The double pressure pressed down on Brando at the same time, almost immobilizing him. However, his mind did not stop as he racked his brains to find a way to escape.
They were indeed looking for Halran Gaia —
However, it was only a damaged weapon after all. Although it was said to be the only important symbol of the Earth Holy Temple out of the three Divine Artifacts, that was something that happened nearly a thousand years ago. In these thousand years, the Earth Holy Temple's decline was not because of the loss of the three Divine Artifacts, but because they had violated the sacred covenant back then. Since that was the case, even if it was the Earth Holy Temple
Even if Halran Gaia returned to the Temple of Earth, it would be useless.
Moreover, the dragons did not believe in Gaia. They were the people of the sky. If the three dragons were banished to the ground and became believers of the Temple of Earth, Brando would never believe such a ridiculous thing.
But if that was the case, why would they come here personally to look for Halran Gaia, even going against the oath of the dragons to leave Jorgendy Ridge?
Finally, was this sword the reason why the people of Jorgendy Ridge started the war?
What Brando wanted to confirm now was how important Halran Gaia was to these dragons, and whether he could use it to threaten them. After all, Halran Gaia was still in his Dimension Hole. If he died, although the Dimension Hole would not be destroyed by the loss of mana, the things inside it might not be able to be kept. If one or two items were lost in the space vortex, it would be a good thing.
If he happened to have Halran Gaia, the dragons would not be able to accept it.
The key question was whether they dared to take the risk. If Halran Gaia was not that important to them, they might not care about such a risk.
However, Brando felt that the possibility of this was very small.
"Should I call you Gwendolyn or Fusia, the respected dragon lady?" These thoughts ran through his mind, but he didn't show them on his face. He didn't even frown as he asked calmly.
"You do know a lot. I am related to Fusia, but it is not her." The dragon queen did not seem to care about this little secret. She narrowed her eyes and replied bluntly.
Is he Fuxia's descendant?
Brando paused for a moment, thinking that this explanation was more plausible. After all, the Evil Dragon Fusia had been sealed a thousand years ago, and it was impossible for her to sneak out without the dragons noticing. Not to mention, the Buga people were involved in the sealing as well. These craftsmen sorcerers who claimed that they did not interfere with the affairs of the mortal world had set up all sorts of monitoring points all over the world to observe the mortal world.
The Lower Realm.
He didn't know why Fusia was sealed, so he couldn't be sure of Gwendolyn's attitude. But this had nothing to do with him, so he pondered for a moment before continuing.
"The thing you are looking for, according to the mortals and dwarves, is called Halran Gaia, or Halran Gaia. It is indeed with me. However, Halran Gaia had been permanently damaged a thousand years ago. Although it was known as the symbol of the Earth Holy Temple, it didn't seem to be the original meaning of its existence. It was just a far-fetched meaning added to it by the later generations. It's there.
In this world, it's the same as many famous swords that are known as sacred swords. I don't think it's worthy of the Dragon Queen's personal visit … "
"Kid, you talk a lot of nonsense." Modesty interrupted him impatiently. "You're still stalling for time. Do you think you still have a chance to turn the tables?"
"No, it's just a mortal's curiosity." Brando was shocked and quickly explained.
"Idle curiosity," Modesty replied.
Brando looked at Gwendolyn. He didn't care about the answer to the question, but the latter's attitude. It didn't matter if she answered him or not, as long as she made a statement, it was enough.
Gwendolyn, as usual, didn't care about his little thoughts, as if she had unlimited time and didn't mind Brando stalling for a little longer. She replied coldly, "How can divine artifacts be destroyed so easily? They are the symbols of Tiamat. Every divine artifact corresponds to the most basic laws of this world.
The change of order, and in these changes, the fate of mortals will be changed. "
"Although Halran Gaia is damaged, the laws it represents still exist. It has reappeared in the world through your hands, which means it has a mission that must be completed." The corner of the Dragon Queen's mouth rose slightly, as if it was a silent mockery. "Unless Tiamat wants to change the world, divine artifacts won't appear so easily. They are the key to changing the future, and you think it's a broken
Piece of scrap metal. "
Brando's heart skipped a beat.
It wasn't that he hadn't heard of this before. Among the players in the other world, this saying was also very popular. Because in The Amber Sword, divine artifacts were very difficult to destroy. To destroy a divine artifact, one often had to meet all kinds of conditions, and the condition to destroy Halran Gaia was to throw it into the Lake of Beginnings deep in the earth. But it was no ordinary lake, but the core of the earth.
A sea of magma, about which only people had ever heard of, and no one had ever seen it.
So, Halran Gaia was always damaged, and never destroyed. Then there was a problem.
Could the damaged Halran Gaia bring about the so-called divine artifact mission like other divine artifacts?
According to the game, the divine artifact mission was a kind of mission that rewarded in advance. The divine artifact was the final reward of the mission, but you could get it first. Because of the uniqueness of the divine artifact (the sub-divine artifact did not have this characteristic), the subsequent missions were often astonishingly difficult and wide-ranging, and often even permanently changed the history of a region or even a country.
。 Just like the twenty-four Rings of the Wind Empress, or the fragments of the Flaming Blade, it was a mission that could definitely cause an earthquake in the power core of Saint-ausol or the Cruz Empire.
But the problem was that Halran Gaia was a broken divine artifact. Its power was in fact only at the upper level of a fantasy weapon, and was not even comparable to most of the legendary equipment, such as the powerful Demon Slayer Spear.
Therefore, if the Halran Gaia also brought the same difficult mission challenge to the wielder, the design, while realistic, was a little too unreasonable.
Brando had not thought about the problems of this world from the perspective of the game recently, but when Gwendolyn said this, out of survival instinct, he immediately thought of this possibility: Could it be that all this was the chain of the Halran Gaia's mission? No, impossible. He shook his head. The implications were too broad. Jorgendy Ridge invaded Cruz.
Because this level of historical change could only be the advancement of history brought about by the chapter change in the game. Just like from the legend of the Stag and the Empire to the era of war and chaos, and then the War Slate was unearthed for the first time, triggering the return of the Silver Folk to the mortal world, and thus the Second Era.
Everything that was happening now was very likely to be such a sign.
Brando felt that the most likely to cause all of this should be the Azure Lance, and not the Halran Gaia.
He pondered for a while, and finally made a decision. He slowly raised his hand, and a black line appeared in the palm of his hand. At that moment, Gwendolyn and Modesty both saw the thing clearly. "Dimension Hole!" Gwendolyn obviously did not expect Brando to have such a thing. This was not the Amber Sword game. In the game, Dimension Holes and Dimensional Bags were commonplace.
The equipment was more common among the players because the former was sold in the game store. The game company could not really let the players drive a fleet of cars and wander around with big and small bags on their backs.
But in fact, in the background of the story, Dimension Holes were a relatively rare thing. Just think of its original owner — a high-ranking priest of the Holy Cathedral of Fire, who was also a core member of All for One, and it went without saying that he only had one.
Dimension Holes were not rare for the dragon race, but the dragon queen did not expect that a mere count of a border kingdom would have such a thing.
"No wonder," Modesty screamed. "Yesterday, Malthus and I clearly felt the aura of the Halran Gaia, but it disappeared in an instant. It must be you!"
Gwendolyn interrupted her, and looked at Brando with some surprise. "You felt Modesty and Malthus's tracking of the Halran Gaia, how far were they from you?"
Modesty also reacted. "No, no, he was not too close to us, or Malthus and I would not have lost him. Even if he put the Halran Gaia into the Dimension Hole, we could still find him based on the aura of the Halran Gaia before it disappeared. He must have been quite a distance away when he found us."
"Interesting." The female black dragon stared at Brando with burning eyes. "Little worm, it seems that you have many secrets."
Gwendolyn frowned, and only asked one question. "You are the descendant of that human?"
Brando was slightly stunned, and instinctively realized who she was asking. He raised his head and looked at the legendary dragon queen in disbelief.
"What!" Modesty was shocked. "He is related to that guy?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about, my lady." Brando said in a low voice.
At this time, he knew that he could not escape, so he put down Kiyara and the Elf. The latter two were shivering, either from fear or from the cold. The merchant lady who jumped down from his shoulder seemed to be particularly energetic. She looked at Ge with a mixture of fear, caution, and curiosity. She looked at Ge with a look that was a mixture of fear, caution, and curiosity.
Gwendolyn, and then looked at Modesty behind her.
Then she quickly realized that the two Dragons' gazes, which had been on Brendel all this time, had actually shifted to her.
At this moment, even the heartless Romaine could not help but hide behind Brando.
Both Modesty and Gwendolyn looked at the Roman, and the latter spoke again. "You know who I am asking about. Human, your grandfather. You humans call him the Sacred Swordsman Darius, but we call him the Dragon of Harrag. You should understand what I mean."
Although Brando had expected this, his heart could not help but beat violently. The Dragon of Harrag — he vaguely remembered that he had heard this name before. "You know my grandfather?"
Although he asked this verbally, he had vaguely connected the scattered clues into a complete line in his heart.
Whether it was the princess or Lady Veronica, they had mentioned that the dragons were behind the changes in the Holy War, and the two dragons in front of him — along with Malthus — were obviously the truth. The reason why they were exiled was self-evident. Although he still did not know when they were exiled, he could make a guess.
The time when the dragons were exiled was obviously not long, and their names were not mentioned in the history of the war under Jorgendy Ridge. If they were exiled within a hundred years, then the most likely time was between sixty to forty years ago.
That was the time when the Holy War happened.
The three of them were the ones who experienced the incident, and might even be the key figures in it. What did they do to be exiled?
But this time, Gwendolyn was silent, and only answered briefly. "We are not familiar with each other, but we do know each other."
"What happened back then?" Brando asked tentatively.
"There are some things you better not know." Gwendolyn's tone was a little gentler. "We owe your grandfather a favor, and for this favor, if you hand over Halran Gaia today, we can let you go. As long as you take your people and leave Cruz immediately, everything that happened here will have nothing to do with you from now on."
She looked up and looked at Modesty opposite her. "Modesty?"
The female Black Dragon replied unwillingly, "Alright, I'll listen to you."
[Even the Dragon Race owes him a favor!] Brendel did not expect his grandfather to be so awesome! But on the one hand, he was a little unhappy. The dragons also owed the Silver Queen a favor, and then they helped the latter to ascend the throne. This was not a small matter, because it not only involved the replacement of the throne of a huge empire like Cruz, but also involved the balance of the mortal world.
The Bugas would never stand by and watch the balance between the mortal forces. The Silver Folk and the Golden Folk had agreed in the Sacred Covenant that they would no longer be involved in mortal affairs. For the Dragon Clan to do so, they had to at least convince the Bugas and the Silver Elves.
The dragons paid such a high price to return the favor to the Silver Queen, and his grandfather, not only was he blamed and wronged, he was an Extreme Swordsman, but he was actually a nameless miller for the rest of his life, and his grandfather's lifespan was almost the same as an ordinary person's. You can imagine the price he paid back then, and the difference in treatment.
It was a little too big.
The worst thing was that Brando, who was supposed to be of noble birth, the grandson of Swordsman Darius, was reduced to being a militia in a barren place like Bucce.
This has got to be a joke.
Of course, Brando's heart was just a little scornful. After all, if history had developed this way, he might not have been able to come to this world.
What he was really unhappy about was the attitude of Gwendolyn and Modesty at this moment —
He shook his head gently, "Lady Gwendolyn, I don't expect you to return any favors. Although I really don't want to get involved in the muddy waters of the Cruz Empire, before you ask me to leave here, you'd better listen to my request."
"Oh?" Modesty was slightly startled. She did not expect this little bug-like guy to dare to make conditions to them. She asked with some amusement, "What are your conditions? Let's hear them."
"My request is very simple. I came to the Empire to bring back a person," Brando replied.
It was not that Brando could not turn around and leave. He and the princess both knew that the so-called envoy group was just a sham. As long as he could bring back Scarlet, he could not be bothered to go to Rushta to see Her Majesty the Queen. But as long as Scarlet was still in the Empire, he would never turn back. Whether there was a dragon in front of him or something else, it did not mean anything to Brando.
It did not mean anything.
Gwendolyn thought for a moment and understood what he was referring to. The dragon queen seemed to know everything that happened in the Empire during this period. She shook her head and said, "I'm afraid not. She is not important, but the important thing is the Azure Lance. You should know her value to Cruz. The Silver Queen will not let her go. This woman is a danger to you.
Trouble, I advise you to stay away from her. "
Brando could still maintain his calm, but when he heard this, he could not help but be angry. Mortals were afraid of dragons, but he was not. He coldly corrected Gwendolyn, "She is my friend, not trouble. This so-called trouble is forced on her by the bandits of Cruz."
"So what?" Gwendolyn's face was cold, "The Empire is stronger than you. You can only accept this fact in front of them."
Brando took a deep breath, "But the Empire is also your enemy, isn't it? The Azure Lance is not important to me. I only want the person. You are determined to get the Staff of Halran Gaia, so you will not let go of the Azure Lance."
Gwendolyn shook her head without hesitation.
"That's impossible."
"Why?" Brando was a little confused. He wondered if these dragons were crazy. The way they did things was simply unbelievable. In his opinion, since they had the same enemy and shared the same interests, not to mention that they owed his grandfather a favor, it was reasonable for them to cooperate. But the other party not only refused, but also refused.
So resolutely.
"Because it is too troublesome," Gwendolyn replied, "We are not short of help."
"So this is your way of returning the favor? How unique! "Brando replied coldly.
"Think what you will." Gwendolyn remained cold, "As I said, because we are stronger than you, you must accept this fact."
Brendel sneered, thinking that these two female lizards thought that he was begging them, "It seems that you two think you're going to get it?"
"Is it not?" Modesty replied in a shrill voice, "I can't think of any other tricks you can play."
"That is because your brain is too slow," Brando replied mercilessly, "The Staff of Halran Gaia is in the Dimensional Cave. If you think you have it, you can come kill me and take it away yourself. Ladies, you can try."
Gwendolyn and Modesty were stunned.
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