Dragon

**Dragons** are reptile beasts in the New World that can breath devastating flame that is equal to napalm bombs. They are primarily utilized as weapons of war by primitive countries outside of Civilized Areas (except Japan and Gra Valkas Empire), the Third Civilization Area, Second Civilization Area (except for Mu) and First Civilization Area (except Holy Mirishial Empire). They are extremely vulnerable to anti-air weaponry.

Those countries that are said to be exempted don't utilize dragons as they have access to aircraft, which make dragons obsolete to these countries.

## Biology

When a wyvern spits fire, it looks like they’re activating fire magic, but actually, for guided fire blasts, they’re first producing a viscous, combustible chemical inside their bodies, then combining it with both fire and wind magic. The wind wraps around a mixture of flame and the chemical compound. Then, in order to fire it, the wyvern stretches out its neck, creating a straight line from its torso to its mouth opening.

Dragons can exhaust themselves during aerial combat, and they’re unable to shoot consecutive fire blasts

Despite the dragon majestic appearance, they are quite frail and vulnerable to diseases as well as excreting a lot.

## Types of Dragons

### Wyvern

Wyvern is basic flying dragons that utilized by countries outside the civilized areas as air force.

### Wyvern Lord

Wyvern Lord is a much stronger version of Wyverns utilized by countries from the Civilized Areas like the Parpaldia Empire. They are stronger and more durable than normal Wyverns. However, they are still no match for even the Marin, Mu's most advanced aircraft at the time.

### Wyvern Overlord

Wyvern Overlord is the strongest version of Wyverns created by the Parpaldia Empire to counter Mu's aircraft. They are far larger and stronger than Wyvern Lords. However, as a sacrifice to increase their strength, Wyvern Overlords have limited productive capacity. They are said to have greater speed and maneuverability than even the Marin.

### Land Dragon

Land Dragon are wingless dragons used by the Parpaldia Empire as living flame tanks.

### Scarlet Dragon

Scarlet Dragon is large red land dragon that lives on the Grameus Continent. It is about three time larger and much meaner than the Parpaldia Empire’s land dragons.

### Wind Dragon

Wind Dragon is a special breed of dragons from Emor Kingdom with small wings that can fly at the speed of 500 km/h, which exceed Mu's air fighters and rival the Holy Mirishial Empire's air fighters. No human can ride the Wind Dragons without having their bodies shredded by the massive speed pressure.

### Vetir Drake

Vetir Drake is a huge powerful dragon with the ability to use magical power to convert photon within the atmosphere into powerful laser beam.

### Thunder Dragon

Thunder Dragon isa type of attributed dragon and true dragon type with independent wings and front legs.

### Ferniges

Evil Sand Dragons that live on the northern portion of Panma Desert, near the Emor Kingdom border.

### Azhdahak

Azhdahak is an evil three-headed dragon that was sealed by the Ravernal Empire in the Vaglar Volcano, several kilometers north of Esperanto Kingdom, in the Grameus Continent.

### Lightning Flame Dragon

The legendary Lightning Flame Dragon is an extremely powerful colossal dragon with 1000 m in length and has black skin. They serve as the ultimate weapon of the Emor Kingdom.

### Yamata no Orochi

Yamata no Orochi is a colossal evil dragon with eight heads and eight tails.

## Military Uses and Weaknesses

The wyverns in general are widely used in the Third Civilization for reconnaissance, air support and bombardment on enemy positions. However, as they are living creatures, they cannot compare to aircraft or modern weaponry.

In addition to food and care costs, the wyverns excrete a lot and are severely limited in terms of combat capabilities. Though they can release devastating fire blasts and are thick-skinned enough to withstand arrowheads and blades, they are considered as nothing more than target practice to countries with advanced technology like Japan or Gra Valkas. Other weaknesses include the exposed rider, limited altitude and the fact that they cannot defend against enemies who are able to shoot them down from beyond visual range. Their greatest attack, the fire breath, is too slow and easy to evade for fighter planes and jets. Even the Wyvern Overlords were basically a wasted expenditure against the fighter jets of the JSDF.

The Land Dragons are completely unsuited to go against the tanks of the JSDF and the Gra Valkas Empire. They have no armor and their fire attacks are out-ranged by the main guns of tanks. Again, they are basically just target practice. During the failed invasion of the Fenn Kingdom, a handful of Japanese Type 90 Main Battle Tanks wiped out 32 Land Dragons in a few minutes.

Overall, dragons are only effective against opponents with the equivalent of 16th to 19th century technology and are virtually worthless against modern warfare tactics and weapons.

## Trivia

* It is illegal to privately own dragons in Japan as dragons can be used as weapons. The sentence for the crime is 10 years in prison.