The Golden Dragon Sanctuary, the habitat of the Golden Dragon Clan, is a place that is absolutely forbidden for humans to enter. Around the Golden Dragon Sanctuary is a large jungle known as the "Antigorin Sea", an area equal to the total size of the Loma Kingdom and all its vassal states combined. Under the shadow of towering ancient trees, this mysterious forest is inhabited by countless ferocious magical beasts, some of which are still not found in the human magical beast illustrated book. Ordinary people don't want to go to the Golden Dragon Sanctuary, even if they cross the Antigorin Sea, it is impossible.

However, it is just that ordinary people can't do it.

The team that dared to offend the dignity of the Antigolins was small in number, with only 10 men, men and women. It had been a month since they entered the forest, and on the first day of their entry, the horses they were riding stopped and refused to move forward, and in desperation, they had to dismount and march on foot, which greatly limited the speed of the procession and increased the danger of encountering the attack of the demonic beasts. But fortunately, everyone has the skills and courage to survive in this dangerous place.

Of course, there is also a heavy factor that makes the danger much less dangerous.

On the fifth day of entering the Antigorin Sea, Ray unexpectedly found that his clogged "Dragon Power" seemed to be showing signs of recovery, and the closer he got to the Golden Dragon Sanctuary, the more the "Dragon Power" recovered. At the beginning, he could only control a very small part of the "dragon power", and the duration was extremely short, and by the 10th day, he was already able to use the first-level "dragon power" as he wished, although he could not continue to enhance it after that, but because he was able to release the simulated dragon roar, he scared away all the middle and low-level demonic beasts nearby, which saved a lot of unnecessary battles for the rest of the journey. Although there are still some high-level demonic beasts that will attack them from time to time, there are not many of them, unlike in the first few days, when they had to deal with hundreds of demonic beasts every day.

"There's a water here, let's camp here tonight. According to the previously arranged team, stand guard and rest in batches. Coming to a stream, Ipeia wiped the sweat from her forehead and commanded. She looked up at the broken sunlight that shone through the leaves, and knew it was almost dark.

Ipeia was the only one who knew the terrain of the Antigorin Sea, and although she hadn't been here before, everyone had been with Ipeia for a long time, and they didn't find it strange, after all, there were so many mysteries about this wayward empress that there seemed to be nothing she didn't know about in this world. Therefore, along the way, everyone obeyed Ipaya's arrangement. Of course, the three sisters Julian and Fernandez have no opinions, Dante listens to Julian, and the "Riverside Man", Owen and Ray, who are outsiders, will naturally not be noisy.

A group of 10 people was divided into five groups: Nanokhai and Sasha, Milari and Ipeia, Julian and Dante, Owen and Ray, and the Riverside Man and Priest Nusan Shudna. As is customary, four groups rest, one group is responsible for guarding and guarding, and the guard changes every two hours.

Here I would like to talk about the priest named "Nusan Xiudna", a 39-year-old man, not tall, taciturn, born in the local church of the empire, but in fact out of the control of the church, a free clergyman, and also a staff member of Julian's father, entrusted by the Duke of Rousseau, to come to the aid of Her Majesty Empress Ipeia.

On the day of departure, not long after everyone left the villa, they met the uninvited priest outside. Although she didn't want to make a fuss, considering the danger of the journey, one more person would give her more strength, so Ipeia agreed to join the priest. After all, the other party already knows her identity and purpose, and instead of killing people, it is better to stay and use it for her own use. And Ipeia also understands that since she can leave an eyeliner by Duke Rousseau's side, the other party, as a seasoned minister of the empire, will definitely do the same. Therefore, for the other party's true purpose, Ipeia did not get to the bottom of it, and both sides tacitly understood it.

Later, it turned out that the addition of the crossbow Sanshudena did help the team a lot. Although there is already a healer Julian in the team, Julian is first and foremost a knight with excellent swordsmanship, but light magic is only a concurrent practice, and his magic power and magic cultivation are not high, and his healing magic is more than enough to save his life, and he can barely help 1 or 2 companions, but it is far from meeting the needs of such a large team to recover after a high-intensity battle; Although the rank is only a high-level bishop, that is, he has not participated in the priest level assessment after obtaining the qualification of a high-level bishop, if he simply considers the cultivation of healing magic, he can be promoted to the archbishop, and even reach the purple bishop. It was thanks to the help of the crossbow's powerful healing abilities that the team was able to make their way to such a dangerous place.

After everyone was busy for a while, most of them had fallen asleep. When I moved to the fourth post, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning.

The Antigorin Sea is hot and humid during the day, but cold at night. Owen, who was on guard, sat by the campfire, fiddling aimlessly with a twig and thoughtfully fiddling with it.

"Owen, Owen, Owen...... Hey, Owen!"

"Oh. You're back, nothing out of the ordinary, right?"

After inspecting the periphery of the camp and coming back, Ray saw Owen who was stunned, Ray went to call him, but he didn't expect Owen to move at all, Ray had to walk up and pat him on the shoulder, and Owen came back to his senses.

"What's wrong? You don't want to give up, I thought you were using telekinesis to leave your body. ”

"Nope. It takes a lot of mental energy to leave the soul, and the body is in a defenseless state, so I won't use it in such a dangerous place. I'm just thinking about something that is a mystery. ”

"What are you thinking? It feels like this for the past few days, like you've suddenly changed as a person. ”

"Lei, we are getting closer and closer to the Golden Dragon Sacred Domain, and the doubts in your heart are also getting closer to the truth step by step. But when it comes time to get the answer, what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. Lei shook his head, he really didn't think about what he was going to do after recovering his lost memory, he didn't even understand why he had to go to the Golden Dragon Sacred Domain, if he really wanted the reason, it was that there seemed to be a voice in his heart that kept calling him.

"Let's draw one. Owen handed the entire stacked tarot deck to Ray.

"Owen, you know me, I don't believe anything like this. Ray refused.

"Please draw one. Owen asked again.

"That'...... All right. Seeing Owen's resolute gaze, Ray didn't refuse any longer, because he knew that the Destiny Card was a relic of Regunor, and he should respect Uncle Regunor.

Ray casually drew one of the cards. Owen didn't look at it, he put the card face down, and asked Ray to draw another one. Ray froze for a moment, and did so, but Owen asked Ray to draw another one.

When Ray drew four cards in a row, Owen put the rest of the cards down and turned over the four cards that Ray had drawn.

I saw that in order of card drawing, they were: temperance, lovers, strength, and the wheel of fortune.

"Owen, what does this mean?" Although he said that he didn't believe in divination, Ray was still curious about the result.

"I don't know. Cards of Destiny are not a panacea. You can't refer to the sun, moon and stars, and you can't interpret it at all. Owen raised his head and looked at the sky obscured by foliage, "Even if you can decipher ......" At this point, Owen stopped abruptly, he picked up the four cards that Ray had drawn, flipped the order with both hands, and then handed the four cards to Ray, "Let's draw another one." ”

Ray frowned, but did as he could.

"What!" Owen shuddered. The card that Ray drew in the second round: Temperance.

"Ray, I know that at this point, if I persuade you to go back, you will definitely not agree. But you have to remember that no matter how difficult the situation, you must never give up, just as you cannot give up on yourself. Also, you can take this card with you. Maybe it can help you. Owen solemnly handed over the tarot card, which symbolizes "temperance", to Ray.

"I just don't understand. Owen, what the hell are you divining? Don't play dumb riddles, okay?" Ray didn't take the cards immediately, and Ray was already a little impatient with Owen's attitude of selling off.

I saw Owen raise his hand, and the card flew directly into the pocket of Ray's clothes: "I'm not playing dumb riddles, but I really can't decipher the meaning of the card, but this is definitely a bad omen." And," Owen said, looking at the tents where his companions were asleep, "I don't mean to break the unity of my companions, but you have to be careful with that...... In short, be careful in everything. ”

Owen stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence, and then ended with a vague sentence. Because he suddenly had a feeling as if someone was hiding in the shadows and eavesdropping on the conversation between the two of them. This Antigonal Sea contains a lot of unknown mysterious powers, and soon after entering the Forest Sea, Owen found that his ability to sense the unity of heaven and man was greatly disturbed, but the feeling that appeared just now was very short, but it was quite real, which made Owen have to be vigilant.

However, vigilance alone is not enough, flexibility and agility are the key. A huge black figure descended from the sky, directly crushing the position where the two were sitting and the bonfire in front of them. Ray and Owen dodged the sneak attack in time, but the fire was completely shattered. Through the fragmentary light of the fire that had not yet been extinguished, the two saw that the attacker was a huge humanoid creature that was 3 meters tall.

The gray-white fur, sharp fangs, and knee-length arms made this hideous monster look even more terrifying.

"Giant ape, how can there be here!" Lei raised his spear, very upset about the appearance of this magical beast.

And Owen seemed to have expected it, he sneered and said, "Hmph, this beast was eavesdropping on us just now, right?"