Chapter 2: The Magic of the Dragon
The dragon's deep voice rang out in the empty cavern, and the two teenagers facing the dragon were already stunned, and Mick's legs were weak, and he couldn't help but sit on the ground.
Kenneth stared blankly at the dragon, and after a long while, he pinched his cheek, and the sharp pain reminded him that this was not his dream, so he turned to Mick who was sitting on the ground and excitedly said, "Mick, what's the matter, what I said is true, right?" The dragons aren't dead, they're alive! ”
Mick trembled and pointed behind Kenneth and said, "Kenny...... ...... behind your back"
As soon as Kenneth turned his head, he saw two large nostrils, and the dragon just inhaled and exhaled, and blew Kenneth away, tumbling and crashing against the stone wall behind him.
Mick watched Kenneth hit the wall and stopped moving, quickly ran to Kenneth, probed his nose and realized that he had just fainted, so he tried to get up in front of him, and watched the huge dragon head gradually approach him, although he wanted to turn around and flee, but the friendship strengthened his steps, closed his eyes and shouted, "Don't eat my friend!" ”
The smell of fish forced Mick to open his eyes, and he saw the dragon's mouth open, revealing every tooth as tall as the lighthouse in Tushan Town, and Mick's body trembled like a newborn lamb, but it was still in front of Kenneth.
The dragon closed its mouth, and the huge body was suddenly covered with complicated magic arrays, and the next moment, he had turned into a handsome man and appeared in front of Mick, only to see his red hair hanging down to the ground, wearing a red robe on the ground, revealing a toned white chest, and naked feet, except for being too handsome and bewitching, everything was no different from ordinary humans, only the pair of crimson snake eyes reminded Mick that the man in front of him was the dragon just now.
"Brave but reckless, timid but loyal, you two little ones are so funny." The red-haired man walked up to Mick, a pair of snake eyes flashed with curiosity and penetration, and a small brown-yellow magic circle appeared on Mick's forehead at the tip of his finger, "I want to know which of you two will become the legendary hero." ”
Mick stared blankly at the man in front of him, not knowing what he had done to him, so he could only murmur, "You, who are you?" ”
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, ahem." The red-haired man cleared his throat, stepped away from Mick, and introduced himself with a standard gentlemanly salute, "I am Hephaestus, the dragon of fire, who fought alongside the hero Syd Castro Theo against demons. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mick Luther. ”
"Y-How do you know my name?!" Mick turned to look at Kenneth and was relieved to find that he hadn't woken up.
Hephaestus shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's just an ordinary sixth-order earth-based magic-Mind Exploration, well, it's the magic array that was released when he touched your forehead just now." Of course, because the level gap between the two of us is too big, I accidentally read all your memories of the past eight years. Of course, I apologize to you, dear Mick Hilrod. ”
Despite Hephaestus' understatement, Mick was in a deep state of shock. Sixth-order magic, which can only be used by the chief magician of the Empire, is said to be supplemented by top-quality staff and gems, and the man in front of him, oh no, this dragon in front of him, can not be shocked by the fact that he can cast it so easily?
And, he said his name was, Hephaestus?
Mick pointed at the red-haired man and exclaimed, "You, are you Hephaestus?" Are you really alive?! So, is that legend fake? So how did this mountain range come about? ”
Hephaestus stretched out his two hands to signal Mick to calm down, and smiled, "Little one, you really have a lot of questions, but in answering them, I think I need to let your friend hear them with you." ”
After speaking, Hephaestus walked past Mick and approached Kenneth who was lying on the ground, and saw that he had different degrees of abrasions on his face, arms and legs, and frowned slightly apologetically: "I'm sorry, I haven't dealt with humans for five hundred years, and I almost forgot that you are so weak." Then he stretched out his fingers like fine jade, and a magic array appeared on his fingertips as just now, but this magic array was dark blue, and the techniques depicted on it were not complicated, even Mick who came to Hephaestus's side could recognize them all, this was just a simple first-order water magic-healing technique.
However, to Mick's surprise, Hephaestus' healing spell was more powerful than all the healing techniques he had ever seen, and in just three seconds, Kenneth's abrasions were healed, and the man slowly woke up from his coma.
"Is this also the power of dragons...... "Mick muttered to himself. You must know that although ordinary humans (who are compatible with water-based magic elements) can perform healing techniques, if they want to heal Kenneth's abrasions, it will take at least a minute, which is obviously far less effective than Hephaestus.
Hephaestus tilted his head and smiled: "This is just a difference in affinity with the water element, of course, this is also our talent as a dragon, if we let the Ming Tower perform it, this level of healing can be completely comparable to the fourth-order magic of the water system used by you humans - the recovery technique." ”
Mick looked at such a gentle Hephaestus, scratched his head, and said, "You are very different from the fire dragon I imagined. ”
"Hehe, you thought the fire dragon had to be grumpy, did you?" Hephaestus happily stretched out a finger and pointed it on Mick's forehead, as if he was happy to deceive someone, and said, "I am called the Fire Dragon, just because I have the highest affinity with the fire element, of course, if the affinity is too high but I can't control it, it will naturally let the element affect the mind, but this kind of thing naturally can't happen to the dragon." Yo, your friend woke up. ”
I saw Kenneth slowly open his eyes, rubbed his eyes in confusion, and said to Mick: "Mick, I seem to have dreamed that I saw a dragon just now......
Mick saw that Kenneth seemed to be stunned, so he reached out and patted Kenneth on the face and reminded, "Kenny, wake up, you're not dreaming, what you said is true, the dragon is not dead!" ”
As soon as he heard Mick say this, Kenneth immediately came to his senses, completely ignoring Hephaestus in front of him and looking around, "Really? Where is it? Where is it? ”
Mick reluctantly pulled Kenneth over, pointed to Hephaestus, whose face was full of depression, and said, "This is the fire dragon - Hephaestus." ”
"What?!" Kenneth looked left and right, looked at Mick with suspicion, and said, "Mick, are you frightened, this is clearly a person, how can it be Hephaestus?" ”
Hephaestus finally couldn't help but cough and interrupted Kenneth: "Well, Kenneth Lancelot, I am indeed Hephaestus, and what you see now is only the form I have changed with magic. ”
Kenneth kept saying, "And this magical magic?!" ”
But it was Mick who nodded and said, "The legendary eighth-order magic of the water system, the 'Water Phantom', can do this. ”
Hephaestus looked at Mick and smiled, obviously he admired Mick's erudition, but he shook his head and said to the two: "This is not the 'Water Phantom', but the eighth-order fire magic, the 'Fire Reflection', although it does not have the destructive power of fire magic, it is indeed very practical. ”
Kenneth and Mick thought about it, if Hephaestus had been talking to them in dragon form, they would have fainted with fright.
"Alright, that's the end of the small talk, it's time to get down to business." Hephaestus clapped his hands, and a hole appeared, "Two boys, I know that you must have many doubts in your hearts, so let me tell you slowly." It's just that it may take a bit longer, so it's better for us to sit down. ”
So Hephaestus led Kenneth and Mick into the cave, and the two teenagers looked around curiously, which seemed to be Hephaestus' library, and the huge shelves were fifteen meters high, and they couldn't count how many of them were at a glance. The shelves were filled with all sorts of books, parchment, paper, stone, and even foliage, and Kenneth and Mick approached the bottom of one of the shelves curiously to find that not all of the text on it was in human language, and even that most of the text on the spine was not in human language, and that there was more than one language.
"Come, go this way, follow me, don't get lost." Hephaestus gently reminded the two of them. Perhaps due to Hephaestus' personality, the bookshelves were not neatly arranged in several rows, but were interspersed with each other and arranged irregularly, and thanks to the dragon's powerful memory, he was able to know the exact location of each book.
Hephaestus led the two of them through the labyrinthine of bookshelves, and after twenty minutes, he finally stopped at a large desk, and the magic array of events flashed, and the desk immediately shrank to a size that matched his size at this time, and said to the two, "Sit down, the child chosen by the dragon god." ”
Kenneth asked curiously, "What is the dragon god?" ”
Mick quickly covered Kenneth's mouth, glanced at Hephaestus, who still had a gentle expression, and said softly: "This must be the god that the dragons believe in, just like we believe in the four heroes!" ”
"Ahhh ”
Hephaestus raised his eyebrows when he heard "uncle", but he didn't say anything, and the snake pupils swept over Kenneth and Mick's immature faces, and said with a relaxed expression: "Well, the first thing I want to tell you is that I am about to die." ”