Evil dragon has a warm heart
Chapter 480 - 480 479 Qinqiu

Chapter 480: Chapter 479 Qinqiu Chapter 480: Chapter 479 Qinqiu Accompanied by Harpy Dragon Hape’s successful promotion to Pseudo-Dragon Harpy, Russell’s realm also quietly advanced to a 2nd rank high-level Dragon Domain Lord.

The fierce wind continued to blow in all directions, carving out new Warm Enclaves.

In battle form, Russell, clad in Gangwind Armor and wielding the Gangwind Greatsword, floated in the sky, quietly feeling the power within him.

Originally,

his strength was structured as concentric circles.

The outer layer was covered with the Black Oil Dragon’s Dragon Breath, the middle layer was covered with the Unicorn’s Pseudo-Dragon Prime Breath, and the innermost layer consisted of the Pseudo-Harpy Dragon’s Prime Breath and the Ouroboros Snake’s Prime Breath. Although he was said to be a Third-layer high-level Phantom Beast Knight, in reality, he was still a 2nd rank high-level Phantom Beast Knight.

But now,

his strength still had the structure of concentric circles, but the middle layer had formed into the tangled, oppositional, and intermingling states of the Unicorn’s and Harpy’s Pseudo-Dragon Prime Breaths. Only the Ouroboros Snake’s Prime Breath was left in the inner layer.

It seemed as if he had fallen from a 2nd rank high-level Phantom Beast Knight back down to a 1st rank Phantom Beast Knight.

But in truth, it was not so. Dragon Breath is merely the external manifestation of power, while Pseudo-Dragon Prime Breath and Phantom Beast Prime Breath are the internal core. Now that the core power had surged, the external Dragon Breath naturally skyrocketed, and his strength made tremendous leaps.

“My strength is getting closer and closer to that of a true dragon… Pity that this closeness can only ever be an approximation. At the level of power, Dragonflame is the highest form, and Dragon Breath can never compare,” Russell mused.

Yet, the stronger the Dragon Breath, the more formidable his combat strength became, and the more powerful his swordsmanship.

Many ants can kill an elephant.

Nothing is impossible.

At this time, Unicorn Polly, along with Ouroboros, had already flown to Russell’s side.

He quickly received two congratulatory thoughts in his mind.

“Haha, congratulations to us all! With Hape’s promotion, my power has grown stronger. When I grow stronger, it means we all grow stronger!” At this moment, Russell was filled with pride and satisfaction. A 2nd rank high-level Dragon Domain Lord—who else could claim that title?

Dragon Domain Lords were already exceedingly rare, let alone a 2nd rank high-level Dragon Domain Lord. Perhaps on the entire Dragon Sleep Continent, Russell was the only one to have reached this realm.

He casually waved his hand, dispersing the Gangwind Greatsword: “Hape, show yourself. Let Polly and Uroboros see your brand-new form!”

“Alright!”

Hape agreed, and the Gangwind Armor peeled off to form a tornado in front of Russell. As the tornado dissipated, Hape’s figure was also revealed.

It was somewhat unlike what Russell had imagined the evolved form would be.

He had pictured a Harpy with a human outline but with wings; however, Hape had evolved towards the form of a Bipedal Flying Dragon.

The tail feathers became denser, resembling the tail of a Bipedal Flying Dragon, and a pair of long, powerful legs exuded a sense of strength and beauty. The slim body had very broad wings, and the neck had lengthened quite a bit, but it still bore an owl’s head.

There was also a half-meter-long silly-looking feather standing erect on the head.

The color remained pristine white without a single impurity, but the texture was thicker and denser than during the Pseudo-Harpy Dragon phase.

Especially that silly-looking feather, which had a crystal-like beauty.

The size had also increased twofold. The old Hape was about the same size as the Red-Eyed Mouse King Jerry, but now Hape was at least as big as Kevin the Gold and Silver Wolfhound. When the wings were folded, the size was about that of a leopard, and it was already possible to ride on it.

“Cool!” Russell stepped through the void to reach Hape’s side and touched the silly-looking feather, “You shouldn’t be called a Harpy anymore. You should be called Dragonbeast Hape. The impression you give me now is that of a Bipedal Flying Dragon topped with an owl’s head and covered in feathers!”

“Gua’er.” Hape’s voice hadn’t changed.

And it responded in his mind, “So am I good-looking now, or am I ugly?”

“Good-looking,” Russell responded sincerely.

Even though Hape’s appearance was significantly different from what he had imagined, the appearance and posture were indeed exquisite. Overall, there was a sense that Hape could take off with the wind at any moment. Its streamlined figure embodied the essence of the wind beautifully.

At that moment.

Polly suddenly chuckled in her mind, “Russell, do you have to go through a moment of true self-revelation every time a Pseudo-Dragon evolves?”

“Huh?” Russell turned his head, puzzled by Polly’s words.

But the next moment, he suddenly realized, quickly covering his crotch with both hands, “Quick, Polly, turn into clothes!”

During his ascension with Hape, his clothing had long been ravaged by the fierce winds, crumbling into dust.

However, previously hidden by the Gangwind Armor, now that he had reverted from his battle form, he immediately felt a chill breeze down there.

A bolt of lightning entered his body.

Polly had already transformed into a set of Knight’s formal wear, encasing Russell, and spared him from continuing to freeze down there—of course, with Dragon Breath enveloping his entire body, even if Russell were naked, he wouldn’t suffer any damage.

It would just feel a bit cold.

“Hape, Polly can transform into the Mark of the Thunder Lord, you should try it too,” said Russell, regaining his composure, with a smile.

Hape nodded, and the next moment, it turned into a breeze and merged into Russell’s body.

At the same time.

Around the golden lightning-shaped Mark of the Thunder Lord, a ring of fine aqua lines sketched out the shape of a tornado, perfectly encircling and capturing half of the lightning within the tornado.

The two marks fused seamlessly into one.

“Cool!”

Russell had thought that the Lord of the Storm mark, which Hape condensed, would appear elsewhere, but he didn’t expect it to merge with the Mark of the Thunder Lord in this way.

“Polly is of the Thunder Attribute, Hape is of the Wind Attribute…” Russell had already figured it out, the evolution of Phantom Beasts into Pseudo-Dragons seems to be stimulated by the power of elements, though of course, the elemental power wielded by Pseudo-Dragons is far inferior to that of true dragons.

Dragons are the true embodiments of the elements.

If dragons are the Gods of Elements, then Pseudo-Dragons could be considered envoys of the Gods of Elements.

“Hmm,” Russell suddenly thought of something, “Polly’s set spell is the Wind Walking Skill, but is this really the Wind Walking Skill? It doesn’t seem at all like an application of the Wind Attribute Element, but more like an electromagnetic conversion… the principle of Magnetic Levitation?”

Polly, obviously unfamiliar with what magnetic levitation is, had always believed that its Wind Walking Skill was a utilization of the Wind Attribute Element.

“Tsk, the Wind Walking Skill should be renamed Magnetic Levitation, while Hape’s Wind Wall Skill and Hurricane Skill are the true applications of the Wind Attribute Element.”

Then he glanced at the Ouroboros perched on a highland, silently watching him: “Uroboros should be of the Earth Attribute.”

His gaze lifted.

The new Warm Enclave had already expanded to span over dozens of kilometers, with the winds disdainfully tossing aside the melting snow and ice, causing continual surges. But the rough terrain had already taken shape, no longer the flat expanse of the Blackflame Plains or Leize.

It was a landscape of rolling, uneven hills.

“Hmm, should it be called Wind Hill?” According to the naming convention of Leize, Wind Hill was an appropriate name, but Russell felt it sounded lackluster.

Suddenly, he thought of his own pale blue Gangwind Armor and Gangwind Greatsword: “Since the color of wind is aqua, instead of calling it Wind Hill, why not call it Qinqiu!”

Blackflame Plains.

Leize.

Qinqiu!

At this moment, Russell’s third territory acquired its name: “Polly, Hape, Uroboros, from now on, this place will be called Qinqiu! Qinqiu is only a little more than forty kilometers away from Blackflame Plains, so we can resonate warmth and integrate into a single territory!”

Two Warm Enclaves less than a hundred kilometers apart, in theory, could both potentially resonate warmth, expanding the Thunderflame Territory even further.