The Economics of Prophecy

8 Stories: The Second Half Greedy Dragon Crusade? Ⅱ

A greedy dragon lifted his neck wide and looked up to heaven. With the sound of a go, my lower abdomen swelled. A large demonic crystal on the forehead of a giant warcraft increased the cloudy red light.

"It's a brace. Keep your distance."

The knights of the Four Squads simultaneously left the giant. Tension runs on the battlefield.

Finally, the head of a greedy dragon is stiffened to be swung down from heaven. Big mouth opened up and down. I saw a red swing in the back of my throat. Terrible attack that burned down the Second Knights. But what was actually revealed is that I don't rely on it like the white hot air when I exhale on a winter day.

"I'm glad the product worked properly"

If you look closely, the dragon is absurd in his breath. Well, you don't have a choice. The best respiratory organs in vertebrates are half paralyzed.

I'm relieved. There was no guarantee that it would actually work on an abnormally evolved dinosaur so far, nor could it be verified. That's why I went all the way out to the scene, as the prince asked. It's torture for me to put someone else's life on the line of a hundred people on a product that I don't know if it will work, and wait for the result.

The prince saw me. I nodded.

"When I got to the nest, I was suffocating."

When I snapped, Claudia looked at me with open eyes. I have trouble seeing such unusual things. I want those eyes turned to the dragon.

"How the hell did you prepare the poison that sealed the dragon's braces?"

"I'm not prepared for anything. You happen to say you have it at hand..."

What afflicts greedy dragons now is the poison specially made by the Vinder Chamber of Commerce. I mean, that pollen. A substance that acts precisely on the airbag contained in pollen. More than an array is a dinosaur, that is, a bird. Poisons that work on birds are likely to be effective. No, to be exact, the other way around, it's not the dinosaurs that are birds, it's the birds that are dinosaurs.

Dragon = dinosaur = bird. This is the modern knowledge that underlies my approach.

Under the command of the prince, the Knights attack begins again. My role is over. The possibility of pollen being eliminated by braces is a warning. The rest is a battle against time.

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There are at least a few trips between this world and Earth. There is almost no doubt that the flora and fauna of this world came from Earth at that time. And the Warcraft came here earlier than humans, descendants of ancient creatures adapted to magic.

This means that the dragon will be the result of the evolution of dinosaurs in this world.

It's amazing how long 60 million years a dinosaur can be a dragon or something. Well, on Earth, it evolved from Super O 'micon to NINTEND O '64 in six years.

Now, it is well known that vertebrates are divided into five parts, including humans. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, our mammals. Long live the tits.

However, this classification is not accurate. We should call them dinosaurs, not birds, to be precise. The evolutionary currents of reptiles, dinosaurs, and birds are probably right, but that separation should not be placed between dinosaurs and birds, but between reptiles and dinosaurs.

Let's sort out the difference between birds and their ancestors, reptiles. Compared to reptiles, birds acquire warm-blooded, highly efficient respiratory organs, hollow bones, feathers and flying abilities. And there is evidence that dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus and Raptors, were gaining much of these properties, which were considered the hallmarks of birds.

The theory that dinosaurs are thermostats is powerful, and hollow bone and feather fossils have been found. There is a good chance there was an airbag from the skeletal structure. Incidentally, the birds have proper scales left on their feet.

In other words, to say that the birdy nature of the bird had evolved almost at the time of the dinosaur. Rather than say that birds have evolved from dinosaurs, it is more right that organisms that were said to be birds on Earth are the survivors of dinosaurs. At least, it's far closer to a bird than a lizard.

In fact, conclusive evidence had also been found that the amino acid sequence of collagen remaining in the fossil of Tyrannosaurus was closest to chickens. If we could send that DNA sample of the dragon to Earth, we'd get the same results.

In short, everything in the mammal, except the bat, is like extinction. If an alien looks at the Earth's ecosystem in that state, he must name it bats, not mammals, and determine that it is characteristic of his ability to fly.

Return to the story. It is the respiratory organs that make dinosaurs, including birds, superior to other animals. It is said that oxygen concentrations were low at a time when dinosaurs evolved, increasing their ability to acquire oxygen as an adaptation to it. The lungs of a dinosaur fitted with a pump called an airbag are far more respiratory efficient than those of a mammal. This is why migratory birds can fly over Himalayas at high altitudes.

We mammalian lungs mix breathed fresh air with exhaust that takes away oxygen and contains a lot of carbon dioxide. Naturally, the exit and entrance are the same. Meanwhile, air flows one-way into the lungs of dinosaurs with a pump called the airbag. This means that fresh air is always supplied to the lungs and the exhaust is expelled promptly.

And from here on out, it's a complete guess, but I figured that this one-way air flow is also utilized for dragon braces. This is where the air sac, or exhaust coming out of the lungs, builds braces by magic. If you spit that out of your mouth, you don't waste magic, and besides, you don't have much need to protect your lungs from the high temperatures of the braces.

In other words, the purple flower pollen that killed the bird I found in the bee village is expected to seal the dragon's largest weapon. If we can at least weaken the action of the airbag, we can take away the power and stamina of the dragon. That's the math.

Well, let's just say it's a standard dragon response as a people with a myth that exorcised the Hachi serpent by intoxicating him.... why not with poisoning boulders? And I'm not fighting for myself.

Correction. I knew I couldn't be a brave man from another world.

But I can't verify all this using a dragon. Ask Dalgan to gather as many species of birds as possible to make sure that all that pollen works in small amounts.

I began that village with the power of the Grand Duke and gathered large quantities of pollen from the surrounding villages. It is the pollen that made the Knights clump together in the hair of a decoy horse to approach Mount Tuvire.

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Let's just say it worked as far as the situation goes. From the outset, the dragon lacked excellence in his movements and was smashed in one arm by the Knights attack I was shown off, taking away his ability to fly early. As far as braces are concerned, we have seen a drastic decrease in range and power.

By the way, the poison was only delivered to the Knights as a commodity. Of course I am the merchant who accompanied me to check the effectiveness of the product. Absolutely.

[Piggyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!]

As he stepped on both feet, the dragon began to ramble like crazy.

"Don't be frightened, it's no different than having a baby rampaged. Take your distance and get over it. We're going on offense at the next time."

I'm not at all lost in Craig's command of calmly lowering the troops. It's a big deal to compare a monster to a baby.

"Your Highness will still have a wife."

There is even room for one of the knights who has accumulated a beard to respond lightly. I checked the effect of the poison, and you don't need me. I want to go home now.

Launch the offensive.

The powerful voice of the commander passed, and the cry of the knights echoing shook the battlefield. The knights of the Four Squads lined up in unison. The Third Knights, forming a formation at the apex of the rhombus, approach the greedy dragons one after the other. The dragon's left arm tries to wipe out a team of fights. The attack was accompanied by a clash between the hammers and mace of eight knights in the front row.

It was a greedy dragon who stepped on the tare. If you look closely, behind the eight, the knights scrum together to support them. Seeing where everyone is getting more light in their armor, they must have followed precious demonic crystals. And in the meantime, two teams, left and right, turned to the side of the greedy dragon.

[Guggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!

The white blade twinkled and the left and right legs of the giant monster were cut off at the same time.

[Piggy]

The growl of a greedy dragon no longer sounds like a scream. Meanwhile, the Knights' collaboration is utterly uninterrupted, forcing literal bleeding. I can tell you won this one.

At that time, the red light shook like burning on the forehead of a greedy dragon. When I wondered if the cheek bag had swelled greatly, a blood-colored fireball was forced out.

I saw Craig's immediate troops dare to storm the empty belly. It looks like the balls of flame that fly drawing parabolas over them are getting bigger and bigger.

I don't like catchballs. Including the conversation.

"Ricardo!"

Claudia blows me up and rolls down the ground to tangle with her. A slope full of rocks scrapes skin. I hit the carriage I was holding back from, and it finally stopped.

Shortly after, the ground shook. The last thing I saw in my glaring vision was a falling greedy dragon.