The time when the protagonist encountered the Karmic Flood Dragon was during the Second Newbie Mountain Weekly merging, and at that time, it was a newly-hatched Level 50 Infant Boss that a 30-player and natives team encountered while exploring an area near a Level 30 dungeon called Frost Cavern and was wiped out by its single breath.
And after the boss found out the energy the players give is beneficial to its growth and development, it went to hunt players and besiege territories. Despite its baby status, a dragon was still a race that possessed magic nullification and high defense, and even Xun Mingsheng and other emerging powerhouses had a hard time dealing with it.
It was only after spending a lot of one-time high-tier magic scrolls and sacrificing troops that they were able to injure it, and it retreated back to its lair, which was the pond they looted, but its appearance was very different than in the novel.
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