Make the dragon great again

Chapter 148 The Saint Who Gained Nothing
Centered on several demi-human countries located at the northern foothills of the [Roaring Mountain Range], it goes west to [Windless Cliff] on the west coast of the mainland, and goes east to [Behemoth Inner Sea] on the east of the mainland. This crooked dividing line , separating the frigid northern part of the Silias continent from the relatively milder regions.

The climate in the northern part of the mainland is harsh and the land is vast and sparsely populated. The area is only two-thirds of the eastern part of the continent. Compared with the vaster western part of the continent, it is even smaller. area.

For countless years, this place has been a barren land where civilization has stopped. It was not until the Gaia species created the third era, and the wave of "Great Migration" appeared, that some pioneers and adventurers with courage and strength came to Gaia A kind of fire of civilization was brought into this frozen land.

The congenital conditions of the harsh climate doomed the northern part of the continent to be unable to develop a powerful unified country, and a small number of areas with unique geographical conditions were occupied by the pioneers, and developed one by one in the past 3000 years. A city-state that cannot expand its sphere of influence.

Although the northern part of the continent is not a hospitable place for almost all Gaia species, there are still some groups that can live relatively wet in this frozen land.

Savage is one of the best.

These rough-skinned guys are mainly composed of "green-skinned" orcs and some Gaia subspecies barbaric tribes that have divorced from civilized society, and the superhumans in this deformed group are either [barbarian] occupations or [berserkers] Occupation, one counts as one, almost all of them are big muscle sticks with impressive brains.

It's not that the savages have fully adapted to the harsh natural conditions of the northern permafrost, but that these guys who have abandoned civilization have found "prey" that can fill their stomachs on this permafrost—those who stick to their own acre The city-states in three parts of the land.

In the middle of every month, there will always be groups of barbarians, large and small, coming to fight the autumn wind on the borders of various city-state territories, and in the annual harvest season, the scale of such plundering operations will rise to the level of war, and every ten or so In 20 years, when the barbarians in the depths of the wasteland exceeded the limit of food they could plunder, a [Barbarian Disaster] would always break out and sweep across the entire northern part of the continent, and even spread to the southern countries.

Several years have passed since the last [Barbarian Disaster].

When the disaster happened, the largest group of barbarians chose to cross the entire area to attack the Behemoth Kingdom in the south for some unknown reason, and they were wiped out there inexplicably. This should have been the largest [ The calamity of the barbarians has just been put to rest, and the northern part of the mainland has become a little calmer as a whole.

However, there are still small groups of barbarians plundering everywhere in some areas. The city-state "Wanghai Fortress" located on the north coast of [Behemos Inner Sea] is one of the city-states that are still infested by barbarians...

A boulder the size of a person's arms drew a parabola from somewhere in the field outside the wall, and slammed it hard at the sentry tower. Without the support of spellcasters, the militiamen in this village could not resist such an attack. The people on the tower could only shout aloud to remind their companions, then bit the bullet and jumped the tower to escape.

After the opponent lost the last observation platform, the barbarians hiding in the wilderness rushed out screaming, and the stones kept hitting the wooden fence that was not too high. To the militiamen inside the walls.

This is a village on the outskirts of Fort Wanghai. It is located on the coastline, relying on the warm monsoon wind blowing from the other side of the Behemoth Inland Sea. There are several months of suitable farming season every year. It is an important grain output area of ​​Fort Wanghai. one.

"Captain, if this continues, we won't be able to defend at all!"

Watching the wooden gate being rammed with logs by the barbarians outside, it seemed that it was in danger of being smashed at any time, and there was a sound of flinching in the militia team.

"Either, or we can take advantage of the wall to hold back for a while, let's retreat to Wanghai Fort first..."

The captain of this team, a middle-aged man wearing a fur hat, stabbed a barbarian who climbed up the wall with a spear, and then turned around and gave an order:
"You guys, first organize the remaining villagers in the village to take away all the food that can be taken away, and withdraw back to Wanghai Fort as quickly as possible. For the rest, stay here with me and try to delay the time until the gate opens. Can't stop collapsing!"

The militiamen acted in response, and one of the people who stayed behind said with a sad face:

"This is already the third abandoned village. We have lost at least [-]% of our grain this year. This will be another difficult winter."

"Sigh... there is no way around this. Who would have thought that those barbarians would still gather in large numbers on the north coast of the Bechymos Inner Sea after being thwarted at the hands of the southern kingdom? Start a war against the Kingdom of Behemoth."

"It's just that we hope that Haibao will be implicated innocently... Damn it! What did those Behemoths do?"

Facing the complaints from his companions, the middle-aged captain continued to shoot arrows outside the wall, while yelling:

"Okay, don't talk about it, let's focus on stopping the barbarians and let the people behind take as much food as possible! Otherwise, this winter will be even more difficult!"

Due to the limited population, the city-states in the northern part of the mainland basically do not have an organized military system. However, the harsh climate here also makes the people of the city-states tough. Basically, every adult's combat quality can be compared with that of the soldiers in the southern countries. Therefore, the militia team formed spontaneously by the residents of the city-state with higher autonomy is not inferior to the southern regular soldiers with the same number of combat effectiveness.

But no matter how good these militiamen are at fighting, at the level of supernatural power, they are only the bottom of the black iron, and they are not much better than the barbarians. When you are in the team, it is only a matter of time before you lose...

Before the gate was knocked down, a part of the wooden fence had already been burnt down. As long as the fire slowed down a little, the barbarians from outside could rush in in one fell swoop.

"I can't keep it anymore. Let the people behind stop taking care of the food and withdraw immediately. The rest of the people will set fire to the whole wall with me, and try to delay it for a while..."

Before the captain could finish his words, a sudden gust of cold wind blew, and the fire at the gap in the wall was extinguished instantly. Just when everyone thought that the barbarians were about to rush in, the howling of the barbarians outside the wall stopped abruptly for some reason. .

The militiamen looked at each other, at this moment, a normal human female figure with a hood came in from the gap in the wall.

"Excuse me, is this within the range of Wanghai Fort?"

The captain looked at the person vigilantly, and asked:

"Who are you? Where are the savages out there?"

"I am a traveler following the trail of the dragon. As for the orcs outside, I have laid them to rest."

The woman took off her hood, revealing a beautiful face, her long silver hair was tied up casually, judging from the remaining gold at the tip of her hair, she seemed to have dyed her hair golden before.

This person is none other than the mysterious Saint Alia in the ranks of the Church of the Holy Spirit who crossed the weak area of ​​the [Continental Barrier].

Three years ago, she pursued the legend of the dragon-born country, all the way from the country of the holy religion on the west coast of the mainland, to the [Eastern Corridor] in the northwest of the Kingdom of Behemoth, and learned there that the dragon used to be in the [Barbarian Front] ] Haunted news.

Originally, Aliya should continue to go to the Kingdom of Bechymos to explore the secrets of the dragonborn and the traces of the giant dragon. However, when passing through the [Eastern Corridor], an accident caused her to turn her direction to the north.

——In a certain mountain forest, she found traces left by suspected huge creatures when they stopped to rest. A mountain forest was overwhelmed, and there were still several huge footprints on the land.

Combined with the sighting information of giant dragons on the [Barbarian Front] not far away, Aliya made a judgment that seemed to work together but was far from the truth: the traces of giant beasts she found were It was left by the giant dragon that appeared on the [Barbarian Front]!
Afterwards, Aliya followed the clues left by that trace and went all the way to the northern part of the mainland. At the same time, the event of the dragon coming in the Bechymos Kingdom just passed her by... …

In the past three years, Aliya has tracked many traces of the giant beast intermittently in the northern part of the mainland, and even chased all the way to the extreme northern wilderness, where she also had a conflict with an underground race, but she never really saw it from the beginning to the end. I have seen the true face of the giant beast I was tracking.

Until more than a month ago, Alia, who had already cut off the connection with the Holy Spirit because of the [Continental Barrier], suddenly felt the call of the Holy Spirit.

Aliya, who has a "ghost in her heart", thought that the will of the Holy Spirit had finally broken through the [continental barrier] and plunged into this "cursed continent". Therefore, she was a little discouraged because she had been searching for nothing for three years. , At this time, he had no choice but to turn back to the south, and chose to figure out what was going on with the call that came and went in a hurry.

However, in the process of Aliya heading south along the coastline in the northern part of the mainland, she found the trace of the giant beast again, and judging from the newness and oldness of the traces and the direction of travel, the giant beast is likely to be there. He was heading in the direction of the "call".

Could this "giant dragon" be short of the infiltration of the Holy Spirit's will, so as the enemy of the Holy Spirit, go to the infiltration site to intercept or resist?
With this in mind, Aliya accelerated her speed to the south, and today, she arrived within the range of Fort Wanghai on the north coast of [Bechymos Inner Sea]...

After some conversations and seeing the barbarian corpses turned into ice sculptures outside the wall, the militia captain finally confirmed that the beautiful woman in front of him was not an enemy, but a planeswalker.

"This is indeed the outlying village of Fort Wanghai. To the south is the Behemoth Inner Sea, and to the north, walk a short distance inland and you will see Fort Wanghai. Ma'am, are you going to see our lord ?"

The militia captain looked at Arya expectantly.

Because Wanghai Castle is close to the [barbarian front], the situation of Wanghai Castle is really not good when those barbarians don't know where to gather nearby. Therefore, the lord of Wanghai Castle will often ask some passing planeswalkers or The wandering warriors offered an olive branch, in exchange for a stable living environment for the help of these powerful transcendents;
The captain thought that Alia was also such a transcendent who was invited, and with Alia's record of quickly annihilating an entire barbarian raiding team, in the captain's opinion, she was definitely better than those currently cheating in the lord's castle. The so-called "experts" who lie to drink are too strong. If she joins, Wang Haibao's life will be much easier.

And she is also very beautiful, much more pleasing to the eye than those slovenly wandering warriors with rosaceous noses...

But unfortunately, Alia didn't come to Wanghaibao to be a diner, she just passed by here.

"No, I'm just passing by here, I'm going all the way south in that direction..."

While the captain was a little disappointed, Aliya pointed to a place in the south of the village, and continued:

"...If this is Wanghai Fort, then that direction should be [Behemoth Inner Sea], if I want to continue going in that direction, I can only go around the [Barbarian Front], or take a boat across the sea ..."

When the captain heard Aliya say that she was going to cross the sea by boat, she quickly waved her hand and said:

"Madam, please don't take a boat across [Behemoth Inner Sea], it's too dangerous!"

"Oh? Why is that? [Behemoth Inner Sea] has not touched the violent limit of the outer sea, how could it be dangerous?"

"You don't know that this area of ​​the inland sea is indeed calm and full of high-quality waterways going back and forth between the east and the north of the mainland, but since a certain day more than 200 years ago, this area has suddenly become dangerous for some reason. All ships will lose contact inexplicably when they are in the middle of the forward route, even if there is a magician accompanying them, no one knows where they ended up going, and there is no news of anyone going to sea on both sides of the inner sea!"

"It turned out to be like this..."

Aliya's eyes flickered, but she thought of the "calling of the Holy Spirit".

'Could it be... because the breakthrough of the Holy Spirit into this continent is in the middle of [Behemoth Inner Sea], and those ships were all sailed out of this continent? '

This guess was subsequently overturned by Alia. After all, if the residents of the "cursed continent" had left Philosophy for more than 200 years, then she, as the saint of the Church of the Holy Spirit, could not have known about it.

Just when Alia was lost in thought, a hoarse roar came faintly from far away in the south.

"What's that sound?"

"Could it be... the voice of the monster whose waterway in the [Behemoth Inner Sea] became impassable?"

The militiamen in Fort Wanghai all looked to the south, because the discussion between the captain and Alia just now involved the closure of the waterway, and some even thought of a rumor that had been circulating for a long time.

However, compared to the concerns of these militiamen, Aliya obviously felt more.

'There is no mistake, that voice made the blood in my body become active, it must be the 'giant dragon' I was chasing... and, in that direction, there is still the breath of the Holy Spirit! '

At this time Aliya was both excited and worried.

I was excited because I was finally able to get close to the dragon after so many years, and I was also worried because of my escape from the Church of the Holy Spirit, and worried that my method of building false beliefs had been seen through by the Holy Spirit...

However, before Aliya made a decision to continue heading south, an inexplicable throbbing suddenly rose from the depths of her blood, and its intensity was far greater than when the hoarse roar sounded just now.

"This is... what's going on? This feeling of being called is even stronger than the temptation of the Holy Spirit's will to my heart when I was in the Church of the Holy Spirit?"

……

To be continued, change first and then change.

(End of this chapter)