The thing that Darkus was holding was a rare thing. After taking a look at it, the knowledgeable Colonia concluded that the thing in his hand was a whale's tooth. The craftsmanship came from the classical elven era. There are many ways to do it, such as not All species of whales have teeth and so on.
But this is not important. What is important is that this whale tooth, which is about 20 centimeters long, was made into a cylinder that can accommodate rectangular objects. The surface is covered with patterns and paintings. Darkus looked at it carefully for a while. The tube depicts a battle between elves and dwarves, which seems to be a duel, and the elves are very distinctive, typical of the nobles of the Kingdom of Caledor.
"This shouldn't be Tethaniel." After looking around, Darkus didn't rush to open the lid. Besides, he couldn't open it. He handed the cylinder to Colonia, who was lying weakly on the table. .
Who is Tethaniel? Why is there another name? This name is rarely called, and he also has a more widely known name: Caledor II, yes, the Caledor II who went to war with the dwarves.
But the same elf has different titles and names in different regions. Druchi, who never recognizes these Phoenix Kings, calls them by their names directly. Darkus, who is Druchi, is no exception. He has no reason to be in Duruchi. Called Caledor II in front of the Rukis.
"It doesn't look like it." Colonia put the cylinder on the table, turned it around and said.
Although Colonia has returned to the mortal world for more than a month, she still has not recovered. The shock to her soul and the overloaded magic after Hecate possessed her soul have been traumatized. Fortunately, Lilith has given her She took another sip, which prevented her from collapsing immediately.
Belloda, who had woken up, was lying on the table with her eyes blankly, looking at the cylinder blankly. After seeing the paintings on the cylinder, her dull pupils refocused and followed the rotating cylinder. It turned. She felt like she had seen the painting in front of her somewhere before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
"If it's not Tethanil, then it's Imladric?" Darkus said casually. In his impression, the only Caledor nobles who dueled with the dwarves were these two brothers. The one in Barak ·The Asur elves who were poisoned at Haimen Pass did not seem to have a duel with the dwarves. Instead, they were pushed directly into the pool filled with poison by Molkin and drowned.
Not only Asur of Ulthuan knows about these bad things, but Druchi of Naggaroth also knows. To know the intelligence of Ulthuan...
Asanok, who is also present, knows about Imradric. After all, Imrad The relationship between Derek and Leandra was known to all Assur in Ersin Alvin at that time, and it was a topic that Nitule, the elves, talked about, but that was the extent of it. However, Belloda's reaction was different. It was as if a keyword had been triggered. She thought of something at this moment.
"I have seen..."
"What? Have you seen Imradric? Could it be that you also came from that era?" Darkus teased with a shocked expression.
"I have seen... Sorior's memoirs... in my family's library... the illustrations in it are exactly the same as what we see now..." Belloda looked at Darkus unhappily. After one glance, he spoke weakly and intermittently.
Who the hell is Soriol? He was a scholar of Tal Alessi, the place the dwarves besieged after destroying Kor Varnas. Thanks to Leandra's advance report, Tal Alessi was prepared. At that time, he was inexplicably recruited as an archer to go up the city wall to defend against the dwarves. Because of his injury, Imradric went crazy. He let Imradric control the dragon to spray the dwarves of Tal Alessi, which caused the dwarf attack to suffer huge losses. Let the dwarves see the power of the dragon.
Why is Imradric so mad? Because Sorior is Imradric's son...but he was not born to Leandra, but to Imradric's real wife.
The elves present looked at Belloda. The Druchi knew a little bit about the battle of revenge, but most of them were fragmented words. The Enils, whose ancestors had also experienced the battle of revenge, also looked at her with curious eyes.
Belloda raised his head and began to speak feebly.
Sorior's life is also quite interesting. His grandfather is Caledor I the Conqueror, and his uncle is Caledor II. Although his father is not the Phoenix King, he is a famous Dragon Master. His mother, Jessenil, was a well-known master of knowledge in Cosqui.
As for why Belloda saw Sorior's Memoirs in the family library instead of in the White Tower of Hos, that's because Jessenil comes from Belloda's Bailang family...the
inheritance of the Caledor family is Soriol's father wanted him to follow his father's footsteps and become a dragon prince. However, although he is a child of the Tal Caledor family, he wants to become a scholar and master of knowledge like his mother. However, his mother does not support him and instead supports him to inherit his father's legacy.
Then, Sorior began to learn about dragons with his parents' expectations, but he always suspected that he was not the material. When his father thought the time was right, he and his father went to the mountains of Caledor where the dragons roamed, and then the ritual failed. There are many problems. It may be that he has always doubted himself and is not firm. It could also be that there was some problem with the dragon in the ritual with him, but that's not important. What's important is that he failed.
To escape his feelings of failure and helplessness, Soriol seeks refuge in alcohol in a tavern. Three days later he woke up on a ship bound for Ersin Alvin. Then he became an archer inexplicably and muddle-headedly. The new life allowed him to get rid of the doubts and insecurities about his own existence. He did not tell the true identity of his companions, but lived anonymously with his companions. train.
While defending Tal Alessi, Thorior was seriously injured. At that time, Imradric was fighting on the back of the dragon Drauken. Lauken smelled Thorior's blood and informed Imradric.
At first, Imradric was confused by Drakken's words because he thought his son was still safe in Ulthuan, but when he saw Sorior, he became possessed by Cain and his anger spread. On to Drauken and the other fighting dragons, and then...
While recovering from their injuries, the father and son had a heated argument, with Thorior hoping to rejoin the archers after recovering, as he felt he was doing A commendable life of deeds, refusing the privileges that belonged to him as a prince. Of course, this is just a performance factor, and the deeper reason is that he believes that after the failure of the ritual, he is not worthy of becoming the Dragon Prince and unable to inherit the glory of the Tal Caledor family.
However, Imradric disagreed, always believing that his good brother was a fool and a warmonger, and saw through foreshadowing that the brothers were not destined to survive the storm. His brother has no heirs, and the next generation of the Tal Caledor family is only his son. He and his brother can die, but the family must continue.
After the heated argument, Imradric arranged for his advisor Karadrell to accompany Soriol back to Ulthuan.
"Wait... Caladrel, Caladrel from the Kingdom of Iris? Caladrel from the Vinniol family?" Asanoc, who was listening to Belloda's story, interrupted Belloda. words, said with some surprise.
"Before the Battle of Revenge, I went on missions with him on Karazha-a-Karaq more than once." After the elves present looked at Asanok, he had calmed down from the shock.
"Yes, Karadrell of the Vinior family in the Kingdom of Yris, what is your relationship with him? You don't seem to have introduced him before?" This time it was Darkus's turn to be shocked. He had felt the elf before. The elitism in society is too strong. People who are completely out of reach can easily connect with each other. In the end, we don’t know who we are but we talk about good guys. Imradric's wife came from the same family as Belloda, and Assanok, who then lived incognito as a hermit in Lauren Loren, still had these legendary experiences, he couldn't help but ask.
"He...he is my cousin, but we...what happened to him?"
"He became the fifth Phoenix King. Sorior, who was supposed to succeed the Phoenix King, declined and elected him to become the Phoenix King. ." This time it was Belloda's turn to be shocked again. She turned her head hard and looked at Asanok in surprise. She said when Asanok looked a little confused.
Beloda's words were greeted with boos from the Druchi, but for the sake of Darkus and Franais, they did not curse. In the eyes of the Druchi, these so-called Phoenix Kings are The false king, there is only one Phoenix King in their hearts! That is the noble and holy Majesty Malekith!
"The Weniol family has been extinct a long time ago. I didn't expect..." Beloda stopped talking at the end, but shook her head with a sigh. She also didn't expect that the Weniol family had become extinct a long time ago. There is actually a family member, and this family member has actually survived from the battle of revenge to the present, right in front of her. After she finished sighing, she continued to tell Sorior's deeds and the contents of his memoirs.
Soriol was devastated by his departure, and when he was reunited with his companions, they reproached him for concealing his true identity. He felt tortured in his heart, and he was ashamed of the treatment he received as a noble, because he could leave the colony, but his companions had to continue fighting, but all he could do was wish his companions good luck, and the result was His companions did not survive.
Thorior, his mother and Karadrel waited for Imradric's return in Ulthuan. As a result, Imradric did return, but in the form of a corpse. There was another duel with Malkin while Lagor, in which Imradric lost. Leandra, who witnessed all this, tied Imradric's body to Drauken's back. superior.
The death of his father ignited the cold fire in Sorior's heart, but he suppressed it because he knew that he could accomplish nothing. He was neither a dragon prince nor a general, and his academic skills and political acumen were not as good as his mother's. and Carla Drell.
Imradric's death brought great depression and grief to his family, including Caledor II. Soriol, as the sole heir of the family, was summoned to the Phoenix Court by Caledor II and brought him to the Phoenix Court. He was trained to be the heir to the Phoenix Throne. At that time, the Phoenix King's throne inheritance method became a family inheritance system, monopolized by the Tal Caledor family where the dragon tamer Caledor belongs. At first, he resisted because he did not want to inherit. What a Phoenix King, and he didn't want to have contact with his uncle. In his opinion, his uncle was a fool and an idiot, but Karadrell convinced him.
During this period, Sorior's life was not satisfactory. One was because of his own resistance, and the other was his sick uncle. Caledor II was sometimes harsh, sometimes indulgent, sometimes praising, and sometimes extremely possessive.
Fortunately, Soriol learned many of the intricacies of operation, the ability to navigate palace politics and intrigues, and the ability to discern thoughts under the company and guidance of Caradrell. It was at this time that he began to appreciate Karadrell and recognized Karadrell's abilities, leaving a foreshadowing for Karadrell to become the Phoenix King in the future.
However, life in the Phoenix Court was boring. Thorior had requested to return to Elsin Alvin many times, but was rejected by Caledor II. Many changes occurred during this period, and he was originally deployed in Elsin Alvin. Zin Alvin returned to Ulthuan one after another and stopped fighting for Assur. The dragon's behavior caused great panic in Ulthuan. He seized the opportunity and requested to return to Elzin Alvin again. His reason was that in addition to sending Ulthuan to strengthen its defenses, he, as the Phoenix King's nephew and future Phoenix King, would become a symbol in Elzin Alvin. , letting the colonial Asur know that they would not be abandoned by Ulthuan.
After some political exchanges, Thorior eventually returned to Elzin Alvin, on the condition that Caledor II return to Ulthuan after restoring the courage of the colonists. During this time, he learned of Elandriel's plans, about which he had conflicting feelings. On the one hand, this frightened him. His father had taught him from a young age to respect dragons and not regard them as subordinate beasts of the elves, but as noble creatures with whom they could form alliances.
But on the other hand, Thorior could not deny that the desperate situation called for drastic measures. The dragon conquered by Elendriel caused great damage to the dwarf army, hindered the dwarves' advance, and forced the dwarves to become more powerful. Proceeding with caution, it was also Elendriel's plan that saw him once again have the opportunity to become the Dragon Prince.
As the progress of the war became more and more unfavorable, Thorior decided to search for Drauken. After his father's death, Drauken had been hunting dwarves. He found the island where Drauken was located. He found Drauken. Ken's teeth, he looked at the teeth with greedy eyes, and he was going to give the teeth to Elendriel and use magic to create a magic item that would allow him to control Drakken to fight the dwarves.
Soriol fantasized about defeating the dwarves with the power of Drauken, being praised by his people, and becoming the new Dragon Master, but this idea only existed for a moment. When he came back to his senses, he realized what his thoughts were. Abominable. With tears in his eyes, he threw the tooth into the sea and watched it fall to the bottom.
Even to save Elzin Arwen, Thorior could not accept a path that desecrated his father's legacy and betrayed the ancient alliance between dragons and elves. His previous thought was that only Druchi would behave in a way that if Asul's behavior could not be better than Druchi's, then Asul should not exist and become Druchi. The Druchi who were listening silently to the story booed, and Cowell asked Belloda in a joking tone whether this was part of the original content of Soriol's memoirs, or whether Belloda was taking this opportunity to ridicule them. The teasing and quarreling continued for a while, but soon stopped, because they found that Darkus was not participating, but was looking at the sky above the golden pool with his arms folded and thinking deeply about something.
At this time, Darkos was conflicted in his heart. He was Druchi, but he was not Druchi. He always believed that what Druchi did was wrong, or that what he said was unreliable, and that it was only for a moment, not for a lifetime. . However, Druchi doesn't care about this. It's better to have it for a while than nothing. This is why Druchi still hopes to get a black dragon even though he knows that the black dragon is unreliable. Of course, this is also the reason why he has never had any interest in the black dragon. What idea reason.
Darkus could never find a reasonable path. Just as he said to Bagir, he could not let Malekith order the killing of all the black dragons. One of them was questioning Malekith, and the other was The powerful and fear lords would not agree either. Even after killing all the black dragons, he couldn't find any power to supplement. Are there a large number of pterosaurs or rhinosaurs in Lustria? There are still assault ships that never have a shadow. In his opinion, these are not as useful as the Manticore.
All that can be done is to use the stone slabs found on Obion Island to hatch the stone-like eggs of Naggaroth, but this will cause a lot of chain reactions. As for the red dragons in the old world, Darkus' head ached when he thought about it. He didn't know how to unfold it, especially since his soul bore the mark of a dragon slayer, was he going to find them one by one? Go talk one by one, or...
"Continue." After a moment, the silent Darkus spoke.
After Soriol decided, he started looking for Drauken's belongings and threw them into the sea so that Drauken wouldn't be controlled. While he was looking, Drauken came back. He is startled by Drauken's appearance, but Drauken calms him down and praises him for respecting his father. Drauken shared with him the Dragonsong of Imladric, a legacy left to him by his father.
Drauken explained that the relationship between them is that of a knight and a mount, which is why your ritual failed in the first place, because the dragons can smell your destiny, and those dragons are destined not to accept you as a rider.
After that, Thorior began to fight alongside Drauken, launching surprise attacks on the dwarves, causing heavy losses to the dwarf army. Although dwarves are stubborn, they are not fools. During this period, war equipment was developed one after another to fight against the dragon.
When Malkin besieged Tal Alesi again, Drauken was hit by an arrow from the rune ballista. Sorior and Drauken were surrounded by the dwarf army. During the battle, Soriol met Fuli. Rick was the dwarf ambassador who was shaved off by Caledor II when he was sent to Ulthuan. Furric, who became a butcher along the way, eventually fell under his sword.
After Furik's death, Malkin appeared and accused Soriol of killing Furik. Soriol, who also saw the sword belonging to Imradric on his belt, also accused him of killing Furik. Imradric. When he made a move on the unconscious Sorior, Drauken stopped him, and he was victorious. But instead of killing Soriol, he returned Imradric's sword to Soriol and sent Soriol back to the elves. This was an act of tribute to the elf who had once earned his respect and regarded him as a friend. He and Imradric were very good friends before the War of Longbeard, and he even climbed on the elf he had just killed. Drauken's back.
However, just after Molkin climbed onto Drauken's back, Drauken's keen sense of smell detected a faint unpleasant smell mixed in the breeze. This caused Drauken to stand up straight and spit a stream of fire into the air before searching for the source of the smell. Drakken's move almost hurt Snorri Halfhand, who was still on the ground. Imradric tried to apologize, but was met with abuse and humiliation from Snorri Halfhand, causing Malkin, who was caught in the middle, to He and Snorri Halfpaw walked to Karazha-a-Karak.
Drauken smelled the presence of Druch, it was the trio and the Shadows...
After learning that Sorior was injured, Caledor II led Ulthuan's army to Elsin. Arvin, upon arriving in Tal Alessi, was relieved to see Soriol alive and promised Soriol that he would kill Malkin to avenge Imradric.
However, Soriol realized that this was of no use and persuaded his uncle to end the war. But Caledor II refused, refusing to give up Elsin Arwen and expressing his unwillingness to have his pride crushed and haunted when he became the Phoenix King.
Then Caledor II died in a dispute with the dwarf High King Gotrek, who took the Phoenix Crown from his body as compensation for the dwarves' wrongs.
Caledor II's act of deploying Ulthuan's native troops allowed Malekith to see an opportunity. With the death of Caledor II, Caladrel hoped that Thorior would succeed the Phoenix King and become the fifth Phoenix King, but he refused, believing that his uncle's rule had caused great harm to Assur. Hurt and disaster, so he didn't want to inherit the Phoenix King throne. In his opinion, Ulthuan needs a Phoenix King who knows how to command armies and lead people, not just one who can win wars.
Thorior's decision surprised Caladreel, and he recommended Caladreel to the Council as a candidate to be the next Phoenix King.
Karadrell disagreed at first, believing that he could not become the Phoenix King, but Soriol told him that no one was more suitable to succeed him and suggested that he forge a new kingdom. Leave the old one to the dwarves as a warning to the Asurs: Pride comes with a price!
Beloda's rambling explanation directly drove the Druchs into isolation. Memoirs of this level are classified as internal reference and confidential. The Drukis knew that a member of a not-so-prominent family in the Kingdom of Yris succeeded the Phoenix King at that time, but they did not expect that there were so many stories and twists and turns. After all, there was no spy involved in such a conversation between the two of them. and historians can participate.
Darkus knew a little more. Malekith once talked to him about this matter. Malekith gave him the feeling that his mentality was exploding. He didn't know what Malekith would do after he knew about this. Maybe when he goes back, he should tell Malekith the story in reverse?
"Then what?" Darkus thought for a moment and then continued to ask.
Sorior, who had experienced many things, chose to go into seclusion after Caladrel became the Phoenix Queen. Under the guidance of his mother, he became a master of knowledge as he had dreamed of when he was young, and brought the tower to the world. The El Caledor family continues, and Imric at this time comes from his bloodline. By chance, he acquired an item from a refugee returning to Ulthuan from Tal Alessi.
The Assur refugee told Soriol about the situation during the retreat. A giant dragon in the sky went crazy after being shot by a dwarf's rune arrow. The dragons destroyed the retreating Assur ships one after another. And brutally killed the Dragon Prince in front of him. The Dragon Prince finally fell into the sea, but at the moment before, the item fell on the deck of the ship.
After hearing the refugees' stories, Soriol asked some more questions. He knew that the dragon prince who was brutally killed by the dragon was Elandriel. He knew that the dragon was not the fire dragon of Ulthuan, but It was the fire dragon that originally lived in Elsin Alvin. He had seen the red dragon when he was in Elsin Alvin. He and his father's companion were the largest, most powerful, and most magnificent fire dragons of their time, but that dragon was on par with Drauken.
In the Book of Hatred of the Dwarves, Drauken is called Uzku, which means death. And Elendak is called Malok, which means resentment.
Elendak means Dragon of Elandriel in Elthalin. After Elendak inflicted huge casualties on the dwarves, even the Assur who were in Elshin Alwen began to The red dragon was called by the name given to him by the dwarves, and soon the latter replaced the former, whose name was gradually forgotten over time.
After Soriol learned the information about the object, he asked for it and sealed it in the whale's tooth. Finally, he threw the cylinder into the sea, just like he had done with Drauken's things. Like throwing it into the sea.
As a result... now the cylinder appears in front of Darkus inexplicably.
In Darkus' opinion, Belloda's description contains some kind of subjective and artistic processing. Perhaps after he comes to Ulthuan, he should borrow the memoir and read it carefully, preferably with Malekith. Watch, focus on the latter part, and interview Malekith about his feelings. But he thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate. Don't let him imply that Malekith gave up the Phoenix King to him, but that's not okay? Um?
"What the hell, when I have the opportunity in the future, I will also write a memoir and use it as an internal reference." Darkus was thinking and complaining secretly. He felt a lot in Sorior's memoirs, and these things were very important to him. They are all useful, such as Sorior's attitude towards his father from the perspective of his children and his own psychological changes under the influence of his parents and various things. After all, he will have children after all, and his views on dragons, etc. .
"Malok...I think you should have seen relevant information in Tal Litanel's library before, right?" Kaia, who had been silent but listened quietly, suddenly said.
"His size is very huge, about sixty meters from the front of his nose to the spikes on the top of his huge tail. His limbs and flanks are covered with red scales, and the scales gradually become darker in color and become thicker when they reach the back. Thick black bone plate armor, with a row of sharp spikes rising from it." Colonia responded, just as Kaia said, she had indeed seen relevant information in Tal Litanel's library. information, and there is a lot of it.
These records come from the time of the War of Vengeance. The Dragon Tower of Tal Litanel was empty after the fire dragons returned to Ulthuan, but the Dragon Tower of Ertho Talarian was not, where Malok usually resided. There, the distance between the two was very short, so short that when the giant Malok took off and landed in the Dragon Tower of Esso Talarian, Tal Litanel could observe it.
After Colonia finished speaking, the entire scene fell silent. Druchi from Nagaros swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then looked at the cylinder on the table. Through Colonia's description, they felt that they could Thinking of the terror of Malok, after all, the black dragon is there as a reference. Black dragons were not uncommon in Naggaroth. The size of Malok in the description is larger than the three forest dragons that visited here a few days ago. .
At this moment, all the elves present were vaguely aware of something, and they all looked at the cylinder in unison.
"It would be interesting if there was nothing inside." Darkus' words broke the silence. He pointed at the cylinder to Drusala. What he said was just a joke. He could feel things. In the cylinder, it was sealed by the elf magic on the whale's teeth. The cylinder seemed to have never been opened since it was sealed.
In Darkus' view, this important moment still had to come to Drusala, because it had a certain meaning, and the sense of ritual was only necessary if conditions allowed. If he guessed correctly, the things in the cylinder had some connection with Drusala of that era.
Drusala picked up the cylinder and studied it again. She looked at Darkus with confirmation. When Darkus nodded, she also nodded, and then the cylinder was opened.
Estalia in the old world is a magical place. It is not only frequented by various pirates, but also has many mysterious places, and Blood Island is one of them.
It is a place hated by men and dogs, with nothing but desolate rocks and the toughest mosses and weeds, withered and neglected vegetation covering the dry and stony ground. The place is almost devoid of animal life, except for the ugly crabs that emerge from the mud and dirt every night to wander and hunt. But there are also lively times, such as when winter comes, when some petrels and sword-winged hummingbirds will sing and compete for dominance of the island.
Even pirates have abandoned the place as a place to launch raids and hide treasures. The blood-red sand on the beach confused them, and the smoke and rumbling of the towering volcano frightened them.
In the legends of Estalia, this was not what it was like long ago. Ancient stories say that the island was once a thriving paradise and home to mankind. But one night later, everything changed. The island was destroyed and slaughtered, and a terrible force descended on the island and swallowed it whole. Legend has never agreed on what form the Destroyer's attack took, with some saying it was an angry god who lived in the mountains.
In ancient times, when humans were still tribes, man's rugged ancestors would row rafts to the island every year in the hope of appeasing the wrath of an angry god by offering sacrifices on the shore. Even now, when the sailors of Estalia pass by the island, they throw a small animal into the sea, not wanting to wake the sleeping angry god.
At this moment, the arrival of three behemoths broke the silence of Blood Island. The future two-headed chaos dragon, the current red dragon "Split Wing" Splinterwen, and the "Skymark Wilderness" in the south of Athel Loren. The forest dragon Berg-Shun, who is the companion of the Kavalok Woodland Lord Indra, and the forest dragon Bagir from the Lauren Loren Shower Area appeared on the surface of the central sea and were flying rapidly towards the Blood Island.
At the same time, the eyes of the angry god of Blood Island suddenly opened, with anger and surprise in his pupils.
(End of chapter)