"The Lost Island."
Xia's eyes moved slightly.
The reason why he took such a huge risk was that he was willing to travel across three eras to return to the First Era.
Everything is for his golden elf teacher.
However, even at this moment in the First Age, the High Elves are still out of reach for humans.
Even from the perspective of the strong in the human kingdom, all they know about elves is that they are only half-elves with a slight elven bloodline who have fallen into the hands of slave traders, or dark elves, drow, who occasionally exist in the underground world and hide in the shadows.
As for high elves like forest elves and gold elves, they only exist in the vague legends of bards.
They are a silver race that is born with the ability to control elements and has a long lifespan.
In that glorious era of prosperity and splendor, it possessed a status equal to that of the ancient dragon clan.
...
...
The Lost Island is where the legendary high elves live, a habitat in the endless sea far beyond the Western Continent.
“If I remember correctly, the “Lost Island” was named after this. ”
"It is precisely because of this that since the Cataclysm, countless great navigators and adventurers have set out to sea, hoping to find the legendary island that drifts outside the Western Continent and is said to contain countless relics and wealth from the glorious era."
"But, without exception, the navigators and adventurers who went to search for that island either returned empty-handed or got lost in the waves of the endless sea."
Hearing Char's words, the golden dragon also spoke again in a hoarse voice.
“It’s a given.”
"When the Cataclysm broke out, before the Elf King completely fell into corruption and madness, he used his last authority as the Elf King to mobilize the power of the World Tree and cut the Elf King's Court off from the World Tree."
"I created a huge barrier, which permanently protected the elves' habitat and prevented them from being infected by the forbidden sun."
"Similarly, that is also a barrier that is divided by blood. If you are not a high elf, or someone who has obtained permission, then even if you reach the outskirts of the Lost Island, you will never be able to enter it."
"but--"
"In the very beginning, when Glory still existed, whether it was giants, elves, or ancient dragons, our royal court once existed by clinging to the World Tree."
"Even if the First Glory dies out in the future, the World Tree will also die."
"However, some branches still remain and become the foundation of the world."
A faint light flashed in the turbid eyes of the golden dragon, and it looked back at the vast and desolate ruins behind it.
"This is one of the fragments of the World Tree, but it has already died."
"But even so, as the former owner of this royal court."
"But I am one of the only two people in this world who can use the connection between the branches of the World Tree to awaken this world and find the Lost Island for you."
The turbid light in the dragon's pupils faded slightly, and the golden dragon stared at Char with a burning gaze.
"Unless you can find the Giant King's Court..."
"Moreover, after thousands of years, the giant king's court still has the inheritance of power and the existence of branches that can communicate with the world."
"If not, then I am your only choice... Even if you find other true gods who haven't gone crazy yet, you will never be able to find the Lost Island."
It slightly raised its dragon claw, half of which was pitch black and the other half revealed a faint golden color.
The next moment.
The dragon egg, shrouded in the thin night sky, deep and mysterious, and dotted with starlight, appeared in front of Char.
The giant golden dragon looked at the Night Egg in front of it, with a hint of disappointment in its cloudy eyes.
"It's not my child."
"Or rather, I am not qualified to be its parent."
"It is the king's child."
“Even before the Elf King lost control, he had time to use up his last bit of strength to separate the Elf Court from the World Tree, creating the Lost Island and the Veil of Eternal Night, which protected more than half of the High Elves from the “Disaster of Light”. ”
"As ancient dragons more powerful than the high elves, we should be able to do better than the Elf King."
"It's just that... when the Sun God fell from the throne of heaven, the king had just completed his pregnancy and passed on most of his power and authority to his child. His own power was at its weakest."
"At that time, as the designated heir to the royal court, as the most powerful pure-blooded dragon in the clan besides the king, and also one of the only two ancient dragons with the power to mobilize the branches of the world tree."
"I was a coward..."
An irrepressible regret flashed across the golden dragon's eyes.
"When my people needed me the most, I was overwhelmed by the fear of life and death and chose to escape."
"But when I finally made up my mind and returned to the royal court, everything was irreversible."
"The giant dragons that have fallen into madness and out of control under the shining of the fallen sun have followed their most primitive instincts of devouring and evolving, and have eaten the king who lost his power after the birth into fragments—"
"Then, they began to kill each other in order to usurp the divinity they had shared."
"When I arrived, all I saw was the desolate and dilapidated ruins of the royal court... and the remains of countless ancient dragons that had once lived in harmony and contentment with each other but now wished to devour their flesh and blood."
"Also, the king would rather endure the pain of having his flesh and blood eaten by his own people and having his divinity devoured than escape from the child he wants to protect until his death."
"The huge Ancient Dragon King's Court met an irreversible tragic end because of my cowardice."
"Since that day, I have become a ghost, or rather a wronged spirit, lingering in the ruins of the royal court."
"Because of my mistake, the glory of the ancient dragons has dimmed. Perhaps some of the dragons have escaped from the royal court and drifted to the western continent... But they have fallen into madness. Even if they are still alive and have left behind offspring with dragon blood, it is meaningless."
"They are just some big lizards with a little bit of dragon blood flowing in their veins. They have long forgotten the glory of the royal court in the past. How can they be worthy of the name of ancient dragons?"
"This is my sin. No matter how many years I spend paying for it or atonement, I can never make up for it."
The golden dragon's gaze fell on the night egg and softened a little.
"And the only thing I can do is to protect the child that the king is willing to protect at the cost of his own life."
"It is the king's child... and also the last remnant of the royal court."
"In the past thousand years since the Great Cataclysm began and the Age of Glory ended... it has been absorbing the remaining power of the World Tree fragments."
"It is the last witness of that glorious era, the glory of the Ancient Dragon King's Court."
"The history of this glorious royal court will eventually be passed down through it."
The golden dragon paused for a moment.
The next moment, a red-gold divine light suddenly burst out from the dim and turbid dragon's pupils.
The dark color of decay faded from its body, revealing the red-gold scales underneath, which were extremely shining.
Until this moment, the undead spirit entrenched in the royal court finally regained some of its former glory as a golden dragon.
"The effects of the fallen sun are still ongoing."
"As a race that lives above the clouds, we are the most corrupted. Even if we are exposed to the slightest bit of sunlight, we will tend to go out of control and go crazy."
"Even the high elves had to create eternal night and hide themselves in a huge eternal night barrier. They could never leave the Lost Island for eternity."
"No one knows how long the Fallen Sun will shine. Perhaps it will take a thousand years... or perhaps it will take several epochs."
"But I know that we can't hold out here for that long."
“In the past thousand years, I have relied on the power of the fragments of the World Tree in the ruins of the Royal Court to barely avoid being eroded by the “Disaster of Light”. ”
"But now, the last bit of strength of the World Branch is about to be exhausted."
He looked straight at Char: "I know... recently among the human race, it seems that a new contract method has been developed--"
"It can allow the human spirit to communicate with the souls of extraordinary creatures through a contract."
"In the past, whether it was us dragons, giants, or elves, we all looked down on you humans."
"They believe that humans have neither innate strong racial talents nor long life spans. Any adult pure-blooded dragon can sweep away the strongest among humans. They are nothing more than the most insignificant Black Iron race."
"But now I realize that we were wrong."
"It is precisely because you humans are born with nothing, without the extraordinary power and strength bestowed by the Creator God, that you are also free."
"Not bound by the fallen sun, free to walk in the sunshine."
"And only by relying on the souls of pure-blooded humans and signing a contract with them can we have a chance to suppress the madness and out-of-control tendencies of our superior races."
"not to mention……"
"Among humans who were born with nothing, there is also someone like you."
The golden dragon looked at Char and paused for a moment.
"Make a contract with the king's child and take good care of it for the king."
"In exchange, I will use the authority of the heir to the Ancient Dragon King's Court to help you use the connections between the branches of the World Tree to establish guidance to the Lost Island."
At the end, there was even a hint of pleading in the golden dragon's words.
Char did not speak, but just stared at the dragon in front of him in silence.
For some reason, when being stared at by Char, the golden dragon actually felt a chill in its heart.
It seemed as if it had returned to its childhood, when it was first brought to the royal court by its parents to meet the king who was sitting high above on the throne.
Deep and mysterious.
"Have you really thought it through?"
The golden dragon heard a calm voice ringing in its ears.
"The power of this secondary plane can last for about a hundred years."
"And if you do that, then I'm afraid the last bit of strength in the World Branch will be exhausted immediately."
"When you lose the protection of the World Tree and are directly exposed to the Fallen Sun, with your current soul and body in such a state, you will definitely fall into madness and there will be no possibility of awakening your own will."
"When the time comes, I will kill you first to protect myself."
Hearing Char's words, the golden dragon couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Your Majesty, nothing can be hidden from you."
This might be the first time since the beginning of the First Era that the Ancient Dragons have addressed a human being as "Your Majesty".
"However, Your Majesty, please do not trouble me to do it yourself."
"As a sinner of the dragon clan, I have lived here for a thousand years."
"Living for another hundred years...wouldn't mean much."
"My only hope is that the king's child will no longer be trapped in this ruin filled with dead souls."
"Instead, we can walk uprightly in the light."
Xia raised an eyebrow: "Aren't you afraid that I will not abide by martial ethics and directly devour your king's child and use it for my own benefit?"
"A descendant who inherited half of the power of a dragon king, but is still in the infancy stage... If he appeared in the Western Continent, even a true god would be tempted, right?"
"Besides, your Ancient Dragon King Court should have had close allies during the Glorious Era, right? Why didn't you ask your allies for help, but chose to entrust it to a stranger like me?"
Although Char was confident in his own charm, after all, the one before him was not a human but a dragon.
Char didn't believe that someone could overcome racial barriers and make the other party trust him completely and entrust the king's child to him just by meeting him once.
"I've run out of options."
"After the catastrophe, even those mythical creatures that still retained their rationality and seemed to walk the earth normally, in fact, were also corroded and corrupted by the light disaster in their souls."
"On weekdays, we just rely on various means to suppress it, and it may get out of control at any time."
"Compared to them, I would rather believe in Your Majesty as a pure human." Of course, there are some things the golden dragon did not say.
For example, when its previous condition was still good, it once left the secondary plane of the world tree fragments and went to the outside world to study humans.
Therefore, the legend of the evil dragon, the princess and the prince was left in the small human country called the Kingdom of Trees.
However, although ordinary humans can be immune to the effects of the Fallen Sun——
However, given the soul strength of ordinary humans who have never experienced spiritual practice, it is nothing short of a fantasy to expect them to withstand the contract with the ancient dragon and assist it in eliminating the influence of corruption and madness.
Before the golden dragon could conduct further research, the aftereffects of being directly exposed to the fallen sun's sunlight when it went out into the outside world began to show, and it immediately fell into a semi-crazy state.
It was only with the last bit of sanity that he managed to avoid harming the Night Egg.
If it hadn't been awakened by Char, it would probably have remained in this state of confusion until its physical functions were completely exhausted and it reached the end of its life.
At this moment, this young human in front of it, whose origins are unknown but extremely powerful, and who can easily awaken it from madness, has become its only life-saving straw.
If he was really just an ordinary person, how could he be qualified to be entrusted with the king's only child?
The giant golden dragon looked at Char and suddenly blinked its cloudy eyes.
"The little power of the dragon race may be extremely valuable to those mythical creatures... but Your Majesty does not seem to be on this path."
"Besides, I trust the snake's vision."
"If someone can be followed by the Mercury Snake, he must have good character."
The mercury's light flashed and disappeared.
Xia's mind moved slightly, and the mercury-colored little snake jumped out of his soul contract space and looked at the golden dragon in front of him: "Do you know me?"
"I've heard the king talk about you."
"Fate's favorite, the mercury snake."
Looking at the mercury-colored little snake in front of him, a trace of nostalgia flashed in the golden dragon's eyes.
"I heard from the king that in the early days of the Glorious Era, you were particularly fond of the treasure house of the Ancient Dragon King's Court."
"Every time I counted the treasures in the royal court, I would often see you looking at a holy relic with an infatuated look on your face, unwilling to leave for a long time."
"Once, an elder of the dragon clan suggested putting you in a cage, but each time the king refused with a smile and let you go. Sometimes he even gave you some small things as gifts."
"But since I joined the royal court, I heard that you had disappeared and I haven't seen you since."
"Later, there was the disaster of light, the great catastrophe..."
"Now that I think about it, I'm afraid you got a warning from fate and foresaw the catastrophe in advance."
Char couldn't help but glance at the snake on his shoulder.
Does this guy have such a dark history?
Freely enter and exit the treasury of the ancient dragon king's court filled with holy relics?
That's really enviable... no, it's outrageous.
Instead, the snake spit out its small pink tongue in confusion.
"Is that true? Why don't I remember it?"
"It's strange that you remember."
Xia knocked on the snake's head and threw the mercury snake back into the soul contract space.
He finally realized that he couldn't treat this thing as a mythical creature.
This is a complete scoundrel. No wonder even though he was an eyewitness to the First Epoch, he didn't know anything about the specific details when Xia asked him about them. He had to go and investigate on his own.
Of course, on the other hand -
The great catastrophe at the end of the Glorious Era brought disaster to the three once powerful races of ancient dragons, giants and elves, but this mercury snake with no combat ability was able to remain safe and sound.
It seems that the so-called darling of destiny is not an exaggeration.
The golden dragon also turned its inquiring gaze to Char again.
It was still waiting for Char's answer.
"In that case, then——"
"Deal done."
Char spoke softly.
It just so happened that after the trip to the Garden of Eden, I still had many vacancies in my soul covenant.
Even though he used the Seventh Soul Contract to contract the Mercury Snake, his Fourth Soul Contract and Sixth Soul Contract were both empty at the moment.
Even if the fourth soul contract may not be able to be signed due to Augustina's abnormality, the worst that can happen is that the licking dog Holy Grail will give up the position of the sixth soul contract.
As for helping to share the madness and pollution brought about by the fallen sun—
Excuse me, but this illusion master has always been using the crazy Tailed Beast Special Attack.
"good."
The golden dragon received Char's response and nodded quickly.
The next moment.
boom--
Red-gold flames burned fiercely around the golden dragon.
The original turbid black color faded away completely, and in its place was the mythical creature form of the golden dragon.
That was the golden dragon burning the last of its life force.
There was no requirement for Char to complete the contract or fulfill his duties in the transaction first.
Nor was any means proposed for monitoring the completion of the transaction.
The golden dragon knew very well that he had no right to bargain with Char, who could easily suppress him and then wake him up from his half-madness.
This young human with black hair and black eyes was the leader of this transaction.
The only thing it can do is to try its best to show its sincerity.
boom--
In the blazing hot flames, the originally desolate and dark world and the desolate and dilapidated ancient dragon king's court also made a loud noise.
It is the ruins of the dilapidated royal court that responds to the final wish of the former heir to the royal court and now the sinner of the dragon clan.
At this moment, Xia Ya saw the shadow of a huge ancient tree quietly emerging in the sky above this desolate secondary plane.
Then.
A kind of vague connection that transcends time and space spreads along the shadow of the world tree.
Finally, they were connected to somewhere in this world.
Crash.
The lush and dense branches and leaves stretch out.
Xia saw a leaf of the World Tree slowly falling from the huge shadow of the World Tree.
A drop of light golden liquid was gradually rolling down from the leaf.
Snap——
In an instant, the pale golden droplets turned from phantom into substance.
It dripped onto Char's forehead.
There was a cool feeling between his brows.
And at the moment when that drop of World Tree sap fell, Char felt that in his spiritual ocean—
The dim sea of stars formed by thousands of grains of sand of time flickered at the same moment, blooming with dazzling starlight.
Xiayana's spiritual power, which had not seen any significant breakthroughs for a long time, had almost stabilized after ten years of hard training in the Garden of Eden, but now it had increased a bit.
The increase in mental power was not huge, but considering the size of Char's mental ocean at the moment, this increase was already astonishing...
If I were just meditating blindly, the improvement now would be enough to equal a year of hard training.
At the same time, Xia Ya also felt an illusory coordinate and connection, which was engraved into his mind along with the dripping light golden liquid.
That is what the golden dragon promised—
The coordinates of the Lost Island where the High Elves are located.
“Originally, the ‘blessing of the world tree’ was enough to allow the ancient dragons who had just joined the royal court to raise their racial potential by one level. ”
"However, with the remaining strength of the branches of the world today, we can only do this much."
The golden dragon's voice became much softer.
The originally burning red-gold flames around it gradually faded, and the golden dragon scales also dimmed.
With its damaged body in such a damaged state after being corrupted for thousands of years, burning its life source at such a reckless cost also means that it is on the verge of death.
However, even so, the golden dragon was still looking at Char.
The light in those golden dragon eyes dimmed little by little.
"I just hope Your Majesty can keep his promise."
"Let the king's children not follow in our footsteps—"
“I hope it can grow up healthy.”
"Then, walk in a free, bright world."
Its sound gradually faded into nothingness.
The vitality was fading from this once powerful ancient dragon, returning to pure deathly silence.
The fire of life in the pupils also gradually went out.
But, the next moment.
The golden dragon suddenly opened his pupils wide.
It saw the young man with black hair and black eyes and squatted down gently.
Then, he placed his hand on the desolate ruins of the royal court.
The illusory spots of light scattered and then dissipated.
In the mercury-colored light, the vibrant ancient dragon court reappeared before the golden dragon's eyes.
In the bright sunshine, fellow tribesmen come and go.
The green dragon is entrenched in the grassy valley, planting a beautiful sea of flowers. The fantasy dragon is hovering above the sky, weaving beautiful or sad dreams for all living beings on earth.
There were also ancient dragons transformed into human forms, playing the lyre and blowing the bone flute, cheering for the fights between the metal dragons.
Rich food can be found everywhere, and the treasury is filled with mountains of gold coins, which are inexhaustible.
The king of the ancient dragon clan sat on the high throne, quietly overlooking everything in the royal court.
"king……"
The golden dragon spoke in a low voice.
Its flesh and blood quickly faded away.
It turned into a pale golden light and disappeared into the gradually dissipating shadow of the World Tree.
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