A Dragon against the Whole World

Chapter 46: Chapter 46: Dragon and Steel, Exploding Scales in Actual Combat

The afterglow of the sunset stained the sky red over Iron Pine Hills, and Galos’ scales glimmered with a dangerous light in the twilight.

Centered around him, three Earth-Splitting Centipede Alchemy Golems suddenly broke through the ground from different directions, their steel bodies casting grim shadows on the ground, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound as their limbs brushed against the rocks, sparking bright flashes.

The first golem curled into a giant metal wheel, its high-frequency vibrating blade limbs converged, slicing toward Galos.

The second golem opened its menacing maw, spraying a liquid that seemed to be refined from black oil, which instantly ignited into raging flames in the air.

The third golem’s shell cracked, shooting out dense armor-piercing steel nails like a torrential downpour.

Galos took a deep breath, suddenly raising his dragon wings.

The scythe-like dragon wings slashed toward the ’metal wheel.’

Clang clang clang clang!

Sparks flew everywhere, the dragon wings and the blade-like limbs of the Earth-Splitting Centipede collided rapidly, creating metallic sounds that echoed under the night sky.

Segments of blade limbs twisted and shattered.

The metallic outer wing bone also acquired some small gaps.

With another flick of Galos’ dragon wings.

The Earth-Splitting Centipede was flung away, spinning and severing the sturdy iron pines.

Meanwhile.

As the first Earth-Splitting Centipede was sent flying.

Fierce flames and a rain of steel nails came directly at him.

Galos neither dodged nor avoided, stepping forward, puffing out his chest.

The flames first fell upon him, engulfing and swallowing Galos, but under this sweeping fire, Galos instead grinned, revealing a smile as the explosive scales on his body were immediately dyed a red-hot iron color from being tempered by the flames.

Clang clang clang!

The armor-piercing steel nails slammed against Galos, easily shattering his explosive scales into fragments.

Then.

As Galos’ body shook and flung, countless fragments wrapped in flames, glowing a fresh red iron hue, rebounded towards the two Earth-Splitting Centipedes.

Boom boom boom!

The explosive waves and flames instantly engulfed the two Earth-Splitting Centipedes, flinging them around, their bodies becoming full of cracks and dents.

The flames spewed from the Earth-Splitting Centipede’s mouth abruptly stopped.

However.

The flames burning on Galos’ body didn’t immediately stop.

These flames were formed from flammable liquid refined from black oil, with strong combustibility.

Bathed in the flames, the Red Iron Young Dragon stretched and lightly flapped its wings, stepping forward with its head held high, the dragon scales on its body shimmered with a high-temperature iron-red color, the surrounding air constantly twisted with heat waves steaming.

Although these flames were uncommon, they were not magic flames.

They couldn’t harm Galos; instead, they boosted his dragon might.

Seemingly realizing the flames were ineffective against Galos, and the ranged attack was of little effect.

The three Earth-Splitting Centipedes, stabilizing their bodies and suffering varying degrees of damage, simultaneously transformed into metal wheels, with blade limbs vibrating at high frequency, spinning toward Galos in a cutting approach.

Whoosh!

With a wave of dragon wings, Galos, wrapped in flames, looked like a fiery meteor, heading toward the metal wheels.

Bright colors like molten lava seeped through the gaps in the scale armor of his chest.

His pupils reflected the images of several Earth-Splitting Centipedes attacking from different directions.

Galos suddenly sprayed scorching Flaming Dragon Breath.

The dragon breath carried a thick and formidable impact, first sweeping past two Earth-Splitting Centipedes, knocking them away, then directly pressing the last Earth-Splitting Centipede hard against the ground.

The black metal armor on its body became visibly red-hot, beginning to melt.

Though all fire, Galos’ Flaming Dragon Breath was far mightier than the black oil flames spewed by the Earth-Splitting Centipede.

Galos stepped closer, the Flaming Dragon Breath suppressing the Earth-Splitting Centipede, melting it into a twisted heap of scrap iron, while the other two Earth-Splitting Centipedes, after this battle, determined they couldn’t defeat Galos, hence decisively changed strategy, stopped lingering in battle, and started retreating.

The burning dragon wings rent the night.

The Red Iron Young Dragon swiftly pursued the Earth-Splitting Centipede to the right, before it burrowed underground, swiftly twisting its body to swing its tail.

Zzzzz!

The tail ring lit up, arcs of electricity danced along the dragon tail, enhancing electrical damage and stimulating muscular power.

The gushing wind and jumping arch sound mixed together, Galos’ dragon tail swift as lightning, precisely struck this Earth-Splitting Centipede, causing its shell to severely indent and crack, arcs of electricity slithered into its body, jumping continuously inside and out.

Zzzz!

This Earth-Splitting Centipede, overall fairly intact, twitched and collapsed, black smoke billowing from its joints.

Bang! The Red Young Dragon descended from the sky, crashing onto the ground, creating a deep concave pit.

Samantha staggered, dizzy and dazed standing up, feeling dizzy.

It tried to attack the third Earth-Splitting Centipede from above, like Galos, but lacked speed, couldn’t intercept it, letting it burrow underground, and feeling sore all over from the recoil.

Without the daily training like Galos, lacking his robust physique.

This direct high-speed body crash to ground target attack method wasn’t suited for a normal young dragon.

After the third Earth-Splitting Centipede burrowed underground, it promptly fled.

Galos, not mastering underground traversal magic-like skills, didn’t pursue, and chasing relentlessly was meaningless, the appearance of these golems meant this place was likely exposed, even if leaving it behind, the Black Rock Dwarves could pinpoint Iron Pine Hills through underground passages, merely delaying some time.

”Dragon Lord divine might! Your strength is awe-inspiring!”

”These steel beasts are powerless before you! It’s truly my honor to be your follower.”

The battle ended, Earth Bear Möbel came before Galos, offering compliments.

Galos ignored him, quietly contemplated, organizing battle information.

”These three Alchemy Golems lack specific life levels, undetectable, but each is more formidable than an ordinary level 8 beast monster, knowing cooperation, adopting different strategies in varying situations.”

”Compared to the goblin tribe’s alchemy golems, which are like crude toys, easily defeated.”

”If they hadn’t used flame attacks on me, this battle would likely have taken longer to conclude.”

These combat-type alchemy golems were indeed powerful.

Galos didn’t know the specific model of Earth-Splitting Centipede, but judging from size and apparent precision, it likely wasn’t comparable to the alchemy golems stationed on the surface.

”Ah, my Alchemy Workshop!”

Samantha shouted angrily, jumping with rage.

During the battle just now, its Alchemy Workshop was once again impacted, destroyed utterly, despite five months of constant repair, no longer a mere initial crude rock slab shanty.

”Where did these damn things come from? I want to pursue them and slaughter them all!”

It said, furious.

Galos didn’t stop, instead encouraged: ”They are from a Black Rock Duchy oil field guard unit, I’ll give you the location for you to fulfill your wish.”

Me?

Upon hearing this, Samantha’s anger immediately subsided, joking aside, it remembered the time it nearly got shot down from just a glance at high altitude, a step away from death.

Though the two places weren’t the same, back then it was attacked near a mine outpost.

But any place with regular military stationed isn’t to be trifled with.

”Being a dragon shouldn’t be too reckless. I’ll think it over, let them live a bit longer.”

Samantha laughed sheepishly, then changed the subject, saying: ”I’ll first rebuild the Alchemy Workshop.”

”No.”

Galos shook his head, his gaze sweeping across the vegetation and land of Iron Pine Hills, then decisively said: ”We can’t stay here anymore, we need to relocate territory.”

The resources in Iron Pine Hills were already mediocre, water sources have been gradually drying up, with the number of creatures inhabiting the surroundings fewer and fewer, every time Galos drinks and hunts he has to fly far, already nurturing the idea of relocating territory in his mind.

Now sensing danger from the Black Rock Dwarves, it’s the perfect time to make up his mind to abandon this place.

And so this meant the peaceful life of the past few months was coming to an end.