"It's hard to believe that the Black Dragon is not in the Central Ocean, nor in the Rocky Mountains, but on the island of Mounhoek in the Caspi Sea. ”

In a jungle, there stood two middle-aged men in black mage robes, one bald and the other short and fat, none other than Thomas and Barty, members of the Illuminati who had previously held the Truth Initiation Ceremony in Berlingham.

Thomas, a master of Transfiguration who was well-versed in spells and spatial factions, looked into the depths of the rainforest, smug and a little glad:

"What's more, if it weren't for the fact that I had been secretly following Talos on the orders of the Flame Bringer, I wouldn't have known that they were able to invite a mage who specializes in the prophecy faction to prophesy the location of the Black Dragon and come directly to the Caspi Sea, and you are probably still wasting your time in the sea or in the Loki Mountains, betraying the trust of the Flame Bringer. ”

Barty had nothing to argue with at this point, and it was indeed Thomas who helped him a lot, nodding his head and cheerfully promised, "I owe you a favor." ”

As he spoke, Barty took out a small round mirror from the Spatial Ring and tried to input the magic power, but nothing happened to it, like an ordinary mirror.

Then his left eye widened, and a scarlet inverted pentagonal pattern appeared in his pupils, projecting a magical aura that spread out in front of him, turning into a cloud of mist, and there was nothing in the mist.

The reaction of the two made Thomas's face not look very good: "Damn, neither the two-way mirror nor the Eye of True Knowledge can function normally, and we can't get in touch with other people, and the magic net fused with the entire main material plane cuts off the possibility of communication between us and the Blackest Star." ”

Barty pursed his lips and glanced at the sky, which was where the gods were located, the enemies that the Illuminati's will of truth would eventually need to sweep away, "You should be glad that we are just two insignificant little ants in the eyes of the gods, and it is not worth any god to throw divine power into the magic net and turn on the plane investigation function-"

Speaking of this, Bhatti paused, and his tone was palpable: "The ancient arcane empire probably never imagined that their greatest invention would end up in the hands of the gods, and become a powerful means for the gods to control the plane. ”

"What now, without getting in touch with the Blackest Star, we won't be able to know who Norman (Richard's uncle) or Talos is the key person in the mouth of the Chief Bishop of Truth?" asked the bald mage.

"I remember you said that Talos came out with a great druid and a great knight?"

"That's right. ”

"With his strength and identity, there should be no danger to his life for the time being......"

Traveling with two third-order professionals and two fourth-order professionals, and being the son of a new legendary mage, it was not surprising that Barty would have such an idea.

On the other hand, the fact that Talos is leading them to find the Black Dragon makes Barty consider the possibility that the four-armed Naga is the key figure, which shows how important and crucial Talos is to the Illuminati, making it difficult for him to define it as a simple accident or a surprising coincidence.

After hesitating for nearly ten seconds, Barty finally made a difficult decision: "Concentrate our forces, let's act together to try to seize the Frost Crown before the other forces find the Black Dragon, the treasures of the Holy Land should not be lost in the main material plane because of that traitor in Urban." ”

Compared to the key figures, it is probably more important to have the treasures of the Holy Land, right?

Grand Druid Tynan withdrew his right hand from a giant otter and shook his head at Mural: "There is no trace of the black dragon. ”

Mages and druids who are proficient in the prophecy faction are the two classes that are best at gathering external information when adventuring in the wild, or when entering an unfamiliar environment, the former's signature spells are environmental reconnaissance that can directly draw parchment maps, and advanced reconnaissance skills that generate three-dimensional holographic models, while the latter is good at exchanging information and communicating with various plants, animals, and even the entire geographical environment.

Still, the same thing has been uttered four times in the last two hours, and it has to be said that it is a dismal result.

He had many botanical conversations, including plant-type magical beasts endemic to the rainforest, such as pest vines and witch grass, but none of the mixed information he received was related to the black dragon.

Given the limited amount of information that plants can keep, Tynan shifted his focus to animals and monsters, which could reach more places than plants that could not move their bodies, and the giant otter was one of them.

"It's strange, yesterday I obviously got the news that the black dragon had captured the python for food, and there was no reason why it disappeared without a trace overnight. ”

The black dragon Marcas must still be on Mosanhoek Island, Talos is convinced.

- Dragons are born with the ability to cast spells and can learn other spells through the day they are acquired, but the five-colored dragon is often very disdainful of transforming into other creatures, which would damage the dignity and pride of being a dragon.

"Wait a minute—" Tynan pressed his newly withdrawn hand back onto the otter, his left hand soothing the tiger-sized beast, "Our friend seems to have found something interesting. ”

Half a minute later, the Great Druid took out the magic flying carpet and flew into the sky with Talos and the others, who had been flying along the river until now: "Look there, it's that mountain. ”

Looking in the direction of Tynan's finger, Talos saw a hill covered with lush jungle, the kind of mountain that was found on Mosanhoek Island, if not a thousand, but eight hundred.

He tried to observe, but didn't find anything of special interest.

Talos looked at Tynan suspiciously, urging the other party to explain quickly.

"Let me explain it in the simplest way, that peak didn't exist before yesterday. ”

"How man-made is it?" Adelaide asked.

She is a great knight, and professional questions need to be answered by professionals.

Talos thought for a moment and said, "The Earth Elemental faction has advanced spells that shape mountains and change terrain, but if it's man-made, we'll hear at least a little movement. ”

There are a huge number of animals and magical beasts living in the rainforest, and it is impossible for them not to cause any impact, so silently appearing out of thin air.

Dolores seemed to guess what Tynan was trying to say, and said in a disapproving tone, "No, that's ridiculous, it doesn't make sense at all—Marcas is still a long way from death, even if he is only a fourth-order, not an ancient dragon!"

"But that's exactly why we couldn't find the black dragon on Mozambique, and the root cause of Marcas' disappearance. ”

At this point in the conversation, Talos probably understood the crux of the argument between the Great Druid and the Naga Witch: "You mean, that suddenly extra mountain may be the dragon vein of the black dragon?"

"No—" the Naga Witch immediately denied, "none of the conditions are met. ”

"I thought I should go first. Talos had seen the "impossible" and "there would be no worse outcome." ”

At the same time, he reminisced about the Elemental Dragons, Metal Dragons, and Five-Colored Dragons, a book of dragon lore compiled by the ancestors of the Nepton family, which Sandra had listed on Talos' must-read list as a mage.

As two of the most famous legendary creatures in the world of Sainz, longevity is another characteristic of dragons, each dragon has a lifespan of 1,000 to 1,500 years unless killed violently in the middle of the process, and the ancient dragons whose life forms have been metamorphosed and promoted to the fifth order have an even longer life.

Despite this, dragons will still come to their deaths, including ancient dragons.

When death strikes, the metal dragon will most often choose to eat his entire treasury, all the treasures he has collected in his lifetime, and then spread his dragon wings to meet death in the burial place of the entire dragon clan, which is also known as the legendary dragon tomb, to free his soul and return to the kingdom of God.

The location of the Dragon's Tomb is still a mystery, and no scholar can tell the exact location of the Dragon's Tomb, in fact, even the dragons themselves don't know until they feel the shadow of death, and only when they begin to devour the treasure house and decide to meet death, will they go there smoothly under the guidance of a mysterious force in the underworld.

Compared to the calm death of most metal dragons, most five-colored dragons are very reluctant to watch life wither, waiting for death is a nest, and they are more willing to leave with the pride of belonging to the dragon clan in a vigorous and magnificent battle.

For example, actively invade other dragon territories, provoke sworn enemies in a long life, or directly enter the realms of other races and civilizations, recklessly cause catastrophic destruction, and end everything in battles with warriors and heroes.

In addition to these two methods, there is actually a third method for ancient dragons whose strength has reached the fifth order, which is to integrate into the environment, assimilate with nature, and become a dragon vein.

It takes anywhere from a week to a month for the dragon vein to form, during which time the energy emitted by the ancient dragon will cause various regional environmental changes.

The formed dragon veins have more active elemental energy than other places, and are the best place for other female dragons to lay eggs.

- The dragon veins of a fifth-order black dragon are often located in the endless swamp, which is a small island, and is accompanied by countless poisonous miasma.

Cubs who grow up in dragon veins are infiltrated by the remnants of the dragon's life energy and magical energy, making them healthier, stronger, and wiser.

In some dragon veins, a rare magic crystal will be born naturally, and the dragon blood crystal, a rare material ranked ninth in the "1000 Magic Materials" compiled by the Nine Rings Council, was born.

"I agree with Tarr that we shouldn't let go of any possibility, even if it's negligible. Mural said.

The group quickly came to an agreement, and under the control of Tynan and Dolores, they drove two magic flying carpets towards the mountain.

But just then, a bright white light shot out from the top of the mountain peak, reaching into the sky.

The white light pierced through the clouds and formed a huge vortex in the air, pulling all the other clouds around it.

In less than ten seconds, the whirlpool gathered clouds more than 300 feet thick, obscuring the sun, and the scorching sun became gloomy and terrifying in the blink of an eye.

From Talos's point of view, the clouds and the entire vortex seem to be about to turn into substance and press directly on the earth, giving people a strong sense of oppression and tension, as if the end is coming.

In fact, Talos was not wrong with this hunch, for the vortex vision had only existed for less than twenty seconds, and then the clouds swirled and creaked loudly, and the most abundant water vapor in the rainforest froze and turned into fist-sized hail from the sky.

The invisible cold air continued to spread in all directions around the peak of the suspected black dragon dragon vein just now, and the ground froze everywhere it went, the vegetation quickly covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and the torrent composed of various demonic beasts fled in all directions desperately.

Then, one of the hottest places in the entire main matter plane, the temperature in the Mosanhoek rainforest plummeted, and it actually fell a lot of goose feather snow, and the lush green was soon replaced by white, and it was a land of ice and snow.

If it weren't for the certainty that the place they were in was the Caspi Sea, Talos would have suspected that they had crashed into some kind of magic circle while flying with the help of a magic carpet and were teleported to Dolores' homeland, Antarctic Iceland.

Feeling the biting cold air blowing by his side, Talos tightened his clothes, Mural frowned, both of them were bloodline knights whose strength had reached the third order and were not afraid of the cold, but the sudden temperature difference made them feel uncomfortable.

Dolores's tail flicked lightly twice, feeling the chill he hadn't seen for a long time, but his expression became solemn: "Judging from the temperature change and the range of influence, although it can't be compared to a legendary spell, it is by no means weaker than any fourth-order spell. ”

"The Frost Crown. Talos thought of a possibility and blurted out, "Black Dragon Marcus has a treasure in his hand, the Frost Holy Crown!"

Even, this is the fundamental reason why he will turn into a dragon vein!

The vision on Mosanhoek Island soon caught the attention of the other forces.

"This phenomenon—" Barty looked at the cold winter spreading from afar, and unsurprisingly connected to the Frost Crown in the hands of the black dragon Marcas.

"Let's go!"

Thomas grabbed Barty and disappeared from the spot, appearing the next second when he was exactly a mile away.

Spatial faction spells, spatial displacement.

After three times in a row, the two appeared on the dragon vein.

The dragon vein was not empty, and when the two mages of the Illuminati arrived with the help of spatial displacement, one had already arrived before them.

It was a handsome young man, dressed in mage robes, holding a wand, and with a smirk of no warmth on his face.

Behind him, there was a line of Iron Knights, twelve in all, drawing their broadswords in unison as Thomas and Barty appeared.

The two of them didn't care about this group of constructors, although the combined system, strength, and number could pose some threats to a fourth-order professional.

What really caught their attention was what was under the other's feet, a huge two-tailed giant crocodile structure, over 200 feet in size, and its scarlet eyes were filled with a terrifying tyranny and murderous intent!

It's a behemoth, and it's a killing machine with intelligence!

Neither of them is a mage who is well-versed in the enchantment faction, but some of the basics of making constructs are pretty clear.

The strength of a construct depends on several factors: the skill of the enchantment, the capacity of the mana, the craftsmanship of the carving, the quality of the material, and the number of runes......

The larger the size, the more materials are consumed, and the more complex the internal structure, the more difficult it is to enlighten and activate - of course, once successful, the more terrifying the combat power that can burst out during the battle - it will cost a lot of precious metals, minerals, gold coins, and magical energy as a power center.

This is also the reason why major magic organizations, mage towers, and magic laboratories are only equipped with simple golems, and there are few large constructs.

What's more, in the long magical civilization, the constructs often have a unified system and rules, how much height, how much body width, how much weight, what materials to take, what kind of magic runes to attach, there are unified standards, convenient for assembly operations, mass production and maintenance, and the team of iron knights behind the other party follows this very well.

However, a huge structure in the shape of a two-tailed giant crocodile was incomprehensible to Barty.

"Is that you!?" Two seconds later, Thomas found a matching name on the document he had obtained before entering the main material level, "Bruce Fincher!"