The ruins of Tiamat, the central area, the temple of the dragon.
The hall was filled with a strange aura of blood and incense, and an unquenchable flame hung in the air, illuminating the Shura field below.
Dozens of corpses of lodging people on the floor, including kobolds and stoneblind barbarians, and even more human children, their pale faces frozen in despair, their childish eyes wide, as if they couldn't believe that such cruelty could be done in the world.
Murmurs of blood trickle into the center of the hall through cobweb-like textures that spread across the ground, drenching the altar's base in scarlet.
Directly opposite the altar was a golden incense burner, and Agatha, the "Dragon Toucher", held the dragon emblem in her left hand, chanting prayers constantly, and sometimes grabbing an expensive piece of incense to fill the furnace.
In order to complete the blood sacrifice ritual, the temple of the dragon must be included in the "evil house", for which Agatha has been praying for a whole day and night, and there is only one last step left before the spell is successful.
Lorenzo crouched in the corner of the hall, throwing his dagger in boredom.
On the other side of the altar, Nero, the "skinning baron", was dressed in red and was spotless, standing with his hands in his hands for a long time staring at the altar, as if he had become a statue.
Ten feet above the altar, a beautiful and strange orb was suspended, which at first glance looked colorless and transparent, but on closer inspection, it showed red, blue, green, black, and white aura, forming a hemispherical wall of light, enveloping the altar below.
On the altar was a scepter, more than two feet long, carved with a red dragon claw with distinct scales, which caught Nero's gaze.
Lorenzo stood up and stretched, walked behind Nero, looked at the dragon's claw scepter on the altar and muttered, "This is what we have worked so hard to find" Nero bowed slightly: "That's right, this is the artifact called the Blood Claw, close at hand, but far away in the world." ” His words contain a lot of emotion, but also reveal the longing of his heart.
Ever since he lost to Andrea of Flame Strike two years ago for the position of "Red Dragon General", he has always been reluctant to gain more power.
Shortly afterward, Mars Bloodscale, the supreme leader of the Dragon's Eye, was given a special mission: to travel to the Settlement Territory to find the lost dragon artifact.
In order to accomplish this task, Nero collected and rummaged through numerous ancient documents, and spent an expensive "Otherworldly Exploration" scroll seeking clues from the gods and demons of the outer planes, and finally clarified his thoughts.
Two epochs ago, before the Arcane Empire was born, the evil dragon believers of Tiamat were the masters of the Atlas Continent, and later the five-colored dragons and the metal dragons created by the platinum dragon god Bahamut clashed for a long time and both sides were defeated, and the human arcanists took the opportunity to rise up and united the metal dragons to launch a counterattack against the five-colored dragons at the end of the Dragon Age.
The war dragged on for many years, and Tiamat's descendants were defeated and defeated, and gradually declined.
In order to salvage her decline, the Mother of the Dragon, far away in the bottomless abyss, created four artifacts and bestowed them on her mortal heirs.
The first artifact, called the "Scaly Armor Heaven", was a huge aerial fortress, covered with steel armor as thick as dragon scales, and equipped with 360 magic crystal city breakers, both in defense and firepower, far superior to the Cloud Tower and even the Floating City created by the human Grand Arcanists at that time.
The second artifact, called the Black Egg, is capable of absorbing the souls of the dead and transforming them into pure divine energy, which can be used to quickly create powerful dragons.
Black eggs cannot exist on their own, and can only function normally when they are carried inside the "Scaly Armor Heaven", producing a steady stream of dragons.
The third artifact is called the "Blood Claw", which is the scepter that is placed on the altar at this moment.
The Blood Claw has two functions: first, it can punish dragon-blooded creatures, so that they cannot be resurrected; Secondly, it is a key to activate the black egg, and the black egg cannot work without it.
Tiamat's original intention to create the "Blood Claw" was to punish the metal dragons and their hybrid mongrels, absorbing their souls as the energy of the black egg, but the power of this artifact is too powerful, and it can also hurt the five-colored dragon clan, not to mention that with the blood claw, she can control the black egg, and the black egg can control the scale armor sky, she has to worry about the blood claw falling into the hands of the enemy, causing an unimaginable chain reaction.
She eventually created an artifact called the Eye of Tiamat, a forehead ornament that grants the wearer powerful spell-casting abilities, and more importantly, seals the Bloodclaw from being abused.
Tiamat's "double insurance" failed to save the five-colored dragon from dominance in the world.
The Arcanists did the opposite, first trying to assassinate Dionysus, the original wielder of the Mother of Dragons and the original holder of the Eye of Tiamat, and then successfully sealing the Bloodclaw with the help of the magic of the Eye of Tiamat.
Without the Blood Claw, the Black Egg could not produce a steady stream of dragons, and the Scaly Armor suffered from a lack of troops, and finally lost the decisive battle with the Great Floating City "Laputa", burning and escaping into the Star Boundary, where his whereabouts have been unknown ever since.
After the end of the war, the Arcanists split the "Eye of Tiamat" into two parts, one part was an ordinary forehead ornament without any magical powers, which was given to a female legendary Grand Arcanist for safekeeping, and the other part was a gem dedicated to sealing the "Blood Claw", which is the orb "Warlock Heart" suspended above the altar at the moment.
The Arcanists did this to be on the safe side: it was useless to get the forehead ornament alone; It's impossible to get the Warlock's Heart alone, unless you're wearing a forehead ornament, otherwise as soon as you get close to the Warlock's Heart, you'll be instantly dissociated into dust.
The "Dragon Queen's Forehead Ornament" and the "Warlock's Heart" are placed separately to ensure the safety of the Bloodclaw Seal, and never bring the terrifying steel fortress "Scaly Armor Heaven" back to the world, and do not let the evil "Black Egg" run again, creating an infinite dragon to destroy the world.
Countless years passed quietly, the Arcane Age replacing the Dragon Age, and the Holy Light Age replacing the Arcane Age.
To this day, few people still remember the Great War, let alone the Bloodclaw, the Black Egg, the Scaly Celestial, and the Eye of Tiamat.
Until Nero rediscovered this dusty history.
Nero longed for the "Blood Claw" and longed for this artifact that could take the souls of dragon-blood creatures.
With "Bloodclaw", who cares about "Andrea of Flame Strike" If that pretentious woman refuses to bow down to him, Nero doesn't mind tearing her beautiful and arrogant face with "Bloodclaw".
However, as I said earlier, Bloodclaw was close to him, but far away.
Unless the seal is broken, any attempt to touch the Bloodclaw is self-defeating.
In order to break the seal, he first has to get the "Dragon Queen Forehead Ornament".
After the fall of the Arcane Empire, one of its descendants migrated to the mountains of the Far Southeast, calling themselves "Lighthouse Wizards".
After careful investigation, Nero learned that Tiamat's dragon queen forehead ornament is still preserved on Beacon Hill, and that the owner is a descendant of the female arcanist who was responsible for keeping the dragon queen's forehead in the first place, and her name is "Nikita".
Nero needed Nikita and her forehead ornament to unlock the blood claw seal, but he also knew that Nikita's status in the Far Eastern Lighthouse was noble, and it was impossible for him to come to the door to ask for it, because the relationship between the "Dragon's Eye" and the "Far Eastern Lighthouse" was tense, and it was unlikely that they would talk about cooperation, so he had to settle for the next best thing and come up with a plan to "lure the snake out of the hole".
Through the information channel of the Dragon's Eye, he revealed the general location of the location of the "Warlock's Heart" to Nikita, and when Nikita learned the news, of course she would use a prophecy spell to confirm the authenticity, and this was indeed true.
The art of lying is to reveal only part of the truth without telling you what is hidden.
Once people are wary, they get carried away by greed, and Nero believes that the witch in red who has no deep knowledge of the world is no exception.
Following this clue to trace the exact location of the gem, she soon discovered that Nero had deliberately spread the new information that the gem was located in the ruins of the Temple of Tiamat, deep in a kobold lair.
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Nikita is a wizard of spelling, but she is still young and sometimes naïve, and when she realizes that the gem is only infested with weak kobolds and stoneblind barbarians, she decides to go on a treasure hunt alone.
Indeed, kobolds or stoneblind barbarians are unlikely to pose any threat to the genius witches, but Nikita doesn't know that there is more to her future.
Just as Nikita was about to leave, Nero and his two right-hand men had already made a lot of preparations for unlocking the Bloodclaws, the most important of which was to massacre the inhabitants of the lumberyards and kidnap children as sacrifices, just waiting for Nikita to send her to the door and contribute the last key to unlock the seal.
"Our program is generally going well, except for a few minor surprises."
Thinking of Nikita and Roland coming together, Nero couldn't help but frown.
"You mean the troublemakers," Lorenzo looked confused, "you ordered the Stoneblind Barbarians to hunt down those people, and you didn't worry about Nikita being implicated, and if she was killed by the Stoneblind Barbarians, or escaped back to Lighthouse Hill injured, wouldn't it be in vain." ” Nero shook his head and sneered: "I have ordered the rotten blood to test their weight, the result is somewhat unexpected, those people have not only solved the rotten blood, but have not yet lost manpower, the strength should not be underestimated, and now join forces with Nikita, how can the stone blind barbarians deal with me I just use the stone blind barbarians to delay their footsteps, and buy enough time for Agatha to transform this Fenglong Temple into an evil residence." ” Lorenzo shrugged, "Those guys better not wait too long in the Stoneblind Barbarian camp, the thing I hate the most is waiting." ” Nero smiled dumbly: "Are you bored, then help me do something." ” "What's the matter?"
Nero pointed to the corpses on the ground: "Pick a few corpses that look relatively healthy and collect them together." ” "What are you going to do with these corpses?"
asked Lorenzo curiously.
"While there is still a little free time, I will use these by-products of the blood sacrifice to make a golem and guard the gate of the Fenglong Palace, so that no one sneaks in and causes trouble."
With that, Nero opened a thick magic book and began chanting an ancient dragon incantation
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