Chapter 14: Let Me See
For adventurers living in the Northland, their lives have been much better lately than their counterparts elsewhere.
It's not the environment, the environment of the Northland is harsh, even in the entire continent is second to none, whether it is the winter for half a year, the mountains and dense forests that are always covered by heavy snow, and the inconspicuous ice surface that occasionally slips on the ground, even the inconspicuous ice surface that the Warcraft occasionally slips has brought great trouble to the work of most adventurers, but it has not been the same recently.
While the complete exploitation of the Great Ajax Mountains in recent years has reduced the number of official exploration missions, the abundance of species and the myriad of treasured resources in the mountains has led to an increase in hunting and mining missions...... But most importantly, for some unknown reason, the Northlander suddenly stepped out of the way of a steep mountain that stood in the way of the Great Ajax Mountains—making it easier for all adventurers who depended on the mountain range for their livelihoods to get in and out on a daily basis.
Everyone knows how painful it is to climb a mountain in the snow and ice, and if you can slowly enter the mountain range through the gentle ice field, no one will miss the hard road of the past. And in addition, the actions of the lord also brought him a rumor that I don't know whether it was good or bad: I heard that when the legendary powerhouse moved the mountain peak, the entire Great Ajax Mountains were silent, except for the loud sound of the earth and rocks bursting, there was no other sound in the whole world, not even the birds on the mountain dared to take off, and the demonic beasts that lived in the cave were trembling, not to mention the adventurers who were stunned and almost didn't lie on the ground—this won him in an instant. The title of the 'Silencer Who Moves Mountains'.
Today, the removed mountain is placed next to the Frost Leaf Forest of the Arctic Ice, and has become a famous tourist attraction in the area, where it is said that the little power left behind by the Lord has attracted many of his admirers to go and practice penance in that cold place.
In fact, in addition to these major events, it may seem strange to say that there is one thing that has changed the lives of ordinary adventurers, but many people are really crazy about it, even if it is just a few extra tables in the tavern of the main city of Moldavia.
The 'Broken Sword Tavern', a long-established tavern run by a half-elf ex-adventurer, has its doors open on the street between Lord's Avenue and the New Opera House, and is open to everyone all day long. Originally, it didn't have a good reputation, and it wasn't very high-end, but in recent years, because of the adventurers who have gathered to enter the Northland, this place has gradually transformed into a high-end tavern for middle and high-level adventurers because of the identity of the boss's former adventurers.
The atmosphere in the tavern was quite harmonious, at least not like the vulgar slang and drunken chaos of the rest of the Northlands, and in the hall and in each of the private rooms, many well-equipped adventurers could be seen whispering about the outcome of the adventure, or the details of the preparations before departure, and the occasional clinking of glasses signaled the end or beginning of a pleasant cooperation.
But in the corner of the tavern, the atmosphere is very different.
"Quick, play the cards!"
"So, what are you waiting for? Get out of 'Ghost General Hector' and slap him in the face! ”
"Shut up, now I don't have a fee - you idiot, now he knows my cards!"
The lively and noisy, the so-called chaotic atmosphere was completely out of place compared to the environment of the entire tavern, but all the drinkers present were used to this, and even a few of them, after drinking and paying the bill, got up and went to the corner, joined in, and watched this new game called 'Fairy Cards' with great interest.
Fairy cards, about a month or two ago, I don't know when it suddenly appeared strange magic card game. In the beginning, not many people wanted to try the new game, even if the Tavernkeep swore with his reputation that it was now a free trial, because it had something to do with magic. Magic, scourges, who knows what curses or traps are on it? Or is it a new gambling scam, like the enchanted dice in the casino? Adventurers are always surprisingly conservative in this regard.
But when a pair of dwarven brothers showed everyone how to play the game, they were conquered by the lack of entertainment in the tavern all day.
The extraordinary powerhouses on the Microf continent certainly take the improvement of their strength as their first goal, but this does not mean that they usually do not need entertainment. And the cultural level of this world is only a little better than that of the Middle Ages, and everyone lacks the means of entertainment.
Even the aristocracy, whose usual pastime is nothing more than hunting, opera, going to some red-light places to squander wealth and God knows what is the use of crafts, they feed eighty percent of the artists in this world, but no one thinks about what kind of game is fun.
In the final analysis, this is a world with magical power, the existence of extraordinary power greatly compresses the spare time of ordinary people, even if they know that they can't become strong in the future, they will work hard to exercise, waiting for the day when they turn over, maybe only the goblins who don't worry about eating and drinking, and have an almost endless lifespan, can make the game of fairy cards in every boredom.
Regardless, the elven cards fill a void in the lives of Northland adventurers, and this kind of direct confrontation game does suit the temper of straightforward adventurers. Now, in the main city of Moldavia, the taverns with elven card tables have become the hottest places for business, most of these taverns have dwarven backgrounds, or are related to the lord's mansion - through some mysterious news of the magical uncle's party, some people know that these tables are from the magic power factories of the dwarves of the Northlands, and they are commissioned by the dwarves in cooperation with the royal family and the lord's house of Moldavia.
This rich background is a bit excessive, and most of the ill-intentioned people are dispelled from their worthless nostalgia in an instant, and the rest is the decision to tie up with this card game that is sure to be a hit in the future no matter what—for which they have paid a lot of money to obtain several valuable fixed-point trial spots in the Imperial Capital and the Southern Fortress.
Now, the goblin cards are spreading throughout the Northern Empire, and are spreading to other human settlements, and it is rumored that His Majesty the Emperor of Morlay Palace also tried to play this game at the invitation of his own child, and gave a cheerful evaluation: not bad. This once again accelerated the spread of elf cards.
Before he knew it, spring had arrived, and Joshua, after a rare break, began to prepare to find the news of the unknown ancient dragon for Barnier and William.
The time has dragged on for so long, and it has nothing to do with the warriors, and the main reason is the two legendary mages - first of all, the purification of the ancient dragon bloodline. After the last time they spied on the power of the ancient dragon, but were destroyed by the other party in the air, the two of them had to start again, extracting and cultivating the activated ancient dragon's blood from the biological tissues of the Creeping Forest, which took a lot of time. In addition to this, they also called Ciel and Fina over, and conducted a series of tests and bloodline experiments on Lady Sea Dragon, and the two things were mixed together, and the progress was naturally slowed down.
Joshua didn't care, after all, the two owners were not in a hurry, so what was he anxious about? The warriors who enjoy daily life have indeed settled down a lot in the past few months, except that because there is a mountain on the way to the road where he can enjoy the Great Ajax Mountain Range, he has not done anything big, as usual, he still goes to the area of the seventh abyss occasionally to take a look, and perceive the dynamics of the demon lords and demon kings Goliath in the sixth abyss, which has become a part of Joshua's daily life.
As for the cultists and the five-colored dragons, they have been completely wiped out from the Northland, and there is indeed no news at all, and even if the Cultists who are really crazy want to be sent to death, they will not come all the way to the Northland, and the same is true for the dragons.
And in just over two months, the exploration of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground by the major forces has come to an end temporarily, and they have already toured all the regions of the Sacrifice Ground, and have come to the central core area, where they see hundreds of giant god guards staring at them silently.
After discovering that these Titan Soldiers would no longer attack them, the group of people trembled and watched the whole journey of the Titan Soldiers, and came to the center of the entire half-plane - under a huge metal obelisk, where they carefully cleaned and excavated, and then found many ancient inscriptions, through intense translation and interpretation, they were shocked to find that these inscriptions recorded many ancient myths and histories about the creation of the Initial Fire, as well as some major events in the last era, called the Age of Glory.
This is a major breakthrough in the historical study of the origin of the races and the world of Mycrof, which records the context of Microf's world civilization in those ancient but still clear steel inscriptions.
- In the beginning, the world had seven continents.
Humans were born and lived in the southeastern plains of the Central Continent, where they lived in families and tribes, using fire and stone bones as tools to develop and build houses. After a long winter snowstorm, some humans migrated farther south in primitive leather clothing, and they sailed to another continent, where they found a giant tree with which they lived in symbiosis, the prototype of the oldest elves.
Climate changes on continents, ocean currents and changes in the earth's crust have caused the environment of the whole world to heat up, and in the continuous eruptions of volcanoes, humans have discovered various metals and learned how to use flames to forge tools, and some people with extraordinary natural talents have even sensed the veins of magic from natural phenomena.
At this time, some craftsmen went deep into the crypt in search of better metals and ores, but were blocked underground by an earthquake caused by a volcanic eruption, although these people were isolated from the world, but they were blessed by misfortune and found a huge mysterious gem, which seemed to be condensed in the depths of the earth at the beginning of the world has a strange magic, so that those craftsmen began to quickly adapt to the environment of underground life, they are the ancestors of the dwarven clan.
On the continent, there are many other intelligent races, which breed in other continents, human dwarves and elves only occupy two continents, in the later inscriptions, you can see that the three races began to explore and conquer the rest of the world in order to expand, and the bloody war lasted for a thousand years or even longer, countless lives were dissipated because of this, and the bones of countless races were piled up in the plains, during which magic, The vindictiveness and all the transcendent systems that came after them could imagine were rapidly developed by the overly brutal racial wars, and on the contrary, there was a negative population growth for more than a decade.
The civilization on the continent of Mycrove seemed to be on the verge of self-extinction due to the race war, until that day, at the end of the inscription, a man called the 'Sage' appeared in the world like the sun, ending all madness.
All the remaining inscriptions are extolling the greatness of the sages and gods, who created the Holy Light, unified the magical system, clarified the line of Douqi cultivation, and stabilized the continuation of the Warlock's bloodline. He kept the elves out of the way, and the dwarves united into a single kingdom, and he joined forces with the gods to end the wars and bring the entire Mycrof civilization together with a new life.
This is the end of the inscription, and the exploration team members did not find the reason for the end of the last era, which is the unknown that plagues all intelligent life in the Mycrof continent, except for some legendary powerhouses, no one knows the truth about the era change.
Knowing the truth, they are conducting an important experiment at this time.
Northland Moldavia, above the Great Ajax Mountains, among the thick clouds, a fusiform floating airship is quietly suspended above the Creeping Forest, and the gray-white clouds are stirred by the ripple-like magic ripples that come out of the airship from time to time, so that a huge cloud vortex has formed in the sky above the entire mountain range, and lightning can be seen shuttling in the vortex, releasing powerful magic power.
"In this place, even if something happens, it won't harm anyone else on the ground."
In the central isolation area, the legendary bard William smiled and said to Joshua in front of him: "And it is not ancient that it is powerful, the accumulation of wisdom can fill the innate gap between species, this is the meaning of civilization and inheritance." No matter how strong that ancient dragon is, it can't be better than the three of us Legends joining forces, let alone causing any danger. ”
"It's really not possible, you can also call your Emperor His Majesty and Nostradamus, so that they are five legends." As he spoke, William added.
And Barnier, who seemed to be accustomed to singing and harmonizing with his friends, was manipulating the instrument on the side, and was carrying out the final purification of the ancient dragon bloodline, also turned his head and added seriously: "I can still call Barbarossa, although he always has a stinky face, but he will still look at the face of me and William - this is the six legends, and it is not impossible to fight against the gods." ”
"I can call Ramot, the contemporary Holy Sword Maker!"
"You have to compare connections with me, do you? Can't I just pull Faina over? It's all old friends who have explored the ruins of the Black Forest together......"
For the two legendary mages to be regarded as a daily-for-tat and inexplicable competition, Joshua, who was left aside, couldn't help but sigh, and then rolled his eyes: "Okay, don't argue, I can still call the Pope and His Excellency the Nature Mentor, then there will be enough for ten legendary powerhouses, and the legend of the humanoid race is just one dwarf god craftsman - we are not going to start a world war, can the experiment start?" ”
"Right now."
With a violent magic shock, Barnier finished the last step of blood purification, and he grasped the countless complex instruments in front of him with his empty hand, and suddenly the container flashed with a fierce thunderbolt, and the mist-like cloud that released amazing life energy was compressed into a drop of blood like a jewel. It was placed in a test tube inscribed with thirteen layers of rune inscriptions by the legendary mage, and handed it to Joshua: "The steps should not be complicated - through the method we told you, you should be very simple to perceive the information of the world where the ancient dragon is through life energy resonance, don't clash with it head-on at that time, just take the initiative to destroy this bloodline." ”
The incomparably precious ancient dragon bloodline was just a fluttering word of destruction in Barnier's mouth, and Joshua simply took it and accepted it.
In the center of the isolation laboratory of the experimental airship, the three legendary powerhouses all stared at this bloodline, the warrior held it in his hand, his palm flashed with silver and hazy light, and a huge vitality that was incomparably rich and completely overpowered by the blood of the ancient dragon was released by it, spreading to the entire sky outside, directly dispersing the clouds within thousands of meters.
At this moment, Joshua directly connected his steel power with the ancient dragon's bloodline through the simplest, most direct, and most dangerous method, and through the information resonance, he felt his consciousness rapidly sinking into a darkness, walking through the dark and mysterious spiritual world, he felt his spirit pass through the void and several planes, and came to a strange but familiar world.
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At this point, Joshua didn't have time to think about these extras, as he sensed that he had found his goal—a massive being sleeping in the depths of the desert. It did not sleep completely, but only stayed in the ice to rest, but its rest was the reincarnation of several life cycles for mortal things, and the raging wind and sand buried its body, forming a huge gravel mountain. At this point, it had sensed that someone was spying on its power, so it raised its head and opened its eyes, looking in the direction of Joshua's will with a cold gaze without the slightest emotion.
"Hello, Gu Long."
In the face of Gu Long's gaze, Joshua did not panic, he felt an indescribable excitement boiling in his body, which made him can't help but raise the corners of his mouth and show a smile.
"Let me see, your face."