Chapter 214
Chapter 214 Dragon Valley
Dragon Cliff.
This was a taboo name for all the humans living on the knights’ continent.
There were still plenty of bards and poets spreading grand stories of Dragon Cliff’s beauty in inns and bars of all sizes across the continent. However, the existence of Dragon Cliff remained as stories for most people. Rarely had people ever truly seen the place for themselves.
It was rumored that it was the place the dragons lived in. It was rumored that endless wealth was hoarded there. It was believed to be the graveyard of many arrogant individuals that dared to challenge the dragons in hopes of becoming dragon knights.
But where was the Dragon Cliff? No one knew!
This was a silent valley in a vast mountain range.
This mountain range stretched for long distances in all directions. A large forest grew atop the mountains, covering an area of nearly five hundred kilometers. Here, mountain peaks that pierced the clouds and dizzying cliffs were everywhere.
Whenever this happened, one or two of the green dragon parents would fly out of their caves, diving down and skillfully piercing the body of a herbivore with their sharp claws before tossing it to their whelps’ side.
Then a group of whelps would surge forward, breathing out poison mists or spitting green saliva on the prey to kill it. They would leap forward joyfully when the prey had finally succumbed to the poison, and use their fine fangs that had just grown out to bite the flesh on the prey’s body.
It was such a bloody and cruel scene. Yet in the eyes of Willis, a green dragon himself, it all seemed so warm and sweet. As a half-dragon, the blood that flowed in his body was the blood of dragons!
The place the green dragons’ clan leader Raistlin met Willis was the meeting hall.
This wide hall located in the middle of the tall cliff, at its very heart, was large enough to host twenty or thirty dragons at once. With the exception of the Dragon’s Altar at the top of the cliff, it was the most sacred place of Dragon Cliff. Raistlin would only gather the dragons here to talk when they faced a difficult decision.
Thus, when Willis transformed back into a human and walked into the meeting hall, a bad feeling had already risen in his heart.
There were three dragons waiting for him here.
Green Dragon clan leader Raistlin and green dragon clan elder Singe and Phantim!
They all had the terrifying prowess of Fourth Grade beings.
“I welcome you, my child.” Raistlin’s loud voice boomed throughout the hall and caused the walls to tremor, “I hope you bring us good news this time!”
“I wonder what kind of good news father wants?” Willis asked gravely.
“We smelled the evil aura of adepts on Rissana, whom you sent back. I hope your visit this time has nothing to do with them!” Raistlin lowered his body and put his imposing head before the two meter tall Willis. His large amber eyes stared unblinkingly at Willis.
“Oh great father, I may have brought news that you do not wish to hear!” Pain appeared on Willis’ face as he spoke, “The king of the humans asked me to bring you a message. He wishes for the powerful Dragon Cliff to send green dragons to reinforce the frontlines, on the goodwill of all the past annual offerings the humans have provided us. It is said that the battle there is going terribly. The adepts hide in Greenland Forest and bring about terrible deaths and losses to the witcher-knights!”
“What is your stand then?” Not a single emotion was betrayed on Raistlin’s ferocious face, “Tell me, my child!”
“I… ” The struggle was becoming increasingly obvious on Willis’ face, “Naturally, I do not wish the flames of world war to spread to Dragon Valley. Neither do I wish to see my brothers and sisters fall under the butcher’s knife of the adepts. However… given that the adepts have already arrived, should we not stand out and defend our own ranch? After all, this is our territory. Our territory that we have managed for over a thousand years!”