Chapter 17 Chapter Fourteen: The Flying Dragon on the Snow Mountain

The huge Fuss Mountain Range is like a giant dragon lying in the center of the Ruoxinghan Continent, and the Gutali Mountains stick out like a foot of the dragon, stretching all the way to the Rifal Plain.At the foot of the giant dragon, there is a small town called Lukuda. The pronunciation is similar to the language of the dwarves, which proves that this is the border of the Rifal Kingdom, not far from the dwarf territory.And here is another town where dwarves and humans live together. This town is an important place for the trade between humans and dwarves.So on the road, you can often see dwarves running rampant with big bags on their backs and axes.In fact, because short-legged dwarves have almost no concept of "walking", they always swing their legs at a rapid frequency, so they don't like winding roads and vertical and horizontal fences very much. Dwarf prints were seen on a certain railing.Because these brawny little guys are used to galloping on the snowy mountains to chase giant bears or snow apes, once they get excited about running, it is difficult to stop. There have been times when a sheep was killed by a dwarf galloping on the road. Or two frolic-chasing dwarves crashing through a mud wall at lunch, then crashing out the other end, leaving a mud-covered family sitting there.But the townspeople tolerated all this with generosity, after all, the dwarves always honestly brought them expensive hides and galls or excellent armor and armor at cheap prices, which sold for a good price in the interior.And here maybe the dwarves trade a good pair of fur boots for just a little shiny ornament or a gnat of straw, which they like as much as humans like shiny diamonds.The dwarves regard gold, silver and jewels as dung because they are of no use on the snow-capped mountains. There are gold mines and gemstones on the snow-capped mountains. Sometimes the dwarves pick up these shiny things in the valley and store them happily so that they can go to the human villages below the mountain. Change something fun.So everyone welcomes the dwarves, and businessmen from the mainland flock here in droves. In spring and summer, when the snow melts and the mountain roads are easy to travel, some people even climb up the snow-capped mountains directly to enter the dwarves' camp in exchange for good goods. unexpected result.

On this day, Kang En walked out of his hut, squinted his eyes and looked at the sky. The sun was shining brightly, which made him a little bit dizzy. He wanted to go to the tavern in the center of the town to buy some good soju and appetizers.Staying in the house for half a month without coming out made him feel that his old bones were a little stiff.He looked back at the thick bark paper on the table and closed the door. The wind sneaked in through the window and flipped the pages. There were densely packed writing on it, and one page read "Ruo Xinghan Prehistoric 4291: The war between the demons and the undead began, and the demons began to flee to the ground..."

Kant's escort team also came to the foot of the snow mountain.That was Duris, Aziz, Crystal, Ron, and Yundi who was always preoccupied.However, Reed and Amos of the desperate mercenary group gave up saving the world because they had no money in their pockets, and went to find other jobs with bounties. When a group of people pushed open the door of Minkorn's cabin, there was no one there. Duris went up and flipped the yellowed pages, and Kant also went up and glanced casually: "...The Demon King Kaqiyunde led the demons on the ground to defeat the underground demons with his incomparable power, and forced the undead to surrender, unified the underground world, established his capital in Kantusti, and became the eleventh generation of demon kings. From then on, the demon king Possessing the power to attack humans and elves later, Cantusti quickly became the largest city on the mainland under his rule. This underground city once reached thousands of floors and spanned thousands of miles. The area is the largest human city on the ground. Three hundred times more....This is what happened in 1105 years ago..."

"Kachyunde..." "At that time, almost no one didn't know him. Until now, adults still use this name to scare disobedient children and say, 'If you don't go home at night, the devil Kaqiyunde will appear and arrest you'." Ron said . Everyone thought it was not funny at all. "That's the strongest evil god. It took the most powerful paladins of mankind three months to defeat him in the decisive battle at the ruins of the last temple, and these heroes also lost all their casualties," Ron said. "What are these papers? "The Epic of Ruo Xinghan"?" Azi said, flipping through the scrolls on the table, "Where are the places where the spells of ancient mages are recorded?"

"Don't mess them up!" Ron grabbed Aziz from the table and said to everyone, "In fact, my teacher had a deep interest in ancient books back then. He has lived in seclusion for many years. The most important thing is to sort out the true Ruoxing Han history that is faithful to the truth based on the original version of the elves and the precious materials he himself retained after the big collision, rather than the theologians of the Litian Sect changing it for religious purposes. The unrecognizable ones." "There are some strange characters here, they must be the original version of the incomparably precious ancient elf language?" Yundi said.

"Yeah, yeah, that's all. Those great prehistoric spells are only useful if they are read from the ancient Elvish language... huh? I can't understand them all!" Az jumped onto the table again, this time Seduris dragged him down. "My teacher may be the only person on the continent who understands the ancient elven language," said Ron. "In fact, the dwarves and elves used to have the same writing, and the ancient elven language was their writing, but the split and great collision made their brilliant The culture is lost." Ron looked up at the darkening sky and said, "Why did the teacher go out for so long? I'm going out to find him."

Ron walked out the door. "Huh? It seems much darker outside. Why is the snow mountain black?" Aziz said. "It's going to be dark." Ron said, he poked his head and took a look, "Hey, something is wrong, why is there no reflection at all, it seems that the large snow has completely melted." Duris listened intently, as if he had noticed something, doubts appeared on his face. "Is there something wrong?" Yundi asked. "I'll go out and have a look too." Duris rushed into the night outside the door.Yundi looked at the room, Kant was indifferent to the things in front of him, just staring at the Ruoxing Han ancient scroll on the cabinet in a daze.

Ming Kangen looked at the snow mountain that looked like it was being painted black with a brush. He knew that it was a dark army pouring out of the earth. Iron boots stepped on the snow field, the sky turned blood, and the setting sun hid behind the black clouds. He didn't know this Will the town have another dawn? "Teacher." Ron rushed over, "What happened? What's that?" "Ron, you're back? Look, a demon army has come here. For hundreds of years, it's rare to see demons appearing on the ground." "Teacher," Ron lowered his head, "I think they're here for us."

"You?" Ming Kangen turned around. "Teacher, you are the only one who can save us now. Use your power as a paladin. You know, that terrible demon king you once defeated with the sacrifice of countless people. Now, his soul is stored in a person's body." Inside the body, it may wake up and be reborn at any time." "The Demon King..." Ming Kangen looked at the crimson sky refracted by the light, "This is really an old friend." Minkon and Ron went back to the cabin. "There seems to be a battle on the snow mountain outside?" Yundi asked, "Duris hasn't come back either."

"Our time is running out." Ron said, "Teacher, please tell us how to destroy the demon king's soul?" Ming Kangen looked at Kant who was reading Ruo Xinghan's ancient scroll at the table: "Let's go outside and talk, don't disturb him." Yundi, Ron, Aziz and Crystal followed Minkon out of the house. "There is a simple method, which is to destroy this body, so that the soul of the demon king can no longer be attached." "Kill him? No," Yundi shouted, "It's a living life, and he's not at fault." "Yundi, what's wrong with you?" Ron asked in surprise, "Aren't you the one who asked us to kill Kant?"

"I don't know... I don't know what's wrong with me..." Yundi murmured, "Maybe, when I found out that the evil Kant was also an ordinary person... when he became an undead to save me... And wearing that helmet, I feel like it's all my fault..." She hid her face and blamed herself. "Don't blame yourself for everything, now we don't have time to think about right and wrong," Ron said. "There is another way..." Ming Kangen sighed, "but it's too difficult." "What's that?" Crystal asked. "Using a complex spell, our soul will leave our body and enter his inner world to kill the demon king." Under the red sky, Yundi, Ron, and Ming Kangen stopped in a dark open space.The place is empty and lonely, and the snow-capped mountains in the distance have only long dark shadows, and the distance cannot be seen.And what will happen in the future may be revealed in a few minutes. "This is Kant's inner world? It's so dark." "The light represents his mood. It seems that he is depressed." Ming Kangen said, "Look at that mountain..." Everyone saw that in the distance, a huge cloud layer was gathering on a very high mountain, towering up to the sky, as if all the storms in the world were hidden in that cloud mountain. "It's horrible!" said Ron. "I think that's where the will of the devil is occupied. If the storm breaks out of the clouds and begins to sweep the whole world, then Kant's heart will also be completely occupied by evil." "But how do we get there?" "This is the inner world, you must learn to use the power of meditation." Ming Kangen closed his eyes.After a while, under the iron blue clouds in the distance, a giant eagle flew over. "Jump on its back." Kant stood on the edge of a high mountain cliff, looking at the giant eagle like a small dot in the sky in the distance. "Power..." Kant looked at his hand, "I can feel that power...but I also understand that every time I use it, evil will invade my body." "It is not happy to be the new Demon King, for he is the gathering place of hatred and conspiracy, and bears the thunderous rage. Now, the army of the traitors is thinking of destroying their king, so that the high priest of the dead will rule the entire underground City, that's where the horror begins." "Should I help you?" "I never ask for help, but you have no choice. You deny my power and you are destroyed. See, you will use my power eventually, and then you will awaken me. Once, again, Until you can no longer suppress my will, then we will become one and a new Demon King will be born." "Another war..." "It is the fire of hatred ignited by human beings themselves, which will spread for a hundred generations. You saw the translation of the ancient scroll left by Ming Kangen on the cabin, the real history, not tampered with by those priest historians. You know that a thousand years ago, Originally there was no difference between a human and a demon..." "Look, what happened on the ground below?" Ron shouted against the strong wind on the back of the giant eagle. Yundi looked down, and she was stunned. It was two huge armies, forming an array on the grassland.On one side, there are dozens of iron-clad phalanxes moving in darkness, like giant islands crossing the green sea.On the other side, tens of thousands of cavalry are splitting into several groups, rushing down the snow-capped mountains like a torrent, crashing towards the iron-clad giant reefs. "Why is there a war here?" Ron said in surprise, "It's still on such a grand scale." "Giant Eagle, hurry up and raise your wings, we don't have time." Ming Kangen turned a blind eye for some reason. But when the giant eagle flies, the clouds and mists rise and fall like a curtain, and every time the earth appears, different scenes unfold, like a long giant painting in a historical scroll. The cavalry camp was defeated by the armored legion, and the ground was full of corpses... The fire swept across the grassland, and countless people rushed out of their tents, fleeing in panic... The place where the fire burned, countless immigrants moved, and they established villages. The fields were reclaimed, and the villages grew up like mushroom clusters, connected as one...Hundreds of thousands of artisans were summoned, they dug canals, and built a great city wall...The center of the huge city, a magnificent The sanctuary rises...a dynasty is born. "I know the city..." said Ron. "This is our capital city - Olapede, the most magnificent city on the earth." Minkorn said. "Yes, it is also the place where the demon army gushed out blood from the underground of Olapede three hundred years ago. The long war began from here until the demon king Kaqiyunde was defeated and his soul was sealed into the armor of the paladin..." Ron recalled the history, "But at that moment, the devil's curse caused meteorites to fall from the sky, the east and west continents collided, the snow-capped mountains rose, the earthquake destroyed all the cities, and the old dynasty was destroyed... That was a war without a winner... ..." ... "It is the birthplace of the Idel tribe, and there are the blood and totems of the ancestors of the Ider people. Thousands of years ago, you Siang tribe took it from the Idel people. Only then did you have your civilization, your religion, God and the devil! Thousands of years ago, there was no difference between humans and demons, because the human race drove their brothers underground, and only then did the demon race come into being. These are not written in your history! It is not written in the revised "Ruo Xinghan Epic". Now you know why humans and demons have been fighting for thousands of years, why demons keep returning to the ground, and why the demon king was defeated when he was defeated. The curse issued can actually be realized, because it is not the demons who offend the gods but humans! So the gods want them to win the war without a winner! So at the moment when the demons were sealed underground again in despair, the continents began to collide, and the tsunami It happened, and countless flints spewed out from the ground. They were the ghosts of the war dead. People who built their dynasties and prosperity on the bones of other races should not live in this world! Human beings came from heaven, while other races were born underground , born to be dominated by humans? Is this your teaching? The great achievements of the paladins? The conquests are nothing but the iron hooves of the empire crushing countless people's peaceful homes. This kind of thing should be buried in history forever in the mud!" Kant felt his heart was about to be shattered by this voice, he knew that he could not avoid this voice, because it appeared in his heart, it was useless to cover his ears.If justice and evil are defined only by the winner, then what is the difference between a devil and an angel? In the distance, the giant eagle flew closer and closer. "No! Teacher, is what you said true?" Ron shouted on the eagle's back, "What is reappearing on the earth is the scene of the human race driving the demons into the ground? Could it be that the demons mentioned in the scriptures Is it wrong for people to live underground since ancient times?" Ming Kangen was silent, an extremely terrifying silence. "Why are you telling us this? Why are you telling us this now?" Ron cried. "Ron, that's why I only taught you the ancient elf language and let you collect the original version of "Ruo Xinghan Epic", but never taught you swordsmanship and magic. War can prove nothing but hatred, because History is easily forgotten and revised very quickly." Minkorn sighed. Myths have collapsed, history has been disillusioned, what is real?Did the paladins back then crazily destroy the homes of civilians like today's devils? The yellowed ancient scroll seemed to be broken at the touch of a touch, but it was also an iron inscription. History written by the victors cannot be trusted. What does it matter if the devil is resurrected at this time? ... "Now you understand that whether you are evil or not does not depend on whether you are a devil or a knight, but what you use your power for." The voice sighed. "Accept fate and be a brave man, Kant." ... The storm blasted out the clouds on the top of the mountain, and the giant eagle was as powerless as a piece of paper in front of the storm and lightning. Yundi knew that they could no longer get close to Kant. A dark storm swept across the sky. When Yundi opened her eyes again, she sat in the cabin and returned to the real world.Kant, on the other hand, was gone. Duris sat quietly on the rock of the snow-capped mountain, leaning on his long sword. A layer of ice and snow had formed on his body, which looked like a part of the black rock from a distance.He was meditating, and the surrounding noises seemed to be silent. At this time, a pair of feet in high black combat boots stepped on the snow and walked in front of him. "Have you thought about it yet?" It was a woman's voice. Duris looked up, and he saw a demon woman with a good figure wearing a mask, black tight soft armor and a white cloak. "Lu Huameiya..." "Why are you still hesitating? Do you want to go back to the dungeon and fight against your own people? Hundreds of thousands of elite demon warriors killed each other, and the lake of fire was filled with corpses! The power of the demons is completely wiped out, but you have fled to the ground at this time!" The more she said, the more angry she was, she threw Duris far away, knocked down the wooden wall and fell to the snow from the other side of the broken house.Before he could get up, the woman named Lu Huameiya jumped over and picked him up again. "Lu Huameiya, so what if you are brave enough to fight against your own people?" "Huayou Bingsi! Don't run away anymore, no matter whether the devil can return or not, let's stand up and stop all this, we can do it." "But... what can I do now?" Lu Hua Meiya handed over a cold and heavy iron plate to his hand. "This is your iron talisman. Although your army has been destroyed...but you are still there! This army has not died! Come on, give me a hope!" Lu Huameiya took off her mask, which was a She had a beautiful face, but there was a scar on her forehead.She stared at Duris, her long hair fluttering in the wind, "Tell me, Huayou Bingsi will return to us and fight with me." Duris clenched the iron talisman tightly, as if all the heat from his body had been sucked away by it, his blood became as cold as a demon again, and his tone also became icy: "Go back to the dungeon! Take back what belongs to us. everything." He raised the iron plate high into the air and stared at it. His body trembled suddenly, and Lu Hua Meiya hugged him from behind. "Thank you...Thank you..." She finally cried like a little girl, "I'm so lonely, I can't hold it anymore, but now that I have you, I'm not afraid of anything..." Duris walked towards the snow-capped mountain, facing the dark army of demons. "Huayou Bingsi," the demon general strode forward, "tell me, where is our great king now?" But Duris sneered: "Who allows you to call me by my first name, Hou Luoyi?" "You are no longer one of the four major legion commanders, you are already a traitor from the underground kingdom! You even used magic to change your body, and now my sword could have pierced your chest directly." "Really? Who gave you the power? His Royal Highness King Kaqiyunde? You are the rebels! You massacred all the generals and soldiers who are still loyal to the king for the high priest of the dead. Now, you want to come here to prevent the resurrection of the king!" "Shameless lies, don't try to incite my soldiers." "Well, since you also claim to be loyal to the king, then stand where you are and let me do the resurrection of the king. You don't need so many troops to defend the king, you need to kill the king!" Hou Luoyi sneered: "The first thing to kill now is you." With a wave of his hand, the demon army drew their swords. "Wait," Ruo jumped out, "Is this really Huayou Bingsi? One of the four chiefs?" "Yes, that traitor." Hou Luoy growled, "Now he is still standing with the human race." "Traitor? But our army is trying to find and kill its own king!" Huayou Bingsi sneered. "Who should we trust?" If you looked at it, "Huayou Bingsi is the hero I admired since I was a child. Although he defected from the dungeon, he will not lie." "But the high priest raised and protected us." Could it be scratching his head, "I can't believe that it wants to destroy King Kaqiyunde and monopolize the underground kingdom." "It's still too late for you to wake up. Soldiers loyal to King Kaqiyunde, come to my side!" Huayou Bingsi shouted. "Kill him..." Holoy shouted angrily. Suddenly, he turned his head in panic, listening to the voice from behind the mountain. "what is this?" "It seems to be... the roar of a dragon..." Someone shouted. A pair of huge wings suddenly rose from the back of the mountain, and the fire dragon jumped onto the rock on the top of the mountain, stretched its head down and roared wildly.Behind it, hundreds of huge black shadows rushed out. "This is the flying dragon of the rebels!" Holoy exclaimed. The small but fast long-winged wyvern spouts flames, and the rider on the wyvern's back shoots powerful bows and arrows.As they passed by, Hou Luoyi's infantry fell down in large numbers like the wind blowing through a wheat field. However, dense bows and arrows flew from the wings of the flying dragons. Even if they couldn't penetrate the thick skin of the flying dragons, many riders fell headfirst.Where they flew over, many soldiers who were lying down and avoiding stood up again, shooting bows and arrows from behind. "Strong crossbow! Use strong crossbow!" Holoy shouted. The huge ballista was set up, and three soldiers used one, one to adjust the direction, and two to pull it away.The strong crossbow can penetrate the body of the flying dragon, and soon the corpse of the dragon fell on the snow. The flying dragon army was flying around in the formation of the demon army, encountering arrows raining everywhere, rushing from left to right and unable to get out, and would soon become the target of the demon army on the ground. "I will take the credit for annihilating the rebels." Hou Luoyi laughed triumphantly.But at this moment a flying dragon was swooping towards him.Huayou Bingsi skillfully steered the flying dragon to dodge one after another of the powerful crossbow arrows, but he blocked the fine bows and arrows with his sword.Just when he was about to get close to Hou Luoyi, Hou Luoyi noticed it.He raised the huge magic bow in his hand and shot an arrow.Huayou Bingsi jumped up from the dragon, the flying dragon was shot and exploded in the air, and Huayou Bingsi also landed beside Hou Luoyi. Hou Luoyi raised his sword to parry the sword that Huayou Bingsi slashed, and suddenly a figure passed by behind him. When Hou Luoyi turned his head, Lu Huameiya had fallen behind him. "Eat the sword of revenge!" With the shout, Hou Luoyi was cut far away.Huayou Bingsi jumped up, and before Hou Luoyi got up, he stabbed the sword into his throat. At this time, the surrounding soldiers rushed towards them.A few supporting flying dragons passed by from below, Lu Huameiya and Huayou Bingsi jumped onto the flying dragon, but a crossbow arrow hit Lu Huameya's flying dragon, and she fell down again. The magic army rushed forward and surrounded her.She charged forward with all her strength, and her figure was almost submerged. Huayou Bingsi twisted the dragon's rein and flew back, wanting Lu Huameya to jump up, but Lu Huameya blocked from left to right, she had no chance to jump up at all, and the flying dragon also encountered dense bows and arrows, unable to fly lower. Suddenly there was a long shouting sound from the mountain. On several hillsides, many strong dwarf warriors rushed down like an avalanche on wooden pulleys. The magic army was impacted from behind. Even though they were well-trained, they would inevitably be a little confused if they lost their commander.The dwarves sat on a block nailed with thick wooden boards that rushed down at high speed. Iron spikes were inserted around the car, tearing apart the phalanx of the magic army.The dwarven warriors, known for their proficiency in combat, wielded huge axes and chain hammers, and the demon army flew with blood and flesh everywhere they passed. The magic army around Lu Huameiya also retreated.Lu Huameiya half-kneeled on the ground exhausted, Huayou Bingsi jumped off the dragon's back and came to her side. Sweat and blood formed ice particles on Lu Huameiya's long hair.She looked sideways at Huayou Bingsi, but still smiled. "Get out of here quickly, in the eyes of the dwarves, there is no difference between the devil." "My biggest achievement in this battle is that I found you again——Huayou Bingsi." Lu Huameiya held onto his sleeve tightly.The remaining flying dragons rushed over and disappeared into the sky with them. The storm passed, and red clouds appeared on the top of the snow-capped mountains.The shadow wrapped in the armor of the paladin stood like a sculpture, watching the flying dragon go away. "Are we doomed to only guard the same corrupted body? A soul with no one to spare and a homeless demon king." "Although the high priest of the undead has grasped the dungeon, I will return there eventually." "But you can't keep the promise I made." "What did you promise?" "I promised a girl that I would never become a demon king." "Even having the power and majesty of the Demon King can't change you?" "Actually, my ideal is to become an upright and honorable knight." "It seems that we will fight forever, even in one body. In the future, you will no longer be aware of my existence. But you have to remember that the devil is in your heart. When you need strength, I will Awakened while you sacrificed your soul. Then we would be one, indistinguishable." "I will not use your dark power to let you occupy my heart, not... It is my honor to be able to compete with the devil." Yundi, Ron, Aziz, Crystal, and Ming Kangen came from behind, and they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Kant's figure. "What should we do in the future? Kill him? Or watch him go to that fate in the future?" Crystal asked. "Is there no other choice?" Az stomped his feet on the snow in the cold. "Unless we collect all the Ruo Xinghan ancient scrolls written by the ancient elves, there are ancient lost magics on them, including the famous 'seal' system that once locked the soul of the demon king, but no one can collect them all now." "We're going to find them, and we'll keep going until we see changes in the future," Yundi said.The voice was firm, and at some point, hesitation and panic left her. Because as soon as she closes her eyes, she will think of that day ten years later...