A vast shadow swallowed the sky, and crimson wings that blotted out the sun slowly folded inward like a scarlet curtain hanging down from overhead.
The air, torn apart and compressed, turned into a raging hurricane. Invisible currents battered the falling rain and scorching mist around them, whipping everyone's hems and loose strands of hair violently.
Xia Nan felt the ground beneath his feet tremble faintly, as if in an earthquake.
He raised his head, his black eyes reflecting the colossal creature before him.
He had never had a concrete sense of how large such a creature was. After all, when it was flying in the sky, the distance had been so great that visually, it had seemed no bigger than a palm.
Just now, when it had descended and spewed Dragon Breath, his attention had been entirely drawn to those dangerous, explosive flames. He had had no mind to notice anything else.
Now, as this Adult Red Dragon flew down from the high sky and sat before him, Xia Nan finally gained a real sense of this powerful creature at the top of another world's food chain.
He could not estimate the exact size of the red dragon before him.
All he could say was that even with more than ten meters still separating it from the squad, he had to crane his neck just to barely make out its full form.
A single forelimb alone was as thick as some fortress tower. Its chest was broad like a burning furnace, and with every slow, deep rise and fall, he could clearly feel the turbulent flow of the air, currents mixed with the scorched reek of sulfur.
At such close range, Xia Nan could even make out the details on the crimson scales covering the red dragon's body.
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