Chapter 339

Chapter 339 is approaching.

The gaze through the telescope wobbled along with it, finally locking onto the Flame King Dragon resting on the shallow beach of an isolated island.

The observation hand hurriedly climbed down from the mast to report the situation. As the flagship raised its flags in signal, the fleet slowed its advance.

“It’s stopped again. Long-distance flying must be tiring for it too, huh? Haha.”

The team leader stood on the monster skull at the ship’s prow, tightly watching the Flame King Dragon through his telescope.

The Flame King Dragon’s long-distance flight ability was far inferior to that of the Steel Dragon. Every time it found a place to land, it would stop to rest, even trying to catch water beasts like a big cat, and sometimes you could see it struggling after falling into the water.

This situation was good news for the fleet. The islands passed by the Flame King Dragon during its migration would become prominent landmarks on the sea chart, greatly improving the route to the New Continent.

“The first phase team didn’t have it easy either to successfully reach the New Continent. I heard the Steel Dragon never stopped during its migration.”

“Yes, but the Steel Dragon’s flight leaves behind wind. By sensing the changes in wind direction, they followed the typhoon spread by the Steel Dragon to reach the New Continent. But this also caused them to miss the landmarks.”

The young Dragon Person carefully held onto the railing, adjusting his monocle to keep it from falling off.

“It’s standing up, is it going to continue forward?”

In the telescope, the Flame King Dragon rose to its feet, but suddenly flapped its wings, igniting a large fire as if entering battle mode.

“That’s not right…”

The team leader muttered, moving the telescope left and right. A shadow flashed past, and when the view returned to the Flame King Dragon, the Lord of Flames had been directly pounced upon.

The monster that pounced on the Flame King Dragon was pitch black all over, but its black skin was covered with white spines. It treated the surrounding fiery battlefield as if it were nothing.

Dust gathered together, exploding once more with even stronger flames, causing the black monster that pounced on the Flame King Dragon to be directly blown to the ground.

The Flame King Dragon retaliated next, with bursts of dust exploding in the fire. The scene visible through the telescope became increasingly blurry.

That reckless monster should have fallen, right?

But when the flames dissipated, the Flame King Dragon was nowhere to be seen in the telescope. Only the trembling body of the black monster roaring could be seen, flying off into the distance, leaving only its back silhouette.

“Is there any more detailed information?”

The young Dragon Person wasn’t using the telescope; he couldn’t see the details with the naked eye, but he could still see the red and black figures fighting.

“The Flame King Dragon was attacked by an unknown monster, completely black with white spines. It’s a Flying Dragon.”

The team leader’s expression turned serious, his gaze slightly floating as he recalled monsters with similar features in his mind.

“Completely black, white spines.”

Pages flipped wildly under the hands of the young Dragon Person, who presented an illustration to the team leader. It was unmistakably the image of an Extinction Dragon.

“Yes, exactly like that. I remember when the first phase team was about to reach the New Continent, the migrating Ancient Dragons fought with the native Water Ancient Dragons of the New Continent. Didn’t expect we’d encounter a battle between Ancient Dragons too.”

The team leader expressed admiration, calling out to the members to prepare for the next survey.

“Slow down, send the small boats to land when we approach the shore, and gather some intelligence.”

Every time they encountered the Flame King Dragon resting on an isolated island, they always took a look. There were even a few times they picked up scales and manes from the Flame King Dragon.

The young Dragon Person looked at the illustrations in the book, pondering. The last sighting record of this unknown Ancient Dragon was in the Loke Clark Great Desert.

He quietly raised his head, looking at the white figure on the side railing. The Smoky Snow Weasel stood upright, gazing ahead.

The compiler’s return journey was legendary enough, and the Smoky Snow Weasel could attract monsters with pheromones. Although the monsters sighted all had their own purposes and couldn’t possibly be attracted by pheromones.

But this did provide a real line of thought. The other party certainly wasn’t an ordinary Smoky Snow Weasel.

Being followed by a mysterious Smoky Snow Weasel would lead to encounters with many dangerous monsters? Like some kind of calamity or fate?

The young Dragon Person couldn’t help but wonder if he was shrinking from old age.

Believing some monsters to be omens of calamity and others symbols of good fortune… only the older generation of old Dragon People liked thinking about such mystical things. Back then, the occupation title for scholars at the Ancient Dragon Observatory was “Ancient Dragon Diviner.”

Jié Jié noticed the Dragon Person’s gaze while looking afar. His gaze gradually became pure.

Ever since boarding this ship, the other party would occasionally glance at him stealthily.

He understood this. After all, in the other person’s eyes, he was a Smoky Snow Weasel with strange entries like “old money,” “immortal,” and “elusive.” If it were him, he’d want to sneak a peek too.

At this moment, glancing at him… probably some association or guess came to mind.

But he was right here, with a solid alibi. The Extinction Dragon in front definitely wasn’t him.

Transformation in that direction was ruled out, so the other’s guesses were clearly off.

More guessing is good, more guessing is good. The more guesses, the thicker the fog enveloping him.

And as the ship reached the isolated island, the atmosphere aboard became lively.

Because from here, they could already see the silhouette of the distant continent through the telescope.

They were about to reach the end of this voyage – the New Continent.

The harvest brought back by the landing boat further heated up the atmosphere aboard the ship.

Jié Jié glanced at it – a pile of spines from the Extinction Dragon had been collected, with a red shell emitting flames placed in the center.

For the members of the investigation team, no matter what, these were materials from an Ancient Dragon. To obtain such a haul just upon reaching the New Continent, the members of the second phase team couldn’t help but feel proud.

As the ship continued sailing forward, the coastal scenery of the New Continent gradually unfolded before the members’ eyes.

“It’s not a forest. According to the description, it should be the barren terrain east of the New Continent’s forest. How come… it’s getting a bit hot?”

The young Dragon Person wiped his forehead, finding it already damp with sweat.

Looking up at the sun, the sky seemed blurred as if scorched by fierce flames.

“Everyone, be on guard!!!”

Before he could react, the team leader was already shouting at the top of his lungs, with a member ringing the alarm bell and raising the flag signals.

The young Dragon Person looked toward the two battling figures in the distance, realizing they had unknowingly advanced too recklessly, accidentally nearing the battlefield of the Ancient Dragons.

The sudden high temperature was none other than the heat radiating from the Flame King Dragon’s anger.

The fleet raised its flags to prepare for a turn, but everything within sight was blurred under the high temperature. The Flame King Dragon’s field blocked the entire visible coastline of the New Continent!

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