Chapter 591 Guests From Afar
The gate guard stared at Nina's grandmother, "She's fast,"
ZON! Thud! Arad teleported away and immediately came back, two strangers unconscious in his hands.
"More rats?" Grandma Shir said with a smile, approaching Arad and dragging the thief behind her.
"They were hiding in the forest," Arad replied, glaring at the thief that Grandma Shir caught.
The thief stared at the two men with a worried face, sweat dripping down his scratched face, "I don't know them," He cried.
"You do," Arad threw the two unconscious men at the ground. "They are bandits pretending to be adventurers. I'm sure they are targeting the village since it looks new and lacks guards."
"You're going to catch them yourself?" The guard gasped, looking at Arad with a worried face. "Leave it to the guards."
"Isdis's knights can't handle everything. I would like them to keep patrolling the city," Arad replied, "And I would prefer not to lose any soldiers now,"
"If you don't mind," A voice came from behind them. When Arad looked, he saw a familiar old man with glowing golden eyes, a silky long beard reaching his knees, and long hair approaching him, wearing a gold-laced white robe.
"Kinryuu!" Arad smiled, "I didn't feel you around," The golden general of the metallic dragons came to visit.
"Great wyrms can do more than camouflage their colors with their surroundings. I received your message and came as soon as I could." Kinryuu combed his beard, "You've grown strong,"
"Not enough to feel you, it seems."
Kinryuu laughed, "That can't be helped. We spend centuries perfecting it to fight each other, right?"
"It is so," A deep, heavy rumbling voice shook the forest, and everyone in the city looked toward the gate, seeing a titanic red dragon emerging out of thin air, his wing covering the whole village in its shadow.
"But you need to work on your senses," He said, looking at Arad with a smile.
The guard standing beside Arad started shaking, "What's this?"
"The general of the chromatic dragons, and this one of the metallic dragons. I sent them a magic letter to invite them,"
"Hello there, little one." The massive red dragon said, staring at the guard. His breath alone felt like standing in front of a blazing forge.
"About the bandits," Kinryuu approached Arad with a smile, "We brought ten great wyrms each as guards. They want to handle that for fun. Is that all right?"
Arad looked at the sky.
Grandma Shir tapped her back, "Oh, my. So many flying ones."
Twenty greatwyrms appeared in the sky as they canceled their camouflage, blotting the sun. Ten of them were metallic and came to guard Kinryuu, and the other ten were chromatic for the opposite.
"I don't mind," Arad nodded, "But don't kill them. We're sending them to Alina so they can deal with them."
FLAP! The dragons flew toward the bandit's camp, which to them was like taking five steps aside.
The bandits looked at the sky as it turned dark. They rushed out, "What's happening?"
"I don't know," One of them ran toward the forest, hitting an invisible wall before reaching it. "What's this?" He tapped the wall with his hand, trying to feel it. "It's smooth and cold."
The dragons canceled their camouflage, and the bandit found himself feeling the side of a silver drakaina's massive tail.
"Careful, human." She growled, "I'm not known for dexterity,"
The man fell on his back, crawling away. The tail alone was twenty meters thick at least. When trying to look at the drakaina's head, it seemed to be far in the distance close to the mountains.
"OI! Look around!" One of them cried, and they could see there were twenty great wyrms surrounding their camps.
"What's happening?" One gasped. They were done for.
"You better give up and surrender, humans." A black dragon growled, acid dripping between his teeth, melting the trees.
"Even the dragon hunter Alcott won't be able to escape us," A green dragon said.
"He could do it," A bronze dragon said in the back.
"I agree. He's flash us first and then go for the eyes," A copper dragon added with a smile, "Might even use one of us as a shield to create an opening to run."
"We know he'll flash us. We can close our eyes and then attack." The green dragon argued.
"The fool," A blue dragon stared at the green one, "I have to agree with the metallic scales over there. Closing our eyes? We're giving him the opening to run that he wanted without him working for it."
As the dragons argued, some of the bandits tried to slip away, but they were instantly frozen with magic.
"You aren't Alcott," The silver drakaina stared at them. "You're helpless against us,"
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Back in the city, Arad smiled, "I'm going home. Are you coming?" He asked.
"Of course," Kinryuu smiled, "Where else could we go? He's staying in the forest though," He pointed at the red general.
"I can't shapeshift into a human,"
"It's not that your neck can't make it all the way to my house without you sitting in the forest," Arad looked at him.
"You're right. It doesn't matter if I sat one step away." To a dragon his size, one step is several hundreds of meters.
"Giant Monsters," Grandma Shir said, looking at the dragons.
"You're right," Kinryuu replied with a smile, "We're too big, too strong, and too destructive to the fragile world." He looked at the village.
"We metallic call for restraint and humility, to make sure our power doesn't harm the little ones. Chromatic calls us insane for it, and that's why we fight all the time." He looked at Arad.
"To be clear," The red general looked down, "It's like humans trying to rights to ants. Can you punish every human for every ant they stepped on?"
"Ants can't speak, can't think, can't reply," Grandma Shir looked at the red dragon, "Humans do,"
"Ants think as well. They are far more organized and intelligent than humans." The red dragon replied, "It's you humans who are too stupid to understand other creatures, always consumed by your own thoughts and ambitions. Ask him,"
"They can speak," Arad replied, "I can understand them," He looked at one of the fences where ants rushed into their borrow.
"Hurry! Go inside!" An ant cried, "Or the massive ones might stomp you!"
"We chromatic are you, humans. We don't want to be bothered by the rights of those smaller than us. If you want to question us, then question yourselves first. Give the ants, the bugs, and the animals their rights first, then ask about yours from our claws."
Kinryuu scratched his head, "We're trying to find a middle ground here,"
"I'm saying there is no middle ground, you metallic better stop your insane ideals."
"Humans can reach us, Alcott proved it."
"That's one! One human dropping dragons down, there are millions of fire ants alone dropping humans left and right. Why haven't they approved of them yet, we aren't going to do it over one human that would perish sooner than tomorrow."
"Don't fight here," Arad stared at them.
The two dragons sighed, "We'll finish this later." They agreed to not agree later.
"Speaking of things proving power," Kinryuu approached Arad, "The hell was that thing you dropped on Vlad's kingdom?"
"Yeah! That massive blast."
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