Chapter 2191: Exploring the Trail of Shalan (29)

Boom! The sound of metal colliding echoed throughout the interior of the mansion as the heavy steel gate closed behind Elaine, and the White Bear felt its heaviness. The door is the kind of door with a self-closing device, and it is possible to push the door open from the front only with enough arm strength, and the two large iron doors will close quickly after being pushed open, and it is impossible to keep the door open without the same amazing arm strength, and enter the hall of the old house through the main entrance.

"More than 5,000 years ago, the Palinlore family was originally just a family of knights of the kingdom with the blood of the Pantoraken royal family, which was not very pure. The Grand Duke did not stop, and as soon as he pushed the door and entered the ancient mansion, he continued to walk forward, and had already entered the almost empty hall of the ancient mansion.

The not-so-elaborate but extremely hard granite floor in the hall collided with the metal leg armor of Grand Duke Parinlore (he had no combat mission today, and was wearing it to attend Daniel's Silver Knight Promotion Ceremony) with a crisp thud.

"Originally, a royal family of Pantoraken with a less pure blood could only enjoy a higher title in Great Britain at best. There are many such collateral royal families, and if the family members don't work hard, they will begin to decline in a few generations, and become a declining aristocrat with an empty title, but in fact not much different from the status of the commoners. The Grand Duke asked as he walked, "Do you know what makes the bloodline of the Parin Lore family prosperous and has always maintained its glory today?"

"Hmm...... No, I don't know. The White Bear Man replied truthfully. The Grand Duke of Parinlore was clearly embarrassed, how could he have guessed such a thing.

"Well, it's no surprise that you can't guess, after all, you're not from Great Britain at first, and you're indifferent to it. Palinlore walked up the grand staircase in the middle of the hall and headed to the second floor. Ostensibly he was going to go up to the second floor, but in fact he stopped in the middle of the stairs and reached for a painting hanging on the wall, fiddling with a mechanism that was very cleverly hidden behind the giant painting.

Boom, boom, boom! The sound of the gear link running inside the mechanism stretched from the oil painting to Elaine's feet. Something seemed to open up in the center of the hall near the staircase, and at the back of the large staircase up to the second floor, there was the sound of hinges dragging heavy objects.

"There are two reasons why the Parin Lorre family has continued to thrive. The Grand Duke also walked down the stairs from the second floor and walked back: "First, as a side line of the Pantoraken royal family, the Parinlore family has a thin dragon bloodline. And there is a special atavistic phenomenon that appeared in the Palinlore family five thousand years ago, that is, the power of the awakened dragon's blood. ＂

"Dragon, dragon's blood, ......?"

"In the past five thousand years, the Palinlore family has frequently appeared with various descendants with dragon powers. There are people who are born with infinite strength, there are people who can use the talents of dragon roar and dragon flame, and there are people like me who have [super recovery power] that is close to or even surpasses the dragon race. ＂

"Super, super recovery?"

"Nothing surprising. That's the same thing as your ability to heal yourself. When the body is injured, it repairs itself at an alarming rate. Parin Lore further explained, "Among those who have awakened the dragon blood in the family, the one with [super recovery power] is the most important. ------Come with me. ＂

The Grand Duke walked around the back of the stairs in the hall. There, it turns out that the mechanism has already opened a way to the underground. The wide staircase leads down to somewhere deep underground.

The Heavenly Knight also lit the torch he had prepared in advance and walked in, "What are you doing in a daze? ＂

"Uh-huh...... "The cold air that keeps coming up from the ground makes the white bear people have a very bad premonition. But he followed.

"Probably more than 5,000 years ago, almost at the same time as the awakening of the dragon blood of the Palinlore family, a mysterious creature appeared in front of our family's ancestors. ＂

The Grand Duke said as he walked, holding on to the handrail carved directly into the stone wall with one hand, and holding the torch extremely high with the other. The obsidian floor was slippery by a chill that poured from the ground, and if you walk down the stairs, you could fall down the stairs and get seriously injured at any time.

"That mysterious creature is immense. He was a black beast with black hair all over his body and a scorching smell all over his body. He first appeared in the ancient ruins beneath the ground, his roar spreading from the depths of the earth to the surface. As if guided by fate (Kama), this place was originally one of the territories of the Palinlore family. It was at that time that the ancestors of my family met him. ＂

"He, ...... him?"

"Hmm. How to describe it, in order to explain it? The reckless man of Parin Lore thought for a long time while chattering, and finally explained: "

It was the one who carried [the Tinder], the King of the Flames.

It is a false god who is infinitely reborn even if it is infinitely burned, and remains [alive] forever.

That's ------ [Black Dragon Devouring Flame].

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"Eh, what's ......?" the white bear man was completely stunned.

"It's okay if you don't understand it now. When you see him with your own eyes, you will understand everything. Parin Lore turned to look at the White Bear: "But this matter is to be kept secret from anyone. The Knights of Great Britain did not know about this, not even His Majesty King Arthur, but only a handful of the heads of my Parinlore family. If you tell the truth, I'll kill you before it gets started. If one is not enough, you will be killed ten times, and if ten times is not enough, you will be killed a hundred, a thousand times, until you are completely dead. Got it?"

"Wow!" a cold sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead. He knew Parin Lore was serious. He could feel it in the murderous eyes of the other party.

"So. "After a long walk, the staircase that stretched endlessly underground finally came to an end, and in front of the huge underground grotto at the end was an extremely heavy gate that had been gradually covered with rust in the endless years.

Its material is unknown. If it was pure metal, this door would have been too rusty to open. But as Parin Lore slowly pushed open the massive metal door with folding fans, the sound of it rubbing against the ground was about the same as two heavy steel plates.

The grotto is still stretching down, and at the bottom is a large pit that is slightly deeper. There are artificial steps that have been randomly carved to connect the deep pits, but the stone staircase is extremely rough in workmanship, and it cannot be compared with the ancient but delicate obsidian staircase just now.

Elaine looked into the pit at the bottom of the grotto, and seemed to be able to see a moving shadow in the distance. It was the flickering light of the fire, the warmth of the crimson change. This fire is steady and permanent, as if it has been going on since tens of thousands of years ago.

Who lit this unquenchable fire in a pit hundreds of feet above the ground?

What's the point of burning this inextinguishable fire in an underground grotto that almost never be visited?

With all kinds of questions in her heart, and with extremely complicated feelings, Elaine followed the Grand Duke of Parinlore into the pit of the grotto.

As the distance got closer, he could see more and more clearly. The unquenchable fire that ignited in the depths of the pit did not come from any firewood, oil, or lamps.

Burning there was the flesh of a living being.

Or, in other words, the one who sleeps there is a burning creature.

It was, surrounded by flames, a huge black dragon. The black dragon, which was on fire, dozed off there as if nothing had happened, and did not seem to feel the slightest pain from the burning flames.

Elaine had heard of the amazing creatures of the "Firebird" in Africa, which was similarly enveloped in an eternal flame. But he also heard that the firebird's flame had no heat, it was the excess light emitted by the constant overflow of photons from the firebird's body, a kind of fire produced by the difference in position (Elaine didn't understand what the difference in position was, but Bedwell told him so at the time, and he remembered it).

But now the [Flame Black Dragon] that appeared in front of the White Bearman's eyes was the opposite of the Firebird, and the fire emitted from his body had actual heat, and it was extremely hot. Even as the two of them walked towards the deep pit of the grotto, a hundred feet away from the black dragon, Elaine could already feel the overwhelming heat rushing towards her. He felt his throat dry for a while, and the white bear hair on his body couldn't stand the burning, and sweat kept pouring out of the special sweat-wicking organ at the tip of the hair, quickly wetting his body, making him feel sticky all over his body.

"W-This?!" Elaine's eyes were dry and uncomfortable from the constant heat, and he used his hand to block the hot wind, tears of protection from his eyes so as not to be burned by the heat.

"Didn't I tell you. This is [the black dragon that devours the flames]. "Palinlore had prepared an eye shield to protect his eyes from the beginning, and he had put it on by this time.

"He has been sleeping here for thousands of years, with only a small initial communication with the ancestors of my Parin Lore family, and then he has been half-asleep and half-awake in the form of teleportation to guide my clan. ＂

The Heavenly Knight Parin Lore continued.

"In the past thousands of years, the reason why the Parinlore family has prospered today is all due to the black dragon. It was he who gave us [the Tinder] to give the Chosen One of the Palinlore family the power of a thousand. It is he who has given us [the revelation] that the Palinlore family will not be lost in the chaos of this time. It is the patron saint of our people. ＂

"Guard, guardian ......?" Elaine the White Bear couldn't even believe that the Heavenly Knight Grand Duke Parin Lore and his family, who had been worshipping the [god] for thousands of years, were actually a black dragon sleeping in the ground, burning all over his body!

"It was he who first gave the revelation that the descendants of the Palinlore family would bring you to him thousands of years later. Parin Lore looked at Elaine with a serious face:

"For you are the only one besides the Palinlore family who is qualified to receive [the Eternal Flame]. ＂