Chapter 52: Breaking into the Holy Mountain (1)
Legend has it that a thousand years ago, in the south, far south, there was a jungle-covered continent. It was the origin of the elves and the hometown of alien insects. The humid sea breeze surrounded this land blessed by the gods of nature all day long, making it prosperous, forever rich, and never fall into any disaster.
However, it will never be forever. The gods that once protected have left this world. In the huge natural disaster that no one knows a thousand years ago, this once abundant land sank into the boundless distant sea accompanied by the wailings of countless residents.
And at the end of the distant sea, a corner of the continent once sank.
The peak of a mountain breaks through the obstruction of the sea and appears in the sun. This is a former high mountain, and its name is the sacred endorsement. Its peak was accompanied by the mist and wind above the clouds. Birds and dragons have never visited it, but now it is just a lone protruding sea surface and has become the destination of the seabirds passing by.
But a breath came from afar, and the chirping sea birds flew up and left the habitat with a roar.
In the distance, a huge black figure waved its wings and passed through the endless sea at a rapid speed beyond the sound. In the tide caused by the violent wind, it finally came to the top of the raised peak.
This is a giant dragon full of black. Its dragon pupils are dark gray like iron stone. The scales on its body are smooth and hard, which can maximize the resistance to air and water flow.
"Mandagar, the elders' message!"
After arriving at its destination, without any hesitation, it opened its huge mouth and let out a deafening roar. The dragon language with a strange accent stimulated the magic around it, instantly causing a strong wind to make: "Open your portal, don't pretend to be unheard!"
The violent sound waves stirred the atmosphere and even came into the sea water, causing the sea level within a radius of dozens of meters to be concave. The existence called Mandagar by this black dragon did hear the black dragon's voice, so a cold dragon voice appeared above the mountain: "Amori, shut up, I have told you many times. If you want to get the courtesy of other dragons, you must learn to be quiet."
Although he made a harsh remark, Mandagar also knew that the Elder behind Amorli was an existence that it could not refuse, so with a wave of magic power, a huge hole appeared at the top of the mountain, a deep tunnel appeared in front of the black dragon, and a cold voice immediately came out: "Come in, I repeat, if you shout loudly, I promise you are my next experimental material, no one can stop it."
"snort."
It is obvious that the black dragon named Amoris was also very afraid of Mandagar. Faced with such a threat, it simply closed its mouth and quietly entered the hole.
After the black dragon entered, the huge hole that was enough to make the dragon enter and exit slowly closed, and all the seagulls that had scattered before flew back to this habitat.
But surprisingly, the eyes of these seagulls are different from ordinary seagulls. They are shining with strange dark red light deep in the white whites of their white eyes.
The black dragon flew along the deep cave towards the inside of the mountain. This was obviously a corridor dug with magic. Flying along the corridor to the bottom, there was a huge cave. After passing through a magic barrier, Amory knew that he had arrived at Mandagar's nest.
There are many bottles and jars all around the cave, which are filled with the internal organs of some living things and some strange organs. If Joshua came here, he would definitely find that one of these internal organs is very familiar with. The Haiyuan derivatives from the Haiyuan Demon Dragon have dozens of bottles here, and there are traces of transformation on them.
But the four walls of the cave were a continuous gray crystal object. When the black dragon looked at it, he thought it was just an ordinary gray crystal. It was just about to mock the simplicity of the other party's nest, but suddenly stopped his mouth and looked shocked.
"How about it? My living crystals, these little guys make a living by rocks, but it doesn't matter if you eat some flesh and blood occasionally. Do you want to try feeding them?"
A lukewarm greeting sounded, and Amorel turned his head and saw the goal of his own line.
This is an extremely old and weird dragon. It is said that it is because its scales are gray and its muscles are loose. There is even a crack at the end of the dragon horn. It is said that it is because its body is half a gray-black normal dragon body, and half is replaced by the gray crystals on the wall.
These crystal fragments slowly squirmed, as dense as a cluster of ants, and could not see the specific appearance and shape. In the depths of this crystal, a diamond-shaped core flowed with extremely dim magical light. This dimness is not decay, but rather like a synonym for a certain concept, decay, aging, and death, as if the underworld is reappearing in this crystal body.
"No. I remember my former 'teacher', the title of [Dead Dragon Mandagar], very clearly. I won't even touch your stuff."
He replied with a sneer, the strong black dragon was not afraid of the strange scene. He lived in the far sea abyss for many years and could also use negative energy. Although the scene in front of him surprised it, he could not make Amorel afraid, let alone that he often saw similar things before. Thinking of this, Amorel shook his head and said coldly: "Let's not talk nonsense. The problems in the Abyss of Anos have been discovered by humans, and you must deal with them."
After saying that, the black dragon looked at the other party's crystal body and couldn't help but snorted again: "Many dragons say you are crazy. I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that the guy who can reorganize his body with the living crystal transformed from the abyss crystal is no longer a madman."
"Amori, you have never experienced death, so don't talk big."
Mandagar, who had a strange temper, was unexpectedly not angry about this sentence. He stared at the strong black dragon with the only gray eyes on his aging body, and said in a deep voice: "Abyss of Anos? The gap in the abyss is indeed there, but haven't those humans discovered it long ago? Why should the elders be so surprised?"
"But humans have never tried to enter the central vortex, hasn't they?"
After asking back, the Black Dragon was a little impatient: "Listen, Mandagar, you are the wise man in the dragon clan. You know that the Abyss of Anos is a retreat for our clan. If the Crazy Dragon did not capture the Holy Mountain and the offensive on the mainland failed, then the Metal Dragon and the Human Clan will launch the most thorough counterattack against us. At this time, we can only retreat to the abyss, and the Abyss of Anos is the nearest and safest way out."
Speaking of this, Amory stared coldly at the half-crystal half-dragon in front of him, which slightly revealed his fangs: "The reason why you can not join our army besieging the Holy Mountain is because you promised to guard the Abyss of Anos, but now the human ark is almost approaching the central vortex, but you are still companioning with your living crystal and the laboratory in your nest. If you continue to work so passively, will the elder sit back and ignore it!"
After these ultimatum words, the nest fell into silence, leaving only the rustling sound of living crystal moving around the surrounding walls, while the old half-crystal dragon laughed for some reason, breaking the embarrassing silence that made the dragon feel.
"I'm almost successful, Amorite."
Its voice was calm without any emotion, but that made Amorli feel something was wrong. Mandagar used his old and wrinkled dragon face to reveal a 'smile' between a giant dragon: "You only saw me replacing my body with the living crystal of the abyss, intending to prolong my life, but didn't notice the essential changes in my life."
"Success? What disgusting experiment did you do?"
After hearing this, the black dragon familiar with it immediately changed his face. It was alert and ready to break the mountain to evacuate. At the same time, it discovered that a trace of a disgusting but familiar breath came from the body of the dragon that was about to die in front of it.
"The Evil God of Famine?! You are really crazy!"
Opening his dragon's eyes widened, his body was erected, and looking at the strange living crystals around him, Amory suddenly thought of something, and it shouted in shock: "You actually made a deal with the evil god without hiding the Presbyterian Church, and turned it into its relative [Yordamas]! Traitor!"
"Aren't the Elders also making a deal with the evil god of plague and the abyss? Otherwise, those crazy dragons and demon blood dragons appeared out of thin air? Everyone got what they wanted, and no one could say who was a traitor."
Haha, the old dragon stood upright, and the squirming crystal fragments all over his body suddenly condensed into one, becoming a black dragon body with dark light, moving the new body, Mandagar's eyes revealed not pride, but calmness: "My former apprentice, since you escaped from my laboratory fifty years ago, you have told you that you have never experienced death, so you don't know anything, the pain caused by the shrinking body caused by the secret wound, the despair caused by the aging and decayed body, the young you don't understand anything."
"I did not betray the Five Colored Dragon. It was the Elders who had been giving me resources to keep me alive, and until now... I, Mandagar, are called the Dead Dragon, but I will never forget this kindness. But Amori, I will never forgive you for defecting and damaging my twenty-seven precious test materials."
Didn't hear the end, the black dragon didn't say a word of nonsense, but directly blew terrifying spells and life lights all over his body. It flapped its wings diagonally upwards, and in an instant it penetrated dozens of meters of rock formations, and was about to break through the mountains and come to the sea.
The black dragon is a giant dragon living in swamps and abyss. They are naturally good at surviving in water and negative energy environments. If Amorite comes to the deep sea, even Mandagar will not be able to find it.
But an old voice with a slight disappointment revealed in the calm came behind it.
"It's a real failure, Amori, your new teacher has never taught you dragon language magic well. Facing an extremely spiritual dragon spellcaster who is more powerful than you, do you think you can run away by running alone?"
With this sound, a string of gray squirming crystal fragments flew out from below and turned into a tentacle, tightly wrapping around the black dragon's hind claws. The huge force completely overshadowed the dragon clan's strong physique, and in an instant, pulled Amori back to the nest covered by living crystals.
Lying on the ground, his body, his wings and limbs, and even his mouth were covered with living crystals, a hint of panic appeared in the eyes of the black dragon, but his eyes quickly returned to Qingming, and he uttered a few scattered words from his teeth: "If I hadn't run away, I would have died in your experiment. You, the person who tried to treat me as a test subject, is not worthy of being called a teacher!"
Faced with the end of his impending death, the arrogant black dragon was not afraid at all. It angrily scolded: "And you ignore the orders of the Presbyterian Church like this, which is a betrayal of the Dragon Clan!"
Looking at the dark gray eyes of the Black Dragon, Mandagar was silent for a while, and then said in a tone that was so calm that it was creepy that it said: "Maybe, the Presbyterian Church cannot let me return to my youth, so I will do it myself. Some experiments are necessary, but don't worry, there are many of my testimonies in the Abyss of Anos. Before reaching the Great Vortex, those humans will get a surprise."
Speaking of this, it showed an old and cruel sneer: "And now, I will use your flesh and blood to return to my youth. Before I returned to my youth, I was wondering if I wanted to catch a giant island whale, but I didn't expect you, a traitor, to come to my door."
With the finger of the claws, a dark gray spell energy flashed by, and the young black dragon immediately let out a huge scream. The countless gray living crystals that originally bound it began to erode its body and proliferate themselves. While Amori was eroded, the other half of Mandagar's old body began to slowly transform into a dark black crystal texture.
Listening to the screams of his former apprentice, the old dragon said to himself indifferently: "After completing the 'New Life Death', I will go to the Abyss of Anos and kill all those unknown humans. Fellowship is grudge, and I will not forget that I am a giant dragon."
When he heard this, the black dragon, whose eyes were full of resentment and unwillingness, was stunned for a moment, and then turned into pure hatred: "Mandagar, you collude with the evil god, change your life, and kill your fellow tribes, and you are destined to sink to the bottom of the void."
Before he finished speaking, the erosion of the living crystal had reached the heart and brain of the black dragon. With a violent twitching, Amory could no longer say a word, but the old dragon knew what the black dragon had not finished saying.
‘But even if you want to die, you must die before protecting the Abyss of Anos.’
The nest fell into silence again, and after a long time, the living crystal completely eroded. The former black dragon did not even have a complete corpse left, and was completely transformed, and the old dragon's body was transformed to four-fifths.
Looking at the stone land where Amorite had once lying, it said in a disdainful voice: "Of course."
"I am the dead dragon Mandagar, the nightmare of mankind in the far south two hundred years ago, and the mortal enemy of all living beings."
"Since I have returned to my youth, I will definitely do what I promised, whether it is to protect the Five Colored Dragon or kill you, the traitor!"
After saying that, the old dragon turned his head. Its eyes seemed to be able to pass through the stone walls and space. Seeing the towering holy mountain and the deep abyss of Anos in the distance, Mandagar's eyes flashed with a light of thought. It whispered to himself: "One-fifth is still there, and it will be completed soon."
A sword light suddenly flashed in his mind that knocked it from its glory to the bottom of the abyss. It was subconsciously shocked, and then gritted its teeth and said, "Wait, human!"
Just in the direction of the holy mountain it is watching from a distance.
High above the sea, a huge floating warship was flying towards the holy mountain of the distant sea at a rapid speed.
And a man, a warrior holding a giant sword and a giant axe, stood at the front of the floating warship with his own war horse, sneering at the roadblock in front of him.
It was a group of huge creatures with a huge size calculated in tens of meters. They were covered with iron-hardened scales, and their eyes revealed an irrational madness.
Between the battleships and the holy mountain, there are clusters of flying dragons that cover the sky. They waved their huge wings and surrounded the holy mountain in the distant sea all day long, blocking the journey of most ships. After noticing this huge floating battleship, countless flying dragons roared and flew in that direction, trying to knock this strange and dangerous existence down.
At this moment, a translucent magic screen appeared in front of the warrior, warning something with bold words, but the man looked down on it.
"There are too many enemies, so you need to retreat for the time being?"
Shaking his head disdainfully, Joshua held the divine machine in his hand tightly. He looked at the crazy dragon in the sky and showed a cold and heroic smile: "I'm going against it."
Chapter completed!