Chapter 1093: Chief of Guard

I am embarrassed to admit that after spending a long time with this group of dragons that seemed to have gone astray on the evolutionary tree, I almost forgot the purpose of this group of people coming here.

"There is an ancient ruins near here," I said loudly, looking at the black dragon who is also Charta's wife (I don't know why I feel so special every time I think of this word), "In fact, we are here for that ruins. Come."

All the dragons fell silent in unison. Char touched his wife's neck and whispered: "He was talking about the Forgotten Garden. They want to open that forbidden land."

The atmosphere seemed to have undergone a subtle and rapid change. If the one second before me was still a group of happy hermits whose evolution had collapsed, this second I felt as if the people standing in front of me had really become a group of guardian dragons, black The dragon Tracy looked here with huge eyes, and her tone suddenly became serious: "You are going to the Forgotten Garden? Do you know where that place is?"

"I know, according to us, there should be a complex of buildings left by our compatriots a long time ago," Shandora looked at Tracy and said very naturally, "Lin and Charles have learned about the ruins before. Condition."

"You said that you are the same race of the ancient gods who left this world?" The red dragon, who seemed to be the oldest and most calm, asked in a thunderous low voice, "Now is not the time to joke - you mean real?"

"I feel a little strange," my sister frowned and looked at each other, "You... what is your relationship with the 'ancient gods' you call them. Who did you think we were in the first place?"

"Our relationship with the ancient gods is not important. As for your identity in my opinion... Char said you are the gods," the red dragon made a rumble in his guttural voice, "I thought he meant that you are the people of the mother continent. An ancient spirit revered by mortals as a god.”

Sandora's glasses narrowed slightly: "Oh? In your opinion, what do those ancient spirits mean?"

"They're just stronger creatures," the red dragon shook its wings, "but it doesn't matter if the mortals of the Mother Continent say they are gods. It's just a title anyway. But here. The 'gods' of the Mother Continent are the same as those in our dragon legends. Ancient gods are two different terms. It seems that I misunderstood Char's introduction. Do you want to say that you are actually ancient gods?"

"Um, haven't you noticed yet?" I suddenly vaguely realized that these dragons might have encountered the most troublesome "shielding effect" that everyone had encountered not long ago. "Do you know these things?"

With that said, I activated a set of holographic projections. The empire's most classic battleship clusters and psionic crystals were projected in mid-air. Considering that this world is full of things from the mysterious side of the old empire. Finally I projected images of ravens and angels.

"The last images are indeed the warriors of the gods. They have wings on their backs and fight with light and lightning, but what are those things in front of them?" Tracy looked at the virtual projection in mid-air curiously and stretched out her paws to try to touch those images. ——Of course, she didn’t touch anything. “You don’t mean to say that those castles floating in the starry sky are evidence that you are the ancient gods, right? I don’t remember that the ancient gods have that kind of thing. Although I have never experienced the ancient gods. The glorious era of rule. But the things in the legend are still unmistakable."

"Also, those castles are really impressive," Charles muttered. "Although there is the will of the ancestor spirits, I can't confirm the identities of these people. That's why I brought them here. They are indeed not the ancient spirits that are regarded as 'gods' in the mother continent, but they don't seem to be legends either. The ancient god in."

Sure enough, it appeared! That weird split shield!

Just like Pandora and the others, they have no memory of these lost worlds. The dragon clan in this world once had contact with the old empire, and the legends passed down by their clans also have no information on the technology side of the old empire. Since the disaster, the technology of the old empire has completely disappeared. The side and the mysterious side are completely separated with this world as the dividing line, and there is an unexplainable information barrier on both sides.

Or more strictly speaking, this information barrier is based on the 15th District of the Old Empire. What is separated is all the technological data and more than 80% of the mysterious data in the 15th District of the Old Empire.

"Fortunately, you at least know the image of angels." I pointed at Alaya beside me and the missing angel who was being led by Little Bubble with a rope. "This can prove something."

"I noticed that they do look the same as the legendary warriors of the ancient gods, but to be honest, I have never seen what the real warriors of the gods look like," Tracy sniffed and shook her head and said, "But it doesn't matter. If you want to go to the Forgotten Garden, just go, we can lead the way, it’s open to the public.”

"Huh?!" Lin Xue couldn't help shouting, "Why didn't you tell me earlier! I thought you were the guardian dragons of the ruins! Why bother here!" Not to mention Lin Xue, we all thought so, I originally thought that the giant dragons here were responsible for guarding the ruins of the ancient empire, but now I heard that it was so easy to let them go? Why are they here? !

"We? Of course we are guarding the ruins, but this task has just ended," Red Dragon nodded to Lin and said, "The instructions handed down from ancient times are very clear. The spirits of ancestors can go to the Garden of Forgotten. All visitors brought by spirits are also allowed. In addition, visitors who can independently activate the garden gate are also allowed to enter if there is no ancestral spirit to guide the way."

I roughly understood, looked at Sandora and looked at each other, and said in the mental connection: "It seems that after the split of the Fifteen Days Area, there was a way out. Some people hope that the gods or the survivors of the empire can still open this ruins. Let's Came to the right place.”

The elder sister looked at Tracy and said clearly: "In other words, no matter who comes to the Dragon Kingdom and asks to go to that... Forgotten Garden, you will lead the way. Anyone who can open the door smoothly can go in, but if There's no way to open that door..."

"Visitors can try the time of sunrise and sunset. If the door still cannot be opened after that. Then don't even think about leaving the dragon kingdom alive. This space will be completely closed until the dragon destroys all intruders." The giant dragon with bronze scales on its head said, "We are not the main fighting guardian dragons. There are real guards at the entrance of the garden. They are guardians who have survived from ancient times to the present. They are more powerful than us. If just now The worst-case scenario mentioned comes up. We will go into battle with those guardians - by the way, you can talk to those guards to see if they know anything."

"Then take us to the ruins." It seems that the records of these giant dragons are also messy. I no longer have expectations for how much knowledge they can retain, but directly put forward my request. It seems that my group met the conditions for opening a road by mistake. Although there is no guarantee that we can open the door to the ruins, we happen to be bringing a Dragon God with us - there is just one thing I don't quite understand. Why in the legend of the dragon, only the spirit of one's ancestors (that is, the dragon god of the star field) can lead people into the ruins. The other Star Territory Protoss didn’t even mention it. Could it be that the people who left such a way out for the Fifteen Days District only knew that the Star Territory God Clan had a Dragon God?

I brought this issue to the Spiritual Link public channel for discussion. In the end, everyone agreed that these clever dragons had been around for too long and had misremembered the things their master had told them back then...

The people responsible for leading us are Charles and Tracy, but this time our transportation is no longer Lin - Sandora is very worried that this fool will destroy the precious imperial relics when landing, so everyone would rather He flew over, and Lin was ordered to fly in human form. We soon moved away from the cloudy mountains where the dragons lived. Flying towards the depths of the vast sea of ​​clouds.

I was holding Little Bubble, and Little Bubble was holding the rope in his hand. The missing angel was tied to the rope, and Sandora next to her looked at our group. He asked curiously: "Do you think this angel can be used as a key to open the door?"

"You have to try. She is the only one we have who has the authority to open the mysterious building in the Fifteenth Sky District."

As I was talking, I was always paying attention to Little Bubbles not to accidentally let go and lose the "kite". This thought-body angel now seems to be of great significance. In the past two days of communication with the other party (or the process of me constantly talking and then making up my mind based on the other party's slight movements), I am convinced that she is in various lost world ruins. Zhongdu has certain operating authority, but I don’t know how high this authority can be. Now that we know that the "Forgotten Garden" mentioned by the dragon is closed, the only hope to open the door is this luminous kite.

Under the leadership of the giant dragon, the team passed through the thick clouds, and the height kept decreasing during this period. I even felt that the height that everyone had descended was enough to reach the surface: if there was a horizon in the lost world. Finally, when the last clouds were swept away, a vast plain appeared in front of us.

This is still a piece of land floating in mid-air, but it is already quite large - perhaps even as big as Shadow City. The plains were desolate and empty, and there was not even a trace of plants visible, which was very different from the lush mountains in the sky before. From a high altitude, you can see that the ground below is covered with a huge flash array. This array stretches all the way to the end of the land. Its scale is large enough to make any magic array that can be studied by ordinary magic civilization shed tears, and except for this pavement Beyond the array of bare stone, we saw no sign of any building.

Not to mention the ruins, there is not even a decent stone house. The only thing that can be seen is a huge arch that is still intact on the plain - the only man-made trace on the plain.

Char and Tracy led us to land in front of this arch. Only then did I realize that this gate was really unusually tall. Its height was probably at least two hundred meters. Lin could even fly directly from the middle in her dragon god form. past!

Doors that are two hundred meters high are not uncommon. What is rare is that this two-hundred-meter-high thing is a ground-level building. Is it necessary to be so big for something built on the ground?

"Um...this is the ruins..." Qian Qian looked up at the empty arch in front of her. The latter seemed to be made of a building material similar to the Sky Tower, and it was still the kind that no one could recognize. , but its technical content is comparable to that of starship alloys. It has been standing here for many thousands of years, but it is still as clean as new, and not even a scar can be seen on the surface.

"We know about other lost worlds," Tracy said, gently touching the tip of her nose to the cool metal of the arch. There was some emotion in his tone, "In places where the power of the ancient gods cannot reach, everything has been turned upside down. In the past years, many intelligent creatures have found those lost worlds and left many fragile city-states they built there. , time goes by, and those lost worlds have accumulated countless rags left by mortals of all ages. But none of them can be as permanent as the things left by the ancient gods. According to the oldest guardian, the place still maintains the atmosphere when the garden was closed. It looks like no one has left any trace here over the years.”

The emotion of this black dragon is not unreasonable. We learned a lot about the lost world from Sakina. In the lost world, the ruins are not only the buildings left by the old empire, but also some ordinary buildings. What remains of civilization. It has been many thousands of years since the collapse of the old empire. This period of time is enough for the various intelligent creatures of the mother continent to cycle through several civilizations. Most of the dilapidated buildings that can be found in the lost world are left behind by the mortal civilizations that were active from the fall of the old empire to today. of. now. The city-states built by mortal civilization have been ruined one after another. Only the "ancient gods" and the ruins left by those ancient Xiling apostles still stand intact on the land of the lost world, waiting to this day as if watching our arrival.

Now is not the time to sigh. I took my mind back and focused on the huge arch in front of me.

"Is this the entrance to the Forgotten Garden?" I looked at Tracy, "Is it a teleportation device or something? And where are the guards you mentioned?"

"The Forgotten Garden was closed when I was born. So I don't know what the gate is, and I have never seen it open." Tracy stood in the center of the arch, and the scales on her body began to float. Dark shadows. While explaining to us, "All the giant dragons don't know, we are just waiting according to the instructions left by our ancestors. As for the guardians here, you will see them soon..." After the words fell, the black dragon The shadow power was as real as before, and then she suddenly roared, and all the black energy in her body exploded instantly, forming a dark fan-shaped curtain that splashed onto the surrounding doorposts.

These shadow energies obviously activated some kind of identification device, and then we heard a straight female voice like a mechanical synthesis: "The identification system is activated - it is determined to be a peripheral soldier communication. The guard chief is about to appear."

"Boom - boom - boom" waves of rhythmic low sounds came from the empty other side of the arch, as if a giant was walking here, and the heavy footsteps stopped when they came to the arch. , Tracy and Char lowered their heads respectfully and took a few steps back, and then we saw a huge figure reflecting the cold metal light emerging from the air in the middle of the arch.

It was a slightly familiar shape, just like the metal colossus soldier I saw at the back gate square of the Sky Tower that day. It was a silver-white giant made entirely of mysterious metal and more than ten meters tall. But this silver-white giant It is obviously different from the original guard. Its skin does not have the ring structure, but is integrated. It is also wearing a delicate and mighty armor, and it is holding a heavy golden lightning scepter in its hand. The opponent's heavy armor floated with the radiance of flowing magic energy, and the empire's cross crystal mark was inlaid on the chest. There were complex and profound runes circulating on the edge of the armor, and the lightning scepter had three Two-thirds are made of metal, and one-third is pure arcane lightning - it seems reasonable to say that it is a spear with a thunder blade. The face of this metal giant is not a smooth trapezoidal metal like the guardian statue of the Sky Tower, but has fine facial features: it looks like a middle-aged man with abundant beard and hair, who is not angry and self-confident.

I couldn't help but think of the leader of the Atlanteans. Zeus seemed a bit similar to him in appearance... Of course, Zeus could never beat the guard captain in front of him, whose energy response was as powerful as a battleship reactor.

"Well, the children of the former guards... Oh, I forgot, you are now guards. You are here. What news do you have this time?" The metal giant is more than ten meters tall enough to talk to Tracy and the others face to face. He simply ignored our group and focused entirely on the two guardian dragons. Their voices roared like thunder, and they stood upright in front of the ancient arch like giant gods guarding the heavens.

At this moment, I couldn't help but look at Sandora: an even completely normal mysterious side guardian of the old empire!

This can be communicated!

"We have brought another group of visitors who want to open the Forgotten Garden." Char now completely lost the frivolous and unreliable look before. He nodded respectfully to the giant, and his attitude was no less respectful than when he faced the giant. "According to ancient orders, we will bring all qualified visitors to you for inspection until someone can open the door to the Forgotten Garden."

"Are you an adventurer again?" The giant's attitude seemed a little disinterested. "Your grandfathers brought a batch 30,000 years ago, but they were burned to ashes. I don't know what will happen this time."

"They are different from the last batch 30,000 years ago," Tracy glanced at Lin, "They came to the Dragon Kingdom under the leadership of the ancestral spirits of the Dragon clan, and they claimed to be ancient gods. "

"The spirit of the ancestors? It's the soul judgment of your dragon clan... Wait, you mean the ancient god?!" The giant suddenly reacted, and the energy halo on his body suddenly became several times stronger. The stones instantly turned into dust under the sudden increase of pressure. "Ancient God? The owner of the garden? They call themselves that directly?"

"I said, big man, it's about time you noticed someone under your feet, right?"

I finally decided to take the initiative to attract the other person's attention, raised my head and shouted.

The giant was attracted by the call from under his feet. He must have noticed our group from the beginning, but he just didn't pay too much attention to it. Now his eyes finally fell on us. I smiled at the other person and prepared to introduce myself. one time.

However, the next second, the giant responded to us - waved down the lightning scepter in his hand! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)