Ashen Dragon

Jin Ya also realized the critical situation and quickly opened his mouth.

"Fireball Spell"

Jin Ya was not a trivial figure in the Ashen Kingdom. As a kobold magician for many years, he had already been able to fully harness the magic in his bloodline, even able to easily cast a Third Tier spell like the Fireball Spell.

A blazing fireball spewed from Jin Ya's mouth, directly hitting the unprepared frost giant's face.

With the sizzling sound of flesh and skin being scorched, half of the frost giant's face was burned black, horrific wounds appearing on his skin. In the agony, he loosened his grip, allowing Jin Ya, hooked by the bone pickaxe, to break free.

"So hot..."

Baya first covered his face, then roared to the sky, his face full of burn marks brimming with battle intent.

The frost giant saw the scars on his body and the trophies he stripped from the enemies as symbols of strength and value. Jin Ya's attack not only did not scare him, but it also excited Baya's fighting spirit.
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"Dragon, I will kill you!"

"Come down and fight me!"

He recklessly threw stones into the sky, hoping to strike Jin Ya down.

Jin Ya dodged in mid-air, grumbling:

"What a damned lunatic."

He spat out another fireball toward the ground, but this time the frost giant was prepared and blocked it with a bone shield.

"Crawl, your flames are weak and feeble!"

"Come! Fight me in close combat!"

The frost giant leaped high again, trying to repeat the trick, hooking Jin Ya from the air down to the ground for a battle.

But this time, Jin Ya was also prepared. He deftly flapped his wings, dodging the bone pickaxe while reaching the frost giant's back.

"Burning Hands"

The winged kobold extended his claws, a cone of flame spouting from the center of his palm, burning the frost giant's unprotected back, leaving a large charred area.

The frost giant dropped to the ground in pain, rolling several times to relieve the force but quickly got up again.

"Your attack is nothing but a scratch!"

The tenacious and valiant frost giant still roared on the ground, brewing his next attack.

For them, fighting was an everyday affair. Frost giants often wrestled with the giant beasts on the ice fields; such injuries were nothing to them.

While Jin Ya seized this precious breath of air, he looked toward the chaotic battlefield. The cold wind became increasingly fierce as the frost giants effortlessly crushed the kobolds, even capturing a few cowardly ones alive.

In the face of the absolute size and strength of the frost giants, this was not even considered an equal battle, merely a one-sided game.

"When those frost giants surround me, it won't be easy for me to escape either."

"With only over a thousand pups here, given the current situation, the best option is to abandon them and hurry to inform the master about the frost giants' southward invasion."

Jin Ya had been leading the kobolds in the mine for several months, having little contact with the Ashen Kingdom during this period. He did not know the changes in the outside world, but he knew the terror of the frost giants.

These guys averaged six meters tall and were born as fierce and tough warriors. Their battles could even cause avalanches on the White Summit Peaks. Even the dozens of frost giants present here were enough to completely destroy a city, far beyond what these kobolds could contend with.

Thinking of this, Jin Ya roared and flapped his wings to ascend into the sky—he did not want to continue entangling with Baya.

"Stupid giant! I am not a dragon, just a kobold under the command of the great red dragon!"

"The strength you are so proud of is nothing in front of my master!"

"Remember, when my master descends, all you frost giants will turn to ashes!"

After finishing his harsh words, Jin Ya spread his wings and left the battlefield, soaring over the hills—this is the advantage of being able to fly.

Can't beat him, but can't I outrun him?

The frost giants on the ground could only rage impotently, throwing giant stones, but Jin Ya had already flown so high that even the formidable strength of the frost giants could not reach him.

Baya touched the wound on his face, his expression fierce.

"He, he is not a dragon?"

"Just a mere kobold!"

The frost giant warrior gnashed his teeth—he was not even this angry when he was first injured.

If these scars were caused by a red dragon, it would undoubtedly be a symbol of honor. But being caused by a weak kobold would only make Baya a laughingstock among his tribe.

"Huff, huff..."

"I must kill it."

"And the dragon behind it..."

Baya stared intently at the small black dot in the distance, filled with hatred, the scars on his face particularly prominent.

As he spoke, he casually stomped, crushing another fleeing kobold into a pulp without even giving it a chance to wail.

The wilderness was already littered with corpses, disfigured kobold bodies everywhere, the howling wind often covering them with a thin layer of frost.

The frost giants, on the other hand, were unscathed, swiftly clearing the battlefield. They would only take the large chunks of gold, completely ignoring the kobolds' small gear and trinkets.

Similar scenes were unfolding all over the Stormy Ridge—the goblin strongholds were trampled by the giants, kobold mines were crushed, and the half-orc hunting grounds were destroyed.

These frost giants moved quickly in several small teams, plundering and destroying everything in their path.

Because the Ashen Kingdom had shifted its defense focus to the south, the Stormy Ridge in the north had almost no regular army, just those disregarded monster kin with no resistance against the powerful frost giants, making their invasion of the Stormy Ridge a crushing defeat.

In fact, Cassius had deliberately left an opening, letting the frost giants eliminate these rapidly reproducing monsters to control the monster population in the Stormy Ridge.

Keep in mind that kobolds and goblins in the Stormy Ridge had become uncountable without human control. If left to reproduce freely, they could likely overrun the entire Stormy Ridge.

The goblin chieftain Dolores had once said: "These creatures reproducing like beasts, I don't even consider them my kin."

The upper echelons of the Ashen Kingdom had already planned to classify kobolds and goblins within the Kingdom based on the concentration of dragon blood, delineating them into dragon vein and ordinary species.

The dragon vein individuals would become Ashen citizens, while the ordinary ones would remain monsters, with a planned strategy for their control and cleansing. Most of the ordinary monsters, given their high reproductive rate, would become disposable resources for the kingdom's development—such as miners, porters, or frontline cannon fodder.

Originally, the elite forces of the Ashen Nest, like bipedal wyverns and Chimeras, were mainly concentrated around the Rock Fortress, yet unaffected by the frost giants' invasion.

At the moment, having already received the kingdom's message, they were on high alert in front of the Rock Fortress.