"Dracarys!"
Oserion urged his red-and-gold Great Dragon, Ragnax, toward the direction the bone arrows had come from at full speed. Without mercy, Ragnax unleashed scorching Dragonfire on the ground below.
Like Bloodworm Quicksilver, Ragnax produced copious saliva, and once he started breathing fire, he could barely stop. Moreover, Ragnax was a Great Dragon with five-fingered Dragon Wings, and his bloodline was far stronger than Quicksilver's.
Myracis and Urrax were also immensely powerful Great Dragons. The mist hanging over the marshy lake was soon evaporated by the three Great Dragons' Dragonfire.
Danyla drew her Valyrian Steel Sword, Proud Sun, poured magical energy into it, and slashed out a searing arc of flame toward the decaying platform and its totems.
"Jik-jik-ree!"
Amid a chorus of strange cries, a curtain of water suddenly rose over the eerie totems and blocked Danyla's attack, only to burst apart an instant later.
Several tall, slender figures slowly emerged from the marsh. They stood well over two meters tall, with shriveled crocodile heads atop their own and cloaks sewn from whole crocodile hides draped over their bodies. Faint silver scales gleamed on their exposed arms.
This made their heads look particularly large. In the mist, their silhouettes resembled ungainly monsters covered in thick scales.
Their hands and feet were large and webbed. Completely unlike Humans, their pupils were a strange blue that seemed to blend the deep sea with moonlight, and they could contract into vertical slits like those of fish.
"Please... don't attack!"
"We... mean no harm!"
The strange figure at their head spoke in halting Common Tongue with a bubbling undertone, as though his voice came from beneath the water.
"Nonhumans! Submit or die!"
Although Danyla stopped the Great Dragons from continuing to breathe Dragonfire, pale golden flames ignited all over her body.
Sensing her