Redd's methods have established a sufficiently broad deterrent throughout Free Trade Federation in the past few years. The families of all those who were incorporated into the Dragon King legion were uniformly placed in Volantis city.
If someone disobeys orders, he or she will not survive, and his or her family will be evicted from the settlement or worse.
That constraint lay across everyone's hearts, so that they did not dare to hesitate for more than a breath even when they were tired, confused, and afraid.
They are performing tasks at a faster speed to offset the slackness that had occurred at that moment because they were too tired.
Redd stood on the inside of the wall, watching the soldiers in the camp move quickly, disperse, and spread out to a flat area.
He folded his hands and pressed on the top of the sword's hilt, his fingertips pressing against the edge of the sword's grid.
Those Sandworm broke ground faster than he expected.
Before he could confirm whether everyone had dispersed, the ground cracked at several different locations between the camp and the wall.
From a depth of about a few meters below the ground, those Sandworm drilled upward through the soil layer in their own unique way - first a small bulge appeared on the ground, and there were thin cracks on the surface of the soil at the bulge that spread to all sides.
Immediately afterwards, the soil and gravel were pushed outward by a force from bottom to top, and the bulge was like a fist being slowly opened.
The cracks with layers of soil and gravel rolled around, and a dark circular opening emerged in the center of the crack.
The edge of the opening is covered with slender canines, each of which is like a bone spur that has been polished repeatedly. They are arranged in a ring, gradually narrowing from the outside to the inside, forming a closed structure with chewing function in the center of the hole.
The body thickness of each Sandworm is approximately equivalent to the width of a heavy-duty carriage. The surface of the gray-brown skin is covered with fine scales and cuticles that appear to have been rubbed many times. A slightly curved dry part hanging in the air is exposed from the edge of the broken hole.
Their body shapes are slightly different due to the different folding and extending ranges when sneaking. After breaking the ground, some Sandworm will arch upward for a while, and then rebound with the movement.
Like a thick rope thrown into the air, it paused in mid-air and opened its mouthparts towards the Demon Dragon that were flying back at low altitude.
Those sub-adult Demon Dragon were the slowest among the dragons. When they received the order to take off, they were on their way back to the camp from a distance.
They had already lowered their altitude in preparation for landing, and only started to accelerate again when the command from King Ghidorah came, but their actions were one step slower than those of Sandworm.
When the first Sandworm broke out from the ground, its mouthparts accurately bit the tail of a dark gray Demon Dragon, and then the second Sandworm also bit the hind limb of another Demon Dragon with green scales that was turning at low altitude.
Then more breaches continued to emerge, and Sandworm stretched out its body from the cracked ground, biting the low-flying Demon Dragon and began to drag it underground.
Their teeth can penetrate dragon scales, regardless of Dragon Blood's own high-temperature properties - the splashing, steaming Demon Dragon blood will make a sizzling sound when it drips on Sandworm's skin.
Like the hissing sound produced when high-temperature liquid comes into contact with wet leather, the surface of the Sandworm will leave burn marks, but those Sandworm still do not loosen their mouths. Instead, they tighten the muscles around the mouthparts, fixing the biting part more firmly.
They began to shrink their bodies backwards, pulling the bitten Demon Dragon from the air to the ground.
Sandworm is much heavier than the sub-adult Demon Dragon. Once the mouthparts are fixed, the other party cannot break free.
Those Demon Dragon were pressed to the ground, their wings still beating twitchingly, but the further they descended to the ground, the narrower the space for counterattack became.
The King Ghidorah on the hill was already moving the moment the first Sandworm broke through the ground.
It jumped up from the top of the hill, and its three heads turned at the same time in the direction where Sandworm appeared. After spreading its wings, it pressed down sharply and used that thrust to slide towards the front of the camp.
Its speed far exceeded those of the Demon Dragon that were being dragged - the surface of the golden scales left several intermittent light traces when passing through the firelight, and when it completed the turn, it was aimed at the Sandworm that were trying to retract.
Gravity Beam spurted out from its three mouths at the same time, and three golden light beams quickly swept across the location of Sandworm in a nearly straight trajectory, cutting off their bodies in the air.
The hit Sandworm was torn into pieces and powder the moment the light beam touched it. White smoke came out from the fracture. The teeth that bit Demon Dragon immediately relaxed after losing the support of the body. The pieces fell back to the ground, leaving behind a large mess filled with body fluids and scorch marks.
Several Demon Dragons that were being towed briefly lost their balance after becoming loose at the fracture of Sandworm, and fell precariously. They flapped their wings and tried their best to pull themselves up from the low place.
Some of them were unable to withstand the sudden cessation of pulling force, and failed to adjust during the fall. They hit the scorched earth and quickly flapped their wings to climb again.
But there are still a few Sandworm that have completed dragging before King Ghidorah arrived.
They had retracted underground, and Demon Dragon's body was dragged in together. The soil and gravel rolled up in the breach slowly collapsed after they disappeared, revealing several deep holes with a diameter enough to fit an entire cow.
The black hole stood silently among the fireworks and ashes, like a piece of torn cloth leaving several tear marks on its surface that could never be closed again.
Those Demon Dragon that were dragged underground did not appear again.
Redd's mind first heard a short system prompt, and then the several Demon Dragon data panels turned gray one by one at the edge of his vision, marked as out of link, and disappeared from the active list.
His anger reached a certain temperature at that moment.
He spent his energy raising those Demon Dragon from Dragonstone generation to generation. Just the renovation of Dragonpit and the supply of food and materials have already consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.
Now being brought here under his command, he was safe and sound in the frontline battle above the ground, but in the end he was destroyed in the moment of relaxation.
Anger accumulated in his chest, like a ball of air that was repeatedly compressed, layer by layer, and then settled in a way that was far more stable than ordinary emotions, turning into something colder.
He didn't shout or curse, nor did he make any obvious movements, but his breath was twice as heavy as before at that moment.
That temperature spread to King Ghidorah's perception through the spiritual link.
King Ghidorah has completed the steering in the air.
The three heads were facing downward at the same time, and the neck muscles tightened. Golden light began to accumulate under the skin between the scales, and came out from the dark gaps, as if burning metallic liquid was circulating against the inner layer.