As Pragna reached the shore he noticed that there were not that many creatures near the beach. It is afternoon. So as he reached the shore he used absolute temperature control and his clothes ability to hide his presence. As he landed on the shore he first collected few stones. He applied heat to them and made them round and shiny. Then he took the sand and heated it, till it became a transparent liquid, and then slowly he moulded it look like a precious diamond. Like that he made few more.

After that he followed after the source of flames. Pragna noticed few dilapidated buildings covered in creepers and trees. As he got closer he found that the flame sources that he observed are inside a semi-decimated building. He made sure that nothing is observing him, then he slowly without making any sound he flew to the top of the building. It is five story building. It has been wrecked such that on one side it had no walls and half of the floor also disappeared. At the ground floor there was a huge rock; on it was carcass of a large creature. Three reptilian creatures were feasting on it. They looked like black crocodiles with wings.

Pragna checked them out.

Poison dragons lvl 10heatlh800mana1100abilitescorroding flames, dragons maw

Poison dragons lvl 11heatlh1000mana1300abilitescorroding flames, dragons maw

Poison dragons lvl 13heatlh1200mana1500abilitescorroding flames, dragons maw

Pragna understood why those apes had a tough time fighting these creatures. Whenever the creature is much weaker than him or has low sentience, status window would not show the additional features like strength, vitality and etc.

But for such low level creatures they have such high hp and mana levels!

He took shiny stone he prepared before and threw it at them. All three of poison dragons suddenly became alert and tried to see where it came. They could not find Pragna and so they slowly settled down. Then they looked at the stone. The bright glossiness of the stone attracted all three of them towards it. As all three of them got closer to it, they started roaring towards each other. Suddenly a fight broke out between the three poison dragons! Lvl 13 threw away lvl 10 with its tail and it bit the lvl11 on its neck and flung it towards the wall. Lvl 10 and lvl11 immediately co-ordinated their attacks and started fighting the lvl 13. After few minutes, they killed lvl 13. But it was not a battle without losses. Lvl 11 lost its right wing and its neck was severely bitten. While lvl 10 lost its left eye and its tail’s bone is broken. Immediately like on queue they started fighting each other! After a bitter fight lvl 11 killed the lvl 10. After this fight lvl 11 looked like it would die any second. But instead of checking its wounds, the first thing it did is drag its body towards the stone!

As Pragna watched this entire fight, he was gobsmacked after seeing the end conclusion.

From the seeing the place where they have been living it is clear that they are together for more than few months. Yet the mere sight of shiny object they killed each other! These creatures did not even try to confirm whether it is truly a treasure or not. Their first instinct was to snatch it and they would kill anyone to get it!

Pragna slowly hovered towards the last poison dragon that is alive. It finally took notice of him when he is hovering near it. It did not even have strength to fight yet curled its body around that stone. It bard its broken teeth at him

Pragna looked at it with a placid expression; suddenly around him 12 orange coloured fire orbs appeared. He simply said pointing his finger at the dragon, “Devour”.

After few minutes he got notifications that 5 of his fire spirits are level 2. While 2 of them reached level 3. He noticed that, as they increased in level so did their size. Level 3 fire spirits are now at least as large as basketballs. They even devoured the corpses of two poison dragons. Whenever Pragna thought about how they killed each other for that stone it felt like something was gnawing at unhealed wound in his body. They killed each other and it was not even for survival! Just as he thought about it Pragna almost lost control over himself. But after relaxing a little bit, he thought that maybe there is still chance for negotiation. After all the creatures he saw today are definitely at the bottom of the hierarchy. If he can meet dragons of higher sentience may be they can overcome their instincts and he can try to negotiate with them.

After searching for few days he found a village. While spying he saw that this village has many creatures that looked the poison dragons, only in varying shapes and colours. Also he saw three humanoid creatures! He immediately checked them out.

Humanoid dragonsTitlesDescendent of Níðhöggr, treasure hordersLevel20Health2000Mana2000Physical statsStrength25Agility15Intelligence40Dextrity9Wisdom25Speed12Vitality16SkillsFlame of dragonlvl 5AttributesFirehigh lvl 3

Humanoid dragonsTitlesDescendent of Níðhöggr, treasure hordersLevel15Health1200Mana1600Physical statsStrength17Agility9Intelligence35Dextrity6Wisdom20Speed10Vitality14SkillsFlame of dragonlvl 4AttributesFirehigh lvl 3

Humanoid dragonsTitlesDescendent of Níðhöggr, treasure hordersLevel15Health1200Mana1600Physical statsStrength17Agility9Intelligence35Dextrity6Wisdom20Speed10Vitality14SkillsFlame of dragonlvl 4AttributesFirehigh lvl 3.

After seeing this status he felt he has a chance for peaceful negotiation. He checked what is an Níðhöggr.

Níðhöggr! One of the seven primordial snakes. Known to be synonymous with fire and death!

Though the description sounded ominous, but still descendants of primordial!

From the way his notifications showed him, primordial seem to be at the very top of battlefront. He felt he can try. But before that he has to confirm one last time.

He scouted around the jungle and found few items that on burning would become precious gems. He made few and placed them in a leather bag made of dragon skin.

At night he placed it near the village. He started observing it from a safe location. Early in morning a dragon in greenish colour slowly hovered towards the bag as it sniffed the air. It scratched the bag open to see its contents. After seeing the precious gems, it stood there without moving. Then it took the bag into its mouth and flied into the village. When he saw how the dragon flew into the village rather than fly way with the bag, he felt relieved.

Yes! I still have chance for negotiation.

After some time he started walking towards the village in open. Many of the dragons took notice of him. As he got closer all the dragons in the village got little bit closer to him. As he was observing the situation, the three humanoid creatures walked towards him, as they were observing him with quite interest. By using poly linguist he tried to talk to them, ”As I was going through this place I accidentally lost my bag full of precious gems near your village do you have-”

Before he could finish, lvl 17 creature asked Pragna, “Do you have any more of them?”

Pragna had a confused expression and tried to answer it, ”No, but if--”

The moment the word, “No” left Pragna's mouth lvl 20 creature lost interest in what Pragna is about say and it issued orders, ”kill him.”

All the dragons pounced towards Pragna.