Ch 24: Dragons are more human than humans

Chen Wen looked down and saw a group of beastmen with the heads of sheep.

He thought that perhaps they knew the location of other magic forests.

So, he flew down.

“Run! The dragon’s coming!” The sheep-headed people scattered and fled.

Chen Wen wanted to explain that he wouldn’t harm them, but he couldn’t speak yet; his first utterance was a dragon roar.

He scared the sheep-headed people below witless.

Seeing that communication was impossible, he could only grab some people and question them.

He looked around and found that a dozen or so people were running together, protecting an older-looking sheep-headed person.

That person must be the spokesperson for this group.

Chen Wen landed in front of them.

A dozen sheep-headed people picked up their bows and arrows, trembling as they stood guard against him.

The old sheep-head sighed: “It’s my fault, I shouldn’t have let everyone come to collect animal corpses. You should go, don’t worry about me.”

The old sheep-head told them to leave, but his hands tightly grasped their arms, afraid they would really leave.

“Village Chief, it’s not your fault, we came here of our own accord,” a sheep-headed person said.

“Let’s die fighting! Give others time to escape.”

“Kill!”

Several young sheep-headed people charged forward with their knives.

“Come back, you few!” the old sheep-head anxiously shouted.

The young sheep-headed people didn’t listen at all, charging towards Chen Wen with roars.

Chen Wen flapped his wings, and a strong gust of wind blew them back.

The young sheep-headed people were thrown around.

Chen Wen took out a handful of gold coins and scattered them at their feet.

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The sheep-headed people were stunned.

This black dragon wasn’t killing them, but giving them money?

What did this mean? Dragons don’t collect gold, they give it away now?

The black dragon before them hadn’t attacked them, and the few young people who had charged forward had only been blown back without suffering any injuries.

The sheep-headed people gradually calmed down, pondering the black dragon’s intentions.

After a while, the old sheep-head came forward and asked, “Black Dragon, Your Excellency, do you have any orders?”

Chen Wen nodded.

Seeing the black dragon respond, the old sheep-head breathed a sigh of relief.

He scared the old man to death; he thought he was going to be eaten.

The old sheep-head put on a fawning smile: “Black Dragon, Your Excellency, Gren, I am honored to be of service to you.”

Chen Wen wrote a sentence with a twig.

“Is this the Magic Forest?”

To avoid any misunderstandings, he should confirm it with them first.

The sheep-headed people were stunned to see that the black dragon could actually write Human Race characters.

Although the Dragon Clan had repeatedly lost in wars against the Human Race, they still looked down on the Human Race. How could they possibly learn the Human Race’s characters?

The black dragon was asking a question, the old sheep-head didn’t dare to delay too long.

Fortunately, the Human Race characters were the common characters of the Human Race, Subhuman Race, Beastman Race, and Dwarf Race, and Gren, the old sheep-head, could understand them.

He respectfully said, “Yes, Black Dragon, Your Excellency, this is the Magic Forest.”

Having confirmed that this was the Magic Forest, Chen Wen was somewhat disappointed; he would have preferred to have been mistaken.

“Did you burn the forest?” Chen Wen wrote.

Gren quickly shook his head in denial: “No, no, it wasn’t us. We depend on the Magic Forest for our living, how could we burn the Magic Forest?

With the Magic Forest burned, we see that we can no longer make a living here, so we came to collect some of the burned animals, take some usable meat, and sell it to exchange for supplies for our migration.

It was the Pig-headed people who set the fire. They came from the North, encountered a Lizard People tribe, and fought with them.

The Lizard People couldn’t win, so they ran into the Magic Forest. The Pig-headed people chased them into the Magic Forest, suffered heavy losses, and then set the Magic Forest on fire to force the Lizard People out.”

Chen Wen wasn’t interested in the war between the Pig-headed people and the Lizard People.

“Do you know where there are any other magic forests?”

The old sheep-head shook his head: “Within hundreds of miles, there’s only this one Magic Forest. Those damned Pig-headed people, they burned it down, and we don’t know how long it will take us to find another Magic Forest.”

If the sheep-headed people didn’t know, then he could only go back.

At this time, Gren asked, “Black Dragon, Your Excellency, are you looking for something? Perhaps we can help.”

Dragon Clan didn’t need to rely on the Magic Forest for their living like they did. The black dragon coming here to look for the Magic Forest must be looking for something. If they could help him, they might get some reward, so they would have money to buy supplies for their migration.

“I need to find a living Magic Tree.” Chen Wen wrote.

A living Magic Tree?

The sheep-headed people looked at the scorched earth before them and sighed inwardly.

If the Magic Forest hadn’t been burned, they would indeed know the location of the Magic Tree.

The old sheep-head pondered for a moment, thinking of a possibility: there might still be living Magic Trees here.

The fruit of the Magic Tree is rich in magical elements and is the favorite food of magical animals. They would hide the uneaten fruit in caves.

Some magical animals might have been hunted and killed by predators along the way. The seeds left behind after the fruit in the cave rotted might sprout, and if sunlight shone in, a Magic Tree could grow.

The old sheep-head told Chen Wen his thoughts.

Chen Wen thought, since he was already here, it would take a lot of time to go back and then look for other Magic Forests. It would be better to spend two days looking for it, maybe he could really find it.

He was huge and could only search from the sky, making it difficult to find caves, so he took out some more gold coins and gave them to the old sheep-head and the others to help him search.

The old sheep-head’s eyes lit up. He told the black dragon about this possibility in the hope of helping the black dragon find it.

As he expected, the black dragon really asked them for help.

It seemed that with this pile of gold coins on the ground, they wouldn’t have to worry about the cost of their migration.

“What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and collect the money, then gather everyone and start helping Black Dragon, Your Excellency, find the Magic Tree!” the old sheep-head scolded the dozen or so dazed young people.

The dozen young people were still dumbfounded.

What were they supposed to do just now?

Right, they were supposed to fight the black dragon to the death?

How did it become working for the black dragon?

The Village Chief could actually chat with a black dragon for so long.

The black dragon even gave them money?

They looked at the gold coins on the ground and swallowed their saliva. They had never seen so much money in their lives.

This black dragon was really good, giving them money for working for him, more humane than some Human Race.

Wasn’t it said that if the Dragon Clan captured other races to work for them, they would eat them afterward?

Why did this black dragon give them money?

Could there be a trick?

The young people looked at each other, not daring to take the money.

The old sheep-head stamped his feet anxiously. These idiots, they had money to take and didn’t hurry to take it. If the black dragon regretted it later, it would be too late. Get the money first. With the Dragon Clan’s personality, even if they regretted it later, they wouldn’t ask for the money back.

Under the old sheep-head’s urging, the young people finally collected the money and then found the people who had scattered.

They had lived here for a long time and were very familiar with this Magic Forest. They knew where all the caves were.

In the past, they were afraid of beasts and magical animals, and they didn’t dare to wander around. Now, after a big fire, many beasts and magical animals had run away.

Even if there were some that hadn’t run away, with the black dragon here, they were no longer afraid and began to search the caves for any possible Magic Trees.

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