Beneath the Red Dragon

Using the Magic Paralysis Potion and Enchanted Blessing Arrow, it resembles a blowgun but is heavier than a blowgun.

It is silent when activated, but can easily take down the Ferocious Giant Elephant King on the prairie. The young thief’s impressive skills hadn’t even been demonstrated before he was easily put down by a few arrows.

The Black Armored Light Cavalry made a gesture, and a few Light Armor Knights leapt down from the skylight. The stone roof of the inn also echoed with muffled footsteps.

However, these knights descending afterward were not ordinary knights, but Demon-Banning Knights, as tall as the knights, yet golem-like.

As the empire’s largest city, the Royal Capital possesses a City Defense Barrier that prohibits Magic Ability, but capturing a small squad of the Harpist Alliance’s team doesn’t require such elaborate measures.

The subsequent task needs no elaboration; these Demon-Banning Knights only need to open the inn’s door and shoot down all those harpist gang members with their crossbows to complete this simple mission.

The biggest challenge in this task is to spare some alive, lest these golems kill them all.

Organized forces in the form of adventurer squads appear so weak under the empire’s might, with no chance of resistance.

Once these Judicial Court Knights departed, the inn returned to tranquility.

Yet, within a cramped room in the inn lies a power that even the empire’s institutions cannot discern.

Before a seasoned team, the empire’s reconnaissance is not omnipotent, allowing these people who have professional disguise identities and disguise techniques to safely roam under the empire’s watchful eyes.

Of course, most importantly, these professional teams hadn’t made any moves that would raise the empire’s vigilance like those of the Harpist Alliance or other personnel.

Because they are a professional team.

This house is very concealed, located at the corner of the second floor of the inn, yet the view is quite clear.

A few men and women dressed as adventurers gathered in the room; they are the enemies of dragons, destroyers and executors of conspiracies, and perceived as weapons by some.

”Another team of fools got taken down. Though these guys were just targets to attract attention, they were too careless,”

Thor’s face was clouded, indicating a seemingly bad temper.

In fact, every stalker’s appearance in an adventurer team bears some obvious commonalities, because they approach the shadows and use its power, and therefore are also influenced by it.

”No choice, the giant dragons of the Golden Empire are terribly fearsome creatures, utterly different from the dragons we’ve dealt with before,”

”They want to find the weaknesses of the true dragons of the empire. They cannot rely on external observation and reasoning as before; those intelligence are of no reference value for the giant dragons of the Golden Empire.” Kael spoke.

Her curvaceous figure seemed powerfully explosive, concealed entirely under intricate battle armor, with even her fair face hidden beneath a hood.

”Only Divination Skill can provide some degree of help, but the power of magic, if it exists, will be observed—they simply underestimate the nation of these dragon creators,”

”The Golden Empire is not like other noble territories; its social structure and connections are more strict than any kingdom I’ve traveled through.”

This dragon slayer squad, disguised as a mercenary squad, was quite troubled.

Even this Legendary Dragon Slayer Squad once participated in the ’Deep Red Queen’ Dickris’s punishment plan, slaying the mature Red Dragon before its own lair, deep within the Desolate Volcanic Belt.

Even within this dragon slayer squad, there is no shortage of Legendary Warriors who once fought dragons and beheaded true dragon heads.

Four individuals in this squad carry the aura of ’Dragon Slayer’ title.

Throughout the other continents of Icaria World, there were once many prominent dragons, mighty Red Dragons, majestic Golden Dragons, beautiful and noble Silver Dragons.

Many people on the Central Continent have dealt with dragons, of course—dead ones.

In the two leading Overlord Empires on the Central Continent, fresh dragon blood and dragon flesh once circulated in the market almost every month.

Several prominent merchants even frequently face adventurers in public auctions for Dragon Bone, Dragon Scale, Dragon Horn, and other high-grade materials.

Even on the Southern Continent, where metal dragons are active, dragon body materials are often traded, with young dragons openly auctioned—though nearly all materials originate from Five-Color Dragons.

As for the dead mature Red Dragon, ’Deep Red Queen’ Dickris was a major supplier herself. This Red Dragon used to search for eggs laid by wild dragons in the wilderness, bringing them back to hatch and selling the young dragons as slaves to humans.

Had this daring Red Dragon not provoked a Silver Dragon, it wouldn’t have faced death.

Though this was the dragon’s spontaneous activity, it enough proved the changes of the era. The world no longer belongs to dragons—dragons, titans, beastmen, elves, and dwarves, once protagonists and overlords of the era, have been overthrown by humans, stomped underfoot.

However, the once desolate Northern Lands differ from other continents; the dragon kingdom born from the Wilderness has become the Overlord Kingdom of the remote Northern Lands.

Benefiting from its advantageous position, the Golden Empire in its early stages of birth didn’t attract aggression from other human Civilized Realms. As it gradually grew to its current size, human kingdoms are now unable to specifically target the Golden Empire alone.