Chapter 579
Chapter 579 Dragon Devourer
Greem’s doubts were quickly answered.
Wind Dragon Cherkes wasn’t some tough, unrelenting warrior either. Mary only needed to suck a little of his blood threateningly, and he spilled all the beans.
Third Grade female fire dragon, an organized dragonborn army…
Greem’s head swelled when he heard about it. He once again frowned at his lousy luck.
Second Grade dragons were small fry even in Lance. One of two of them going missing wouldn’t draw the attention of any dragon. However, it was a whole different matter if it was a Third Grade dragon!
A Second Grade dragon in Lance was like the village chief of some rural place; it wouldn’t matter if he died. There would be no commotion or chaos. A Third Grade dragon, on the other hand, was like the lord of a city. These dragons often had many connections and complicated social ties.
A slight misstep would very likely lead to the premature drawing of a Fourth Grade dragon’s attention.
“Take me away…take me away, quick. Adept…adept, didn’t you want to take me away and make me a slave? Hurry up and take me away; let’s leave now. Please don’t ever hand me over to this woman. I…I can give you all the wealth here…”
A ‘frail’ human woman so utterly terrified a Second Grade adolescent dragon. He looked so frightened he would be willing to obey Greem unconditionally as long as Greem took him away from this woman.
That caused Greem to start thinking about the broader implications.
“Hmph! Aren’t you fast? Slipping away from me two times only because you are a wind dragon. Even going so far as to bring the Azure Wings to exterminate me. Hmph. I will treat you well once I get my hands on you.” The female assassin obviously had a grudge on the wind dragon. She was laughing coldly while staring at Cherkes with sinister eyes. It made the wind dragon tremble in fear.
Something wasn’t right. This female assassin didn’t seem to be Third Grade.
If she was Third Grade, she might as well have just stood out and demanded Greem hand over the wind dragon. Greem and the others wouldn’t even have dared to say another word.
However, if she was only Second Grade, then there was no reason Cherkes should be so terrified of her. After all, even Greem, Mary, and Zacha had to work together to beat the wind dragon, trapping it within its lair and sealing off the exit. A little Second Grade assassin shouldn’t be strong enough to make Cherkes so scared!
Greem then thought of the various dragon equipment the woman had on her, along with that dense dragonsoul curse upon her entire being. The Chip instantly found an extremely rare and unorthodox profession within the data library that related to these traits.
“Dragon Devourer!” Greem couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Hm,” The female assassin raised her head in surprise and reassessed Greem, “You, sir, are truly from the World of Adepts. To think you were able to discover my identity so quickly. Indeed, I am a dragon devourer. A Second Grade dragon devourer!”
Greem nodded silently. He finally understood why the wind dragon was so afraid of her.
The stealthed Mary started to ask a bunch of questions through a mental connection with Greem. It was evident that she knew nothing about dragon devourers, given how she spent all of her time on improving her battle techniques.
Greem had no choice but to send what he knew to Mary and Zacha via mental links.
Dragon Devourers weren’t members of the dragon species. Instead, they were a strange hybrid dragon species.
It was hard to verify which specific dragon tribe their bloodline originated from at this point, but they were undoubtedly the greatest mistake that the dragons wished to rectify.
Dragon blood might course through their bodies, but they felt no kinship with the dragons.
They had no exceptional intelligence either and behaved like ordinary humans until their bloodline awakened. They didn’t know any of the mysterious Dragontongue magic, but they were the nightmare of the dragons.
The moment they came of age and awakened to their bloodline as dragon devourers, they would instantly possess elementium affinity that outshone even the faerie dragons. They would also gain the same fearsome Physique and Strength of the dragons. They could recklessly hunt down dragons of even higher grades than themselves and absorb the elementium energy within those dragons to patch the flaws in their bloodline.
They were the dragon devourers!
People slew dragons for a myriad of reasons– wealth, fame, glory, resources, and much more. However, they slew dragons only for the sake of devouring the bloodline of the dragons. The increase of their strength came solely from consuming dragons. As such, they became the greatest prick in the eyes of all dragons.
Every single dragon would summon all of their companions the moment they caught wind of a dragon devourer. They would swear upon their lives to exterminate the dragon devourer, even if they had to rely on their numbers.
That was how the dragon devourers had almost gone extinct from being hunted down by the dragons. The surviving devourers had no choice but to hide here and there.
Greem and the others being able to meet a dragon devourer in Lance was nothing short of a miracle!