Gerlo Kingdom.
Niro City.
To the west, in the outer city, lay the area used for planting and raising animals.
The beast pens in one section housed magical beasts of all kinds.
Among these many magical beasts,
there were creatures with two wolf heads, bodies four meters long, and three tails.
There were also black, single-horned wild oxen nearly five meters long, as big as small houses.
There were tiny black cats no bigger than a human head, almost invisible in the shadows, as well as tethered giant eagles as large as ordinary Lion-Tigers, which spat gusts of wind from their beaks from time to time...
In the eyes of many ordinary subjects, every one of these monsters was a terrifying creature.
Yet now, they all hunched down somewhat, shrinking into corners and looking frightened.
That was because a blue dragon about 8.2 meters long, azure all over with a single horn on his snout, was making his rounds. His eyes kept drifting toward the magical beasts' bellies.
Many of the monsters' bellies had noticeably swollen.
This made the blue dragon smile from time to time and nod in satisfaction.
Just then,
an angry roar rang out:
"Abel! You shameless bastard! Give me back my vine lion! That was my gift for Alicia!"
"Hm?"
The blue dragon, who had been making his rounds, paused at those words and turned toward the voice.
In the northern sky, a green dragon was flying toward him, his face full of fury.
The green dragon soon reached the beast pen where the blue dragon, Abel, stood, glaring at him with resentment!
His body was emerald green and looked a little smaller than the blue dragon's, though the difference was hard to notice without a close look.
"Oh, Koraman. Do you know what you're saying?