Chapter Seventy-Four: The Compass

Dearlando gave Riceth a thumbs up and complimented, "You're amazing, let's go!" and he strode towards the passage inside the door, only to step on a flap and fall into the vertical passage below.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately inserted his hand into the rock, stabilizing his body. The small crumbling stone fell down with a clatter, and it took a long time in the darkness before it made the sound of landing. If you don't catch it, you will fall to your death if you change someone.

Cantu flipped over the trapboard, poked his head out, and asked with a smile, "Are you okay......?"

Carelessly, Diarrando had to consider himself unlucky, and climbed all the way up the rock, he did not fall deeply, and climbed back to the ground from the gap in a few minutes. Ryses shielded his eyes with his tail, indicating that he couldn't bear to look directly at his stupidity.

Cantu put the flap away, and then said to the young dragon, "You judge the direction, I'll identify the traps, and he'll follow......"

Ryeth nodded, spewed a small fireball, turned his head and flew inside. With the help of the young dragon's light, Cantu looked around cautiously, occasionally reminding Dearlando to pay attention to where he was stepping or bending over the dark hole in the wall. In this way, the group quickly walked up dozens of feet along the circling passage.

Then Diarlando heard what seemed to be water outside, and asked Cantu, "Do you hear it?" like the sound of the waves crashing against the stones. ”

Cantu nodded, and he estimated that "maybe we are already in the part of the tower that juts out of the riverbed. ”

Rickes pointed to a three-foot-square exit in front of him and said, "The place with the highest energy is right up front." "Everybody picked up the pace. However, the road ahead was getting narrower and shorter, and two men who were more than five feet eight inches tall had to crawl forward with difficulty.

At this point, there were no more small traps, so it was the more durable Diarlando who climbed in front, and when he climbed to the small square door, he asked Kantu uncertainly: "Hey, do you think there is a trap here?"

"It's hard to say, if it were me, I'd do another qualification here to make sure the person who opened the door was the right person. Cantu couldn't see the door in the back, so he had to let Diarlando check it himself: "You see, if there is anything similar to just now." can allow you to put in the key. ”

Dearlando reached out and carefully touched what appeared to be a black oak door. Then I knocked them again. What kind of hole, I didn't find any stones of different colors, this is a whole piece of wood stuffed there.

He also tried to switch to the dragon's point of view, and saw a bright object in front of him. Look at it from previous experience. That should be something rich in magic. But it's strange to say. When it's outside, you can't see this at all, and I guess it's something that isolates magic.

"I don't feel well......" Riceth muttered suddenly. Then it landed on the back of Diarlando's head, picked it in his hair, and lay down.

"Don't scare me, what's uncomfortable?" Dearlando couldn't look up, so he had to tilt his head slightly and ask the young dragon what had happened.

"It's boring, the stuff here is reflecting my magic, it seems like the stone from last time. Ryses rubbed his chin against the top of Dearrando's head and patted his paw in dissatisfaction. The last time I was caught by the Dreadhorn King was a super unpleasant experience, although it wasn't as boring as the last time, but it became more and more sad after staying for a long time.

When Dierlando saw it, he didn't care about any traps or the like, he pushed it out hard, and directly pushed out the black wooden block that sealed the exit. The heavy timber, about seven inches thick, flipped out, and the blinding light suddenly slanted through the open exit, as if there was a small sun in front of it.

"You're finally here...... My baby. A nice, warm female voice rang out, and Diarrando was fascinated to see who was speaking, but in the pure white light, he could only vaguely discern what appeared to be a woman with long hair. She held out her hands in her direction, like a mother opening her arms to greet her child.

Rises, who had just wilted, suddenly came to his senses, jumped out of Dearlandor's head, and threw himself into the figure's arms. In the light, Ryeth seemed to have grown up. It's hard to put into words, but its proportions gradually change to that of an adult dragon, as if Reses is getting bigger and moving away. So the silhouette always looks like it's only a finger's length.

Risen was fully stretched out in the gentle woman's arms, and even a second head popped out. However, the person who held it in the palm of his hand was not surprised or surprised, but stroked both heads with the same gentle fingers.

"Who are you?" asked Deirlando, as if there was another dimension on the other side, and although it was clearly close in front of him, there was a sense of distance from the entire starry sky.

"I'm Mona. You've taken good care of Rises, please keep doing it, I'll leave it to you. With that, the glowing humanoid handed the baby dragon in his hand to Dearlandor. Dearlandor didn't react to what he had just heard until something heavy landed in the palm of his hand.

"What! are you Mona?" he screamed in surprise and looked up sharply, slamming the top of the passage into a crater. When he covered his head and looked again, the light had completely disappeared, and there was only a very, very simple stone room in front of him, and there was a small platform in the middle of the stone room, which was supposed to hold something, but now there was nothing.

Cantu knocked on his leg in the back and asked, "Hey, what are you talking about?"

Dearlando wanted to climb forward, the stone chamber in front of him was about ten feet square, and he could still stand up, but as soon as he looked down, he found that in addition to Riess, there was an additional palm-sized disc-shaped stone, the stone was a dark blue color, and there was a trace of golden particles in it, like an arrowhead.

He checked the stone, and found that this thing was very heavy, almost heavier than the same volume of gold, and the shape was also similar to the indentation on the platform in the middle of the stone chamber, could this be the so-called compass?

Cantu poked him again and asked him what was going on, so he stuffed the stone into the box along with Riess, who was asleep and lying on the stone, and crawled forward.

When Cantu climbed in, he explained to the elf, "I saw a figure in the light just now, she claimed to be Mona, and gave this to me. You said...... Did I see the mythical goddess Mona?"

Cantu took the round stone from Dearlando, flipped it up and down, and even licked it with his tongue. "It's so special, I've never seen anything like it...... You say you've seen a goddess, so why don't you ask Reseth? ”

Dearlando put the sleeping Ryses in the palm of his hand, and the little baby dragon was the usual round head and round brain of the young body, and he slept very deeply, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he got it.

"Oh, no. It fell asleep, and I was told that its spiritual growth far exceeded its physical growth, and that it was better not to stay awake for a long time, and that it had been awake for a long time, and it probably had to go to sleep at the moment. Anyway, the figure just said that Ryses was her child...... According to our mythology, it seems that it is indeed said that the goddess created the seven-headed dragon and was their mother. ”

"Okay...... Let's just think of the goddess as if it had just appeared. Now the question is how to use this compass. Cantu apparently didn't quite believe what Diarrando said, and at the moment he had tried to put the dark blue stone on the ground and hold it in his hand, but it didn't change at all.

Dearlando looked at the stone platform and asked, "Will you put it up?"

"It's unlikely, since it's a compass, you have to be able to carry it with you. I always felt like it was some kind of keyhole or switch, and if you put the stone back, it would trigger something. Kantu circled around the platform a few times, then crouched down, pointed to a crack near the bottom of the platform, and said, "There is a keyhole here!" (to be continued......

PS: Time is so tight, ahh~~~~~~~~h