Boom! When the heavy steel door closed behind Elaine, the sound of metal collision echoed throughout the interior of the ancient house, and only White Bear could feel its heaviness. The door was the kind with an automatic closing device. Only those with a large enough door could
Only with the strength of your arms can it be possible to push the door open from the front, and the large iron doors on both sides will be closed quickly after being pushed open. It is impossible to keep the door open without the same amazing arm strength. Entering this ancient building from the main entrance
In the hall of the house.
"More than five thousand years ago, the Palinlor family was originally just a family of knights from the Kingdom with the impure royal bloodline of Pantolaken." The Grand Duke did not stop, and continued as soon as he opened the door and entered the ancient mansion.
Walking forward, we have entered the almost empty hall of the ancient house.
The hall is not very fine, but is made of extremely hard granite floors, as well as the ceremonial knight's light armor worn by Grand Duke Palinlor (he has no combat mission today, and is wearing the ceremonial light armor to attend Daniel's ceremony)
The bottoms of the metal leg armors of the Silver Knight Promotion Ceremony hit each other, making a crisp thumping sound.
"Originally, a Pantorakian collateral royal family with a less pure bloodline can only enjoy a higher title in Great Britain at best. There are many such collateral royal families. If the family members do not work hard, there will be less than a few
Generations will begin to decline, and they will become declining aristocrats who have empty titles, but their actual status is not much different from that of civilians." The Grand Duke asked as he walked: "Do you know what makes the blood of the Palinloer family prosperous?
, have you always maintained the glory you have today?"
"Hmm... No, I don't know." The White Bear replied truthfully. The Grand Duke of Palinlor was obviously in trouble, so how could he have guessed such a thing.
"Well, it's natural that you can't guess. After all, you are not from Great Britain, and you are indifferent to this." Palinloer walked through the large staircase in the middle of the hall and walked to the second floor. On the surface, he was
He planned to go up to the second floor, but he actually stopped halfway up the stairs, reached out to fiddle with a painting hanging on the wall, and turned on a mechanism that was cleverly hidden behind the giant oil painting.
Rumble, rumble, rumble! The sound of the gear connecting rods in the mechanism extends from the oil painting to Elaine's feet. Something seems to be opened in the center of the hall near the stairwell. On the back of the large staircase going up to the second floor, there is a hinge dragging
The sound of something heavy.
"There are two reasons why the Palinlor family has remained prosperous for a long time." The Grand Duke also walked down the stairs from the second floor and walked back: "First, as a branch of the Pantolaken royal family, the Palinlor family has a thin
The dragon bloodline. And there is a special atavism phenomenon that appeared in the Palinlor family five thousand years ago, which is the power of dragon blood that is constantly awakening."
"Dragon, dragon blood...?"
"In the past five thousand years, various descendants with dragon abilities have frequently appeared in the Palinlor family. There are people who are born with infinite strength, there are people who can use dragon roars and dragon flames, and there are also people like me who have close or even powerful abilities.
A person with [super recovery power] that surpasses the dragon clan."
"Super, super recovery power?"
"There's nothing surprising. It's the same thing as your self-healing ability. After the body is injured, it will repair itself at an astonishing speed." Palinlor further explained: "And among the people who have awakened the dragon bloodline in the family,
Among them, people with [Super Recovery Power] are the key.------Come with me."
The Grand Duke went around to the back of the stairs in the hall. There, it turned out that the mechanism had already opened a way to the underground. The wide stairs continued down to somewhere in the extremely deep underground.
The celestial knight also lit the torch he had prepared in advance and walked in: "What are you doing? Follow me quickly."
"Hmm, oh..." The cold air rising from the ground gave the White Bear a very bad premonition. But he still followed.
"Probably also more than five thousand years ago, at almost the same time as the Palinlor family's dragon blood awakening, a mysterious creature appeared in front of the ancestors of our family."
The Grand Duke said as he walked, holding on to the handrail carved directly on the stone wall with one hand, and holding the torch very high with the other hand. A certain cold air coming from the ground gave the obsidian floor a slippery feeling, making it difficult to get down.
Be careful when walking, as someone may fall down the stairs at any time and be seriously injured.
"That mysterious creature is extremely powerful. He is a black beast covered in black hair and exuding a burning smell. He first appeared in the ancient ruins underground here, and his roars came from deep underground.
It continues to spread to the surface of the earth. As if guided by fate (Kama), this place was originally one of the territories of the Palinlor family. My family's ancestors met him at that time."
"He, he...?"
"Well. How should I describe it so that I can explain it clearly?" Palinloer, a reckless man, muttered and thought for a long time before finally explaining: "
That is the one carrying [fire], the King of Fire.
That is a false god who is infinitely reborn and remains alive forever even if he is infinitely burned.
That is ------[the black dragon that swallows firewood].
"
"Uh, what...?" The white bear man was completely confused.
"It doesn't matter if you can't understand it now. When you see him with your own eyes, you will understand everything." Palinloar turned to look at the White Bear Man: "But this matter must be kept secret from anyone. The Knights of Great Britain don't know about it.
Even His Majesty King Arthur doesn't know about it. Only a few heads of the family in my Palinlor family know about it. If you tell this matter, I will kill you first to silence you before things get out of hand. Once is not enough.
If ten times is not enough, I will kill you a hundred times, a thousand times, until you are completely dead. Do you understand?"
"Hey!" A drop of cold sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead. He knew that Palinloer was serious. He could feel it from the murderous look in his eyes.
"So." After walking for a long time, the endless stairs extending underground finally reached the end. In front of the huge underground grotto at the end was an extremely heavy door that was gradually covered with rust over the endless years.
Its material is unknown. If it were made of pure metal, this door would have been too rusty to open. But when Palinloor slowly pushed open the huge metal door with a folding fan, the sound it made when it rubbed against the ground was accompanied by the sound of two pieces of metal.
Almost as thick as steel plate.
The grotto is still extending downward, with a slightly deeper pit at the bottom. There are artificial stairs dug out randomly to connect to the pit, but the stone stairs are extremely rough in workmanship, incomparable to the ancient but exquisite obsidian stairs just now.
Elaine looked at the large pit at the bottom of the grotto, and she seemed to be able to see a moving shadow in the distance. It was a swaying fire, an extremely warm crimson thing. This fire was stable and long-lasting, as if it had been growing for tens of thousands of years.
It has continued since before.
Who lit this eternal fire in a deep underground pit hundreds of feet above the ground?
What’s the point of burning this eternal fire in an underground grotto that is almost never visited?
With all kinds of questions in her heart and extremely complicated emotions, Elaine followed the Grand Duke Palinlor into the pit of the grotto.
As the distance got closer, he could see more and more clearly. The eternal fire burning deep in the pit did not come from any firewood, oil, or lamps.
What is burning there is the body of a living creature.
In other words, what is sleeping there is a burning creature.
That was a huge black dragon surrounded by flames. The black dragon, covered in fire, was dozing there as if nothing had happened, seemingly not feeling the burning pain of the flames at all.
Elaine has heard that there is a magical creature called "Firebird" in Africa, and its body is also wrapped in eternal flames. But he also heard that the firebird's flame has no heat, it is the firebird's body that constantly overflows.
The excess light emitted by photons is a kind of fire caused by phase difference (Elaine didn't understand what phase difference was at all, but Bedivere told him so at the time, so he remembered it).
But the [Black Dragon] that now appears in front of the White Bear Man is exactly the opposite of the Fire Bird. The fire light emitted by him has actual heat, and it is extremely hot. Even if the two of them walked into the deep pit of the grotto, they were still far away from the Black Dragon.
Hundreds of feet away, Elaine could already feel the overwhelming heat wave hitting his face. His throat felt dry for a moment, and the white bear hair on his body couldn't stand the scorching heat. Sweat couldn't help being discharged from the special tips of the hair.
Sweat surged out of his organs, quickly moistening his body and making him feel sticky all over.
"This, this is?!" The constant heat wave even made Elaine's eyes feel dry and uncomfortable. He blocked the hot wind with his hands, and tears kept pouring out of his eyes to protect his eyeballs, so as not to be burned by the heat wave.
"Didn't I tell you? This is the [Black Dragon that Devours Fireworks]." Palinlor had prepared a goggle to protect his eyes from the beginning and had already put it on at this time.
"He has been sleeping here for thousands of years. He only had a small amount of communication with the ancestors of my Palinlor family at the beginning. Later, he used telepathy to leave guidance to our family while half asleep and half awake."
Heavenly Knight Palin Lohr continued to explain.
"In the past thousands of years, the reason why the Palinlor family has prospered today is all due to the Fire Black Dragon. It was he who gave us [fire] so that the chosen ones in the Palinlor family can possess it.
The divine power that can equal a thousand. It was he who gave us [revelation] so that the Palinlor family would not lose their way in the chaotic tide of this era. He is the patron saint of our family."
"Shou, Patronus...?" White Bear Elaine couldn't even believe that the [god] that the Celestial Knight, Grand Duke Palinlor, and his family have been worshiping for thousands of years, turned out to be
A black dragon sleeping underground, with its whole body on fire!
"It was he who originally gave the revelation, asking the descendants of the Palinlor family to bring you to him thousands of years later." Palinlor looked at Elaine with a serious face:
"Because, apart from the Palinlor family, you are the only person qualified to receive the [Eternal Tribulation Fire]."