Chapter 453: Dark Legend
At midnight, the dreary, damp underground wind howled through Casteg, and the grease-lit torches and the brilliant light of the Night Pearl swayed in alarm, but fortunately, the thick smell of blood in the sky finally faded because of it.
"Your Majesty, we are incompetent and have not been able to stop Moryl, and most of the sorcerers have also escaped, they have left a dozen tunnels in the West City in advance, and those Orphers have also infiltrated through the tunnels. ”
In the hall of the Congress, Daxto, Gengner and the others knelt straight at the foot of the steps, their blood-stained armor covered with black scabs, and it was impossible to tell whether it was theirs or the enemy's.
Speaking of which, the battle against Morriel's base camp was not particularly difficult due to the presence of the Dark Dragons, and the actual losses were much lower than the pre-war estimates, except for the magic of the sorcerers and the sudden appearance of the Ofer spirits, which caused some casualties.
Of course, Daxduo knew how much pressure Long Zu had personally borne for this, and the large terrifying ruins in front of the Congress even he was shocked to see, although he was not in the scene, but there was no need to say how dangerous the battle situation was here, so when he looked at Lear standing beside Long Zu, his eyes were full of fear and awe.
However, even so, he allowed Moryl and the others to escape, and the nominal victory was indeed achieved, but for him, I am afraid there was no greater defeat.
"Well, if you want to leave, you can't stay, so go down first. ”
Long Zu waved his hand lightly, his tone indescribably tired.
"Your Majesty, please order me and Helika to lead the Manticore Legion in pursuit, the minister may not be able to capture Morriel alive, but those sorcerers are not fast, and they may be able to catch up now! In addition, please send a note to Serren, King of Orver, to severely condemn him for supporting Moriel's rebellion, and make it clear that he reserves the right to retaliate by means of war, so that Orphe must have concerns when accepting Morriel and other traitors, and it will be much easier for us to divide again. ”
Geng Na is worthy of being a veteran general who has been stationed in Tucheng and confronted the Bracada people for more than ten years, and when he considers the problem, he is obviously much more meticulous than Dax, a pure martial artist, and it is also because he has not stayed by Long Zu's side for more than ten years that he dares to say so, and in exchange for kneeling at the foot of the steps, he has been affected by the majesty of Long Zu all the year round, and only execution remains.
"You reminded me, so let's go to the treasury and bring 20,000 gold coins to Over, and don't Serren always want that mage cloak, give it to him too. ”
"What?
Not only Gengna, everyone looked up at Long Zu and showed a look of incomprehension and grief, Ou Fu betrayed the alliance between the two countries first, and it was supposed to be Serren, as the monarch, to give Nigon an explanation, but Long Zu ...... Even if no one dared to say that sentence, in fact, the shock in everyone's eyes could already explain everything.
"You'll understand later, let's do it. If it were normal times, no matter who dared to directly question Long Zu's decision, I was afraid that he would immediately pay a heavy price, but at this moment he just shook his head and didn't explain, only Lear, who was standing next to him, showed a meaningful smile.
"I'm afraid that the so-called Serren and the like are also the same as Wilma in Tiga, and they are more of an ornament, right?"
It wasn't until everyone had left that Lear jokingly said that he knew about the development of religion in the world, and that the clerical power in a religious country was definitely a cancer clinging to the regime.
It doesn't even need to be said that others only talk about himself, although he claims to be the lord of Spartacus, but as soon as Sa-Aylon came, he was directly put in the air, and he didn't even have a chance to discuss and resist, and just looking at Aiden's ability to directly interfere with Nigon's internal strife with the legions of the Sheep Song Sect, I am afraid that the so-called king's life in Ofer is even worse than him.
At least in Spartacus, no matter how much Delo and Roland went too far, they did not dare to move the army directly beyond him.
"Don't talk about that, you come with me. Long Zu was not surprised that Lear could see through his plans, and he didn't want to explain the reason for the disaster to Daxdo and the others, so he finally solved Nigon's internal worries temporarily, and now it was time for him to fulfill his agreement with Lear.
Descending the heavy stone hallway, the number of steps was too wide for Lear to forget, and he could only roughly tell the distance by the grease torches that crackled from time to time on both sides, until a scorching earth wind broke in from under his feet, and he vaguely realized that he might have followed Dragon Ancestor to the ground.
"...... is this?dark elves?"
To Lear's surprise, when he followed the footsteps of the Dragon Ancestor after a long walk to the underground plaza, there was nothing but an elven girl kneeling on an obsidian altar.
Since coming to this world, Lear has seen many beautiful women, and even in Spartacus, Guina, Adela and Kunsha in human form are the embodiment of the three ultimate beauties of heroism, wisdom and charm respectively, but the girl in front of him is different from any kind of beauty he has seen before.
The not-so-bright light projected on her face was like a life, jumping, cheering, condensing the soft light that set off every inch of skin, the nose was more delicate than the most skillful craftsman carved with crystal, the eyes were just the right size, the curved eyebrows were like the moon lying quietly on the brow bones, the eyes were clear without any impurities, even if it was the reflection of the firelight, it felt like it was originally generated there, thin lips like leaves, and long hair like a waterfall, covering the entire back and extending to two meters away.
She knelt on the altar like that, without any sound or movement, but she knelt down on the ten-meter-high altar into a painting, even if the entire underground square was empty, but as long as she was there, all the cold lines on the material form were gentle.
The reason why I was able to guess the identity of the girl elf was because of the pair of pointed ears, as well as the slightly pale complexion and pupils that had begun to degenerate and shrink.
"Three hundred and twenty-seven years ago, the then Holy Mudran Empire launched an invasion against an elven tribe on the border of the Tulaone Forest, intending to annex this isolated enclave hanging outside the Elven Kingdom, because the owner of this territory, the Elven Queen Tudhana, opposed the Elven King Elnir's proposal for a hereditary monarchy, so the emissary she sent to the Elven Kingdom for help was sent back, and Elnir's instruction to the Tulaone Forest was 'She is isolated, so let her fight on her own'" Just when Lear was shocked by the girl's beauty, Long Zu suddenly spoke.
"Not only that, but later on Al Nir sent an army to join the War of the Ashes, assisting the Knights of the Holy Mudran Empire in slaughtering their own people, Tudhanna was desperate to protect her people, even at any cost, and some 'Faceless' approached her, saying that if she renounced her belief in the goddess of life and worshipped the dark dragon, they would give her the strength to survive. ”
As soon as Long Zu's words fell, Lear picked up lightly, but his tone was not so much telling as urging Long Zu to finish his words quickly, just changing his impatient attitude to a different way.
"Not to mention who played those so-called 'Facelesss', after the War of the Elders, Thanatos fell, the Faceless lineage almost disappeared, and Tudhana and her people began to worship the dark dragon Malasa, and thus degenerated into the dark elves, does this have anything to do with what I am looking for?"
Sure enough, looking at Long Zu's unhurried expression, Lear finally couldn't hold back.
"Young people, there is always a lack of patience, which makes you miss out on a lot of things. Long Zu glanced at Lear, but fortunately, this expression finally made his face a little angry, so that he didn't feel like he was facing a piece of wood after staring for a long time, or the kind that had been hollowed out by termites.
"Okay, you go ahead. Lear spread his hands, even if he knew he was wrong.
"You may know a lot of things, even if you don't say it, I can see that every soul I have felt in my long life, you are fundamentally different from them, but this does not mean that you can despise history and the future, under the sky of history, even if it is a great existence, in the end it is just a speck of dust, history is the source, the future is also the source, everything in the world is changing, only the source remains the same, in the face of the source, I hope you can realize your own insignificance, and maintain a humble attitude. ”
Lear has a strange feeling, that is, after he killed Aiden with a white hole, Long Zu has changed, no longer the leader of the high-ranking Nigon, and no longer the object of trading with him and beware of each other, but like a wise man who has been immersed in the long river of wisdom for a long time, he wants to give himself some sense of help or guidance in the posture of his own ability, if he has to put a label on this feeling, it is sincerity, but he can't figure out what he can't figure out is, why should Long Zu be sincere to him?
"Taught. Lear bowed slightly, but this time his posture was really very low, although he didn't know why for the time being, but he was not even able to distinguish between good and bad, and in the face of such a wise and sincere old man, he should return the appropriate respect.
"Ahem...... cough ......" Dragon Ancestor suddenly let out a violent cough, his trembling back and violently rolling Adam's apple made Lear fear that he would cough out the lobes of his lungs, but when he was about to cast a healing spell on Dragon Ancestor, Long Zu waved his hand to stop him.
"Don't waste your strength, don't you know that the black dragons are completely exempt?" It was still the old handkerchief, Long Zu gently covered the corners of his mouth, and only after more than ten seconds did he continue to speak: "There are no faceless ones, the so-called faceless ones are indeed played by the people I sent, but I am not here to help those elves." ”
Lear nodded, there are interests between the nations, even the elven kingdom with a strip of water has abandoned Tudhana, if it is not for a strong purpose, how can Nigon, known as one of the evil iron triangles, be so kind.
"Elves are born with the ability to get close to nature, I think you know, but do you know what nature means?"
Long Zu turned to face Lear, but strangely enough, their conversation did not deliberately lower their voices, and the enclosed environment of the underground plaza was very conducive to the spread of voiceprints, but in the corner of Lear's eyes, the elf girl did not react from beginning to end, and was as quiet as a sculpture.
"Wind, fire, water, earth, light, and darkness make up all the energy forms of the world, and because of this talent, elves are usually more likely to achieve success than other races when practicing magic, but it is also because of this talent that most of them are mixed and unrefined, and it is difficult to give birth to a master-level existence in a certain field. ”
Lear thought for a moment, then replied earnestly.
"Yes, these are all part of nature, but nature is not only these, you just said that all the energy forms that make up this world, those that can make intelligent life feel are actually only a part of nature, nature is actually the source, is the beginning of the embodiment of energy forms, this point, you should have a deeper understanding than me. ”
Speaking of this, Long Zu glanced at Lear, and then spoke again: "All material worlds are derived from source power, a high-level life plane, the perfect law must embody the will of the source, and it is also the inevitable condition for the birth of life, three hundred and twenty-seven years ago, the last oracle of the dark dragon Malasa descended on Nigon, which is the source of a world. ”
"What!?"
This time Lear was really taken aback, it felt like someone had dropped a depth charge into his head, the waves and the shaking of the earth almost made him lose the ability to think, and the amount of information contained in this sentence was so great that his mouth widened and his eyes widened, but he didn't know where to start.
Fortunately, Long Zu didn't plan to sell Guanzi, and after Lear calmed down a little, he began to tell again.
"That is to say, the world we are in has two world sources, one has awakened, and the other has not yet come to the time, but hundreds of years have passed, even I don't know what the situation is, the source power did not stay in Nigon but went directly into the ground, and His Majesty's oracle let me find this girl secretly, and brought her to this altar, as for what reason, His Majesty did not explain, but according to the observation of these hundreds of years, there should be left in that altar His Majesty's supreme divine power, whether it is time or space has been eternally extracted, so no matter what we say, she can't hear it, in a sense, she is actually already a dead person. ”
"Who is she?" asked Lear curiously.
"Dragulina, a person who was able to communicate with the source of the world from birth, I later learned this from her mother, Tudhana. Long Zu replied lightly.
"What about the World Tree, what do you say to me have to do with the World Tree?"
Although there was already some vague speculation, Lear was still unsure, so he asked cautiously again.
"Actually, you've already guessed it......" However, this time Long Zu did not answer Lear's question directly, but it was such a rhetorical question, which made Lear's expression completely solemn.
"You mean, there is no World Tree, or the World Tree is not what I thought it would be. Lear frowned in pain, his mind was a complete mess that he hadn't digested yet.
"I can't answer you, I can only tell you another part of the oracle, unless I am at the end of my life, I can entrust this secret to the next generation of Dragon Ancestor, or I met that person, so I brought him here, when I asked Your Majesty who it was, Your Majesty only told me that you would know when you saw it, so many years I have been living in fear, because as I gradually weakened, Moriel, who was supposed to inherit the throne of Dragon Ancestor, became more and more ambitious, and I was afraid that I would not be able to fulfill His Majesty's will until I met you. ”
"Wait! What do you mean by the will?" To be honest, Lear felt that he was about to be numb by the shock today, whether it was the oracle of the dark dragon, or the source of the two worlds, or the last words of the dragon ancestor, these news could cause a tsunami-like earthquake of magnitude twenty if it was put to the outside world, but now it was crashing into his mind one after another, and the chaos was as indescribable as when he was in a black hole.
"That is to say, it is very likely that His Majesty Malatha has fallen, otherwise there will not be an oracle for more than three hundred years, and the dragon blood holy bottle that has disappeared for endless years happened to be found by Moriel three hundred and twenty-five years ago, if it is not for the accident of His Majesty, why leave the source blood that symbolizes his bloodline inheritance?" Although the expression was still Gujing Wubo, there was obviously a trace of trembling and sadness in the tone of the Dragon Ancestor.
"The Fall...... The Origin of Two Worlds...... Elf Girl ...... The Clone Controversy...... "Lear clutched his head in pain, he vaguely felt that there was a thread that connected it all, but when he tried to grab that thread from the tide of information that was more violent than the stormy ocean, he was swallowed up again and again by the monstrous waves.
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