Blue Dragon Emperor: Lord of Thunder

Chapter 206 Ancient Empire Ruins
"Underground ruins?"

Ron raised an eyebrow.

If there is something that he has always been very concerned about, then some ancient underground ruins in the deep underground around the Storm Mountain Range is definitely one of them.

Long's subordinate Igadios, who was transformed by the fire lizard dragon with dragon blood, has become more and more like a real red dragon. Before meeting Long, he was radiated by a machine that was still running after tens of thousands of years. Attracted by the heat, he mistakenly entered an ancient ruin deep underground.

In the ruins, he saw a powerful undead shrouded in a black robe hovering between the ruins and various machines.

But the undead did not kill him, but deliberately ignored his existence with some purpose.

Igadios, who was still an ordinary Fire Lizard at that time, fled the ruins out of fear, but after leaving the ruins, the Fire Lizard, which was originally like a beast, mastered the ability to communicate.

Ron believed that this was the undead's hands and feet on Igadios, the purpose was to let outside creatures know the existence of the underground ruins.

Ron is very interested in the machines that can maintain their operation after thousands of years, but limited by his own lack of strength, he has never tried to find that piece of underground ruins before.

Until in order to deal with the coming of Tiamat, Ron used the domestic waste of Black Rock City to lure the Fungus King to move his den to the underground of Black Rock City.

Long En had casually mentioned the underground ancient ruins to the Fungus King, but he did not expect that it would actually find it decades later.

"It should be true. I grew several sub-bodies at the ends of my limbs that extended into the ruins. I explored the ruins and saw the machines you mentioned that were rumbling and releasing heat."

Several stone slabs with tadpole-like characters engraved on them appeared in Long En's mind.

"My descendants also brought back these things. I keep the physical objects here in the main body. If you need them, you can send someone to pick them up."

Ron studied the slate that appeared in his mind, but he couldn't see any tricks, and he didn't understand the words on it at all, so he could only give up.

"Thank you for your help. I will send someone to fetch these slabs. Besides, has your descendant encountered the undead wandering in that ruins?"

The Fungus King replied: "No, since I explored the ruins three years ago, I have explored with the daughter body eighteen times, but I have never encountered the undead creature you mentioned, but I have encountered many people who have completely lost their minds." A troglodyte reduced to a beast."

Haven't met that undead creature?
The other party could easily transform the soul and brain of a fire lizard dragon, so that the original Igadios had the ability to speak, and his strength must be extraordinary. Ron didn't think it hadn't discovered the offspring of the fungus king Karapadra.

Could it be that it has been so long that even the undead died completely, and the undead that wandered around the underground ruins for tens of thousands of years has dissipated?

It's only been 40 years since I got the news, tens of thousands of years have survived, and it has dissipated in these 40 years?How can there be such a coincidence.

Or that powerful undead was actually just passing by, and then happened to meet Igadios, and transformed Igadios' soul?

Long extinguished the speculation in his mind. The top priority was to study the stone tablets brought back by the body of the Myconid King Kalapazo. Long En had a hunch that the stone tablets that seemed to record something should contain very important information.

After thanking the Myconid King again, a glimmer of light flowed away from the fluorescent mycelium around Long like water, and the Myconid King's will had left.

Ron passed through the storm tunnel, verbally praised Blue Ears and the kobolds, and immediately returned to Kurelia's lair, and ordered Gorangasas, whom he met on the way, to fetch the slate from the Myconid King. real thing.

Curelia has been working in Black Rock City all year round, and the dragon's nest has entered a semi-idle state. Ron, who collapsed his own dragon's nest, simply moved in temporarily.

Anyway, he doesn't have any hard requirements on the living environment, he can just make do with it.

As for his palace, it has been taken over by the volunteered ancient golden dragon, Luolan, and the site selection has been completed. It is in an undeveloped woodland between Blackstone City and the Storm Mountain Range. Luolan claims to build him a magnificent palace. fortress.

Although Long had doubts about Lorraine's brain circuit, Lisa Pana was still leading the research work on the outpost in the Storm Clan, so he could only let Lorraine do what he wanted.

Well, as long as you can live there, the requirements are not high.

Gorangesas quickly appeared at the door of Curelia's dragon's lair with his head poking around, confirming that Ron flew in at this moment, and spit out a few stone slabs wrapped and protected inside the mycelium from his mouth.

Looking at the gastric juice and saliva remaining on the stone slab and mycelia, Ron's blood pressure rose rapidly, and he slapped Golangesus on the head.

"How many times have I told you not to put anything in your mouth! Especially things you want to give me!"

Golangesas lay on the ground covering his head and pouting his buttocks, and smiled embarrassedly: "Hey, those mushrooms are so fragrant, I can't hold back..."

This guy actually swallowed these stone slabs into his stomach for digesting food. If it was later, he might have digested even the stone slabs.

Ron's eyes immediately became unfriendly.

Sensing the danger, Golangesas held his head and shrank back, and suddenly saw the stone slab exposed under the fungus corroded by gastric juice.

"Huh? Isn't this the ancient lizard language?"

Seeing that Gorangesas understood the writing on the slate, Ron's tail that was drawn towards Gorangesas's head stopped in mid-air.

"Is there such a text in Dragon's Legacy?"

Golangesus nodded, then shook his head violently.

Ron glanced at him speechlessly: "Whether there is or not, tell me clearly."

Golangesus quickly replied: "Inheritance records the history of the empire established by the lizard people who are now called the ancient lizard people. Because these lizard people speak the dragon language and the characters they use correspond to the dragon language, so the inheritance A small part of their text was also mentioned, but because the lizardman empire has perished, this part of useless history and text was gradually deleted, leaving only a few brief summaries.”

"So can you read these words?"

Golangesus scratched his head: "Can't..."

Seeing Ron's tail twitching towards his face, Golangesus quickly defended himself loudly: "It's useless for you to hit me! It's not my fault! The inheritance of other dragons must have been deleted as well. ! You have to find an ancient scholar!"

The tip of Ron's tail suddenly stopped half a meter away from Golangesas's head, which made Gorangesas heave a sigh of relief.

The reason why Long stopped was not because of Gorangasus' words, but because he thought of Igadios.

After turning on his spiritual wisdom, even if Igadios learns language, it should not be dragon language. Before meeting him, he had never been in contact with a real dragon.

It is even more impossible to learn dragon language from kobolds. The kobolds' weird accent and barking sound can make real dragons feel dizzy. Learning dragon language from kobolds is as difficult as learning English from Indian accents. almost.

The language of the lizard people is also dragon language, so the dragon language of Igadios was probably instilled into his mind by the undead. I just don’t know if the ancient lizard people’s writing was also instilled into Igadios. Brain.

The paused dragon tail twitched Golangesus's head, making him scream, and Ron said, "Go and call Igadios."

Gorangasas immediately escaped from the dragon's nest and went to send a message to Igadios.

Soon, the body grew to 25 meters, but the bloated Igadios used the transfiguration technique to shrink his body, flew into the dragon's nest, and bowed to Ron.

"Master, Igadios greets you."

Ron motioned for Igadios to raise his head.

"Do you know these words?"

Igadios looked at the few stone slabs that had been cleaned up in front of Ron, and replied respectfully: "I know."

Ron raised his eyebrows. It seems that the undead did not pass by by chance, but the real undead soul of the ancient lizard empire that existed for tens of thousands of years.

"Read all the words on this to me."

Igadios bowed his head and read the contents of the tablet to Long in turn.

"Well, I don't know how many days, I have to count the slate again. In short, it is another day without incident. Since the sixth set of magic reactors completely stopped running, the bad luck seems to have finally left. I'm a little further away, maybe I can remove all the parts of the sixth group..."

"640, seven months, three months and twelve days, damn it, why are the hatched offspring getting more and more stupid? It's like they have degenerated into primitive lizards! Is it because they were buried underground? No, it can't be If this continues, I have to think of a solution!"

"...No, I have forgotten a lot of things again, and the diary is completely rotten, and those memories can't be retrieved. It's too bad. Maybe I can write the diary on stone bricks, and these stone bricks can at least last It won't decay for thousands of years."

"They are all dead. Those servants who are still loyal to the empire to this day volunteered to become food for the noble lizardmen. The empire will always remember their names, well, maybe they will remember, at least compared to naked people, these Servants are much more loyal to the Empire, naked people? They are a group of despicable, shameful, and traitorous creatures!"

"No, no! There is a problem with the ceremony, and everyone's souls are polluted! Damn, it's coming again, I have to write my name down first."

Igadios paused, pointed to the slate and said to Ron, "Master, the name here has been crossed out."

Long En nodded and motioned for Igadios to continue reading.

"I am (the crossed out name), this is the 'anchor' that can restore my sobriety! Another addition, added: Dacrolai is an excellent scholar and a powerful mage, but his mentality has never been Very well, I hope his character will improve after we merge into one, I am Duckmilch, repeat, I am Duckmilsh."

"The speed of soul collapse is getting faster and faster. Is it because of 'time'? It's a shocking power, but unfortunately I can't explore the mystery. The more I think about the speed of soul collapse, I have to sink my consciousness sleep, which can prolong our existence, and Knight, Rollei, Bilson, and Loman all agree with this decision."

……

Igadios quickly read the content of all the slates, and he had already guessed the origin of these slates, so he bowed his head respectfully and waited for Ron's order.

Long En looked at the stone slab in front of him and fell into deep thought.

After reading the contents of these slates, Ron can already confirm that the other party is indeed a surviving remnant of the ancient lizard empire, but it seems that some bad changes have taken place in those underground ancient lizards, including the lizard who left the slate diary. Deranged by a ritual.

As for the naked man mentioned in Slate Diary, it was a contemptuous name given to human beings by other species when humans were first born. Human beings do not have hair, feathers, or scales covering their whole body. Their biggest feature is their naked skin, so they are called naked people.

Slate Diary calls humans traitors because the Ancient Lizard Empire gradually declined in the struggle with elves, dwarves and other races, but it was because of the betrayal and rebellion of humans who were originally subordinate to the Ancient Lizard Empire. Total destruction.

It can be expected that these remnants of the ancient lizard empire hated humans far more than other creatures that competed on the same stage back then.

Betrayal is always more loathsome.

It's just that I don't know if the undead still exists. The other party may be the last creature in this world who understands those ancient machines.

If the opponent has completely dissipated, even if Ron obtains those ancient machines, it will take a lot of time for his family members to study and analyze them before they can understand the control methods and operating principles of those machines.

Moreover, the machines that are still in operation so far are broken one by one and one less. In the case of trying to ensure that the machines are not damaged, the research will add a lot of difficulty, and the time-consuming may be longer.

Originally coveted those ancient machines, what Ron valued was their high technology that could run for thousands of years and quickly improve the technological level of the territory, but if those machines took hundreds of years to research, then the meaning of Ron's original purpose would be lost .

Ron was a little disappointed that the descendants of the Fungus King didn't meet the undead, but he still decided to go check it out himself.

Even if you can't catch the undead lizard man, it's not bad to play an archaeological dig. Maybe there are other treasures hidden in the ruins, such as the national treasure artifact of the ancient lizard man empire...

But before that, Long still needs to make some small preparations.

He waved his hand to order Igadios to retreat, ready to be called upon to explore the ground with him at any time.

After the fat and bloated red dragon exited the lair, Ron took out two items from the storage ring.

One is the giant tome "The Final Chapter of the Elements" cast in gold, and the other is a scroll that looks like it is made of gold.

This is an item that Ron obtained from the corpse of the hill giant shaman after participating in the battle of the three gods of death before he fell asleep.

Nether Scroll!

(End of this chapter)