Spring has arrived in the northern lands, but the cold wind is still the main theme for Longlin Castle at the top of the mountains, the wind from the direction of the coastline and the wind that rolls up with the mountain swells constantly blows the ancient fortress made of huge stones, and the howl between the outer cloisters and towering walls of the castle is unstoppable.

A huge brazier burned in the corridor between the inner and outer courtyards of the castle, and the energy shield rising from between the braziers blocked the cold wind from the outer cloister, but the sound of whistling through the shield was still heard from time to time. Sir Gorosh Sickel stood between two massive stone pillars, looking through the open cloister in the direction of the outer courtyard, where heavily armed dragon-blooded warriors stood tall and motionless in the cold wind, as if they were stone sculptures.

The Dragonborn's powerful physique can ignore the cold wind on the top of the mountain, which is one of the proudest parts of their bloodline for those who live in this land.

The sound of footsteps came from the side, and Sir Gorosh turned his head to see Sir Cosimir, with short black hair, approaching him, and he nodded slightly, and the latter replied casually, "I heard the Grand Duke say that the wind in Tallund is colder and more violent than here now...... I can't imagine what it was like there. ”

"Neither can I," said Ser Golosh, "we Dragonborn, who have not traveled north since birth, are forbidden to know anything about the other side of the northern sea...... In this respect, I am the same as you. ”

Sir Cosimir fell silent for a moment, and after a few seconds of silence he suddenly said, "How do you think the people of the Duchy will react when they learn the truth?" Will you accept this 'arrangement' that has lasted for millions of years, and the current 'mother family'? ”

“…… We're afraid we can't predict it exactly, there are too many variables behind this," Golosh shook his head, "Even I myself have been confused for a long time after learning everything. I have a ...... feeling about the primordial dragons Complicated, on the one hand, when the Tarrond civilization is doomed, they are protecting us by banishing the Dragonborn from their homeland and forbidding them to return, and it is because of this protection that we do not have to face that end-of-life war, and we do not have to become cold corpses in that wasteland in the north, but on the other hand...... This protection is also imposed on us by them, and in the most ruthless way. Of course, I can accept this, but there must be many people in the principality who have millions of people who can't accept this. ”

"No one likes a fate to be arranged - even more so for the Dragonborn," Ksimmir laughed, "The wind in this mountain is so cold and hard that the Dragonborn who live here are as cold as stone, and it seems to me that it will take a lot of effort to get everyone to accept the truth about Talrond......"

In the middle of Jazz's words, footsteps came from the side, and at the same time a disdainful female voice sounded: "It seems to me that these thoughts are all hypocritical. ”

"Lady Azalena," said Sir Cosimir, who followed the prestige and saw a red-haired woman in a shawl approaching, smiled and nodded, greeting her, "your assessment is as sharp as ever. ”

"Tell me the truth," the dragon seal witch Azarena snorted, looking rather disapproving, "I don't like fate to be arranged, it's all a matter of time to think about after living too comfortably, those who crawl out of the battlefield will never care if their lives are saved by someone - if anyone thinks that they have been broken off their wings because Tarlund is sorry for themselves, it's very simple, send them to Talrond and kill them in the wasteland, If what they want is a fate that has never been changed, then this is the fate that has never been changed—the fate that primordial dragons are facing. By that time they may have cried and shouted that they will also come back. ”

Sir Cosimir listened to the words of the dragon seal witch and said with a smile: "...... Sure enough, it's sharp, and it's really worthy of being a person who has traveled in the human world for many years, and your perspective on the problem is indeed novel and powerful. ”

"I just remembered what a man had said to me," said Azarena casually, "'The valiant die deserve to be buried with the sword, but the surviving can brag while roasting meat next to the grave of the former'—I once dismissed it, but have come to realize more and more that it is true. ”

Sir Cosimir was stunned for a moment, and his expression became strange: "...... That doesn't sound like a heroic statement. ”

"yes, he's not much of a hero, so he's still alive - and the heroes are buried with their swords," said Azalena softly, as if to say to herself, "...... If I could, I wish those guys could still drink and brag with us......"

Gorosh looked at the red-haired witch with some curiosity: "Lady Azarena? Are you ......"

"No, it's nothing, it's just a distraction," Azalena quickly shook off her memories and looked up at the high-ranking courtier in front of her, "Ah, I almost forgot about business...... Sir Golosh, it seems that we are going to the human world again: the candidate to represent the Principality of the Holy Dragon has been decided, and since the Grand Duke needs to stay here to stabilize the situation in the Principality, it is you and me who will be the envoys this time. ”

……

Accompanied by Melita, Kassandra came to a high platform next to the camp, a huge pile of boulders jutting out of the ground that was half-molten and solidified, the brittle obsidian ground still filled with streamers, and from the high platform she could see the entire camp under the sheltered bay, as well as most of the beach outside the camp and part of the wasteland leading inland.

Even though the moon of recovery had arrived, the cold winds in the Arctic were still cold, and Kassandra carefully controlled her elemental body, preventing herself from accidentally freezing, while curiously gazing at this strange and mysterious land to the Kraken - the large areas of ruins and some remnants of alloy structures in her field of vision showed the advanced prosperity of this place, which made her regret that she could not visit it in the glory days of Talrond - many things that amazed the fish were destined to be impossible to reproduce, Or even if it can be rebuilt, it won't be known how many years later.

"As you can see, after that war...... That's all that's left here," Melita said, "and for those of us who are trapped by the rules of the world, the price of breaking free is so high – just to be able to talk freely to 'extraterrestrial visitors' like you as we are now, we all have to pay with our lives." ”

"It's not a very friendly world...... Far worse than our homeland," Kassandra exclaimed, shaking her head, "Of course, I mean before our homeland was destroyed......"

"Your homeland...... Destroyed? Melita looked at the Kraken with some amazement, apparently she didn't know much about this history.

"It was a long, long time ago...... There was a surprise attack on our homeland, and the invaders were so powerful that we had no way to fight back, so we actually fled," Kassandra smiled and said with great visibility, "Many, many years have passed since then, and even the invaders must have died...... The ocean of our hometown may have come back to life, but we don't seem to be able to go back. ”

“…… It's really rewarding to communicate with the 'Extraterrestrial Visitor'," Melita was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh, "We races who have always been trapped on the planet can't imagine what the world looks like beyond the scale of light years. ”

Kassandra shook her head, "We're trapped on this planet now—so there's no difference between high and low, and even if I talk to you about interstellar travel, it's just a blow about the past." At the end of the day, we are all rebuilding our former civilization, and it doesn't make sense to talk about things with the generosity of the past. ”

"That's right," Melita smiled, and then said thoughtfully, as if thinking of something, "so it seems that all the races on this planet have finally embarked on the path of rebuilding civilization." ”

Kassandra just smiled and didn't say anything, and at about the same moment, a young dragon suddenly flew from the direction of the camp and landed on the platform where they were, and bent his neck towards Melita: "Captain, Grisdor, let me ask you, what to do with those water elementals caught in the camp?" They're getting noisier. ”

Melita immediately remembered the water elementals who were locked in the dragon rune array, and the water elementals who were only a dozen centimeters tall that were sucked up, and their noisy complaints, her expression became a little strange: "Is it still closed?" ”

"It's still closed, Grimstor was going to try to see if he could take some fresh water from them, but failed, those water elements have reached the limit of stability, and continuing to take water can only make them return to the elemental plane immediately," the young dragon replied honestly, "It's just that without you opening your mouth, we don't dare to let ......it go."

"Don't toss, I'm sure I won't be able to get the water out," Kassandra waved her hand to her, "I never have any living water under my straw—not to mention that the water elemental has been carefully pressed by me." ”

"Then let it all go," Melita nodded to the young dragon, "By the way, inform Glistor that if you find a similar small water elemental in the future, you can just ignore it, and you don't have to waste manpower." ”

The young dragon flapped his wings and left, and Melita glanced at Kassandra next to her with some curiosity: "Actually, I'm a little strange...... Did the Kraken normally rely on hunting other water elementals and absorbing water to sustain itself? I thought you usually get water directly from the natural environment......"

"Of course, we usually get our water directly from the natural environment," Kassandra said immediately, "The Kraken doesn't normally have to hunt primordial water elementals at all - only this time I had an accident, and while crossing the seabed, my men and I encountered an unstable elemental rift, and some bold primordial water elementals escaped from it to attack my team, and I punished them in order to teach them a lesson." ”

As he spoke, the black-haired kraken with a tear mole in the corner of his eye narrowed his eyes: "Don't worry about those guys, although they are sucked dry, as long as they return to the elemental world, they will soon recover - it's just that this feeling of being absorbed by the kraken will definitely leave a deep impression on them, at least for ten thousand years, those guys should not dare to move around this sea casually." ”

Melita was a little stunned when she heard this, not knowing whether to make an evaluation from the way the other party "taught a lesson" or to lament the seemingly peaceful Kraken's surprising brutality in the face of "similar to the same kind", and after thinking about it for a long time, she thought of a question: "Why do those water elements still attack the Kraken who is also a water element?" Aren't all elemental creatures of the same genus in the same genus have a good relationship with each other? ”

"Good relationship?" Kassandra smiled, "Ah, that's true for other elemental beings, but unfortunately we're outsiders on this planet...... The primordial water elementals here don't welcome us Krakens who have disturbed the peace of their plane.

"When Antavien crashed on the planet's surface, we didn't just destroy a continental shelf – some of the structures on the Antavien also pierced many 'tributaries' of the water elemental realm, and the effects have not completely subsided today.

"So since ancient times, the relationship between the primordial water elements and the kraken has been very tense, and there have even been several direct conflicts, but we also know that the fault lies with ourselves, so we have always tried to improve the relationship with those primordial water elements...... These efforts have not been fruitless, at least in areas covered by several tributaries of the main elements, where we have coexisted peacefully with the local water elements, but in more remote areas......"

Kassandra's tail curled up and dangled in mid-air, "Those scattered water elementals don't care about any 'coexistence agreement' - they or they will trouble the Kraken whenever they come out, and most of the time they refuse to communicate, over time...... Those of us who were out and about the Kraken had no choice but to fight back when we encountered a similar situation. ”

Melita has lived for many, many years and witnessed many incredible things in this world, but it was the first time she had heard of these things that only elemental beings could understand and perceive, and she listened to Kassandra's story with surprise and interest, until the other party finished speaking, she couldn't help but sigh: "I really didn't expect it...... There is still so much unknown and interesting history in this world in places we don't know. ”

Then she felt that her wording was not accurate enough, and hurriedly explained: "Ah, sorry, I don't think I should have used 'interesting' to describe this history......"

"Don't worry," Kassandra immediately waved her hand, "We Krakens have a different way of looking at the world than yours, so you're not wrong, even we find these histories interesting...... That's all the fighting between the elements, we're used to dying anyway, and I suspect even the primordial water elementals who were hostile to the Kraken were used to it—the last one I let go of today, the more I think about it, the more I feel like I had it forty or fifty thousand years ago......"

Melita: "......"