Chapter 157: Takulark
The dragon's lair, or rather the dragon's lair, is a dragon's nest, not the lair of a dragon race, the kind of nest where dragons ranging in number to dozens take care of their young dragons, and have not been discovered for thousands of years, although dragons are not rare in the Old World.
The entrance to the dragon's lair, which has been silent all year round, and only the wind and the dragon's snoring have passed through it has now welcomed uninvited guests, Shepard casually twisted a few extremely tough weeds on the wall, this is the dragon's lair grass, it has no use, and the only value is to prove that this is the place where the dragon lives, because only the dragon's powerful biomagnetic field can make everything around him change, and the dragon's lair grass is one of the least valuable of them.
The dragon is full of treasures, remove the value of the dragon itself, as well as the treasures they collect, wherever the dragon lives all the year round, if there are some valuable materials or veins, the value will only become greater, for example, there is a kind of dark purple dragon mine, which must be an open-pit vein in the mother dragon's lair to have a chance to appear, the number is scarce, and the magic adaptability is not weaker than the dragon's blood mine and several high-grade magic ores.
However, the reason for the formation is unknown, and if the mother dragon discovers a creature using this mineral, it will attack wildly, and the reason is still unknown.
The whirring wind is mixed with regular dragon snoring, the black dragon's snoring will spew smoke, the red dragon's snoring will spew flames, the green dragon's snoring will bring poisonous gas, and the pale green gas will spread through the cave with the flow of air, and all uninvited guests will have to face the body's defense mechanism that each dragon will naturally activate when he sleeps the moment he steps into the cave.
Fortunately, Shepard had already closed off his five senses, and stopping his breathing for a few hours was nothing to a god clone.
Dragon's Nest Grass, Awakening Dragon Wood, Ambergris Flower...... Along the way, he has seen more than ten kinds of endemic plants that can only appear when the dragon has lived for more than a hundred years, and some of them were picked up by him casually and thrown into the half-plane.
As he went deeper and deeper, the dragon ** became more and more dim, fortunately, the darkness could not block Shepard's sight, and when he walked out of the sudden downward passage for more than ten meters, it was like suddenly turning on the switch of the crystal lamp, and the dim and dark light was projected on the hard stone wall of the cave, which was the light reflected by various colors of gold and silver jewelry, and anyone who saw these things would be shocked.
More than a dozen meters high piles of gold buried most of the green dragon in gold, and other gems and jewels, weapons, and scrolls, like scenes from stories sung by bards for hundreds of years, suddenly appeared in front of me, which seemed reasonable and crazy.
But a sneer rose at the corner of Shepard's mouth, the Eye of the True God can see through all illusions, even if the illusion comes from the dragon, unless it has special energy or techniques, it is not enough to block the direct gaze of the True God.
A large bed large enough to accommodate a dozen people was placed in the center of the cave, and a man with long green hair and a large figure with some vicissitudes left over by time lay there and fell asleep, and even snoring came out of his mouth, and every breath brought out a faint green and uncontrollable dragon power.
This is a sleeping dragon that uses human transformation techniques, the aqua blue and grass green magic light is mixed into a light shield looming to protect the green dragon in the magic light mask, obviously, everything I saw before is an illusion, although a pile of gold coins is also placed next to the green dragon's bed, but where is the environment the number is amazing.
However, Shepard's gaze swept over the green dragon's hands, and three inconspicuous rings were on the green dragon's fingers, and he raised his eyebrows, and immediately withdrew his gaze.
Instead of sleeping in dragon form, the green dragon Takuralk used human transfiguration to sleep, and it seems that the old dragon's dark wounds may have become so severe that he has to rely on his human form to alleviate the erosion of his flesh.
Looking left and right, Shepard's figure disappeared in a flash, and he just went to the half-plane to prepare his back hand, and when Morel and his party were about to arrive, he came out and waited for them.
The pale green poisonous mist swirled around in the suddenly appeared hollow, filling the air of the dragon ** without any abnormality, and the green dragon Takuralk, who had covered himself with a large illusion in the light mask, frowned slightly, and looked a little older.
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Two and a half hours later, four figures appeared at the location where Shepard disappeared, three of them almost immediately dented the rocky ground, and it was only because Shepard concealed their existence that people could not find that there were three hard-to-find Adamantite Golems standing here, which was one of the mage's highest achievements in golems, with infinite power, invulnerability, and greatly weakened the effects of all spells.
The legendary Grand Arcanist used to put these golems in the mage tower as guards, with the energy heart of the floating city to provide energy, relying on the magic array to transmit energy wirelessly, these golems can move in the mage tower at will, and now although the function of wireless transmission has been lost, fortunately, the Adamantite Golem has a place for backup energy, Shepard turned over in the half-plane for a long time, and finally found three magic crystals that can be used.
The Adamantite Golem, which had not yet been activated, waited quietly with Shepard, and Tommar in the sensing was getting closer and closer, and it was obvious that Morel and his party were not far away.
Regardless of how those people climbed up the stone platform to enter the cave, Shepard looked up at the top of the cave, but he was thinking about how much strength the green dragon could have.
'The life of the dragon...... There is no need to think about this kind of thing, but Takulark was already an adult dragon as early as the chaotic period, and it has lived until now, both its strength and experience are not ordinary, and it is difficult to judge the strength. ’
Shepard frowned slightly, as he seemed to hear a slight sound, and it wasn't until a moment later that he realized it was footsteps coming from the mouth of the Dragon's Lair.
After thinking about it, he waved his hand to put away the golems, and retreated to a corner, as much as possible to avoid the attack of Morel and his party on the dragon or the counterattack of the green dragon to himself, this last section of the dragon's lair is extremely spacious, with a diameter of hundreds of meters, especially the uneven walls, and if you look carefully, you can find a hiding place.
"Stepping on ......"
Shepard shook his head helplessly, although the footsteps were slight, but there were more than a dozen people in the group, none of them were masters of the agility department, and together, the sound was not small, at least Shepard saw that although the green dragon was still snoring, his eyelids trembled slightly, as if he would wake up in the next moment.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the sleeping Takuralk suddenly opened his eyes, the cold light in the snake-like vertical pupils was cold, and he recovered after a while, and then he subconsciously reached out and covered a position on his body, which was obviously where the secret injury was.
'When I came to slay the dragon in my previous life, it seemed that Takuralk had a negative state, and the reason was not very clear, although the experience of the next book at that time was useless now, but this dark wound was still retained, I don't know if it was a heavy blow left by the past, or a curse imposed by someone? ’
Shepard looked at Takulark's subconscious behavior with interest, once the dragon reaches adulthood, it can have the epic attributes of human beings, even if it is a young dragon who has passed the young dragon period, it is not something that a few ordinary high-level professionals can make up their minds, without such a racial advantage, why is the dragon clan known as the first in all worlds.
The dark wound that can make the dragon can only recover slowly by sleeping, at least it is the epic powerhouse or even the legend of the old school can stay, or it is a curse left by some powerful gods or evil gods, but the green dragon is originally an evil dragon, and slaughtering humans is a pleasure for him, so it is more likely to be injured by the strong people of the good camp.
A few suppressed exclamations floated into the dragon's den, making Shepard shake his head and sigh a little: dare to slay the dragon with such a psychological quality? I'm afraid I don't know how to write dead words.
The green dragon's expression also became very strange, and the expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling hung on his face, which was more of a satire for the blind adventurer he hadn't seen for a long time.
There was no movement outside, and it was unknown if it was someone among Morel's who was interested in digging materials, but Shepard had already seen that there was nothing of value, and he didn't bother to say anything if the gang was just digging up some plants like dragon's den grass that were more symbolic than practical.
The green dragon didn't know that the biggest threat was dozens of meters away from him, and he still had a cunning and ruthless expression on his face, obviously treating the Morel and the others as the kind of arrogant adventurers he hadn't seen for many years, and after completing a few tasks, he couldn't wait to slay the dragon everywhere.
Grumpy and ferocious are the labels of dragons, but Takulark is treacherous and cunning enough, he can suppress his nature, let his patience wait for adventurers to come in, although he is not good at magic, and his most studied spells are [Human Transfiguration] and [Human Immobilization] and other spells, but he is also ready to cast spells, and can't wait to see humans deceived by his hallucinations.
The people with all their thoughts finally came to the door, and sure enough, they were blinded by the illusion, and everyone had a shocked look on their faces, especially those druids, there were only a few humans who could come to the dragon's lair in the long life of the green dragon, and most of the time, it was the green dragon who had finished the hunt and flew to the village contentedly, letting the servants clean up for themselves.
If you want to deal with a giant beast that is nearly ten times taller than yourself, in addition to having a big killing weapon such as a siege crossbow, you have to have your own attack power strong enough, but Morel is still calm and silent at the moment, even Shepard is very curious about the back hand he prepared, it seems that this son of the plot has been sharpened and matured a lot after losing the scepter.
Fearing that his words would alarm the awakened dragons, Morel and the others mainly relied on tacit understanding to communicate, while Tommar watched the druids at Morel's beckoning, lest they have other thoughts.
After a while, Morel gently turned the ring on his hand, and out of thin air conjured a long sword, a large bow, and three long black metal arrows!
The green dragon's eyes widened, and Shepard looked surprised: "Dragon's wail...... Is this a dragon-slaying weapon? ’
Morel pulled his bow away with a solemn face, and the arrow was aimed at the head of the illusion dragon, he didn't drag the mud and water at all, and as soon as the bowstring flicked, the black arrow flew out in an instant.
However, at the same time, a mouthful of highly poisonous dragon breath also appeared out of thin air, spraying at the unsuspecting group!
"Be careful!"
At this time, where can I care about such a trivial matter as not making a sound, Morel roared, and a magic shield on his body suddenly opened, barely protecting himself and Colanie behind him, Sylvian snorted, and the staff in her hand that was taller than herself struck the ground, and the magic light of the staff inlaid with three eye-catching magic gems lit up, and one of the three gems suddenly lit up, and immediately protected her and Fanny.
"Tommar, don't you come over quickly!"
Sylvie snorted, Tommar was not slow at all, and when he saw the dragon's breath being spewed out, he jumped over to the four Morel without even thinking about it, and at this time rolled twice on the ground, just falling into the life-saving magic inspired by Sylvie.
Only those few druids were really unlucky, a mouthful of dragon breath sprayed head-on, the highly toxic and corrosive green dragon dragon breath made them let out an almost distorted scream, after a while, there was only a corroded pit left on the ground covered by dragon breath, and several corpses that had not been completely dissolved still had acid residues on them slowly melting the bones.
"Damn it, this treacherous guy lied to us."
Morel scolded, the black arrow passed through the phantom and shot heavily on the stone wall, the dragon slaying arrow with attributes such as demon breaking and armor breaking destroyed the spell node of the illusion array, and the figure of the green dragon that seemed to be still asleep shook and distorted, but its value had been exerted to the maximum, the illusion disappeared, the amber dragon eyes looked at the remaining people coldly and mercilessly, and the feeling of mockery could be seen in Takulark's hideous mouth.
"Humble and small reptiles, what gives you the courage to enter my lair and try to attack me?"
The standard lingua franca echoed through the cavern with the low roar of a dragon, a loud sound that shook down a lot of dust, but Morel and the others were silent.
The green dragon lowered his head and stared at these small creatures, and after a while, he suddenly exclaimed, "No, no! He's been dead for years! Reptiles! Why do you have the disgrace of the dragon of Granofin Dalik, the breath of complete idiots?! ”
"Arrogant Takulark, I haven't seen you in hundreds of years, you're still so arrogant and arrogant......" The leisurely sarcastic voice echoed through the cavern, but it was impossible to detect where it came from.
The green dragon was unmoved, and the dragon's eyes only stared intently at the Morel and the others, muttering, "The smell of death...... You're dead...... Curse, the curse of the dragon soul......"
"Damn idiot!" Takulalk yelled, "Granofdalik! You dragon scum and disgrace have transformed yourself into a lich?! ”