Chapter 236
Chapter 236 The Land Cursed by the Dragons
Greem reached Skandre five days after the dragons had raided the city.
Standing on a tall peak on Mount Mingsu, Greem very clearly saw the pitiful capital and its sorrowful civilians walking about the debris and waste.
Along the way here, Greem had seen every human city of decent size raided by the dragons. This was the seventh human city he had seen that had been raided by the dragons. Moreover, it was the one that had been the most severely destroyed.
After all, this was the greatest and most magnificent city of radiance in the knights’ kingdom– Skandre!
Sadly it had now been reduced to a broken city buried under rubble and crumbling walls.
Countless civilians that had lost their homes in the chaos were rummaging about the destroyed buildings, looking for food and clothing. Winding lines of refugee carts filled the streets of the city. Shouting and whinnying were everywhere to be heard. Dust and smoke lingered in the sky…
The buildings at the foot of the mountain were mostly still in decent condition. That was the civilian housing area and had not been raided much by the dragons. The damage to the architecture got increasingly worse with the height of the mountain. Greem saw that the more delicate and magnificent the building, the more severe the damage was.
Greem very vaguely saw a trace of elementium aura about the child.
“Follow me if you want to find out where Runeforge Camp is!” The skinny teenager’s face was a pale yellow color, not unlike a malnutritioned stray on the street. Still, using his elementium sight, Greem saw the massive life energies hidden in his body.
Having finished speaking, the youth wove several hand-signs and a light green rune appeared between his palms. Immediately after that, similar runes flashed above the heads of the crooks present.
In a matter of a few breaths, the youth dispelled the runes and turned to leave. Meanwhile, the crooks had already fallen asleep one after another. It seemed they had suddenly forgot everything.
A very crude way of weaving signs, much like the certain means of a branch of curse adepts.
More importantly, the spell that was completed using these hand-signs radiated extremely insignificant elementium flux. Even though Greem was only ten meters away from him, he had to rely on the chip’s powerful scanning powers to catch the elementium flux frequency.
It seemed that the casters of this plane were still able to stubbornly survive, despite heavy suppression by the witcher-knights. They had even developed some interesting tricks in doing so.
Greem patted the dust of his hands and quickly followed after the youth.
A loud dragon’s roar suddenly reverberated across the skies of the capital. The people remaining in the city immediately ran around looking for hiding spots. Almost instantly, not a single silhouette remained on the streets or alleys.
Countless eyes, filled with anger, looked out from hidden spots in the city, closely staring at the three lithe figures quickly circling about the sky.
The youth also hid in a crumbling house, looking at the dragons’ movement through a crack in the roof. The three green dragons circled several times before lunging towards a palace at the waist of the mountain. Soon the screams and cries of women and the angry roars of men could be heard from the distance.
Zeng zeng zeng…
A dozen crossbow bolts clashed against the leading dragon’s scales, sending sparks flying everywhere, but none of them did any visible damage to it.
These three dragons were clearly teenage dragons that had just come of age. Their hunting experience was greatly lacking when compared to the veteran green dragons from several days ago. The three dragons roared angrily at the retaliation from the pathetic bugs before them and let out large clouds of poison mist in return.
The world quickly fell silent once more!
The three dragons leaped into the halls and immediately started their savage raid, wreaking havoc on the building as they did so.
The scrawny youth looked on quietly as this hideous occurrence continued. He knew he should feel satisfaction and joy at the price the nobles were paying. However, for some reason, his heart was filled with an indescribable anguish, rage, and a trace of sorrow when he saw this happening.
He turned his head and saw no pity or sympathy on Greem’s handsome face. Finally, he couldn’t help but speak
“Will you also enslave us in the future, like the dragons are doing?”