Arcane Journey

Chapter 404 Ancient Brass Dragon

"I know that I am different from other snake people. I have known it since I was a child. They like dampness and darkness, they are savage and primitive, and their arrogance is ridiculous. Although they are cunning, they lack wisdom and plan some boring plots all day long. I don’t have enough courage to implement it, so I despise them, let alone look down on them. Because they are no different from real beasts.”

The snake girl seemed to think that Brian did not exist, and said to herself:
"But so what? They have power and control the life and death of all the snake people living in Salukda. In this ancient ruins, no one can resist them, so no matter how much I don't like it, I can only To do what these fools and idiots tell you to do."

"In the past, I tried to change all this, and naively thought that I could get ahead through hard work, but I was wrong. In Salukda, the value of a person does not depend on how powerful he is, let alone how wise he is The brain, but only the appearance, as long as the appearance is closer to the snake, the higher the status, and the more valued by other people. And as a purebred snake who almost looks like a snake in appearance, I was born with a sin."

"So, no matter how many and strong enemies I kill, it's useless. Because no one will recognize my hard victory, and no matter how correct suggestions I make, no one will listen, because they don't believe that I can Guide them to get the most benefit."

"What am I? I am a miscellaneous soldier who can be sacrificed at any time, a chess piece that is not a pity to abandon it, and has no status. Anyone can call and drink, come and go at will, and my status is only comparable to that of a slave. A little higher, a humble existence that is dispensable.

"I am not reconciled, let alone give up. I believe that I was born with a great mission. Since I am not here, then it must be somewhere else. The world is big, and there will always be a place where I can fulfill it. Until I awakened the memory of the Sarukh witch..."

Bertha's voice gradually sank, as thin as a gossamer, as if there was nothing, sad and tactful, so that people's souls were fascinated.

Brian chewed the meaning of the lyrics carefully, and felt a little sad for a moment.

After a long time, seeing that Seth's avatar remained silent and did not communicate with him, he knew that his plan to shield the evil god had succeeded, and immediately, in order to delay time, he pretended to sigh leisurely, shook his head and said:

"You want to fulfill your mission? I can understand this desire, but have you ever thought about what will happen in the future?"

"After leaving here..." The snake-man girl with drooping eyebrows, half asleep, murmured in a low voice like a dream: "I will break away from the shackles here, find those things that should belong to me, and regain them. Mine because I deserve it."

"But you will also lose a lot because of this. After you leave, you may never come back again. It's like having wings to soar into the sky means losing the right to keep your feet on the ground."

Bryan asked indifferently: "Do you know, in this world, there is a kind of bird that is born without feet, flies all its life, and can never touch the ground. When they stop and land, they are birds At the time of death."

"So what?" Bertha opened her eyes, the pupils were shining brightly, the light was unyielding, unwilling, and stubborn:
"Only when I fly, can I truly live, and my life has meaning. Even if it is only for a moment, it is better than their mediocre life for hundreds of years or thousands of years. Brian, tell me, you are really not a slut. The Luke witch code? But why did I feel that you were very familiar when I first saw you, and that you would be the one who would kill me?"

"I'm really not a Sarukh witch, I can swear to anyone on this point." Brian smiled slightly, and gently rubbed the holy emblem that he had always held in his palm.

Right now, he still doesn't know what Seth's avatar is up to, which makes him a little unsure.

But there is no doubt that this snake girl is indeed the sleeping Sarukh witch.

Although he was killed by the snake man in his deep sleep, he was reincarnated into the newborn little snake man through some secret method, and finally, under the call of the evil god Seth, he gradually awakened the memory of the past.

The most important thing is that this snake girl's strength is too weak, he doesn't know how to count on the other party to help him obtain the secret energy core.

Since I can't count on the other party, I can simply rely on myself. Fortunately, after learning the true intentions of the evil god Seth, I made another preparation.

Brian, who had made up his mind, snapped his fingers, stabilized the snake girl, and said in a deep voice:

"Your premonition is not wrong. I am indeed the one who can change your destiny and allow you to leave Salukda and soar into the sky. Didn't you say that you will make a deal before? Well, now I can tell you that the deal starts from Effective now, with me, you can fly higher than the stars.

but……

'Boom' sounded like a thunderbolt, suddenly and without warning, shaking the entire ancient city.

Numerous houses shook accordingly, weapons hanging on the walls and furniture in the rooms fell down like rain.

The great change happened suddenly, and Bertha, who was caught off guard, rolled off the couch all of a sudden, the joy on her face had not faded, but was replaced by bewildered panic.

Immediately afterwards, the soul-stirring roar and howl spread like a thunderbolt, spreading throughout Salukda from top to bottom.

"Enemies, there are enemies! Come out, everyone!"

Hoarse shouts came from all directions, countless snakemen came out of their lairs with weapons in their hands, and a gust of foul-smelling wind, mixed with creepy rustling sounds, passed by Bertha's hut.

Immediately afterwards, someone knocked vigorously on the door of the snake girl's house, calling her name, and ordered her to come out to meet the enemy together.

Bertha, who had already formed an instinctive reaction, agreed, and quickly regained her composure.

She turned over neatly from the ground, retrieved her own bow and arrow and machete from the debris on the floor, put it on, and ran out of the house with one step.

But Brian's thoughts changed, and he suddenly stretched out his hand to grab Bertha's bony arm, and asked, "Now is your last chance. Choose, follow me or stay?"

The snake-man girl was stunned, and immediately reacted, and said firmly: "Follow you! I can trust you."

"Okay, then don't worry about the outside world." Brian said solemnly:
"Come with me to the temple, I want to take something from there, and when I get it, I will take you away from this sunless ruin, and let you pursue the belief in your heart."

"Understood, then let's go."

The snake girl didn't hesitate at all, she didn't even look at the home she had lived in for more than ten years, opened the door and walked out.

Bryan originally thought that this attack was a special attack by the Ethiopian lizardmen in order to cooperate with their own actions after solving the patrol team that was "looking for traces of the petrified lizard".

Although before he left, he specifically explained to the chief lizard man that he had to wait for his signal before launching an attack, but he didn't expect the other party to obey his command at all.

But as soon as he went out, he knew he was wrong.

Not only is it wrong, but it is also very wrong.

Because the shadow that was circling endlessly above Sarukhda, roaring again and again, belonged to a dragon!

A huge, living, ancient brass dragon with golden light all over its body, full of supreme majesty and overwhelming force!
This kind of powerful creature is definitely not something that Ethiopian lizards can drive, they don't have this ability yet.

Brian immediately judged that there must be other powerful explorers who have taken a fancy to this place and tried to attack the snake people.

Because the brass dragon soaring and gliding in mid-air also seems to be more restraining and fighting.

He cautiously kept a safe distance from the snake people on the ground, swooped down, spewed out scorching flames, then laughed loudly, and then returned to the sky with an elegant posture.

The brass dragon does not fight alone.

The turbulent airflow between the flapping of the wings formed bursts of unnatural gusts, which vaguely formed a translucent cyan giant.

The giant's laughter was as loud as that of the brass dragon, and the howling wind was as violent as a wild horse, rolling up and throwing the snake soldiers on the ground one by one, and the threat it caused was no less than the scorching flames of the brass dragon.

The Snakeman soldiers desperately shot arrows into the sky, but the arrows did not pass through the body of the wind-like giant in vain and then fell to the ground.

It was rebounded by the extremely strong scales of the brass dragon, only splashing a little bit of useless sparks.

The whole city was mobilized under the attack of the extremely powerful dragon.

Snake soldiers gathered more and more, and even commotion began to appear in the direction of the temple.

A large number of soldiers poured out of the temple, including several demon snake priests.

Looking at such a chaotic scene, Brian laughed secretly, and immediately guessed whether the ancient brass dragon was his ally.

What he didn't expect was that the backhand he had prepared would actually have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he stopped watching from the sidelines and pulled Bertha back to run towards the temple.

On the way, many Snakeman soldiers shouted their names loudly, asking them to deal with the Brass Dragon together. Brian was too lazy to tangle with them. Shan simply waved his hand, and the crackling magic directly sent the unlucky ghost to meet the snake god Marshak.

Brian, who has mastered the laws of space, can cast teleportation almost continuously, even if he brings an extra Bertha, he doesn't feel burdened at all.

The two of them returned to the stone steps of the temple in a short while, just at this moment, the golden dragon Paralandax, who had been silent for a long time in the Austrian fire, also appeared, as if he had been waiting for him here for a long time.

He turned into a translucent human, looked at Brian, and said gloatingly, "I have followed your instructions and completed the task of rescuing the soldiers excellently, but this snake man..."

"It seems that you have also seen her peculiarity. Needless to say for the time being, since everyone has already arrived, then we should act in advance."

Brian put Bertha down and immediately cast a simple spell.

In an instant, colorful flames exploded over the ruins, lingering for a long time, and can be seen from far and near.

This was the signal he had agreed with the Ethiopian lizardman chief who stayed outside the city in advance.

In a short while, the lizard chief led hundreds of carefully selected lizard warriors into the ancient Sarukh city.

The fireworks that suddenly appeared and exploded surprised the snake man on the ground, the brass dragon and the translucent giant in midair.

However, the degree of surprise was far from enough to calm down the fighting. After a short pause, the flames of war reignited again.

Just let them continue beating life and death, anyway, the benefits are mine in the end.

Brian sneered so secretly, he carried Bertha in the chaotic battlefield, quickly crossed the long stone steps with the golden dragon Paralandax, and rushed into the main gate of the temple.

As soon as he entered the hall, Brian was surprised to find that the spacious space that was originally occupied by tens of thousands of poisonous snakes was now deserted and empty except for the stench.

The ruler of Salukda, the high priest of the demon snakeman, Abu En, was nowhere to be seen, and there were only a few half-blood snakemen guarding the ground.

On the giant statue of the poisonous snake god Marshak that supported the entire hall, black scorched marks were left everywhere, and even the two huge rubies inlaid on the snake's eyes had become worthless fragments. Two large holes are left.

"Someone got there before us. Damn it, who is it? Could it be that they also know that there is a Miser energy core here?" The snake girl's face was livid, and she stomped her feet fiercely.

Brian naturally knew who the intruder was, because he had originally arranged this. Seeing that Seth's avatar was still not responding at all, he knew that his plan had succeeded.

So he pulled Bertha over and asked, "Do you know where the treasure house of the temple is? Take us there quickly."

"The temple is the most important place in Sarukhda, and the treasure house is the most important place. A purebred snakeman with a humble status like me has no chance to know the location of the treasure house."

The snake girl coldly threw out a disappointing remark, but then she smiled slyly and said: "But these broken rules can't restrain me at all. I have already secretly investigated the location of the treasure house and even the opening method." Come on, come on."

Before she finished speaking, Bertha ran forward quickly to the stone altar in front of the giant statue of Marshak, bent over, and pressed a few times on an inconspicuous place.

Amidst the sound of 'cluck', the huge bluestone altar split into two, revealing a dark hole in the ground, with bursts of cold wind blowing from the inside out, making people shudder.

Brian calmly made several spell-casting gestures in succession, activated the defensive spells stored in advance, and then took the translucent phantom of the golden dragon Paralandax into it, and jumped off without hesitation. Then, also entered the tunnel.

The depth of the tunnel is at least hundreds of meters, and it gets hotter as it goes down.

By the time the two finally landed, the temperature was almost the same as standing next to a boiling crater. Brian, who was immune to flames, naturally had no flames.

On the contrary, Bertha couldn't bear it a little bit, and the black hairs on her temples were also burnt and curled one by one.

Panting quickly, she pointed to the darkness ahead, and said, "At the end of the passage is the treasure house. Where are the most precious treasures collected by the entire Sarukhda for dozens of centuries, we..."

A silver light flashed, illuminating the dark passage.

The dull explosion shook the silent corridor, and an extremely hoarse and unpleasant scream, like a ghost from hell, came leisurely from the deepest part of the passage.

(End of this chapter)