Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 1127: Chapter 173: Rupture! Hunting the Red Dragon Drake!

Su Li was still hoping that Marle Castle would make a rational decision. If these parasites and rodents could convey Su Li’s stance back, allowing the truly rational high level of the Electorate Council to make decisions, after careful consideration, it might be possible to overlook this extortion and provide a fair assessment. Isn’t it just one hundred thousand pieces of the Golden Crown? For the Electorate Council, it’s actually inconsequential. For the Empire’s upper echelon, a stable operating system is far more important than just a few tens of thousands of Gold Coins.

However, truth be told, although Su Li held onto hope, he equally believed the probability was low. The Empire’s upper echelon had true elites and heroes, but most of the lower tiers were corrupt, greedy, vile pests, more foolish and arrogant. They might not convey everything truthfully, leaning towards trying to suppress everything. Until everything can’t be suppressed anymore, the paper can’t wrap up the fire, they then have to report.

After all, in this dark and despairing empire politics, fools are commonplace.

So Su Li continued, ”However, we can prepare in this direction. The Swamp Territory has a large population, complex terrain, making it difficult to resolve quickly, but the neighbor to the east of the Swamp Territory is straightforward in thought and easy to deal with.”

Upon hearing Su Li’s words, Aeliria, who usually remained aloof, seated at the long table and resting, suddenly opened her eyes. Her golden eyes were astonishingly bright at the moment, swirling with a mix of disdain, battle intent, and... an indescribable excitement.

”Drake...” Her voice was cold but filled with the arrogance and strong hostility of a Giant Dragon, ”That red lizard curled in the lava pit of the Dusk Mountain Range, with only shimmering treasures and the stupid creed of ’muscle supreme’ left in its mind?”

She truly showed no restraint in her attitude of mutual disdain and hostility between Green Dragons and Red Dragons.

Su Li’s lips curved into a slight arc, ”It’s him. The ’Lava Tyrant’ of the Dusk Mountain Range, High Tier Divine Chosen Level Red Dragon, Drake.”

Demster had battled this Red Dragon for three days and nights before, and now recalling this brutal Red Dragon, felt pain all over his body, he immediately gasped, loudly complaining: ”Lord, that’s the Red Dragon Drake, how is it as simple as squashing a bug in your words? High Tier Divine Chosen! Red Dragon! Drake! Easy to resolve! How are these words connected?”

”His individual power is extremely strong. It is said that his Dragon Breath can melt the strongest city walls, and his Scale Armor can withstand siege Giant Crossbows. There are even rumors that he’s nearing the Legendary Level stage. He and his followers often come out from the Dusk Mountain Range to raid, causing us immense military pressure.”

Su Li calmly smiled, waved his hand, and said, ”Precisely because of this, he appears ’straightforward,’ easy to resolve. As a Red Dragon, he is extremely superstitious about the Red Dragon’s physical prowess, showing no interest in developing followers and constructing territorial order. His ’territory’ is more like a radiation zone of a huge Dragon’s Nest, maintained with the minimum vigilance by a few Kobolds, Fire Lizards, and scattered Cultists awed by his power.”

”His straightforward mind also prevents him from managing his forces like a Green Dragon. His territory, though formally situated deep in the Dusk Mountain Range, actually controls only a few easily defensible choke points and lava valleys around his nest. Due to his superstition of absolute power crushing everything, he disdains complex strategies and construction. Therefore, his territory seems easy to defend and hard to attack, but the defense system is extremely lax, without structured army, without solid satellite fortresses, completely reliant on his own deterrence and harsh terrain environment. Once he himself is restrained or even... falls, his so-called territory would instantly collapse.”

”And his fatal weakness,” Aeliria’s voice carried a kind of, near cruel precision distinctive to the Dragon Race, ”lies in his superstition of ’absolute power’ and disdain for ’lower creatures’. He would never believe a group of ’reptiles’ in his eyes could pose a real threat to him. Especially...” Her emerald eyes swept over everyone present, ”when this group of ’reptiles’ reaches a certain scale and possesses enough weapons to penetrate his Scale Armor.”

Hilude’s valiant face showed understanding and battle intent, ”So, the Lord’s meaning is... gather all our top forces, conduct a targeted ’decapitation’?”

”Exactly.” Su Li’s finger heavily tapped on the map of the deep part of the Dusk Mountain Range marked as the lava area. ”Drake is a hard bone but also an isolated one. He doesn’t have the complex terrain and large population like the Swamp Territory requiring us to gnaw on, nor does he have robust castle groups that need to be rooted out one by one. His only ’city defense’ is his own Scale Armor and lava pit. And his arrogance is our best breakthrough point. We don’t need to mobilize large forces; as long as the Divine Chosen Knights, accompanied by several hundred Elite Knights, can complete the encirclement hunt for him!”