Chapter 26: Greyvile Dragon

"Greyvile Dragon, the most powerful existence within the Forest and the reason this forest became one of the darkholds and deadliest areas on the planet is a Swamp python that was able to evolve itself into a pseudo-dragon through some effort and luck.

It is the overlord monster of the forest, a tier-2 monster with the ability to evolve into tier-3 at any time with enough flare if the planet could handle its strength. It has a High defense and an extremely exasperating ability to control the swamp and heal itself after using the flare from the swamp when injured giving headaches to even the most powerful Elves in the empire.

Every monster that has a bloodline of a snake/python within the forest is its subordinate. So it would be best if the lord hadn't killed any snakes or Python while exterminating the Nightmare Hound in the forest.

Also, it is the only monster with enough intelligence to create battle plans, albeit lame ones, and has its subordinates battle using the battle plans giving a hard time even to the combined army formed by the most powerful warriors from the empire.

It also is cowardly enough to hide inside the swamp even when lightly injured resulting in Empire being unable to kill it till now even after several extermination attempts."

" Can't you just kill it when it moves away from its territory? I mean, wouldn't it move out of its territory once in a while?" I felt like it was a good question.

" Sigh, We could kill it if it went away from the swamp but the problem is, it doesn't even show its face out of the swamp less move its big body out of its hiding hole."

" About its food. Doesn't it need to hunt the monsters to survive?" Another great question from me, The amazing lord.

" It doesn't, the snakes/pythons within the swamp offer it with several monsters once a week. The portion of offerings is enough for it to digest for a whole week before another portion is provided by the monsters to it."

" Then couldn't you poison the swamp or its offerings to get it out of its hiding hole before killing it or directly killing it with the poison?" Another brilliant question by me.

"WE could, but tier-2 poisons don't affect the monster at all. We don't have alchemists capable enough to concoct tier-3 poison at all in the Empire. No, the whole planet"

That Greyvile Dragon felt like a pain in the ass just listening to the old Elf in front of me.

"Any other information regarding the Dragon," I asked in annoyance.

" Ahh, now I remember. The Greyvile Dragon is heavily injured. It was injured mortally by our Ancestors" He had a prideful expression on his face when talking about his ancestors.

"That's something new. Anything other than that??" I side-eyed the sly bastard.

" Ahm, Even I don't know more about that. I only know the fact, that Greyvile Dragon was the one to ambush our ancestors while he was traveling the Kingdom of Freya for an important meeting. It is said that the cowardly Dragon actually stopped fighting with his life on the line after being lightly injured by our ANCESTOR with the Tier-4 equipment he had on him. Our ancestor was foolish enough to follow it to its hiding hole before being able to gravely injure it while dying in the swamp." He replied with shame on his face.

" Also, the Breath of darkness was lost by us Dark Elves after our ancestor was killed by the dragon making us, the once powerful Dark Elves, the treacherous people by the people from the Elven empire. It was only after the niece of our ancestors, the late empress of our Elven empire brought out the subject about the great contribution made by our ancestors was our lineage saved from extermination."

As for Why the hell are we talking about the Greyvile Dragon in the ruined Hall?

Some time ago.....

I peacefully' managed to recruit the Dark elves with the help of Lilith, who was master at frightening the masses with her cheerful voice.

"Yup without manhandling anyone or breaking any number of bones in the process."

But, I wasn't interested in taking them into my territory without knowing about the enemy, The Greyvile Dragon from here. I was interested in learning more about the Overlord of the forest I was situated in. The Dragon inside the forest was going to become an important piece in making my life as a lord of the territory sail smoothly on the planet I was on.

Also, the most important role was played by my little Lilith, who was able to make these sly bastards into wet chickens through her words.

Any advice she gave me regarding these dark elves was more brutal and exhilarating than the previous one.

<Why don't we just kill them and destroy their poor village?>

<Why don't we gauze their eyes and feed them to those cute puppies( Nightmare Hounds)? They could become a source of energy for them(Puppies) greatly upgrade strength.>

<Ahh, Let's just amputate them and leave inside the forest. They might be able to survive>

She was smiling at me when talking about killing and amputating the Elves that had already turned white with fear and were shaking like scaredy little cats.

I had to stop her from coming up with even more crazy ideas after listening to her for some time.

Coming back to the present time, every one of the elves was standing behind the Old elf with their heads hung down, looking depressed for some reason.

Were they depressed due to the fact that Lilith wanted to exterminate their whole lineage by feeding them to Nightmare Hounds as a supplement to increase their strength?

Well, I wasn't going to be bothered by them.

" Is the Empress you talked about still alive?"

" No"

"Don't you elves have long lives?"

" Yes..''

"Then, Why is the Empress you talked about dead already?"

" Did I say we are Immortals?"

" Nope."

" Mister Lord, Are you trying to make some lame joke in order to brighten the mood of the hall?" It looked like he was going to pick a fight with me regardless of our upper hand in strength if I replied something funny.

'' Nope, I was interested in meeting and thanking the most forgiving and compassionate Empress that even had the compassion to spare the lives of someone that lost a tier-4 weapon to some snake," I replied in full seriousness.

(Freak that a was tier-4 weapon your ancestor lost. If it had been on earth, it could be the reason for your whole bloodline to be wiped out of existence without a single thought by the lords.) I didn't want to divulge my inner thoughts for no reason.

" Hmph... She is the most powerful yet compassionate Empress ever to have governed the empire without an iron fist." he nodded with fanatic expression when talking about the Empress that spared their lineage.

" Arre... Dad, Why does it look like he is mocking our great Empredd for sparing our lineage after we lost a tier-4 weapon to the snake... I mean dragon!." One of the elves behind the old one chimed from behind the fanatic old man.

" Ohh! Why did I hear that he wanted to thank our Empress for sparing our lineage? What snake are you talking about? Our Ancestor lost his life when inflicting the scaredy dragon with mortal wounds not some puny snakes in the forest. Think properly before talking wrong about the most compassionate Queen to ever live in our Empire" He nearly beat his son who had a wronged expression on his face looking at his old man exploding in rage for no reason.