Eternal Golden Country.

Listening to the name, it is like a place full of treasures and a magical spring of immortality.

But since stepping on this land, all the "guests" can feel is infinite suffocation.

and ...... "despair".

It's a world of despair from start to finish.

As the lord of the world, the dragon king binds and exploits all the living beings living here with rules, treating their dignity, life, and existence as pure abstract "values" and ruthlessly taking them away......

It can be said that life in this world has acquired equal despair from the moment it is born.

Slave creatures were the first to die.

Loss of life, loss of spirituality, loss of soul...... However, the detached shell is still in the twisted rules, reawakened as part of the Golden Country, becoming the cornerstone of this living hell, and being used as a consumable waste......

Then the dragon died, a subject of the Lord of Bronze and Fire.

The "lifespan" of ordinary dragons is related to the strength of their bloodline, and the higher the purity of the bloodline, the longer the dragon can maintain its own spiritual survival.

The youth of a dragon can be maintained for at least a thousand years, but they will still usher in spiritual decay under the shackles of their own bloodline......

The cocooning of the soul can only ensure the integrity of the body, and the dragon who has lost the "spirit" is just an unintelligent beast, which is "death" for the dragon.

The real death - the withering of the "heart".

The rules of the Golden Township will even speed up the process of this decay.

Because cocooning is an act that cannot provide "value", but will continue to consume "value".

Norton, the absolute ruler of Svatalfheim, does not allow the dragons of the Golden Country to cocoon their territory.

As the body ages, the deterioration of the spirit accelerates, and the living and the newborn will be transformed into beasts without exception...... That's why there's not a single living dragon to be seen in the Golden Country.

During the 13,000 years of Svartalfheim's confinement, no dragon could resist the rules of the Golden Country.

These dragons, who could no longer pay for their "value", degenerated into mere monsters with huge bodies, and then were swallowed up by this living abyss into the earth, turning into the cornerstone of flesh and blood.

Under the scorching Bronze City, there is a "world-class alchemy array" built with their bloodlines and meridians.

In the years of the loss of the king, the city was driven by the burning of everything that had been its subjects, and the temple remained, but the creeping creatures were no longer visible.

The only exceptions are Norton's dependents...... Gnomes.

Born from Norton, the gnomes became the most industrious producers of the Lord of Bronze and Fire.

It is precisely in the realm of countless alchemy products that they have been enshrined in the past 960,000 years, which resonates and merges with each other, and finally forms the core of Svartalfheim -

This abyss of despair called [Golden Country].

As a result, the gnomes are given preferential treatment in the Golden Country, and as long as they are forging a new foundation stone for the Golden Country, they are exempt from "taxes......

"So they can be regarded as the only race in this abyss that is lucky to have preserved their intellect."

Bu Shun lowered his head, stroked the head of a lonely dwarf with wide eyes on the ground, and said calmly: "Even now, when the king is gone, they are still faithfully carrying out the orders left by Norton...... Very good subordinates, what do you think? ”

He was answered by a vomiting voice.

Looking at the scene in front of them, Old Tang and Jiu De Aki spit out sour water one after another with distorted expressions, eager to spit out all the things they had eaten in the past two days.

Caesar and Ye Sheng's faces were pale, and even Chu Zihang, who had always been paralyzed, was extremely blue at the moment.

His eyes were red, Lu Mingfei clenched his fists tightly, and roared angrily:

"W-What the hell is this!!"

His angry roar echoed in the space they were in at this moment, and it seemed insignificant.

In the huge underground space like the hollow of the earth, on a bronze base with an area of more than 600 square kilometers, mercury and blood flowed like a river.

Each ravine was more than five hundred meters deep and could only be described as a rift, with highly toxic vapors flowing across the bronze earth, swallowing a metallic storm.

The wind of metal, the earth of bronze, the water of blood and silver, and the fire hidden inside, outline a super-giant alchemy that is incomparably grandiose.

This is a spectacle beyond human imagination, the area of the base plate alone is already the size of more than 84,000 football fields, and even 96000000000 humans cannot completely fill its space......

However, in the area at the center of this alchemy array, there were "merely" 880,000 human beings.

- Pain, twisting, wriggling.

Nearly a million humans, whose bodies are half-melted but still alive, are constantly wailing in this veritable hell.

"These ...... Is that ...... Those who have disappeared ......? ”

Chen Motong's face was as pale as paper, and his heart, which was already full of holes, was like a piece of glass that had been hit hard by a hammer, and it was instantly shattered in this call.

She gasped for breath, her body shaking, and her pupils trembling as she had to lean against Caesar because of the weakness of her legs and feet.

The hands and feet of those people melted into something like flesh, and their bodies became one with the bronze earth, but for some reason they did not lose their lives.

So every minute and every second is suffering beyond imagination.

The poisonous metal vapor tormented their every nerve, and the pain of gnawing at brain tissue followed, strangling reason and giving birth to madness.

Anger, pain, hatred, despair...... The most extreme emotions of human beings are condensed in this purgatory wail, and no human being can be indifferent when they see this scene.

"Yes."

Stretching out her hand to release the inky blue light, maintaining the passage to this place behind her, the blue-haired and red-eyed beauty said softly, "This is the 'raw material processing room' for extracting fresh living spirits and preparing the fuel needed for the alchemy ceremony. ”

"These hundreds of thousands of people who have disappeared from your world...... It's the "material" that Norton has prepared for himself. ”

Through the passage opened by Bushun, the "expedition" entered the empty bronze city.

Helena M. Meta immediately opened the door to the underground world hidden by this bronze city for Bu Shun and others.

Together, everyone witnessed the most terrifying "truth" in this golden country.

"What an abomination of means......"

Even as a Meta ship that has witnessed many "world destructions", Helena is still shocked by the cruelty of the Dragon King.

This cruelty was not how many Norton had killed and how many people he was going to kill now, but what she saw, in fact, was a deliberate torture.

In demonology, the celebrant of the ceremony often uses some means to torture the sacrifice when preparing it. Because they believe that souls full of despair and pain will be the more pleasing sacrifice to the devil - even if there is no real demon in this world.

Everything that is happening at the moment can be said to be approximate.

Torture is for the release of stronger emotions, and pain is for the extraction of more active spiritual elements.

The legendary "Philosopher's Stone" of the half-breed is the high-purity aggregation of the fifth element, "Spirit". And human beings are a spiritually sufficient race and easy to reproduce......

As a result, humans are also regarded as a regular raw material for the mass production of the Philosopher's Stone.

In the era when dragons ruled the world, human slaves were often used as an "additive" to produce better alchemical results. As the kingdom of the king of alchemy, this method is even more common in Svatalfheim.

That's what shocked Helena.

Because for the dragons—

The scene that is happening right now, in addition to the difference in the number of uses...... Actually, it's a rather "ordinary" thing.

"It is precisely in order to activate this unusual alchemy array that Norton's family members took the initiative to sacrifice their lives here."

After Bu Shun finished talking about these dragon secrets that had been buried in history, he retracted his gaze and looked at the bronze platform they were on at the moment.

The high platform was densely packed with the corpses of more than three hundred gnomes, and even though they had been dead for days, they still maintained a prayer-like posture, without exception.

There is an almost creepy sense of solemnity that exists on the corpses of these large and small gnomes...... As if they were trying to achieve a divine goal, they ran to death without hesitation.

The last remaining life in the Golden Country came to an end.

So ...... Loyal.

Lu Mingfei also looked at these dead creatures, and couldn't help but shout: "It doesn't matter if you die all?" What exactly are they going to do? What the hell does Norton want to do!! ”

Bu Shun turned around, his eyes swept over the people he brought one by one, and took all their different expressions into his eyes.

In response to Lu Mingfei's questioning, he smiled meaninglessly:

"Yes, of course...... In order to forge a terrible weapon. ”

"It's called the Seven Deadly Sins."

PS: Shocked, since I suddenly found out that the torture cross, I have always mistakenly written Norton's territory as [Jotunheim], but it is actually [Svartalfheim]! Forgive me!

PS2: Jotunheim is Fenrir's territory, and now I've changed everything, and it's really my problem to make such a big mistake!

(End of chapter)