Make the dragon great again

Chapter 1 The Awakened Dragon

It is located deep underground, leading to a huge labyrinth, a combination of naturally formed karst caves and man-made traces, and a simple and simple architectural style with no specific origin...

All of this is too in line with the characteristics of a lost ancient ruin, a dangerous dungeon full of monsters.

however……

"This place is too sloppy! Not to mention the legendary dungeon guards, there are no low-level monsters like goblins or cave spiders at all!"

The one who spoke was the half-elf girl magician who was in charge of lighting and wore a wide-brimmed pointed hat among the three-person adventurer team exploring the underground labyrinth.

"Captain, give up! This is the seventh floor, and there is still nothing. I think this place is a pure abandoned relic, not the legendary dungeon full of treasures at all!"

Holding up the staff to illuminate the young magician, she protested to the stubborn captain again.

Wearing leather armor, holding a one-handed sword and a one-handed shield, and wearing a standard adventurer's attire, the middle-aged uncle captain said again unwillingly:
"One more walk! If we still don't find it, we'll leave right away."

The last member of the three-person team, a burly but shy young paladin, faltered and whispered:
"...That, also, perhaps, is because there are too powerful monsters occupying this place, so that the weak and inferior monsters dare not approach... I read it in the book at the teacher's house..."

"Then may I ask you, a holy knight from the Kingdom of the Holy Order, to tell me what kind of monsters can drive out all the monsters in the underground ruins that are seven or eight layers deep without affecting the surface ecology above the ruins." ?”

The captain glared at the young paladin, the young man felt aggrieved, but he didn't say anything else, presumably because what the captain said made sense - judging from the dilapidated castle on the surface and the surrounding forest ecology, it really doesn't look like there are powerful monsters Occupy look.

Under the insistence of the captain, the three of them continued to go deep, and gradually explored a section further down, and finally came to a place that seemed to be the end of the maze - a door at the end of the only passage on the eighth floor, full of three or four people. There are huge stone gates facing each other.

Seeing this, the three finally cheered up. A closed space in the ruins often means that there is a treasure!
Of course, maybe there might be some kind of great danger waiting for them behind the door, but maybe it was their confidence, or maybe it was the empty ruins along the way that made them let down their vigilance and become reckless. don't pay much attention to...

bang.

The Shimen was pushed open by the team leader and the young paladin, and a dry air that was not turbid was blown out from it.

The girl mage raised her staff and chanted softly in Elvish language for a while, a fist-sized ball of arcane light emitting white light condensed on the top of the staff. It exploded and illuminated a large area in front of it.

Therefore, the three of them had a clear view of the general appearance of the room:
This is a rectangular palace distributed longitudinally. The gate is opened in the center of the short side of one side. The deepest part of the palace has not yet been illuminated, so the exact depth is unknown, and the left and right sides are at least 20 meters wide;
The dome above has a pointed structure, and the highest point even exceeds 40 meters. Two rows of double-hugging stone pillars support the dome, spreading from both sides of the stone gate to the deepest darkness of the palace.

"It seems that this is a palace-type building... Generally, this type of underground relic is either the tomb of an ancient king, or an underground city of a lost civilization."

The captain with the most knowledge made a basic judgment, and the girl magician who read the most books added:
"This architectural style is inconsistent with all architectural styles from the third era to the present, and its size exceeds the needs of the human race and other Gaia species... It should be derived from a certain large ancient species."

The shy young paladin didn't speak, but just clenched the big sword and shield in his hand.

"Let's go, whether to run for nothing, go back to the guild to pick up the mission, or find the lost treasure, and get rid of the adventurer's life, the answer lies at the end of this palace!"

The three of them walked in a defensive formation to the depths of the palace that had not been illuminated by the flash technique just now.

Every time he walks a distance, the girl magician, who is protected by two melee professional companions, will throw an arcane light ball forward to explore the way.

"what?"

The three of them stopped, but it was an arcane light ball thrown by the girl just now, which went out directly after floating ten meters ahead.

"What's the matter, is there a turbulent flow of elements? Or is your mental strength insufficient?" the captain asked casually.

The young magician shook her head and said:
"There is no elemental turbulence, and there is no chance to use magic along the way. The mental power is not consumed at all, but..."

"But what?" The captain asked indifferently.

"The link between my spiritual power and the arcane light ball has not been broken, as if...as if it has not disappeared, but we just can't see it?"

The girl's tone was a little uncertain, and the captain was also baffled.

At this time, a sudden change occurred, and among the three, only the shy young man reacted, raised his big shield and quickly stopped in front of the two of them.

boom!
A burst of white light with dark purple lightning exploded in front of the large shield, and the scorching air wave and the dark purple electric snake were blocked and exploded to both sides.

"What... [Enhancement: Acceleration]!"

The captain also reacted. After a moment of astonishment, he immediately used his most commonly used trigger ability, and after a faint blue light flickered on his body, he raised his sword and shield to guard the surroundings.

But the girl magician still didn't enter the state, but said in astonishment, a little puzzled:

"Wait, wait a minute, that one just now was the arcane ball of light I threw out earlier?!"

"What are you talking about? How can the arcane light ball used for lighting be so powerful? And you don't know any lightning-type attack magic at all, right?" The captain couldn't turn his mind around.

"No! For a moment just now, the arcane ball of light that was still in my perception of spiritual power seemed to touch a barrier, and then a powerful force instantly expelled my spiritual power, and then it was bounced back... ..."

"You mean that there is an enchantment-type magic barrier in front of it, blocking the line of sight and bouncing back..."

The captain made an analysis, but before he could finish speaking, a sudden movement in the darkness ahead interrupted his words.

"Hurr...um..."

At first glance, it seems to be the sound of someone being woken up in a deep sleep, but the sound of getting up is a bit too loud...

In the invisible darkness ten meters away, something huge seemed to be moving, and the ground shook accordingly, and the air flow in the palace also became intense.

"Captain, we, let's go!"

The girl with the wide-brimmed peaked hat dropped to the ground, revealing a pair of pointed ears, couldn't bear it first, and proposed to run away.

It's not that she is timid, but as a half-elf magician, she is naturally very sensitive to elemental magic power. She has already felt the elemental magic power nearby from the increasingly turbulent air around her, and it is moving at a very fast speed. The speed is enriched and becomes manic.

Even her, an intermediate magician, is completely unable to communicate with the elemental magic around her at this time!
This level of elemental turbulence, even when she was still in the high tower forest, she had only felt it on the supreme white tower!
My side is just a black iron-level adventurer team hanging at the bottom of the eastern guild rankings, not to mention the heroic archmage in the Supreme White Tower, and even the owner of any mage tower in the high tower forest is not theirs. messed with...

And the power of the huge creature in the underground palace is no less than that of the legendary archmage in the Supreme White Tower!

The captain and the young paladin also knew that something was wrong and were about to retreat, but at this moment, there was another change in the darkness.

call!
There was a sound like the flapping of huge wings, accompanied by a gust of wind that could blow boulders away.

"guard!"

The young man shouted, put the sword and shield in his hand in front of his body, and thrust it into the ground with all his strength. A burst of pure white light shone continuously on him, barely blocking the turbulent air mixed with restless elements, and protecting the two companions behind him. .

At this time, the huge monster in the darkness seemed to wake up slowly, and made a loud voice that shook the three people's eardrums:
"Huh... who is it? I don't know how to knock on the door, and I don't know how to wake up someone who is sleeping late. Is it very rude?"

As soon as the voice fell, balls of passive fire ignited out of thin air between the pillars on both sides of the palace, illuminating the entire underground palace, and at the same time, the invisible curtain of darkness dissipated and revealed From the original appearance of the owner of the palace afterwards:

It was a "giant beast" almost as high as the dome of the palace, covered with pure white scales;
There are bony spurs protruding from the tail, joints of the limbs, and the tail of the spine of the "giant beast", and a pair of thick fleshy wings that are wide enough to cover the whole body when closed;

The neck is similar to that of a horse but more flexible. The head is shaped like a combination of a horse and a crocodile. There is a falcon-like beak at the front of the snout. Dozens of fangs glowing with cold light can be faintly seen interlaced between the opening and closing of the lower jaw;
The pure black vertical pupils stood in the dark golden eyes, looking down on the three of them from a high position, and ten lightning-like bone spurs formed a crown shape on his head, making it even more majestic as a king.

"This... what is this..."

Looking at this terrifying "giant beast" that has never been seen before, and the terrifying aura that he can clearly perceive even if he is not a spellcaster, the captain's body trembled uncontrollably;

The state of the young magician is similar to his, but due to the profession of the magician, she can feel the power of the other party more clearly and intuitively from the aura unintentionally emitted by this "behemoth", so that if it weren't for the saint on the side The knight held on, and was about to fall to the ground;
Paladins are most resistant to elemental turbulence and oppression, so the young man is calmer than the other two companions.

Suddenly, the young paladin finally recalled an ancient book describing creatures in the age of mythology that he saw in the teacher's collection when he was a teenager in the country of the holy religion;

Among them, there is a mythical creature that is said to have disappeared completely for more than ten thousand years and once ruled the world of Ella in the first era long ago.

The description of this mythical creature in the ancient books is so consistent with the "giant beast" looking down on the three of them!
That is - the dragon!
……

To be continued. (Newcomers and new books, please give me more advice~)

Note: [Dragon Beast, Flying Dragon, Dragon, Giant Dragon]

In the classification of western dragons, the giant dragon/ancient dragon (Wyrm) is the oldest and most powerful group of ancestors, then the four-legged and two-winged dragon (Dragon), and then the two-footed and two-winged dragon (Wyvern) , the lowest being the smaller Drake;
In addition, in various literatures, the setting of the purest western dragon/ancient dragon (Wyrm) is actually very, very similar to the description of Chinese dragons (if you are interested, you can find out), but in this book, the Wyrm (Wyrm) ) form setting, the dragon (Dragon) four-legged and double-winged setting will be used more;

There may be other forms of dragons later in this book, but it has not been determined yet.

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