Wasteland Echoer

"Dragon? This is the voice of a dragon, the voice of the legendary dragon that ruled the world in the First Age!" "Bloodwind" said in surprise.

He looked in the direction of the sound with a slight panic in his eyes, and with his right hand removed the "Sword of Ashes" from Melinal's neck, and smashed it heavily to the ground.

Inadvertently, a crack was made on a rare clean tile that was only stained with fine dust.

"Yes, it's a dragon. The Socra Committee sent three dragon eggs, perhaps the 'seeds' left by a female dragon that was once imprisoned and is now dead. Some time ago, Dylan poured darkness into the dragon eggs. We used the magic source power to do some finishing work. We were lucky enough and hoped that the goddess would favor us. The dragon was successfully hatched. Unfortunately, the final destination of this dragon was under the dome of the Socra Committee. It has to fulfill a greater mission than we can fathom." Melinal said with a proud smile.

Now the situation has completely reversed. She has the advantage, and the headache has become "Blood Wind".

It really confirms the ancient proverb of the Flame Empire: offense and defense will change the objects they support in an instant. Only by upholding justice and bravery and defeating evil and cowardice can we freely control the victory of the battle.

"You are playing with fire, Melinare. You, including you, hope that the church never told our other two families about this. We never knew that you raised a... dragon, so evil, violent and dangerous. You cannot control the creatures. Indeed, we are aware of and will not prevent your contact with the Socratic Council, but only if they betray the empire and cannot harm us."

"Xue Feng" advised anxiously, the pride, ridicule and overriding arrogance completely gone from his face.

Instead, there was fear, the fear that huge, strong, mysterious, twisted, and even ghostly legendary creatures brought into his soul.

"Meet Thayer, it is very cute and will not harm others. Indeed, any books on religion, occultism, biology and history will always describe dragons as a symbol of evil. But in fact, They are more upright than ugly humans. You should have heard the story about the dragon in the Fire Empire in the middle of the Third Era." Melinaer pointedly said, tilting her head to look In the shadow of the corner.

"Clete, if I remember correctly, the half-dragon's name is this. I don't admit that he is a dragon. As we all know, dragons are usually unwilling to show themselves in human form. They will think that it is lowering their status. The manifestation of being in a humble company. Especially half-dragons, monsters like humans and dragons, are even more despised by people." "Xuefeng" rubbed his forehead that felt inexplicable tingling with his free left hand, and used his memory to Answered based on the knowledge he had read.

"Yes, it is Clete's story. He is indeed a half-dragon, but according to historical data from the east, at least when the little emperor of the Fire Empire called the 'Mourner' summoned the dragons, he was called Half a century after the 'Dragon Celebration' ceremony, humans have shown unprecedented tolerance towards dragons, especially half-dragon creatures."

"From a psychological point of view, human beings will not hate a creature that they have never seen before, but is called evil, cruel and worthy of elimination every day. Everyone will have rebellious emotions in their hearts, so in that era, Clete successfully escaped from the environment in which the dragons were imprisoned. With the help of 'Long Qing', he completely awakened, awakened some of the dragons' power, and escaped from the Fire Empire. After a long and lonely flight, he was treated in the Aventrai Empire. 'Protect'."

As he spoke, the clear and childish "dragon roar" came out again. This time it was a little more timid and well-behaved than before. "Xue Feng" knew that the "dragon" that briefly hid in the darkness must have brought Meili to her. Na'er regarded her as a mother-like figure and could not take action directly.

The power of the dragons cannot be measured by the "order" commonly used in the field of magic. They are born as "Hercules", "Kings of Wisdom", and even excellent "manipulators of magic power".

They can masterfully manipulate the power of fire, bathe in lava, and even sneeze slightly, with enough power to destroy a huge howitzer in the Empire, and even tanks and combat aircraft.

That kind of power is difficult to understand, but when you truly understand it, you will definitely be on the eve of your body falling apart, or turning into a pool of lifeless charcoal.

Therefore, while "Blood Wind" ensures that the magic source power surges towards the "Sword of Ashes", it intends to understand as much as possible the motivations of the Church of Hope, at least the dragon's current combat capability.

"Clete..." "Bloodwind" followed Melinaer's story and said:

"I remember that there were sporadic stories about him in the history book, "The Autumn of Aventray". He worked for Aventray for more than a year, mainly cooperating with the then prime minister of the empire, Kyle. There was also the then Imperial Empress Lelita I, who jointly developed the early Fire of Punishment and studied how to combine humans and dragons. Before that, Kyle successfully assassinated the proud Leli who was once known as the 'Ice Bear' Kes II. It is said that it was precisely because the power of the dragon clan limited the magic power of the 'Ice Bear' that he was penetrated by a long sword used in court etiquette through his weak throat."

"Your history is not bad, but do you know what happened later?" Melinaer showed a smile that said "I must know better than you", took two steps back, and met the "grey" and "Jin", the two "bloody winds" with an aura no less than "sorrow", distanced themselves and continued:

"You must have no way of knowing, because this is unofficial history."

"Sometimes unofficial history is the truth, just like the book "Amazing! Ivan XXV did this and ruined the empire!" Although it is exaggerated, even if it is a headline, it does not prevent the book from spreading. It’s true.” “Blood Wind” echoed.

"Yes, it seems that we are close friends on this matter." Melinaer nodded and said:

"Actually, Clete belonged to the Flame Empire. The 'Luo Family', which was in charge of the empire at that time and supported the 'Abandoned' Emperor to come to power, sent 'Luo Wu' and 'Yan Gu' disguised as trade ministers to go north to meet with Kyle and Lei Rita negotiating a deal for the Ureum ore order.”

"This order was worth a lot of money back then. The Fire Empire obtained the Empire's silver equivalent to one month's fiscal revenue. The Aventrai Empire took advantage of this to launch the 'Desperate Raid' campaign, using the ore to develop the early 'God of Punishment' Fire bombarded Nabsk, causing more than half a million Krusted Empire troops to die in the sea of ​​​​fire. If the Krusted Empire was not in an absolutely powerful period, [Order] Ivan XXII had absolutely powerful If the torrent of steel wipes out the Evertele Icefield in one fell swoop, I'm afraid the world will move in another direction."

"It's a bit far-fetched. Let's go back to the half-dragon Clete. After his memory was awakened by Trade Minister Luo Wu and Yan Gu, he actually raided Kyle's underground secret base for studying mysticism. They even used some kind of Ritual, or sacrifice summoned the Lord of the Night's true form to come."

"Subsequently, Kyle, who fell into a nightmare, had his heart removed by the Lord of Darkness, ending the nightmare of the 'Eternal One'. In order to regain Clete from the Lord of Darkness and return him to his hometown of the Fire Empire, this fellow Luo Wu also sacrificed himself for the 'Immortal', in exchange for the complete awakening of the power of the Clayite Dragon Clan."

"The paradox is that Clete could have used the powerful dragon power and rich magic power to fight for the Flame Empire. No matter what happened, he could still get some benefits as much as possible and get the guidance of the Creator to become a demigod or even a sequential god. .”

"But that unofficial history narrative ended abruptly here. A few years ago, I read a lot of history books about the Fire Empire, and even taught myself some obscure words called the 'Fire Empire Mandarin'. I couldn't find any description about Clete in the difficult-to-understand square hieroglyphs. Maybe he returned to his oriental name after entering the Empire of Fire. Maybe he fell into a deep sleep, waiting for someone guided by fate to wake him up. Find the end, I only got some ambiguous text, which generally means that Clete may be related to the Chooser. Therefore, in the past two years, we have only begun to focus on obtaining and interpreting the fragmentary pages of the Chooser's diary. Oh, by the way... …”

Melinaer turned around, looked at a dark area in the shadow corner that almost absorbed all the surrounding light, and called out softly:

"Seye, little one, come here. Let your... uh, 'Bloodwind' brother take a good look at you. He really wants to 'get to know' you!"

"Woo - Wu - Chirp - Chirp -" The "dragon" in the shadow made a cheerful chirp that looked like a bird, but also resembled a high-pitched ship whistle.

For a time, "Xue Feng" had a strong feeling of missing his distant hometown.

"Is this...a dragon?" "Bloodwind" looked at it crawling out of the dark shadow with awe, fear, and worship of power like an observing god, exuding a strong feeling of "sadness" The breath of Thayer.

A dragon indeed.

This was the first thought that "Blood Wind" had after seeing Thayer's body.

With a length of more than three meters, it is not very large, and it is even slightly weaker than many alien Heartless people.

But Seye's round and plump obsidian skin, the black gem-like scales covering it, the pure red wings with membranes that resemble bats, and a pair of "antlers" hanging like a lizard's head, sprouted What comes out is the ancient mysterious power.

Looking at the very "cute" "Xue Feng" who walked slowly to Melina's side, made a childish chirping sound, put his head into Melina's arms, and snuggled next to her, I suddenly felt that I Being enveloped in a huge bright red light, it was falling into the endless abyss.

He seemed to be riding a runaway train, speeding through the desert wilderness covered with yellow sand. Amid the hysterical roars of the people around him, he was running towards a dark, bottomless cliff.

He could even faintly feel the green, sticky blood splashing around him, mixed with the rancid smell, which was eating away at his taste buds.

Shaking his head vigorously, holding the "Sword of Ashes" tightly in his right hand, and surging the demonic power belonging to the violent wind in his body as much as possible, "Blood Wind" woke up from the nightmare hallucination just now.

No longer choosing to hesitate, he muttered a spell calling for the power of "ash" and "ember". He raised the sword as hot as lava with both hands, reflecting the bright light of the sun and the surrounding fireflies flying like fireflies. The silver-white electric current that jumped and surrounded the sword body rushed forward towards the direction of "Dragon" and Melinaer, slashing away like a knight fighting a windmill.