Chapter 81: Leviathan
"Before Falkenridge and Stacy officially go to war, the Church of the Flame Dragon must spread to every corner of both countries!"
With an unmistakable sound, Iroh spat out magic markers and marked them back and forth on the map projection.
"Natalie, you fly south, all the way to the vicinity of the rebels. Then do whatever you want, slaughter humans, plunder treasures, control communities!"
"Sounds interesting. The female green dragon opened her mouth slightly, and there was a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"Hilcart, you go all the way to the northeast and settle down in the black swamp. There are four large tribes of lizardmen there, and they will belong to me, but they will also belong to you!"
Hillcart wagged his tail with some excitement, and a series of low growls came almost uncontrollably from his throat: "Iroh, this decision of yours is one of my favorites!"
"Karamank, your destination is in the southwest, separated by a war-torn area between Falkenridge and the Duchy of Heberta. I will support you in all your actions, go and subdue the local people, and then make it your territory!"
"Understood!" the young blue dragon responded cautiously, and began to think quickly in his heart.
"Raja, from now on order all the people in the church and mobilize as many people as possible in the town of Hope to get out of the valley and reach out to as many people as possible. ”
Looking at the somewhat overwhelmed goblins, Iroh continued, "The church can't just grow in the Icourt Valley. So they will be the pioneers of the church and open up a whole new world for us!"
"Yes, my master!"
Raja's expression was dazed, and he didn't know that Airo was going to make a big move again - Raja is not stupid, he has half a lifetime of knowledge as the foundation, and combined with the orders that Ailo just gave to a few dragons, he can roughly guess it.
"Very well, now that Noele stays, the others can prepare to leave. ”
Dragons don't have as much sentimentality as humans, and even if they know they're about to face a long separation, they don't spend much emotion on it.
So Iroh just glanced at each other with the three dragons, and then finished saying goodbye.
It is worth mentioning that when Natalie looked at each other, Iroh felt that the latter seemed to have a vague reluctance. But the emotion was so faint that he disappeared before he could confirm it.
As for Raja, although as a goblin, he values feelings more than dragons, but he also knows that almost no one can change what Iroh decides, and Iroh is not a benevolent leader, so instead of annoying him by grinding and annoying, it is better to complete the task as soon as possible.
"Well, I'll look forward to seeing you next time. ”
After saying the last sentence, Iroh said no more. When the three dragons and the goblins had all left, he turned his gaze to the Silver Dragon Mage standing on the side.
"Noele, you know what I'm trying to say. ”
Looking at the handsome man with azure eyes and long silver hair, Iroh couldn't help but despise the metal dragon's gaze in his heart.
Even though he knew that, according to the aesthetics of most humanoids, Noele's humanoid form, as well as his own humanoid form, were extremely high-quality types, Eloh still found the human appearance extremely ugly.
Seriously, Iroh would have liked to order Noelle to be forbidden to appear in human form in front of him. However, considering the size of Noele's adult dragon, and the fact that the silver dragon could not only take on a human form, Iroh finally gave up.
The Silver Dragon Mage didn't expect this to be the case in Airo's heart, he first bowed slightly, and then showed a smile that was enough to charm most young women, and said unhurriedly, "Yes, Lord Lord." I have succeeded in reconstructing a part of the knowledge recorded in the ruins for more than a year, and I would like to give you a summary of this part. ”
It turned out that when Noelle first entered the ancient ruins, although he found that a lot of knowledge had been destroyed, the fortunate thing was that this knowledge was not irretrievable, but it would be a very long process.
And a large part of the knowledge is hidden in the form of puzzles, which means that after reconstructing the content of the puzzles, further puzzles need to be solved to discover this knowledge.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of time for dragons, especially for a pure scholar like Noele, and it is simply a pleasure to spend time pursuing knowledge.
Over the past year, with the help of his gifted "deconstruction method", Noele has finally come to a point, or rather, good news and bad news.
The bad news is that the results Noelé gets actually don't really help the two dragons to grasp the unknown power in Iroh's body.
In some of the documents of that ancient ruin, there are two special units of time measurement, one of which roughly corresponds to 4.53 billion years, and the other to 100 millionths of a second.
Perhaps these two concepts of time will confuse many researchers. However, Noelle had some knowledge to back it up, and he understood that the only thing that could be measured in billions of years or billionths of a second was the half-life of radioactive elements.
For example, the element called uranium mentioned earlier has a half-life of 4.45 billion years, which is close to the recorded concept of time.
The next good news has to do with that.
Now that the people of that era have mastered these concepts, it is almost certain that in the hidden knowledge there is absolutely the technology to measure nuclear and subnuclear matter, and the method of creating that legendary nuclear weapon!
"So, my lord," said Noele confidently, "I have reason to think that we will gain more knowledge as the restoration work progresses. ”
"Nuclear Weapons......
Iroh didn't answer Noelé, but looked at the pendant on his chest in a bit of a daze.
No, his gaze was not just on the pendant, as if he wanted to penetrate the layer of skin that was clinging to the pendant, and see the series of energy cycles going on in his body at this moment......
Is there really a hidden energy in this seemingly ordinary body that is enough to destroy the world as Noeleh said?
When Noele was gone, Iroh finally sighed and closed his eyes.
I thought that the mystery of my life experience was not that complicated, but now it seems that it is a little simpler than I thought before.
At the same time, the Vora Empire was in the northwest, in the far west.
Almost everyone on the Western Continent knows that in the northwest of the Walla Empire, it is the last place on this continent where the remnants of the ancient orc empire live.
A long time ago, the world of Elohim was not the same as it is today, with almost no intelligent races settling on the eastern continent, while the western continent was ruled by orcs.
At the beginning of the Age of Glory, magic technology was extremely backward, so the strength of the flesh became a key factor in determining strength and weakness—the naturally strong and more aggressive orcs naturally had more advantages than intelligent races such as humans.
The orc empire that people refer to today refers to the great country that unified the entire Western Continent during this period!
However, later, with the rise of magic and the awakening of human consciousness, coupled with the fact that there were many branches within the orcs, they were not as united as humans, so the orc empire eventually fell apart. Some orcs realized the strength of humans, so they chose to go to sea and go to the Eastern Continent to open up a new living space. And the rest are not willing to fail and continue to stay and fight against humanity.
Admittedly, the orcs were also quite tenacious, and although the empire was initially divided due to carelessness, the war entered a long stalemate after they truly made humans their opponents.
It was many years before the humans, with the help of elves, dwarves and other allies, broke the last line of defense of the orcs in one fell swoop, forcing them to abandon most of the land in the western continent and flee to the northwest of the continent.
And in the process, the orcs split again, and a small group of orcs sued for peace with humans, so after giving up many rights, they finally gained a place to survive. For example, today's Ironstone tribe, they are the descendants of that orc.
Perhaps the gods also thought that the orcs should not be allowed to disappear in the Western Continent, after the orcs occupied the vast grasslands and barren hills in the northwest of the continent, they turned this place into a quagmire of war with their super adaptability and endurance, and anyone who dared to send troops to attack them could not help them.
Later, after several generations of multiplication, the orcs gradually recovered. Although they also knew that it would be impossible to counterattack the humans at this time, it would be no problem if they just made some uncomfortable use for the Vola Empire, which was closest to the northwest border.
Yes, the orcs have learned the characteristics of humanity during the long war: in the absence of a strong external enemy, the terrible unity of this race can evolve into infighting at an alarming rate.
Therefore, as long as the orcs are not too excessive, the human countries that have begun to be busy distributing benefits at the moment will not risk paying a huge cost to unite again.
Bright and dry environment, with a faint scent of flowers in the air – a rarity in the Far West grasslands, which are notoriously harsh.
This is a high ground in the grassland, which was originally the same as the rest of the grassland, but everything has changed significantly after the arrival of the owner of the highland.
"Lord Leviathan, this is this month's cuprite, your favorite!"
Several sturdy wolf orcs placed three large boxes full of ore at the entrance of the crypt, and a middle-aged wolf orc, led by them, said loudly to the dark crypt.
"Alright, let's go back, Lord Leviathan doesn't like to see people. ”
With that, he turned to his companions and nodded.
"I've been here five times to deliver ore, and I haven't seen this adult once, so I really want to see what he looks like......
After the orcs completed the task, their expressions were obviously much lighter, and they walked back with a smile.
"Come on, it's the sixth time I've seen him, haven't I seen him the same?"
"I've heard that Lord Leviathan is a benevolent and righteous Bronze Dragon, completely different from his kind!"
"That's right, otherwise how could our tribes be protected by him, and we wouldn't need to pay anything. ”
As the sounds of the orcs faded away, until they were completely lost in the wind, a pair of dark green eyes suddenly lit up in the crypt.
"......Protect?"
With some self-deprecating laughter, the chest full of ore was pulled by an invisible force, causing the ore to be dumped into the crypt by gravity.
"It would be great if I could still live up to those beliefs as firmly as I did before......"