Chapter 146 Chapter 146 Blood Clan.
Yet the song continued, its eternally soft and unfathomable rhythm gradually replacing the sound of her heartbeat and the roar of the blood rushing in her ears.
Su Cheng closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
But the peaceful darkness didn't last long, and she woke up to the sound of bells.
——This time it’s even more outrageous.
She got up from the ground and found herself sleeping in the middle of the street, surrounded by towering towers that pierced the gray night sky like sharp blades.
Thick clouds hung low, and faint moonlight streamed down, spreading into an eerie gray-purple hue in the mist-filled city.
The ground was paved with dark stones, which shone with a cold luster under the illumination of the magic crystal lamp. There were obvious cracks and protrusions everywhere, and dark green moss stubbornly clung to the cracks.
The towers have slender arched doors and windows, but on top of them sit or hang upside down some gargoyle sculptures, some are hideous gargoyles, and some are bats with human heads.
Their heads were turned toward the street, their empty eye sockets looking as if they were searching for prey. They looked extremely creepy.
The doors and windows of almost all buildings are tightly closed, and thick curtains are used to block the view inside. Occasionally, a few faint lights shine through the gauze, flashing from time to time.
The entire street was deserted, with only utter silence and the bleak night wind howling in the air.
Su Cheng directly released his mental power.
Even though she wasn't entirely sure where this place was, she had a few rough guesses.
In short, the reason of "not being aware of the environment for fear of offending others" completely disappears here.
The next second, a human figure suddenly appeared on a carved iron balcony among the shadows of the towers.
The man rushed over, crossed a distance of dozens of meters, and was behind her in an instant.
Su Cheng didn't even look back.
The space behind her shattered like a shattered mirror.
Along with the attacker's body, it was silently torn into pieces in the air, turning into fragments all over the ground.
At the broken ends of the debris, there were blood vessel-like tissues wriggling, and even the entire piece of flesh and bone began to roll, as if looking for other connecting parts.
But in the separated space, they cannot touch each other.
After a while, all the fragments became completely quiet and turned into corpses.
Those eyes with a cold luster that were quietly lurking in the corners were extinguished one after another like candles blown by the wind, and disappeared into the shadows.
Su Cheng walked across the huge arch bridges and strolled in the city that was like a magnificent mausoleum.
Those bridges and corridors seemed to be made of the skeletons of some giant creatures - in fact, the only creature that matched her memory was the dragon.
Perhaps some sea monsters could barely reach that size, but they wouldn't have such a bone shape.
She lay on the bridge and looked down, seeing the narrow canal that ran through the city, filled with a viscous liquid like oil, like dried blood.
Some slender black ships like coffins, with tattered sails, were quietly parked on the empty dock, with no one around.
Su Cheng looked up again into the distance, above the layers of towers, the high ground and core location of the entire city——
There was a shadow almost suspended in the air, a group of palaces as huge as islands, which seemed to grow out of the thick fog on the mountain top, with spiral needle-like towers piercing the clouds.
Around the palace, there were dozens of floating platforms connected by aerial bridges. Inside were towers dedicated to storing magic arrays and providing energy for them. They guarded the palace like soldiers.
From a distance, it looks like a crown emitting an aura of death.
Su Cheng was already very sure where this place was.
——The Kingdom of Cysis, the home of the vampires that disappeared thousands of years later.
This is not a secret, but most people know very little about it, and it is only mentioned briefly in history books.
People only heard that the ancestor of the blood clan established a kingdom here, but later it fell apart for some unknown reason, and the vampires spread all over the continent.
Some believe that the Kingdom of Cysis participated in the war between the Church and the Mystic Cult, and was destroyed because it supported the latter.
Some people also said that the timing seemed to be wrong.
However, this remote country, which is difficult for ordinary humans to visit, has very little relevant information left after thousands of years, so everyone can only guess.
Su Cheng decided to go in and take a look.
Because she seemed to sense a familiar breath again——
She hoped it was an illusion.
The palace of Cersis was protected by a magic circle and seemed to reject any visitors, but she had no intention of taking the usual route.
Su Cheng found the right direction and teleported directly in.
She felt that the barriers created by the magic arrays were resisting the invasion, but they were ultimately no match for this level of spatial magic.
Su Cheng entered the palace.
She was standing in a wide corridor. The walls on both sides were made of various huge pale skeletons and metals. The surface was bumpy and uneven. Some things that looked like solidified blood vessels and limbs were entangled to form a relief of protruding thorns.
A tray lamp gleaming with a faint red luster hung from the dome, and a long sling was made from sections of bound arm bones.
Countless faint and sickly red lights flickered above, like countless strange eyes.
The air was filled with the sickening smell of stale blood, marrow, and dust.
Suddenly, a piece of flesh made up of countless bone fragments and fat fell silently from the protruding skeleton cluster above, squirming on the ground and crashing towards her.
Su Cheng: “…”
This posed no threat to her, but to be on the safe side, she still used space magic to throw it thousands of miles away.
Then the wall began to move again.
Several skeletons struggled out of the wall, barely maintaining their human form, with red light burning in their empty eye sockets, like rusty clockwork puppets.
The skeletons dragged their broken weapons, stumbled over, and then launched an attack.
Even more bones "came alive" from the wall, and dozens of skinny and slender claws extended and stretched with crisp creaking sounds.
Then he grabbed her body from all directions.
Su Cheng drew his sword.
Just by injecting the fighting spirit into the sword blade, without even releasing it, all the enemies in the entire corridor were crushed.
The sound of shattering was continuous from front to back, and the flying energy penetrated the tumor relief. Dark mucus splashed everywhere, like a black and red blood rain.
Su Cheng teleported again.
Then she appeared in a hall full of piles of bones. The white bones filled her vision like an ocean, and she could hear the teeth-grinding sound of bones breaking with every step she took.
At the top of the Bone Mountain, there is an even larger bone that looks like a curved rib, slanting down like a scimitar.
A person was sitting on it with his head down, curly silver hair cascading down. The color was as cold as metal, or like a sharp blade that refracted light.
The man had a handsome face, but his skin was pale, without a trace of blood, like a lifeless marble statue.
His tall and muscular body was half naked, and his black battle robe embroidered with gold was torn in half, revealing half of his muscular chest.
Atop its head was a broken crown made of tusks of various sizes and bone.
After a few seconds, he opened his scarlet eyes, which were filled with blood and fire, and looked over with anger.
Su Cheng: “…………”
Su Cheng: "Sasha?"
She had been wondering if it was him.
To be honest, she had long been mentally prepared for the fact that her friends all had different identities, so it was not surprising if she met them again thousands of years ago.
When she sensed Sasha's presence outside, she thought it might be an old friend.
but!
Why is he in such a miserable state now!
Not only did he have to sleep in this palace full of bones, but even his clothes were torn, and he looked very unhappy.
Su Cheng: "If you're in a bad mood because you didn't get enough sleep, I can leave. I just came to see—"
The silver-haired young man stared at her coldly, the flames in his red eyes like the core of a purgatory furnace, the anger within them fierce and violent.
"you!"
He almost roared, "Don't come near me! You pathetic creature, you bowed to those treacherous liars, you are full of their breath--"
Su Cheng didn't expect a friendly reception, so he was just a little confused when he heard this. "Liar?"
"...Now they're talking about their own gods." He stretched his lips, "As if this word created by humans is enough to describe what they are."
Su Cheng nodded. "Those things humans call gods, what did they deceive you about? Can you tell me?"
The silver-haired young man tilted his head and looked at her, "Can't you see?"
The madness in his eyes grew more and more intense. It was not only due to mental confusion, but more driven by hatred and anger.
The king disappeared.
Su Cheng turned his wrist and raised the heavy sword suddenly upward to block the sharp red blade that was coming towards him.
A silver-haired young man appeared beside her, holding two crescent-shaped daggers in his hands. Horrifying blood was flowing on the blades, and murderous intent was surging.
The sound of metal clashing against metal!
Visible fluctuations spread from them, crushing the bones within dozens of meters around them and almost forming a vacuum area.
The red blade, like a butterfly flying through flowers, stabbed, cut, and chopped at an unimaginable speed, weaving a bloody web of death in the air.
The heavy sword made a roar as it swung through the air, blocking the attacks one by one. The black flames plowed countless trenches in the Bone Mountain, and the friction between the blade and the sword body produced a scream like crying.
"…the bones of Kykleus."
The silver-haired young man showed an extremely strange expression, "How did you do that?"
He asked this, but his hands did not stop moving.
The two men collided in the hall like lightning, and the powdered bones flew like snow, fluttering into the air, sometimes falling down, or being evaporated.
"...He sent it himself, do you believe it?"
"?"
The silver-haired young man suddenly retreated more than ten steps away, "Ah, He knows nothing, and you know nothing too, you Chaos Dragons—"
A force filled with maliciousness, ominousness and resentment suddenly erupted from him.
"...You will die, toyed with by this world. They will exploit everything about you until you are no longer of any value."
"Okay," Su Cheng said uncertainly, "Theoretically, many people live their lives this way. But, can you first tell me what the ancient god lied to you about? Did he make a promise and fail to fulfill it? Or did he make the situation worse?"
The king made no further reply.
The entire skeleton hall began to shake violently, the huge spine above it let out a terrifying groan, and spider-web-like cracks spread rapidly.
The cold silver light pierced through the haze, a raging wave of air surged up, and a huge figure roared out of the ruins.
Su Cheng looked at Him in shock.
——It was a monster with a slender skeleton covered with a thin white membrane. It looked like a dragon, but there were no muscles on its body.
As a result, it cannot support the normal outline, appears shriveled and deformed, and all the bone shapes are exposed.
Even so, this body filled up most of the palace, because it was very tall, and its wings were very wide, and the skin on its body emitted a strange silver-gold phosphorescence.
The back was covered with bony spurs, like countless broken spears, and the wings were like two net bags full of holes.
He let out a howl of pain and anger, and dark red foul blood oozed out and dripped from his skeleton.
The twisted head opened its jaws, and crimson flames gathered in its mouth.
Su Cheng looked down and saw that Heilin had torn his clothes.
Then, the sharp scales and bone spurs spread rapidly, completely deforming the person's body and expanding it into another appearance in the air.
Beneath the pitch-black metallic scales, twisted and violent muscles coiled and surged, the broad wings rolled up a hurricane, and the thick and strong limbs stretched out and landed on the ground.
——That is the true form of the Chaos Dragon, the embodiment of ancient legends and power.
Su Cheng bumped into him.
Then she knocked the skinny Bai Long over with her head and even pressed on him, "...What on earth did they lie to you about?"
The dragon struggled frantically, then twisted its neck and blew a breath of air towards her head.
Su Cheng tilted his head to avoid it.
The deep red flames with a bloody smell gushed out like a pillar of fire, directly smashing the dome of the temple, and then piercing through the dark night sky.
The dark clouds in the sky also dispersed.
The entire palace began to dissolve in the high temperature, everything was distorted in the heat wave, and the torrent of bones evaporated like melting snow.
“They said…”
That move just now seemed to have exhausted all of His strength.
Bai Long's body collapsed completely and he stopped struggling, only making hoarse breathing sounds.
"They want to save this doomed world, so they need help. They also want us to gain more wisdom..."
He whispered, "When I woke up, I saw my friends biting each other. They had all turned into deformed dragons. I think they were just trying to satisfy their curiosity and greed. They wanted the power of the dragon race, and we were just experimental subjects..."
Su Cheng was completely confused. "Were you once normal dragons? Or—"
He was silent for a moment.
“…We are elves.”
As the first creations of the God of Creation, the first generation of elves in ancient times can be said to be perfect beings - in a sense, they are like weakened ancient gods with fixed forms and human bodies.
They have no upper limit on their lifespan, are not troubled by disease and death, have abundant magical power, and can easily master all kinds of complex knowledge.
They do not need to eat, are not troubled by any negative emotions, are all gentle and kind, are either studious or hardworking, and will take care of injured animals.
Some wild beasts obtained their blood and became the ancestors of later monsters.
"...I've heard that the Serpent of Truth's favorite student is the elf."
The two men sat in the ruins of the palace, facing the cold night wind that blew through the broken walls, and talked on the mountain of bones and rubble.
They all transformed back into human form.
Su Cheng could already tell that His Majesty the King was not in a very good mental state, but transforming into a dragon was very exhausting for him, and he was very tired now.
So I couldn't hit her anymore and could only talk to her while suppressing my anger.
——His hostility towards her mainly came from the blessing of the ancient gods. He obviously regarded her as a dragon who had surrendered to the ancient gods, but she also had the aura of the Black Dragon King.
So he seemed confused too.
Su Cheng said thoughtfully, "So, it's mainly because the elves have been with Him for a long time, He knows how to communicate with this kind of people, and they are also very quick to learn and understand?"
“…Not exactly.”
After a while.
The silver-haired young man next to him spoke slowly, his voice a little hoarse.
"For Logos, there's no such thing as likes or dislikes. He will satisfy those who meet the requirements, no matter who they are. Elves simply have a longer lifespan, so they're more likely to have such people..."
Undisguised disgust flashed in his red eyes, "Those things have no heart..."
Su Cheng thought about it, "They literally don't have hearts, so it seems understandable."
He turned and stared at her.
"This doesn't mean I support anyone," Su Cheng spread his hands, "I haven't fully understood the whole story yet... but I don't mind scolding them with you."
He seemed confused by her change of attitude, "What?"
"Because," Su Cheng looked at him with her chin in her hand, "you can tell at first glance that you'll be my friend. Even though you might be a little hateful, you're the kind of friend who will help and support me."
He stared at her blankly, then suddenly turned his head awkwardly, "Really?"
A hint of red spread across the pale cheek.
Su Cheng: “?”
She couldn't believe that Sasha in the past was such a person.
I don’t know what he went through over the past few thousand years to become what he is today.
She decided to tease him, so she grabbed his shoulders and forced him to turn halfway to look at her.
The silver-haired young man stared at her blankly, his crimson eyes showing a hint of astonishment and surprise, and then darkening.
"...The aura on you is too mixed."
He said quietly.
Su Cheng was very calm, "I guess you will get used to it."
Otherwise, how can I become teammates with the Ancient Dragon King and the Ancient God in the future?
However, the other party seemed to have misunderstood this sentence.
The silver-haired young man looked at her thoughtfully for a few seconds, "Maybe."
After saying that, he took her wrist and kissed the back of her hand gently.
Su Cheng: “?”
He raised his head and was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly turned his back and made a retching motion, "No, I still hate them." Su Cheng: "......"
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