Throne of the North.

Chapter 493: Curse of the Dragon, Sacrifice to Surtur
Ryan ignored Areris, immersed in his own surging old divinity.

God knows what Surtur did in the end. Along with this heavenly fire, the number on Ryan's spiritual panel grew to four digits.

Of course, as the balance growth decreases, Ryan also has to deal with Areris. He still needs the other party's power to stabilize the ice on the sea surface and allow these tens of thousands of troops to return to human land.

"We can't kill her. She disappeared after the battle. No one can kill her in the deep sea. That's what you said."

"She is very weak."

Areris was somewhat unwilling, but in fact, he knew better than anyone that this was an impossible thing.

It was just that after seeing the power of these humans before, it couldn't help but want to try it.

Humans are much more powerful than he imagined, and he was right not to rashly enter human territory on the Norris Continent.

"The war is not over yet. Perhaps Isabella is not the only one who knows of His existence."

The war is indeed not over. There are still dragons in this world, a small number of dragons.

The battle between the two great beings was so fierce that even the frozen sea created by the violent frost giants collapsed easily, not to mention the crawling dragons. Many of them died. The dragon did something to the dragons at the last moment, absorbing their life essence to fight against the holy light of Surtur and the Lord of Dawn.

Ryan ran without looking back. The fire dragon Christman was still in the deep sea, but no one could fish it out. Frost gathered and hovered over the heads of humans. Although the giant dragons in the distance were roaring and chasing, they did not dare to get too close.

Without the will of the evil dragon, the dragons' instinct to act alone makes them lose any sense of army.

But they were afraid that there were dragons roaming in the icy ocean beneath their feet that were full of hostility towards them. If the ice collapsed, both Ryan and Clayton would suffer huge losses.

The Extraordinary Legion must return to human land as soon as possible.

The frost dragon Areris exhaled dragon breath to stabilize the ice in front. About half a day later, the fire dragon also returned. It was in a daze, but fortunately it still knew to follow behind Earl Clayton.

"It looks like it's been broken in."

Ryan took the time to look back and saw that the flight trajectory of the Fire Dragon Christman was crooked.

It belongs to the dragon's side, so was it also affected at the most critical moment?
Under the protection of two legendary dragons, the two extraordinary legions finally returned to solid land, and everyone felt relieved.

But Ryan's face did not look good.

"What about this curse?"

He felt the coldness of his own body. The Flame Dragon Knight's breathing technique was supposed to incinerate the Knight's body, but it made him shiver with cold.

"Let's wait until father wakes up and then think of a solution."

Ivar didn't know what to do. Every blasphemy, every confrontation with the gods, came with a heavy price to pay. The result now was already very good.

Ryan tried to use the old divinity to offset the curse, but it was useless. The curse was born from the will of the dragon.

It was not just the coldness of the dragon's curse, Ryan also felt another force disrupting his blood and energy. It was the contract between him and Surtur that was causing trouble.

He needed to fulfill his promise and give Surtur a sufficient share of the Old Godhood.

"Damn it, I really don't want to wait even one more day."

Ryan shuddered, and even with flames burning on his hands, he couldn't dispel the coldness of the curse. If Earl Clayton couldn't hold on at that moment, the curse would completely erupt on all the Clayton bloodline. Ryan couldn't imagine it.

He has a spiritual panel, so he is not that afraid, but the Earl of Clayton's family may fall from the clouds to the bottom of the valley in an instant.

"Will mother and the others notice?"

Ryan asked, and Ivar thought about it and shook his head.

"The distance between the two worlds is farther than you can imagine, but once you open the portal, the power of the curse will follow in."

"That's good. As long as mother and the others don't panic, the Empire will not take any action against the Clayton family in the short term."

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. Politically, his second brother was far inferior to him. Ryan could imagine that after Earl Clayton had been gone for a long time, the great nobles of the empire would definitely try to probe him, and it would cause panic within Earl Clayton's territory.

This seriously affects the initiative of their aristocratic faction in the current Imperial Church War.

Speaking of which...

"Is the angel alive?"

"I don't know. Now is not the time to focus on it."

The war between Surtur and the dragon ended, and the two great beings disappeared in Nidhogg, but everything was not over.

Earl Clayton came here to start a war for unimaginable resources and wealth, and the same was true for Ryan. They simply expelled the hostile forces that would affect their acquisition of all this, and have not yet entered the harvesting stage.

and……

"Ah sneeze!"

Master Ryan will also hold a sacrificial offering.

The Stag Legion took action, cutting down trees, carving stones, and building a simple altar.

Ryan's sacrifices do not need to be as elaborate and well prepared as others.

"Leading the immortality of dusk, reborn from the fire..."

After a few perfunctory prayers, Ryan knelt among the corpses. These corpses came from the dusk dragons and could serve as a medium to communicate with Surtur.

Gradually, the sky darkened, dusk painted the clear sky, and Surtur's power entered this world little by little.

He became relaxed, perhaps because the world had become more unstable and the statement about the three keys was no longer absolute.

"As agreed, I will give you your share of the sacrifice."

Ryan raised his head and spoke. Surtur's head with two big horns was already looking at him. Ryan could not bear it anymore, so he simply began to release his old divinity on the corpses of these followers of Dusk.

He didn't care how Surtur absorbed it, he gave it to him anyway.

"not enough!!!"

When half of the old divinity disappeared, Surtur conveyed his will.

"Don't be too greedy, we agreed on that."

"not enough!"

Surtur roared in anger, causing Lion's soul to tremble in pain.

"I'll give you a little more, don't go too far."

Ryan roared and continued to release his old divinity. With the infusion of a huge source of divinity, these corpses actually began to glow.

Surtur took away all the sacrifices, and on Ryan's spiritual panel, there were only three hundred old divinities left.

"Will there be a chance for us to work together next time?"

Of course Ryan is not so easy to talk to. He gave more to Surtur because this guy is really useful.

The connection of sacrifice had not completely disappeared. Surtur, who was dying, seemed to enjoy it very much and did not reject Ryan.

If He doesn’t refuse, then that means He agrees.

I hope Surtur won't be so angry the next time the sacrifice is called.

However, Surtur still left some things behind.

Not for Ryan, but for Lord Clayton.

A fiery red crystal was suspended beside Earl Clayton, fighting against the dragon's curse. So on the third day, Earl Clayton finally woke up after several short periods of awakening.

"This is also a curse, but the two curses are fighting each other. Surtur wants me to become his people." Earl Clayton sneered. Surtur discovered his relatives when he tore open the barrier of divinity. As a king of fire, Surtur also wanted this legendary blessing.

"If I die, my soul will be devoured by Surtur."

"This is the curse He gave me the moment He looked at me."

After saying this, Earl Clayton looked at Ryan and said:

"It looks like your deal is done, too."

Damn it, he kept the curse hidden until the transaction was over, then revealed it. Was he worried that Ryan would want him to remove the curse?

Surtur the Insidious.

"He has become smarter, and it doesn't look like a good thing."

Surtur can actually play tricks, it seems...

"He is not far from awakening."

"Hobiyi, the dragon, and now Surtur. It seems that these great beings are adapting to the hibernation brought to them by the North."

Lord Clayton took a deep breath and felt cold all over.

"What about the dragon's curse?"

Ryan asked, feeling uncomfortable with the curse on him.

"Take your time to think of a solution. There will always be a way. Besides, this thing may be an opportunity for the Clayton bloodline."

What Earl Clayton said made Ryan wonder if he had deliberately accepted the curse.

Is it because of the way the Flame Dragon Knights evolve into [Followers]?
Ryan just wanted this reason.

"I need to get away from this world for a while."

Earl Clayton said, Ryan nodded, and directly used the Dragon Emperor's Crown to tear open the crack.

The long-term disappearance of a great noble is never a trivial matter.

Especially at this critical time point.

Ryan didn't need to leave. The portal he opened with the Dragon Emperor's Crown was in the other world controlled by Earl Clayton. The same was true for the door to the plane opened with the spiritual panel. His location on the Norris Continent was his anchor point.

He couldn't go back to the Frozen Territory because there were still tens of thousands of Fire Dragon Knights in this world that needed to be sent out, but they still needed to start a war with the dragon.

The Dragon God’s solution was not complete either.

"I'm writing some letters to send to the Tundra Territory."

After all, he had been away from the Frozen Territory for some time.

……

……

Frozen collar.

Brendan Ignazio, the descendant of one of the thirteen ancient noble families from the southern land, once again hit a wall and left.

After being rejected several times, he has shown anger that is difficult to suppress.

"Damn that Northern Baron! He's just a mere baron, but he actually dared to reject the noble bloodline several times!"

He gritted his teeth, but did not dare to act recklessly in the Frozen Territory. Because of Ryan's departure, the people in the Frozen Territory were so vigilant that it could crush many people with ulterior motives.

"I brought him a huge fortune, but he didn't even look at it."

"If not..."

Thinking of this, Brendan gritted his teeth in embarrassment. Another letter came from the South urging them to bring back weapons and equipment as soon as possible.

War is imminent, those damned fanatics...

"The Dawn Road is always stained with blood. We must let the Church know that they cannot shed blood on our territory."

"We didn't betray Dawn, damn Emperor Flor, bite us if you catch us!!!"

Brendan looked at the people of the empire around him, all filled with murderous intent.

The Holy Heavenly Knights are about to arrive at the Ignazio family's territory.

It doesn't matter if they walked by, the key is after they walked by...

Ignazio has been at peace for too long. They are far away from the wars in the four directions of east, south, west and north. The comfortable living environment has also made the claws and fangs of the former lion dull.

When the threat came, the ancient bloodline finally remembered the war power of their ancestors that had been covered in dust, and they needed to exchange the wealth they had accumulated over the years for sharp thorns.

Let the Holy See know that if they touch it, they will also shed countless blood.

But until now, Brendan has not completed the task.

"No, we have to send a batch of weapons back first, otherwise... they will replace them."

Brendan knew exactly what his competitors would do, and just like the people he had squeezed out before, if there was no gain, he would soon be abandoned.

So…a very strange phenomenon occurred in the next few days.

As the North Wind Province with the most iron ore, as the most prosperous Lingdu City in the North Wind Province, and as the blacksmith shop with the most metal weapons transactions, weapons can no longer be bought.

"I don't know who bought all the weapons. If those suits of armor hadn't been prohibited from sale by Lord Baron Ryan, I'm afraid they would have been bought too."

“Who has so much wealth?”

"What is the purpose?"

"Without weapons, you can't compete for the title of Eight Knights. The Northern Brave Guild sells them at a very high price."

"Eight Knights, the person who bought the weapons didn't buy all the weapons just to prevent others from fighting over the Eight Knights, right?"

Yes, in the other world, when Master Ryan was fighting the gods and dragons, when hundreds of thousands of troops in the south of the empire were once again fighting against the legions of the Kingdom of Carlos, when the Road of Dawn had gradually been stained with blood and the bright red had seeped into the southern land - Lingdu City was still immersed in the topic of the Eight Knights and Frostmourne.

Brendan in secret was also extremely surprised, but at the same time he was relieved. He knew that buying all the weapons at once would arouse the vigilance of the nobles.

This reason gave him the most appropriate means.

"That Viscount Miles is greedy for money. If you give him some sweet treats, he will help. But we still need to arrange for some people to become the so-called northern adventurers to confuse the eyes of these country nobles."

Brendan looked at the pedestrians outside with wise eyes and felt that the people here were extremely stupid.

The lands in the north and south are different.

When survival is a kind of pressure, it is natural that people would not think about problems like the nobles in the south who have nothing to do but to calculate and fight.

In short, the price of weapons in Lingdu City has increased, and the Northern Brave Guild has also experienced a small climax, selling a large number of elite weapons.

And Master Ryan is still fighting a dragon in another dimension.

According to Areris' answer, the Dragon God...also awakened.

Yes, there shouldn't be any surprises. He no longer had any rivals in this world. The Dragon Emperor had fallen, and the evil dragons no longer competed with him for the remaining power. He ate everything, and then slowly opened his eyes and looked at Nidhogg more than a hundred years later.

The first to be hit were the huge tidal waves that began to hit the land where humans lived.

(End of this chapter)