Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 164 Dragonborn
"Use the detection spell to check if there are any undead creatures around." After killing the four phantom guards, Thorne did not relax his vigilance. When he led Anderina to the spiral staircase leading to the sixth floor, she ordered.

Anderina nodded slightly, and with a wave of her staff, the almost invisible magical aura quickly spread around her centered on her.

It lasted like this for a while, except for a dark space, nothing unusual happened, and Thorne's dignified expression relaxed slightly.

"Do you know what the sixth floor is?" Andrina looked at the spiral staircase curiously and said to Thorne beside her.

"It should be a cage for all kinds of monsters." Thorne made an uncertain guess.

As a wizard, he would more or less capture some wild beasts or some special humanoid creatures to try various new experiments, so naturally he needed a confinement area.

After finishing speaking, he began to look around the stairs, trying to find something suspicious.

To his disappointment, even if he turned over the thick dust, he couldn't find any clues.

However, at least he made sure of one thing, so he said to Anderina beside him, "Let's go, there should be no danger on the sixth floor."

"Is it because the corpses of the four phantom guards were not found?" Anderina thought for a while before expressing her inner thoughts.

Thorne couldn't help but glance at her unexpectedly when he heard this, nodded and did not object to her guess.

The Phantom Guard is formed primarily from the ghosts of warriors who died in battle or in defense of their oaths.

Since there are four phantom guards blocking the way here, it means that there must be the dead bodies of four soldiers around.

But he didn't find any corpses around, so the four soldiers who once guarded here probably died on the sixth floor.

As for how the four soldiers died, we will only know when the bodies are found.

Afterwards, the two walked forward all the way, silently walking towards the road leading to the sixth floor.

"The passages in this tower are so cumbersome, don't these wizards find it troublesome to walk?" Andrina walked up the stone steps of the stairs, following Thorne casually.

"A wizard who can build a tall tower must be of a high level, and he has some mastery of short-distance teleportation spells." Thorn continued to walk up after answering Andrina's question.

As he walked, a doubt suddenly flashed in Thorne's mind, so he stopped immediately and looked at Anderina behind him: "How did you open the gate of this tower?"

"How did you open it?" Andrina was taken aback by Thorne's question, looked up at him with a puzzled look, and replied:
"It's very simple. There is a similar rune circle next to the stone gate of the high tower. As long as it is activated, the stone gate will open."

"It's that simple?" Thorne was startled, and asked with some uncertainty.

"It's that simple." Andrina smiled as she looked at Thorn's slightly fluctuating expression.

Seeing Andelina's answer with such certainty, Thorne naturally believed that the other party would not lie to him, but he still felt a little confused in his heart.

When he first discovered the tower on the cliff, he had asked his ranger mentor and the half-elf leader of Fallstown.

The answers the two gave him were almost the same, that is, the tower was left by wizards, and there were some restrictions left by them, so it was best not to approach it casually.

This is not the key point. The key issue is that this high tower has been isolated for so long, but no one has ever explored it.

After all, there is no shortage of strong people in this world, nor is there a shortage of strong people with strong curiosity, as well as adventurers with strong curiosity and strength.

It has been nearly a hundred years since the original Pushang Town was destroyed. It stands to reason that it should have been conquered long ago. It is impossible to stay until now, waiting for the two of them to explore.

In fact, Thorne did not find any traces of outsiders intruding in the tower.

Moreover, this high tower is not as dangerous as imagined. With Anderina's strength of level 7, it can be easily opened, and it is impossible for others to be blocked outside the tower.

Thorn, who couldn't figure out the problem, had no choice but to temporarily suppress his inner doubts, held the long sword in his hand, and led Anderina to continue walking upwards.

The sixth floor of the tower.

As Thorne guessed, it was indeed an area used to hold various monsters.

In this area, the air is filled with the smell of decay. Except for a corridor about two meters wide in the middle, which is paved with gravel, there are rusty metal cells on both sides.

Thorne took a general look and found that half of the dozen or so cells were empty, and the rest of the cells were filled with skeletons that had been eroded by time.

Obviously, during these hundred years, even the mightiest beasts can only be locked up and starved to death.

In the cell on Thorne's left, four rusty iron chains are firmly nailed to the ground by a large iron nail, and a corpse the size of an adult man is tied by four iron chains limbs.

Even though it has been turned into a decayed skeleton, Thorne can still observe the pain of the beast before it was starved to death from the faint black blood on the iron chain and the traces of struggle left on the ground.

"What kind of beast is this? It seems that there are a pair of small wings growing on its back." Andrina noticed Thorne's gaze, so she looked at it and asked curiously.

Obviously, although she has a wealth of mysterious knowledge, she knows very much about magic runes, constructed creatures, and various hidden histories, but she knows very little about animals in the natural world, humanoid monsters, and so on.

"The crouching dragon beast is a medium-sized dragon creature, a kind of dragon-like predator with limited intelligence but quite deadly."

After Thorne noticed the strong jaw under the skull and the small wings on the back, the image of the dragon beast nearly two meters long and covered in dark black scales immediately appeared in his mind, and when he was tracking the prey, he relied on Two pieces of underdeveloped small wings jumped up, opened their bloody mouths, and glide in mid-air to attack their prey with a ferocious gesture.

The cell to Thorne's right was a similarly miserable sight, with half a dozen sets of handcuffs nailed to the walls of the room, each with a cracked skeleton attached to it.

There was also an iron cage in the corner, which held the skeleton of a dwarf. Based on the size of the skeleton and the iron cage, Thorne could imagine the dwarf curled up pitifully in the narrow cage.

"Let's go." Thorn elbowed Andrina next to him, then stepped on the gravel-paved corridor and walked forward cautiously.

The two of them didn't walk for long in the corridor before they found something that Thorne had been paying attention to.

It was the corpses of two warriors turned into phantom guards. The reason why he was so sure was that the other party was wearing a familiar metal full-body armor.

Although it has been corroded by the years of rust, Thorne still found similarities in the fuzzy lines of the corpse armor based on the four phantom guards that appeared before.

The reason for the soldier's death was that the chest was hit by the giant sword, and the powerful impact caused the entire sternum to collapse. The most fatal injury was that the twisted and broken metal armor directly penetrated his chest.

Thorne squatted on the ground and stroked the battle marks on the broken armor, deduced.

Then he tossed his whole body to the side, and after getting nothing, he got up and walked towards another corpse.

He was killed by a single sword. Although the warrior had sensed the danger and used his shield to resist, what he didn't expect was that the opponent's weapon was so destructive. The giant sword first hit the stainless steel shield in his hand, causing his arm bones to was directly shattered.

Afterwards, the remaining strength of the stainless steel shield remained undiminished, and it hit the steel mask again. The powerful impact instantly shattered his head hidden in the mask.

Thorn glanced at the shield with a sword mark and the twisted steel mask, and guessed how the opponent died.

"It seems that there is a high possibility that outsiders have broken into this high tower. Let's go. There are still two soldiers who have not been found. They should be on the upper floor."

After Thorn finished speaking, he led Anderina to the next floor.

The seventh floor of the tower.

As soon as the two walked to the door, they found the bodies of the other two soldiers.

"It turned out to be caused by fire damage?" Thorne looked at the two charred corpses on the ground, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows. After that, he stopped checking too much, but looked at the surrounding environment.

Apart from a relatively spacious hall, this floor area is mainly composed of three rooms.

So the two cautiously pushed open the doors of each room and prepared to check them one by one.

The room on the left should be the private laboratory of the owner of the tower. Various sophisticated experimental instruments are placed on a spacious dark blue marble table in the center.

Apart from a light layer of dust, the room wasn't that messy, but it couldn't be said to be neat either.

Animal specimens, special containers containing unknown items, dark red liquid in narrow-necked glass bottles, and all kinds of things that Thorne couldn't name.

Because he didn't know much about the wizard's various equipment, and he didn't have much interest in it, so he didn't intend to go in and check it out, but waited for Anderina at the door.

A moment passed.

Seeing the other party come out after careful inspection, Thorne asked casually, "Did you find anything?"

"No." Anderina shook her head slightly and said, "If you don't understand the wizard's things, it's best not to touch them casually."

"Let's go then."

Thorne took Anderina to the second room, looking at the closed stone door, he pushed it with his hands, but it was helpless that no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't move.

"The things inside should be very important to the wizard of the tower, so even in the safe zone, he still imposed heavy magic restrictions."

Seeing this, Anderina walked over, with a faint magical aura floating in her hand, and after checking it, she shook her head in disappointment: "It can't be opened, if you destroy it forcibly, it is very likely to trigger the serial prohibition inside." , causing all items to be damaged."

"It's not often that people say that wizards' towers are heavily restricted, and outsiders will undoubtedly go to death if they break in. This is already a wizard's private forbidden area. Why haven't we encountered any triggering spell traps?" Hearing the restrictions, Thorne said to Andre Na expressed her inner doubts.

"That's because the tower is very simple, and its functions are not very complete. In addition, the original owner has disappeared, so many functions have not been activated. Look at the runes on the wall. Those are almost carved by wizards. Magic circle."

Andelina pointed to the densely packed mysterious runes on the surrounding walls to Thorne, and explained:
"This rune that is all connected together is a space anchor, preventing intruders from using teleportation spells to escape. This one is a life energy scan. As long as a living creature sneaks in, it is difficult to avoid it without targeted means."

So the two stopped staying too much, but set their eyes on the last door.

"Crench!"

This door was not as difficult to open as imagined, and it was easily pushed open by Thorne with a light tap of the tip of his sword.

This is a library full of books, all kinds of books are neatly placed on the shelves, and are carefully classified by the wizard.

However, he was immediately attracted by a corpse on the ground.

"It's a dragonborn." Thorn squatted on the ground. After examining the corpse, he looked at the heavy two-handed sword on the ground, showing a sudden look.

The first two warrior guards died from two-handed swords, and the fatal injuries of the two warriors at the passageway came from fire damage. The two extreme ways of death originally made him wonder if two people broke in at the same time.

Now, seeing the corpses of the dead dragonborn on the ground, I can finally understand the reason. As a descendant of the ancient dragon god blood, the dragonborn is born with a dragon-like breath attack. Obviously, the two guards at the entrance of the passage are Die from a breath attack.

Then Thorne began to check the corpses on the ground. Apart from the two-handed sword that fell on the ground, the dragonborn corpse lying on the ground was also wrapped in a rusty armor. similar to.

From this, it can be deduced that the person in front of him who should belong to Pushang Town seems to have some conflicts with the people in Gaota.

When Thorn removed the corpse's arm, he was caught by a dark red leather object the size of two palms that was close to the ground.

Out of curiosity, he picked it up, looked at it, and found that there was nothing recorded on it except for some densely packed rune-like words.

So Thorn handed it to Anderina and said, "Check what this is."

"It's a dragon skin, and it's from a pure-blooded dragon." Andrina pondered for a while, and finally confirmed, "It's the skin of an adult red dragon."

There was a flash of surprise in Thorn's eyes, and he was about to reach out to pick it up, but Anderina took it back: "Wait a minute, there is something recorded here, and it is recorded in Dragon Language."

"What's the content?" Thorne was taken aback, and looked over with doubtful eyes.

As an advanced professional dragon vein warlock, the first advanced requirement is to be proficient in dragon language, so he is not worried that the other party cannot recognize the characters in it.

Noticing Thorne's gaze, Andrina looked at the contents on the dragon skin and told him.

Record content:

Six days have passed, and I have been trying to break free from this terrible bondage, but cannot move a muscle, thanks to my tormentor Evandel, an evil wizard from the southern kingdom.

Every day, another of his diabolical spells was triggered by the previous one, giving me a painful moment of sobriety.

I suspect I may not survive another day or two before falling back into eternal slumber, but as my waking hours are numbered, I try to use this moment to carve my last thoughts on my most glorious scales.

The two-legged ants of the evil wizard Evandel broke into my town and slaughtered the dragonborn people I carefully raised as servants.

At that moment, I seemed to see the dark claws of Nur, the dragon god of death, mercilessly smashing the future I hoped to create.

For millennia, my kind have struggled to create a nation that would survive the malevolent gaze of all civilizations.

Although I have stood on the apex of escaping the curse, my plan was ruined by the evil wizard Evandel, a fool.

That evil wizard cared nothing for an achievement that took ages to achieve. At my kind invitation, he brought nothing but destruction and death. Evil mutant creatures ravaged my homeland, and there was nothing I could do about it.

Now my only hope is that my poor child Samash Noriksius may stumble upon my remains and go to seek my discovery, and now I shall reveal my most precious fragment of knowledge:
In that distant fragment that history has completely forgotten, the torrential rain has not yet come, the earthquake and volcano that seemed to destroy the world have never erupted, the night sky has not stood still, and the cold winter has never been so long , The gods have never ignored the prayers of believers.

The guidance of the dragon god Bahamut brought me here, and I learned that this was once a vast plain, a territory that belonged to our dragon descendants, and the glorious city of Kimbatur is located here.

However, the time is long and the world is changing. With the change of the continent, Kimbatur City disappeared in the dusty history. It disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace.

But I always firmly believe that disappearing does not mean that I am really destroyed. I am trying to find, the damn evil wizard, let me sleep here with my unfulfilled wish.

Is Kimbatur City really as prosperous as imagined?Did it sink into the ground or disappear into the depths of the sea?
It's a pity that I have no chance to see it again...

Proud and Glorious Warrior

Dragon descendants who inherit the bloodline of the ancient dragon god
Lord of Fallstown: Viscount Arda
Last words.

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(End of this chapter)