A soft pale golden glow parted the leaden-gray clouds of the dome and cleared the howling blizzard, and on the far eastern horizon, where the dark sky and the glacial earth meet, a golden sun slowly rises......

In the distance is endless, majestic and towering snow-capped mountains and endless wastelands, where the snow-covered white and icy peaks reflect the golden dawn;

A narrow stretch of wilderness trail flanked by bottomless, unfathomable glacial crevasses. Under the howling cold wind, there is a terrible sound that sweeps through the cracks, and the deep echo of the hollow is the snow and ice rocks falling into the mountains;

And in the midst of this silent, cold world, a majestic and towering ancient city stands tall and wide, and the drifting ice mist shrouds it, casting a thin veil over the almost pure white city.

The surrounding glacial crevasses separate the ancient city from the rest of the earth, and the spires of the city walls shrouded in ice and mist make it like a city in the sky, isolated in the middle of this cold and desolate world.

Hundreds of feet of walls, towering spires, endless buildings and palaces...... Even just looking at it makes everyone who sees it feel indescribably small.

This is the kingdom of heaven, another world far from the earth.

A realm that exhausts the mind and cannot be spied into in a dream.

The mist shimmered in the sun, the white walls and snow reflected the dawn of the morning, and the majestic minarets and palaces obscured the light, silent in shadow and cold......

Magnificent, noble, elegant, cold.

This...... It is the capital of the Dragon Kingdom.

Nied Hogg.

The black-haired wizard who climbed the wall pushed the disc that stood in the way of the shaft away, and together with Lusen, dragged Isaac up, and then three equally exhausted fellows walked to the battlement and looked out from the edge.

The entire Dragon King City is in full view for a while!

"Welcome to the lost ancient royal city, Nidhogg!"

Loren couldn't help biting his lower lip, and the exhaustion of his body was completely swallowed up by the surprise in front of him at this moment, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled:

"The last and perhaps the only remnant of the Dragon Kingdom that once ruled the world......"

"It's just... It's like ...... heaven"

The stunned gray-eyed boy also had an expression of disbelief, his open mouth never closed again, and his trembling hands carefully held on to the white wall in front of him, as if he was afraid that the scene in front of him would disappear if he touched it:

"It's spectacular... This is absolutely, absolutely impossible to be the kingdom of mankind!"

"Maybe. The black-haired wizard smiled meaningfully, gently stroking the jade-white city walls, his obsidian pupils looking at the majestic palace in the distance, and the long corridor like an elevated aqueduct.

The more he saw, the more he felt that "language" was really pale in the face of real "miracles".

"I've been in for a long time... Hehehe, it's actually a few years ago, and I've heard the story of 'Nidhogg' countless times from that 'father'. ”

Laughing softly and self-deprecatingly, Lu Sien breathed a long sigh of relief, smiling and his eyes were misty: "Really...... A picture is worth a thousand words. ”

"So... It's a bit of an offspring to be an illegitimate child, isn't it?" Loren chuckled, "Smack!" and pressed the thin shoulders of the gray-eyed boy:

"Think about it, even if those noble princes lived for a lifetime, they would never be able to imagine what you are seeing now—you live a more wonderful and real life than all of them. ”

"To them, whether it's Nidhogg or the Apostle of the Evil God, it's just an ethereal thing in the story, but to them, it's all a living existence, you've seen and experienced it, what could be more meaningful than that?"

"yes......"

The tired Lusen just shrugged his shoulders, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked up with a touch of bitterness, which made Loren on the side let out a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

I really can't comfort people......

Lusen scratched his head, his silver-gray pupils looked around, and after observing for a while, he turned back to look at the black-haired wizard beside him:

"Lord Loren, where do you think we are now?"

Loren frowned slightly, and subconsciously glanced around—there was no doubt that they must be on the wall of the Dragon King City somewhere, judging from the location of the entrance to the tunnel, it was likely to be due south......

"Probably somewhere more secluded back wall or something? Definitely not Nidhogg's gate, and the bridge connecting it was probably destroyed a long time ago, so ......"

"Alright, alright, alright...... That's the end of the work topic, you have time to talk about it!"

The black-haired wizard shrugged helplessly, and looked at Isaac, who had a leisurely face, sitting down against the city wall, and looking at the two of them with a smile:

"I said you two... Can't we sit down and rest for a while if we're not human—shouldn't we have had a great deal of trouble to stand on the walls of Niederhogg?"

Loren and the gray-eyed boy looked at each other, shook their heads with a wry smile, and sat down directly beside Isaac.

Nidhogg's door is at his feet, the most obstructive evil god apostle Faoda will not appear for the time being, and there are still more than twenty days left for his agreement with Brandon......

Indeed, it's time to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Loren, do you have any wine?" Isaac said suddenly, "I find myself craving a drink right now." ”

"Uh... Do you think I can ...... to run to a place like this?"

"Everden's rosé wine, with honey-soaked cherries sprinkled with crushed fruit and frosted with sugar – yes, the one Ein made for you the last time at the Nine-Pointed Star Wizard's Tower. ”

“......”

"I had already picked up the cup, but Ain snatched it back, and when I wanted it again, this stupid alchemist wouldn't make me a cup, so stingy!"

The silent Loren took an empty sheepskin water bladder from his backpack, stood up and grabbed the snow from the city wall and stuffed it in, shook it vigorously twice, and then walked over and handed it to Isaac:

"Here, your rosé wine with frosting. ”

"......" Lusen.

"Really?" Isaac, who was skeptical, put his nose on it and looked at the black-haired wizard with an inexplicable expression: "This doesn't smell like your cup." ”

"Originally... It should be different. ”

"Oh... I see!" Isaac suddenly realized, raised the water bladder and gestured twice at the two of them with a small smug face: "This cup is mine, so I'm not welcome - to the 'First Wizard' Logan and Nid Hogg!"

With that, he lifted the water bladder and drank it all, and before he could finish drinking, his face distorted, and his whole body trembled incessantly, and he hurriedly threw the water bladder back to the black-haired wizard:

"No, no... This wine is so exciting to drink, and I can't stand the smell of this tooth smashing!"

"......" The corners of Lu Sien's mouth twitched, and he hesitated for a long time before he tentatively spoke:

"That's... If that's okay, can we go on?"

"Wait!" Isaac stopped him, and got up from the ground trembling all over, as if he had not recovered from his "drunkenness":

"Before leaving, there is one more very important thing to do......" The corners of his mouth were raised high, and Isaac's gaze was biased to the black-haired wizard on the side: "Dear Loren junior, do you remember what you want to engrave?"

The Greatest Genius Wizard Bala Bala Bala ...... Of course I remember, and definitely impressed!

Pulling out the "bright silver" around his waist casually, Loren, who walked to the side of the parapet, showed a sly smile:

"I have a different ...... to note"

"Huh?" Isaac, with a little pride on his face, raised an eyebrow.

Ten minutes later, the black-haired wizard holding his shoulders curled the corners of his mouth: "How do you feel?"

This time, it was Lusen and Isaac who looked at each other with each other.

"I think it's okay......" Lusen.

"Okay...... Isaac pouted, but shrugged, "But it's not too bad, at least it's the first one today!"

Looking at Nidhogg, who was already close in the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Isaac Grantham, Led Wirtz's son Lusen, Loren Turin

Following the path of Logan, the First Wizard, we have come to Nidhogg to commemorate it

Whether it is to pursue faith, or to seek wisdom and knowledge, to purify the soul

May 'Nidhogg' give you everything you desire!"