Throne of the North.

Chapter 467 Dragons, Surtur, and Humans
Dragons are tyrannical and wild. In many human records, dragons represent greed and disaster.

Humans have not misdescribed these creatures at the top of the food chain; they have always been like that. Where there are giant dragons, it is difficult for tiny creatures like humans to survive.

But great beings need the faith provided by humans to enhance their divine essence.

Humans are the easiest group to provide faith to.

The great being had no better solution, He could only drive the dragon out of this land and allow humans to reproduce.

So after a long time, the spirit of this world was born. He transcended the status of mortals, became powerful and magnificent, and became a special dragon.

Known as the Dragon Emperor.

The great being tried to strangle the Dragon Emperor in his cradle, fearing that his birth would steal his power.

At the same time, war broke out, and another great being awakened and prevented the disaster from happening, but he also had bad intentions. He wanted to use the newly born Dragon Emperor to challenge the authority and majesty of the original great being, so that he himself could become the only great dragon.

In the cracks, the Dragon Emperor grew, awakened, and became more and more powerful. What the two great beings did not expect was that this new great being was taking a completely different path from them, and he would not threaten the authority of the past.

The old contradiction disappeared because of this, but a new contradiction also followed, that is, at the end of the dragon, a third great being appeared, which would undoubtedly reduce the majesty of the previous two.

The idea of ​​strangulation was born again after a thousand years of thinking, but this time, it was once again stopped by one thing.

They were surprised to find that this third great being could absorb the faith of mankind in a very special way...

The Dragon Chosen.

The humans chosen by the Dragon Emperor are the Chosen Dragons. The problem that has troubled the great existence has finally been solved, allowing the Dragon Emperor to survive again.

When the great being saw the opportunity and wanted to kill the Dragon Emperor to obtain the farmland, the Pan-Dimensional War broke out.

The war between gods and spirits no longer involves the Dragon God, the Demon Dragon, and the Dragon Emperor.

The vast stars have all dimmed, the starry sky is full of stars, and it has lost its soul.

A war that lasts for thirty years is the most terrifying, because only when the great beings are in a desperate situation of life and death can the outcome be decided in a short period of time. If the war cannot cause harm to the great beings, then they will not fight with all their might. In a war where they cannot fight with all their might, there will be no fall.

Such a war can last for a long time because great beings will not fall. Therefore, the pan-dimensional war cannot be called a pan-dimensional war of gods, but a pan-dimensional war of mortals.

The pan-planar war that brought the gods to the north recorded countless disasters and deaths, the earth was frozen, and the ancient blood dried up.

No traces of great existence have ever been recorded, because mortals do not have the ability and qualifications to record it all.

In the pan-dimensional war of gods, all the deaths recorded by humans were just burial objects when great beings fell.

Ultimately, this war had a winner. Taking this world as an example, the Dragon Emperor escaped at the moment of death, and the remaining two great beings won but were also injured by their origin.

Ryan had guessed wrong before. The thirty human cities on this land were not divided into three parts, but all belonged to the Dragon Emperor.

After the fall of the Dragon Emperor, the two great beings, the Dragon God and the Demon Dragon, divided this place and restarted the plan of the Dragon Chosen One.

It’s just that there is a gap between their Dragon Chosen ones and the Dragon Emperor’s Dragon Chosen ones.

The authority of the magic dragon can give power to the Dragon Chosen, and the topic of flesh and blood evolving into a giant dragon, which goes against the theory of racial evolution, comes from His authority.

The magic power possessed by the dragon monarchs, whether it is the dragon flame or the innate abilities that the dragon monarchs possess, all come from another great being, the Dragon God who first roamed the ocean of magic.

The Dragon Emperor controls the souls of humans and dragons. His existence is the most critical step in the dragon essence.

These three great beings make up the legendary gifts of the Chosen Dragon, making the Chosen Dragon a legend.

However, with the fall of the Dragon Emperor, the Chosen Dragons lost this instinctive authority forever.

The essence of dragon is not complete, so after becoming dragon monarchs, the chosen ones often lose their sanity and turn into pure beast wisdom. Their souls are broken, whether it is the human soul or the dragon part of the soul.

The direct consequence to the land is that under the oppression of the dragon monarch, it is difficult for humans to form a large-scale civilization and a strong faith.

This forced the two great beings, the Dragon God and the Demon Dragon, to slowly use the Dragon Chosen to recover from the injuries they suffered in the Pan-Dimensional War, and like other great beings, they fell into a deep sleep.

But the two great beings were not disappointed, because they discovered new authority.

The authority of the Dragon Emperor can allow them to further sublimate.

Therefore, in the time after the Dragon Emperor's fall, the two great beings suspended the war of faith between the dragons due to their injuries, and began to steal the Dragon Emperor's power by competing for the faith of mankind.

Then there is the south and the north of this land.

The Demon Dragon has the upper hand, not because he is stronger than the Dragon God, but because although the Demon Dragon's will is dormant, his body is always awake.

He has a greater influence on the Chosen Dragons than the Dragon God, so the dragon monarchs that Ryan saw generally had no elemental power other than dragon breath. When the armor was worn on the Chosen Dragons, the dragon monarchs could only use the dragon's flesh to fight with the Chosen Dragons.

There are a lot of superimposed buffs, which means that there are always some Dragon Chosen who can successfully kill the powerful dragon monarch.

Then, the dragon became more and more sober.

"The faith of the Dragon God has faded because He is too far away from His followers."

Ryan obtained these pheromones from the vast world and felt that they were somewhat magical. If a great being is too close to its believers, the believers' life forms and souls will be distorted and become its followers. But if it is too far away, the believers will lose their devout faith in itself. Without miracles to tell the believers that He is there and has always been there, then their faith will be empty.

With such high requirements, it’s no wonder that humans have become so popular.

The main idea is that whoever gives you milk is your mother, and as long as you give them food, it is easier to win people's hearts than any miracle.

"The two names of Esil and Muspel, the former represents the kingdom of faith of the magic dragon, and the latter represents the kingdom of faith of the dragon god. The scale of this world is that the ocean in the north of this land is Esil, and the ocean in the south is Muspel."

The land where the thirty cities are located does not belong to either Aesir or Muspel. It is just like when the Dragon Emperor was born, surviving in the gap between the two great beings.

Ryan killed the dragon king and occupied this land in the cracks as a human being, not conquering the world.

He has merely... only now inherited the wealth left by the Dragon Emperor.

The real challenge is those giant dragons that we have seen before that wantonly destroyed the world. They are real dragons, and there must be legends among them, real legendary dragons, not dragon monarchs that are sublimated from the essence of dragons.

Each of them has the same powerful fighting power as the Fire Dragon Christman and the Frost Dragon Areris.

In addition to these, the remaining dragon cubs and young dragons are definitely more powerful than other extraordinary species of the same level, because the name dragon is the best explanation for being at the top of the food chain.

In comparison, the former is like a fight in the village for the position of village chief, while the latter is like using the strength of an entire village to rebel against the world.

Ryan didn't know if it was too late for him to give up now.

There is a shortcut to dealing with the Dragon Chosen One, and now to conquer these dragons, Ryan feels that it would be easier for him to go directly to the Imperial Capital to convene a noble meeting, and then let all the nobles support him to become the new Emperor Flor.

There are many admirers of Earl Clayton in the Flor Empire, because he is the only dragon knight in the empire. Compared with the number of dragons in this world, are the numbers of those knights enough?

It’s enough for the dragons to eat half full, and then three or five dragons can share one princess’s food.

Ryan planned to get the spirituality first. If not, he would take all the people to the North Wind Province. One frozen land territory would definitely not be able to accommodate them. He would come back after he had grown up. Anyway, the lifespan of this dragon was very long. The time it took for those dragon cubs to become young adults would be enough for Ryan for many eighteen years.

Growing slowly is the greatest malice the Creator has towards these dragons.

How to do it……

……

Flames, endless flames. The sea was burning, and water vapor turned into heavy rain in the sky, then evaporated the moment it touched the flames, returned to the sky, and once again turned into heavy rain and fell.

The space distortion caused by the scorching heat formed a strong wind, which then became the driving force behind the rainstorm. The raging flames that burned everything were the only description of this world. There was no participation of the fourth party. Perhaps the stability of the triangle was too good, and it seemed eternal here.

If this place is no longer stable, then it means a problem, a fourth party has appeared.

The only thing that can match the strong wind, heavy rain and raging fire is an equally terrifying force.

In the flames, a huge shadow walked out. It had huge horns on its head that seemed to be able to pierce the sky. It stepped on the flames, and the flames crawled under its feet.

Only a great existence can be described as the towering shadow, and that is Surtur, the leader of dusk, who was reborn in flames.

His arrival destroyed the triangular balance here. The rainstorms stopped falling because they were not qualified to get close to Surtur. The strong winds also stopped because the heat from the flames distorted time and space. The strong winds were swallowed up by the broken void turbulence before they were even born.

All that was left in the world was fire, endless fire, and its king.

Surtur.

In order to come to this different world, Surtur made great efforts and sacrifices.

This also made His anger even more difficult to vent.

"You vile thief!"

Surtur wanted to rush out of the flames, but as a great being, He was too powerful. His coming would bring doomsday destruction to the world, so the moment He approached the edge of the flames, He felt threatened.

A threat from another great being.

Surtur finally hesitated. He was furious and wanted to launch a desperate attack of destruction on the opponent. He had already raised the flaming sword in his hand.

But He also remembered His own weakness. He had not even fully awakened yet. If He fought, He would fall into a deep sleep again, and it would probably be many years before He woke up again.

A roar from the gods swept across the world.

No one could hear this roar, whether it was Ryan, the dragon, or the humans. The angry roar of the gods appeared before them. Suddenly, the clear sky turned into dark clouds, and then there were lightning and thunder, strong winds swept, the earth began to rumble, wildfires spread, black smoke filled the air, and huge waves appeared on the sea. In an instant, the world seemed to be welcoming the end of the world.

"what happened?"

Ryan looked up. He thought that killing all the dragon monarchs had caused the anger and punishment of the gods, because the scene before him could not be explained by natural phenomena in this extraordinary world.

Until the strong wind arrived and blew away the thunder, the dark clouds and heavy rain fell, and the wildfires were extinguished, the world seemed to have returned to its vibrant state.

And in Muspel, the world of fire, Surtur stretched out his hand angrily, grabbed the giant dragon in the deep sea, and bit it.

The legendary tidal dragon also died under this force that had no resistance at all. Its body fell into the depths of the flames, and then with Surtur's power, the dragon's body was covered with gray bones and it came back to life.

It was too close to the gods.

The dragon came to life, flapping its devilish wings and hovering high in the sky. The sunlight seemed so dazzling at that moment, and dusk began to fall around Surtur.

The sun's rays dimmed, the dragon began to look at the world wantonly.

Surtur understood the rules of this world in an instant. It was a battlefield between two great beings, and faith was the army of both sides. He began to capture dragons and create his own followers.

He sensed the tacit approval of one party, otherwise even he would not be able to erode the will of the legendary dragon so easily.

The other party wanted to use Him to defeat another enemy.

It is precisely because of this tacit will that Surtur was able to come to this world.

Nidhogg only has three keys. Since Surtur came in, someone must have opened the door for him.

"The wisdom of the vile."

Surtur laughed. They were not friends. Even if the other party gave him convenience, Surtur would still mock them mercilessly.

But He doesn't care.

……

The army began to gallop across the wilderness, and the iron hooves of the war horses gradually trampled out a road connecting the cities.

Migration was the first thing Ryan did after taking charge of this land.

The city of Odin has been destroyed, and the bodies of two dragon monarchs are buried under the ruins. Ryan does not intend to waste energy building a city here. He simply concentrates the population in those cities that are still well preserved.

This world is incredibly rich, as can be seen from the large number of magical beasts. This world is simply blessed by nature.

At the same time, gathering the population together would also make it easier for him to manage. No matter what these human slaves were like in the past, they now had only one identity, that is, Ryan's people.

The spirituality began to grow, which made the tired Master Ryan happy for a long time.

"Go, plant my flag in every human settlement."

With such a large population, if it were in the Norris continent, Ryan would have the idea of ​​establishing a kingdom, but this is a different world.

He still needs to develop, and he likes to develop.

"They will become the foundation on which we can make the world tremble."

There is no shortage of food in this world, as the land here can grow plenty of food. There is also no shortage of warmth in this world, as the cold wind from the north does not even touch this land.

If there were no harassment from the dragon, the development here would be frighteningly fast.

Then, the dragon came.

The giant dragons hunting in the ocean approached this land. Why did they not appear for so many years but now? Because they could not sense the breath of the great existence on this land, which would make the dragons think that the great existence had left, and they were eager to follow the great existence.

The huge dragon spread its wings and flew in the sky. It saw the dark shadows below that stretched like ants moving house. Humans were so small to the dragon. The dragon's eyes revealed tyranny and greed. It swooped down, and the surface of its body followed by terrible magic, bringing destruction and disaster.

Then it felt an extremely majestic gaze. In a panic, the dragon crashed into the wilderness beside it, plowing a deep ditch. It buried its head like a dog eating shit, and only when it raised its head did it look in the direction of that great majesty.

That was a human. In the dragon's inherited memory, there was a description of the human race. The dragon had been slowly absorbing these inherited pheromones since birth, so it could tell that it was a human.

The other person was wearing a crown. In the inherited memory, humans always seemed to like such things.

Dragons like this too, so they like to steal these things from humans.

But why do humans have such power that it is in awe? The dragon was puzzled, and it hurriedly flew up into the sky to go back to ask its mother.

The arrival of the dragon really scared a lot of people. It was not until the dragon flew away that people dared to breathe loudly. They discussed the strange actions of the dragon king until Ryan spoke and asked the team to move on.

“It works pretty well.”

Ryan touched the Dragon Emperor's crown on his head and said with satisfaction.

No matter whether he is a loser or a fugitive, the Dragon Emperor is the third greatest existence in the dragon civilization. He is still effective in dealing with these ignorant dragon cubs.

As for why the dragon cub was not left behind, Ryan didn't dare to act rashly. Dragons usually travel alone, but dragon cubs are not.

They have a mother, even if sometimes their mother is more dangerous than the world.

(End of this chapter)