Chapter 102: The City of Mercenaries (Part II)
The astrologer's apprentice fingers touched the body of the moon elf, "Bahamas the ghost, did you see it?"
"Very clear, human friend. The Dragonchild's deep voice became excited, "I'm going to speed up." At the next sunset, I will finish the final pattern and fly towards the dragon god in the sky. ”
"Is that done? My time is up. The little girl raised her eyelids and glanced at the human.
"Just one word. Bahamas, can you send us down tomorrow before the final star array is activated? You know, our bodies can't withstand that kind of intense impact. Jonah requested.
"Of course, human friends. The beast's voice was filled with joy and gratitude, "Of course. Anything, as you command. ”
Jonah couldn't help but start imagining himself riding a dragon that soared for nine days and grinned, "That's it, good luck." - But don't forget the danger of activating the star array, if the energy leaks out, not only will you not be able to complete the transformation, but it will also bring disaster to the whole world. If you want to calculate the odds of success......"
"What odds, I don't know. The Dragon's Child interrupted humanity's fears, "All I see is the sky. As long as you can get out of this desert. ”
Speaking of this, the moonlight elf suddenly screamed: "Damn, here we go again......" swished into green light and flew into the glass bottle. Jonah was disconnected from the ghost Bahamas, he shook his head, sat down against the corner, and moistened his throat with a sip of water, "Will you be able to complete the auxiliary star array tomorrow? What an amazing speed......"
The beast beneath him began to tremble regularly, the wind outside the door poured violently into the room, and the noise of the yellow sand rumbling from its tail became louder and louder, and it was clear that the ghost Bahamas was constantly increasing its speed and rushing excitedly towards the end of the century-old journey.
The astrologer's apprentice suddenly felt that something was not quite right, and he scratched his head, unable to catch the faint thought. "What the hell is it? It seems like I've forgotten something important......" Jonah slapped his head strangely, fiddling with the papyrus scattered all over the place, flipping through the map of the endless sand sea and the star array of the first Mentor. "The Mother Star Array in the Desert...... Auxiliary Array...... There's nothing wrong with the principle......" He muttered to himself as he affirmed his idea, and when the two drawings happened to coincide, suddenly a lightning bolt lit up the mind of the astrologer's apprentice, and Jonah was stunned for a long time.
"Terrain...... Terrain!" He suddenly flipped out the "Geographical Estimation of the Southern Continent" like crazy, rummaging through the topographic map of the Southern Continent, and when a map of the entire territory of the Tocharian Empire appeared in front of him, Jonah fell to his knees in a daze, his fingers unconsciously released, the big book fell heavily to the ground, and the yellowed pages were scattered everywhere.
"It's over...... Such a low-level mistake......" Guilt conquered his soul, and the astrologer apprentice bit his lip and trembled. He did make a low-level mistake: he didn't take the concept of geography into account when drawing the auxiliary arrays, Gilbernayon's home array drew a large elliptical circle in the lower right corner of the endless sea of sand, and Jonah added the auxiliary array in the missing part, and because his technique was not as sophisticated as the original Mentor, his star array was relatively bloated, resulting in a large arc edge protruding from the lower right corner of the oval. - Of course, this is not a problem in the endless desert, but Gilberto Gilberneon's design itself uses up the length and width of the endless sea of sand, and the lower right corner of the oval has passed through the edge of the desert, close to the Great Gobi, which causes Jonah's auxiliary star array to leave the desert and paint on the Gobi Desert.
That's fine in itself, but the ghost Bahamas is the child of a black dragon and a descendant, and it has inherited its mother's main trait: the body cavity that swallows yellow sand to absorb nutrients. The Great Gobi is different from the endless sand sea, according to the introduction of the "Geographical Calculation of the Southern Continent", the Great Gobi is covered with rough sand and gravel, and under the gravel, there is an incomparably hard rock formation, this landform can not take root except for the Luoluo grass without a root system, no plant can take root and grow.
Once the giant beast leaves the desert and enters the Great Gobi, it will be a collision of flesh and rock, even if it has the strong genes of the dragon father, it is impossible to use its flesh and blood to resist the power of nature!
- It's going to die!
When the ghost Bahamas uttered the words "out of this desert", the astrologer apprentice had a vague sense of the fatal mistake. By the time he reacted now, the Moonlight Elf had exhausted ten minutes of activity and returned to the Seal Bottle, and the Son of the Dragon was separated from him by a barrier of species that could not communicate.
"Bahamas! stop! you can't follow that pattern!" Jonah suddenly jumped up and pounded frantically against the wall, calling out the name of the beast, his voice echoing through the cramped room, his fist slamming into the hard skin of the half-dragon, and soon the skin was opened, leaving one blood mark after another.
Of course, there was no response. To the Dragon's Child, humans are just innocuous little parasites, and they don't feel such a faint impact. "Bahamas!" Jonah cried out as he crouched against the wall in pain, knowing deep down that it was completely futile, but if he didn't do something, the guilt in his heart would suffocate him. He took out the glass jar from the deerskin pouch and tried with all his strength to unscrew the cap of the seal, but the elven seal shimmered faintly, and it was not shaken by manpower at all, and the beautiful sleeping position of the moonlight elf in the bottle did not change a bit.
“...... No, no, there's a way!" The astrologer's apprentice suddenly straightened up, grabbed the staff with his bloodied palm, and lit the illuminated star array, striding out of the house. "As long as you get close to its head, there must be a way to attract its attention, even if you can't communicate, use brute force to slow him down and delay until the time when the seal is lifted!"
As soon as he stepped onto the backbone of the ghost Bahamas, the strong wind pushed him away, the speed of this giant beast had increased to an incredible level, if the usual speed was close to fifty knots, then now it was galloping in the desert at a crazy speed of more than eighty knots, Jonah barely opened his eyes and scanned the surroundings, the black mercenary city on the skyline Namoza and the shining mirror lake ruins only stayed in the retina for a second, and were swallowed by the sand dunes on the horizon, the starlit endless sea of sand trembled and surrendered to the indomitable majesty of the son of the dragon, everything was blurred by the speed, and the ghost Bahamas spewed out a hundred yards of sand columns, leaving a deep and indelible trail in the desert, the outline of an ancient star array.
"What are you kidding...... Even if it's a crawler, I'll ......" Jonah tightened his hood and found a rope to tie Sila Fina firmly in place with his right hand, gritting his teeth and moving forward. Even at the tail of the beast, the strong wind completely neutralized the increase in his physical strength, and the high-speed air flow turned every grain of sand into a sharp blade, and after just a few steps, the back of Jonah's hand in front of his face appeared densely scarred. He didn't feel any pain at all, he tore off the hem of his robe, tied his face and hands firmly, bent his body almost close to the ground, and stepped forward step by step on the uneven skin of the giant beast.
The light of the illuminated star array, like a candle flickering in the night wind, could only illuminate anything within ten yards, and the starlight was dimmed by the dust, and the astrologer apprentice could not raise his head to observe the road ahead, but struggled to tread through shallow pits and hills, and slowly walked among the giant thorns of the grave. It wasn't until the golden Matlaktili slowly rose from the eastern skyline that a new day dawned on him to reach the point of the gentle slope, the dividing line between the front and tail of the ghost Bahamas.
Finding a leeward spot to take a break, Jonah gulped down the precious air and took a few sips of water from his bag. The injured hand was swollen and almost unconscious, but after a few short minutes, the astrologer apprentice rolled over and set out on the road again. After climbing the gentle slope, the wind was too strong to walk upright, and he clung to the ground, using his hands and feet to crawl on the beast.
Time lost its meaning at this point, and Jonah continued to move forward in faith, feeling the sun become blinding and scorching, and then slowly lowering the temperature to the afterglow of the western sky, and the day was almost over. He rested a little against a giant thorn on his back, coughed and looked around, the stretching sand dunes were the same, he didn't know where the Bahamas had gotten to the endless sea of sand, but the rough gravel mixed in the yellow sand began to increase, fist-sized stones scattered in the sand, obviously the boundary between the endless sand sea and the Great Gobi was not far away.
"Be quick, be fast!" The 17-year-old boy dragged his scarred body forward, the sun set and the moon rose, and night fell, and he once again lit the illuminated star array at the top of the staff, illuminating his long journey.
Finally, the head of the ghost Bahamas came into view, and this was also the place where the wind was strongest, and Jonah clung to a giant thorn and staggered in the wind, and opened his mouth to call the name of the giant beast, but his mouth was immediately filled with yellow sand, and he couldn't say a word.
"Well, that's the only way to ......" the astrologer apprentice tied himself to the giant thorn with a rope, lifted Sila Fena, and launched an attack on the star array "Mushroom Farm Trident". A dazzling torrent of energy spurted downward obliquely, piercing through the skin of the dragon's child with a pop, tearing another wound not far away, and shooting into the desert with oblique stabs. A massive piercing wound stung the ghost Bahamas, and the behemoth let out a deafening wail, a mournful cry that nearly dedetonated Jonah's ears.
"I'm sorry, I have to! Stop, Bahamas, stop!" Jonah couldn't bear to look at the smoky wound, and called out to the beast's name, "I'm helping you!