Chapter 43: The Way Home
Gordon, who had turned into a black wolf, moved nimbly on the steep ridge at a seventy-degree angle, and the messy thorny vines did not stop it.
In less than three minutes, Gordon had climbed from the bottom of the valley to the top of this 100-meter-high mountain.
At the top is an open space the size of a basketball court, with pine needle-like vegetation, fluorescent fungi and some strangely shaped gray gravel, which should have been formed by falling from stalagmites at the top of the cave.
Gordon rested his front paws on one of the largest concave stones, leaning forward, his hind limbs erect, his golden pupils looking at the silver river in the distance under the light of the purple stone, which still did not change color, and couldn't help but be slightly happy.
This is the Silver Moon River?
It hurriedly took out the map of the surrounding area of Wemstein City hundreds of years ago from the dimensional pouch it was tied around its neck, including the track of the Silvermoon River.
Gordon silently thought about the description on the Codex, and began to correspond to the section of the Silvermoon River on the ancient map, and then after locating it, he carefully observed the Silver River in the dense jungle under the mountain peak.
Analyzing which section of the map most closely resembled the location of the Mithril Mine, it couldn't help but look farther away at a striking stone cliff, halfway between another hill and an underground lake.
If the young black dragon is not lying, it should be the place where the purple dragon's lair and its dependents live, forming a triangle with the Cuifeng Valley, and the purple dragon's lair is in the center.
And a section of the Silver Moon River meanders in it.
After more than ten minutes, Gordon breathed a sigh of relief after checking it three times.
Because after its careful correspondence, it found several possible places in this underground cave of the Mithril Stone Mine, but several pre-selected locations definitely did not include the Purple Dragon Lair, that is, the most bloody situation did not happen.
Next, you can carefully go over and explore them one by one.
Although Zilong has now gone to the demon dark region underground, no one knows when he will be able to return.
So, Gordon has to hurry.
Memorize their locations one by one, and then look for the corresponding feature points to facilitate finding and memorizing.
Then, as soon as it was confirmed that the location was correct, it came down from the top of the mountain without hesitation and returned the way it came.
Walk straight to the Emerald Peaks Valley.
......
At the top of the castle tower, the fairy dragon Dilisa, who was bored playing with this piece of obsidian of average color, was watching Gordon disappear for a long time.
The reason is that the scene where Gordon didn't use a spell just now and directly transformed into a black wolf made it feel a little uneasy.
How many secrets does this black dragon still hide from her?
Just as Delissa was distressed to rub the obsidian found in this home of Kornock back and forth as Gordon, a black and red shadow at the end of the ridge flew down the mountain, like a ghost in the woods, in the blink of an eye.
"Coralton, you're back!"
Dilisa immediately shouted.
The black wolf raised his head, and then in the next second, it turned into a black dragon of more than eight meters, flapped its wings, flew to the top of the castle tower, and looked at Di Lisha.
"Well, I'm back!
The black dragon grinned wide with sharp teeth, and looked at Dilisa, the size of its eyes, like a pea princess.
"Well, it's not bad! Although the beast people here don't trade with outside merchants, they have a lot of valuable wealth, quartz, dog's head gold, and agate, and it seems that this underground mineral is very rich!"
The fairy dragon took out the financial report he had found in the castle tower and happily placed it on the blank field in front of Gordon's eyes.
"What about them?"
Gordon glanced at it, it was indeed good, the value of the gems added up to almost a thousand gold coins, which was a small harvest.
Dirissa carefully placed the gem in her mouth and answered Gordon's question.
"Mirivia has gone to the hut to find out if there are any memorable trophies, and Shuster is burying the remains of the animals and bringing them back to nature, and Uncle Anru is sleeping!"
It counted them with its toes, then exasperated.
"I can't even figure it out, what is more important than collecting treasures, they actually don't even bother!hum~. ”
"By the way, Your Majesty, the young black dragon wanted to escape! Damn! I asked in the castle about its smell, it must have come in. ”
"Well, I know. ”
Gordon nodded, before the young black dragon left, it would not be a real dragon if he didn't search for it.
But apparently, it didn't dare to stay in place for long, probably because it didn't know when Gordon would emerge from Dead Space.
"Also, it's yours!"
After reading her teammates and the young black dragon, Di Lisha's face was a little hesitant, but she still gritted her teeth and said a word, and then used her wings to push a bunch of gems on the terrace closer to the black dragon.
There was more of that gem than Dilisa's own.
"This is for me?"
Gordon asked with a claw, pointing at the gem and then at himself, with a little crying and laughing.
It had already scavenged a lot of loot in that wave of dead space just now, and these gems were already dispensable to who it came from.
"That's right, just ...... It's for you! I didn't help you in this battle!"
Although Dilisha was a little reluctant, she still resisted the sense of separation and pushed the gem she had painstakingly scavenged in a room full of werewolf smells to Gordon.
"Then, you might as well keep it for yourself!"
Gordon said helplessly, it saw the reluctance in its heart, and there were only some gems, so there was no need to care about it.
"Ah, really? But you don't want money, you don't like gems, what do you like? You know, you will build a nest in the future, there will be no wealth in it, and I will not dare to visit your house when the time comes!"
Dilisa was happy at first, but a deep doubt came up, coins can also be explained, after all, some dragons love coins more than gold, such as black dragons, and some dragons love ores of the color of their bodies, such as gem dragons, blue dragons or green dragons also have a soft spot for this type of gem.
But dragons who don't like coins and ores, and are not greedy at all, are really rare, much rarer than allomorphic dragons.
After all, even if the dragon becomes a god, it has nothing to do with good and evil, and it has nothing to do with position, it should be just as greedy for money, and it should be just as stingy or just as stingy.
"Well, what I like is already there! Since you want me to share it, then I'll share it!"
Gordon looked at Dilisa, who was a bit of a blue cat mischievous and asked three thousand questions, and moved his paws a little teasingly, pulling the pile of gems back over.
"Ahh
Dilisha immediately became anxious, quickly apologized, did not hesitate her words, and praised Gordon wildly, it did not dare to snatch it from Gordon's claws, but only dared to use words in a vain attempt to recover the loss.
Gordon listened to some kind words, and then after a fairy dragon service, he returned the gem to her.
"What a money-hungry dragon! Whenever he is sold, he will probably be able to hold the gem and laugh non-stop. ”
"Dilisa's greatest dream is to live in a palace made of gold coins and wake up in a colorful bed full of precious stones!"
The fairy dragon put the gem in his pocket, and with a look that you don't understand, he teased Gordon that he didn't have a dream.
"Alright, you go ahead and scavenge and fulfill your dreams! ”
"Eh, Gordon, have you found the location of the ruins?"
Di Lisa, who woke up to Gordon's meaning, hurriedly said, it has tasted the sweetness, and this Cuifeng Valley alone has given it a lot of treasures, if it is the ruins that His Majesty Gordon said, how much money must it have!
Although there is a high probability that it is not it, but looking at it, Di Lisa is very satisfied.
"Well, not sure, but there's already a goal. ”
Gordon bowed, and then said.
"But the journey may have to pass through the territory of the Purple Dragon Lord, so you will have to wait until you recover before setting off. ”
Not having spell slots is a nuisance, so unless Gordon is on his way alone, you'll have to wait until these spellcasters are ready.
However, Gordon originally had to rest for a while after the war, and it would only take a few more hours at most, and Gordon didn't care about these times.
"Alright, Gordon, you rest here, I'll inform them!"
Dilisa, the fairy dragon who got the news, immediately flew out of the window of the fortress, flapped the dragon's wings, and went to find the other team members scattered in the valley.
Gordon was lying on top of the tower, just big enough for it.
Quietly overlooking the Cuifeng Valley, it was not idle, reviewing and digesting the previous talent in its mind, and at the same time alerting its surroundings.
It didn't want other subterranean creatures to find out about it.
......
The young black dragon of Dirhamst, with its ornate jewels around its neck, held a coin bag from a drawer in the fort with its front paws, flapped its little wings, and made its way back to the dark river of the underground cavern.
If it weren't for the fact that it was still shouting a few pieces of obsidian in good shape, it would probably be able to hum.
Who else could be richer than it is now.
I guess even the baby dragon is not as rich as it.
Hey~
It was already a little impatient to show the treasure show to its stupid brother, and then comfort it with a copper.
Thinking of its envious eyes, some of the scales of the Dirhamster stood up slightly.
It's so cool!
Praise be to the Mother of Dragons!
Dark River, just around the corner ahead.
"I'm back! ”
Dirhamster couldn't contain his joy any longer and shouted at the river.
It didn't take long for there to be movement on the surface of the water, and a young black dragon about the same size as Dirhamster had leaked out of the murky water, and it was Didick.
When it saw that it was a dirhamst, it quickly stretched out half of its body and shouted with the same joy.
"Brother, are you back? What if the black dragon didn't take you?"
"Hehe, I'm fine, I got my compensation in advance!"
It shook the bag from which its forepaw nails hung, and the coins inside made a pleasant sound.
"Brother, you're awesome!"
"Uh-huh, is that you?"
Dirhamst felt that something was wrong with his younger brother, after all, if according to the past, whenever he picked up a piece of copper, it would be envious, how could he suddenly be like this?
"It's me, what's wrong, brother?"
"Nothing. ”
After taking a closer look and confirming that the silly black dragon was his brother, it was a little bored, and then threw the coin bag in his hand and the gem stained with its saliva to Didick.
"Take it, put it where it used to be, lose one, you know!"
"Oh, okay, brother. ”
A hint of cunning and schadenfreude flashed in Didek's eyes, and instead of diving immediately into the water, Didik took the coin, but said to Dirham.
"By the way, brother, I have good news for you. ”
"What's the good news?"
"That is, we can go back! The way home, the way back to the Black Oak Swamp is open!"
"What?"
Dirhamster was shocked, and Didick's strangeness in his heart was explained, if they returned to the Black Oak Swamp, then the wealth it had collected would undoubtedly belong to the queen of the Black Oak Swamp, its mother, Tina Nelly.
"Really, I sensed it! The exit is open! It's calling us! Brother, we're going back!"
The stupid young black dragon used its claws to straighten the horns of the crescent moon, looking very serious.
"Okay!"
Dirhamster lowered his head, not doubting him, the reason why they came here in the first place was because Didick sensed another space, which he naturally did not tell Gordon.
After all, hiding clumsiness is the innate instinct of the black dragon.
"Since we can go back, let's sort it out and go back. ”
"What about the treasures?"
Didick squinted his eyes, trying to see his brother's face in pain, pain.
"Divide it, half for one person, and eat it as food on the way. ”
Dirhamst, who was in a low mood, said helplessly.
"Yay!"
When Didick heard the news, he was immediately overjoyed, and before he could finish it, he opened the coin bag, poured half a bag of coins into his mouth, and ate it.
Dicamster's heart ached, but he couldn't help it, so he sighed and poured out another bag of coins, chewing slowly, the smell of metal rust permeating his mouth.
Tears unconsciously gathered in the deep-set eye sockets and then overflowed.
Why did it become like this, the first time I got so much wealth, and the news of returning home, two happy things coincided, and these two joys brought me more joy, I should have obtained this dream-like happy time, but why, it became the way it is......