The Amber Sword
Chapter 714

Eternal I

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At the moment of the dragon's roar, the towering mountains trembled. The Min'er People said that when a dragon's shadow swept across the plains, the wind stirred by its wings would howl for an entire day and night. Even when Aloz spread her wings several miles away, the gale had already begun ravaging the mountain forests. The triangular flags on the spearheads of the halflings on the ice plain snapped fiercely in the wind, seeming to bare their teeth and claws, but the darkness gripping their hearts was an endless terror.

"Dragon!" Someone let out a shriek, and the orderly formation scattered across the snowy plain. Seeing that he could no longer control the formation, Ku Wu could only flee northwest with the guard knights beside him. In the blink of an eye, Aloz had flown over these tiny creatures. She lowered her head, and her enormous shadow shrouded the hundreds of halflings below. On a whim, she first selected the small group fleeing south. Around twenty or thirty halflings were riding ponies toward the crystal forest on the hillside, but how could Aloz give them that chance? She lowered her head and spat out a mouthful of golden flames.

A huge fireball fell from the sky and struck the glacier, instantly swallowing the halflings still fleeing and turning them to ash. The flames continued burning across the solid ice. Even the ice made sizzling sounds as layer after layer melted away, revealing the black igneous rock beneath. Those rocks, which had melted once thousands of years ago, turned into lava once more amid the flames, while white steam billowed upward, rising dozens of meters into the air.

The scorching flames seemed to pluck the excited heartstrings of Little Female Dragon. She let out a shriek and beat her wings,

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