Exposure

Underground World.

Dragon City of the Iwa Kingdom.

This was a massive underground cavity, home to an enormous subterranean city.

This underground world stretched beyond sight. The cavity was nearly half the size of a province Huo Ling had planned out in the surface half-orc territory.

The underground city within the cavity had tall, thick walls, though they had received only simple enchantments.

Many underground races lived in the city, with kobolds as its primary residents.

There were ordinary kobolds, dragonblood kobolds, and dragonkin kobolds.

The hierarchy among kobolds was exceptionally clear, their status determined by the purity of their dragon blood.

Ordinary kobolds worked like slaves, mining minerals and cultivating mushrooms.

The stronger kobolds became soldiers under Iwa, fighting for the Dragon King, Iwa.

These kobolds were far taller and more powerfully built than ordinary members of their race, nearly two meters tall apiece, with hard scales and sharp claws and fangs.

Among the kobolds, those of higher status were the dependents of dragons. Dragon scales grew upon their bodies, allowing them to receive the radiation of true dragons.

Such kobolds were stronger, and their dragon blood improved more quickly.

Of course, these kobold dependents were not necessarily all Iwa's dependents. Some belonged to the other true dragons under his command.

The strength and status of these dependents mirrored those of their dragon masters. The stronger the dragon, the higher the status and strength of its dependents.

Within this city, the kobolds with the greatest strength and status were naturally Iwa's kobold dependents.

Next came the dependents of his two capable assistants, both legendary true dragons: the red dragon Yuwen and the blue dragon Vito.

These two legendary true dragons had been raised by Iwa since childhood and forced into extremely unequal contracts.

Yuwen in particular was most likely