86. Mythology (9k, 2-in-1)
Rafael had always had a feeling of extreme unease in his heart.
Maybe it was when the human alliance launched a general attack on the Dragon Court, or maybe it was earlier, as early as when Fisher and Jasmine left the Dragon Court for the so-called "Demon Dynasty", she felt this way.
The uneasiness intensified when she glanced at the array across from her, but did not see the invincible General Barbatos in it.
She now preferred the terrible enemy to appear before her eyes, for if the mighty enemy was not here, it would have been possible to go to Fisher, which Rafael did not want to see.
Objectively, the two of them seem to have a tacit understanding in this kind of thing, and they both hope that their side will attract the enemy, so that the other side will be safer.
But at this moment, the opposing human coalition army had also launched an attack on the Namgykyundan Mountains where they were stationed under the orders of Barbatos and Agareth, and Rafael had to focus all his attention on the enemy's attack in front of him.
"Whoa!"
"Queen! They're attacking, give orders! ”
"Queen, they moved, what should we do?"
"Don't worry!!"
In the face of the heavy rain, the dragon court troops on the Namggyi Mountains set up a physical and magical offensive, but Rafael never stood still, and when the humans below used artillery and magic, and then the knights in the vanguard and the dragon court men were in short combat, Barbatos still did not appear.
The presence of Barbatos always haunted her like a dark cloud, and after a moment of hesitation, Rafael finally made up her mind to go directly to confirm Barbatos's situation.
If Barbatos is in the enemy's ranks, then she will face Barbatos directly, so that Fisher's side will not face it; On the other hand, if he is really not there, then even if the Dragon Court army is inferior to the other party in terms of numbers now, with Rafael, the queen of the fourteenth rank, they are not opponents.
"The Guards Regiment, at my command, is here to guard the protective measures. Ral, charge with me and deliver my commands at any time! ”
"Queen, by no means, Barbatos."
"Boom!"
The generals next to him all changed their faces to stop Rafael's moves, only Laal next to him pulled up his cloak and mask without saying a word and prepared to follow Rafael, the next second, the thunder in the sky shook down, and the pale light illuminated the faces of many generals, and Rafael only called out his spear with a "clang", looked at the battle situation below and said,
"The commanders of each legion should lead their own teams, don't fall into chaos, take blocking the other party's entry into the Namggyi Mountains as the first priority, let's go!"
"Yes, Rafael."
With that, Rafael jumped down from the mountain with a "bang", and Lal behind him glanced at the many generals beside him, and also put on goggles and fell from the sky.
With countless rain curtains, she fell straight down without any protection, until she was only a hundred and ten meters from the ground, Rafael in front of her suddenly aimed a spear at Lal behind her, and Ral stepped on the tip of the spear with both feet and turned into a storm of blades like a spinning top, killing towards the knights who were protected by countless magic.
"Boom!"
But the first attack of Lal was just a feint to attract his attention, and when the dragon queen behind him raised his spear and slammed it down, the knight in front of him who raised his shield to defend flew out in an instant, and the stumps and severed arms flew everywhere under the wrapping of blood red and scorching flames, which greatly shocked the human soldiers who witnessed all this in the distance.
Of course, there are many veterans who participated in the war with the Dragon Court four and a half years ago and are not alarmed, the president of this advance force is such a person who followed Barbatos to participate in the early war, looking at Rafael who was killing in all directions in the military formation, he only frowned, patted the shoulder of the attendant next to him and said,
"Bring those cardinals, I'm going to activate them."
"Yes, sir!"
"By the way, go and inform General Barbatos that the dragon queen is down again."
"Yes, but sir, the communications officer has already been there to report the situation here, but there is a bit of chaos on the side of the main camp, saying that General Barbatos's people have not been found, so."
"What?!"
The chief did not panic when he looked at the dragon queen in front of him as if she was in a no-man's land, but when he heard that the commander of the first army suddenly disappeared, he still had a feeling of uneasiness, he quickly pinched the mouth of the attendant beside him, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the people next to him brought boxes of cardinals, and said sharply,
"You must not tell anyone else about this matter, once you say it, I am afraid that it will collapse"
The attendant smiled bitterly and had no choice but to respond, but it was better to say that it was far away from here, and I was afraid that the main camp would be in trouble.
"Buzz!"
"Rafael, those weird machines!"
Hearing Laar's reminder, Rafael turned his head to look, and saw countless black crow machines rising into the sky in front of him, pouring towards this side with a very oppressive feeling, Rafael frowned and used the magic engraved on the body of the gun to resist, but after the fierce flames, those cardinals were unscathed and still flew towards this side.
Don't you come out yet, Barbatos, it looks like he's really gone to Fisher
Just as Rafael gritted her teeth and raised her gun to face the cardinal in front of her, her cheeks suddenly went numb, and after a slight startle, she raised her hand to touch her cheek, and a pool of hot blood appeared in her palm so prominently.
Wounds?
When was given something
"Whew!"
But when Rafael thought about this question, all the flying cardinals in front of him began to shake uncontrollably, as if they had suddenly lost their support in the air, and the limbs and heads of the countless fleeing human soldiers around him fell to the ground as they ran.
"Ahhh
"Is it the wind?"
Rafael muttered, then looked up at the human tent and saw her most memorable scene.
But I saw a huge whirlwind that seemed to lead straight to the heavenly dome burst out from the ground, and countless rain curtains and dark clouds between heaven and earth gave the appearance of a phaseless wind, and also revealed the wind blade that had just cut Rafael and the human soldiers.
As the fierce hurricane manifested, a huge suction force spread out from it, and the ground cracked one by one, leaving terrifying traces on the ground like a rebellious axe, and countless humans roared and fired at the hurricane and used magic, but they all disappeared before its terrifying lethality.
"Ral, come back!"
The hurricane didn't look like it was used against the Dragon Court, because it was generated in the main camp of the human alliance, directly slaughtering their soldiers next to them, and after that, the huge hurricane also dispersed little by little, turning into countless huge hurricanes of the same type, and at the same time, revealing a dreamlike portal to the depths of the earth.
Rafael hurriedly reached out and pulled Lal back, but Ral shouted in horror as he watched the wind that spread and carried countless armor and corpses,
"Rafael, the wind is coming towards us!"
Rafael gritted her teeth and ran back, but with her fourteenth-rank physical strength, she was struggling to stand in the face of the hurricane that generated a huge suction, let alone ordinary humans and subhumans.
Faced with the constant blowing of people falling by the wind and the constant roaring of people on the Namggyi Mountains, Rafael's heart suddenly became irritable for some reason, and the wounded soldiers lying on the ground with broken bodies still rushed towards her with red eyes, wanting to kill her.
"Kill! Kill! ”
"You guys. . . Are you all crazy? ”
Rafael stabbed one through one, and then ran away with Laal in her arms, Lal hugged Rafael's claws and began to tighten uncontrollably, she whimpered uncomfortably, and said to Rafael,
"Lady Rafael, there's something wrong, I feel. Very irritable. It's the feeling coming from inside that hole, and I'm so scared."
"Don't look over there, there's there"
"Buzz!"
But in the next second, before Rafael's words were finished, everything fell silent.
No, to be precise, it wasn't that she didn't finish speaking, but the words she said in the next second were already swallowed up, swallowed up by more powerful forces and voices, so it seemed that she hadn't heard anything.
Suddenly the sun had risen behind him, and Rafael turned his head to see two shadows rising from the void like thunder in the rain, tearing each other into the sky.
"Barbatos!!"
A female roar was loud enough to deprive everyone of their hearing and attention, and with the loud sound, the eyes of everyone present turned red, and in the next second, the shadow covered in turquoise peacock feathers spread its wings again, flying in a higher direction, while another six-armed figure like a crimson tiger fell heavily because it had no wings, and it was towards Rafael's side.
Rafael's eyes widened, the ringing in his ears continued to explode, and the rain curtain of heaven and earth seemed to be burned by the falling existence, turning into steaming vapor.
"Boom!"
It wasn't until the next second, when the nearly two-meter-old female figure landed in front of her, that Rafael remembered to run away, but as soon as her footsteps began to move, her flesh felt as if it was about to disintegrate, and she was even more frightened than when she was defeated by Barbatos' blow.
"You're Rafael?"
The six-armed demon god in front of him landed steadily on the ground, and then shook the two slender red-haired ears on his head and the long ears next to his cheeks, and suddenly asked in a familiar Longting language.
Rafael then remembered to breathe, and she trembled and put Lal behind her, who had been trembling and fainting by the presence in front of her, and gasped and said,
"You, you?"
Elliog glanced at the dragon race in front of her with complicated eyes, and a kind of irritability suddenly rose in her heart, which was already fully open, but in the end she still wagged her tail, and did not answer her question, but said while looking at the sky,
"I'm Elliog, Fisher's, anyway, don't go near that portal, find a safe place to hide."
Rafael seemed to realize something, and she hurriedly said,
"You probably know Fisher, right, that portal, isn't he down there? What about Jasmine, a whale species, is she down there? ”
If you don't want to disappoint him and live up to his kindness, go find a place to hide and wait for this to be over."
"Wait, he."
"Boom!"
In the next second, Elliog had already stomped on the ground and jumped into the air again, disappearing in front of her, heading towards the turquoise figure that was about to rush down towards Rafael above the sky.
"You give it to me, stay away from her!! Barbatos!! ”
"He's already going to die, let her go down, he might still be able to live, Fisher is willing to sacrifice himself for her, do you think he can still live in that state in the face of Agareth below?"
"Mouthy!!"
Elliog made a sharp contact with Barbatos, wrapped in turquoise feathers, in mid-air, and in an instant, countless gusts of wind and heat burst out of the air, and Rafael dodged in hindsight.
The tremendous impact seemed to drag the world into the apocalypse, and one impact after another spread as Elliog and Barbatos fought in mid-air, and the wails of the people, the collapse of the ground, and the sound of the rain curtains all disappeared, because many of the existing ears had been deaf by the loud noise, and they could not even watch them fight.
Just as the punished human beings in the Genesis Sutra could not look directly at the miracle of the Mother Goddess, people passed on such a scene in their imagination and turned it into a "myth".
Barbatos' countless feathers stood up, and his whole body turned into blades, trying to distance himself as he dodged, but Elliog didn't give him a chance, and just beat him with six arms like a mad tiger.
"Buzz!"
With an engine-like sound, Elliog's entire face was filled with flames, and seeing that she couldn't break through Barbatos' defenses, she slammed her foot on Barbatos' feathers, making a pop and struck in midair.
Not good, it's .
Barbatos watched Elliog laugh wildly and strike a dancing pose and wanted to turn around and run away, but it was too late at this moment, Elliog's Demon God Tactics had already been attacked, and the next moment, her six arms swam like whips at the same time.
"Knock knock!"
Like an explosion, the touch of Elliog's attack and Barbatos' defense sounded one after another, the upper arms from Baihui to Renying, the middle arms from Tanzhong to Shangqu, and Barbatos inertia wanted to continue downward, but Elliog in front of him laughed fiercely, and his lower arms were raised violently, hitting his neck at the same time, beating his head fiercely, and at the same time, four fists smashed into the qi sea position in his lower abdomen at the same time.
"Ahem!!"
Barbatos's forehead was distorted, and all the feathers on his body slammed around Elliog, but the huge impact still enveloped the two of them at the same time and smashed into the Nanzhi Mountains behind them at the same time.
"Boom!"
In just a second, the figures of the two of them smashed through the Namzhi Mountain Range, smashing the defense line of the Dragon Court to festering in an instant, while the figures of the two of them were still flying towards the south, smashing countless mountains and forests along the way, until they saw the ocean, and the city before the ocean
A hundred miles away, just around the corner.
And the thrashing sound on the mountain carried countless landslide fragments pouring down, so that the small number of defenders stationed in Longting City, as well as the old and weak women and children, panicked, raised their heads from afar to look at the mountain range that caused the earthquake, and they didn't know that they thought that the earth dragon had turned over in it.
"Is it the Human Alliance?"
"Don't panic, it should just be an earthquake, it shouldn't be so soon."
“.”
Of course, the wails and panic below can't enter the eyes of the two demon gods who are still fighting fiercely at the moment, and in the deep mountains, there are new peaks that have been truncated and raised by powerful forces, and in them, Barbatos who can't support the ground and Elliog who gasps and retreats.
"Poof."
Sticky bright green blood continued to fall, and the emerald green feathers on Barbatos's body gradually dimmed, hanging limply beside him.
"Elliog, you should have been holding back for a long time, ahem"
He covered his face dripping with blood, and Elliog slowly lowered his raised fist, spat out a mouthful of flames on the ground where the dirt next to him was wiped out, leaving only bare stones, and said,
"How many times have I said that Bymon is deceiving you and using you as a tool, and you are still stupid to go to the front, is there something wrong with your brain?"
Barbatos only looked at her, and then said,
"So, do you have any other way to get us out?"
“.”
Elliog choked on the words, but Barbatos just shook his head and continued,
"I know that our race has been a mess since its birth, with no one in charge of each other, and there are many miscellaneous things trapped by nature. They deserve to be sealed and locked up by that false god, but what about me, Sidi?
"Sidi and I have lived in seclusion in unknown places for many years after we restrained our nature, and now I am outside, and all the races don't even remember my real name, is it also a sin that we did not participate in that war, and are you also guilty of sleeping in the lair?
"Of course you don't care, but we have to be separated, and we can't even sleep together. Bymon had previously brought the method of temporarily freeing our souls from the seal and gave it to Agares, she had studied it for so long, so thousands of years, if there was really a way to get us out of trouble, would we believe Bymon? ”
The feathers on Barbatos' body trembled, and he shook his head and said,
"You'll only refute us, but you won't come up with any worthwhile solutions. In the end, it's only because that Fisher has a lot of relationship with you, and you don't care about the friendship of the same race for him, we can understand that you want to release you for the sake of him regardless of Agareth, but why can't you understand, I also chose to believe in Baimon for Sidi and to be reunited with him.
"Legend in the world, that false god was the last to stand what we did in the South and West Continents before he sealed us, hehe, if this is the case, can we, as mythical species, still get along with humans and other races here for so many years? We are responsible for guarding the death of the dynasty, and our nature is as simple as eating and drinking for us, how can we go too far.
"It's just that the false god was worried at the end of the war that there would be no other myths and we would become bigger, so he just hurt it. You ask yourself, did we do anything at that time, to be reduced to the current prison of the whole family, a hundred years is not enough, a thousand years is not enough, do we have to wait until ten thousand years, wait for eternity? ”
Barbatos may have had disappointment in his eyes, but as a demon, Elliog knew that they were just the last beings to be dragged into the water before the false god died.
The god chose humanity and favored humanity, dragging all remaining mythical beings to extinction even if it was to perish.
But in fact, do humans really do better than myths?
The world has become their stage, but for the world, it has not changed much from before
So, regardless of race, let's just talk about personal feelings.
Meeting Barbatos' gaze, Elliog's eyes were also a little complicated, she let out a long breath, and a thick smoke of gunpowder flowed from her mouth, and finally said,
"Sidi can restrain your nature and is your most important being; And Fisher can restrain my nature, and I am willing to fight for him, so needless to say."
She raised the weapon in her hand again, and her six arms spread out a fighting posture at the same time,
"All grudges are at this moment"
This sentence is the favorite words of the demons in the past, because they are separated from each other, and contradictions are also common, so there is an unwritten rule within the dynasty, and the internal contradictions of the demons are based on the facts, and the cause and effect of the past will not affect everything that follows.
Demons cannot be killed, and once a demon god dies, the seal on death will be reduced, so even the mother goddess can only seal them.
So, the way the demons settle their grudges is to end everything when it happens.
Barbatos took off the bow and arrow that he had been carrying behind him, and while aiming it at Elliog, he also whispered,
"All grudges are at this moment."
"Buzz!"
The next moment, the power of myth descended again.
Dragon Court, among the ten thousand flowers.
Ariel clutched her chest, and the ground outside trembled, as if confirming the horror of the battle in the distance.
Outside the flowers, many children stood under the protection of the guards of the Ten Thousand Flowers Garden, but they still could not bear their fear, and soon some children began to cry, and the crying sounded one after another in the Ten Thousand Flowers Garden like an irrepressible infectious disease.
"Lord Ariel, there seems to be a battle going on in the Namggyi Mountains. Is it the human army? ”
The guards tried to coax the child in their arms, but even if they didn't cry as adults, their worry about the current situation did not diminish at all, and they looked at Ariel, who was standing in the court, and asked.
Yariel was slightly stunned, walked out of the court, looked at the trembling mountains, and was about to say something, when she saw a green light suddenly burst out from the mountains, and cut off four or five peaks in a row while continuing to cross dozens of miles and shoot into the ocean, splashing a column of water up to a thousand meters above the ocean.
"Bang!!"
"Lord Ariel, be careful!"
Ariel stared blankly at the "wall of water" rising in the ocean, her mind seemed to be pulled away by this terrifying force, and the whole person lost her strength in an instant, until the guards behind her rushed out of the court and pulled her back, she realized that with the fall of the wall of water, the tsunami that was about to overturn this place was also coming in an instant.
"What the hell is this?"
"Mistress Ariel, are you alright?"
"This kind of . . Power Rafael her. Ha. Hah."
Ariel looked at the terrifying power, and the first thing that appeared in her heart was the worry about her daughter, she didn't understand how such a power could appear among humans, but just when she thought about it in a daze, she realized that there were so many children and guards around her.
"Mistress Ariel, we."
She took a deep breath, then quickly stood up, looked at the water curtain that was about to fall outside, and said to everyone,
Hurry! Take the kids and get out of here, the tsunami is coming! ”
"Yes, Mistress Ariel, I'll escort you first"
"Don't, take the child away, I can go myself! Quick, get moving! ”
But the battle on the other side of the mountain continued, violent earthquakes kept occurring, and even with Ariel in command, the whole situation became extremely chaotic.
With Ariel's instructions, everyone's only goal was to get away as soon as possible, and as for the children, except for those who had been in their arms from the beginning, many of them had forgotten in the process of escaping.
Ariel took the children by the hand and carried them to the guards, then went back again to see if there were any children inside.
"Boom!"
"Is there anyone else in there, kids, hurry up, the tsunami is coming!"
The Ten Thousand Flowers Court gradually quieted down, but Yariel was still calling in it, for fear that a little unlucky person would not come out in time, but no one replied to her and let her heart go a little bit, she was just about to turn around and leave, but suddenly a call came from the ancestral hall of the Dragon Court,
"Mistress Ariel, I'm still here."
Ariel was slightly stunned, turned her head to look in the direction of the ancestral hall, and saw a human woman dressed in the costume of the Dragon Court smiling and waving at her in front of the fire candles on the wall
Is that
Oh, by the way, it's the human sent by Rafael earlier, what is it? Reporter or something, called Ingrid?
"Why aren't you leaving? What are you doing here, the tsunami is coming, come with me! ”
Ariel quickly gasped and walked over to Ingrid and reached out to pull her, but was surprised to find that the human weighed like a thousand tons, and Ariel, as a dragon, couldn't pull her at all
"What the hell are you"
Ariel realized it in a panic at this time, and quickly let go of her hand.
This human had only spoken her own native language since she came here, the language of a human realm, how could she suddenly speak Longting now?
"Don't be afraid, Mistress Ariel, I'm actually here to discuss something with you."
"Consult with me. What. But now that the tsunami is coming, we should run away, and then we can't talk about it later? ”
Ingrid grinned and held her chin, her blue-gold dilated pupils flickered slightly, and the tsunami whistling in the distance instantly flew backwards uncontrollably and disappeared.
"You"
"Lord Ariel, I mean to say that your daughter, Rafael, may be dying soon."
Ariel turned her head in disbelief, then watched her shake her hand, and then went to the side to pour tea from a teacup, and poured a cup for Ariel and put it on the table, and then pointed to the seat in front of her, and said,
"You may be seated, Mistress Ariel."
It was as comfortable as if this was her territory, and for the time being, Ariel couldn't match the woman in front of her who suddenly became natural with the human woman who didn't say a word for half a month.
But whether it was the vanishing tsunami next to her or the news from her mouth, Ariel couldn't get out for the time being, and after a moment of silence, she still sat down on the table, looked at the woman drinking tea in front of her, and asked,
"Ingrid, what do you mean by Rafael dying soon?"
"Tea first, Ariel-sama."
How can you have the heart to go at such a time?
Ariel thought so in her heart, but when she looked down at the teacup in front of her, a picture appeared above the water like a dream.
In the picture is the northern end of the Namgyi Mountains, where hurricanes are swirling and wrapping around a portal to a mysterious space.
And after Rafael had placed Ral who had fainted, he kept looking into the distance, and he seemed to be worried about who was in the portal.
"This is this"
"Lord Ariel, you may have known how special Rafael was since you were a child, right?"
Ingrid in front of her put down the teacup and counted all the memories buried in the depths of Ariel's memory,
"One day she couldn't sleep and came to your and your husband's bedroom and said she had a nightmare. In her dreams, there was a lot of black mud chasing her, as if she was going to swallow her, and she was so scared, that's why she came to you."
Ariel was slightly stunned, and soon remembered these memories, she muttered,
"yes, yes, and more than that, she always remembers things we never told her. Those ancient dragon court texts, those magic, and always want to go somewhere outside the tribe, we always stop her, so she sneaked out before she was an adult."
"How did you explain that to her at the time?"
"It's just that her soul is special, but in fact, this kind of legend has been circulating in our tribe for a long time, and it is very likely that she is the reincarnation of some great person."
Ingrid smiled slightly, and then said,
"It's not reincarnation, it's just that there is a very precious thing in Rafael's body, which is something that the dragon god Femabaha desperately guards, but it has been polluted by chaos and changed its nature"
"What is this. Meaning? ”
Ingrid looked at Ariel with a smile, the dilated pupils in her eyes glittering,
"That is, your daughter is the real target of those terrible enemies. Fisher has known this for a long time, so he fought to the death with the enemy for this, but the enemy is very strong, he is not an opponent, he is an out-and-out idiot, he is willing to die for your daughter. ”
The picture in the tea in front of Ariel's eyes changed again, turning into a picture of Fisher's chest being pierced and fighting desperately with a terrifying existence in front of him, and Ariel's eyes turned red.
She did have a compromise when she agreed to Rafael and Fisher, but she didn't expect that the human would do this for Rafael.
"Alright, Aunt Ariel, now let's test the cultural knowledge of the dragon race."
Ingrid smiled and cocked her fingers and said,
"Question, what would a dragonman do if his tail-fitting companion was in a life-or-death crisis? The first option, leave his head behind."
"Rafael will go to the rescue of Fisher!"
Ariel said this without thinking, and Ingrid, who was halfway through the words, smiled and nodded, and then took another sip of tea and said,
"That's right, dragons are always crazy about love, even if someone has warned her not to come close, but how could she ignore Fisher and let him face death alone. However, Lady Ariel, there is a reward for answering this question correctly... What if I say, can I keep her from dying? ”
"You"
The candle flame flickered in front of Ariel, as if the ancestors of the dead Rafael were pleading for a rescue of the dragonman who was stupid for love.
Ariel was silent for a moment, then knelt on the ground with a "plop", lowered her head and pleaded with Ingrid in front of her,
"You must not be an ordinary human, but no matter where you came from or what you are for, I implore you. Save my daughter. If anything, I. I'm willing to give everything, you can do whatever you want, I just want to save her, I can't lose her again"
Ingrid smiled slightly, then stretched out her hand to her and said softly,
"Okay, but I don't want anything, I just need your horn to save your daughter's life"
"That's all"
Ariel was slightly stunned, her eyes were first grateful, and then puzzled,
"Thank you. But. I don't understand why you're helping us so much. I."
It's just a matter of being prepared."
"What?"
Ingrid smiled and stood up and reached out to Ingrid's head, not answering her question, but whispering,
"Okay, after this, your memory will become a little blurry, this is a necessary side effect, take a good rest"
In the Garden of Ten Thousand Flowers, as a burst of light flashed like morning light, there was no longer a sound of conversation.
The fierce battle in the Namggyi Mountains continued, and the sound of violent earthquakes continued to be heard, shaking the candle flame of Ariel, who was quietly watching the unconscious and soul dragon horns lying on the ground in the Garden of Ten Thousand Flowers, witnessing the myth happening. (End of chapter)