Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 452

The Yongri Mountains stretched for thousands of miles in the middle of the empire, two hundred miles to the north of the Burning Crystal Canyon, twisted out a complex mountainous area covered with trees and intertwined with mountains.

According to legend, in ancient times, this was the ancestral dragon vein where a group of giant dragons from the Haiwen Continent lived together:

The supreme dragon god Oliveira, who travels through the great planes of the virtual space, hatched the first batch of dragon eggs in the Haven Continent in this lush and moist mountains, thus giving birth to the bloodline that continues to this day. Haven Dragon Clan.

However, with the rise and prosperity of the ancient elf empire, more and more Haiwen dragons choose to abandon this ancestral land and fly to the major elf cities on the mainland to enjoy the prosperity of the world. The ancient relics in the bloodline are gradually lost among the savagely growing forests.

The last time this ancient land appeared in the official books of Haven Continent was on the eve of the collapse of the Great Elven Empire.

At that time, a turbulent "anti-elf wave" swept across the entire continent. Every minute, every second, there were noble elves who were once well-clothed and well-fed, who were disemboweled and beaten to ashes by former slaves.

Simultaneously with the "anti-elf wave", there is also the so-called "dragon hunting movement" that has been written about by historians of various races.

For a long time, the dragons have been enshrined as guests by the ancient elves, and the elves offer wealth and living sacrifices to the dragons in exchange for the protection of the elf city by the dragon.

Therefore, the anger of Zhuya and other races against the great elf empire was naturally transferred to this group of Haiwen giant dragons who were allied with the elves. A large part of the stolen wealth went into the dragon's pocket.

Therefore, the sub-races who rose up brazenly and rebelled against the great empire, while liquidating and massacring the elves, they did not forget to make the despicable and greedy Haiwen dragons pay the price—in the "Dragon Hunting Movement", many heroes who rebelled against the race They all formed teams and formed groups to slaughter dragons in dungeons to gain reputation, during which countless epic legends such as "Dragon Quest" were derived.

As a result of the "Dragon Hunting Movement", the Haiwen Dragon Clan, who used to comfortably live a luxurious life of the exploiting class, was defeated in the vast ocean of the People's War in just a few decades. , bowed his noble head to the various rebel races, and swore an oath of allegiance and loyalty forever.

It was also from this time that the special profession "Dragon Knight" appeared among the three major races of humans, demons, and beasts who fought for hegemony on the mainland. In order to pay off the crimes of the past, the descendants of the Haiwen dragon clan had to Squeezing their noses to serve as mounts for these tiny humanoid creatures, they have since become background boards that no one cares about.

However, at that time not all dragons had grown soft bones and were willing to surrender to the major rebel races.

At the end of the "Dragon Hunting Movement", a group of die-hard dragons suddenly remembered the anecdotes passed down from generation to generation in the clan, and tried to return to the origin of the Haiwen dragon clan and summon the Supreme Dragon God to the world through prayers. Haven Continent, in order to save the blood of the dragon like a candle in the wind.

Unfortunately, this group of giant dragons with dreams failed to summon the ancestor supreme dragon god who was fooling around in which plane in their homeland in the Yongri Mountains. Instead, they were followed by humans, demons, and beasts. The coalition forces of the three races gathered and wiped them out.

This epic battle that led to the fall of countless dragons also gave this branch of the Yongri Mountains a majestic place name:

Fallen Dragon Mountain!
Since the end of the "Dragon Hunting Movement", this unfortunate place has been gradually forgotten by people.

And it reappeared in the eyes of Haiwen people. It was in the middle of last year that Baron Wolfgang, the imperial dragon knight "Son of the Wind" riding a silver dragon, was killed by the "Totem Frenzy" master in the area of ​​Falling Dragon Mountain. The regiment was beaten down...

In view of the complex terrain in the Fallen Dragon Mountain area, and theoretically it is an area controlled by the empire, after completing the mission, the head of the Lothar Hawkeye division did not lead the "Totem Frenzy" division to search for the whereabouts of Baron Wolfgang here. , but quickly withdrew to the federal territory to the east.

This situation undoubtedly made some people with ulterior motives come up with bad ideas.

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"My lord, please be careful, the plants around Falling Dragon Mountain are a bit lush..."

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​was fearfully dodging the huge tangle of thorns in the Fallen Dragon Valley, while reminding the boss;

And in the position further ahead, Alice Comstock was waving the "Light of the Sky" to open the way for this little expedition—for a while, the platinum magic sword light and the thorns were cut off. Blocks are flying around.

On the contrary, Master Laurie, who was following Xia Houyan, thoughtfully tapped the thick thorn next to him with his fingers:

"The growth scale of these thorns in the Fallen Dragon Mountain area has far surpassed any known species on the mainland... If the magister's guess is correct, it is because they have been nourished by dragon blood that they have grown into this pair of thorns. Looks like."

"Dragon's blood still has this effect?" Xia Houyan looked at his chief mage in surprise.

"Of course! Dragons are the super-order monsters with the highest affinity with elemental power!" Master Laurie crossed his arms, showing off his magical knowledge, "Dragon blood contains violent magic power that can stimulate tissue growth and healing. Until now, it is still a necessary ingredient of high-level healing potions - when Baron Wolfgang's wind-type silver dragon was still alive, it was drawn blood every year by the magic pharmacists in the mage academy city to extract the medicinal materials !"

"Now that silver dragon is hiccupping and can't 'live the dragon to draw blood' anymore, wouldn't the empire be unable to make high-level healing potions anymore?!" Xia Houyan opened his mouth.

Master Laurie said sullenly:

"I guess the empire can only use dead nightmare beasts as living nightmare veterinarians, and buy dragon blood from the demons at a high price by pinching their noses... The dragon knights in the empire are indeed dead, but it is said that the demons still have blood. There are five or six active dragon knights."

——In view of the fact that Calvino, Master of Spirit Song, was going to stay at Elm Castle with the Frost Maple Ridge army, it was Yi who was responsible for going north with the lord to find the crash site of Baron Wolfgang and providing magic support on the way. Victor Laurie, head mage of House Gore.In addition to him, the members of this expedition team also included several old revolutionaries such as Alice Comstock, Knight Commander Alan Cousins, Pavel Eldridge, and more than a dozen smart people. Capable Frost Maple Ridge soldiers and northern Blizzard mages.

Although Fallen Dragon Mountain is not too far from Elm Fort, after entering this mountain, the Frost Maple Ridge Dragon Hunting Expedition Team was forced to slow down due to the harsh environment. The shadow of Baron Wolfgang's wreck.

Although from the map, the area of ​​Fallen Dragon Mountain does not seem to be vast, but when you actually walk into it, you will still feel like you are in a maze, not knowing the east, west, south, north.

The vines, mosses, mushrooms and original birch trees that spread and grow all the year round cover almost every corner of the field of vision and devour all traces of civilization.

After entering the Fallen Dragon Mountain area, Xia Houyan was able to truly understand why General Lothar Hawkeye did not lead the "Totem Frenzy" into the mountain to confirm the place of Baron Wolfgang's death-no way, this complex jungle and mountain terrain It was simply a nightmare for the large army marching. Once nearly 5000 people of the "Totem Frenzy" division walked in, it was questionable whether [-] people could come out alive.

But, the small expedition team formed temporarily by Shuangfengling to find the whereabouts of Baron Wolfgang (especially Ya's dragon) will not have so many problems:
From the lord who led the team to the elite soldiers of Shuangfengling who were in charge of hard work, they were all benefactors from other worlds who had gone through various dangerous situations. For the thugs who broke into the Kemal Manor from Heishui Town and the city, a few vines would not pose any challenge at all.

Ever since he entered the Fallen Dragon Mountain area, Master Laurie lifted out a "Harrison Magic Probe" from under his robe—a golden stick-shaped slender, about two fingers thick, with irregular protrusions on the surface. Objects, although they seem to have no serious purpose, are actually magic props commonly used by magicians in the academy city to detect strong fluctuations in magic power nearby.

As we all know, a giant dragon is a treasure from beginning to end, and its corpse contains extremely abundant magical energy.Master Laurie input the dragon's unique magical rhythm characteristics into the "Harrison Magic Probe", put it in the palm of his hand, and with a "tick" turn, the probe naturally pointed to the corpse of the wind-type dragon location.

Following the instructions of the "Harrison Magic Probe", a group of people overcame thorns and thorns in the Fallen Dragon Mountain, all the way deep.

As the footsteps progressed, the remnants of the stars left over from the shocking air battle last year also appeared in front of Xia Houyan's eyes little by little:

Some time ago, some imperial griffin corpses appeared in the weeds and bushes beside the road.Due to the long death, most of these griffin corpses have rotted, revealing the white bones and the only rotting flesh covered with bugs and ants.

Alice tried to walk to the skeleton of a griffin beast, and swept away a piece of vines with the "light of the sky", and found a corpse of an imperial air cavalry covered in weeds—his face had also been changed due to Corrupted and illegible, but the light leather armor on his body, the imperial cross shirt, and the air cavalry crossbow at hand clearly indicate the identity of this person.

——Obviously, this is a pilot belonging to the "Stuka Griffin Group" of the Imperial Central Army who was hunted down by the "Totem Frenzy" during the battle with Baron Wolfgang.

Xia Houyan hesitated again and again, but he still didn't rush to revive the dead griffins he encountered on the road.

After all, he came all the way to Falling Dragon Mountain this time to resurrect Baron Wolfgang's pet dragon into a wage earner in Shuangfengling—who knows if resurrecting a giant dragon will consume a lot of mana The quota, if you miss a big deal because you are greedy for a few undead griffins, it will be called the loss outweighs the gain.

As for those dead imperial air cavalry, they can make the best use of them.

Xia Houyan walked all the way, chanting low-level undead spells all the way, pulling up all the corpses of the imperial air cavalry visible in his vision, and reluctantly organized a squad of skeleton soldiers.

With this group of free temporary laborers, Alice finally didn't have to swing the sword to open the way, and could accompany the lord to listen to his dirty jokes.

Everyone set off in the morning and trekked all the way in Fallen Dragon Mountain. It was not until the fine gold pointer of Xia Houyan's magic pocket watch moved to the position of three o'clock in the afternoon that the "Harrison Magic Probe" in the palm of Master Laurie finally trembled violently.

The undead coolies with rattling bones struggled to push aside a piece of thorns blocking the way forward, so a shocking scene appeared in the eyes of everyone:

Among the lush weeds and trees in Falling Dragon Mountain, a small glade suddenly appeared.

This clearing in the forest was not formed naturally. Its edges are full of toppled and broken thousand-year-old trees and shrubs that overwhelm the ground. In the middle of the clearing, it is the culprit who fell from the sky and opened up this clearing out of thin air——

——a giant dragon corpse as huge as a small hill, stretching across the ground and motionless.

According to Grand Duke Rosario, the mount of "Son of the Wind" Baron Wolfgang is a beautiful silver wind-type dragon, but Xia Houyan can't imagine how graceful this dead dragon is when it is still alive: Like the griffins seen before, its body has rotted away, and its scales are not only dull, but also covered with mud, carbon stains and dried dragon blood.

The torso of the giant dragon was covered with shocking wounds—huge lacerations stretched out on its streamlined body, and for a while, it was impossible to see which of them came from the handwriting of "Totem Frenzy" and which of them came from its landing severe damage suffered.But what is certain is that every wound on this dragon is extremely deep. The dragon meat at the cut-off surface has rotted and blackened, exuding a pungent stench. keel.

According to the report of the Imperial Army, Baron Wolfgang and his dragon mount, like other brave griffin air cavalry, were forced to fight to prevent themselves from falling into the enemy's hands after suffering a devastating blow from the "Totem Frenzy" division. Enduring the pain and reluctantly flying to the depths of the empire, the plane crashed just now in the area of ​​Falling Dragon Mountain.

Xia Houyan couldn't imagine how the heroic dragon in front of him managed to fly with such serious injuries - he had reason to suspect that when it fell down, it had already lost its life due to the severe pain. perception.

"War bleeds many people, but fattens a few people!" Xia Houyan sighed, and recited a famous saying of compassion for the earth.

Then, he began to direct the skeleton soldiers to skin the dragon.

"Giant dragons are full of treasures" is not just for fun. This kind of proud and powerful ancient race seems to exist to provide high-quality materials for future generations:

Dragon skin is the most precious and toughest leather material on the mainland. Dragon meat and dragon blood contain pure elemental energy, which can be made into amazingly effective magic supplements. The internal organs of the dragon can be developed into countless kinds magic props...

With the noble idea of ​​"practicing thrift and saying no to waste", Xia Houyan and other skeleton soldiers skinned the dead dragon, and then asked them to scrape off the remaining dragon meat from the bone bit by bit, so that it was relatively intact. Several pieces of dragon viscera were boxed together and ready to be taken away.

When night fell, only a pair of bare skeletons remained of the intact dragon corpse, reflecting the faint blue light under the shadow of the dark moon.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that a complete skeleton must be preserved when resurrecting the undead dragon, Xia Houyan would have liked to have the skeleton soldiers chop up these dragon bones and take them home for soup.

After the skeleton butchers finished their work, it was Xiahou's turn to roll up his sleeves and go on stage.

"Summoning the undead bone dragon" is simply the life ideal of all necromancers in the history of the mainland - to complete this task, not only the necromancer's own outstanding skills are required, but also the right time, place and people are indispensable, and it must be a coincidence A giant dragon died in front of the Necromancer, and there were no unrelated persons such as mentally retarded Inquisitions interfering with the spell casting.

Even after searching the history books of Haiwen, there are only a handful of necromancers who successfully summoned the undead bone dragon, and even the legendary master Simon Adrian failed to complete such a feat.And even after these necromancers succeed, the undead bone dragons created can only last for five to seven days at most, and will collapse into a mess of dragon bones again (and kill the bone dragons that were under the bone dragon at that time. Unlucky ones, such as the Necromancer who made this skull dragon).

Of course, for Xia Houyan, who has a close relationship with Big Brother Earth, these laws of history don't work.

Our lord of Shuangfengling stood in front of the dead dragon skeleton in a serious manner. He first learned a few words from the monks in his hometown on the earth and recited a few sutras such as "Uncovering the Truth and Uncovering the Truth". The ancient Aeolian runic text recorded in "Spell Essence".

Under the cold moon, above the mortal world, the huge phantom of Lord Yan reappeared, covering the top of the giant dragon's bones.

Even the old and disrespectful Master Victor Laurie held his breath nervously in the face of this enormous authority that belonged exclusively to elemental users.

Then, the dragon skeleton started to move.

First, an inconspicuous phalanx, then the entire dragon arm, and then the huge wing bones——finally, the entire keel trembled violently driven by the majestic power of the elements, and then accompanied by the earth-shattering huge With a loud sound, it slowly rose into the air without any support.The death dragon with only a skeleton flapped its fleshless dragon wings in mid-air as it did before it was alive. Two wisps of blue will-o'-the-wisp rose from its empty eye sockets, making a shriek that no one in this world could hear. A sound erupted from its mouth——

The robe on Xia Houyan's body was also stirred up by the strong wind pressure caused by the dragon's wings spreading. He barely read the last syllable of the ancient Aeolian spell, and then roared with all his strength:

"Dragon of the other side, come back, I command you in the name of death, surrender to me, until the end of the universe, the end of time - your name - 'Sindragosa'!"

The undead bone dragon in the sky let out another inaudible scream, and then took advantage of the airflow to rise abruptly, straight into the sky, spread its wings in the cold moon, and overlook all living beings.

"How about the name I gave?" Xia Houyan put down his open hands and looked at the shocked Alice with a smile, "I think it fits well with our 'Northern Blizzard Mage Group'."

"It's a good match." Master Laurie, who had been knocked to the ground by the huge wind pressure just now, just got up in a state of embarrassment, and said with a bitter face while patting his buttocks, "But I want to remind you, you If you dare to send this bone dragon to the battlefield, the Imperial Church and the Inquisition will have to scold you."

"This question..." Xia Houyan glanced at the "Sindragosa" flying in the air, and rolled his eyes, "...the Lord has his own tricks."

(End of this chapter)