Chapter 248 248. The dying dragon egg, the gaze of the ancient dragon
Kloya’s movements were so fast.
After solving the armies of the two dukes, they directly joined forces and followed the arriving Lord Yanshan to the secret realm deep in the south.
The couple has set their minds. Now that the matter has come to this, the price must be paid. Otherwise, who knows whether Croya will take action against them?
It is worth mentioning here that Cloya specially gave Sean a small team to rescue his relatives and friends in his hometown, and prepared a long-distance teleportation magic circle leading to the north.
With such a flamboyant approach, of course he is not afraid that the two dukes will come to cause trouble, or... he is eager for them to come to the northern border to fight with him.
It is really his territory, how to handle it is a matter of his personal preference.
What he cares about now is the secret realm.
Through the quick interrogation of the prisoners and the information provided by Lord Yanshan, the apprentices marched quickly and quickly reached their destination.
In the crater of a seemingly unremarkable extinct volcano deep in the southern border, Nora had transformed back into her dragon form.
Her scales are the kind of crystal-clear and moist red jade, giving people a gentle feeling, without the ferociousness of a dragon at all - before the red jade dragon can master the transformation, its dragon shape is an ordinary red dragon, but after mastering it, it can Transform into true ruby form.
The ruby dragon opened its mouth, but the voice that came out was the soft voice of a young woman: "I will keep the secret realm open for ten hours. After you enter, try to take everything away."
After saying that, she spit out a mouthful of red dragon breath.
The dragon's breath went straight into the depths of the completely silent volcano. Then, the originally gray-black volcanic magma instantly faded from black and turned red and shiny.
It just doesn’t look like magma.
On the contrary, it was like...
"Strawberry jam?"
Lina couldn't help blurting it out, and then she really smelled a sweet fragrance exclusive to jam. Tao, the smell is so strong that it makes people’s stomachs growl.
“These are dragon berry pulp.” Nora didn’t know how she could open her mouth wide and maintain the dragon’s breath while speaking.
As she spit, the ruddy and slightly trembling jelly-like pulp began to flow around, soon submerging the surrounding stone walls, leaving only the stone they were standing on in the fruit. Standing in a sea of red pulp.
"You all should eat as much as possible."
"Dragon berries are special magic plants found only on Dragon Island. It is good for humans to eat more."
Nora again Sound reminder.
At this time, the apprentices were already attracted by the sweet and fragrant pulp, so they were no longer reserved and took out various spoons to eat on the spot.
Even the monsters and monster plants devoured the pulp in their own way.
Until the pulp boils.
A huge portal entirely carved from red jade rises from the pulp.
Both sides of the portal are carved with countless magical words unique to the Dragon Clan. These magical words are filled with special magic power. The words themselves are the embodiment of magic.
Lina immediately took out a magic device capable of recording images without saying a word, and completely photographed all the words on the portal.
Dragon language magic is a very magical type of magic.
Even Croya was not able to obtain the knowledge of dragon language magic - the virtual moon phantom fish dragon in his moon sea was more of an innate magic, and did not have a very special systematic inheritance of dragon language magic.
Although I don’t know what these dragon words mean, I can record them and take them back. If I can get some help from Croya, it will be a great harvest.
After taking pictures of these things, Lina put away the magic weapon with satisfaction and waved her hand: "Nut Team!"
As soon as she gave the order, there was a huge, The nuts, which are four to five meters high and resemble tower shields, slowly move forward, with crystal-like lines flashing on their surfaces.
It is extremely hard to begin with, and coupled with the enchantment of the astral crystal, it is considered one of the best human shields, which is suitable for exploring unknown environments.
The nut team protected everyone in the middle, and then everyone moved slowly into the portal with full vigilance.
After a brief dizziness.
They came to another world.
It was completely different from the wild dragon world they imagined. The world that appeared in front of them was unusually... orderly.
The first thing you see is a flat land.
The rock structure on the ground is a translucent gem color, like a solidified sea, bottomless. Every three meters stands a prismatic blue crystal column about three meters high.
The world is a forest formed by crystal pillars.
The surface of the crystal pillars is engraved with magical lines of unknown effects. Circles of ripples are emitted between the light and dark flashes, which resonate and vibrate between the crystal pillars, making a crisp and sweet sound.
“Ding ding ding~”
It is a melody that makes people feel happy when listening to it, makes people feel particularly cheerful, and makes people want to hum along unconsciously.
There is a huge red dragon eye-like gem hanging in the sky, which replaces the role of the sun and emits light and heat.
It also plunges the whole world into a vibrant red light, which makes people feel the temperature and blood in the light are boiling.
The apprentices saw a lot of strange sights. Although this place was quite special, they came back to their senses in an instant and looked around with caution.
Lord Yanshan knew the most about this place. He was already holding a staff in his hand and said seriously: "Everyone, there are some dragon goblins here. They manage the dragons sleeping in the Crystal Tower Forest. Eggs, we must find them."
"Nora said there won't be much danger here, but you still have to be careful."
After saying that, he glanced at Lina, nodded, and then used flying skills to fly in a certain direction.
Lina knew that he must be looking for the ruby dragon's eggs, but she didn't care, because she knew very well that her lord would definitely have a share in it.
So, she just waved her hand and ordered the apprentices to take the magic plants and magic beasts to search and explore separately, and collect everything they could.
This land looks bare at first glance, and all that can be seen are the standing crystal pillars, but in fact, under the crystal pillars, there are some orchids growing as crystal clear as blood marrow.
They are rooted tenaciously in the almost seamless rocky ground, growing by the magic power emitted by the crystal pillars, but they are not elemental magic plants.
In addition, there are some crystal magic plants spawned by magic power, as well as some ruby-like lizards and elves floating in the crystal pillar forest.
Although they didn't know what it was, they all followed the principle of digging three feet into the ground and took away everything they could.
……
Half an hour later.
Lina and her people finally found the dragon goblin's cabin.
It was a hut built of red spar that looked like a mound of earth. After opening the door and walking in, you could see that it was filled with all kinds of bottles and cans.
A humanoid creature that is half a human tall, with a dragon horn on its head and a crooked back is holding a bottle to mix and pour the liquid inside. The scene looks like it is doing something evil. experiment.
The sudden intrusion of the apprentices obviously woke it up.
Lina did not launch a direct attack, but waved her hand and asked the apprentices to surround the dragon goblin in the small house and watch it quietly.
The goblin did not panic when faced with the sudden intrusion of humans. His hands remained steady, and a low and magnetic voice of a middle-aged man came out of his throat.
"Human, please wait a moment!"
After it finished speaking, it continued to shake the rough beaker in its hand, looking at several red liquids that were completely the same in appearance. Fusion with each other, and then splashed towards the ground -
"Zizzizizi!"
Red smoke suddenly rose, and the dragon goblin's body gradually deformed in the red smoke. distortion.
In the end... he turned into a handsome middle-aged man.
The ends of his hair were already mottled and white, and there were some wrinkles and crow's feet on his face, but the passage of time did not destroy his handsomeness, but instead made him look mellower.
Even his naked body is similar to that of a young man. His chest is broad, his abdominal muscles are well-proportioned, his arms and arms are equally powerful, and his whole person is full of masculine charm.
To put it simply, he is like a young cowherd who tells some carefully crafted adventure stories in some tavern and deceives the admiration, tears and gold coins of the ladies and ladies.
"Wear some clothes."
Lina didn't know whether this was the result of the transformation technique or what, but she immediately threw out a loose robe.
The middle-aged man took it and put it on politely.
Later, he took the initiative to talk about his own affairs: "My companions and I were once dragons on Dragon Island, but we were cursed by Master Asat Hill and brought here to become dragon goblins. .
Our task is to wait until someone can take away the five ruby dragon eggs and twelve ordinary red dragon eggs in the secret realm, and provide them with guidance on dragon language magic and pharmacy. "
He seemed extremely polite, and the words he spoke were the common language of the mainland, but he had an indescribable aristocratic temperament. It is the kind of real temperament that is infiltrated by knowledge, far from those ordinary nobles who wear luxurious clothes but act like beasts.
How should I put it? Anyway, there is a strong sense of violation.
So much so that even Lina didn't know what to say, and in the end she could only ask: "Aren't you worried that we are bad people?"
The man laughed.
“You are so humorous.”
He turned around and packed up the bottles and cans, and said as he was doing so: “The music of the ruby will kill evil beings, but when you come in, Before he died, he had fulfilled our master’s request.”
“Ruby’s music?” Lina was curious.
"Yes, it was arranged by a bard from the astral world to help the master. I will help you dismantle it."
The man quickly used a piece of furoshiki to remove the bottle He packed up all the cans and put them on his back.
"Okay, let's go quickly!"
He was like a child who had been at home for millions of years and was finally able to go out, with excitement shining in his eyes.
Lina was silent for a moment, but decided to believe him, so she followed him to find the other dragon goblins.
The dragon goblins all turned into handsome middle-aged figures, each of them different, it was like a queen choosing a concubine.
The apprentices looked at each other in shock when they saw this. They didn't understand why they were like this, and they didn't dare to ask.
These men were very excited. They gathered together on the spot and took out a small metal hammer to hit the bottom of the crystal column.
It seems that they are dismantling them.
After a while, the crystal column gradually shrank during the beating, and finally turned into a palm-sized crystal product.
They worked non-stop, like industrious ants dismantling crystal pillars. The apprentices followed them to collect magic plants and monsters they could see along the way.
If you look down from the air, it looks like ants are moving, with no grass growing.
After a lot of hard work, I finally found the dragon egg when the portal of the secret realm was about to close, and successfully left the secret realm with several cartloads of harvest.
A period of haggling ensued.
Nora handed two ruby dragon eggs and five red dragon eggs to Lina, and then quickly left with the remaining eggs.
As for those dragon goblins, crystal pillars, and other magical plants and monsters, she didn't want any of them. She only wanted the three ruby dragon eggs.
Although Yanshan wanted to fight for something, looking at his wife's excited look, he finally sighed helplessly.
"I will talk to Croya again after a while."
After saying this, he left with Nora.
Lina didn’t waste any time, and immediately returned to Hanjiao Island with a lot of harvest, asking to see Croya.
Kloya, who had been waiting for the apprentices to bring something back to him, nodded after listening to Lina’s summary of the matter:
“You have worked hard this time, Southern Territory Now that we are there, just leave a few people to open a shop and expand our tentacles there."
After a pause, he continued: "Let Miffy pay attention to the movements of the Dukes. I probably won’t let it go after I slap them in the face.
If they want to fight... it’s up to you to organize the response.”
After handing over this power to Lina casually, Croya waved her hand to indicate that she could leave.
“I understand!”
“Then I’ll leave first.”
Lina, whose face was flushed with excitement, slowly left the mage tower, unable to do so at all I understand that I actually got such a huge power inexplicably.
She was even looking forward to the two dukes coming to attack the north.
......
After sending Lina away, Croya looked at the group of thirty handsome middle-aged men.
Hmm...
The visual effects are really quite explosive.
He just looked at it a few more times and felt that his eyes were going to be dazzled - what exactly is going on? Does the dragon not only like treasures, but also handsome men?
Otherwise, how can we explain that they are all handsome guys and not a single crooked guy?
Cloya doesn’t understand and can’t understand.
He could only put the matter aside for the time being and asked directly: "Do you have anything to tell me?"
There are too many strange things about this matter, even He didn't have a clue for a while. The owner of the Ruby Cave seemed to be looking forward to finding an owner for his descendants?
The dragon goblins looked at each other, and finally one of them took a step forward and said respectfully: "Sir, we will tell you everything, including our knowledge.
But now please look at Looking at the master's eggs, they are about to die! "
" Will the dragon eggs die? "
Croya frowned at this. He glanced at the dragon egg placed aside and activated the astral body engraving technique.
Through this spell, you can easily see the little red dragon curled up inside the dragon egg. It has taken shape, with its small tail surrounding its body, but its breath of life is extremely weak.
This is a very abnormal situation.
Although he has never raised a dragon, he still understands the situation of dragons. Dragon eggs can be said to be one of the most tenacious and durable things.
Even if it is buried deep in the ground for hundreds of years, as long as there is enough magical environment for hatching, dragonets can still hatch out of it.
Not to mention this is a ruby dragon.
The dragon of life that can bring back the dead has no vitality?
Puzzled, he observed the strange dragon eggs again, and found that they were all in the same situation, as if they had been sucked out of life by something.
He immediately became interested and studied the structure of the dragon egg carefully - with the help of the astral body engraving technique, he could easily analyze the structure of the dragon egg and the dragon inside.
The more he looked, the more surprised he became.
The structure of this dragon egg is... quite precise.
Like an egg-shaped precision magic device, the eggshell can spontaneously absorb the magic power around it, and then convert the magic power into the nutritional liquid needed for the development of the dragon inside.
You know, dragons are actually a kind of monster that eats a lot.
After breaking out of its shell, the dragon needs to absorb magic-rich food to ensure its physical development. If it can eat some rare minerals, it can also strengthen itself.
A newborn dragon can eat food several times larger than its own body.
So, where do the nutrients the dragon needs come from when it is inside the eggshell?
Just rely on the liquid inside the egg?
Obviously not.
In the information provided by Orpheus Oak, Croya read the experimental notes conducted by a mage.
The powerful mage used some kind of magic to remove the dragon embryo from the egg while keeping it alive, and put it into a culture tank for cultivation.
After a period of research, it was discovered that even he could not afford the magic power and nutrients required to grow the embryo from an embryo to the stage of a dragon hatching.
In the end we have to give up.
Although his experiment failed, some vague conjectures were recorded in his notes: He suspected that the nutrition of dragon eggs came from eggshells, but he was unable to study eggshells, so he could only record this information and wait for future generations to discover it.
Imagine that an expense that even a tenth-level Archmage cannot bear can be transformed into an eggshell...
If he can research this kind of magic pattern and put it in From the fruits of some plants, could it be possible to create some...juice that feeds the dragon?
The mage's curiosity and desire for research surged up, and he immediately began to focus on observing and studying the magic patterns on the dragon eggs.
As a result, something unexpected happened to him -
In his field of vision, the lines inside the dragon egg seemed to come alive, and he could see a wing as big as The huge red dragon that covered the sky opened its mouth at him.
The terrifying crimson breath squeezed out his mental power in an instant, and at the same time, the Celestial Spirit Body Imprinting Technique gave an explanation:
[You triggered the red dragon variant "Ruby Dragon Egg" ” ancestral defense mechanism, the Taikoo Dragon will cast the Ten Thousand Realms Search Technique at your location. 】
Cloya: "!!!"
What? The ancestor of this dragon egg could actually detect that I was using magic to peek at the dragon egg? Or an ancient dragon?
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