Law of the Dragon

Yarrow has been walking in this forest for days, there is not even day and night here - is there such a place in this world?It was as if she had stepped into another world, a world that neither belonged to darkness nor to light.It is weird and unpredictable, as if there is another rule that belongs to it.

Yarrow pinched the horse's belly lightly and walked forward. When the sun fell on her shoulders, she knew that her efforts were in vain again.She returned to the edge of the dense fog, and couldn't find the castles in the dense fog at all. Except for the trees, there was thick fog, and she didn't even see the shadow of a house.

She can be sure that there is no enchantment here, and there are no tricks to cover up the eyes. These fogs are not summoned by magic, or virtual images created in some way. These are things that belong to matter and exist in reality.

But if it is something that exists in reality, why is it so impossible for people to pass through?She is almost 90.00% sure that the queen's secret must be hidden in this mist, and whether she can be pulled down from the throne, the things here must play a key role!

However, no matter what, he couldn't get into the dense fog. Yarrow felt like he had punched the cotton. He had exhausted all his strength, but the other party had nowhere to bear the force.It's better to come out with a few monsters and fight a solid battle!

Yarrow sat down on the grass in front with some frustration. At this moment, the early winter sun was falling gently. She still remembered that when she left the imperial capital to pursue the Duke of Sacre and His Majesty, it was in early autumn, and she didn't know that the idiot king What's going on with Sa Keluo... Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling a little restless.

The dense fog not far from her is rising, changing shapes, not bound by the laws of nature at all, swaggeringly appearing in the sun, surging and rolling lightly in front of her, with a hint of mystery and ominous .

She suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said to herself: "This is not... the dragon's breath, right?"

There are two types of Dragon Breath of the Dragon Clan, one is offensive and the other is defensive.Yarrow has seen the attacking type, but the defensive type-it is said that it is released to protect itself when the dragon is sleeping.

"There...isn't there a sleeping dragon here?" Yaro murmured.

"It's impossible to think with your toes," came a familiar voice, "How can there be dragons in this kind of place? Do you let dragons make nests on tree branches like birds?"

Yarrow was stunned, and immediately stood up and turned around. There were two people standing behind her. The blond boy squatted lazily on the ground, and Sa Keluo stood next to him.

The lackluster Eros doesn't need to waste his eyes, and Yarrow's attention is completely on Sa Keluo: "Oh my god, you're fine!" She walked over quickly, "I heard that guy Eros In such a tone, I thought you would never come back..."

But she just stopped halfway, and stood there looking at Su Keluo suspiciously: "You are... Su Keluo?" In Yarrow's eyes, the original Sa Keluo, although a bit rigid and silent , but at any rate he is still a human being, but now Sa Keluo... Yarrow can't feel the part of him that belongs to human beings. He stands there like an impenetrable black shadow, with a kind of primitive Savage silence.

Yarrow looked at Eros with questioning eyes, but Eros turned his eyes to the other side, as if he didn't dare to look at her.

"Of course I'm Sacro," the black-haired man smiled, even though there was no trace of it on his expression, Yarrow's feeling did not disappear.

She stood there vigilantly, watching Sa Keluo: "My feeling... who are you?"

"I am Sukeluo," Sukeluo's tone was surprisingly quiet and patient, "My story is a very long story. I went to a place and did something I thought I had to do... I paid a high price, Yarrow, and I can't say if it was worth it, but I hope I'm still Thacklow."

Yarrow was silent for a long while, her gaze shifted from Sacrelo to Eros, and then from Eros to Sacrelo, and finally she gave up: "Well, I really don't see any problem, But my fencing teacher told me that if you really can’t find the problem, then it’s not a problem, ignore it! I think this sentence is very unreasonable, but I have to do it now.” After she finished speaking, she walked over, like He patted Thacklow on the shoulder as usual, "I'm very glad to see you, although your appearance is a little scary now, it looks like the sun is less... It's okay, we still have a long time to treat you Be a little more sunny..." After she finished speaking, she kicked the king squatting on the ground with her toes unceremoniously, "It's time to get up and work, your country will soon become someone else's."

Eros wanted to beat her up, but how dare he kick him casually, especially since he is still the king now!But when he heard what Yarrow said, he was so excited that he wanted to turn around and kill the person who dared to usurp the throne!How much effort did he spend to keep that small treasury under the means of the Minister of Finance, why?Now someone wants to take it for free, and don't ask him if he agrees!

"Even my brother can't allow this kind of thing!" Eros stood up excitedly and walked towards the direction of the imperial capital. "I want to see who dares to sit in my seat!"

"She's not your brother, she's your sister," Yarrow said coolly from behind.

elder sister?Eros hesitated for a moment, his sister was a well-known violent woman in the clan, and based on the family education of "children don't know how to beat them", Eros was raised by his sister!However, didn't my sister fly to the mainland across the Red Sea to torture others? Why did she suddenly come to the imperial capital?

Since Eros was a child, when he saw his sister, he could only run away with his tail between his legs, and he didn't dare to talk back, let alone make such a large movement.But it was related to the small treasury... Thinking about his beautiful dream of using gold coins to make a bed, and thinking about his sister's unkind fist, Xiaolong sat on the ground and felt sad.

"I think he probably misunderstood something," Thakro said with a sigh while looking at the little dragon drawing circles on the ground.

Yarrow glanced at him, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, whether he misunderstood or not, I'm going to say it."

In the next moment, Eros's beautiful golden eyes blazed like extinguished flames: "That's right, how can that little girl be a king! Look at those elves and chief cabinets one by one!" Have a scheming mind, look at how difficult those church bishops are to settle, she can't handle these things!"

"If she shows the evidence that you are a false king," Yarrow said coolly, "it would be polite not to hang you. She has the first right of succession."

"Evidence?" Eros sneered, "What evidence does she have? Just relying on Norman's oracle? Now that Norman has gone to the Valley of the Elves, he is still in a coma. The Pope... was suppressed to death by the Elf King, she What evidence is there to prove that I am a false king?"

"You are a false king, so don't be so proud, okay?" Ya Luo couldn't help but argue with him, "Do you know what shame is?"

"Since negotiating with the Elven King, I don't know..." Eros said with emotion.

Yarrow rolled her eyes, she was a half-elf anyway, and she still couldn't stand Eros saying bad things about the Elf King—although most of what Eros said was true.

"Your Majesty is right, she has no evidence," Thakro said suddenly, "I think the princess may have colluded with the church to get evidence from you, and then expose the fact that you are a false king. In this way, she can fully gain the trust of the cabinet and the people, and thus sit on the throne."

Eros frowned. He thought that there must be someone behind the church's actions. Now it seems that he guessed right, but he didn't expect it to be the exiled princess.Thakro had mentioned her to him before, but because the distance was too far, Eros didn't take it seriously, so that when Yarrow mentioned "sister", he thought of another a dragon.

"I just said that my sister can't do this..." After fully understanding, Eros breathed a sigh of relief. If it was really his enchantment that was entrenched on the throne, he really couldn't muster up the courage to challenge her, after all, before When he was in the brood, he never dared to snatch things from her.After figuring out this problem, the matter seemed to be half-solved for Eros. He said disapprovingly, "We'll go back to the palace now, and catch her by surprise!"

"But does she really have evidence in her hand?" Thakro said, "We haven't seen her cards yet, so we can't act rashly."

"Really?" Eros thought for a while, not sure whether he should fly back now, so he turned his head and looked at Yarrow, "Speaking of which, you are also a general, why is my emperor making a coup, but you are Walking here?"

"I'm walking the horse?" Yarrow was extremely excited when he talked about it. "Do you know how many days I have been looking for the entrance here? How many days have I not slept well? If it wasn't for that girl who was too outrageous, I can't wait for her to be the queen, she is much more orthodox than you, the false king!"

"Are you going to quarrel with me?" Elos also raised his voice and replied, "I always thought it was natural for the elves to be lazy, but now it seems that you have their blood!"

"Okay, let's duel!" Yarrow rolled up his white gloves.

"A duel is a duel!" Eros said at once, "but don't expect to throw that dirty glove at me!"

"Stop making trouble, this is the entrance to the land of the dead." No one noticed that Thakro was observing the thick fog. At this moment, they realized that he was standing on the edge of the thick fog in the forest. "Yaro, you What are you doing here? Looking for something?"

"The Land of the Dead?" Yarrow looked at Sa Keluo in confusion, "Are you sure it's the legendary Land of the Dead? Why is the entrance near the imperial capital? I never heard that the entrance to the Land of the Dead can move." ah."

Of course, there is indeed an entrance to the Land of the Dead. There are different opinions about the location of the entrance. Some say it is on the snow-capped mountains to the east, while others say it is in the depths of the dark swamp. On the edge of the imperial capital where people come and go!

"I know that place," Eros turned around and said, "but it's wrong, why is it connected here?"

Sa Keluo said lightly: "Judging from the location of the crack, someone forcibly tore it open. What's even more strange is that there is a part missing here."

"Is there a place missing?" Yarrow and Eros glanced at each other, in addition to mutual disgust, there were also doubts.

"It's like... being swallowed up by the land of the dead." Sa Keluo said and walked into the thick fog.

×××

Eros didn't know much about the place called "Land of the Dead", and he didn't even know about the mysterious god.Of course, he didn't understand that god, which doesn't mean he hasn't heard of those legends.One of the most incredible versions is that the God of Neutrality is the Creator God of this world.

It is indeed very unbelievable, but the legend was told to him by Eros' sister, so it is still fresh in his memory.When the world was still in chaos, the first god to appear was the God of Neutrality. In the name of neutrality, he separated heaven and earth, land and sea, day and night, life and death, and even Light to darkness.Later, he left this world. No one knows why, but this cannot change the fact that he is the creator god, and this world still has his shadow.

There is neither absolute darkness nor absolute light. Darkness follows light, and light cannot part with darkness. There are many specious things in this world, with ambiguous answers, and all kinds of things that cannot be explained clearly.Even, his sister asserted that the God of Darkness or the God of Light cannot completely occupy this world, mainly because it belongs to the neutral gods. Maybe the God of Light can be proud of it for a while, but according to the principle of neutrality, he cannot completely occupy it, because this This continent also belongs to the God of Darkness, which is the principle of neutrality.

Belongs to this, belongs to that; neither belongs to this nor to that.

The reason why the whole world operates is to follow the principle of the neutral god, day and night, the sun and the moon rotate, the tide ebbs and flows, life and death.

Of course, what Eros heard was just his sister's casual version, and almost no one believed in the neutral god anymore.On such a vast continent, there is no longer his temple, nor his followers, and the reason for his departure is unknown, but the world still operates according to the laws he made.

"Oh, where did he go then?" Eros asked his sister absently at that moment.

"The land of the dead," his sister told him, "the land of the dead is also the land of eternal life. There is no death without life, and there is no death without form. This is such a place. There is no past and no future, and it does not matter to be alive." Living and dying, that’s how that place is, it can also be said that it’s one of the more boring spaces, anyway, after I’ve been there, I don’t want to go there anymore.”

By the way, Eros's sister is a top magician among the Dragon Clan, and she doesn't have a good impression of the God of Darkness, so during the battle between the Demon Gods, she travels in various spaces, and when she comes back, she occasionally mentions those strange things. Space.

Eros also thinks that kind of travel should be very interesting, because each space has some strange regulations made by the creator, some beautiful and boring, even cruel, and the gods play with those spaces, just like a game .But Eros doesn't have the talent to become a powerful magician like his sister, and his ideals are more realistic than his sister's, gold coins and gems are enough!

"Being a king is really a difficult challenge," Eros couldn't help sighing, from the moment he became king, things seemed to have never stopped. Is it more incredible that a demon god appeared?Facts have proved that he underestimated the huge geographical potential of this country, and now he has deeply realized that after all, a few steps away from him is the land of the dead of the neutral god.

He has no doubts about whether it is the land of the dead, Sa Keluo is already a very powerful demon god, if he said so, it must be.

I'm afraid he didn't even know where the Land of the Dead was before Sackler went to the Annihilation Space.

Eros was sighing there, and Su Keluo suddenly walked into the thick fog.

"Hey!" Yarrow subconsciously reached out to grab the hem of Su Keluo's clothes but failed, watching Su Keluo walk into the gray fog.

"Follow!" Eros grabbed Yarrow's hand and dragged her into the thick fog.

It seems to be another world in the thick fog, all the objects seem to have no fixed shape, and wherever the line of sight goes is a blur.

"It's not the same as the place I've been coming in..." Yarrow turned to look for Sukeluo while talking, but the surroundings were chaotic, and there was no shadow of Sukeluo, "Where is Sukeluo?" ?”

Eros grabbed Yarrow's hand, looked around vigilantly, turned his head suddenly, and the back was also gray, and it was impossible to see that they walked in from here: "It seems that Sa Keluo opened the door for us. We have reached the real entrance, but we haven't planned to go in yet."

"What's the real entrance?" Yarrow asked, "I can't see Thakro, can you see it?"

Eros turned around: "I can't see it either, he must have gone to the front—by the way, why don't you stay in the imperial capital and sing against the imperial daughter, what are you doing in the place where you provoke the dead?"

Yarrow glared at Eros unhappily, who did she work so hard for, so he said angrily: "Don't forget, you are the fake one, you have neither royal blood nor royal blood. What kind of noble status, what do you use to compete with the imperial daughter?"

"Hmph, is the blood of the royal family very noble? How much is it per catty?" Eros said disdainfully, "Tell me quickly, why are you here?"

"Do you know that Klander, the Chief Cabinet of District [-], supports Her Royal Highness?" Yarrow had no choice but to say, telling Eros what happened and his own inferences, and then said, "Although I think your IQ can only be considered average, but I believe you can see that something is wrong? I think Klander must have hidden something important in his castle. I don't believe that things like Land of the Dead will suddenly Such a coincidence that it appeared on the outskirts of the imperial capital."

"I don't believe it either," Eros said firmly. He also felt that Yarrow's deduction was a bit reliable, but according to his own deduction, it is possible that Klander hid the funds for the coup in the castle!As the saying goes, money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible.For something as big as a coup, it must be very, very unreasonable to have no money to manage it. Since he is eager to get back his castle, there must be a lot of money hidden there.

The so-called capture the thief first capture the king!Take their huge sum of money and see how they continue the coup d'etat!

But I can't tell Yarrow about this matter for the time being. In case she also thinks it makes sense, it would be too uneconomical to take this huge sum of money first and use it for military pay or something after she arrives at the castle.

So, Eros looked at Yarrow, and said with a rare seriousness: "I think what you said makes sense. There must be something wrong in that castle. We must find it, search the bottom of the sky, and find out that huge... er , find out the problem, end their coup, and exile them to the sea of ​​nothingness!"

The Sea of ​​Nothingness is actually the legendary river used to separate the living from the dead, that is, the Sea of ​​the Underworld. Eros uses this place as a metaphor, just to correspond to the "Tower of Nothingness" where the princess was exiled before.

Ya Luo glared at him: "You just calm down, return the sea of ​​nothingness, she is the princess, you can't kill her directly, if you want to do this, don't blame me for turning your face!"

"I'm just making an analogy," Eros said dissatisfiedly, "She has tried to kill me several times." For example, on their way to the third district, the summoner they met must have been sent by the princess, Fortunately, his power was unsealed at that time, otherwise he would be the one who went to the sea of ​​nothingness.

The two talked and walked, each making their own calculations, and when they made up their minds, they realized that they had come to a place where there would be no castle at all.

"Where is this place..." Eros stood in front of a black river in a daze, and turned to ask Yarrow.

Yarrow was also dumbfounded, but soon she began to shirk responsibility: "How would I know, I followed you! Didn't you claim to have been everywhere?"

"I've never been to the Land of the Dead... By the way, is there a river near Kland Castle in the outskirts of our imperial capital?"

"...a river of this size is a bit far from the imperial capital, and is always behind the Black Forest," Yaronan said, "and... it should be in the opposite direction from where we are."

"So... where did we go?"

×××

About half a month?But why, this half month seems to be as long as a whole lifetime?Little El sat at the gate of the castle, looking at the gate with his eyes, knowing that no one would come, but he just wanted to look at it like this.

The dense fog would change into various postures, as if tempting him to leave the castle. Once he heard the barking of his puppy, which barked urgently, as if calling him.He also heard the voices of his dead parents, and even though he was a baby when they died, he thought they were their voices, calling his name and asking him to come and join them.

But he still sat there, he didn't know if it was true or not, he only knew that he couldn't get out of the castle.

At this time, a black shadow appeared in the fog.

Little El rubbed his eyes and stood up in panic. He thought it was his hallucination, but he prayed in his heart that it must not be an illusion. Finally, a man stood in front of him.

The man had long black hair and eyes of the same color. His skin looked a little pale in the mist. His figure was slender and handsome. Just standing there was like a finely carved work of art.The black cloak fell from his shoulders and surrounded him, the folds of which were as graceful as calculated.

He walked into the castle without hindrance, looking at little Arrow with black eyes.

Those black eyes were so dark and silent, little Arlo felt his heart was being pulled for a moment, and even breathing seemed to be difficult.

"Is this... is the castle of the Duke of Klander?" The man asked softly, his voice was beautiful, with a subtle softness and low tone, his arrival seemed so normal and natural, as if he was visiting someone friend.

"Yes, yes!" Little El didn't know whether it was excitement or something else, he asked him immediately: "Excuse me, are you...?"

"I'm Duke Thacklow of the Layton family," the other party said softly, "Is Clander at home?"

"The duke hasn't come back yet..." Little El answered him, fearing that he would turn around and leave the next second because Clander wasn't here, and quickly said, "Uh, do you want to talk to our person in charge?"

"Trouble if you can," the man said softly.