Several days after Logan had been stopped by Aki from entering the depths of the nest, probably because the dragon egg's condition had by then completely stabilized, he was finally allowed to return to the den.
However, perhaps all dragons are greedy. After Logan returned to the den, when he rested with an egg between him and Aki, he just felt all kinds of discomfort.
Several times he wanted to move this dragon egg out of the den, but in the end, under Aki's death stare, he gave up on this idea.
Then on this day, Blazefire Village, which had already been under construction for several years, was finally completely finished. All of the Grimalkynes moved in, and one cableway track after another extended outward from Blazefire Village, linking all areas of the Ancient Tree like a spiderweb.
In this situation, one Rathian after another flew over from the Wildspire Waste. Faced with this Ancient Tree that now bore obvious traces of artificial work, even some of the Rathians that had come last year still felt somewhat unaccustomed at this moment.
Some slightly older Rathians flew into the obviously designed nests in the middle and upper levels of the Ancient Tree.
However, because of the genetic differences that now existed, their original mates were no longer interested in them. It was only because of the increase in intelligence, plus some memories from the past, that they did not drive them away or anything like that, but instead allowed them to live in the nests; after all, when the time came, they would return to the Wildspire Waste again.
There was no helping it. This scene was a problem that could not be avoided after the Fire Wyvern clan of the Ancient Tree had undergone its transformation.
In the lower levels of the Ancient Tree, those newly moved-in Fire Wyverns did not have this kind of worry. However, perhaps because of Logan's order, although the Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group no longer intercepted these young Fire Wyverns from moving into the Ancient Tree, this layered order also caused an enormous estrangement between the two sides.
Even the cats would not enter the lower levels of the Ancient Tree to serve these young Fire Wyverns.
It was only because of their instinct to obey the strong that these young Fire Wyverns did not violate the rules Logan had set, and this was what allowed the trade between the Ancient Tree and the Research Commission to remain unchanged.
However, in any case, this season was indeed the liveliest time on the Ancient Tree, and basically the mood of most of the Fire Wyverns was still quite good.
Yet in this kind of atmosphere, a sickly looking Rathian suddenly let out a painful wail. Immediately after, its whole body convulsed, its eyes gradually turned red, and the scales at some of its joints emitted an unusual red light.
Facing this strange situation, these young Fire Wyverns still did not have any extra feelings, only felt that this Rathian had probably gotten some strange illness, so they only chose to stay away from her, letting her keep rolling there, trying to lessen her own pain in this way.
Only cats that happened to be passing by on patrol noticed that something was wrong.
After all, having once gone through Shagaru Magala incident, their alertness was much stronger than that of these young Fire Wyverns.
Therefore they immediately blew wyvern-calling horn, and very soon Fire Wyverns from Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern group flew over.
But right at this time, perhaps because different abundant energy on Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern attracted things in gaps of this Rathian's scales, one after another 'butterflies' emitting scarlet light flew out from Rathian's scales like this.
Tens of them gathered into one cluster, quickly flying toward Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern.
"Roar?"
Without slightest hesitation, this Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern directly spat one breath of flames over.
However, one surprising scene appeared. These red butterflies that looked as if they could be casually slapped to death actually flew out of flames safe and sound like this.
That red light on their bodies seemed to be one kind of unique energy, actually canceling out energy in flames just like dragon-element energy.
This Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern let out one low roar, gave wings one flap, and quickly avoided approach of this group of "butterflies". It instinctively sensed something wrong, continuously flapping wings to disturb air currents, then spitting flames, trying to wipe out this group of "butterflies".
Only these unknown butterflies were indeed special, fluttering in Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern's constantly strengthening flames, and only after quite long while could one or two be killed.
Such commotion naturally could not be hidden from Logan, who patrolled territory on Ancient Tree every day.
He directly dove down toward direction of firelight, and those Fire Wyverns that were likewise patrolling territory all dodged one after another; some bored ones even followed behind Logan and flew down.
When Logan arrived, he discovered that some "butterflies" had actually quietly gone around Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern's line of sight and were about to attach themselves to its body.
"Roar!"
Accompanied by clear dragon roar, Logan's two wings rapidly swung, and one fiery red silver scale swiftly sliced past side of Ancient Tree Fire Wyvern like flying knife.
Like dense rain, they cut open those butterflies.
But in the next second, these butterflies that had been massively killed by Logan actually turned around like a pack of jackals that had smelled blood, completely fearless of death, and group after group actively flew toward Logan.
Logan was extremely familiar with this thing.
This was something even more troublesome than Shagaru Magala's Frenzy Virus.
Its name was: Qurio!
The harmfulness of this thing was actually smaller than Frenzy Virus; after all, its spread method and its disaster level were much milder than the Frenzy Virus, which basically guaranteed death after infection.
This thing could allow host to still retain rationality before death, and also stimulate potential, enhancing host's strength.
It could be said that before Qurio absorbed enough essence and energy from host's body, it and host were one kind of symbiotic relationship.
Of course, here referred to these small larvae in front that were like butterflies.
If it was that kind of fully matured Qurio, that would be another matter.
A matured Qurio's appearance would not have slightest connection with "beauty"; it would be entirely a scarlet sand worm with wings, extremely terrifying.
And the most exaggerated part was that the relationship between this thing and its "master" was not like Frenzy Virus being created by Shagaru Magala. Qurio and Gaismagorm had a symbiotic relationship.
Simply put, Qurio was a special organism that had a symbiosis with one Disaster Level Elder Dragon.
Even if Gaismagorm, the symbiotic partner, died, this thing could still choose another organism to establish symbiosis.
Of course, premise was that the new symbiotic Elder Dragon could endure various negative effects brought by Qurio's toxicity, but in this regard, Logan had not even slightest thought of wanting to try.
After all, even "Guardian Knight of Peace", the Primordial Malzeno, after the great battle with Gaismagorm, in its moment of weakness, after being parasitized by Qurio, only held on for several decades before completely falling.
Logan did not want to follow its footsteps and be given title "Fallen King" in the future.
Therefore, when seeing these red Gnawing Parasites flying toward himself, Logan, without saying single extra word, directly used Calamity Flame to respond.
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