17. Fire of the New Dragon Court (6k)
"My God, the legendary Sea of Storms was really found by the Black Chief?"
On the third day after Fisher's departure, Aragina sailed back to the Iceberg Queen, and before she could collect the aftermath of her previous meeting with Fisher, the Black Chief, who was still sailing deeper, sent an emissary to bring them a shocking news.
The legendary golden land of all adventurers, the Storm Sea, has appeared.
"It's true, just the night before yesterday, our captain suddenly noticed something strange on the sea in the distance when he was sailing on the sea, and the time turbulence that had plagued us before suddenly disappeared, and there was really a storm sea inside!"
The messenger on the ship was dressed in a short black sailor's suit, his body was tanned, and he looked like a native of the Southern Continent, but for some reason he could speak fluent northern dialect, so it is estimated that this is the reason why he was chosen as a messenger by the black chieftain, right?
At this time, all the crew members on the Iceberg Queen looked at Alagina on the deck, Pahetz and Ossie standing behind them in shock.
And Osie, though still wearing a cloak around her body, and looking taciturn and only listening silently, no longer stays on the mast.
Since Fisher's departure, everything has changed a lot on board the Iceberg Queen.
"Then dare you, Captain Arajina, let's go and see it too! Storm Sea, I used to..."
At this moment, among the crew members surrounding the messenger who came from the Black Chieftain, a girl with short blond hair who was not very tall, her golden eyes lit up slightly, and she immediately said to Alagina.
"Yin Shabel, that's enough! Don't interject, let us decide! ”
"Yes, First Officer Pachtz!"
Pahetz immediately glared at the blonde girl who spoke, causing her to hide behind the others amid the laughter of the crew around her.
The girl who was called "Yin Sabel" by Pahertz had a standard three-dimensional Nari appearance, but at this time her skin was much rougher, and the wind and sun on the sea soon dyed the girl from the Golden Palace with a strong color, and now her skin became a surging wheat color, just as Old Jack said, like a little leopard with the wildness of a woman.
But after all, the Nari people were born along the coast, and this color rendered by the sea did not seem so contradictory to this overseas wandering princess.
The messenger looked at this scene with some amusement, but then said to Alagina and Pahetz in front of him,
"The captain said that although he found the Storm Sea, according to his observations in the past few days, it is very dangerous inside, and he needs to recruit capable guys to enter it to explore, and he still wants to invite you to join his exploration team; But if you don't want to, it doesn't matter, the captain said, his previous promise still counts, and if you want to go back to the country, he will arrange it for you when he returns to Pirate Harbor this month. ”
Pahertz didn't answer, just turned to look at Arajina, as if waiting for her reply.
It has always been clear to Arajina Pahetz that the heir of the feudal kingdom has never liked to run around, and has always liked to live in peace and tranquility; I have to deny that for the feudal country that has been rampant and domineering by her mother for many years, a feudal lord like Arajina is what people need, but if it falls somewhere else, it is unknown.
Aragina was silent for a moment, and under the quiet gaze of the crew, she raised her azure eyes and said decisively,
"I see, so please let us join the Black Chief's exploration of the Storm Sea, but about the gains..."
Xu didn't even expect that this female captain who was just doing his best would agree to the invitation of the Black Chief, and when the Black Chief sent him, he didn't have much hope that Arajina would agree, after all, everyone knew that Arajina was only here for the Black Chief's "return to the North" reward.
But why is it today...
"Don't worry, the captain of the exploration said that it would be good to divide it equally."
"Yay!"
Yin Sabel in the back crew laughed and jumped up with a dagger, and the other crew members were also a little eager to try, and the aggressive and exploratory blood of female women was undoubtedly revealed at this moment, otherwise where do you think their custom of driving a boat to the sea to hunt sea ghosts in winter came from?
Pahertz was also a little surprised, but when he turned his head to look at Alajina's determined appearance, it was a little clear.
This looks like it's no different from me losing weight for Old Jack, right?
Or did you see Fisher when you went back to Pirate Harbor to resupply this time?
Pahertz smiled and didn't ask much, how complicated are the romance and goals of young people, she is already old, and she only knows how to attract the opposite sex by losing weight, and it is probably not enough to go back to the time when she was young and angry at the crown and become blue, just follow the instructions of the captain; Ossie was basically fine, she was just wondering what kind of place the Storm Sea was.
"The Sea of Storms is not far from here, the coordinates are here. Since Captain Aragina agreed, I went back to the ship and took my leave. ”
"Walk slowly."
The Black Chief's messenger nodded, turned around and ran a few steps before jumping off the deck, landing right on a small boat, and when he sat down and began to rush towards the Black Chief, he couldn't help but glance back at the huge battleship behind him, and muttered,
"It's strange, didn't Zuzu say that Captain Alajina was going back to the north, and I also reminded Ke Yuanning to get ready to win over, it's really..."
Yes, this Southern Continent native-looking Black Chief crew member was one of the Slimes who had appeared on the night Fisher went to the Junction, and he had spoken the news of the pirate harbor before.
He didn't use the value teleportation, but kept rowing hard, using the blue-green jelly-like tentacles that stretched out from his body to send a message to the junction to inform him of the latest movements here.
All kinds of things that happened in the world converged at the junction in the exchange of information between this group of slimes lurking all over the world, although the curse of the plane tree in the north has been removed at this moment, but according to the instructions of King Slim, the slimes who have been operating around the world for a long time have no intention of going back, and they continue to do their own things as before.
Before he could finish writing this Slime, a virtual message formed by the glittering value of gold suddenly appeared around him.
"Hey, there's new news in the Southern Continent, and Zuzu has to send it all to us... What is it? ”
Seeing that it was the new news announced by King Slime, he immediately put down the action of writing information in his hand, and concentrated on reading this valuable information, the words on it were very short, and it said,
"Today, the New Dragon Court has officially captured the city of Kadu; The clarion call for war in the southern continent has been sounded. ”
He looked at the words and was slightly stunned, and turned his head to look southwest.
There was an ancient continent at the end of the sky dome in that direction, and at this time, a flame rolled up by a crimson figure flourished little by little, and gradually had the potential to burn the prairie fire.
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"Kill! Knock the door open! ”
"One! Two! Three! ”
"Bump!"
A long time ago, in the southwest corner of the Southern Continent, in the boundless wilderness, the city that was like a nail abruptly nailed into the wilderness was screaming and killing the sky at this time, countless cannons roared, muskets rang out, and traces of magic light shining on the city wall.
Gold mines, population, land...
Even in a religious country like Kadu, where the dogma of the Mother God is always recited, driven by the devil of greed, they have the ambition to cross the ocean to open up the country, and they rarely recruit abstinent natives, so they promise to recruit people from other places such as Schwali and Nari to come here, hoping to realize their dream of becoming rich overnight...
The lord of the city of Lunnet was such an ambitious man, he had previously been the bishop of a church in Kadu, but in a place as religious as Kadu, a large number of bishops could be knocked down with a random brick in the holy city, not to mention that he was just an obscure "bishop on the margins", and even the small transparency that he could only sit on the edge and listen to the scriptures during the annual meeting.
However, with the development of the times, the surrounding cultures of Schwali and Nari continued to communicate with Kado, so he was gradually infected by the heroic image of Blake, and recruited people to come to the southern continent four years ago in the hope of showing his strength.
It's just that I don't know if it's the punishment of the mother goddess for his greed, he hasn't found anything valuable in the first three years, and he hasn't found any of the rumored gold mines and gem mines, so he has to live a hard life with some slave traders doing slave trade or something. This summer, however, he seemed to have turned his fortunes, and in a tribe of subhumans less than fifteen kilometers from his city, he had finally found the gold he had been looking for.
Then, before he had been happily mining for two weeks, and before he had even taken the gold that had been brought to the city, his city was surrounded by an army of subhumans of all races, armed with muskets and cannons, led by a woman with a red dragon, who called herself the "New Dragon Court"...
"Get out of the way!"
As the artillery on the city could not stop more and more sub-people from surrounding the city, from the formation of the new dragon court army, the dragon queen wearing armor and red hair arrogantly came out of the formation with one hand with a huge red spear, and the gate of Rennet City was attached to a lot of magic, and it was basically useless to use general magic and city breakers, and after a long stalemate before it was broken, Rafael finally couldn't sit still, and killed it with a gun.
Jasmine, who was originally behind her, hurriedly rode her horse to follow, and heard Rafael roar from afar and threw the spear in her hand at the city gate in the distance.
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"Roar!"
As the spear, which seemed to be made of blood but hotter than lava, was thrown by Rafael, the locked gate suddenly blew through the entire gate as if it had been hit head-on by countless cannonballs, and the huge stones fell all over the ground.
The terrifying lethality of that disaster instantly made the garrison on the city wall reverberate, but Rafael still didn't stop, she retracted her wrist and withdrew her spear, and went into the city unabated.
"Come with me, only catch the city lord!
Stand by outside!
”
The man with the gun and the brain demon flying in the sky, Ke Lili, also took advantage of the moment when the magic shield on the wall was torn by Rafael's spear and flew into the city, because of her presence, the sound of Rafael and a group of centaurs The sound of iron hooves and chanting soon came into the city, and was heard by all the panicked humans trapped in the city.
"Everyone, stop resisting! We will only liquidate the city lord, everyone, and stop resisting! ”
Under the almost unstoppable onslaught, the innocent humans in the city fled into the houses and watched as Rafael fought all the way to the city lord's mansion.
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The war progressed rapidly, but the end of the war was not so simple, and the work of cleaning the battlefield, counting the wounded, and collecting the spoils of war continued until the afternoon, and the busyness stopped.
Rafael ordered most of the army to stop outside the city, with only a few sub-men guarding the humans in the city to prevent them from escaping.
"According to the decree of the new Queen of the Dragon Court, we will mercilessly punish criminals, invaders, and traitors!
”
At the gate of the broken city walls, the submarines had set up a guillotine, the army was in front of them, and some of the bolder humans in the city also tentatively walked out of the door, and they soon found that as long as they did not leave the city, the horrible sub-people who were heavily armed would not do anything to them, they only searched the city for all the magic and everything that could transmit letters, and killed the lord's diehards one by one, and the remaining humans engaged in production were safe and sound.
"They are!
Colin, the slave trader who sold our compatriots!
Invader Lunnet!
And the traitor Harrier!
”
As a group of subhumans escorted a green slime, a panicked human with messy hair, and a dragonman who was still holding his chest up, the humans in the city behind him let out a little exclamation, and all the subhuman soldiers in front of the formation shouted and raised their weapons.
And on the almost shattered walls, the red-haired dragon race who had led his army into the city sat quietly on the edge, watching the three criminals fix themselves under the great swords, begging for mercy timidly, criing out in breakdown, or silently silent...
Her turquoise eyes flashed a little light, and she only looked at the scene in front of her, and took a deep breath of the smoke of the air, although she choked, it made her seem to feel light.
"Rafael, you're here, I've been looking for you for a long time..."
At this moment, behind her, Jasmine, the whale girl who had a good relationship with her, also easily jumped on the city wall, looked at her friend's back and opened her mouth, breaking the quiet atmosphere on this side.
"Jasmine, you just got back from the wounded... I'm sorry for you. ”
"Fortunately, there weren't many injured this time, and even I didn't expect it to be so soon."
Jasmine sat next to Rafael, a little surprised that the battle would be so devastating, Rafael smiled slightly, looked at the subhuman soldiers below who raised their weapons and roared loudly, and said,
"It's a momentum, and we've been preparing for seven months for this day. Since the establishment of the New Dragon Court, the compatriots have been suppressed for so long, and they all desperately need a victory to release the oppression that has been squeezed for so long... I'm not surprised by the outcome of this battle, but the hard things are yet to come. ”
"The back... Thing? ”
Rafael nodded and said with a smile,
"Yes, every step has its own difficulties. All I say to you is that I have no intention of exterminating the human race, not only because the New Dragon Court will learn from the human craftsmen in this city to improve technology, improve our education from their texts, and obtain magic from them, but also because I do not want to repeat the sin of human slaughter of innocent people. ”
"I have seen invaders kill children, either for profit or for hypocritical salvation, and when I am faced with this choice, I must stick to my path, even if there are consequences. I will not lay down the butcher's knife until I drive them all out of our homeland; But I will not overdo it, and treat the forced or ignorant equally. ”
Hearing Rafael's words, Jasmine followed her and thought about it.
She has always been very complicated with human beings, which makes her caught in the middle and never know which side to go, or hatred or forgiveness, as if going on that side is a betrayal of some people and things, she doesn't know how Rafael is in this way, but in her opinion, Rafael seems to know more than she does in this regard.
Jasmine expressed her doubts to Rafael, but Rafael shook her head with a smile and pointed to Jasmine's head,
"Stupid, how can you ask me such a thing. It's just that for me, as long as I'm strong enough, I won't regret any decision. Moreover, this is all a conclusion that I have come to think about myself, of course, there is no right or wrong, only a clear conscience... This is what my husband taught me. ”
“... Yes, my teacher also taught me that many things in this world are not right or wrong, but after experiencing these things, we will grow. ”
Rafael was slightly stunned, nodded very respectfully, and praised,
"So, your teacher... Ah, I should say that your sweetheart should be a very wise person. ”
"Everywhere, Rafael's husband is too, and he sounds like a very intelligent and kind person."
"Hahaha, that guy isn't... He's a super-badass, very bad, very bad, and very good, very good. ”
In fact, Rafael and Jasmine rarely talk about the person in each other's hearts, first of all, they are separated from each other at this time, and even if they do, it is only sad, just knowing that they are trying to change themselves.
In the bloody remnant sun in front of him, the glittering cold sluice knife fell quickly, killing all the criminals on trial, and the sub-people below burst out with a roar that soared into the sky, but Rafael didn't look at it at all, just sighed and continued,
"Hey, what's the next trouble... The inside of the new dragon court is about to become lively again, and some of the people in the group must be carried away by this victory, feeling that the human race is not vulnerable at all, and they can't wait to fight from the south to the north tomorrow; Either you must feel that this neighborhood is safe after the fight, so you will ask me to resign and simply return to your tribe to be the king of the mountain, and you will die of a headache..."
"Hey, it's rare to hear Rafael's words so unconfident."
"It's not that I'm not confident, it's just that it's more troublesome... Speaking of which, it seems that after the last time I came out of the underground palace of Femabaha, I felt as if my body had become stronger, and I had become much faster when I engraved magic, as if Femabaha had given me more than just this magic weapon. I just didn't expect that the god Femabaha Dragon, whom we have believed in for so long, would have such an unfrank side, which made me think that he didn't care about us at all, and forgot to thank him... Wait until it's quiet before you go and thank him in person. ”
No, that... Probably not that chance.
Jasmine smiled awkwardly, and when they left, Master Ramastia disappeared for a long time, and when she returned, the baby-like voice said everything with a moist cry, sobbing for a while, so that Jasmine comforted her for a long time and did not stop, only then did she know that her beloved god Femabaha had passed away.
But in the past few days, Lord Ramastia seems to have disappeared again, and no matter how you call it, I don't know if there is something going back to the bottom of the sea.
"The non-frank side? Isn't that Rafael? I think it's quite reasonable, Rafael is of Femabah blood, and his personality is very similar. ”
"Huh? I? Am I not being frank? ”
Seeing Rafael pointing at her in disbelief, Jasmine squinted her eyes for a second or two before nodding and saying,
"Well, sometimes I see you in a daze at night, obviously thinking about your husband, every time I ask you, I say no, but obviously all the expressions are exposed... I read the book in which Nari said, you are... Well, tsundere... Ahhh ”
Rafael pinched Jasmine's face in front of him angrily, but after all, this was in front of the battle, and their fight was just a superficial taste, anyway, as long as Jasmine didn't continue, it was too much... It's a bit too embarrassing.
But his tail partner, I haven't seen him for too long, so at night, whenever I think of himself, I will...
In a corner of this boundless wilderness, in front of the battlefield that the sub-people and human beings have watched, seeing the blood shed by the executed enemies on the execution rack, the group of sub-people who had been oppressed for a long time and looked forward to the dawn in the numb silence finally had an unprecedented feeling of tears.
Many of them had their homes destroyed and displaced, perhaps not for revenge, but for a little sense of relief in their hearts, so they raised their weapons uncontrollably and shouted hysterically,
"New Dragon Court! New Dragon Court! New Dragon Court! ”
The existence of the Brain Demon Seed made this concept of being shouted in different languages deeply into the hearts of everyone present, and even the humans in the inner city looked at the angry sub-people in the distance with some surprise, echoing in their minds this term that they might have just learned today...
Rafael also stood up and raised his crimson spear on the high wall,
"For the new Dragon Court!"
Her fiery voice came far away at once, putting everyone's eyes on her,
"For the new dragon court! For the Dragon Queen!
”
The sunset in the distance sank little by little, but here and now, the ancient dragon court that had been sleeping for a long time rose again, carrying the faith of many people to make the silk thread of fate shake and ignite the long-numbed continent with the momentum of a prairie fire.
Jasmine on the side looked at Rafael beside her for a long time, and then, she also put her hands in front of her mouth and shouted loudly,
"For the new dragon court!
”