Green Monster Epic

Chapter 518: Secrets

“What has that one been doing recently?”

Recently, Allen had been busy planning the Centennial Competition, but in his spare time, he also kept an eye on the biggest hidden danger in the fortress, even though this hidden danger was brought in by Allen himself.

“Elder Cole has come again, pestering him for another challenge!”

The guard captain, the hobgoblin Hayden, standing below, replied in a deep voice.

“Well, good, keep a close eye on him, don’t let him cause trouble.”

Allen nodded in satisfaction. Although Cole came a little too often, it was a good thing to have her entangled with that dragon.

Moreover, the more Cole sparred with him, the better it would be as a means of building relationships. At the same time, she could also familiarize herself with the opponent's fighting style in advance, so that she could deal with it more calmly if this dragon really caused any trouble in the future.

Cole was really lacking in interpersonal skills and tribal management, but her talent in combat was equally outstanding. In a short period of time, she had already mastered the legendary feat of Overpowering Blow, and her Perfect Body feat was also progressing rapidly, greatly improving her strength.

Back then, it took Allen himself far longer than Cole to master the legendary feat of Overpowering Blow.

It was time to have a good chat with Figglas. He couldn't just let him wander around the fortress all the time. Allen held a document in both hands, but his thoughts had already flown far away. Allen had put in a lot of effort to keep Figglas in the first place, but as the other party stayed in the fortress longer, Allen felt that the other party had other intentions towards him, or rather, towards his tribe.

Otherwise, it was impossible for him to still linger in the city of Murloc Fortress, playing cosplay games and bullying many females of various races. However, when Figglas 'bullied' these females, he also paid a sufficient price and did not use coercive means to force them.

The tribe was about to hold a new Green Lake Grand Military Exercise. If nothing unexpected happened, a list of 200 elite warriors with various occupations would be selected from this competition to serve as members of the Centennial Competition.

After the members were selected, they would have to be concentrated together for training to allow them to cooperate and familiarize themselves with various battle formations, as well as tailor-made equipment for them. Allen needed to be involved in everything, after all, this was the first time the tribe and Allen had participated in a large-scale tribal activity, and they couldn't make a joke out of it.

Allen even wanted to take this opportunity to show off and let other tribes know that after he took over the Ajina tribe, the tribe not only did not decline but became stronger.

Of course, Allen also hoped that he could achieve a good ranking in this competition, so that the tribe's inheritance would have more heritage. The wilderness was originally a place where the weak were prey to the strong, and they believed in the principle that the strong would always be strong. The higher the ranking of the tribe, the greater the benefits they would get in this competition, while the lower-ranked tribes would only pick up leftovers from others.

According to the records of the Ajina tribe, in the dozens of grand competitions they had participated in, the best harvest was 15 Dream Crystals and some other resources. With this harvest, the tribe obtained a total of 4 legendary feat inheritances and a dozen ordinary inheritances at that time.

At that time, the tribe's ranking also reached its most glorious period - 37th place, and then it gradually declined, until now it fluctuates around 60th place.

Perhaps some people would ask, since this was the case, then according to the number of grand competitions that the Ajina tribe had participated in before, their tribe should have more than just over two hundred inheritance crystals.

Here was another big trap about inheritance crystals, that was, this thing itself relied on the unique energy of Dream Crystals to achieve the conversion of skills, bloodline operation, and other methods into illusions that ordinary people could subtly experience and learn, and gradually master these knowledge and skills on this basis.

Once the energy in the Dream Crystal was exhausted, then this inheritance was equivalent to being scrapped. If you wanted to maintain the complete system of inheritance, you either had to collect new crystals with the same content, or you had to find the temple and pay a high price to infuse it with energy.

Infusing inheritance crystals with energy not only required paying a lot of money, but also had to accept the various conditions put forward by the temple, support certain ideas of the temple, and so on.

Of course, the energy consumed by ordinary crystals once was not too much. A newly made inheritance crystal, even if it was used by tens of thousands of people, could be used for more than ten years. The legendary feat crystal consumed more energy per use than ordinary crystals. Although legends were not often used, its average lifespan was mostly 40-50 years.

But the advantage of inheritance crystals was also obvious. If the inheritance crystal was no longer used, then it could be preserved for a long time, and it was not impossible for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

With such characteristics of inheritance crystals, it was definitely impossible to say that there was no plan by the temple, after all, they used this method to control and influence the secular world.

In addition, with occasional rewards to the high-level members of the tribe, as well as various intentional or unintentional losses, it was already good for a tribe to maintain more than two hundred inheritances in the tribe for a long time.

Therefore, Allen would personally attend this Green Lake Town Grand Competition and participate in it throughout the entire process, so as to select the backbone of the Grand Competition team, and also to check the overall strength of the tribe's people in recent years.

“If it were a real fight, you would be dead now!!”

Figglas, a dragon full of masculine hormones, with a burly figure and face, wearing a gorgeous robe, surrounded by a dozen protective spells, holding a bright golden staff, and pressing the sharp root against Cole's left chest, said calmly.

Figglas's tone was calm, but the openings occasionally revealed at the hem of his robe and between his sleeves made him look a little embarrassed, which showed that Cole had caused him no small amount of trouble.

“Again!!”

Cole waved the heavy sword 'Blackfire', which she had spent a lot of money to forge, and shouted with her neck stretched out.

The silver-gray sword body of the heavy sword 'Blackfire' originated from an unknown ore that Cole collected from the Mass Burial Valley. After being identified by the master craftsman who forged Blackfire, Allen and the others learned that this was an extremely rare metal - the Eye of Naraka.

This was a rare metal that could absorb the souls and flesh of combatants and provide the holder with the blessing of the Fire of Sacrifice. It was said that its appearance had a great relationship with the god of death, Naraka. As long as the weapon made of the Eye of Naraka metal was used to stab or pierce the opponent in battle, then the weapon could invisibly absorb the opponent's remaining flesh and blood and soul fragments, and turn it into a powerful soul-based spell as nourishment - the Fire of Sacrifice, which burned the enemy.

“Come again? I’m annoyed, and I’m annoyed too!!”

Figglas flatly rejected Cole's request. This girl was full of fighting spirit. If he really agreed to her request, he wouldn't have a good day.

If it wasn't because he was too lazy to teach the hobgoblin Little Bush tactics and gave him to Cole to teach, and owed her a favor, he wouldn't be pestered by Cole from time to time and run to this arena to be her opponent.

Little Bush really resembled his grandfather, Bush, in his childhood. Seeing him reminded Figgles of Camellia, the hobgoblin female who had taken good care of him, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of affection for her sake. Although dragon nature was extremely lecherous, Figgles, at least when dealing with partners for whom he had genuine feelings, would still retain some affection.

Of course, Figgles also wanted to use his past connections to get closer to Allen, the hobgoblin.

"That's it for today. We agreed, don't come looking for me again within half a year!!"

"That's what you said, I didn't agree!"

Cocoa smiled slyly, directly denying it.

"You!!"

Seeing this energetic face, Figgles found it annoying no matter how he looked at it. He simply stomped his foot and flew out of the arena's sky, determined not to be in the same place as Cocoa again.

Soon after, Figgles, transformed into an earth elemental, appeared in the castle where Allen was. He pushed open the heavy wooden door and walked straight in. The guards standing at the entrance pretended not to see him, allowing Figgles to barge in so recklessly.

"Allen, can you manage your student? Can you stop her from bothering me all the time!!"

Figgles, somewhat resentful, plopped down on the wicker chair against the wall in the study. At the same time, with a wave of his hand, he used Mage Hand to grab a few pastries and a glass of iced drink from the coffee table not far away, and began to eat and drink without ceremony.

Allen raised his head and looked at the dragon, slowly putting away the documents in front of him.

"If you don't want to accept Cocoa's challenge, just refuse it. I don't think Cocoa can do anything about it."

"Bullshit!! Don't you know your student's personality? If I don't accept her invitation, she can really pester me from dawn till dusk, never leaving my side!! If it weren't for our relationship, I would have slapped her to death sometimes!!"

Figgles glared fiercely at Allen, roaring resentfully.

"Then why don't you come with me to Green Lake Town? There will soon be a clan competition there, which will be very lively!"

Allen looked at Figgles's embarrassed appearance with interest, and then offered a solution.

"During this time, I will have Cocoa stationed at Fort Murl. If you stay in the city, I'm afraid you will be harassed by her."

"...Aren't you leaving me with no choice?"

Hearing these words, Figgles's originally hesitant eyes suddenly became firm.

"Then I'll go to Green Lake Town with you. It just so happens that I have something I want to talk to you about alone!!"

Finally, here it comes. Allen's invitation to Figgles to go to Green Lake was actually a small test. He just wanted to see if this dragon already had the intention to leave.

You should know that almost ten years have passed since Allen and Figgles's encounter in the depths of the Carter Mountains. No matter how prosperous Fort Murl is, and how many entertainment activities there are, he should be tired of playing there in these ten years. If it were other solitary powerhouses, they would have wanted to change places.

Now it seems that this dragon has not even thought about leaving Fort Murl until now, which shows that the prosperity of the Green Field tribe's town may not be the real reason for him to stay here. This is also what Allen has been puzzled about in recent years.

"Oh? What do you want to talk to me about?"

Allen smiled, seemingly curious, but in fact, he was indeed intrigued by the other party.

"...This matter is actually of great benefit to you, but the risk is relatively high. With your current status, I don't know if you would be willing to agree."

Figgles was also very conflicted. He had stayed in Fort Murl for ten years, and he must have had some plans. Until recently, he had completed the preliminary observation and made a decision to reveal his cards to Allen. It's just that, as he said, after completing the preliminary investigation, Figgles was now a little worried that Allen might not agree.

"If there's a good thing for me, I'm definitely welcome. Whether I agree or not is another matter, but you have to tell me what this matter is about!"

Allen smiled.

"...I want to invite you to explore a mysterious ruin together."

Hearing Allen's response, Figgles looked into Allen's eyes and finally solemnly spoke the secret hidden in his heart.

"Do you remember when I was chased by the kobolds of the Thunder Tribe?"

"I remember, why? Is that matter related to what you want to tell me now?"

Allen frowned slightly. If this matter was related to the Thunder Tribe, he would really have to consider it carefully. After all, the Pale Night, the strongest being in the wilderness, was behind the Thunder Tribe. Allen didn't want to offend the other party without sufficient reason.

"The reason why I was chased by those two lowly old dogs was because I stole a treasure from their tribe -- the Heart of Radiance, and this treasure is actually a positioning beacon to open a ruin."

"And the true location of this ruin, in addition to us dragons, perhaps only the churches backed by the various gods have records of it. Because, the origin of this ruin itself should be traced back to the time when the ancient Mansa Wilderness appeared."

"The origin of the Mansa Wilderness, I don't need to tell you, Allen, you should be very clear. At the beginning, the divine fire of the goddess Mansa perished in the divine kingdom, and her divine body was integrated with the divine kingdom to become the current Mansa Wilderness."

"And the five important organs in the goddess's divine body also became five extremely important magic hub points when the divine body turned into the land under your feet, possessing all kinds of magical abilities and visions."

"Later, the surviving remnants of the goddess tried their best to build five fortresses between these five important hubs in order to awaken the goddess from her slumber, trying to recast the goddess's divinity and return to the endless starry sky with the divine power and divinity left in these hubs."

"The final result goes without saying. The goddess's remnants lost their goal in the long years, and the five fortresses were destroyed in the countless infighting between the wilderness natives and the remnants. Until finally, the goddess's pet beast frozen in the endless starry sky -- the Ice Snow Fox woke up from its slumber and broke through the plane barrier to come to the wilderness, finally ending this protracted infighting."

"Later, this powerful ice and snow magic beast sealed the five fortresses with a magic lock, making them difficult to be detected by the outside world. However, the five important hubs transformed from the goddess's organs could not be sealed, and eventually became the so-called five dangerous places in your wilderness."

"Among them, the Misty Forest is transformed from the goddess's womb, the Abyss of No Magic is transformed from the goddess's vagina, the Volcano of Yang Flame is the heart, the Quicksand River in the Tagan Desert is the goddess's stomach, and the most mysterious and most likely to contain the goddess's divinity, the location of the brain, is in Crescent Lake, about a thousand miles southeast of Cold Wind Ridge."

"And the Heart of Radiance in my hand is the beacon connecting the Crescent Lake ruins."

At some point, Figgles had a mysterious crystal in his hand, as clear as a water drop, with countless brilliant facets, suspended in mid-air under the action of Mage Hand, making people unable to take their eyes off it for a long time.