Sand Hill has two concepts, the broad sense refers to any place in the Cordillera Desert where the desert naga exist and live, and the narrow sense is the oasis that appears in front of Talos, the political theocracy center of the desert naga.

The power and magic of the Earth Dragon have made this oasis stand out from the desert and bless nearly three million desert naga here, with tall olive trees, pillars, giant cacti, and vast expanses of firethorn trees.

These four plants are carefully cultivated, just like the oak tree is to the forest druid, they are the best plant companions of the desert druid, and can temporarily transform into plant-type magical beasts with extraordinary powers under the influence of high-level spell activation plants.

Whether it's a cactus monster transformed from a giant cactus or a fire thorn tree guardian transformed from a fire thorn tree, they are very difficult guys.

Desert dragons, flying lizards, petrified lizards, giant sand turtles......

The beasts tamed by the Naga of the Desert patrolled the Knights, and Talos even spotted the Serpent Men among them.

It was a branch of the orcs, the dragons of the earth, who crawled upright like the Naga, with a snake's head, covered in snake scales, a forked tongue, and a cruel and cunning temperament, but as it stands, they seem to have become a vassal of the Sand Mountains.

At the center of the oasis is a massive statue of the Earth Dragon—a wingless dragon with short, stout legs, heavy emerald scales as hard as diamonds, and covered in moss, plants, and trees—reflecting a divine glow of brilliant gold in the sun.

To the left of the statue is an exotic complex of buildings with circular domes, and to the right are temples and a huge square, each centered around the statue to form a circle, which is particularly beautiful from the air and against the background of the desert in the distance.

The Desert Wyvern landed in a plaza on the left, and a group of Desert Naga, apparently guarded, walked over and took the Desert Wyvern to other places to feed, and they ate a lot of food, especially after serving as mounts and in battle.

Mural took Talos and Dolores to the room that had been prepared for them to rest for a while, and the time to meet the chief of Sand Hill, Sephiros, was set for noon.

Ignoring the elaborate frescoes on the walls and the soft, thick carpets on the floor, Talos ignored the extravagant frescoes on the walls and the soft, thick carpets on the floor, and the first thing he did when he entered the room was to soak himself in a huge 30-foot-wide pool of water, allowing the warm water to wash his stains.

Only God knows how he endured seven days of asceticism, sweating every day in a hellish place like the desert, a ragged ordinary linen coat can shake out a handful of yellow sand, but he has not taken a shower, which is unimaginable for Tidal Naga.

"Whew......" Talos leaned against the shore of the marble pool and let out a long sigh of contentment.

The tail swayed from side to side at will, cutting through the ripples, and the colorful edges of the snake scales reflected the light from the alchemy crystal chandelier overhead, and the water surface sparkled.

The warm water of the pool gradually washed away Talos's exhaustion, and his whole body gradually slid into the pool, and in less than a minute, he fell asleep in the pool with the sound of flowing water.

Talos wakes up to a knock on the door from Dolores to join him to meet the chief of the Naga of the Desert.

"Wait, Dolores!"

Talos wiped his face and quickly climbed out of the pool, changing himself into a brand new dress that would not be rude even if he went to meet Pope Helga II of the Sea Temple, and restored himself to the usual clothing and accessories and handsomeness that the son of the Black Sea Lord should have.

Sephiroth meets Talos and Dolores in a seemingly secluded underground palace, where torches made of special plants are inserted in the walls on both sides of the walkway, blazing brightly, illuminating the otherwise gloomy dungeon as if it were day.

"Mother is waiting for you inside, please come in. ”

When they reached the end of the aisle, Mural opened the gate of the dungeon for Talos and Dolores, and then guarded the door himself.

Involuntarily, Talos remembered the words Emma had given him the first time he told him that he needed to go to Sand Mountain with a Naga witch, escorting a very valuable item.

At the time, Talos thought that the most important thing was the path itself, which served as some kind of ritual, but now it seems that Dolores probably had a priceless treasure on him.

Glancing at Dolores, the two of them swam into the dungeon, a palace full of Naga style, full of snake patterns and snake python-related patterns and reliefs.

In the center of the palace is a throne surrounded by nine pythons, and the golden sunlight still shines through the stone skylight that has been magically treated and is clearly located underground, and the chief of the Naga of the desert sits on it.

Sephiroth is a six-armed naga ten times more seductive than Mular, with a jeweled forehead ornament and a long gauze scarf, a 15-foot tail flicking gently, and six slender arms, which looks both languid and intimidating.

Talos knew that this was not the true form of Sephiroth, but as long as the strength reached the fifth level to become an epic knight or a legendary mage, the size of the six-armed naga would exceed the limit of ordinary nagas.

For example, Sandra, whose tail was 25 feet long after becoming a legendary mage, and could be longer in the future, three times that of Talos, the true size of the Naga of the desert in front of her was obviously very large, but it was usually only revealed in full form on major occasions such as rituals or battles.

"Hail to you, Guardian of the Sand Mountains, the eternal Supreme Chief of the Naga of the Desert. "Together, Talos and Dolores saluted the ruler of Sand Mountain.

"Welcome, it's been a long time since I've seen such a wonderful young man. ”

Sephiroth's voice was like that of a kitten with its fluffy paws, and although it was just a simple word, it fell on Talos's ears even more enchanting than the mermaid he had encountered in the underwater dungeon before.

At this moment, Talos was extremely glad that he had followed Leonhard's advice to learn Iron Will in the desert, otherwise he would never have been able to behave as calmly as he is now.

"Chief, this is what Mother asked me to bring you. ”

Dolores bowed slightly, paying homage to an epic knight and chief of the Sand Mountains, then pulled out a gift box from the Spatial Ring.

The moment he saw the gift box, Talos shrank and was very surprised, because it was too similar to the gift box Sandra handed him before departure, it was all in the shape of a long strip, about 1.5 feet long, three adult finger widths.

"Great, I can't wait to open it. ”

Sephiroth rose from her throne and slowly swam towards Dolores, taking the box from her hand and opening it with a satisfied smile on her face.

With a good visual angle, Talos could clearly see the gift from the Ice Witch to Saphirose, the chief of the Sandhills.

It was a snake, a strange snake.

The snake is 1.5 feet long, covered in a layer of fine silver scales, without the slightest variegation, and without the gloom of ordinary snakes - despite the fact that the lower body is a giant python, the sense of the snake Talos has never changed - but has a sense of divine sanctity.

Of course, these are not the strangest, the real strange thing is that the snake does not have a tail, to be precise from head to tail is the same thickness, the body gradually becomes smaller and can be defined as the part of the tail is artificially cut off, leaving a neat facet without a trace of blood.

It's a snake without a tail!

As a former mage, Talos had a wealth of knowledge, but he still hadn't recognized the serpent's species or its preciousness.

But Salophis, an epic knight who ruled the Sand Mountains, stood at the top of the pyramid of the main material plane, the six-armed Naga, his fingers gently caressing the gift box, and he seemed very pleased with the gift.

She smiled and nodded at Dolores, then looked at Talos.

The good education he received since childhood made Talos react quickly, and with a just right smile on his face - although his mind was already filled with all kinds of doubts, he took the gift box prepared by Sandra from the spatial ring.

"As Mother commanded, this is a gift that I must give you with my own hands, and I hope you will like it, High Chief. ”

Talos respectfully handed the box into Sephiroth's hand, and stared at the latter without blinking.

Talos was really curious about what was inside this gift box, which was very similar to Dolores's hand just now, and at this moment Talos had realized that the gift box in the hands of him and Dolores was probably the most valuable item in this operation.

Because of this intriguing curiosity, Talos accepted Sephiroth's smile and nod at him without changing his face.

The first second the six-armed Naga took the box, the mage mark belonging to Sandra on it automatically disappeared in a magical aura when it touched Sephiroth's finger.

In the second of the second se, Sephiroth gently opened the gift box.

In the third second, the answer was revealed, and lying inside was the same snake, a snake without a tail!

The difference is that this time the scales covering the surface of the snake's body are a dull gold, and from the perspective of Talos, it looks like it was cast from gold.

Talos looked at Dolores suspiciously, and found that the other's gaze was also glued to the two gift boxes in Sephiroth's hand.

However, compared to his doubts, the change in the expression on Dolores's face perfectly illustrates what it means to suddenly realize.

"I love these two gifts, so please be sure to tell them to the Ice Witch and the Black Sea Lord on my behalf. Sephiroth grabbed a gift box in each of her middle arms and smiled at Talos and Dolores, "There's going to be a welcome dinner in the evening, and I hope you all have a good time." ”