Faced with this situation, Luo Yun seemed to understand Chameleos's goal. It wanted to use this massacre to completely destroy the Ancient Tree Area's ecology, drive away the Rathalos population that would have no source of food, and claim the Ancient Tree for itself.
As for whether the ecological collapse would affect it afterward?
It would not!
Chameleos's poison mainly targeted monsters and had little effect on insects and plants. Even if it destroyed the current ecological chain, as long as the Ancient Tree remained and this Ley Line Node remained, the ecology here would recover sooner or later.
It was just that by then, it would become an ecological environment centered around Chameleos.
Of course, that was only Chameleos's own thinking.
In Luo Yun's eyes, this Chameleos was absolutely insane!
It might be an Elder Dragon, but it was not one of those "taboos" that stood beyond the ecological chain. Wantonly destroying the ecosystem would inevitably bring the world's backlash upon it!
And the price of that backlash was often one's life!
But that was a matter for later. If possible, Luo Yun still wanted to try driving it back once more. The consequences of migration were simply too great.
Just like last time, Luo Yun absorbed Ya Ji's flames and charged into the Poison Mist to search for Chameleos's trail.
However, this time, Ya Ji was not the only dragon in the sky. Every Rathalos still in the Ancient Tree Area circled above the dense fog.
But this time, just as Luo Yun had predicted, Chameleos no longer let down its guard.
As Luo Yun used the segmentation method to search for its location, it was also moving rapidly, slowing Luo Yun's efforts to find it.
By the time Luo Yun had narrowed the target area to a certain range, Chameleos, having sensed him, actually left directly!
That's right!
It completely abandoned the idea of confronting Luo Yun head-on. Relying on its invisibility and the complex terrain of the Ancient Tree Area, it avoided the sight of every Rathalos in the sky and departed from another direction!
After the mist dispersed, Luo Yun was left staring at a region without a single dragon, his head throbbing.
It was planning to use guerrilla tactics, slowly boiling the frog until every living creature in the Ancient Tree Area was wiped out!
It seemed that until the Rathalos population had completely left the Ancient Tree, it had no intention of engaging in a direct confrontation.
What Luo Yun had always feared most was Chameleos making use of its unique nature, setting aside an Elder Dragon's pride and resorting to evasive guerrilla warfare. A Chameleos like that was undoubtedly the most troublesome of the three great Elder Dragons.
And now, it had actually done exactly that!
Right now, it was a moving natural disaster. Faced with a natural disaster, ordinary creatures had no ability to resist whatsoever.
He, too, had no solution.
Looking at the fading mist, Luo Yun returned to the nest somewhat helplessly.
A Chameleos that abandoned its restraint and freely unleashed its power was undoubtedly invincible against ordinary creatures.
You could not even find its location. Against that all-pervasive, vast, and lethally powerful Poison Mist, there was simply nowhere to put your strength to use.
"Scoundrel! What an absolute scoundrel! How could there be such a scoundrel of a creature as Chameleos in this world?!"
Luo Yun roared unwillingly as Ya Ji watched him calmly from the side.
No matter what decision Luo Yun made, she would support him unconditionally, even if it meant fighting Chameleos to the death!
Luo Yun was somewhat frantic at the moment, but fortunately, his unwillingness had not clouded his judgment.
After arranging for the Detters to prepare for migration, he would try to stop Chameleos once more. If he still failed to drive it back this time, he would not hesitate again and would leave immediately!
In the Dragon Crystal Land, a massive Elder Dragon covered from head to toe in predominantly silver-white metallic armor, with whirlwinds coiling around its four legs and two wings, swallowed a rare ore rich in Life Energy in one gulp.
As though it had sensed something, it looked toward the Ancient Forest, where something seemed to be calling to it.
It gave the matter little thought. As an adult Elder Dragon settled in the Dragon Crystal Land, there were not many beings left in this world capable of making it feel threatened.
Spreading its enormous wings, it was carried directly into the sky by an updraft. Its giant wings gave a slight beat as its massive body cast a shadow and flew toward the Ancient Forest.
Releasing that vast Poison Mist filled with green toxic gas seemed to be extremely exhausting for Chameleos as well.
After the last incident, Chameleos did not appear again for a full five days. Only the increasingly active Earth Vein Energy indicated that this Chameleos was currently absorbing Earth Vein Energy without restraint to replenish its own expenditure.
This time, Luo Yun chose to take the initiative and went out in search of Chameleos's trail.
But as the Elder Dragon best at concealing itself, how could Chameleos's trail possibly be so easy to find?
Moreover, the Ancient Forest's environment was so complex. It only needed to crouch somewhere thick with trees; without even fully activating its mimicry, it could ensure that few creatures would be able to find it.
After searching fruitlessly for several days in a row, Luo Yun could only abandon that unrealistic idea and wait anxiously for Chameleos to strike again.
Several more days passed like this, and the Poison Mist appeared once more. But this time, Chameleos had changed locations and appeared on the other side of the Ancient Tree.
Another mass extinction of living creatures!
When Luo Yun rushed into the dense fog, the ground was covered with the corpses of all kinds of creatures.
Having learned from last time, Luo Yun intended to use another method to find Chameleos's location this time.
Luo Yun was unquestionably the chief culprit behind the injuries Chameleos had suffered before!
This time, he planned to use a creature's hatred to lure Chameleos out. After all, for an Elder Dragon capable of consciously doing something that violated the rules of ecology, this Chameleos was definitely not broad-minded.
If it discovered that Luo Yun, whom it hated most, had failed to withstand the Poison Mist and collapsed within it, would it come over to take a look?
The answer was: yes!
After Luo Yun roughly figured out the limit at which Chameleos would retreat, he chose a nearby location and drew in the flames of his Body of Flames, leaving them only around his surface and nasal passages. Then he pretended to be poisoned and too weak to continue, swaying as he fell from the sky. After snapping several branches, he crashed heavily onto the ground and lay there without moving.
Before long, Luo Yun spotted Chameleos sneaking over in his Mind's Eye.
That cautious appearance bore none of the frenzied momentum it had once shown while lashing Luo Yun with its tongue-whip.
Just as Luo Yun calculated the distance, intending to give it a hard blow and drag it into battle—
Those clever eyes of Chameleos rolled, and without any sense of honor, the entire dragon directly began charging power before spewing a breath of poisonous gas toward "Luo Yun's" corpse.
"!!!"
Luo Yun, who had been playing dead, sprang up at once. He rapidly beat his wings and twisted aside to evade, then immediately launched an explosive fireball he had been charging for a long time, sending it flying toward Chameleos.
He had not expected this Chameleos to be so wary. Afraid that Luo Yun was not fully dead, it actually intended to finish him off first!
After discovering that Luo Yun had indeed been pretending, it decisively turned invisible, took flight, and flew into the dense fog without hesitation.
Having lost his target, Luo Yun nearly ground his teeth to pieces. Cloaked in roaring flames, he flew out of the Poison Mist and threw back his head with a furious roar beneath Ya Ji's astonished gaze!!
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