Chapter 107: The Bronze Dragon's Invitation
One of the largest farmhouses on Fablon Farm was now temporarily decorated as a lord's hall.
In the hall, Li Quan was allowed to sit on the lord's seat in the highest position, and the members of the Dream Team sat below. Everyone took the initiative to arrange their seats according to the order of joining the dream team, qualifications, and personal strength, and Li Quan didn't need to worry about it.
Looking at the two rows of people sitting neatly below, Li Quan felt a little funny, he became Song Jiang, and there were all Liangshan heroes below.
Jordan, Johnson, and Bird brought a few people up one after another and introduced them to Li Quan.
Last time they went back separately to recruit people, the two thieves that Pippen brought back had already seen Li Quan, the "thief" Havlicek, and the dwarf thief "Little Potau" Nate, and they were sitting below, at the front of the ranks.
Mage Johnson walked up first and introduced two magicians from Dalaran to Li Quan.
"My lord, these two have been friends of mine for many years, and they trained together in Dalaran as children. They offer to work for you. This is Stockton, a one-star Sir Violet, an arcane mage. Stockton is a master of all kinds of auxiliary magic, having mastered 'Arcane Radiance' in his first year of training, and is a genius for arcane magic. ”
Johnson's voice fell, and a polite-looking man standing next to him in a gorgeous robe reached out and took off his mage hat, bowed to Li Quan's chest with an elegant demeanor, and said in a calm voice: "It's an honor to meet you, honorable lord." ”
Li Quan nodded with a smile on his face.
Johnson then introduced another man and said, "This is Mullin, the fire mage, he's a left-hander. But don't underestimate Mullin, his left hand is so powerful that even I have to deal with it carefully. In Dalaran, Mullin's individual dueling skills are among the top few, and everyone calls him 'God's Left Hand'. ”
A tall and thin male magician stepped forward with a smile on his face, bent down and stroked Li Quan's chest and said, "I've seen Lord Lord." ”
"Welcome to the Dream Team." Li Quan stretched out his hand with a smile and said, "Please sit down." ”
After the three mages were seated again, Priest Bird also stood up, and brought two people with him to introduce them.
"My lord, these two are invited from the Northshire Monastery, they are both the most faithful servants of the Holy Light, and they are willing to join the Dream Team at your disposal."
Byrd said of one of the older priests: "He's Auerbach, who was Cardinal of North-County Abbey many years ago and is now retired but still passionate about adventure. He offered to work for the lord. ”
"Bless you, my lord. I see in you the favor of the Light. The old pastor, who looked to be in his fifties, bowed his head with a warm smile and said this.
"I'm glad you're here, Cardinal Auerbach." Li Quan smiled and nodded.
Auerbach bowed his head slightly, bowed again, and stepped aside. Bird introduced another tall and strong man beside him and said, "His name is Ci Shiping, an excellent Holy Light warrior. Ci Shiping has been baptized with the Holy Light since he was a child, and his knightly seal is the most powerful I have ever seen. ”
The paladin named Ci Shiping simply waved his hand and beat his chest, stood up with his feet, bowed his head with a serious expression, and said, "I've seen the lord!" ”
"You're welcome to join the Dream Team, too." Li Quan also stretched out his hand and smiled: "Please sit down, two of you." ”
Then Jordan came up and brought up five or six men, all of whom he had recruited in the tavern.
After Jordan's introductions in turn, two of them were highly regarded. One of them, nicknamed the "Wolf King", is named Garnett, a dual-wielding berserk who is said to have an unusually ferocious fighting style, and his idol is King Varian.
Another man was named Drexler, and it is said that this man was very good at the "heroic leap" of the warrior jumping technique, and could jump twice the distance than other fighters, so he was nicknamed "Glider".
Li Quan didn't slack off, and smiled and nodded at these people one by one. Haven't seen a pig run and haven't eaten pork? Corporal Lixian's drama has long been played in the Water Margin and the Three Kingdoms, and the leaders on TV often appear to say that he just needs to follow the cat and the tiger.
Li Quan believes that as long as the benefits are adequate and the treatment is in place, these people will not mind such small details.
In fact, Li Quan was not a lord before these people decided to agree to join the Dream Team, and it was a surprise for these people to learn that Li Quan had been made a lord by King Varian. After all, it means a lot of difference to die for a lord. And I heard that this adult is very generous.
Li Quan proved this rumor with actions.
Next, Li Quan began to discuss the reward for meritorious deeds.
Pippen and the three thieves had perfectly completed the secret mission he had assigned before, and they had a great credit, so Li Quan took out three unusually generous bonuses and gave them to Pippen and the three in front of everyone. Immediately, everyone else was envious, and their eyes were red.
Pippen and the three of them were overjoyed, thanked them again and again, sang all kinds of praises, patted their chests and swore allegiance, needless to say.
Li Quan's meaning is very simple: "Do things for me, and I will never treat you badly." ”
Seeing that everyone who was stimulated puffed up their chests, Li Quan struck while the iron was hot and arranged a short-term job for the dream team.
In the near future, the Dream Team will need to continue to collect samples of native plants for him, and in addition, they will need to hire workers to repair the farm, starting with a manor house and a training ground on the basis of the original Fablon farm, which can accommodate at least a hundred people.
The size of the Dream Team will continue to expand in the future, and this will be the base camp of the Dream Team in the future.
When the native plants of the western wilderness are developed, they use it as a base to radiate to other places around it. Mainly explore the Twilight Forest and the Valley of Thorns, especially the Valley of Thorns, where there are a large number of unique tropical plant populations that make Li Quan very greedy, which is a large contribution.
As the dream team gradually formed a system, the system issued tasks to Li Quan, and he handed them over to the dream team to do it for him.
In the next few days, Li Quan was not only responsible for receiving plant samples brought back by the Dream Team from their outings, but also supervising two dwarf engineers to transform the wheat field puppet. After all, Li Quan is from the perspective of the 21st century, and he has watched a lot of science fiction movies, and some of the design concepts he put forward are very advanced.
After spending a few more days in the Western Wilderness, Li Quan had been waiting for news from the Bronze Dragon these days. But no news came. On the one hand, the bronze dragon did not say that he came to trouble him because he interfered with the normal process of time, nor did he say anything else. It seems that he has forgotten about him.
On this day, the postman Malone sent a letter to Li Quan.
Ma Long, Li Quan, has also seen him many times, and he is getting more and more familiar with him. I heard Malone himself say that he worked as a hunter for a period of time in the early years, because he was fast, he often helped people deliver letters and run errands, and later delivered letters near Stormwind City for more than ten years, and unknowingly became an old postman.
After Li Quan entered the house with the letter, Jordan's eyes rolled, as if thinking about something, and then he walked over, enthusiastically put his arms around the postman Malone's neck, and the two walked to the side and talked cordially.
Inside the house, Li Quan opened the envelope and found that it was actually Pepe's letter. Thinking of this little girl in Nanhai Town, Li Quan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, I don't know how she has been doing recently? I'm even going to write to him.
Pepe's letter was quite simple, a few sentences in crooked childlike handwriting on parchment.
Li Quan recently found someone to make up for the common language of mankind, he can't always be illiterate, now he is a lord anyway, and he often has to issue some warrants or something. It would be too embarrassing to let outsiders know that he, the lord, has been ghostwritten every time, and mistakenly thought that he was a straw bag lord who couldn't read a single word.
After a few days of study, it is no longer a problem to read Li Quan in simple sentences.
I saw that the letter read:
"Dear gentleman who likes to collect flowers and plants, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?
Yesterday was my birthday and I was a year older. In just a few more birthdays, I'll be able to travel the world on my own.
Signature: Nanhai Town, Pepe. ”
Li Quan smiled dumbly after reading it, this little girl is still thinking about traveling around the world. In other words, should I make up a birthday gift and send it over?
King Varian has recently sent someone to urge him, the lord of Nanhai, to take up his post in Nanhai as soon as possible. Although the kingdom's decree does not stipulate that the lord must stay in the territory and is not allowed to move, but he, the lord, has not returned to the territory since he was appointed, so he can't say anything.
Li Quan was also hesitating, should he take the time to go to Nanhai Town? He was waiting for the bronze dragon's reply, but the other party had no news at all, and he didn't know when he would have to wait.
The next day, Li Quan set out from the Western Wilderness and returned to Shanjin Town first.
As soon as he walked into the Lion King's Pride Hotel, he saw another little Lori, a little white-haired dwarf Lori transformed into Chromie, eating a plate of red gummies in front of her.
When Li Quan saw it, his heart suddenly moved: "Is there finally a conclusion on the bronze dragon's side?" What will the Bronze Dragon think of me? Is there still a chance to ask them for help? ”
It seemed that when the time came for the verdict, Li Quan found that he was actually a little nervous.
"Hey!" Chromie spotted Li Quan at once, and immediately smiled and stretched out his little hand to greet Li Quan.
Li Quan showed a smile on his face, walked over with a smile, and said, "Is there news from the Bronze Dragon?" ”
"Yes!" Chromie said, reining his smile and revealing a serious expression, "On behalf of the Time Keepers, I officially inform you that you have received an invitation from the Bronze Dragon Clan. Anaklos invites you to visit the Cave of Time in Tanaris. ”
"To the Cave of Time?"
After Li Quan was stunned for a moment, his worries immediately eased a lot. Well, since he was invited to be a guest, it seems that there is still something to talk about? At least the other party didn't send a large group of bronze dragons to trouble him, which was a good sign.
"And when are we leaving?" Li Quan asked.
Since he was invited, he didn't want to delay for a moment. It is best to clear up the misunderstanding between yourself and the bronze dragon as soon as possible. Yes, he didn't think there was much of a gap between the two sides, just a little misunderstanding. At first, he didn't think about it so much, but he didn't expect that rescuing Varian in advance and driving away the Black Dragon Princess would lure the bronze dragon out.
He wanted to minimize the estrangement between the two sides as much as possible, so that he could borrow the power of the bronze dragon to reverse time. That was his main goal in crossing over to Azeroth.
"Since you've said so, now." Cromi took the gummy plate, jumped out of the chair, and said as he walked, "Take it and eat it on the road." Would you like to get a copy of that?
Li Quan smiled and shook his head.
Chromie is a hatchling dragon and can't carry people, so the two of them have to go to the port of Stormwind to take a boat to Theramore, and then disembark and fly to the Tanaris desert on a griffon.
Besides, even if Chromie can carry people, Li Quan is embarrassed to ride people.
It was very smooth along the way. By the time Li Quan and Kromie arrived at the hot sand port east of Tanalis, it was already noon two days later.
At this time, the sun is shining, and the endless white desert is as far as the eye can see outside the hot sand port. Li Quan can accidentally pour a mouthful of sand into his mouth.
He first found a goblin profiteer in the hot sand harbor to replenish some fresh water, and then Kromie led the way, and the two set off for the Cave of Time.
Even if the humans who live here are familiar with the desert routes, they are not as good as Chromie. She also grew up here, and while the Bronze Dragon lived most of her life in the Cavern of Time, located at the southern tip of the desert, Chromie was an exception, and she showed a strong curiosity about everything from the time she was born, especially the outside world. Chromie left the cave early to explore outside, and the desert was the first place she came across. No one is more familiar with the routes in the desert than the flying bronze dragon.
Li Quan's knowledge of the Cave of Time is limited to the game. He only knew that the Cave of Time was the lair of the Bronze Dragon, and there were many Bronze Dragons living in it. In order to maintain the integrity of the timeline, the bronze dragon king Nozdorm decided to use the power of adventurers, so he opened up some timelines for players to go back in time and repair history.
Most famously, he helped Thrall escape from Dunhold, witnessed Medivan open the Dark Gate, and the famous Battle of Mount Hyjal and the Battle of the Ancients.
From a canonical point of view, the Cavern of Time can be said to be the central hub connecting the various timelines of Azeroth, and the Bronze Dragons live here to protect the integrity of the timeline and the entire Cavern of Time as a hub from being invaded.
Now I want to go to the real cave of time.
Thinking that he might see many huge bronze dragons later, Li Quan was not only excited, but also a little apprehensive. This is going to someone's lair, and when the time comes, I am afraid that it will inevitably let the family occupy the home advantage. Who let the family take advantage of the reason, the Bronze Dragon Clan is the guardian of time appointed by the Titan of the Azeroth Creator God. In the end, I, an outsider, broke the rules of others.
Coming to the door to apologize and talk about cooperation, this is the strategy that Li Quanlu set for his trip.
Li Quan followed Chromie on the desert for a long time, crossed one sand dune after another, and finally, a shadow appeared in front of him, and as he gradually walked in, the shadow in the wind and sand gradually revealed its outline, which was the entrance to a huge cave.
"We're here!" Chromie chuckled a little excitedly.
Outside the cave, except for the wind and sand, there was no bronze dragon to see. Li Quan followed Chromie into the cave, and then followed the cave path all the way down. I don't know how long it took to walk, Li Quan only felt that the passage of this cave was extremely long, and the torrents of energy that appeared on both sides from time to time made him amazed.
At this moment, the front suddenly brightened up. The two finally arrived at their destination. What appeared in front of Li Quan was an incomparably wide square. He was immediately stunned when he saw the intricate turning clock in the middle of the square. Anyone who sees this scene for the first time will inevitably be amazed.
Chromie raised his eyebrows at this time, looked a little puzzled, and muttered, "Strange, something is wrong......
"What's wrong?" Li Quan was stunned.
"You don't usually see so many dragons, you see."
Chromie stretched out his hand and pointed, Li Quan followed her point and looked down, and suddenly gasped, only to see that the square below was densely packed with half-dragons and half-human creatures gathered in formation, dragonmen! They are the guardians of the dragon's lair, inferior to the dragons, but indispensable.
At this moment, a rumbling voice like thunder suddenly sounded over the square: "Chromie, is he the human?" ”
"Yes, Anaclos, he's the one you're looking for. His name is Li Quan. Chromie replied immediately at the sound of this voice.
I saw a huge and incomparable brass-colored dragon slowly flying down from the top of the cave, and the air currents brought by the flapping of the dragon's wings rolled up a large area of wind and sand. Anaklos stared condescendingly at Li Quan and Chromie below, only to see his huge dragon claw pointing at Li Quan, and ordered at the dragons, "Catch this human." ”