In France, there is a river that crosses the steep valley between Saint-Michael-Verdun, passes through Charleville-Mézières, winds its way through the Ardine region in a narrow gorge, flows north to Namur after entering Belgium in Gervais, joins the Samble on the left bank, and then turns east to Liège.

It is called the Meuse, a natural waterway, and the nearby city is also the center of industrial development.

At the same time, a few decades ago, a very famous battle took place here, the battlefield of Verdun.

It was the most tragic battle in the world in recent years, with a huge number of casualties and an unprecedented intensity of war.

Countless of the most powerful weapons that humanity has ever possessed, apart from nuclear bombs, have been used here.

Even according to some people, West Farland actually released a nuclear bomb here.

However, this rumor was stopped because the radiation was not exceeded.

But fate apparently did not spare the nearby city.

The entrance to the dragon's nest discovered by the people of the wizarding world was near the Meuse River, so disaster here was doomed to more than that.

Especially since it is closest to the entrance to the dragon's lair, it has also experienced a major earthquake because of the changes in the dragon world.

Many houses have been collapsed, and even aftershocks have occurred from time to time.

The streets of one of the cities were filled with panic.

"Mom!! Father! Where are you? ”

"Anya! Anya! ”

"Woohoo."

"Who's going to save me, it hurts!"

Some of the lucky ones who were not buried in their houses shouted the names of their loved ones in the streets.

But these voices overlapped with the rest of the voices and people's cries for help, it was impossible to distinguish at all, anxiety and panic overlapped, everything was so terrible......

"Sasha, Mike!! Where are you...! ”

A young woman cries and calls out her family's name as she carries a plastic bag full of food.

She used to speak softly, but now she was as hysterical, urgent and frightened as possible, but she didn't get any response.

She got up early in the morning and went out to the market to buy groceries, so she escaped.

Soon she saw her home. It seems that because the building materials are better, among the collapsed houses around it, the house is still relatively intact.

However, it was also when she approached.

"Boom ......"

The building in front of him collapsed directly, with a loud noise, kicking up dust.

"Sasha!! Mike!!! ”

Looking at the collapsed house, the woman collapsed directly to the ground.

She reacted and screamed heartbreakingly to rush forward.

"This, here!!"

At this moment, a voice came from one side, and she turned her head sharply, and saw a man wearing only a pair of pants holding her six-year-old daughter, stepping on slippers and running towards her.

Seeing that they were still alive, the woman went limp, but when she was about to fall, Mike quickly stepped forward and hugged her.

They hugged each other tightly, at the moment they didn't care about the collapse of the house at all, as long as the family was safe, then everything was lucky.

After a brief recuperation, they looked around and saw that several buildings in their area alone had collapsed. The earthquake they had just experienced was like a nightmare, both sudden and intense.

The panicked crowd seemed to have subsided, but some cries could still be heard.

A father was digging through a ruin, his palms bleeding from the thorns and rubble, but he didn't give up.

The people who reacted quickly joined the rescue team.

"Roar~~~"

Suddenly they heard the cry of some kind of monster in their ears.

Holding his children and wife, Mike's hair suddenly stood on end, he is a survival expert in the wilderness and knows a lot about wild animals.

But the voice of this creature, he had never heard before.

For some reason, an inexplicable fear gradually spread to his heart.

On a collapsed building not far away, a group of strange-looking monsters fell at some point.

Its body size is like a dragon and small, only two feet, claws and toes like birds, wings are covered with scales, and the tail is barbed, about four or five meters.

If a magician is here, he will recognize this as a more famous wurm species, the bipedal wyvern.

They have very hard scales and sharp claws.

But their weapons, on the contrary, are not what makes them the most special.

Wyverns aren't territorial, and will usually only fight back when intruders seem easy to deal with-

But in fact, Wyverns are known for their poor eyesight, and they often mistake their opponents for weak creatures.

For example, mistaking an angry horned eagle for something else.

However, the Wyvern has always been able to win battles that are unbelievably unwinnable.

Even if you beat it, if you have your back to a two-legged dragon.

That thing will gnaw off a chunk of you the moment it finds you, or it will just tear you apart and take you away!

Mike can be sure without hesitation that these creatures must not have come from Earth, and even among the paleontological fossils found so far, there has never been such a thing.

A middle-aged man whispered, "What are they?" ”

The people around him didn't move, and they didn't even dare to make a sound.

It's not that they're slow to react, it's just that they don't dare to act rashly, including the Mike family.

The wyverns didn't know if they were watching the crowd or waiting for their companions, just shaking their heads.

Mycrogh observed that their eyes were not focused, so he guessed that they might not have very good eyesight.

But as time passed, the uneasiness in his heart grew stronger.

Suddenly, the group of monsters on the ruins did not move, but a black shadow cut through the sky from the sky and directly knocked down a young man.

The barbed fangs bit down on his neck.

"Zila!"

Blood gushed out, rising several meters high and spilling directly onto the ground.

Some drops of blood even reached Mike's face.

The man's head was bitten off and rolled on the ground several times.

The woman covered her daughter's eyes directly, and her face was very pale.

It had been peaceful for so many years, and where had she ever seen such a sight.

The monster's movements also seemed to irritate the group of bipedal wyverns on the ruins.

They flapped their wings and flew up, and they also pounced on the remaining people around them.

"Ahh Help..."

"Mom...... Father! ”

"Woo ......"

"Die, die for me!!"

…… There was a chaotic sound, blood everywhere, and a crowd of people fleeing.

"Run, run!"

Mike reacted from the warmth of the blood droplets on his face, holding his daughter in one hand and his wife in the other, trying to run away.

They don't know where to go, all they know is that they can't stay here.

Two cars passed him at high speed, probably stepping on the accelerator in fear.

The more times like this, the more likely it is to make mistakes.

Sure enough, a sedan in front of it hit a rock, and one of the cars rolled over on its side.

"Boom".

Another car was also affected, and the two sides collided together and threw a few laps on the road before ......

Rumble!!!

The car's fuel tank was ignited, and with a deafening loud bang, smoke billowed into the sky.

Several cars behind slammed on the brakes before coming to a stop with the screeching sound of tires rubbing.

The flames were blazing, and Mike could clearly see through the car window that the people inside were still alive, desperately calling for help, but the flames soon consumed them.

"Daddy..."

Michael's daughter, Sasha, was clutching at her father, her body shaking.

"Sasha, don't look... Don't look." Mike comforts his daughter.

He calmly pulled his wife and ran into the alley on one side.

Although many of the houses have collapsed, there are still some of them, but most of the houses around here are crumbling, so few people will run here.

McGuess those monsters don't have very good eyesight, and it's best to escape their eyesight range at this time, running on the road is just a target.

Some smart people followed them, and Mike recognized them as several of his neighbors.

However, their families are no longer around, and they don't know if they live or die.

They kept running, and the screams and screams of monsters were heard all around, as well as the sound of vehicles crashing.

From here they could even see billowing smoke rising in the distance.

They don't know where it's safe to go, so they can only keep running, but wherever they run, they can hear the roars of those monsters.

As Mike's physical strength gradually decreased, the despair in his heart grew thicker.

Could it be that the whole city is this kind of monster?

"Army, let's go find the army!" Sasha's mother seemed to realize something and hurriedly said.

Of course Mike knew he was going to the army, but who knew where the barracks were.

They crossed an alley and came to an intersection at some point.

In the center of the intersection, there is a tall statue, and Joan of Arc, armed with a flag gun, stands on a large stone two meters high and looks at the street in front of him.

This Joan of Arc is not the Joan of Arc of the Hundred Years' War, but the general Joan of Arc who had made a major contribution to West France in the world war decades earlier.

After her death, a statue was erected here in her honor.

In the past, standing here was a certain emperor of the West Francis Empire, and it was believed that since the West Francis Empire had been destroyed, this feudal remnant could not be preserved.

Mike was in his teens at the time, and he had a very clear memory of what happened at that time.

The city where he lived was near the battlefield of Verdun, and it suffered the most bombing and requisitioned soldiers, so it also had the most dead of any city.

So when the news of her death came back, his parents even cried and told him that if it weren't for her, the whole of West Flands would have been occupied by the invaders.

In fact, it is true that the front-line war in West Francis before Joan of Arc showed its prominence at that time was indeed very ugly, and it was completely dependent on human life.

One of his uncles and an uncle also died on the battlefield.

It can be said that it was Joan of Arc that saved Harinids.

And at this moment, Harinid suffered another disaster of blood and fire.

I just don't know if this time, there will be a "Joan of Arc" to save the city.

"Hopefully. Joan of Arc can bless us. Mike muttered softly.

Without hesitation, he continued to pull his wife in the direction where the flag gun of the Joan of Arc statue was pointing.

They entered a street where there were no people. And I was lucky enough to see a scarab taxi that crashed into the wall.

The driver is unconscious, but the taxi engine hasn't been turned off, so it should still be moving.

Mike hurriedly stepped forward and pushed the driver to the side of the passenger seat, trying to take over the car.

But it was also at the end of the seat where he put his daughter in the back seat.

A black shadow swooped down from the sky with a roar.

Mike only felt like he had been hit in the chest by a high-speed car, and he was star-struck by the blow.

But before he could react, he realized that he was pressing a heavy object on his body.

As his eyes gradually focused, he saw a two-headed dragon pressing on him.

The wyvern had its mouth open, its full mouth full of sharp teeth like sharks, with several layers that could easily tear through his body.

It even has shredded flesh on its teeth, which means that it has just killed quite a few people.

His wife watched the scene in horror next to him, and his daughter cried directly.

She didn't know when a force came out, and she directly picked up the wood that fell on the ground on one side and rushed towards it.

"Get out of here!" She screamed in horror, hysterical.

"Linna! Stay back! Mike shouted.

But she didn't stop, and the wood slammed into the two-legged dragon's thigh.

The two-legged dragon roared, and directly opened its bloody jaw and bit Lucy.

Mycroft's eyes cracked.

But at this moment, another figure suddenly collided from one side.

"Boom!"

The dragon was slammed straight into one wall, smashing a large hole in the wall.

The blow was not light, the walls cracked like cobwebs, and the dragon kept spitting blood, as if its internal organs were injured.

When Mike comes back to his senses, he realizes that he has been saved by a large, scary stag.

I don't know what kind of stag it is, but it is full of blue radiance, and the lines on its body are beautiful like creatures living in a fairyland.

At the same time, Mike also noticed that there was a woman sitting on the stag.

A golden braid is casually draped behind her head, wearing simple women's clothes, but her temperament is like a fairy living in a fairyland, drinking dew.

But for some reason, Mike felt an inexplicable familiarity to this face.

I seem to have seen it somewhere.

Suddenly, Mike seemed to realize something, and his pupils trembled slightly

(End of chapter)