"Gwoooo~"
The prey's cries grew louder and louder.
Until an enormous head poked out of the burrow entrance!
A creature resembling a warthog charged out of the burrow, trying to escape.
Gordon, who had long been waiting at the entrance, did not wait for Xiluo to speak. Quick-eyed and quick-clawed, he reached out, slapped a claw onto the prey's head, then drove it hard into the ground!
"Gwoooo~"
The prey let out a piercing scream.
Its limbs flailed as it struggled desperately.
The creature was no small thing, looking to weigh at least three to four hundred pounds, but in the claws of Gordon, the Red Dragon Whelp, it hardly amounted to much.
Then the Red Dragon Whelp grabbed it by its forelegs and slowly lifted it into the air, leaving it able to do nothing but howl desperately.
"Hahahaha! Got it! I caught it! Xiluo! Did you see that? I caught prey before you did! Looks like I have more talent than you when it comes to hunting!"
The Red Dragon Whelp roared excitedly.
"Gwoooo..."
Xiluo did not answer the Red Dragon Whelp, his gaze still fixed firmly on the burrow entrance.
From the sounds coming from inside, he could tell that there should still be quite a few creatures in there. It was probably a whole family!
Now that their mother had been caught, the little ones inside were too frightened to come out!
Just as Xiluo was about to redouble his efforts and stuff more grass inside-
Screee!!!
A piercing cry rang out.
A fierce gust of wind swept down!
He instinctively leaped sideways, dodging out of the way.
But immediately afterward, he heard a furious roar:
"You damned beast! Give me back my prey!"
Xiluo looked toward the voice.
He saw a giant eagle with a wingspan of over eight meters, pure white all over like an ice sculpture, snatch the prey Gordon had just caught with one talon. It beat its massive wings, about to take flight!
Gordon, robbed of his prey, looked wild and furious.
At the sight, Xiluo's pupils contracted.
"Wait! Gordon! Don't attack it!"
The furious Gordon paid no attention to Xiluo's call. He opened his mouth and spat a fireball at the giant eagle at tremendous speed.
This was the fireball Breath Weapon the Red Dragon Whelp had developed by modifying Xiluo's simplified Breath Weapon.
Its defining feature was speed!
"Screee!!"
The giant eagle, which resembled an ice sculpture, seemed not to have expected Gordon's counterattack to come so quickly. It took a direct hit to its chest and belly!
Whoosh... boom!
The instant the fireball struck-
The ice-crystal-like feathers on the giant eagle's chest caught fire, and something extraordinary happened.
Those feathers turned into sheets of water droplets and detached from its body along with the flames, vanishing completely before they hit the ground!
"Screee!!"
The giant eagle gave a somewhat angry cry and lowered its head to look at its chest.
The beautiful feathers that had covered it were gone, leaving only a bare patch! It was extremely conspicuous and ugly!
This seemed to enrage the giant eagle. After rising several dozen meters, it fixed its sharp eyes on Gordon.
"You damned stinking bird! You dare steal my prey? Get down here! I'll roast you! Roar!"
Gordon lowered his body into a fighting stance, glaring up at the ice-sculpture-like giant eagle in the sky.
"G-Gordon... don't... that monster is a Frost Giant Eagle... it's a very powerful monster. Usually, only powerful Young Dragons can deal with them... and they travel in groups. They usually have families of their own... fighting them... would be very dangerous..."
Allen looked at the giant eagle in the sky and spoke fearfully.
Xiluo frowned at his words as well.
He slowly raised his head and looked farther into the sky.
Over a hundred meters up, several more giant eagles resembling ice crystals swooped down from the sky!
These ones, however, looked somewhat smaller than the first.
Xiluo focused his eyes.
[Adult Frost Giant Eagle] Level: 5 Condition: good [Young Frost Giant Eagle] Level: 4 Condition: good
One level 5, three level 4s, and the largest was level 6!
They really would not be easy to deal with!
Every one of them was quite strong!
Finding the situation troublesome, Xiluo hurriedly shouted to Gordon:
"Gordon, stop provoking them! These Frost Giant Eagles won't be easy to deal with! Fall back!"
"So what? They're just a bunch of lowly, inferior beasts!
"They dare steal a dragon's food? Then they'll pay with their lives!
"Xiluo! Let's work together! These beasts are nothing!"
The Red Dragon Whelp roared, opened his mouth, and spat out another fireball!
"Screee!!"
The Frost Giant Eagle cried out in the sky.
This time, it finally counterattacked. It beat its wings, and freezing air immediately filled the space before it.
The fireball met the freezing air with a harsh sizzling sound. In moments, a fireball that had been the size of a human head vanished completely!
"Roar!"
Somewhat annoyed by the sight, the Red Dragon Whelp was about to attack again.
But the Frost Giant Eagle swung its talon and actually hurled the prey it held, sending it hurtling toward Gordon!
The Red Dragon Whelp was startled. He was just about to dodge when he realized he seemed to be too late.
Watching the several-hundred-pound creature draw closer and closer made him panic a little.
Crackle!
But beside him, a flash of lightning erupted.
Xiluo lunged toward him even faster, knocked him aside, then narrowly dodged out of the way himself.
The prey smashed into the ground beside Xiluo with a boom.
Its entire body burst apart, sending severed limbs and blood spraying!
Knocked aside by Xiluo, the Red Dragon Whelp rolled nearly ten meters. Watching the prey burst apart made his heart jolt.
If that had hit him, it probably would not have felt good!
At the same time, he felt a faint envy of Xiluo's exceptional control over lightning as a blue dragon.
Only a blue dragon could unleash Lightning Flash almost instantaneously.
And manage to save him while also avoiding the attack.
As a red dragon, Gordon had also learned the spell Lightning Flash, but he needed some time to cast it, making it impossible for him to use it to dodge attacks at a critical moment!
At the same time, he was filled with resentment! He hated that the Frost Giant Eagle had actually used its aerial advantage to attack him!
In the memories of the Dragon Inheritance, this tactic had always been the exclusive preserve of dragons!
And now an inferior beast was actually using it against him?
How utterly hateful!
"Screee!!"
Seeing that its attack had failed, the Frost Giant Eagle tucked its wings in and dove straight toward Gordon!
"You scum! What do you think you're facing?"
The Red Dragon Whelp roared.
His whole body shuddered, and a succession of flames erupted from him, enveloping his entire body and turning him into a true flaming Wyrmling.
This was [Flame Armor].
A second-circle spell somewhat similar to [Electric Discharge], it likewise enveloped the caster in an element, providing both an offensive effect and considerable defense in close combat.
It was a spell Gordon, the Red Dragon Whelp, had awakened after entering the Wyrmling stage.
But the Frost Giant Eagle showed no fear of the Red Dragon Whelp's [Flame Armor]. The icy mist around it grew denser, and a thick layer of ice coated the talons it extended toward him.
Ssssss...
As the eagle's talons landed on the Red Dragon Whelp, billows of dense mist erupted.
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