Lord Highlander

The space in front of her eyes was distorted again, and the woman turned into a huge red dragon phantom. She walked slowly back to the stone wall, and finally turned back into the miniature relief of war on the stone wall.

Suldak held an exquisite keel collar in his hand, and the scaly keels in front of the collar looked like a piece of armor specially used to protect the Adam's apple.

There was a big hole in the back of the dragon egg in front of it, as if life once broke out of the shell. Now the eggshell was covered with blood from Suldak's wrist, which made the runes inside the eggshell stand out.

Andrew and Gulitum stood beside Suldak with some concern, and the Nanai native warrior stared at Suldak and asked:

"Captain, are you alright?"

Suldak glanced at the keel necklace in his hand, and said:

"I'm okay!"

He moved his wrist and cast the holy light spell on himself, and most of the wound on his wrist healed immediately.

Andrew hurriedly came over, took out a tourniquet bandage to wrap Surdak's wound, and said while bandaging:

"Gulitum and I saw you cutting your wrist with a dagger, and thought you had entered a certain illusion, or were charmed by some weird magic. We were trying to wake you up, but you didn't respond."

Suldak asked Andrew: "Did you see a phantom of a red dragon just now... and a woman?"

Andrew shook his head and said, "No, we only saw you standing in front of the dragon egg, not moving at all, and you cut your wrists open after a while, and Gullitum and I wanted to stop it already It's too late, the blood has already flowed on the dragon egg!"

"No? Am I the only one who saw the phantom of the red dragon?" Suldak asked the ogre beside him.

The ogre also shook his head, indicating that he didn't see anything, and then said with some regret: "Captain, this dragon egg is actually broken, and it seems that it can't hatch a baby dragon. I heard from the elders in the tribe that, Dragon eggs are the tastiest thing in the world."

"I just saw a woman who turned into a red dragon and asked me to sprinkle blood on the dragon's eggshell. She told me that by completing this contract, I could gain the friendship of a young red dragon. She also said that the sword of Quel Sela was old. It was so unusable, she gave me this necklace and asked me to teach her child Dragon Language, and then disappeared."

Suldak looked at his wrist wrapped in a hemostatic bandage, feeling as though his body had undergone some changes, he said to Andrew.

Andrew reached out to touch the Quelcella stuck on the red crystal, and Suldak quickly shouted: "Don't touch it, Andrew!"

Andrew withdrew his hand and looked at Suldak in surprise, with question marks in his eyes.

"It's dangerous, that red dragon told me, maybe it's right..." Suldak rubbed his forehead with his fingers and explained.

"Anyway, these things belong to you, and you have the final say!" said the Nanai native warrior, shrugging his shoulders.

Standing in front of the dragon egg, Suldak patted the shoulder of the native warrior, and said seriously: "I know that the explanation seems a bit far-fetched, but I would rather believe it!"

The dragon eggshell in front of him seemed to be rejuvenated, and Suldak had some new feelings on the spiritual level, as if there was another fetter in the dark. He could feel its existence, but he was not sure about it. where.

He closed his eyes, and he seemed to be able to see a new mountain, river, and jungle in the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness.

The perspective is very unique, like a bald eagle soaring in the sky, passing quickly through this mountain forest, and then the spiritual connection was suddenly broken, and Suldak returned to the endless void in the sea of ​​spiritual consciousness In the middle, there is a bright starry sky above the head, and countless powers of holy light are slowly precipitated from the sky full of stars.

There is darkness under the feet, and there seems to be a huge dark purple light ball directly under the feet, which is constantly devouring all the matter in the surrounding darkness and is constantly growing.

Suldak opened his eyes again, and he began to seriously look at the eggshell in front of him. Through the bloody runes, the bottom of the eggshell was actually covered with dozens of magic crystals. He reached out and took one of the topmost A magic crystal, this is a magic crystal that can store images and sounds.

Injecting a trace of sacred breath into the magic crystal, the magic crystal immediately began to flow with magic power, a beam of light emitted from the magic crystal, and a light and shadow appeared in the sky above the crystal, it was still the woman in the red dress, Her phantom floated above the magic crystal, the image looked a bit illusory, with a smile on her face, standing in front of Suldak with her arms folded, the phantom made a voice:

'I am very glad that you are willing to learn these dragon runes. Each rune is a key to unlock the shackles. Only by studying the dragon language deeply can you understand the dragon language curse more deeply and try to unlock it. The blood curse on you. '

'Oh, by the way, have you discovered that some dragon-like characteristics have grown somewhere on your body, this is the blood contract I signed with you, after you get my wealth and my body, Your destiny already has some kind of close connection with me, so you will also be cursed by the laws of the world, usually we call it the dragon's blood curse. '

'Only when you continue to learn and understand these dragon languages, can you find some ways to break the dragon's blood curse. '

'Don't worry, young knight, study hard. '

'Before you learn the secrets of the dragon family, you must make sure that you are in this treasure house. Once you take these magic crystals out of this treasure house, otherwise I will leave a few dragon breaths and clean everything in this secret room instantly. including you! '

Suldak quickly withdrew the power of the holy light, the magic crystal in his hand immediately dimmed, and the woman in red floating in the sky immediately dissipated.

He began to look for abnormalities in his body, and there was a slight tingling and itching on the forearm of his right arm. He immediately unfastened the buckle of the wristband, took off the black iron wristband, and rolled up his sleeves again. A red scale suddenly grew on the inside of the wrist. This red scale was only as big as a thumbnail. When Suldak touched it, the scale was full of horny texture.

He scratched it with a skinning knife, and it felt harder than a fingernail. He inserted the tip of the knife into the gap between the scale and the skin, trying to use the skinning knife to peel off the scale from his arm. After the knife cut off the bloody scale, before Suldak could heave a sigh of relief, a brand new scale re-grew at the original position at a speed visible to the naked eye. A scale comes.

Suldak's face immediately became a little ugly. It seemed that this was the 'Dragon's Blood Curse' that the woman in red was talking about.

Suldak frowned. He didn't even know where the young dragon who became Iser by Master Johannes was, and it was really troublesome for him to learn the dragon language in this secret room.

Looking at the war relief on the stone wall again, Suldak stepped down from the stone platform.

At this time, Samira was sitting on a large pile of gold coins, emptying the purse she was carrying, and putting a large amount of gold coins into her backpack.

Suldak said to Andrew and Gulitum: "Other things are still stored here for the time being. We can take away some gold coins and crystals. These sulfur should not be very valuable. The red crystals are not easy to get rid of. It is best to take more gold coins. .”

Andrew glanced back at the piece of red crystal on the stone platform, licked his lips and asked, "Captain, aren't you going to take that Quelcella away?"

Suldak patted his forehead and said, "I almost forgot if you didn't tell me. I should take this time bomb out and throw it away at random. Maybe it's safer to put it here. Don't touch it casually. It is no longer a sword, it is now a time bomb, it may explode with a 'boom' at any time, and then form a space crack here, it may destroy this place at any time..."

After speaking, he walked towards the giant red crystal on the stone platform.

Andrew opened his mouth and looked at Suldak in a daze.

"Captain, do we want to throw away this legendary sword casually? Otherwise, we will send it to Bena City and sell it at the auction house anonymously!"

At this time, Samira had already picked up the heavy backpack and asked Suldak.

It seemed that she had overheard the conversation between Suldak and Andrew, but she was too busy loading gold coins into the backpack just now, so she didn't have time to intervene.

Andrew said quickly: "I think it still exists here! Isn't it always here?"

Hearing what Andrew said, Suldak felt that he really over-interpreted those words. The red dragon clearly said that if he had the destructive power contained in the sword of Quelcella, he could still take it. Picked up the sword of Quel Sela.

"Then stay here for now!" Suldak then made a decision.

Then Suldak suddenly realized that he really couldn't take anything with him except for some gold coins in the treasury.

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The security team walked out of the secret room of the Red Dragon Treasure. Suldak took down the crystal key, and the door of the secret room was closed again.

Unexpectedly, the so-called treasure of the red dragon was actually hidden in the pustule mountain, and the "Sword of Quel Sela", which has been widely circulated among the people of Bena, was also hidden here. Suldak looked at it seriously. Glancing at the door of the secret room, it took a while before holding the torch of the holy light and leading the security team back along the original path through the stone crevice they had drilled in.

Inside the original lava cave, clusters of red crystals are still growing, reflecting the entire lava cave into dark red.

Suldak feels that these red crystals are not very easy to exchange for money, and the amount of red crystals should be controlled. Otherwise, once a large number of red crystals flood into the market, a large number of red crystals will be unsalable in the market, and it will inevitably become the price of cabbage. , it is better to stay in the mine and let it grow slowly.

The team returned to the entrance of the lava mine, and a group of kobold slaves had already cleaned out a small piece of the red crystal at the entrance of the cave.

Taking the group of kobolds away from the lava mine, Suldak asked the kobold slaves to bring some volcanic rocks to re-disguise the entrance of the cave.

The kobold slaves redistributed to both sides of the lava river and continued to mine the sulfur mines on both sides of the river.

The ogre was a little disappointed by not being able to hunt the salamander this time, especially running away with such a large salamander with red crystal spots on its skin, which made Gullitem even more unacceptable. Humans and demons thought that this lava mine should be a lizard's lair, but after exploring it, it turned out to be a dragon's lair, which was a bit different from what they imagined.

After dinner, Gulitum told Suldak that he wanted to stay in the lava cave, and if the salamander dared to come out of the rock crack again, he would beat it to death with a stick.

Suldak thought about it seriously, and felt that someone was needed to stay here to guard the lava mine. Although the ogre was not the best candidate, there was no one else available at the moment. Andrew and Samira could not be tied together. Now, the two of them have to maintain the law and order of the entire barren land.

As for himself, he will stay in Pubbag Mountain to learn Dragon Language for a period of time in the future, and he can't go anywhere.

Suldak stuffed the last piece of baked wheat cake into his mouth, drank the last mouthful of broth, and said to Luke:

"Luke, pack up tonight. Go back to Wall Village with Andrew and Samira tomorrow. I will stay in the sulfur mine during this time, and I will take care of it for the time being."

In the fall, Luke married a girl from a neighboring village, and Suldak felt that he should stay in Wall as much as possible during this time.

"Oh, I got it, Duck!" Luke agreed with a "hehe" smile.

Suldak patted this hard-working, careful and steady young man, and said:

"Going back to the village does not mean that you will be completely idle. For the next period of time, you will be responsible for the transportation of sulfur mines from Wall Village to Pustbag Mountain. Don't spread the news about the red crystal mine for now. At present, these red crystals are not yet ready for mining."

"Understood, don't worry, Duck! I won't talk nonsense." Luke said immediately.

"Andrew, Samira, during this period of time, Wall Village will be handed over to you to take care of. Aphrodite will probably not return to Wall Village in the near future. In addition to paying attention to the comeback of those desert bandits, you should also pay attention Search for the remnants of the northern rebels, and pay more attention to the magicians who enter the barren land." Suldak said to Andrew and Samira on the side.

"Okay, if desert bandits sneak in again, I'll chase them into the desert and destroy the oases they depend on for survival..." Andrew said angrily.

"If anyone asks me, just say I went to Bena City!" Suldak added.

...

In the stone room of the Red Dragon Treasure, the relief on the stone wall twisted into a huge vortex again.

A young red dragon stuck its head in. It looked around vigilantly for a few times, then retracted its head with a puzzled expression. Halfway through, it saw that a pile of gold coins seemed to be missing, and immediately widened its eyes. Eyes full of anger, he stretched his head over and sniffed for a long time.

It let out a deep roar, and the entire cave began to tremble violently.

Then it noticed the eggshell that was about to turn into stone. The bloodlines exuded some kind of contract power from the eggshell, pulling his huge body. Besides being full of vitality, it didn't see any changes.

It stayed in the treasure house here for a while, then retracted its head, and the stone wall engraved with war reliefs seemed to ripple in circles, and as the dragon red retracted its head, it returned to its original shape. the original appearance.

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