Chapter 658: Chapter 653: The Crazy Dragon Disaster Chapter 658: Chapter 653: The Crazy Dragon Disaster Bude City, where the city walls are simply mounds of accumulated snow and ice, seemed as normal as usual. Fur-clad merchants peddled their goods, adventurers brandished their weapons, ordinary folk went about their work, and soldiers patrolled the city walls and streets… peace reigned, until the ground began to shake.

Boom – rumble –.

From where humans in the city could not see, a stretch of white fog extending nearly ten kilometers was spreading towards their city. Wherever it passed, the ground crumbled, glaciers collapsed, and the various creatures that inhabit the frozen plains – wolves, rats, snakes, rabbits – all fled in a panic.

Any creature touched by the fog would quickly freeze into an ice sculpture, unable to withstand the piercing cold, even though they were born to survive in snowy conditions.

But no matter how desperately they ran, those who fell behind were swallowed up by the fog, freezing into ice sculptures. Among the fog, a massive figure hovered in the sky a thousand meters above the ground. Its mere presence startled all creatures in a ten-kilometer radius, causing the fleeing tide of beasts to swell even more.

Soon, the shock spread to Bude City, alerting the guards. The panic then began at the source of the fog and gradually spread throughout the city. But it made no difference—it just caused a chaotic panic.

This was because the fog spread too quickly, not granting the city’s populace enough time to react. Moreover, upon seeing the human city, the powerful entity that triggered this icy disaster grew even more furious.

Immediately, the ancient dragon was filled with a desire to vent. It knew that the humans who killed its offspring were not in this city but in a distant place.

But so what? They were still humans, the relatives of those ants. Killing them would vent its rage—they’d meet their death as a funeral for its lost descendants.

A mournful and infuriated dragon roar echoed in the sky. Alongside the roar, the white fog expanded instantaneously, devouring trailing beasts and then cloaking the entire city.

Above Bude City, a hastily conjured spirit light protection held up for no more than a few seconds before it shattered. Then the icy fog blanketed the city. After a round of desperate screams for mercy, the city fell silent, with no movement whatsoever.

When the dragon flew towards the heart of the human territory, the city reappeared as before. There seemed to be no change, but no sign of life emerged anymore.

All the people were frozen in place, maintaining their last expressions and poses before death. Under the pallor of sunlight, they cast a chilling desolation over the city.

All the humans in the city perished in this sudden calamity. Even the handful of powerful ones who escaped more than ten kilometers, suffered the same fate as ordinary people, frozen into ice sculptures.

Even the two Gold Rank humans with their ability to fly didn’t survive. In the face of an ancient dragon full of killing intent, without a confrontation from the same rank, no one could escape.

The ancient dragon that swiftly massacred the city didn’t stop. It continued to fly towards the human territory, looking for the murderer of its offspring.

During this process, every human city and gathering place the ancient dragon passed became outlets for its wrath. This was a dragon’s retaliation against the humans who murdered its children.

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“Prince Mureya, urgent news!” Mureya, who was planning the eradication of dragon hunters, raised his head to look at the Cloud Giant who just rushed into the Grand Hall.

“What is it? Speak.”

“The Norman Duchy in the North has been attacked by a Crystal Ancient Dragon. The humans in eleven cities were turned into ice sculptures by the ancient dragon.”

“Do we know why?” Mureya asked calmly. “A Crystal Ancient Dragon wouldn’t massacre humans for no reason.”

“According to the investigation, the dragon’s offspring were killed by a group of dragon hunters. That’s why the ancient dragon responded this way,” the Cloud Giant reported with details.

“I see,” Mureya nodded. He observed a moment of silence for the grieving ancient dragon, who lost its progeny.

He understood how the ancient dragon felt. Regardless of the dragon race, they would try to leave offspring before reaching ancient dragon status. After that, they basically couldn’t have children. This Crystal Dragon was experiencing something akin to losing its child and facing the prospect of no descendants. How desperate must it be?

“This continent has become chaotic!” Mureya sighed softly. This was not the first time a dragon had been hunted and then sought revenge.

Actually, the clean-up operation currently being co-hosted by Muria and Clodia is also a form of retaliation against the dragon hunters.

However, the massacre by this crystal ancient dragon is the first such revenge on humans by an ancient dragon-level entity after Muria and Clodia took action. However, his methods were relatively more brutal than Muria’s. Muria targeted specific individuals before taking action, while the ancient dragon simply unleashed a blanket attack, slaughtering humans on a city-wide basis.

Without a doubt, once the incident is over, this Crystal Dragon will be categorized as an Evil Dragon by humans. However, from the perspective of the Dragon Race, no dragon would accuse him. What’s wrong with seeking revenge for one’s offspring?

“What audacity! To dare to infiltrate!” Muria, who was seated on the throne, suddenly froze, his face revealing a playful expression. He had noticed that someone had breached Xena Pus’ concealment magic array and infiltrated.

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“Where is this place?” In the bottom layer of the Cloud Island within Xena Pus, Dragon hunter, Hiro Wei, although his expression didn’t change, his eyes were full of undisguised astonishment, “Why are there so many Cloud Islands?”

This dragon hunter had never dreamed that he would enter such a place. He was just hiding his tracks and sneaking into the Frost Polar White Dragon’s territory to explore the rumored traces of the Ice Queen Clodia. However, when he successfully infiltrated and looked up at the sky, although he didn’t spot anything, his sharp intuition told him that something was off about the sky, like it was concealing something.

Being a skillful and audacious dragon hunter, he utilized some tricks learned from wanderers to hide his tracks, avoiding the patrolling White Dragon Group, and directly soared into the high sky. After breaking through some boundary, he saw the Cloud Island Cluster hanging above the White Dragon City.

Upon first sight of Xena Pus, the dragon hunter was astounded. Out of caution, he hid in the lowest level of the Cloud Island to gather some information.

Of course, the main reason was that he only saw humans there. He could blend in with them, while the other Cloud Islands were inhabited by other creatures, with no traces of human activities.

However, the moment Hiro Wei landed on one of the Cloud Islands, he realized something was off. Although there were a great number of humans living on the island, their circumstances seemed grim. Various powerful monsters were overseeing them, and the humans appeared to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. In reality, the individuals the dragon hunter saw were criminals captured by Muria.

“Another monster force enslaving humans.” The dragon hunter quickly came to a conclusion after seeing the situation because he saw the seemingly ruthless humans being forced to perform various labor-intensive, repetitive tasks under the coercion of even more intimidating monsters.

Mining, smithing, carrying loads, building… The dragon hunter who had blended into the workforce quickly noticed something was off. It seemed that these humans weren’t exactly honest people to begin with.

Sailing the seas, rampaging through the wilderness, exuding the aura of murderous bandits – that wasn’t something that could be erased in just a few years. Experienced individuals, like this dragon hunter, could identify these characters in an instant.

“Hey, brother, which ship did you work on previously? You’re quite strong.” A burly man with a black sea serpent tattoo on his shoulder leaned over to Hiro Wei, who was working in disguise, and asked with a mischievous smile.

“I wasn’t a sea worker.” Hiro Wei gave the man a cold glance. He had already figured out what kind of people these laborers were – pirates, bandits, criminals, gang members… There wasn’t a single decent one among them, they were the dregs of humanity. He had no sympathy for these people.

“Oh, so you worked on land. No wonder I haven’t seen you before, you’re new here, right?” Upon hearing the dragon hunter’s words, the man, who used to be a pirate and now a laborer, didn’t seem to mind, “Why are you always looking at the sky? Do you want to go to the Cloud Island above?”

Hearing the pirate’s words, the dragon hunter quickly realized that his recent arrival had made him stand out and observing the Cloud Island above too much had attracted attention. For that reason, the uninformed dragon hunter lowered his head and remained silent.

“Why aren’t you talking?” The laborer working beside Hiro Wei chuckled, “We all want to climb higher, up there on the Cloud Islands. It’s simply heaven. We used to get to go to the Cloud Islands of the Zor Elves and enjoy ourselves, even though we felt like we were completely drained every time we returned.

But now that the Zor elves have adopted a new deity, they don’t use us anymore. Our lives get harder and harder day by day. We’re truly envious of those guys living on the Cloud Islands above!”

“Are there humans who can survive up there?” The dragon hunter expressed surprise. He had already noticed that the higher the creatures lived, the higher their status. This clear demarcation, for example, the Cloud Islands gliding in the sky, was easily distinguishable.

“Of course, there are. They are all some lucky ones.”

“I see.” The dragon hunter’s gaze flickered. He wanted to infiltrate higher places to investigate. This place had too many dragons and even more Cloud Giants living here, and this seemed to indicate something.

This was a dragon hunter’s intuition. This intuition made Hiro Wei’s heart flutter; he felt as if he was about to meet a formidable being.

Just when Hiro Wei was contemplating how to infiltrate the upper layers of the Cloud Island, the human convicts working in the distance started making a commotion. First, the monster foremen and giants kneeled. Then, the humans in front, like a field of harvested wheat, knelt down row by row…

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