Chapter 51: The Golden Palace
A few days earlier, in the depths of the Antigorin Sea, in the midst of a rainstorm, Owen and Julian had chased the golden light, followed by Shatarikis in human form, and made their way through the dense forest. I don't know how many rivers they crossed and how many mountains they crossed, and finally, they were led to a temple of golden light.
It is said that it is a temple, but in fact, it is more appropriate to think of it as an altar. This vast building has no dome, four thick pillars at the east, south, west, and north corners, and the stone pillars are carved with dragon scales. The fourth-story staircase rises from the ground. The temple is surrounded by green grass and flowers, and colorful butterflies flutter among the flowers. The open-air hall bathed in golden light makes the wind and rain detour, and the darkness does not dare to erode, showing its luxury and solemnity.
And these golden rays also carry magical powers. As soon as Julian and Owen came into contact with these golden lights, the fatigue of galloping all the way disappeared, and the injuries left by the fight between each other in the cave not long ago were immediately healed, and the only feeling between the two of them at this time was incomparable comfort and relaxation.
In the center of the hall, on the top of the four steps, they saw a girl with blond hair and a golden robe. Her beauty was so stunning, and with countless questions swirling in her mind, Julian and Owen both walked towards her in unison.
Suddenly, only a "bang" was heard, and another person fell from the sky. The humanoid Shatarikis angrily blocked in front of them: "Dare to take another step forward, and immediately crush you!"
"Stop, Shatarikis, let them both come up. The beautiful girl in the center of the hall ordered.
"How can such humans be close to you? they just deserve to lie on the ground and look up at you!"
"It's not what it used to be, Shatarikis, there's no need to be like it used to be. ”
"But...... All right. ”
After thinking about it for two seconds, Shatarikis finally relented. He leapt into the sky so that Julian and Owen could walk up the stairs, and he ignored the two humans, jumping straight down the steps and standing beside the flowers, standing with his back to them to express his displeasure.
When they were still 10 meters away from the girl, Julian and Owen stopped in unison. Although the girl didn't say it explicitly, they could all feel it from the girl's eyes and the aura emanating from her, 10 meters was the minimum distance she allowed them to get close to her.
"I didn't expect that there were skilled craftsmen in the dragon clan. Owen looked around and said the first thing he said.
The architectural layout of the hall was extremely simple, with no roof or even an exterior wall, but Owen noticed that the dragon scales on the four large stone pillars were extremely finely carved, and almost every scale was different, which showed that the sculptors carved them were skillful and patient, and the ground appeared to be as smooth as a mirror, but in fact it was made of countless stones that were seamlessly built according to special rules, and could not have been done without precise geometric calculations—these things did not look like dragons were at all.
"No, dragons don't have that kind of idleness, this place was built by humans. The girl took Owen's advice.
"It's interesting, there is actually a human-made building in the Golden Dragon Sanctuary. ”
"That's right, this place is simply needed for us dragons, but for you so-called dragon knights of the human race, you need such a place to conclude a contract with our golden dragons. ”
Hearing this, Julian and Owen glanced at each other, and at this time the two of them had a consensus in their hearts: although they didn't know why the other party wanted to bring them here, it was obviously not to conclude a dragon clan guard contract with them, but there was more of a sense of "whispering", that is, even within the Golden Dragon Clan, it was not monolithic.
"Since you easily brought us to this important place, it shows that your identity in the Golden Dragon Clan is not simple. Let me guess ......" Julian glanced at Shatarichis, and recalled the attitude he had towards the girl just now, Julian had roughly guessed the girl's identity, "Could it be that you are the Empress of the Golden Dragon Clan? One of the legendary 'Twelve Heroes of Demon Slayering', Isabel the Golden Dragon Empress." ”
"Nope. The girl shook her head, "I'm Isabel, but I'm no longer the Golden Dragon Empress." The current Empress of the Golden Dragon is Grace, her daughter. ”
Liao Liao counted a few sentences, but the amount of information brought in them was huge. Julian and Owen couldn't help but wonder if the dragonlord's authority would end when his authority came to an end, and they had never heard of a dragon king conferring his authority on other dragons while he was still alive. However, they didn't have time to think about the strangeness, but they didn't know when Isabel had been deceived.
"Why do you smell like a silver dragon?" Isabel pressed her hand to Owen's chest.
"Ah......h
Not seeing how Isabel could strike, Owen snorted and flew backwards, falling into the grass at the bottom of the steps.
"You ......" Julian hurriedly grasped the hilt of his sword, only to find that he could not pull it out anyway.
Isabel only gave him one look, but the highly condensed coercion suppressed Julie's nerves through the contact of his eyes, making him unable to move at all.
"Stop, Julian, I'm not hurt!" "Just as the atmosphere was getting tense, Owen rose from the grass unharmed, "Your Highness Isabel, are you talking about this?" Owen pulled back the sleeve of his right hand, revealing the mark of the last remaining Silver Dragon King, "I have helped the Silver Dragon King Murdy Philance before, and he has promised the Silver Dragon Clan three requests to help me. ”
"Morphy Philians, are you kidding me, he died in that war more than 8,000 years ago, you can't have seen him. ”
"But in fact I just met him. ”
"Lie!"
"It's true. ”
Facing Owen's resolute, unafraid gaze, Isabel felt an incredible perseverance, and she thought for 2 seconds before deciding to believe the human's words. Then, she turned around and went back to where she had stood. At this time, the coercion imposed on Julian was gone, and his body was able to move freely, Julian breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw that Owen was okay, he also took his hand off the hilt of his sword in amusement, and Owen, sensing that the last remaining trace of hostility in Isabel's heart was gone, walked back to the steps, and stood side by side with Julian.
"Since you're not a contractor of the Silver Dragons, there's nothing wrong with entrusting this task to the two of you. Isabel revealed the real reason why she and the two met.
"Hear clearly, you humans have committed heinous sins, and as punishment, a destruction is coming. Look......" Isabel continued, and as she spoke, a set of three-dimensional magical images composed of colorful points of light suddenly appeared in the clearing in front of Julian and Owen.
A bustling city, city walls, buildings, streets, pedestrians, soldiers, all come to life.
"Alexandria?!, what the hell is going on?" Julian recognized at a glance that it was his growing up, "Are you going to tell me that it will be Alexandria that will suffer the disaster?"
"This human city will definitely be destroyed, but this is only the beginning of the disaster, and the next thing to be destroyed is the stupid empire, and then all greedy humans will be consumed by the flames of punishment. Isabel told the horrific truth.
"No! never!" said Julian.
"Of course, disaster is not a foregone conclusion, and you may be able to stop it. Isabel replied indifferently.
"I want to hear about it. Owen asked respectfully.
"I want the two of you to stop the two initiators of the catastrophe before destruction strikes: the lying female human monarch, and the fairy dragon who stays by her side. ”
As soon as the words fell, the colorful points of light that formed the three-dimensional magic image drifted away, and then quickly reassembled. A stereoscopic image of two beautiful women, presented in front of Julian and Owen in the same scale as a real person:
A graceful and elegant woman, but full of unpredictable scheming between her eyebrows, she is none other than the Empress of the Rocal Empire, Ipaya, another beautiful woman with purple hair and purple eyes, willow eyebrows, and deep sorrow like ice, Julian and Owen have only met her, and in the ruins of the underground temple, she is the mysterious purple beauty who rescued Ipeia and the "Rivermen" - of course, Julian and Owen cannot forget her other image: an old and suffocated old woman.