"This... uh, miss."
In the unknown area beneath Tanya, Duan Qing, who was completely submerged in darkness, asked forward in a very small voice: "This beautiful lady, have we met before?"
"Maybe, my memory is not very good."
Fingers with long nails flicked back and forth between the same long golden hair for a while. This uninvited guest with a frightening aura gradually revealed his appearance by slowly approaching: "And I...
…I didn’t have to answer your questions originally, but”
"I do have some impressions of you." The long golden hair that was curly and tied together outlined the appearance of a beautiful, holy and noble woman, and those golden eyes seemed to have moved back and forth on Duan Qing's face.
After examining it for a while: "I remember giving you two tokens, but"
"Because I encountered something in Redcar, the imperial capital." Duan Qing pointed at his back with a wry smile: "The elemental staff later lost most of its functions due to a certain magic collapse, and now it is just a
It's just an ordinary decoration, Ms. Fulla."
"It seems that your memory is better than mine."
The breathtaking breath that was suffocating her chest finally began to slowly disappear. The woman with blond hair, whom Duan Qing called Ms. Fulla, nodded quietly: "You actually still remember my name."
"How could such an impressive lady not remember this?" Duan Qing, who had been suppressing the trembling in his legs, felt the simulated shudder imposed on him by the system being withdrawn from his body.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead: "Looking back carefully, you were the one who saved our lives at that time."
"There are not many adventurers who can help my people out of pain, so I still have some impression of you." Shaking her head, Fula looked up and down Duan Qingzhou for a while: "Then... you
Why are you here?"
"..."
As if he didn't think about how to answer the other party's question, Duan Qing's voice paused temporarily. The silent silence then attracted the attention of the female dragon in front of him. The steps forward were also stopped by the maid player beside Duan Qing.
The dagger suddenly stopped him: "Well, it seems that you are still hostile to our existence, in that case"
"No, no, no, no, you misunderstood."
Feeling the sudden tightening of the atmosphere around him, Duan Qing hurriedly pressed down on the shoulders of Anyu Ninglan in front of him. He tried his best to stretch his arms, and finally turned the dangerous humanoid in front of him with a harmless expression.
The frightening aura that the creature was about to exude again stopped him: "We have no intention of being hostile to you, we are just...somewhat..."
"I see."
Still without any movement, the dragon girl named Fula shifted her gaze slightly: "It took me a long time to understand the thoughts in the hearts of small humans like you. You two don't seem to be separated.
In this category, if you are only hostile because of fear, then you can rest assured."
"I just followed the energy emanating from 'Jinoen'."
Her eyes moved away from Duan Qing and the two people, and slowly fell on the dark space behind this passage: "I don't mean to hurt you unless necessary, so if you two have nothing else to do, you two
You can leave now."
"Uh, that..."
Watching the long golden hair gradually float by his side, Duan Qing mustered up his courage and spoke again: "We, can we follow you?"
The steps forward slowly stopped. The dragon girl named Fula looked back at the faces of Duan Qing and Duan Qing with inexplicable eyes. The pair of bright pupils located deep in the ancient passage were so quiet.
The ground shone in the center of the darkness, as if reminding Duan Qing to make further explanations in this way: "We, we encountered some trouble, so we are hiding in this place. Originally, we also planned to go deeper.
As a result, someone like you suddenly appeared..."
"gentlemen."
An indifferent voice then appeared behind Duan Qing. It was the coded voice of Ninglan who stopped Duan Qing from continuing to explain: "Ninglan knows that sir, you are happy to meet this dragon girl again, but at this time, it is not right to choose to go with you.
Isn’t it not good?”
"...Why, do you have any concerns?"
"There's nothing human about her."
Lowering her voice as much as possible, the maid player then took Duan Qing and hid in a corner: "Since she is not the same kind, her power does not belong to us. If we really encounter any accident or danger, don't tell us
We are here to help, but she might attack us at any time."
"Of course these risks exist, but these risks are what we should bear." Duan Qing was silent for a moment and then nodded his head vigorously: "If we want to break through the chaos in front of us under this situation, we can only rely on hope.
Hopefully this accident will happen now.”
"We haven't contacted the investigation team outside the door yet. We have other methods." Ninglan whispered: "The risk of these methods must be much lower than now. There is no need for you, sir, to do this."
"High risks naturally lead to high returns." Duan Qing still shook his head resolutely: "And"
"Now that Pamir has encountered an 'unknown attack', we don't have much time left to react."
He gritted his teeth and quickly sorted out some of the uneasiness that flashed in his heart. When he raised his head again, his face showed a bit of peace, and he seemed to have sorted out his thoughts: "This... uh, Fu
Pull the lady.”
"I wonder what exactly the 'Jinoen' that Ms. Fulla mentioned just now refers to?" A smile appeared on his face: "Maybe we have some information that we can exchange with each other."
"...It seems you have made a decision."
The golden eyes finally showed some changes, and Fulla, who had been standing in front and waiting, replied in a calm voice: "But... do you really want to know what I am looking for?"
"You found this place through that cave before, right?" After sorting out his thoughts, Duan Qing replied with awareness: "We thought this was Tania's underground waterway at first, but according to the information in our hands,
The adventurer's manual records that this area is not the black market area we are familiar with, but a place that the citizens and adventurers of Tania have never reached or explored."
"You should have discovered this unknown territory through the gap we opened with the quagmire technique, right?" When he said this, his voice was also full of understanding: "What is hidden here, I guess you
There should have been speculation already."
"As expected of the adventurer who once helped us, he has noticed it so quickly." Fula's unchanging golden eyes finally showed some changes: "Yes, I noticed 'it' in the air
Aura, so I landed here as quickly as possible."
"I need to express my gratitude to you." Her golden eyebrows gradually closed, and she slowly lowered her head: "If it weren't for you, we might still not be able to discover this place."
"For the sake of our confusion, are you interested in letting us puny mortals see the great miracle of the Dragon Clan?" Duan Qing then took a few steps forward with a shy face: "At least explain this auspicious thing to us.
Norn can be anything."
"That's not a great miracle, but the name of another of our dragons who has long since disappeared."
After standing there in silence for a while, Fula then spoke again and said: "But he is not from our Golden Dragon Clan, but a powerful warrior from another well-known dragon clan, the Black Dragon Clan."
【Ding】
[Quest found: Resurrection of the Flame Golden Sunset.]
[The goodwill with Furla changes to friendly.]
"... He and his tribe still don't know where this long-lost warrior has gone, nor can they know his life or death."
A sudden system prompt sounded in Duan Qing's ears, and the dragon girl's voice echoed around her became deeper and deeper: "The last time he was found was in the Anqi Mountains three years ago.
nearby……"
"What is the chronology?" Duan Qing, who pretended to be natural, showed a trace of doubt on his face: "Can you explain it first?"
"If you use your human calculation method, it will be about two hundred years." Fulla's eyes focused for a moment: "If you use your two hundred years as a cycle, it will be 90 years in the new calendar.
Around the time"
"He lost track of himself here before this place was Tania."
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There was a faint light shining in the dim passage, showing the blurry scene of three figures who temporarily passed by at the end of the light source. The female dragon Fula, who did not respond positively to Duan Qing's proposal, also walked slowly at this time.
Walking in this underground passage leading to an unknown direction, I would use a moment of silence from time to time to reflect on my choice of the next direction. Looking at the back of the dragon girl in front of me, Duan who was following behind.
Qing and Enyu Ninglan also put away their uneasiness and worry for the time being. They followed each other into the depths of the passage honestly, and even talked and laughed from time to time to ease the awkward atmosphere between them.
Because both players knew in their hearts that the dragon girl in front of them, who could take their lives at any time, actually didn't have many deliberate thoughts about their decision to intervene in the mission and their life and death.
"Nearly eight hundred years... Has your tribe disappeared so long ago?" Carefully organizing his words, the gray-robed magician once again found a topic: "It has been so long.
Time has passed, is this kind of clue still useful?"
"This is true for you humans, but for the dragons, three years is just a short period of time." Fula, who was walking in front, replied expressionlessly: "Every time the dragons sleep, they often consume a lot of energy.
Time, and the chronology we refer to often refers to the time it takes for an adult dragon to sleep once. By the time I received the news of Jinon's disappearance, I... I had already slept for two chronology."
"In the history of the Dragon Clan, the sudden disappearance of every adult Dragon Clan is a big event." She paused slightly as she said this: "Because it often heralds some kind of bad omen, and it is the beginning of the destruction of everything.
beginning."
"Is this how the legends in the Dragon Clan describe it?" Duan Qing muttered in a low voice with an unnatural look on his face: "I think it's because powerful creatures like the Dragon Clan cause too much trouble, which will also shake the Free Continent..."
"We are indeed such creatures, so we have been away from this continent for a long time."
The irresistible pressure was revealed again for a moment in front of the two adventurers, and then was withdrawn again with Fulla's deep voice: "Since entering the Adventure Age, we have given up control of the Free Continent.
, the birth and death of this continent and the development of magic have long had nothing to do with our dragon clan."
"The Age of Adventure?" Duan Qing looked at each other with Ningyu Ninglan beside him, and Duan Qing's expression became confused again: "Is it the legendary era that is earlier than the Age of Magic?"
"That's right, that was an era before the Magic Empire was born." It seemed that she was talking about the nostalgic past, and the dragon girl's voice echoed in the depths of this dark space with a somewhat ethereal feeling.
: "Powerful humans have emerged one after another on the continent. Their strength is enough to compete with any powerful creature in the world. According to the records left by our people, these people are the earliest ancestors who opened up your human history.
."
"My people have avoided the world since then." Her eyes immediately disappeared into the darkness: "Please don't blame our dragons for what will happen on this continent."
"I personally don't want to have such a connection, but there are still various possibilities." Duan Qing scratched his head and continued: "For example... if Jinon encounters some kind of accident here, living in
The people from the principality here may have discovered it a long time ago."
"..."
"This question may be a little rude, but"
Looking at the silent figure in front of him disappearing into the darkness, Duan Qing expressed his thoughts in a hesitant voice: "I have a question: If that Jinon, the member of the dragon clan you are looking for, has passed away,
Could his body be made into something else?"
"Like an energy source or something?"
Feeling the silent and cold atmosphere in front once again, the voice of the gray-robed magician became smaller and smaller. The temporary team formed by the three figures moving forward along the passage only remained for a while.
The sound of their respective footsteps was interrupted by the sigh of the dragon girl until a corner loomed in front of them: "...Yes."
"This is also what the elders are worried about."
The ancient wall expanded a little as they turned, revealing a dark space that gradually opened up in front of them. The dragon girl walking in the front also raised her slightly shiny hand, and at the same time, she used no
A human-like disembodied voice answered.
This chapter has been completed!