The cold wind from the shoreline whistled and blew, rolling up the dust that had just cooled down from the barren land, and the light of the great sun shone obliquely on the devastated land, and even the scales of the dragon were coated with a rippling halo. The blue dragon, who had just woken from her slumber, stood in a daze in the shocking wasteland, and for the first few minutes she was in a state of confusion as "who am I, where am I, who beat me like this, who am I going to beat".

A strong wind blew, and Melita subconsciously shook her long neck, and a black and round object was blown down from a nearby mound of dirt by the wind, perhaps by some coincidence, or even fate, she found out that it was part of the lamp in her bedroom.

"Where's my house...... I'm that big in a house...... And my dragon's nest, my balcony...... I ......"

The newly restored mind was unable to process the large amount of information, and the blue dragon woke up from its slumber into a brief confusion, but as time passed, the dragon's powerful physique began to work, and the damage to the nervous system quickly recovered, and those dream-like memories finally became clear, showing their true appearance from the absurd and distorted impression - Melita's stunned and dazed expression gradually replaced by silence, her eyes became solemn, and when she looked at the ruins in front of her, Her expression had changed as if she had changed into a dragon.

Just then, a flapping of wings came from nearby, waking Melita from her contemplation.

Miss Blue Dragon suddenly raised her head to follow the voice, and in the next second, her eyes were full of surprise - a familiar, white figure was passing from the sky, looking around as if looking for something, Melita couldn't help but let out a roar at the sky, and the white dragon shadow finally found the figure in the ruins, and immediately landed in this direction.

Moments later, with a gust of wind and tremors, the white dragon landed on the edge of the ruins, and Melita finally gathered the strength to break free from the pile of rubble, and ran towards her friend with all the injuries on her body—she returned to her human form halfway through, which helped to reduce the consumption and save energy.

The white dragon Noretta maintained the dragon posture, and only after Melita came to her front did she lower her head: "Great, you guy is really alive!" ”

“…… It seems that only a small fraction of her compatriots have survived," Melita immediately understood the other meaning of her friend's words, her eyelids drooping, but she quickly raised her head again, "Anyway, it's good to see you." ”

"Seeing that you are the same," Noretta said in a low, gentle voice, with her head down, "Looks like you're awake again?" How many things do you remember? ”

"I'm not sure, my mind is still a little messy, but I remember a lot of clips from when the final battle broke out...... I remember that I ended up falling from the sky, but I was lucky enough to survive, and I remember a storm of fire......" Melita muttered, and couldn't help but press her hand to her forehead, "Now all the sounds are gone, gods, omegas...... I've never felt so quiet in my head in my life, and I'm not used to being quiet. ”

"Everyone who survives feels this way, and we'll get used to it," Noretta lowered her head and gently touched her friend's hair with her jaw, "I woke up a little earlier than you, I know the process." ”

"Survive......" Melita couldn't help but whisper, "how many survived?" Have you already gathered somewhere? What's going on now? ”

"Not many survived, scattered all over the battlefield, but the surviving ancient dragons of the Council and the Senate are trying to find a way to reorganize order and gather the people - I was sent out to find survivors, and a dozen or so of my compatriots who are as lightly injured as me are also patrolling around here," Noretta said, hanging half of her wings and motioning for Melita to climb on her back, "The situation is complicated now, there are too many things to explain, come on, I'll take you to your current temporary foothold, we'll fly on the road and say." ”

Melita looked at her friend's leaning back, and between the white dragon's graceful white scales, she could see a hideous wound - even though it had begun to heal, it was still shocking.

Melita knew that her injuries should be more serious, but she still shook her head with some hesitation: "Forget it, you're not much better than me......

"You weren't so polite to me before," Noretta said with a hint of teasing, and lowered her wings again, "You can't get up?" I'm telling you, there aren't many opportunities like this, maybe if you miss this time, there won't be a next one......"

"That's what you said!" Melita glared at the white dragon, then gritted her teeth and stepped onto her friend's broad back.

With a jolt, she felt like she was out of the earth and embraced the sky again—the dragon's protective barrier that opened automatically as it flew blocked the howling wind, and it wasn't until the cold wind stopped that Melita realized it: "The wind is so cold...... It feels like it's blowing straight from the ice ocean......"

"Of course, the Great Shield has been extinguished, and the entire continent is now exposed to a polar climate - we've lost almost all of our weather and tide controllers, and the climate in Tallund is only going to get worse."

Melita didn't respond, she just cautiously stepped on the scales of the white dragon and took two steps forward, and when she came to the dragon's shoulder blades, she poked her head out and looked down, so she saw for the first time from the sky what Tallund is now, and saw the true face of this post-war wasteland—Agundor had been completely destroyed, the mountains on the edge of the city had collapsed like sandcastles after a storm, and the ancient palaces and temples had been reduced to broken bricks and tiles between the rocks and the rift, The rubble was scorched everywhere after being hit by the heat, and a terrifying rift spread from the center of the city to the coastline.

The remains of dragons and various war machines are scattered across the desolate land, like ink spots on a platter of doom.

Melita couldn't help but purse her lips: "...... It's all gone...... Even the headquarters of the jury is gone, and there is not a single roof in sight. ”

"Nothing can stand in the face of the wrath of the gods," Norretta's voice came from the front, "We survivors are already the luckiest of all of Talrond. ”

Is the wrath of the gods......

Melita couldn't help but repeat the word in her heart, and the things that had infiltrated the deepest part of her mind flooded down little by little, making her emotions more and more complicated, and after a few minutes of silence, she couldn't help but ask, "So, we won?" ”

"It seems so," Noretta replied, "don't you hear the gods anymore?" nor will they hear or see unspeakable visions...... Me too. Everyone is free from that pervasive mental erosion, and that's the proof of the win. Elder Duke Moore had already declared victory at the gathering point...... Yes, we won. ”

"Won...... The greatest miracle of all, we actually won......" Melita couldn't help but mutter, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.

She didn't know how to describe her mood at the moment - the final battle, and all the dragons at the bottom of their minds knew that there would be a day in the future. Although no dragon has ever publicly proclaimed it, and no dragon has acknowledged that it will happen, this apocalyptic battle is almost mythical and legendary for many dragons, and every member of the race knows that it will come sooner or later from the moment they are implanted with the Resonance Core and able to think for themselves.

Talrond maintains balance in the cradle, but there is no eternal balance in the world, and short-lived humans can realize this, and dragons certainly can.

It's just that no one can say it until the final battle comes.

Faced with the final battle like a curse from time to time, some dragons will indulge in the bliss created by hallucinogens and synergists, some dragons will choose to resign themselves to fate and wait for it to come, and some dragons will recharge their energy and secretly prepare for it, but almost no dragon really thinks that mortals will be the victors in this battle - but now, victory has come.

"We've won, so theoretically we shouldn't be all gone...... Meleta suddenly realized the problem - as a high-ranking dragon living in the upper Talrond, and as a member of the Supreme Council, she was qualified to know more details about this final battle, so more questions arose at the moment, "But why did we wake up?" Are we actually ...... Lost half? ”

"No, we did win, but the situation changed in an unknown way," Noretta said in a deep voice, "Omega did not completely purge all nodes of their primordial minds, nor did they carry out the original 'self-purifying' command. In fact...... It seems to have vanished from Talrond, and released all the nodes before disappearing, so we can wake up. ”

"Gone? Omega disappeared? Melita's eyes widened in disbelief, "How did it disappear?" Do you mean those servers and compute nodes are gone? Or is the omega system gone? ”

"It seems to be the second case, but I don't know the specifics, I'm just in charge of coming out to search for survivors - Elder Duke Moore and a few mechanics seem to know better, but they are also a little confused. After all...... The Omega system has been running on its own for many years and iterating on its own, and it is already a complex system that even the original designers did not understand, and all the technicians have been able to do in the last few decades or so is to make more elaborate enclosures and renovate some of Omega's computing nodes. ”

“…… I couldn't help but think of Gawain's comment on Talrond, in private, he said that our situation is called 'Lost Holy Power'......" Melita couldn't help but mutter, and then slowly frowned, "Anyway, Omega has unleashed our minds...... This really doesn't fit the instruction logic......"

"But it's always a good thing, isn't it?" Noretta tilted her head slightly and said, "This keeps us alive." Although now it will be a little more troublesome for us to continue to live. ”

Noretta's words seemed to remind Melita, and Miss Blue Dragon, who was riding on the back of the dragon, couldn't help but look at the land below that had been turned into a wasteland again: "The current situation must be very bad, right?" Tell me about the problems we are facing now......"

"Well, while these things may not sound so pleasant," Noretta sighed, "let's start with the extinguishment of the Great Shield, then the shutdown of the ecology and the food and medical problems that followed, and the closure of the factories after the disappearance of Omega...... Although we don't have many factories to use now. ”

……

Outside of the Argondol Ruins, the sprawling complex that once served as the headquarters of factories and mega-corporations has also collapsed, and the massive steel structures and protective walls have been destroyed in the chaotic gravity storm and heat waves, turning into a strange posture twisting and crawling on the plains, but the area is still far more complete and stable than the actual urban cluster that has been completely reduced to ruins.

This is due to the high construction standards of the factory complexes themselves – these vital infrastructure plants have exceptionally robust structures and multiple layers of protection compared to urban facilities that value elegant and intricate shapes, and the area was not a major battlefield in previous battles.

So, while the factory facilities have been shut down and critical and fragile control systems have been completely destroyed, some of the most sturdy factories and caverns built on the ground floor have survived, and now they are temporary havens for the survivors—the scarred dragons who survived the final battle gather here with their tired bodies in tow, licking their wounds, and waiting for the future.

This is what Melita saw after getting off Noretta's back.

Truth be told, the miserable situation here makes it difficult for her to associate it with "victory".

"I know it doesn't look like a comfortable place to stay, but it's the most 'lively' place we've found right now," Noretta said with a hint of teasing, turning her head and looking at Melita limping off her wings, "but the conditions are limited, just use the stones here as a zero-gravity bed in your lair - you got it from the thrift market anyway, and it hasn't worked properly for a few days since you bought it." ”

"There's time to taunt me about my financial situation at the beginning, it's better to find a place to rest and rest, your wound will be open again," Melita glanced back at her friend, "and when it comes to financial problems, everyone is the same now anyway." ”

"Okay, I'm still optimistic, I'm much more relieved," Noretta retracted her wings, the wound on her back made the corners of her mouth twitch, but she still shook her head, "I'll set off again, to a combat zone in the south to see if there are any compatriots who have just woken up - the temperature is dropping, and although the dragon's physique is not enough to freeze to death by the cold wind at the North Pole, the physical exertion after the injury itself is very large, and the cold wind will make the injuries that could have healed out of control." ”

Speaking of which, Noretta looked at the battle-scarred factories and cave facilities in the gathering point: "At least there is a sheltered roof, and there are a few barely functioning heat pumps. ”

"Is your injury okay then?" Melita couldn't help but ask.

"Let's be honest, it hurts a little, but it's definitely okay to fly again," Noretta flicked her wings, "The white dragon has a strong recovery ability, and I'm still very confident in this." ”

"Okay, then you have to be careful."

"I'll be careful—you go to Calador first, he's in charge of order in this camp," Noretta said, raising her head and pointing her long neck towards the center of the camp, "There are a few red dragons out there besides, and their healing magic and repair techniques can help you stabilize your injuries." Now that Omega is gone, medical equipment and self-healing equipment are no longer available, we have to rely on traditional 'craftsmanship'...... Although their craftsmanship is not very good. ”