Chapter 77 (1/2)
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
Sui Xiong was not sure that the red dragon who was sleeping in the lava was the super-villain Uherskreider. But if so, as a decent man, or as a decent jellyfish, he felt he had a responsibility to do the job of God: crack the head of this villain, pull out the soul and put it in the blue icy fire of his own supernatural power, and give it a punishment for a century.
But if not, it was a different story.
“We cannot let the bad guys go, but we must not wrong good people first, and ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is one of the hallmarks of the progress of the rule of law,” Sui Xiong murmured secretly and began searching around the crater.
To convict someone, you needed witnesses and material evidence.
He quickly found the goal: a small underground forest located at the end of the stream, beside an abyss that no one knew where it led to.
Because of the lack of sunshine, the trees here were bizarre. They were neither tall nor lush and gave off a sickly weird feeling. In the woods, a group of ragged, wretched, embarrassed elves that looked like Somali refugees were lying one by one in a disorderly way.
“Well, I have witnesses and material evidence.” Watching these apparently captive elves, Sui Xiong noticed a lot of burns on them and nodded slightly.
These burns could be considered fairly reliable material evidence, and the next thing to do was to find a witness to ask them in detail.
Of course, these elves were not as careless as to be fast asleep beside the evil dragon, but they had been hypnotized by the power of magic. A huge magical formation shrouded the entire forest, and all the elves were covered inside. Sweeping his eyes over it, Sui Xiong found that this magic formation was not sophisticated, and nothing more than a hypnotic magic. But a series of special structures enhanced the magical effect of it, so that elves who under normal circumstances should not be affected by the hypnotic magic were actually beaten down by it, and not even a single elf managed to resist its effect.
If the red dragon designed this magic formation, then it could be really versatile.
Of course, the dragon community was full of versatile dragons. In fact, as long as dragons lived long enough, it was difficult for them not to be versatile. When the growth of strength relied on the passage of time to accumulate slowly, nothing else could be a pastime except learning a variety of skills to pass the time.
Oh, the giant dragons had other ways too like sleeping a lot. They could sleep for three or five years on end, so that time naturally passed in this way.
In order to be able to increase strength while sleeping, the giant dragons would choose areas that suited their own attributes. For example, the red dragon would choose to sleep in the lava; the white dragon would choose to sleep in the ice cave; the rock dragon would choose to sleep inside a heap of stones, the ice dragon would choose to sleep in the ice…
The red dragon that might be Uherskreider in front Sui’s eyes was a good example.
Sui Xiong observed for a while, raised a few tentacles, quickly drew a few magic symbols in the air, and then made the magic flow and create a tiny formation firmly embedded in the original magic formation. As if it just dug a hole in it, a blue smoke wound its way in. It, like a tentacle, wrapped an elf that obviously had relatively strong life energy and pulled him out.
Sui Xiong wrapped his tentacle around that elf and fixed the elf on his own back. Then he withdrew his spell, carrying the elf quickly out of the underground cave and back to the ground.
Then, he cast a magic spell to wake the elf.
The communication between a jellyfish and an elf, honestly speaking, was not very happy because the elf was already frightened and unusually panicked. If not for Sui Xiong’s strong suppression, maybe he would have already panicked and escaped to tell his tribe.
However, in the face of the strange jellyfish which was abominably strong, he found his resistance ineffective and could only cooperate obediently.
When he learned that Sui Xiong came to cause trouble for the evil red dragon and was verifying whether he had committed a real crime, he was extremely excited and even he gestured with his hands and feet to express the resentment in his heart.
According to the elf, the red dragon came without warning. Until then, there had been no communication between the village and the dragon, let alone conflicts. As they lived in a village located in the depths of the Forest of Remote Antiquity, they had lived a peaceful life with little contact with the outside world except for caravans that passed by regularly.
The elf emphasized the word “little” several times, which showed that he was very concerned about the attack that was launched for no reason, and he also felt very indignant— unexpected disasters were the most unacceptable.
Then, the red dragon attacked them. It attacked in the same way as that of the legendary “Brutal Burner” Uherskreider: it first indiscriminately breathed fire that burned the village into a sea of flames; then it lied beside the sea of fire, and caught a few young elves and ate them alive while enjoying the tragic scene in which villagers struggled in the sea of fire.
At that time, this elf with good strength luckily escaped from the sea of fire. Seeing this scene, he desperately rushed toward the dragon, wanting at least to leave a wound on the cruel behemoth.
Then, he was battered unconscious and he had been unconscious until just now.
As the elf said these things, he became sadder and angrier. His fists were tightly held; his nails pierced his palm with excessive force, and blood dripped drop by drop. However, he did not notice it.
His body trembled constantly not because of fear but because of grief and anger that was difficult to suppress.
If at the moment he had been in front of the dragon, he would have certainly not hesitated in rushing toward it and fighting against the villain!
Sui Xiong, while listening silently, suppressed the anger in his mind, and forced himself to be calm. He carefully watched the mind of the elf, vigilant against possible lies. But the elf’s heart was full of anger and pain without any conspiracies or lies.
The brutal scenes reflected in the elf’s mind were also very similar to what Sui Xiong saw in the brawny aristocrat’s mind in the territory of Geerteng. They were just clearer, crueler, and more evil.