Copper Dragon: The Inherently Evil Hybrid Dragon! (Asking for Monthly Tickets and Follow-ups)

Near a low mountain with a cracked rock face, its surface riddled with countless pits of varying sizes.

A succulent piece of beast meat, skin still on it, lay openly on the ground. Roasted by the sun, it gave off an enticing bloody scent that permeated the surrounding air.

Time gradually passed.

More than ten minutes later, the ground before the meat suddenly bulged and split apart.

A spider crawled out from within.

Its main body was about the size of a millstone. Each of its spider legs was as sharp as a spear and nearly two meters long. Its shell was earthy yellow, patterned like stone.

Earth Spider—Level 3 ferocious beast.

Moving its jointed limbs, the Earth Spider approached the meat, preparing to enjoy this "pie" that had fallen from the sky.

But it did not know that there had never been such a thing as a free gift in this world.

Whoosh!

A fierce gust suddenly swept in from behind.

The Red Iron Dragonet swooped low through the air. Before the Earth Spider could fully react, he seized it, then used Mind Link to successfully subdue it through a mix of threats and inducements.

The Earth Spider was inferior to the Rock-Crushing Worm in every regard.

However, Garos had searched for days without finding another Rock-Crushing Worm colony or any more suitable creature, so he had no choice but to settle for it.

"One Earth Spider is too few. Catch some more."

Garos thought to himself.

Using beast meat as bait was a little too slow, so he considered trying another method.

After thinking for a moment, Garos noticed that the earthy brown abdomen of the Earth Spider he had just subdued was tinged with dark red.

His inherited knowledge told him that this meant it was a female spider, currently in a stage where it could breed with male spiders. It could also release the corresponding hormones to attract them.

As for why inherited knowledge even contained this...

All one could say was that Dragonkin had broad interests. Among Garos's dragon ancestors, there had to be at least one who had been deeply interested in Earth Spiders, which was why such knowledge had been passed down.

What came next was simple.

The female spider lay leisurely on the ground, releasing a scent that drove other male spiders wild with desire.

Before long, a male spider followed the scent over.

However, the male spider did not get what it wanted.

The moment it hurriedly poked its head out, it was caught by the Red Iron Dragonet, who had been setting a trap. After a round of threats and beatings, followed by promises of benefits, Garos subdued it in the same manner.

"Lust is a blade hanging over one's head. Poor spiders."

Garos remarked, then continued his entrapment operation.

Before long.

Garos had acquired a group of Earth Spiders, forty-three in total.

Forty-two male spiders and one female spider.

Garos sent all the male spiders to a small Black Oilfield occupied by Dwarves, where they would gather Black Oil for him. The female spider remained in the Iron Fir Hills, supplied with food and drink without needing to risk her life.

But that did not mean the female spider had nothing to do.

Aside from continuing to attract other Earth Spiders, she also bore the important responsibility of soothing the male spiders and encouraging their enthusiasm.

When subduing the male spiders, Garos had made them a promise.

—Any male spider that brought back Black Oil would receive an opportunity to mate with the female spider.

For ferocious beasts with little intelligence, the desire to reproduce outweighed everything else.

Driven by their instinctive urge to breed, the male spiders burrowed into the ground and set off in high spirits, while Garos silently awaited their triumphant return.

Several days later, in the Iron Fir Hills.

Samantha opened her mouth and spat out a fireball.

Boom!

The fireball struck Garos and exploded in a blaze of dazzling flames. The powerful impact blasted away the last of his Buffer Scales, exposing black-red scales as solid as forged steel.

Feeling the dryness and burning in her throat.

"Is that enough? I'm getting tired."

Samantha asked between heavy breaths.

"Keep going. We've only just begun. Is your stamina really worse than Mobel's?"

Garos urged her mercilessly, deliberately provoking her.

Glancing at the Earth Violent Bear resting against an Iron Fir tree nearby, Samantha's competitive spirit immediately flared up. She ground her teeth and said, "You asked for this. I'm getting serious now."

With that said.

Samantha drew in a deep breath, her chest swelling high. A dark red glow like molten lava appeared between the gaps in her scales.

A ball of brilliant flame appeared amid her interlocking dragon fangs, churning within her mouth.

Explosive Flame Breath Bomb!

The temperature of the surrounding air rose invisibly. After several seconds of charging, a dazzling red fireball, dense like magma, shot from Samantha's mouth and blasted straight toward Garos.

The rapidly approaching fireball reflected in his eyes.

Garos neither dodged nor evaded. Instead, he straightened his chest and took the blow head-on with his body.

Boom!

A powerful shockwave erupted, and the blast of air carried flames outward. The ground was blown into a massive crater and scorched earth.

Red Dragons had always been renowned for the tremendous power of their attacks.

Facing the opponent's fully charged attack head-on, Garos was inevitably blasted away. His body snapped several Iron Fir trees before finally coming to a stop.

He rose and looked down. The thick black-red scales over his chest had caved in, with cracks radiating outward in every direction.

"Now that's an attack with some punch!"

Feeling the pain in his chest, Garos was delighted rather than angered.

Samantha's other attacks had barely itched and had never allowed him to enjoy himself. This one, however, was acceptable.

"Again. I'll stand still and let you attack."

He looked at Samantha and said eagerly.

Unexpectedly, Samantha had already collapsed on the ground like a puddle of mud. That Explosive Flame Breath Bomb had nearly drained the last of her strength.

"Garos, you... are becoming... more and more... perverted."

Samantha panted heavily, her tongue hanging out as she spoke in broken intervals.

She could not go on.

But Garos was still not satisfied, so he turned to look at Mobel, the Earth Violent Bear.

Mobel shut his eyes and immediately played dead.

He had been Samantha's sparring partner before this, and he had yet to recover. Garos was the one being hit, yet Mobel was the one left aching all over in the end.

Still unsatisfied, Garos shot into the sky, found a barren mountain and an open stretch of ground, then repeatedly rammed into them.

The nearby wild beasts watched in terror as the Dragonkin, seemingly gone mad, kept smashing into mountains and the earth. They hurriedly fled the area to avoid being caught in the aftermath.

Boom!

Hard granite shattered beneath the impact of Garos's dragon horns.

After training for a while longer.

Garos walked out of the "cave" he had rammed into the mountain, shaking dust and gravel from his body. He still had not fully enjoyed himself.

As his body gradually grew stronger, ordinary training no longer produced much effect.

He had nearly rammed through the small barren mountain before him, yet his scales had gained only a few cracks. Not even one had shattered outright.

"Ordinary mountains and earth are gradually no longer enough for my training needs."

"I need a better, more suitable environment."

Shaking his dragon wings, Garos sent a strong wind sweeping dust from the ground. He considered his options and prepared to return to the Iron Fir Hills.

Just then.

A dry Dragonkin scent, like yellow sand from a vast desert, suddenly drifted over.

His eyes narrowing slightly, Garos raised his head toward the sky.

Within his field of view.

A Dragonkin figure appeared.

Its scales carried a reddish hue and gleamed with a bright metallic luster beneath the daylight. A pair of spiral horns extended backward from its forehead, resembling ram horns. Copper-colored hardened scale-frills grew from its neck down to its spine, fluttering in the wind. In flight, its form swept across the sky like a crimson sandstorm.

It was a Copper Dragon, one of the Metal Dragons.

It was flying directly toward Garos, its target clear. It had obviously discovered Garos's presence.

"Destroying innocent mountains and land for no reason, hmph. You inherently evil Red Dragon and Iron hybrid! Today, I'll make you experience the punitive judgment of a Metal Dragon!"

The young Copper Dragon caught Garos's Dragonkin scent. He found Garos utterly displeasing, and an intense desire to fight rose within him.