"Lord Dragon, great dragon, we have no intention of offending you!"

"Yes, yes, it was the lich who bewitched us!"

The three beholders begged for mercy one after another, and their tentacle-like eye stalks were trembling.

Beholders despise other creatures, including other beholders. Each beholder considers itself to be a model for its kind, and any other individual who differs from it a disgrace to the race.

But they value their lives.

Given the absolute power gap, these eye demons knew that if they wanted to save their lives, they had to make certain compromises and put aside their arrogance.

The eye with a tumor in the middle floated forward, and a flattering expression appeared on its ugly face: "Great dragon, I am the humble eye demon Aogu."

"Your figure is so majestic. A dragon like you must have a lot of treasures. I am willing to serve you for free as the guardian of your lair and kill anyone who covets your wealth."

"Oh?"

"Just now - didn't you say you wanted to eat me?"

Cassius stretched out his arm, grasped the beholder in his claws, and moved it gently with his paws as if he was playing with a ball.

The Eye Demon's spherical body was shaking violently, but it did not dare to resist at all.

Its face was filled with fear, and it wailed and begged for mercy: "I, I don't know! It was that lich! It was all that lich's order!"

Cassius rubbed his chin with his other free paw and said calmly, "That seems to make sense."

"Yes, Lord Dragon!"

"It's all that lich's fault! If you spare my life, I will take you to settle the score with him!"

The Eye Demon was dizzy, but he still spoke excitedly as if he had grasped at the last straw.

"but."

Cassius paused.

"You're so ugly."

The red dragon suddenly exerted force, clenched its claws, and the terrifying power was suddenly released.

Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and eyeballs fell out.

The rude beholder was crushed to pieces, turning into a lump of extremely sticky and dirty meat.

"Disgusting stuff."

Cassius clapped his paws in disgust, and flames ignited on his body, burning all the remaining flesh, blood and mucus clean.

"August died just like that!"

"I can't do this anymore, this dragon will kill me!"

Another eye demon screamed, and black smoke came out of its huge and bulging eyeballs. Dark green mucus came out of its mouth, and it flew into the black fog, trying to escape from here under the cover of the black fog.

"hehe."

"Do you think you can escape from this?"

An invisible wave spread, and the black fog covering the tomb dissipated in an instant, revealing the hurriedly flying Eye Demon.

A scorching flaming arrow shot out.

"Ouch~~"

With a wail, flames pierced through the Eye Demon's body and then exploded violently.

The Eye Demon fell to the ground helplessly, and then his whole body turned into charred ashes.

This was just a low-level trick, but in the hands of a red dragon like Cassius, it was enough to easily kill an eye demon.

Cassius turned his head and stared at the only remaining eye demon with his pale golden pupils. He smiled and said, "You are the only one left."

The beholder trembled.

"Great dragon, I, I"

"I know magic."

"Besides, I'm not ugly!" said the beholder in a trembling voice. As if to prove it, it performed a transformation spell and turned itself into a young girl - but still with one eye.

Cassius observed this eye demon - indeed, compared to the other two, its skin was smoother and its eyeballs were not so cloudy. At least it could be considered "handsome" among the eye demons.

It is indeed flexible.

This is considered a talent among the eye demons.

"."

Cassius was silent for a moment before he asked, "What's your name?"

"Great dragon, my name is Kuz."

Although it had transformed into the appearance of a one-eyed girl, its voice was still noisy and harsh, like the sound of metal rubbing against each other.

"Change back and follow me."

"It's the master."

Just like that, the three-eyed demons were completely wiped out.

These monsters prepared by liches to deal with human adventurers are no match for the more powerful red dragons.

But who could have imagined that the "intruder" was a red dragon nearly forty meters long?
Even a lich would not have guessed such a bizarre low-probability event.

Kuz turned back into the appearance of a beholder, floating behind the red dragon with a nervous look on his face. He looked timid and submissive, without any of the arrogance that he had just shown when he jumped out of the secret room.

Kuz said flatteringly:
"Master, that, that is the lich's life box."

"I see."

Inside Soulcry Castle, the lich stared at the life box in the magical image, his withered face full of despair.

"These damn beholders."

"And he is actually a giant dragon! How could a dragon get in here?!"

"How could this happen! All the careful preparations I have made for eternal life over hundreds of years were destroyed by a damn dragon!"

Suddenly, he remembered the feeling of being "discovered" before, and a terrible guess suddenly arose in his mind -

There has been a lot of buzz in recent years, so much so that even he has heard of the "Burning Emperor" who unified the Anzeta Wasteland, and is also a red dragon!
"I have been hiding well, how could he notice me? No, this is a coincidence, it must be a coincidence!"

The lich pressed his fleshless, rotten head close to the crystal skull and stared closely at his life box, the will-o'-the-wisp flickering in his eye sockets.

“No, it’s impossible”

"It definitely won't be him."

Suddenly, cracks appeared on the crystal skull, and then became more and more dense.

“Crack. Crack!”

The lich subconsciously took a few steps back and clenched his staff with his withered hands.

In the magical image that was about to break, the huge red dragon raised its head, and a smile appeared in its deep light golden pupils.

"I see you."

Orestes only felt a tremendous sense of oppression coming across time and space, which made him, a lich who always thought of himself as noble, feel the urge to surrender.

The next moment, accompanied by a crisp "crash" sound, the exquisite crystal skull shattered into pieces.

"This is impossible!"

"No, no no."

Orestes stepped back again, but bumped into bottles and jars filled with viscera, flesh and blood behind him, and his thin, rotten body fell backwards to the ground.

Blood and viscera were scattered all over the floor.

The lich stood up with the support of his staff, staggered to find spell materials, and made all preparations for battle.

The bone pen was still writing on the diary, but this time it only wrote a short sentence, and the handwriting was extremely sloppy.

"He saw me!" (End of this chapter)