Chapter 498 149: Transaction and the Desire for Offspring (2)

The Twelve-Ring Spell that can enhance its strength is rare and costly; even though it works across two plane worlds, Udi does not have the financial capacity to purchase it.

....

"Not surprising." Ignis calmed down a bit, remembering the purpose of coming here.

With this Black Dragon... No, Ignis looked at the enormous figure before him, a dragon body in gray-white, with six curved dragon horns on its head, and edges of its scales bristling with exaggerated sharp claw-like hardened material.

This appearance, aside from being in dragon form, has nothing in common with a standard Black Dragon!

The previous Black Dragon Lord at least had black scales, which bore half the resemblance to a Black Dragon, now even that half-association is gone.

"You should be aware of my purpose here, Udi, hand over Dragon Island and those Metal Dragon descendants, and I will return your Seven-Colored Merfolk follower to you," Ignis calmly stated his intention.

Udi heard it but was indifferent, saying playfully, "What if I don't return them? What will you do?"

Facing Udi, who showed no concern for the High-level Seven-Colored Merfolk followers, Ignis felt a chill in his heart.

Indeed.

In the eyes of the Black Dragon Lord, a mere Level 25 Seven-Colored Merfolk is nowhere near the value of Dragon Island.

But that's normal, although a Level 25 High-level Seven-Colored Merfolk follower serves important functions, can handle many matters, Dragon Island as a small limit Floating Island, however, provides substantial strength enhancement for the Black Dragon Lord himself.

With the current strength having just broken through to Level 25, commanding Dragon Island allows him to exert Level 27 power.

...The Five-Colored Dragons are inherently selfish.

Compared to the enhancement of their combat power, how can a mere powerful subordinate compare?

Moreover, Dragon Island can be continuously inherited.

As a lair, placed inside a Medium Material Plane, it is almost unrivaled, capable of ensuring the preservation of their lineage.

Such an aberrant creature like Udi, who can dominate a Floating Island within a Material Plane and even suppress Floating Island, is extremely scarce in the entire Star Realm, so indeed, a Floating Island in a Medium Material Plane world is claimed to be an unbeatable existence.

.....However, Ignis is completely unaware that even without Dragon Island, Udi already possesses terrifying Level 27 combat power.

But Ignis confirms one thing from Udi's attitude, that Udi does not care much about the life and death of Seven-Colored Merfolk.

Since that's the case, despite the pain in his heart, Ignis bit his dragon teeth and lowered his demands.

"Then let's change the deal, return my Metal Dragon descendants, I'll return that Seven-Colored Merfolk to you, how about that?"

Exchanging one Level 25 High-level Seven-Colored Merfolk for over eight thousand Metal Dragons ranging from unhatched to Legendary Fourth Rank, in terms of function, certainly the Seven-Colored Merfolk is higher, after all, owning one Level 25 High-level Seven-Colored Merfolk can completely capture over eight thousand Metal Dragons.

However, in terms of value, over eight thousand Metal Dragons might not truly be weaker than one Level 25 High-level Seven-Colored Merfolk.

After all, Metal Dragons are under the protection of the Platinum Dragon God, if it is discovered that thousands of Metal Dragons are captured or even killed, the Platinum Dragon God will certainly take action to pursue the perpetrators.

Being pursued by such a terrifying Dragon God, who stands at the top even among powerful divine powers, even true deities would flee frantically, their lives in danger.

The reason why the Platinum Dragon God has not imposed punishment on Udi is because he has not noticed Udi's existence.

Even if he did notice, chances are he wouldn't act because Udi has not killed that group of Metal Dragons but merely transformed them into Void Metal Dragons.

Even the Platinum Dragon God, unable to discern the special nature of Void Metal Dragons, would do nothing to Udi because Udi is a member of Dragon Race.

As long as there is no slaughter or deprivation of life, at most, there might be a minor reprimand, and if it's someone like Udi who reached High-tier Legendary among Dragon Race, possibly not even that, at most some verbal education, letting them free those dragon groups.

Ignis, being a High-level Legendary Ancient Golden Dragon, though capable of summoning the Platinum Dragon God's divine spirit avatar to descend, the same logic applies, Udi is part of Dragon Race.

Despite the conflicts between Five-Colored Dragons and Metal Dragons, these are internal both facing external conflicts, they are both of Dragon Race.

So instead of summoning Platinum Dragon God's divine spirit avatar to descend upon Tal, verbally reprimanding the Black Dragon Lord to release those thousands of Metal Dragons, Ignis might as well negotiate personally.

Ignis believes that the conditions he offers are completely irresistible to the Black Dragon Lord.

After all, keeping those eight thousand Metal Dragons of varying strengths he cannot gain the allegiance of the Metal Dragon group, nor can he kill them, but needs to maintain them.

Eight thousand gluttons can easily consume a human kingdom of millions of citizens to collapse in a short time.

As expected, matching Ignis' speculation, Udi agreed.

"Alright, those little dragon whelps will appear before you soon," Udi remarked casually.

Even if he does not let the dragon group leave, Ignis has no way to deal with him.

Even if Izuna is killed, she can be resurrected, and the cost is merely a bit of Udi's energy, though resuscitating a High-level Legendary Void Follower takes considerable energy.

The reason for freeing the dragon group, one is that the Metal Dragon group hardly serves much purpose for Udi.

Secondly, these eight thousand Metal Dragon groups are already on the path of transformation into the Void Metal Dragon Clan, releasing them only expedites their devouring to metamorphose and grow.

Moreover, Ignis himself, as a High-tier Ancient Golden Dragon, has long been secretly implanted with a Void Seed, passively converting into a Void Ancient Gold Dragon.

After receiving a definitive reply, Ignis sighed in relief.

Though this outcome was anticipated, he still had some concerns.

Within the Dragon Race, there exist treacherous beings that have slaughtered their kin.

Even a million years ago, the Star Realm witnessed the emergence of a Divine Abomination Dragon Clan, specifically devouring other dragon races; within merely a few thousand years, it consumed millions of Giant Dragons, nearly an entire Star Domain of Giants, including numerous High-level Legendary Giants and Demigod level Giants, once causing turmoil within the Dragon Race.

Eventually, it was the furious intervention of one Dragon God after another that crushed the Divine Abomination Dragon, exterminated its body, and stripped its divinity that finally quelled the incident.

"The Seven-Colored Merfolk will be returned tomorrow."

After leaving these words, Ignis departed.

The aura emanating from Udi was too frightening, even if just a projection left there, Ignis couldn't help but bow slightly.

....The matters of Ignis and the Metal Dragon group quickly concluded.

The severely wounded, dying Seven-Colored Merfolk Izuna also returned to Black Wing Nest.

The Metal Dragon group, in the following days, was slowly relocated to other Material Planes through the teleportation array established by Ignis.

Yet without Dragon Island's presence, settling the Tal Metal Dragon Clan in that Material Plane certainly requires some effort to stabilize their foundation and survive.

Regarding this, Udi did not bother to inquire.

He began to enter a leisurely lifestyle.

Half a month traveling to the Ghost Race plane to feast on the world, half a month back to Tal to rest while starting to strive to propagate.

After spending so many years in this world, Udi also aspired to have his own lineage.

Udi had been mindful of this before, but perhaps due to his high life-level or the Void Origin altering him into a state of non-propagation, no matter how much cream was imbued, not a single descendant could be born.