Chapter 41: The Ancient Dragon
This letter, handed over by Hotaru, looks ordinary at first glance, and has a signature that can make all the people of the empire stunned.
Israel Delmond.
This is the name of the Northern Empire, the contemporary emperor.
As you can tell from the name, when it comes to bloodline, the imperial royal family is not a native of the north, and its bloodline should come from the western mountains, but who cares? The forty-five-year-old, young and vigorous emperor who had devoted his life to expanding the empire's territory was an ambitious conqueror and, above all, the most powerful emperor in the empire's history, strong enough to support his ambitions and to make all the populace loyal to him.
Extraordinary template, legendary destiny.
In this era when the Great Demon Tide has not yet begun, and even the golden powerhouse is considered a first-class master, a legend is enough to support a huge empire.
Opening the letter, Joshua took out the demonized paper and looked at the words on it seriously.
[To this letter and faithful, Radcliffe]
The font before and after the letter was not the same, and according to the custom of the nobles, the warrior felt that in addition to the signature and the first sentence, the text that followed should have been dictated by someone else.
His gaze continued to sweep.
[The source of the plague is actually a powerful dragon clan with an unknown body, and it is it that spreads the plague, making the demonic beasts bloodthirsty and crazy, thus initiating the Black Tide.
Although the Black Tide is fierce this time, the number has been greatly reduced compared to before, and the fortifications in various places are also very well prepared, so they will definitely be able to defend it, but for the sake of prudence, in order not to affect the 'Suppressed Land', I asked Wolf Fuqing to bring a dragon exterminating stone as a means of insurance.
If it doesn't attack, then a targeted crusade will be dispatched soon, but if the dragons come to invade, I believe that with the power of Radcliffe and the Weapon, it will be an opportunity to slay it down and put an end to the spread of the plague. 】
[God bless the Empire, the star falls on 831, the 25th year of the emperor, and this letter is granted to the censor Munster Wolf in the imperial capital of Morlay Palace. 】
- Addendum: The following information about the dragon from the Royal Calamity Observatory is obtained:
After the simple and popular content, there is a white appendix drawing, on which a strangely shaped dragon is depicted, and on the blank space at the back, there is dense data analysis and attack method speculation.
Half of the dragon's body shines like white gold, half of it is as deep as night, the golden dragon horns on the right side are towering, and the other black dragon horn on the left side is tucked next to the neck, its head only has eyes on the golden half and is closed, while the other half of the black is not, the two-color dragon wings are equipped with two huge wing claws, and the curved limbs contain powerful explosive power.
It was obvious that the golden body on the right side of the dragon was stronger than the black body on the left, and the contrast was so strong that it felt like two species at all.
When Joshua saw this painting, his expression became more serious than ever, and after carefully observing it up and down a few times, the warrior took a deep breath, and then said solemnly: "Chaos Black Eclipse Dragon!" ”
After finishing speaking, he put the painting aside, with a solemn face, and recalled carefully: "Yes, I should have thought of it a long time ago, black and purple powder, crazy demonic beasts, unbalanced ecosystem, what else could this not be a black eclipse dragon?" ”
As a former legendary warrior, Joshua has killed almost all kinds of Warcraft monsters in the Continent of Discord, among which all kinds of dragons are the most important, although the Black Eclipse Dragon has killed relatively little, but he is still a little impressed.
This special dragon with no sight or hearing relies purely on its wings to scatter the scale powder with the virus to sense the situation around it, and the creature contaminated with this scale powder will become weak if it is weak and easy for it to prey, while the creature with strong fighting spirit and strong body will become manic and bloodthirsty, looking for opponents to fight to the death, which is completely in line with the description of the plague.
"Black Eclipse Dragon, it should be a few years later, a new dragon species discovered after the [Central Black Forest] in the center of the continent was partially explored, how could it appear now...... And it's a Chaos Black Eclipse Dragon. ”
Talking to himself, Joshua couldn't remember the situation back then, he closed his eyes, frowned and recalled: "I was developing in the Far South at the beginning, and I rarely went to the Northland, but I only knew that one year the black tide here was indeed very violent...... Forget it, it's useless to think about it. ”
Abandoning the useless thing of reminiscence, the warrior walked around the reception room, easily transformed the giant sword and armor that were placed aside into models, and hung them around his waist: "This is a kind of ...... of the Origin Ancient Dragon"
The five-colored dragon and the metal dragon are both otherworldly races called [Astral Dragon], which are all over multiple worlds, have a high degree of intelligence and civilization, and even have their own gods, and similar to the Black Eclipse Dragon and the Huang Black Dragon, they are the native species of the Conflict Continent called [Origin Dragon], although some of them have wisdom no less than humans, but most of them are similar to beasts with great power.
Even so, there are also all kinds of extremely terrifying existences in the Origin Dragons, and the [Ancient Dragons] are the representatives of these dragons who have a long lifespan and can bring natural disasters as soon as they appear, whether it is the [God of Natural Calamity] Lanlong who can trigger hurricanes and storms and envelop several mountain ranges, the [Moving Mountain] Old Mountain Dragon that can destroy cities just by walking, and the [Natural Calamity] Huang Black Dragon that once caused an imbalance of elements and brought the Great Ajax Volcano to the brink of eruption, all of them are so-called ancient dragons.
The ancient dragon species that represents the imbalance of the ecosystem is the awakening body of the black eclipse dragon, the [source of the disaster] Tianxia dragon.
This time in the middle of the Black Forest, there must have been a real Celestial Dragon, it is precisely because of its power to inhibit all its fellow races from the last molt awakening, so it will cause the Chaos Black Eclipse Dragon to molt halfway, the reason why it moved quickly and flew around the empire in a large circle, presumably to find a place to carry out the final molt.
"The strength of the ancient dragon species, the weakest is basically around the extreme intention and the legend, but the black eclipse dragon is different, before it awakens, its strength is the golden middle level, which is within the scope of my response."
Sitting back on the seat in front of the table, Joshua recalled the strength of the black erosion dragons he had hunted in his memory, he put his hand into his pocket, took out the mahogany rune box, and looked at it and thought seriously: "Even if it is a little stronger Chaos, relying on the Divine Machine and the Dragon Slayer Stone, I do have a chance to ...... it."
"Master, tea is here."
A clear girlish voice interrupted the warrior's thoughts, and Joshua looked sideways, and the silver-haired girl opened the door of the reception room with a cup of hot tea, and walked with light and graceful steps.
"Thank you, but it's only one cup."
Taking the cup, Joshua raised his head and looked at his divine machine with some dissatisfaction: "Didn't you prepare it for yourself?" ”
"Ah...... But I don't need tea. ”
With his hands in front of his legs, he replied in a daze, Hotaru didn't react a little, and said sideways in confusion: "I'm a god machine, I don't need to eat." ”
"There are obviously two people, but only one person is drinking tea, which is a very embarrassing scene."
Standing up, one hand stretched out and rubbed the girl's silver-haired head, Joshua sighed, and stuffed the teacup in his hand back into Hotaru's hand: "And you can't stop trying because you don't need to, you have to learn to enjoy life, come, this cup will be given to you first." ”
"Ah, this, thank you......"
Muttering in a low voice, Hotaru took the cup of hot tea a little dazed, her cheeks were slightly red, she looked at the steaming tea, she didn't know what to say, so she could only change the topic to: "Then, master, do you want to start preparing dinner?" ”
"It's early, you don't need it yet, you sit down first, and help me make an excerpt of the information about the dragon on the appendix."
Sitting back in his chair and looking down at another letter, Joshua said casually, "Thank you for your hard work." ”
"Hmmm......"