“Just you?”

“Lusting after the soul of the Golden Dragon, but defeated by the incarnation of the Platinum Dragon God. If I hadn’t left behind a trace of your remains, you would have already perished.”

“Lord Afanas, the ruler of the Abyss… Heh, it’s no wonder you’ve become my prisoner.”

The Red Dragoness sneered.

The Red Dragon Empress showed no concern for the threat of Duke Bail, nor did she fear his prestigious status.

She had witnessed the descent of the Dragon God into the mortal world.

She had seen the pitiful appearance of the Demon Duke.

The Metal Dragon, who took the Golden Dragonfather as its incarnation, did not descend in its true form. However, it effortlessly defeated the Lord of Hell, who had descended into the material world, with a devastating blow.

“Renata, even among all the Red Dragons I have seen, you are the most audacious.”

Duke Bail smiled faintly.

Rather than being angered by the contempt of the Red Dragon Empress, he smiled back and enticed her with words: “Renata, you know in your heart that you cannot trap me forever, nor can you kill me.”

“You are now in a dilemma.”

“But, I admire you. As long as you are willing to follow me, and release me willingly before I break free from my seal, I can make a contract with you and make you my core subordinate, granting you unimaginable benefits. One day, you will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods. And all you have to do is collect souls for me in the material world.”

“I will not interfere with your freedom. Besides, you already enjoy destruction and annihilation. Collecting souls of mortals for me would be a piece of cake for you, wouldn’t it?”

The Devil’s whisper was tempting, with a unique charm.

The Red Dragoness remained silent.

The Devil was not a demon; it valued honesty and kept its promises. As long as one could see through the loopholes it would set in the contract, making a deal with the Devil was a good way to gain power.

A few seconds later, the Red Dragoness’s eyes flickered.

“I have to admit, your words are tempting.”

Pausing for a moment, the Red Dragoness smiled, revealing her teeth like a blooming flower in winter.

“But compared to following you and gaining benefits from you, I would rather devour you and assimilate your power, making you my stepping stone.”

“I see… It seems I have underestimated your ambition. However, wanting everything without restraint will only harm you.”

“You can devour me, but can you digest me? Heh, you will gradually be eroded by me and fall under my control.”

Duke Bail continued to smile, saying.

“You overestimate yourself and underestimate a Lord of Hell.”

“Is that so? Then let’s wait and see.”

A strong wind blew, and the lava boiled.

The true form of the Red Dragoness emerged, as her dragon head plunged into the lava pool, swallowing the calmly-faced Devil Duke in one gulp.

Buzz!

An evil aura surged, and a black-red evil light emerged from the gaps in the Red Dragoness’s chest scales, faintly flickering and forming a peculiar texture, similar to the patterns of the Abyssal Alchemy, intertwining to create a contour.

Hoo!

The Red Dragoness took a deep breath.

“Bail, I will use my body as a furnace and you as fuel to forge my power.”

The Red Dragoness muttered, stepping into the lava pool and sinking to the bottom, closing her eyes and meditating.

Countless subordinates had followed the orders of the Red Dragoness and guarded the Yakan Volcano, not allowing any outsiders to approach, turning this place into a forbidden zone.

Saga was unaware of the situation with the Red Dragoness.

He was focused on the internal strife among the pirates, gazing down at them.

“It seems you haven’t understood the situation.”

With Saga at the center, a gravitational force field was unleashed.

Buzz!

The pirate ship trembled violently, creaking and on the verge of collapse.

Captain Goatee’s heart trembled violently along with the pirate ship.

Fortunately, the pirate ship returned to normal the next second.

Captain Goatee looked up at the little Hatchling Dragon with fear in his eyes.

“I am prepared to spare your lives.”

Amidst the pirates’ astonishment and confusion, Saga lowered his gaze and calmly said.

“Your Excellency Golden Dragon, what do you mean by this?”

A smile appeared on Saga’s face as he replied, “Because I originally wanted to sink all of you into the sea and bury you at the bottom.”

“But I stopped my evil thoughts and saved your lives.”

“For this, I need a small reward, such as all the treasures on your ship.”

Captain Goatee:…

“Isn’t that just robbery?”

Saga shrugged his dragon claw and said nonchalantly, “If you want to interpret it that way, you can.”As he spoke in a calm and unhurried manner, Saga used a momentary super gravity field to violently shake the pirate ship as a threat. There were some magic circles fixed on the pirate ship, but they were already flickering in the storm, and they were not effective against the super gravity field.

“Piracy…”

The captain with the goatee’s face darkened, and he subtly looked towards the caster.

The caster shook his head slightly, indicating that he was also powerless. He didn’t understand what Saga had done to make the pirate ship shake, and he needed time to recover his magic power. The casting just now had consumed a lot of his energy. If it weren’t for the amplification of the gem staff, his magic power might have been drained.

The other party was taking advantage of the situation, and the situation was stronger than the people. The goatee captain who had been mixed up at sea for a long time had been robbed before.

On the boundless sea, if the ship capsized, they would all lose their lives.

If they could avoid disaster by losing money, that would be the best.

“Go to the cabin and bring up all the treasure chests inside.”

He said in a deep voice.

Some sailors went into the cabin and brought out one iron treasure chest after another.

Saga’s eyes lit up.

“Just left the nest, and earned such a hefty first pot of gold!”

The little hatchling dragon was excited, its tail tip stood up and shook.

The faint sorrow of leaving Thorn Isle had now been thrown beyond the clouds.

On the surface, Saga was indifferent, and continued, “Under the wooden planks of the cabin, under your captain’s bed, behind the bookcase, in the compartment under the table… bring me everything hidden there.”

“By the way, and this water mage’s staff, um… I’ll be generous, just take off the gem of the staff, I don’t need the staff.”

These things were all visible in his perception.

The entire pirate ship was like a transparent three-dimensional model in Saga’s force field perception, and he could see everything clearly.

The goatee captain’s face changed, he had no idea that this hatchling dragon was so greedy, and somehow knew the location of all his treasures.

“As a golden dragon, you are too greedy!”

Upon hearing that the other party wanted his staff gem, the caster couldn’t help but shout in anger.

This was most of his fortune.

Saga rolled his eyes and said, “Who told you I was a golden dragon? Ignorant fool.”

In the whole world, true dragons were rare, and there were not many humans who had a clear understanding of dragons, and what they knew was very general.

The goatee captain said in a deep voice, “No matter what dragon you are, I can’t agree to your request. According to the code set by the Pirate King, you can take away seventy percent of our treasure, not a bit more.”

The Pirate King mentioned by the goatee referred to the first Pirate King, who was also regarded as the greatest Pirate King by many pirates.