Chapter 74: The Mage Sleeps the Dragon
When Li Ming heard this, he smiled disapprovingly, and asked Leonard: "Great swordsman, you are worried again." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe entire column is made of cyan marble, just like the rest of the Temple. How could a dragon carved out of stone be alive?"
Leonard still held his point, arguing: "I didn't say it was a living dragon. Didn't you just say that in a place like this, there are probably some guardian beasts and the like? I look at the dragon-shaped relief on this pillar, it looks like that. ”
This time, Li Ming did not completely deny Leonard's speculation, and while continuing to move forward, he explained with his many years of experience: "Guardian Beast? The slender body like a snake, wrapped around such a conspicuous column, can basically conclude that this thing is not something difficult to deal with. Of course, it's not the best guardian beast. If so, I don't want to give up halfway. When the group heard this, they all took out the weapons they were carrying and held them tightly in their hands.
Just as Li Ming led his companions, he walked to the pillar disapplausively, stretched out his right hand, and touched the surface of the pillar. The dragon relief on the pillar suddenly twisted its slender body like a python, opened two spherical eyes that were as bright and red as neon bulbs, and intimidated the offender in a low and majestic tone: "Trespassers who trespass on the forbidden land will pay a terrible price for their foolishness..."
Everyone couldn't help but be shocked into a cold sweat by the dragon relief that seemed to have suddenly awakened on the pillar in front of them. Leonard, who was following behind Li Ming and was in the second position of the team, although he had been mentally prepared, could not help but be taken aback and shouted, and in order to save his face, he then asked the anthropologist loudly: "Wow!
Seeing this, the more impulsive howl also shouted in surprise: "It's really a guardian beast!-" Seeing that, he raised the shattered earth above his head, preparing to rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the dragon-shaped relief. However, with a loud muffled noise coming from behind everyone. Thundered... I saw two large unidentified objects rising from under the floor of the rooftop at the location where the sound came, accompanied by smoke and floating ash in the sky.
Li Ming followed the sound, immediately turned to look, stretched out his hand and pointed directly at the two large unidentified objects behind his companions, and reminded loudly: "No! these two things are guardian beasts!" When everyone heard this, they all turned around with the anthropologist, and firmly grasped the weapons in their hands with great nervousness, ready to deal with the sudden attack at any time. When the two unidentified objects rose from the ground, the roar did not stop abruptly. Boom Boom Boom ...
I saw that the volume of these two large masses of unidentified objects was enough to be as large as two or three elephants combined, and after rising from the rooftop, the dust that shrouded them around them had not yet dissipated, and they collapsed on the cyan marble floor with a loud rumbling sound.
Leonard saw that after the smoke and dust slowly dispersed, two large pools of broken cyan marble were scattered on the floor of the rooftop, and he couldn't help but feel extremely surprised, and couldn't understand what was going on.
He was about to rush forward to do a big job, but he couldn't help but ask in disappointment and shouted, "What kind of guardian beast is this?
Then, the dragon relief perched on the pillar chanted in a low and majestic voice: "The dragon guardian has been defeated. O true power—the power of the forbidden will be unleashed by your own hands..."
Hearing this, the second monk asked more and more confusedly, "What are these and what, when did we defeat the Guardian?"
Li Ming, who has a lot of experience in this kind of situation, can't help but speculate: "It seems. Someone has already been to this place before we do. And, with a very special method, defeated the Guardians here. ”
Leonard remembered the task given to him by the mysterious merchant at this time, and hurriedly took out the thin magnetic card printed with three large bronzing characters of VIP from his jacket pocket, and muttered to himself: "Could it be... Mystery Merchant!?"
Standing beside Leonard, Rossi heard the Great Swordsman mention the Mysterious Merchant, and immediately recounted the strange whereabouts of this mysterious figure in the Isle of Salt: "Mysterious Merchant!—Indeed. Two months ago, Mr. Li Ming had not yet come to the island of Salk. The mysterious merchant went to the island as a representative of the Five Elements Chamber of Commerce to visit his father, and also signed a trade agreement with our Kingdom of Sark.
Then, he offered to visit the Shrine of the Gathering Spirit, a famous place in our country. According to the guards stationed at the temple, this person had disappeared for a while after entering the temple, and that there was a great commotion on the ceiling of the temple during this time. As the mysterious merchant argued, he had gone to a secluded place to relieve himself. So when I learned about the situation, I didn't take the guards' claims seriously.
It wasn't even two days after he left the island of Salk that an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami erupted. At that time, I began to wonder if the strange behavior of the mysterious merchant in the Gathering Spirit Temple was somehow related to the natural disaster that followed? So, I didn't continue to dig into this matter. Until today, I heard you say that..."
Rosie was talking. Suddenly, the entire Gathering Spirit Temple, no, the entire earth below the temple, emitted a huge roar, and it continued to tremble violently. Boom!!boom!! ...
Leonard was shocked and staggered, stretched out his hand to support the pillar, barely supporting his body, and couldn't help but ask in shock: "What's going on!?"
Rosie, who was shaken and was about to fall to the ground, replied loudly: "It's a big earthquake!! and this is the same situation before the last tsunami!!
Li Ming half-crouched on his body, released the gravitational force with his right hand, and firmly adhered to the ground, and with his left hand he pulled Bran's right hand, suddenly thought of something, and reminded Leonard loudly: "That's really the case! Quickly insert the magnetic card in your hand into the bayonet of the column!"
The longbowman he was pulling on Hanks' arm with his right hand, and the three of them stood in a line one by one, trying to keep their balance. Tina and Crotty cast the Levitation spell, which counteracts some of the gravity, causing their bodies to float and unaffected by the sloping ground. Howl simply fell on all fours and lay directly on the floor of the rooftop, no matter how you shake it.
Levitation, an energy-assisted spell, can only make people or things float in the air for a period of time, and can move unaffected by the terrain, not only is the height raised by this spell very limited, but it also cannot move as fast as flying.
As soon as Leonard's arm was propped up on the column, he felt the deep and majestic voice of the dragon-shaped relief in his heart: "Unleash this power." Otherwise, a huge earthquake and tsunami will once again hit the island of Salk. At the same time, he noticed that in front of him, the mouth of the dragon-shaped relief had a thin slit, just enough to insert the magnetic card in his hand. So the great swordsman didn't say a word, and inserted the thin magnetic card printed with the three bronzing characters of VIP into the mouth of the dragon-shaped relief.
As the magnetic card in Leonard's hand was inserted into the mouth of the dragon-shaped relief. The earth died down with a roar. The mountains and rivers stopped trembling. The eyes of the dragon-shaped relief on the pillar shone with golden light, and once again uttered a low and majestic voice: "Inheritor of the Lars Empire, I need to feel your power. Touch the Staff of Dyer to the Dragon's Pillar. ”
As a result, at the prompting of the Great Swordsman to make a look. Seeing this, Tina quickly ran forward and approached the dragon-shaped pillar, holding the royal ceremonial staff she had inherited from Teacher Diye with both hands, and reaching out to touch the dragon-shaped pillar.
A deep and majestic voice then reached Leonard and Tina's hearts, and slowly narrated:
"I tell you now: beneath this temple is sealed the remains of a dragon tainted by the power of twisting. Its power is enough to corrode the entire land. If this power is not unleashed, it will cause violent earthquakes and tsunamis that will destroy the entire island of Sark, and if it is released, you must go to Arebis and get the Holy Prayer Crystal from the Elven elder Strong, and unseal an artifact from me before you can destroy this evil dragon. ”
When Leonard heard this, he questioned a deep and majestic voice: "Who are you, and why should we believe you?"
The deep and majestic voice said as it brought a strange sight to Leonard and Tina: "I am an archmage who fought against the Ancient Demon Lord thousands of years ago. The Elder Demon Lord wants to contaminate the dragon's remains. I, along with a few colleagues, tried our best to stop him, but failed. The dragon's corpse was eroded by twisted force. In order to prevent this corrupted dragon from harming the world, we sealed ourselves away with it.
We use our sleeping bodies as a medium for our spells, and the power of the gods is strong enough to suppress the dragon's awakening. At the same time, we are also using spells to repair and strengthen an artifact. However, as the artifact grew in power, it was enough to destroy the corrupted dragon. Our power to suppress this evil dragon is dwindling, and we can no longer stop it from awakening. So, please do what I say. ”
What appeared before Leonard and Tina was a view of the interior of the Gathering Temple. I saw that five old men with long beards and dark blue mage robes were holding magic staffs, sleeping peacefully inside the five coffins without a coffin, like each horn of the five-pointed star, surrounded by a broad-bladed sword stuck in the ground and constantly gushing with golden light.
Immediately afterward, another image came into the eyes of the Great Swordsman and the Female Mage: directly below the Spirit Gathering Temple, in a dark and deep mist, a pair of blood-red eyes like beasts were opening wider and redder.
A deep and majestic voice finally chanted: "O brave people. Again, I remind you. Only artifacts can destroy corrupt dragons. All other attacks were futile to the dragon. The brave man with the magnetic card in his hand, the inheritor of the Lars Empire, I am waiting for you to return again..."Leonard and Tina suddenly opened their eyes and looked at each other as if they had just returned to reality from a dream.
Rossi, who had just gained a foothold, asked the two: "I didn't expect you to stop the earthquake all of a sudden." What the hell is going on?" Obviously, during the time Leonard and Tina's fugue, the world was still. In fact, this was nothing more than the pillar implanting a memory into their minds in an instant, creating the illusion of a fugue for the Great Swordsman and the female mage.
Immediately afterward, the dragon-shaped relief on the pillar continued its voice in a low and majestic voice, and spat out the thin magnetic card with the three large gilded characters of VIP from his mouth: "Please bring this magnetic card to Arebis, the elder of the elven clan, Strong, and then he will use Diye's staff to cast spells on the magnetic card, and the image will be released, so that our old friend Strong can trust and help you." ”
Leonard reached out and retrieved the magnetic card from the dragon's mouth, but he felt that he was being forced to do something by others, and asked the other party dissatisfiedly: "Hey! You suddenly made so many demands on us. Haven't got our consent yet?"
At this moment, around the rooftop of the Gathering Spirit Temple, huge white cracks suddenly appeared on those invisible walls. Bang bang... In an instant, the cracked walls shattered with a sound and turned into countless sharp silver shards, scattering and falling like hail from the sky. Bang bang... At the same moment, a large white mist of light suddenly enveloped Leonard and his group.
After being shrouded in white mist, Leonard found that his body came to a position about two hundred meters away from the north entrance of the Gathering Spirit Temple, and shouted in surprise: "Lie down! I haven't been dreaming!?"
The rest of the companions also appeared at Leonard's side at the same time. Among them, Li Ming, who had been conducting research here for a long time, reacted the fastest, raised his arm and pointed to the position in front of him, and loudly reminded everyone: "You are not dreaming! Everyone, look, on the rooftop of the Gathering Spirit Temple, those invisible walls are rapidly collapsing!". Following the anthropologist's arm, he saw a large number of silver-white fragments falling from the top of the Gathering Spirit Temple, gradually piling up on the roof and stairs of the temple, as if wrapped in silver.
The most perplexed of the group, the one who was most puzzled by the current situation, opened his loud voice and asked in a loud voice, "What the hell is going on here, and why did we suddenly come back to this place?"
Relying on his intuition and the detection of alchemy spell energy, Li Ming had obviously sensed something unusual, and answered the howling question: "It's a teleportation spell." There are many records of teleportation spells in ancient times. Today, everyone was fortunate enough to experience it for themselves, and there is nothing surprising about it. As for why the invisible wall suddenly collapsed, could it be that the barrier guarding the Spirit Gathering Temple had been destroyed by some powerful force?" and then shifted his gaze to Leonard and Tina.
Tina had already felt the powerful twisting force underneath the ground, and she shouted in horror to her partner, "Yes. That's the power! Call all the guards around the temple. We have to get out of here quickly. ”
Crotty also noticed that there was a powerful force full of twists and distortions underground, and echoed Tina loudly: "There is indeed a terrifying thing coming." Tell the guards to flee for their lives. ”
Rosey, who was confused about the current situation, heard this, and asked in confusion: "May I ask what the hell is going on?"
Leonard reached out and patted Rossi on the shoulder, and replied with an unusually serious expression, "It's the Corrupt Dragon." First tell your men to withdraw to our side quickly. Then, let's talk about it slowly. At this moment, Bran had already shot an arrow with magical energy into the sky, attracting the attention of all the amphibian guards near the Spirit Gathering Temple. Syllable!
Immediately after, the sound of Bran's arrows and Rossi's roar reached the long ears of every amphibian guard: "All the guards listen, run over at once! This is an order!-" The amphibious guards heard this, although they did not know what was happening, but seeing their prince's attitude, they did not dare to slack off at all, and they all tried their best to go straight to Leonard and them. Their move apparently saved their own lives.