guard captain, it might still have a chance of victory.

After all, except for the guard captain, no one in the basic guard team can easily break through its chitin carapace.

Of course, its ending cannot escape the fate of death.

Who told the caravan to be followed by a fire mage and a legendary dragon?

The apprentices in the car who witnessed the whole battle were silent.

This was the first time I saw a close combat between humans and monsters on the road, and it was also the first time I saw a human being killed by a monster.

Most of the monsters I encountered on the road were eliminated by Morey's fireball spell, and I didn't feel nervous or scared at all.

In the carriage, Vivian and Carol sighed, a life just passed away.

They were unaware of the existence of a second worm.

When he saw the guards working together to kill the male digging insect, Carol was still excitedly discussing the information about this insect monster with Vivian.

I didn't expect the change to happen so quickly.

The guards seemed to have been used to all this for a long time. They buried their teammates skillfully, and then used knives to cut open the belly of the digger to look for the magic core.

Not every monster has a magic core. The higher the level of the monster, the higher the probability of producing a magic core.

Sometimes, if you kill four or five second-level monsters like Diggers, you may not be able to find a single magic core.

Fortunately, they found a green magic core in the body of the female digger.

It is written in the contract between the business group and the escort that everything produced by the monsters killed on the escort road belongs to the escort.

Therefore, this valuable second-level magic core can make up for the injured hearts of the escort team members.

"Um?"

Ron noticed a group of strange human auras appearing in the detection magic area.

As a cautious dragon, he keeps releasing high-intensity detection magic around the clock.

Within twenty kilometers around him is his detection area.

"No, not just humans?"

Ron frowned. There seemed to be too many humans in this group? And it's also mixed with the smell of other creatures.

"This shape is"

"Orcs?"