"You've already lost. ”

It was Iroh who spoke, and the Salamondo standing in front of him was not scarred, but a few kilometers away from him, there was a bottomless crater - Iroh's nuclear explosion did not target Salamondo.

However, even if Iroh deliberately controlled the power of the nuclear explosion, the explosion still gave Saramondo a great shock.

If it weren't for the dragon's body structure that prevented them from sweating, Saramondo must be sweating like rain at this moment!

"Why don't you kill me?"

"Because I need you to live. ”

"I still don't understand," Saramondo looked at Iroh steadily, "I've already seen it in the battle just now, you must not have exerted your full strength, have you?" so an existence as powerful as you can easily crush me, why is you so attached to my power, which seems a little insignificant in comparison. ”

As a red dragon can say such a statement, it can be seen that Iroh's strength has indeed had a huge shock to him.

To put it mildly, the gap between them is like a river and the sea.

"yes, why?" Elo's gaze towards the sky became a little dazed and distant, "...... I want to change something that is going to happen, I want to reverse the so-called general trend of the world, I want to regain something that is destined to be lost...... I don't know if I'll be able to do it, but if I want to do it, I guess it's right to have enough power for yourself – including yours. ”

"The general trend of the world?" Salamondo calmly figured out the key point from Iroh's words, "The situation of the dragons, or—"

"Ah, who knows?" said Iroh, regaining his usual graceful smile, though he did find some important clues, but he wasn't going to say them yet, "Anyway, why don't you come with me for a walk? ”

"You're not a good commander. Salamondo commented unceremoniously, although the contact time was not long, and after a few conversations, he also saw something, "The courage and skill to control people's hearts are completely immature, and there is still too much confusion in your own heart, and I am afraid that the people who follow you will not end well." Most of all, I don't like your character. ”

"Oh," Iroh's smile couldn't help but be a little astringent, "I'm sorry, but is it necessary to say it so directly......

"But," Salamondo's tone remained unwavering, "I believe that your determination to pursue power is strong enough, and that the power you already possess is worthy of recognition. Although everything you said is ethereal, I am very interested in myself, and I don't mind using my own strength and life to prove it. ”

The next moment, Salamondo performed a dragon-like ritual towards Ello as a sign of respect and allegiance.

"Of course, there are some things that have to be said in advance, and I will not follow your orders in everything. Before being your subordinate, I was first and foremost a red dragon. In that case, are you still willing to accept this loyalty?"

“...... I accepted. ”

Iroh was silent for a moment and said seriously.

This is the end of Salamondo's dream.

"Hehe, looking at it now, I'm still ...... I can't like you. ”

The sleeping red dragon suddenly showed a disdainful smile.

......

Three days later, in the early morning, deep in the Ambar Mountains.

The cultists of the Cult of the Flame Dragon are reliable, and after Eloh united the lords with the identity of the gods, and the drive of the destruction of the Ikut Valley, these repressed believers quickly established a new home with unprecedented enthusiasm and motivation.

Less than a year after the destruction of the Ikut Valley, a second City of Hope has been built in the depths of the Ambar Mountains - but Iroh renamed it "Flame Dragon City" in honor of those who died in the Ikut Valley, and in order to give everyone a fresh start.

Today, most of the believers scattered from the Icourt Valley to the various parts of Falkenridge have also returned to Yanlong City, and only a few who have had other adventures have chosen to spread out and settle elsewhere.

Regardless, the faith of the Yanlong still binds them together.

On the other hand, more than 20 years of faith transmission has finally yielded gratifying results in Falkenridge: for the first time in this country, faith in the god of light has been overtaken. Among the country's population of more than 10 million, although there are still only more than 20,000 believers who can really provide Airoh with faith points, in a recent unannounced visit by Weiss, half of them already know about the existence of the Yanlong Church, and do not reject this kind of faith.

This means that Iroh may now have close to five million potential believers!

Moreover, perhaps due to the destruction of the Icourt Valley, the belief in the Flame Dragon has not only not been weakened, but has been strengthened. For example, among more than 20,000 believers, for the first time, the hierarchy of "disciples" in a belief system appeared!

Shallow believers can provide 1 to 5 faith points per day, true believers can provide 10 to 20 faith points, devout believers can provide 50 to 100 faith points, and fanatics can provide 200 to 500 faith points.

And the highest level of disciples in the belief system can provide at least 1,000 faith points per day!

During this half year, Iroh also further managed and refined the organizational form of the church, linking the church hierarchy system to the conferral level, and designed and improved the unique clothing and logo of the Yanlong Church in order to strengthen the sense of identity of the believers.

Among them, ordinary believers do not have a uniform uniform, and the identity symbol is a red rose badge.

Inner devotees and high-ranking devotees are all dressed in all-black robes, and their badges are in the image of a white rose.

Although the badge of the high-ranking believer is still a white rose, four silver leaves are added to the edge of the petals.

The costumes of the core believers began to differ significantly from the others, their robes were no longer all black, but had some golden lines, and the badge was the image of a black rose.

The patriarch was still a black rose and four silver leaves, but the costume was more luxurious, and the golden lines vaguely formed an abstract dragon.

The Pope's badge is even more extraordinary, consisting of a black rose with four gold and four silver leaves. As the real big men of the church, their clothes have also changed to a mix of black and gold equally, and the abstract dragon has become more figurative.

As for the head of the Church, the Pope's badge is a dark gold rose with eight gold leaves and a red dragon pattern, and the costume is also fundamentally different from the others: the inner lining is a foot-length coat, a knee-length blouse in the middle, and a shawl gown and gown, not black and gold, but pure white, which makes people feel a pilgrimage-like atmosphere at a glance.

In these hierarchies, the pope is usually the elect or prophet, and the pope is the saint.

Of course, there is still no Pope and Pope in the Church of the Dragon, and all trivial matters are represented by the new Grand Patriarch, the goblin Zangwill.

As for the Solar Light Society, in fact, this affiliated organization of the Yanlong Church has developed much faster than the church, and its reputation has expanded to the entire Western Continent. Nearly all of the continent's Materialist scholars, as well as a handful of Magic scholars who were able to abandon the idea of a portal, secretly rushed to the underground clubs set up by the Solar Optics Society in various cities to share their academic insights and promote the growth of the Tree of Science.

And in the past half a year, the biggest achievement of the Solar Optical Society has been to successfully verify one of the things mentioned in the ruins record that Noelle has cracked - electricity can be used by people, and even people who can't do magic can enjoy electricity.

What's even more exciting is that scholars have also seen ...... in the records of the ruins The possibility of nuclear power generation.

On this day, Salamondo, who had woken up and had fully recovered, was preparing to meet Ello.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for the "Heavenly Rebirth Elixir" that Arlo had given Saramondo to drink at any cost three days ago, he wouldn't have been able to recover so quickly.

Neither emotion nor reason can ignore this favor. At the same time, he wanted to ask Iroh what to do next.

"Iroh. ”

Salamondo stopped, and at the end of his line of sight was the throne that Eloh had to use.

Iroh was now in the form of a teenager, sitting cross-legged on the throne, greeting Salamondo with a casual wave, while the ancient white dragon Helfras, who was also in human form, sitting opposite Iro, shrugged at Salamondo.

In the middle of the two humanoid dragons, there is a small golden table with a chessboard on it.

Iroh furrowed his brows and rubbed his chin, his black eyes firmly locked on the chessboard on the table.

Although Saramondo has little interest in human gadgets, he has been in the world of Elohim for more than three years, and he naturally knows that what Iroh and Helfras are playing now is a board game invented by humans.

To put it simply, it is to use chess pieces to simulate the battle between two armies, one good and one evil, different chess pieces represent different creatures, and also have different ways of playing, and even the same type of chess pieces have different identities in different camps.

For example, Black's Lizard Cavalry is the Heavy Knight on White's side, and Black's Mind Flayer is the Archmage on White's side.

And because all the pieces are three-dimensional, even a person like Helfras, who has no vision, can play well.

Although this set of chess was only invented ten years ago, it quickly attracted the attention of the entire Western Continent.

The two green dragons under Salamondo are also said to be quite fond of this game.

"I know what you're here for," seemed sensing Saramondo's thoughts, and Iroh spoke again, "It's just a trivial thing to me. Instead of dwelling on the past, why don't you take a look at this game?"

"Huh?"

Salamondo's heart moved slightly, so he stepped forward as he said.