The majestic figure hovered under the endless starry sky, and the newborn dragon opened its amber eyes in search of the tiny human friend on the ground.

"Dragons!" exclaimed the Moonlight Elf, "the Big Dumb Beast is really a dragon...... It's saying, "Thank you, friend." ”

"No thanks, dragon. A bitter smile squeezed out of the corner of Jonah's mouth, "Trouble tell the Bahamas, that star energy core in its body ......"

Before the little boy could translate the human language to the ghost Bahamas, the black dragon let out a distant cry again, "It is saying: there is no way to express gratitude in words, no one can appreciate the beauty of flying in the blue sky at this moment, unfortunately, there is no opportunity to travel the world with human friends, it hears the dragon god calling in the high heavens, where there are the souls of its father and all its ancestors." ”

The astrologer apprentice was stunned, "Is it saying goodbye to me?"

The sound of the clear sound resounding through the sky walked away, and the newborn dragon looked down at the earth reluctantly, then flapped its wings and flew into the starry sky. "Goodbye. It's saying goodbye,—— no, not goodbye, but ...... Farewell...... "The elf covered her little face helplessly, "Yes, farewell......"

"I am honored, honored to be able to witness your nirvana. Jonah put his hand on his heart and stood in the starlight, "Goodbye, friend, a true dragon." ”

The powerful wings set off a hurricane, and with each flap of its wings, the dragon pierced through the air like an arrow, climbing upwards at such a rapid pace. After only half a minute, its massive body turned into tiny black dots in the brilliant starlight, until it was completely lost, and Jonah blinked his sore eyes, and he could no longer find the outline of the dragon Bahamas, only the eternal Milky Way covering the sky, and the gentle starlight illuminating the plains.

"Great, my time is up, I'm ...... The old lady can't stand it anymore...... Good-bye, Brother Jonah......" The moonlight elf let out a sigh of relief, and flew into the deerskin bag of the astrologer's apprentice in a green light, and fell into a deep sleep in a glass bottle, with undried tears on his face.

Jonah stood alone in the barren Gobi and looked up at the sky until his neck ached and his feet were unconscious. Suddenly, a small point of light appeared in the dark blue night sky, and Jonah, who was so familiar with the stars, immediately realized that it was not a star, but an explosion that had occurred in an extremely distant place, a violent explosion caused by the energy of white space-time.

In the next moment, that small point of light turned into light that lit up the whole world, and in an instant the darkness was completely expelled, and the night turned into day. The astrologer's apprentice raised his arms in amazement and looked around, the Great Gobi and the endless sea of sand became so bright that he could see the edges and corners of every gravel, every fold of the dunes, and the outline of every white cloud, and there was no shadow under his feet, and the gravel, dunes, and clouds did not leave a shadow on the ground, and the pure white light from the power of time and space illuminated everything, making the world truly visible.

"Bahamian ......," he muttered the dragon's name.

At this moment, the entire endless sea of sand, the Great Gobi, and even the entire northern region of the Southern Continent were illuminated, and countless people woke up from their deep dreams in the middle of the night, and saw the wonder of the sudden arrival of day from the window, no one knew that it was an explosion that could have destroyed the continent.

Jonah wondered how high the black dragon had flown in just a few minutes after it had been reborn, and if it had been upward, would it have reached the edge of the world? Legend has it that there was a stairway to heaven in the clouds high in the sky, and did the proud Bahamas see the soul of the dragon's ancestor and the smiling face of his father from the far east, whom he had never met?

Without warning, the white light shrank back into a small point of light, and then disappeared into the dark blue sky, darkness covering the earth again, and not a single new star appeared in the twinkling starlight.

"This very sad shadow could not stop galloping until it burst out of the edge of the world, where its homeland had six towers and six kings. ”

It turns out that Seglas the Betrayer had predicted this scene a long time ago, Jonah saved the ghost Bahamas, and the ghost Bahamas saved the world, but as with every previous scene, the sixth prophecy is still a sad scene, a disaster.

Jonah fell to his knees feebly, his right hand pressed tightly against his heart, against the scorching fragments of the nameless book in his underwear, and on the weight of his fate, barely breathing. "Bahamas...... I will not let you die in vain, your story will be spread throughout the continent, and everyone will know your name, and the bard will sing poems in praise of you, no matter what disasters have been inflicted on the endless sea of sand before, today, my dragon friend, you are the hero of the whole world!" the astrologer apprentice bowed his head to himself, and then was silent for a long time.

After some time, a flash of light caught his eye, and Jonah slowly raised his head, and saw a shiny thing slowly falling in the air, as light as a feather, and as heavy as steel, clinking to a weathered gravel, and actually embedded deep in the stone.

Jonah walked over with his staff propped up, and curiously pulled the little thing out of the rock, a thin curved sheet with sharp edges, a deep red, heavy to the touch, but not as cold as metal, with a slight warmth like life. He turned the sheet to observe, and depending on the angle, the incomparably smooth surface of the sheet reflected a bright starlight, almost transparent, but unimaginably hard.

"Is that a souvenir you left me, Bahamas?" he asked, looking up. - Of course, no answer was received. "Okay, then I'll take it, thank you!" Jonah nodded, carefully wrapping the red flakes in cotton cloth and putting them in a deerskin bag.

Next, he spent two hours erecting a rudimentary grave of the sacrificial dragon out of gravel, the body of the ghost Bahamas is long gone, but the flesh of the dragon's son remains in every deep ravine of the Gobi Desert. "I'll come back to see you, when my destiny is fulfilled. The astrologer's apprentice silently promised the starry sky, "Like you, I have things that must be done, even if disaster after disaster awaits me. Someday, we will meet again. ”

Jonah turned resolutely and strode toward the southeast.

The shock of the Bahamas to him has not subsided for a long time, but he must now rush to one place: Bactria, the city of gold. His buddies Elliot and Ryuki were waiting for him there, and Jonah didn't know exactly what day it was, but the May 15 deadline must be getting closer and closer, and the time left for him was running out of time. Danny Stewart once said that it would take four to five days to get to the Golden City in even the fastest steam golem-powered carriage after arriving in Namoza. The ghost Bahamas took him short the distance by a considerable distance, but he also broke away from the Tocharian Empire's fixed trade route to the endless sandy sea, and if he could not find a market or a village, carry a rapid transport, and rely on his own legs, it would be delusional to reach the deadline in time.

At this moment, the astrologer apprentice didn't care about food and water, and only dragged his scarred body in the direction of Bactria. The Illuminated Star Array gave him the strength to move forward, and the deserted Gobi was covered with craggy rubble, but compared to the endless sea of sand, it was still a smooth road, as long as he avoided the carnivorous Lolo grass and the wolves who were afraid of light and fire, the Gobi Desert should be quite safe.

"This is part of the Tocharian Empire, and Tocharian should recognize the Joint Amnesty Decree, right?" he pondered about his safety, "It would be great if we could find an astrology society ......in the Golden City!

Before you know it, the sun rises and another dawn arrives. The body, which had been strengthened by the spiritual contract, was quite impressive in terms of endurance and recovery, and Jonah walked until noon to find a boulder to hide from the sun and take a short rest. According to the introduction of "Geographical Estimation of the Southern Continent", although the plant has a deceptive and harmless appearance, it may open its mouth at any time and swallow it whole with a large mouth full of 10,600 teeth, inject anesthetic into the poor prey, and let the prey watch its body be digested little by little for up to a month. But then again, as long as its stems are cut off, Lolo grass is completely harmless and can provide a precious source of water for travelers. At this moment, the astrologer's apprentice stood on the stem of a lolo grass, lifted a piece of tender green plant tissue and clenched it tightly, the juice dripping into his mouth, and a little bitter fresh water lifted his spirits. Wiping the sweat from his face, Jonah put on his hood to protect himself from the sun, and continued his journey, his luck was good, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, a small town came into view, dozens of blue-brown stone houses loosely enclosed in a circle, and the chirping of cattle was heard, and a few chimneys were smoking.

"Great!" Jonah spat out the remnants of Lolo grass that he had used to keep his mouth moist and quickened his pace towards the town. The ground around the town was cleaned and paved with polished stone slabs in a beautiful pattern, and in the center of the town was a well, and at this moment several men in white robes were discussing something around the well, and the astrologer apprentice walked up to them in surprise and spread his hands: "Good afternoon! I'm sorry to bother you, I'm D. Jonah II, a fourth-level astrologer apprentice, from the far western continent, do you have any food? I can pay for it, and I need a carriage to go to the Golden City." ”

Several men were startled by his appearance, and a middle-aged man with a strong body and a white robe spoke with a stern expression, and just a few words made Jonah stunned on the spot.

- He overlooked an important issue, the people of the Tocharian Empire spoke the lingua franca of the Southern Continent, and he could not speak anything except the lingua franca of the Western Continent.