"I hate people who don't finish their sentences," Barbagon's left head spoke in a disdainful female voice.
"I don't like it either," Barbagon's main head said in a childish voice.
"Actually, I also …" The buzzing sound was only halfway through its sentence when it suddenly paused. "Wait, the fog seems to have become thinner. Eh? Look, isn't that the statue Shi Zhen mentioned? "
Barbagon's main head and left head both looked forward.
The fog was indeed as the right head had said. It had become much thinner, and because of that, he saw a statue of an exotic beast standing not far ahead.
According to Shi Zhen, the first statue Barregon encountered was a statue of a dragon cub.
However, this statue didn't look like a dragon or a young dragon.
The statue was about five meters tall and pink in color. It looked skinny, and its legs took up three-fifths of its height, so it didn't look too big.
It had a thick and fluffy body like an ostrich. Its pink feathers were as translucent as jade. One of its wings was spread out, while the other was closed. The spread out wings were very wide, and similarly, there were many vivid and lifelike pink feathers.
Its neck was long and thin like a swan's, covered with fine hair.
Its head was an inverted triangular snake head, and its brown eyes had a clear vertical pupil.
To Barbagon, this was just a strange statue of a beast. It didn't look like a "dragon" at all.
Outside the box, Angor could tell that the beast was quite famous. At least, it was famous in the southern region.
It was the Pink Stork Dragon.
This was an Abyss monster with a thin amount of dragon blood. Although the blood was thin, its bloodline was still very powerful.
The main bloodline of this creature was the Pink Stork, also known as the Flamingo.
Flamingos were born with the ability to control fire. They were very aggressive and aggressive. Before they died, they could consume their blood to obtain a talent called Death Blaze, which was engraved on the edge of life and death.
Once Death Blaze was activated, a flamingo would greatly increase its burning power and could combine with any flame to create a terrifying explosion.
In other words, at the last moment of their lives, these flamingos would become "walking barrels of explosives", and they would take down whoever ignited them with them.
From this, one could see the intensity of his temperament.
Moreover, Fiery Bird was a social monster. Just think about it, a barrel of explosives was already enough to blast the heavens and the earth. If a group of barrels of explosives were to fire at you, it was simply asking for death.
In the Abyss, even demons rarely teased flamingos.
This also showed that Fiery Bird was not weak.
The Pink Stork Dragon had perfectly inherited the fiery bird's unyielding character and the Abyss Dragon's innate strength. Although it was only a "dragon beast," it wouldn't be much weaker than a real dragon when it grew up.
Pink Stork Dragons were famous in the Wizard World because two of them had once rushed into the stronghold city of the Bloodborne Alliance — Aisha Underground City.
In the "Underground City Defense Battle", the two pink storks were eventually defeated, but almost one-third of the Aisha Underground City was destroyed.
Most importantly, a rank 2 truth-finder Magus had killed one of the Pink Stork Dragons. As a result, the Pink Stork Dragon fell into the death flames, and after blowing up a large area of buildings, it was revived. Although it had become very weak, it was still rescued by another Pink Stork Dragon.
This shocked all the wizards at the time.
The Fiery Bird's Death Flame was a self-destructing ability. The Fiery Bird would definitely die if it used it. However, the Pink Stork Dragon came back from the ashes after using the ability!
This battle established the name of "immortality"!
The ability to resurrect was naturally coveted by Magi, causing many Magi who thought they were strong to want to hunt the pink stork dragons. Whether or not these Magi succeeded in their hunt was not worth mentioning. However, there was a grudge between the pink stork dragons and the Southern Region Magi. As long as one encountered a pink stork dragon in the Abyss, there would be no good ending.
Before going to the Abyss Abyss, Madelyne warned him to avoid Pink Stork Dragons at all costs.
Even a truth-finder wizard would not want to face a Pink Stork Dragon that had a violent personality and could use death flames to come back to life in the end.
It could be said that although the Pink Stork Dragon was a dragon beast, it was more troublesome to deal with than many Abyssal Dragons.
The Pink Stork Dragon statue Barregon was facing was indeed a "baby". An adult Pink Stork Dragon was at least 20 to 30 meters tall. Shi Zhen wasn't lying about this.
However, Shi Le wanted Barregon to accept the statue's test. What would this test be?
Was he going to ask Barregon to fight the statue?
If that was the case, Angor would have to light a candle for Barregon. Pink Stork Dragons were not to be underestimated even though they were just babies. Death Flame could be activated regardless of age.
With great curiosity, Angor waited for the "test" to come.
Finally, when Barregon approached the statue, the Pink Stork Dragon began to emit a bright light. A message unique to the Wonderland also appeared from the Pink Stork Dragon's body, which pointed at Barregon.
Angor activated his Wonderland Authority to analyze the message as soon as he saw it.
The result was as follows:
[The Pink Stork Dragon's test will begin after the ten-second countdown. ]
[The challenger needs to stand within the range of the light to confirm whether the test will begin.] ]
[Current countdown: 10 seconds]
[Current countdown: 9 seconds]
[Current countdown: 8 seconds]
"…"
The message was telling Barregon that the statue would not force him to take the test. Instead, there would be a ten-second countdown. If he stepped out of the range of the light within ten seconds, the test would end.
However, the message still did not specify what the test was.
Angor had to keep waiting.
Barregon also saw the message in his mind. Instead of stepping out of the range of the light, he moved closer to the Pink Stork Dragon. His eyes were filled with fighting spirit.
Barregon thought the same as Angor. He also believed that the test was to fight against the Pink Stork Dragon.
It did not know the Pink Stork Dragon, nor did it know its abilities, but it was not afraid. This was a kind of confidence and also a kind of pride. However, Barregon had apparently forgotten that it had the right to be proud in the real world. In the Dream Crystal, it was not much stronger than the ordinary natives.
Soon, the ten-second countdown came to an end.
When the countdown reached zero, Barregon felt his surroundings suddenly changed. Not only was there no mist in the sky, but he was also no longer on the gravel ground. Instead, he was inside a large cave.
The cave was spacious and quiet.
It was so quiet that he could even hear footsteps.
Barregon raised his head in alarm and looked towards the source of the footsteps. He saw a pink figure slowly walking toward him from the darkness.
…
"What's going on?" Angor looked at the scene in front of him in a daze.
The ten-second countdown was over. Where was the test?
In Angor's vision, Barregon did not move at all. The statue was still glowing, but nothing else.
Neither the statue nor Barregon sensed any ripples from the message.
Angor could not stop the test even if he wanted to.
What the hell is going on?
As Angor tried to figure out what was going on, he saw Barregon slowly closing his eyes as if he had fallen into a sweet dream.
Could the statue's test be carried out in a deeper dream? Or in his mind space? Or maybe it was a test he had never heard of before?
Angor did not know if he was right. He could only keep staring at Barregon.
Time ticked by.
A quarter of an hour later, he finally noticed something strange on Barregon's body. A vague message about a fairyland appeared in front of Barregon's head and stopped right between his eyebrows.
Without any hesitation, he immediately controlled his Authority to observe the new information.
Soon, the message was analyzed.
A simple line of words: "1% completion".
Just as he finished analyzing this message, a new message appeared: "Progress: 7%."
His guess was correct. Barbagon was indeed taking the test in a certain space in Angor's mind.
Otherwise, why would there be a Completion Rate notification?
Only when Barregon was taking the test, and the test was still going on, would the rate change.
According to Time Poison, Barregon could only pass the test by reaching 80% completion.
He already confirmed his theory, but he still could not see what Barbaregon's test was about. Who knew when Barbaregon would reach 80%?
Besides, he did not know if Barregon's test was dangerous or not.
After all, a test in a consciousness dimension was different from other tests.
The existence of the Dream Crystal and the Dream Wasteland was driven by memories and consciousness. If something went wrong, it could affect the real world.
Angor was hesitating. Should he contact Barregon?
Would Barbagon be able to receive the call in his consciousness?
Also, should he continue to wait here? Or should he go to the tree of authority to check if the test was safe?
While he was hesitating, Barregon suddenly opened its eyes.
"What's going on? I failed? The completion rate is only 20%? "The childish voice exclaimed in surprise.
"I've clearly worked very hard to comprehend it. Why is my progress so slow?" After the female voice on the left finished speaking, she looked to the right. "You were in a daze just now. Can't you help me comprehend it?"
"I'm trying too. But I can't get anything!" A buzzing sound came from his right head. As he retorted, he sighed helplessly, "Why is the statue's test for us to comprehend? My brain isn't good. I'd rather fight with it."
"You're the one who's stupid. Don't speak for me!"
"So what are you going to do now? Keep going? "
The female voice on the left: "Didn't Shi Zhen say that there are only three chances? It's better to be cautious. How about we take a break? "
"We can rest, but we can't activate our titles without passing the test. And we can't leave this place without a title. We have to rest here."
"Well, we can always go offline," the right head said.
"No. We'll be admitting defeat if we go offline now."
The main head also said in a childish voice, "That's right. Luigi gave us the login device because he wanted us to enter this dragon tomb. If I can't even pass the first statue … I can already imagine Luigi's mocking laughter."
After the three heads argued with each other, they finally decided not to go offline, but to rest for a while.
They needed to digest what they learned so far and move on to the next test.
After deciding on their strategy, Barregon moved away from the statue's light and closed his eyes to rest.
Angor saw it all.
Barregon's claim that "Luigi sent him to explore the tomb" was a misunderstanding. Even Luigi didn't know about this strange "Misty Isle Dragon's Tomb".
However, putting this misunderstanding aside, based solely on the conversation between the three heads of Barregon, the test it went through seemed to be a test of "comprehension."
If that was the case, Barregon's consciousness wouldn't be damaged.
But it was hard to say if he wanted to pass the test.
After all, something like comprehension ability was too mysterious.
…
Angor glanced at Barregon one last time before looking away from Box Ting.
Based on what he knew, the tomb wasn't too dangerous for now. However, this was only a temporary judgment. He would have to search for more information later.
As for Barregon, he shouldn't have any problems for now. Only the first statue might be a little difficult.
The first challenge only gave him 20% completion rate, and Barregon only had two chances left. It wouldn't be easy for him to reach 80%.
If it was Tomorrow Town and Uriel's decision, he could still help them out by using his "cheat code".
But now, he didn't even know what the specific test method was for this "consciousness test," let alone help.
Still, he could still help Barregon even if he couldn't help Barregon in the outside world.
The simplest and most direct method was to let Cuculus or Luskania enter the Misty Island Dragon Tomb.
Both of them were cave dragons, which perfectly met the requirements to enter the tomb.
As long as they could meet up with Barregon and discuss the challenge together, they should be able to pass the test.
But now, there were two problems in front of him.
Would Cuculus be willing to enter the tomb?
Would Barregon really be willing to fight alongside Kukulus after seeing him?
(End of Chapter)
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