Chapter 97 - Gaining the Trust of the Gnomes
The shafts were interconnected and there were crushed rocks everywhere. There were also signs of this place being freshly mined. His guess was that the mine had just been opened recently.
He followed the passage and crawled into it.
It wasn’t long before he could hear a conversation from inside.
“Robert, I say, we have so much ore at home. Why do they still want us to mine?”
“I heard from one of our clan members from the council that they are building a statue for our dead king, to obtain his inheritance!”
“I see, I wonder who can get the inheritance?!”
“Continue mining. I heard that the Elder will take the dragon’s corpse out and cook it. If we return earlier we might get a few bites of dragon meat. I heard that the dragon meat could make us into even powerful beings. I’m drooling by just thinking about it.”
“Because I love to eat humans’ buttocks!” Yanhu said and jumped, opening his bloody jaw and attempted to bite into Robert!
Seeing that the time was right, Jiang Feng then used his Float skill and flew into the air.
He looked at where Yanhu was at, only to see that Yanhu had pounced both gnomes onto the ground and began to bite at them.
Gnomes have high hit points and defense, so he wasn’t worried that he would accidentally kill the two gnomes. The most that he’ll do was to cause them some wounds and PTSD.
Roar!
When the two gnomes had wounds all over their body, Jiang Feng let out a Dragon Howl and caused both Yanhu and the gnomes to enter into a daze.
Next, he attacked Yanhu a few times causing him to get bloodied.
When both the gnomes entered the Daze state, they saw a dragon was being stepped on by a dragon, and they were overjoyed.
“Roar! Seeing that we’re both Shifters, I will let you live. But if I see you harm the gnomes again, I will take your life! Now, leave!”
Seeing that the two gnomes had awakened from the Daze, he quickly yelled at Yanhu coldly. Then, he caught Yanhu’s tail using his claw and threw Yanhu into the nearby bushes.
“Roar, are you two alright?” After throwing Yanhu away, Jiang Feng walked to the side of the two gnomes and asked them about their condition.
“We… we’re fine. Thank you, Lord Dragon!” Robert answered Jiang Feng cowardly.
“Just call me Brother Feng. The Dragon and Gnomes have always maintained a good relationship. It is natural for me to save you,” Jiang Feng said. “I see that both of you are heavily wounded, allow me to send you back home.”
“No, no. We can return ourselves,” Robert waved his hand.
“I must, I must. You know how we dragons are like. Now that both of you are so severely injured, if anything were to happen to you on the way back, I would be filled with remorse,” Jiang Feng said.
“Alright!”
Seeing that Jiang Feng wanted to send them back, they nodded in agreement, but worry filled their eyes.
Jiang Feng had naturally seen through their worries.
The Gnomes were going to cook a dragon’s corpse. If he were to find out about it, he would be furious.
In order to dispel their worries and get their trust, Jiang Feng then followed behind them and said with a sigh, “I heard that my ancestor had died in the gnome’s homeland. You gnomes have done a good job. My ancestor had become a demon. According to his personality, he would rather die than to cause chaos in this land. We dragons do have to thank you for that!”
In the beginning, when they heard Jiang Feng’s words, the two gnomes paled and began to shake. But once they heard the second half of his speech, they heaved a heavy sigh. Robert could only sigh and said, “I didn’t expect that Brother Feng would be from the Earthcover Dragon race. Unfortunately, our elders have done all they know to remove the demonic aura from the Earthcover Dragon but still failed. This was the only way left.”
“Yes. The reason that I wanted to send you back is to first guarantee your safety. Secondly, it is to thank you gnomes,” Jiang Feng continued to make things up.
As they discussed on their way back, he eventually obtained the trust of the two gnomes. They even gave him the gnome’s map.
When they finally reached the cliff, the two gnomes took out their pickaxes and climbed their way down. Jiang Feng used this chance to take Yanhu back into the Qiankun Gourd, and only then followed the two gnomes down.