Chapter 285: The Emperor's guardians

Long tails, four legs, wide bat-like wings, scales that shone in the sunlight like polished metal… Lizard-like snouts with mouths full of razor-sharp fangs, and eyes that held wild ferocity and human intelligence.

Dragons. They were dragons—and not at all like the swamp dragons Cael saw before. He only heard about dragons like these from the stories. "Noble" dragons, they were called, because of how their scales shone and because of their immense power!

The dragons finally landed a dozen meters away from the group of travelers in a triangle. Although from the distance they appeared tiny, in reality each of them was five meters tall, towering over the humans like a house.

Each of the three dragons looked very different, like they didn't belong to the same species of dragons.

The leftmost one had smooth golden scales, and a head topped with horns that created a crown-like circle. He looked almost like a king and had a regal stature and haughty eyes as well.