"That shouldn't be possible! I've seen herds of earth dragons here several times before!" Ymir said in confusion.
"Could they have just happened to pass through?" Ismir picked his nose disdainfully.
"Impossible! Earth dragons are dragons too! They have an intense sense of territory! This couldn't happen—they wouldn't show up in someone else's territory multiple times for no reason!" Ymir firmly denied it. Earth dragons were also at the top of the terrestrial food chain, and they were highly sensitive about territorial boundaries. Mishandling such a matter could easily lead to a chaotic battle. Like modern lions and tigers, they possessed a powerful territorial instinct. Unless they intended to invade someone else's territory, they generally would not enter it.
"Then that makes even less sense! We've been out here for nearly a week. If we hadn't kept sending people back to report that we were safe, the territory would probably have exploded by now! Today, we don't have any attendants left..." Ismir shrugged. Just yesterday, he had sent the last group of soldiers back to report in. In theory, if they still failed to find any trace of an earth dragon herd today, they would have to turn back.
"That shouldn't be possible! Earth dragons don't have large territories!" Ymir scratched his head. After all, how far could those little stubby legs carry them? Their territory size was indeed not large by dragon standards. After all these days, they should have run into at least one even by sheer chance.
"True... At the pace we've been moving these past few days, we should have encountered one within an earth dragon's territory, right?" Ismir scratched his head, troubled. He could not understand why they had not seen a single earth dragon. He had eagerly planned to catch a few and see