Chapter 118 Land of the Dragon
The old man's name is Chatterley, the great-great-grandfather of the current Grand Duke Sabaru of the Principality of the Bead Chain, who has lived for hundreds of years, and is a strong man of the same era as the three kings of the empire, but unlike the iron-blooded and fierce three kings of the empire, Chatterley is suspicious and cowardly by nature, and his strength is at the bottom among the legendary powerhouses of the same era.
Later, in the war between the legend and the gods, Chatterley escaped from the battlefield with legendary abilities, and only then did he survive, and he did not dare to reappear until the end of the war and the signing of the covenant of the gods.
At that time, the gods of Faro had the upper hand, and the three kings of the empire were banished from the plane, while Chatterley lived in a low-key seclusion, after all, he was a legendary powerhouse, and behind the scenes, he supported his family to establish the Principality of the Bead Chain.
What really made Chatterray's mind come alive was a chance a hundred years ago, which made him discover a natural passage to the heterotopic plane, which was the plane where the dragon dominated, that is, the source of the dragon cultists.
In the past ten years, after continuous efforts and continuous resource investment, the Principality of the Bead Chain has finally stabilized the dimensional passage, which can allow the Dragon Cultists to enter the Faro plane in a steady stream, which makes Sabaru's ambition swell sharply.
Although the sudden rise of Richard's Crimson Duchy surprised Sabaru, he had never met the young Grand Duke on a frontal battlefield, and he still didn't take Richard very seriously, so he had the idea of sharing the Iron Triangle Empire with Richard.
Neither Chatterley nor Sabaru thought that Richard, who was not yet a legendary mage, would dare to come alone, and strangled all the elite warriors and dragon cultists of Sabaru in one fell swoop, killed Sabaru, and beat Chatharu almost without the power to fight back, it turned out that Richard still overestimated Chatarlai's combat power, and as a result, he killed Chathale with one miss, and he didn't even have time to interrogate.
In the main plane of Norland, the Holy Constructor is also a figure standing at the pinnacle of the plane, even if Richard does not have legendary magic for the time being, but his combat power is beyond the comprehension of Chatterley and Sabaru.
And on Richard's body, no matter if everything is turned into ashes, the artifact moonlight, and the artifact abhors slaughter, even if it is placed in Norland, it is a treasure that legendary powerhouses are striving for, and having any of them can make people boast for a while, in fact, even if everything is dismantled into ashes, the king of metal will not talk about it, and life annihilation and magic weapons are not things that can cause war,
Therefore, the luxury of Richard's equipment at the moment has long gone beyond the category of nouveau riche.
Chatterley lived in seclusion in Faro for the rest of his life, although his skills in using strength have been improving, but Richard knows through today's battle that his true combat power is declining, and the real strong are tempered in blood and fire, how can it be produced in such a gentle township,
Chatterley is also a legendary powerhouse, a figure who once stood at the peak of Faro, but in the end he ended up like this, Richard couldn't help but sigh, relying on seclusion and self-isolation in the plane, he could only exchange for temporary comfort, and sooner or later he would be hit by a wolf-like foreign enemy.
In such an era, hiding is useless, only by daring to face it can there be vitality,
And Norland has long been accustomed to iron and blood in the continuous plane wars, and generations of strong men have been sharpening and growing on the plane battlefield, and the overall strength of the plane has also steadily improved.
Richard continued to flip back, at the end of the diary, Chatterley began to worry about his life gradually coming to an end, he has been trying to find a way to live forever, and even thought about the path of becoming a god, but unfortunately years of seclusion have already made his strength and courage wear down together, and the closed plane system of Faro has also made the gods and gods full of trouble, how can there be a vacant priesthood for him,
In the end, Chatterley, who had nothing to do, actually thought of the path of the lich, but he was reluctant to do it, so he continued to do it, and he turned to explore the field of magic, because his legendary ability multiple illusions are spell-like, so over time, some progress has been made in research in this field,
In the end, Chatterley successfully divided a part of his soul and made it into a life box, wanting to try a half-lich road, which is also the reason why he refused to leave this mountain immediately because his life box was hidden here, once the life box fell into the hands of Richard, the soul of Chatterley would not live long,
Later, when Chatterai realized that he was about to be killed, it was too late to escape, because of the life box, his soul became extremely fragile, and he was killed in one fell swoop by the blue fire that had the effect of attacking the soul.
At the end of the diary, Chatterley mentions the idea of using the Dragoncultists to split the Iron Triangle Empire, he wants to reforge a magical body, which requires a lot of resources, which can only be collected by plundering the empire, and with his later magical knowledge of becoming a monk halfway, the success rate is relatively low, and the problem of soul transfer has always been difficult to solve, all of which need to be assisted by authentic magicians,
The puppet girls that Richard killed outside were the test subjects that Chatterley tried to make a magical body, and by the way, he could also use it for leisure and fun.
At this point, the diary came to an end, and Richard also had a general understanding of Chatterley's life, and in the diary, Richard also found what he needed, the coordinates of the plane passage connecting the dragon plane,
Next, Richard found a huge underground part under the main building, which was Chatterley's real room and warehouse, where Richard found a large number of enchanted equipment and magical precious materials.
However, most of the equipment is quasi-legendary level, and only a few legendary equipment attributes are not very good, and they can only be regarded as entry-level equipment, in contrast, the gray short sword that was destroyed by Chatterley is the best equipment, and the quality of Sabaru's severed short sword is also above these collection equipment,
Richard could only smile helplessly, the king of metal and the elf artifact moonlight are indeed extremely powerful, but the side effects are also obvious, that is, after the First World War, Richard doesn't want to gain any equipment,
However, although Richard himself doesn't like these collections of Chatterley, it's still good to keep them for the followers who may join in the future, and another gain is the large number of magical materials and rare ores piled up in the warehouse, which are common to all planes,
As a top powerhouse in Faro, and with the support of the Grand Duchy of the Bead Chain, Chatterley's hundreds of years of treasure is still extraordinary, just counting these materials, it took Richard an hour's time, roughly inventory, all the materials are worth about 10 million gold coins, Richard is equivalent to harvesting a top sacrifice, thinking that Chatterley is just a legendary powerhouse in the secondary plane, it is not easy to get a top sacrifice,
After searching the entire courtyard, Richard repaired the slightly damaged magic array, made some minor changes, and then restarted it.
Richard rose from the summit, summoned his brain, discerned the direction, and sped north, from here less than a hundred kilometers further north, there was a valley that was not marked on the maps of the existing empire and principality, and the passage to the dragon plane was in that valley,
Richard felt the speed and the extremely cold chill in the high altitude of the Northland, but the volcanic blood in his chest was jumping, as if he had returned to the days of hunting and killing in the Desperate Battlefield.
After adding the King of Metal, the Everything to Ash suit has become a fourth-order suit, and the fourth-order suit is rarer than many fifth-order constructs, this time he independently killed Chatterley, even if it was just a legend of Faro, and it also made Richard's understanding of power go further, and now Richard is full of fighting spirit, and he is not willing to stay where he is at all and wait for his followers, for him, it seems that he has been chasing time since leaving the small mountain village,
Flying all the way, it took less than an hour to reach the coordinates of the valley that Chatterley had written in his diary, and Richard hovered over a mountain peak on the side, looking down on the valley,
The valley was full of buildings, as if it was already a large-scale town, and there were constantly people coming in and out, and Richard could see at least hundreds of dragonists at a glance, and the entire town could accommodate more than 10,000 dragonists.
It seems that the dragon cultists have become the climate and are ready to enter Faro in a big way, no wonder Sabaru is so confident that he actually wants to carve up the Iron Triangle Empire with Richard,
However, there was no defensive magic array in the valley, and Richard scanned back and forth a few times with his true vision but found no alarm device, is this because the dragon cultists are too confident in the concealment of the valley, or are they strong enough not to be afraid of outsiders probing?
However, no matter what the reason, Richard did not intend to change his original course of action, he looked down on the valley, found the location of the dimensional portal in a moment, and immediately swooped down,
When he landed, Richard activated the newly acquired ability from Chatterley, and his body suddenly disappeared, as if he had disappeared into the void.
The portal to the dragon plane was obviously already a solidified passage, a huge stone gate stood in a circular clearing, the middle of the stone door flashed a dark blue light curtain, and on each side of the gate stood several half-dragon guards,
Richard walked through the guards and stepped into the portal, he had just learned to use the ability of Chatterley, if these half-dragons had the strength of the Holy Domain, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would not be discovered, but the strength of these guards was mostly around eleven or twelve, even if Richard instantly sent a ninth-level thunder defender before stepping into the portal, they did not feel the abnormal fluctuation of energy at all,
After a dazzling burst of light and shadow, Richard stepped into a new world, where the wind carried a strong smell of sulfur, the sky was deep red, the earth was dark red, there were forests on the earth, the trees in the forest were coiled and twisted, and the branches were covered with terrifying barbs,
The moment he walked out of the portal, Richard squinted his eyes, and after the chaos of vision brought by the spatial switch passed, the first thing that caught his eye was hundreds of heavily armed dragon cultists, who formed a semicircle around the fifty meters periphery, surrounding the portal layer by layer.
And there was a huge sound of flapping wings in the sky, and a giant dragon with a whole body blue and black was floating in midair,