Oh, noble Red Dragon, supreme master of the Jackal Tribe,"
The Gnoll leader, Yug, whose towering body was nearly four meters tall, prostrated himself at the Red Dragon's feet like a weak cub.
He kept his head bowed, knowing that his thoughts and intentions could hardly be hidden from this clever Red Dragon, so he stated them directly.
"I hope to receive your grace and become a Dragonborn like that Centaur.
When I become a Dragonborn, I will definitely be stronger than that Centaur.
I will become the most powerful warrior to carry out the True Dragon's will."
"I will prove my ability to you and not disgrace the glory of the noble dragon blood.
I long to possess the same favor and honor as the Centaur Warrior!"
The Gnoll leader, Yug, slightly raised his head, his eyes filled with fervent longing as he looked at the layer of scarlet, fine scales covering his muscular body, a distinctive feature of the Dragonborn species.
Becoming Dragonborn not only meant possessing greater strength but also a longer lifespan, although the increased lifespan varied greatly among individuals.
But even the weakest Green Goblin and Kobold could gain at least 150 years of lifespan, and it was not uncommon for races with strong physiques and bloodlines to gain over a thousand years.
The average natural lifespan of Gnolls is between thirty-five and forty years.
Every Gnoll is considered an adult between six and eight years old, and after twenty-five, they begin to enter middle to old age.
Therefore, although the Gnoll Yug is still in the peak growth period for a Gnoll and far stronger than other Gnolls, possessing strength that most Gnolls can never achieve in their lifetime,
unless he breaks through the fundamental barrier of life, he will, like other ordinary Gnolls, enter a cycle of decline and death, unchangeable.
Perhaps he can rely on his powerful strength and talent to live a little longer than ordinary Gnolls, but he will not exist forever in this world.
This is the obstacle and sorrow of short-lived species.
Even if the current Gnoll leader, Yug, can casually challenge and defeat an ordinary juvenile Chromatic Dragon, it is difficult to stop the passage of time on himself.
This is also the unique advantage of the True Dragon.
Even if some short-lived races can surpass the True Dragons in the early stages, it doesn't matter much, as the True Dragon race emphasizes late development.
Of course, even the weakest juvenile True Dragon is not something that ordinary races can offend.
And now, the Gnoll Yug is already sixteen years old, which is the peak of adulthood in the Gnoll race.
In a few more years, he will enter a period of decline.
Therefore, he yearned to become a Dragonborn like Chiron, to extend his peak, hoping to continue to break through in the future.
And the reason the Gnoll leader, Yug, didn't immediately kill the Black Dragon Rosani after defeating him was partly due to his fear of the True Dragon's power, and partly because Gnolls, to varying degrees, harbored the thought of using living True Dragons to strengthen themselves by bathing in the True Dragon's blood.
However, although the Gnoll leader was smarter than ordinary Gnolls, he did not know that Dragonborn could not be created so simply.
The True dragon blood of every True Dragon is highly corrosive and poisonous to creatures of other races.
If he dared to bathe in the Evil Dragon True dragon blood of the Black True Dragon, not only would he not gain the imagined strengthening, but he would suffer torment due to the corrosion and poison of the Evil Dragon True dragon blood.
Perhaps he would survive due to his great strength, but it is very likely that he would enter the period of decline prematurely.
Although Black Dragon Rosani's strength was not great, the Evil Dragon True dragon blood was fundamentally far superior to the Gnoll's putrid, bloody blood.
Therefore, stories of bathing in dragon blood to gain Dragonborn bloodline and physique, and then becoming a powerful warrior, only exist in boring tales.
As soon as the Gnoll leader Yug finished speaking, the most powerful Red Dragon in front of him had no reaction, but the True Dragons, who had been overjoyed by the treasure, instantly changed its expression, revealing its sharp fangs and growling at the Gnoll leader Yug, who was prostrate on the ground.
"You lowly, humble worm, how dare you covet the True dragon blood of the True Dragon!
I will crush you to death!"
Female Red Dragon Klenaya swallowed her treasure into her crop, bared her fangs, and charged forward.
The enraged Female Red Dragon completely disregarded that the Gnoll in front of her had just offered her treasure.
Her massive body stepped into the kneeling Gnoll crowd, directly trampling several Gnolls who dared not react.
Then, she directly knocked the Gnoll leader Yug to the ground.
This action fully exposed the Evil Dragon nature of these True Dragon.
Even if you made a contribution to these True Dragon a second ago, once their interests are touched, these True Dragon will instantly turn hostile.
These True Dragon are only exceptionally different when facing the True Dragon.
As for the outside world, they are always representatives of evil blood.
If Kalon hadn't made a decision yet, Klenaya would have directly torn this Gnoll to shreds.
However, the little Female Red Dragon still refused to give up, directly stepping on the Gnoll leader Yug's body with one foot, her thick, long Dragon claws firmly pressing down on the Gnoll.
"Let me kill him, this arrogant worm, he should become a piece of minced meat in my mouth!"
The Black Dragon Rosani's cold eyes were filled with killing intent.
He walked up, grinding his terrifying fangs beside the Red Dragon, and a bone-chilling coldness surged up the back of the Gnoll, who still hadn't figured out the situation.
Green Dragon Antagena's bright eyes, glowing green, were filled with disgust for the Gnoll's actions and a chilling coldness.
She approached Kalon's massive body, almost pressing against the Red Dragon's scales, as if she were acting coquettishly with the Red Dragon.
"Kalon, hand over this Gnoll and all the Gnolls to me.
I will use the vines in the forest to pierce through the bodies and limbs of these despicable worms, letting them experience the consequences of offending the True Dragon."
"Let those lovely pets in the forest—poisonous insects, ants, snakes, and scorpions—crawl into their bodies through the wounds pierced by the vines, gnawing at their flesh until they die.
Then I will bury the corpses of these inferior species in the True Dragon's orchard to fertilize the orchard."
Green Dragon Antagena's voice was clear and sweet, like a young girl's, yet it carried a bone-chchilling viciousness.
The Green Dragon's vicious nature was fully displayed in Antagena.
"Let me freeze them all into ice blocks and place them at the foot of the Dragon Nest Mountains.
I will control my power so that even when frozen, they will not die immediately, but can only watch each other's lives gradually fade away, repenting in fear."
Germot sneered.
White True Dragon particularly liked to freeze their prey and defeated enemies into ice blocks to display as trophies, showing off their powerful strength.
They also liked to freeze food before eating it.
During the years when Kalon and the True Dragon fell into the Catha Empire, Germot's True Dragon Nest had frozen countless monsters and humans who had come to spy on the Dragon Territory.
Only creatures favored by the White True Dragon would be displayed outside the True Dragon Nest.
So if a White True Dragon takes a liking to you, don't be too quick to be surprised.
It might not be because it likes you; perhaps it just wants to collect you as a figurine.
White Dragon camid was always a True Dragon of few words.
He didn't show his methods to Kalon like his brother did.
Instead, he sniffed constantly around the trembling Gnoll like a hound, the white frost mist spewing from his nose and mouth growing thicker, accidentally leaving traces of frost on several Gnolls.
"Hmph, let me turn them into charcoal with lightning.
These foolish worms, every moment they live makes me impatient."
The Blue Dragon Dos's wings lit up with lightning-like patterns, and subtle lightning crackled on his single horn, as if it would lose control at any moment.
The Blue Dragon Akzi also reacted like Dos, but Akzi had already spread his wings, clearly not intending to let any Gnoll who dared to escape get away.
Akzi's gaze had already swept over the Gnolls at the edge of the camp, observing their every move.
The Blue Dragon's speed was unparalleled among the Chromatic Dragon.
The Blue Dragon, who controlled lightning and storms in the sky, had a pure flying speed that even the Gold True Dragon could not match.
However, due to the presence of a freak like Kalon in the Dragon clan, the Blue Dragon's advantage was not fully displayed, so the Blue Dragon was very confident that it would not let any Gnoll escape.
Kalon knew why these True Dragon reacted so violently, even developing a killing intent for the entire Gnoll tribe due to a few simple words from the Gnoll leader Yug.
Even the cruel Chromatic Dragon generally would not slaughter an entire tribe simply because they felt offended.
This is because of the method of creating Dragonborn.
Every True Dragon's inheritance contains the knowledge of how to create their own Dragonborn dependents.
They all know how to create powerful Dragonborn dependents, but in fact, Dragonborn do not appear very often in the world, because ordinary True Dragon generally do not create Dragonborn.
The appearance of every Dragonborn, apart from offspring born from other Dragonborn, or Dragonborn born due to some accidental, irreproducible reasons, requires the True Dragon to create them with their own Evil Dragon True dragon blood.
This Evil Dragon True dragon blood is not the ordinary blood flowing in the True Dragon's body, but the essence condensed and formed from the Evil Dragon bloodline.
It is somewhat similar to a human's heart blood, but even more important than a human's heart blood.
The Dragonkin Centaur Chiron and the Dragonborn Wolf Saha, along with that batch of Dragonborn born from the gladiatorial arena, were actually Dragonborn species formed under certain difficult-to-replicate conditions, influenced by the True Dragon's bloodline radiation and the resonance of the True Dragon Nest effect.
Rather than being called Dragonborn, they were more like True Dragon -affiliated monsters, just like those peripheral monsters born under the influence of a Legendary True Dragon's True Dragon Nest effect.
Although they were affected by the True Dragon's bloodline radiation, they themselves did not possess dragon blood.
They only gained some of the True Dragon's physical characteristics and power under the strong bloodline radiation of the True Dragon, and their own bloodline also underwent some kind of mutation under the True Dragon's influence, transforming towards dragon blood.
The reason why Dragonborne Centaur Chiron and Dragonborn Wolf Sahar had strong Dragonborn characteristics was also because they were too close to the Red Dragon's sleeping place, and the influence of the Red Dragon's awakened ancestral bloodline under the resonating True Dragon Nest effect exceeded the Red Dragon's expectations, but this scenario is almost impossible to replicate.
The power of the Five-Colored Evil Dragon is closely related to their own Evil Dragon bloodline.
The Evil Dragon True dragon blood condensed by these juvenile True Dragon with their current strength is only a dozen drops.
Even losing a single drop of Evil Dragon True dragon blood would affect the strength of these juvenile True Dragon and cause them to enter a not-short period of weakness.
Moreover, once an ordinary True Dragon loses Evil Dragon True dragon blood, it is almost impossible to replenish it.
Even if they reach a stronger stage in the future, the Evil Dragon True dragon blood they condense will only be new Evil Dragon True dragon blood nurtured by their increased life level and powerful strength, not a compensation for old deficiencies.
Evil Dragon True dragon blood is also related to the True Dragon's future bloodline potential and talent growth, so almost no True Dragon would choose to create Dragonborn.
Even with Kalon's current strength, the Evil Dragon True dragon blood he has condensed is only a few dozen drops.
If he were to use his own Evil Dragon True dragon blood to transform the Gnoll Yug into a Dragonborn, Kalon would also enter a long period of weakness, possibly even needing to go into slumber to compensate for the consumption of Evil Dragon True dragon blood.
That's why these juvenile True Dragon reacted so violently, even wanting to kill the entire Jackal Tribe.
In the eyes of the True Dragon, the Gnoll leader Yug was not only ignorant of proper conduct but also insatiably greedy, even daring to covet the True Dragon's Evil True dragon blood.
Even if all the Gnolls in the world were destroyed, it would not be a pity.
Although Kalon, with his current stronger ancestral bloodline compared to other True Dragon, can compensate for the loss of Evil Dragons True dragon blood through slumber and growth, unlike ordinary True Dragon who would have a permanent deficiency,
losing the Evil Dragons True dragon blood would even affect Kalon's growth and evolution potential for a period of time in the future, and what he would gain in return would only be a Dragonborn dependent that is dispensable to the True Dragon.
Kalon, of course, would not make such a rash move.
For him, his own growth and potential were more important.
However, Kalon had a premonition that after he passed this juvenile stage of slumber, the Red Dragon, having grown further, might be able to create some dependents at minimal cost without affecting his potential and growth.
But Kalon decided that even so, he would not easily create Dragonborn.
Rarity makes things valuable; overly casual bestowal would lead others to undervalue it and become insatiably greedy.
However, Kalon felt that creating Dragonborn with the True Dragon's Evil True dragon blood could also serve as a publicity stunt for the True Dragon after he had grown further.
Only those who have created enough significant value for the True Dragon and shown enough loyalty can possess the glory of [Bloodline Grant].
This should be able to ignite the enthusiasm of those monster clans.
Perhaps many monsters and clans will voluntarily pledge allegiance to the True Dragon.
Even among humans, many covet the True Dragon's lifespan.
Some creatures whose lives are nearing their end would resort to any means to prolong their existence.
However, for now, it should be kept low-key.
Before the True Dragon reach a higher level, Kalon will not choose to create Dragonborn dependents.
As for the Gnoll leader Yug, who was currently unable to move under the Female Red Dragon Klenaya's claw, he did not know the method and cost of the True Dragon creating Dragonborn.
Although he had been presumptuous, it was a case of ignorance being bliss.
Kalon would not punish the Gnoll and the entire tribe for this.
Kalon restrained the True Dragon's anger, allowing them to calm their fury, and then had Klenayarelease the Gnoll Yug, who was bewildered by the True Dragon's sudden change of attitude.
"Cough, cough," the Gnoll Yug exhaled deeply, then coughed up a mouthful of blood that had been suppressed in his chest.
Even though his strength was enough to challenge Female Red Dragon Klenaya, his body could not withstand the True Dragon's blows, and thus he had already been injured under Klenaya's claw.
"The Centaur Warrior has already proven his loyalty and value to the True Dragon, having served the True Dragon wholeheartedly for a sufficiently long time.
This is a virtue that cannot be measured by treasure.
Even if you offer more wealth, you cannot receive the same grace and honor as the Centaur Warrior."
The Red Dragon's high and mighty head looked down at the Gnoll leader Yug, who was humble to the dust.
His voice was deep and powerful.
"Prove your loyalty to me, prove your value to the True Dragon, Yug.
When you have made enough contributions to the True Dragon, my gaze will naturally fall upon you, and the True Dragon will give you the glory you desire!"
"Yes, my supreme master, noble Lord of the True Dragon, great True Dragon!"
The Gnoll Yug bowed his head to the soft earth and answered respectfully.
The Gnoll no longer heard the True Dragon's voice, only feeling a sudden gust of wind rising from the ground, as if all the flowing winds of heaven and earth had gathered at this moment.
The Gnoll looked up.
The colossal bodies of these True Dragons, with their wings spread, were already far off in the horizon, at the peak of the high mountains, unreachable.
Whew.
The Gnoll leader Yug sighed, silently gazing at the high mountain gradually enveloped by mist and clouds.
The disparity between short-lived and long-lived species became incredibly clear at this moment.
In the eyes of the True Dragons, a few years might only be enough to prove the loyalty and value of a dependent, but in the world of short-lived species, it was already an incredibly vast span of time.
Only at this moment did the untamed Gnoll realize that the cloud-shrouded mountain peak might be a realm he could never reach in his entire life.