As a blue dragon, Alogsos possessed the habits and proclivities shared by most Chromatic Dragons: extreme greed.
And as the daughter of "Sharpfang" Evicrassagran, whose influence spanned three kingdoms and radiated across most of the western continent, she had suffered relentless exploitation from her mother in her youth. Now that she had finally discovered the sea—a new "taxation ground"—her suddenly liberated nature had twisted to an almost pathological degree.
So when she saw with her own eyes that a shipload of magical items she had considered hers for the taking had all turned to stone, Alogsos felt so furious she was about to go mad.
Ordinary humans would likely find this emotion difficult to understand, but this was precisely the thought process of most Chromatic Dragons.
A ship brimming with magical items should have passed through her territory. With her strength, she should have been able to harvest that treasure without a hitch. Naturally, she had already claimed that treasure as her own.
But Li Wei's bizarre stunt had turned all her plans into bubbles.
So in Alogsos's eyes, Li Wei had caused her to lose an entire shipload of treasure that should have belonged to her.
And having inflicted such a tremendous loss upon a dragon, how could she not be driven into a frenzy by the immense gap between expectation and reality?
Still, she was ultimately a blue dragon with some brains, not a Red Dragon so easily ruled by rage. With the last remnants of her reason, she calmly considered the matter and abruptly reached a conclusion:
Compared to that shipload of magical items, which was now destined to remain out of reach, the ironclad vessel that had single-handedly crushed the combined forces of four pirate crews—or rather, its inherent potential—might not be worth any less than