In fact, these Gadrean nobles had been in a state of confrontation with those monitor lizards before, and Donald found that when he was fighting ahead, it was the impatience of the monitor lizards and others that had just launched an all-out attack.

The strongest silver mage hadn't made a move yet, so they hadn't killed many monitor lizards either.

The airship sailed to the shore of the island, and Donald watched as the other party was disposing of the corpses of the monitor lizards they had killed, but did not move the monitor lizards frozen by Donald's spell.

I saw that the famous bounty hunter Thorge took out the more valuable parts of the monitor lizard's body, and sprinkled a handful of powder on the bloodstained area, and the unpleasant smell of the monitor lizard on the island was immediately covered. Sure enough, he is worthy of being the first bounty hunter, and his strength and experience are not comparable to ordinary people.

When the airship landed on the island, Donald first stepped down from the deck, waved his hand to put away the dozen or so ice sculptures of his monitor lizard, and said with a smile on his face:

"We're really fated to be able to meet a place like the Two-Legged Dragon Swamp!"

The girl mage smiled innocently and said, "Yes, it's great to meet you! I liked the black tea very much last time!"

"If you like it, I'll have some on you, I'll invite you to tea later!"

Although the girl was innocent and innocent, she didn't understand the meaning of Donald's words, but the other people on the other side were not fools, and the implicit meaning of Donald's words was to test the purpose of their coming to this two-legged dragon swamp.

Especially the old man of the silver mage, he turned out to be a strong man in the high level of silver, and looking at his appearance and bearing, it was obviously not an ordinary identity.

"Thank you for your help, otherwise it would be a big trouble for us to be targeted by so many swamp monitor lizards!"

Faced with the old man's thanks, Donald humbly said:

"The old gentleman laughed, with your strong strength, it only takes some time to kill these monitor lizards, and we are just helping a few people to solve them in advance, not to mention that everyone is a human being, and they are all descendants of Bannai, in such a dangerous environment, it is natural that we should help!"

The old man nodded, very satisfied with Donald's attitude. So he took the initiative to say:

"We are members of the Thorne family from Gardre, I'm Houghton Thorne, and this is my granddaughter, Emily Thorne, and these three are our family guards. ”

Messer and Edwina, who had disembarked from the airship, said in unison when they heard this:

"Sorcerer Thorne?"

Apparently both of them knew something about the Thorne.

Horton Thorne didn't dare to slack off when he saw the two silver mages coming down.

"Who are these two?"

Donald said:

"Let me introduce you, this is the Marquise Edwina of our kingdom Ansel's family, and his eldest son Ferdinand, these three are also strong men from the Ansel family. As for these two, my teacher Messer, and my follower Kael'thas !"

Horton Thorne and his granddaughter, Emily, immediately greeted them one by one. Then he remembered that there was another person on his side who had not been introduced, so he said: "This Mr. Soge is the guide we hired, I think you should all know him!"

Ferdinand said, "Of course, we don't know Thorge, the most famous bounty hunter in Selt!"

Hearing the mention of himself, Sog just nodded lightly and responded, his attitude was obviously a little cold. However, the other party is a silver powerhouse, and it is rumored that he is also withdrawn and very unsociable, so Edvina and the others will not care about this little rudeness.

On the contrary, Donald was very interested in this rare silver powerhouse among the adventurers, but he did not directly solicit it, so as not to arouse his disgust, but said to him:

"I opened an adventurer's guild in my territory, but there are some missions suitable for a strong person like Mr. Thorge, I hope you have the opportunity to check it out!"

Thorge raised an eyebrow when he heard this, obviously interested.

It is very rare for a strong person to reach the silver level and still not settle down to gain power and status, and this Thorge is undoubtedly one of them, and it is not difficult to obtain a knighthood or join the army to lead a side with his strength. However, he was born in the chaotic countryside of the south, and he did not like to be constrained, so he would rather be an adventurer with no fixed place to live, living by hunting bounties rather than follow the old path of those people.

Donald's plan was that if he could also join the Dalaran Adventurers' Guild, it would definitely greatly enhance the reputation of the guild and attract adventurers from all over the kingdom.

As for when the time comes, it will be a surprise to be able to recruit this one, even if he can't recruit him, he will not lack this silver powerhouse.

Knowing that the other party was from a family like Thorne, Edvina knew at that time that her previous ideas could no longer be realized. The other party is a mage family, and it is impossible to let go of a treasure like the ruins of an ancient arcanist.

So she asked bluntly:

"I don't know what Mr. Thorne came to this dangerous place in the Two-Legged Dragon Swamp for, you must know that this is not a good place to take the younger generations of the family to practice, even the silver powerhouse does not dare to go deep into the swamp easily, if you are not careful, you will fall!"

As the brains of Donald's side, it is most appropriate for Edvina to figure out the purpose of the other party.

However, the other party also has a lot of background, so some tentative words seem a bit excessive, I am afraid that it will cause the dissatisfaction of Horton, the silver mage, so Edvina simply chose to ask bluntly and wisely.

By this time, Messer had already told Donald and Kael'thas about the origin of the Thorne family.

The Thornes are a well-known mage family of Gardre, and are themselves one of the country's leading nobles.

The founder of their family was Thorne, a great wizard hundreds of years ago, who is said to be a powerful wizard who reached the realm of legends, and played a decisive role in resisting a major demonic disaster that broke out on the continent and resisting the invasion of the abyss army. However, Thorne clashed with Sendel, the Land of Dawn, due to his opposition to the Church of the Radiant Tritheism's mission to Gardre, and soon after, for unknown reasons.

Because of Thorne's fall, it almost caused a full-scale conflict between Gardred and Sendel, even the mage kingdom Paulin, who has never dealt with Gardre, was rarely on Gadre's side that time.

In the face of the condemnation of many forces on the mainland, as well as the joint declaration of war between the two kingdoms of Gardred and Boling, even Sendel, who is known as the country of dawn and the holy land, had to be forced to end the plan of outward expansion, and the attitude of ceding part of the benefits to compensation to Sendel means that the glorious three gods behind it are also somewhat soft, which is of course the reason for the general trend, but the attitude of the other gods is the key factor that decides, and the Gardred side sees it clearly, and does not dare to persecute too muchAfter all, the three people standing behind Sendel were gods above the stars.

Therefore, he could only accept it when he saw it, which made Sendel suffer a big loss, and he also relieved a little anger in his heart.

Speaking of this past incident, many mages who are familiar with history are embarrassed, and they are even more disgusted by the extreme True God Church like the Radiant Trigod.

When it comes to the wizard Thorne, he is almost the representative of the wizard faction among the four major factions of modern mages. After becoming a legendary powerhouse, Thorne traveled the continent, communicating with various mages, exploring those undiscovered ancient ruins, and spent ten years sorting out the most comprehensive spell inheritance of the wizarding mages in existence. It is precisely because of this inheritance that the Thorne family's status among the mages has been established.

Old Mr. Thorne here also understood what Donald meant, so in order to avoid conflict, he replied without concealment:

"We came to this swamp because we heard that there are precious treasures such as the poisonous dragon lizard orchid, so we hired Mr. Soge as a guide, hoping to be lucky!"

"Poison Dragon Lizard?"

The poisonous dragon Lizard Lan Donald and others all know that it is the main material of a legendary superb alchemy potion, which can remove almost all toxins, injuries and negative states against **, and it also has the effect of some dragon blood elixir, which can greatly strengthen the physique of the user, and can also increase the life span of several decades.

Whether it is for a mage with a weak body or a swordsman who pursues strong combat effectiveness, it is a precious material that is hard to find. For those who sacrifice their lives and other top-level people, they are even more willing to pay a great price to obtain treasures.

This rare magical plant with its own poison can only live in the mud full of rot and filth, absorbing its nutrients, but paradoxically, its body must be rooted in solid soil to survive, and it is better to have wurms with highly poisonous wurms to mate there and contaminate their bodily fluids before this plant can bloom and reproduce.

It is undoubtedly very difficult to achieve such conditions, and most of the several locations on the mainland where the poisonous dragon lizard has been found are relatively dangerous areas. The relatively safe places were all picked up, and it was only possible to preserve them in the inaccessible terrain of the continent like the Bettysaur Swamp.

And this alone is not the most dangerous, the more troublesome thing is that wherever the poisonous dragon lizard is located, most of them are places where lizard-like monsters like to gather, especially the poisonous dragon lizard orchid is not only effective on humans, but also can promote the promotion of lizard-like monsters after maturity, and obtain the anti-heaven treasure of the dragon's bloodline, and the breath it exudes at that stage makes all lizard-like monsters crazy. This is also where the name of the magical plant comes from.

That's why Horton and the others searched for traces of the poisonous dragon lizard in the colony of demonic beasts like the swamp monitor lizard, and they were made dumplings by other monitor lizards.

Horton Thorne nodded and said, "Yes, it's the Poison Dragon Lizard!" you already know our purpose, I wonder if you are also here for the Poison Dragon Lizard?"

Edvina glanced at Donald and his teacher Messer, Messer nodded calmly in agreement, and seeing the teacher nodding, Donald thought about it and nodded.

So Edvina said to Horton: "Mr. Thorne, don't worry, we are not here for the poisonous dragon lizard, but our actions are also more important, everyone is smart, so I hope you will not interfere with our actions!"

Horton looked like this, and replied:

"That's nature!"

Although the Thorne family is not as old as Gardre's ancient families with thousands of years of inheritance, they have the ancestral wizard inheritance, and the accumulation of hundreds of years can be completely juxtaposed with it, so although they are curious, they don't care very much about the purpose of Donald and their side, even if it is also a treasure like the poisonous dragon lizard, it is a good thing to get it, and he will not be too disappointed if he can't get it, this is the essence of the big family.

But Horton didn't expect that just one day later, he would regret his decision.

Chapter 128 Looking for the Poisonous Dragon Lizard "I don't know what your purpose is, but if it's not too dangerous, I don't know if we can follow along and take a look, which can be regarded as adding a little adventure experience to my granddaughter, so that I won't be bullied when I go out in the future!"

Horton touched the girl's head and said with a loving face.

"And one more person is one more help, and we can also help a little, as for what you are looking for, we don't want it!"

For Donald's secret operations, Horton and the others were also a little curious, and that Miss Thorne's Emily was even more bright-eyed, if it weren't for his grandfather's control, he would definitely follow Donald and them secretly, so Horton simply asked directly, with his own care, and the other party also had a strong lineup, there must not be any fatal danger.

Hearing Horton Thorne's request, Edvina said she needed to discuss it with her companions.

What Donald meant by this was that no matter what the situation, there were only two solutions for the Thorne family and others. The first is to get rid of the other party and move forward alone, but with the strength of the Thorne family and others, I am afraid that the possibility of being followed by them should be very high, and when the time comes, the ruins will be found, according to the rules of the mainland, those who see it will have a share, and the harvest that originally belonged to Ansel and Donald will be divided by at least half.

The second is to take them to search for the ruins together, with the help of a few strong people, the speed can be faster, but the distribution of treasures in the ruins is more troublesome.

As for solving these people in this swamp, they are not the villains who forget their righteousness, and their strength cannot completely suppress their opponents, if they are ordinary adventurers or small nobles, it is fine, but a powerful force like the Thorne family, if the descendants do not have one or two life-saving things, it is basically impossible, if one accidentally escapes by any one, they are really an indissoluble enmity with a powerful force like the Thorne family, unless one of them falls, it will end. Moreover, the status of both sides in their respective countries is not ordinary, and it may lead to a war between the two countries. At that time, more people will be implicated.

Donald would not support this kind of action that harms others and is not beneficial to himself, and the Ansel family also has its own honor and will not do that kind of indiscriminate behavior, so Edvina thought of a way to maximize the benefits and minimize the risk and loss.

"Since Mr. Thorne wants to show the juniors a look, why don't we make a deal. We will help you find the poisonous dragon lizard, and you can't interfere with our actions, you can choose whether to help according to your own wishes, as for all the gains of this trip, except for what we gave up, you can't ask for anything else, how about this deal?"

Horton Thorne thought about it for a while, and thought that his side would have nothing to lose in such a deal, and might even gain a little, and that the other party cared so much about this secret operation, he became more and more curious, so he nodded and agreed:

"The purpose of bringing Emily out this time, in addition to looking for the poisonous dragon lizard, is mainly to take her to experience, as for other things, it is not in consideration, so please rest assured, we will only listen and watch more, and will not reveal a trace of secrets!"

Edvina said to herself, "If you get to the place in a while, you won't think so, an Arcanist ruin is enough to make a kingdom crazy." Let's talk to you first, and even if you regret it, you won't have the face to share many treasures!"

But she said, "Well, the reputation of the Thorne family is still convincing! ”

Seeing that Edvina easily trapped an experienced silver mage into a trap set by himself, Donald was secretly amused in his heart, and he had to admire the marquise's wit.

Excluding the two pilots who operated the airship, the standard number of people on the goblin airship was ten, Donald and eight of them, plus six people from the Thorne family, and now fourteen people were on the airship, which made the airship a little overloaded.

Fortunately, Donald, Ferdinand, and the young men of the Thorne family, Emily and Kael'thas, were on deck, and the cabin would not look crowded.

And because it was flying at a low altitude, and it didn't dare to speed up in the depths of this dangerous swamp, the problem of the drop in flight power caused by overloading was not a problem at all.

Donald stepped onto the deck to make it easier to observe and find the right direction, and Ferdinand and Kael'thas were simply unsure of Donald's safety. As for Miss Thorne, she was naturally lively and curious, and the scenery on the deck was naturally much more comfortable than the dreary cabin.

"It's amazing, it's the first time I've seen a ship that can walk in the sky, isn't this the power of the legendary city in the sky?

Not only curious girls like Emily were amazed by the airship, but also Horton Thorne and others.

"Is this a spaceship powered by magical power? It is so ingenious, I don't know which master's work it is, it is really a great invention! With such a flying ship, after popularization, human life will be more convenient and faster!"

Hearing the silver mage old Mr. Horton standing in amazement as he stood at the hatch of the ship, Donald explained with a smile:

"This is the product of the combination of ancient goblin technology and alchemy, which is used to form a driving force by converting heat energy and the energy in the hedron demon core, but the cost is very high, and even a kingdom cannot afford several such airships. If you want to popularize it, I'm afraid it will be extremely difficult!"

Horton couldn't help but sigh: "What a pity!"

Donald added:

"Although my airship has the disadvantage of high cost and no attack ability, its flight ability is very powerful, not only can it carry people flying at an altitude of thousands of feet, but also the speed can be compared with most fifth-level flying demonic beasts, the biggest advantage is that it only needs ten primary elemental crystals to fly a range of 10,000 miles, and its endurance is also amazing!"

"Isn't that more convenient than having a flying mount?"

"That's nature, the airship is no better than the Warcraft, it won't get tired, it doesn't need to be fed, and it flies smoothly, it doesn't have to sit outside to blow the cold wind, it doesn't have to be affected by drinking tea and eating in the cabin, it's the most suitable to describe it as a home that can travel!"

Horton's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he asked, "Did you build this airship yourself, Your Excellency the Baron?"

Seeing that this silver mage of the Thorne family seemed to be a little tempted, Donald said nonsense and struck while the iron was hot: "

"Yes, after I got the blueprints of the airship, I began to prepare for construction, and I have only recently completed this Griffin No. 1, and another is under construction, but the funds and materials are a little insufficient, if the old gentleman can come up with a magic core or spar worth 100,000 gold soles, or a valuable material like Adamantite Mithril, I can build such an airship for you, and be responsible for training the pilots who operate the airship!"

Horton didn't answer immediately when he heard this, but Edvina in the cabin was also very moved by this, and took over the topic and said: "Donald, our Ansel's family also wants to ask you to build such an airship, I wonder if you can agree?"

Donald smiled, "Of course you can, but if you want to, madam, you'll have to wait a few more months!"

"I'll wait for this time, with this thing, it will be much more convenient to travel back and forth between home and Wang Du at that time, and it is estimated that it will be able to arrive in half a day!" Edvina not only took a fancy to the strategic advantages of this airship, but also considered that her king brother was running out for a long time, so she wanted Wang Du's family to take care of her brother more.

Ferdinand also patted Donald on the shoulder, but he didn't say anything to make him discounted, if no outsiders were present, he would definitely make some jokes, but now this person from the Thorne family also has the heart to buy a goblin airship, and if he says those words again, he is helping others bargain and do Donald a disservice.

And the price Donald gave to Holden was, of course, a lion's mouth, to take the opportunity to slaughter the Thorne family. Although the exchange price of the airship is expensive, it is not as high as that. As for the one that the Ansel's family wanted, it would be good for Donald to make a cost price behind his back, so naturally he would not slaughter them.

To be honest, for such an airship, Holden is really a little tempted.

Such a convenient and fast ancient flying tool can undoubtedly play a great role for a family power, and it is even more a home that can be moved at any time for a mage like him who likes to travel and explore.

But the price of 100,000 gold soles was too high for him, and if he bought it privately, he would be able to pay for it with all his money, but then he would have nothing left of his collection for decades. If he is trading in the name of the family, but it is not easy to make his own decisions, although he is a high-status elder of the Thorne family, there are other elders and the opinions of the current family head that also need to be considered, so he can only make an agreement with Donald for the time being, and then trade with him after returning to Gardre.

Donald promised Horton to find the poisonous dragon lizard for them first, so naturally he wouldn't just talk about it. What's more, poisonous dragon lizards generally do not grow alone, at least they can have more than two harvests, and if there are many, then they will naturally have the opportunity to share a share.

According to the bounty hunter Thorge, Donald moved south from the previous island, specifically looking for solid land to settle down on and lizard-like monsters.

Coincidentally, the direction of Thorge's search was roughly the same direction as the location of the ruins that he had identified. Finding this, Donald was glad that they chose the second method to pull in the Thorne family and the others, which was indeed a correct decision.

(To be continued)