She originally thought that Sarah was the hidden mastermind behind all these things. Although it was troublesome, at least there was a possibility of reasoning.
She even planned to question Russell directly after regaining consciousness. She was sure he couldn't hide it from her.
But now she found that things were not that simple.
Because all this cannot be achieved without long-term planning...
The rise of the Necromancer.
The death of the old king.
The queen took the throne as regent.
The princess died unexpectedly.
It so happened that the Dragon God's treasure appeared at this time.
It was like a catalyst, pushing ambitious people like Kaloni towards the throne!
So it's not that simple.
There is also an invisible force.
It hides in the Death Party.
Hidden in the deepest place.
Waiting for something.
Planning something.
No one outside noticed this now, their attention was all on the treasure.
Including the Undead Party... They are like a group of bloodthirsty but ignorant beasts, moving forward with the will of the hunter, staring only at the bait but ignoring the abyss hidden under their feet.
Chapter 98 Fei Che Holy Spring 7
Red-haired Ice Beard has a resounding name, his name is Hele-Glarant.
The reason why it is loud is that "Heiler" is the name of a hero in ancient folk songs. In history, a person with the same name fought against a sea monster on the shore, killed the monster with brute force and wisdom, and calmed the tsunami waves caused by the monster.
This is not the point. The point is that Haierle is very angry now. He thinks that his good brother Lazuli is bewitched and actually wants to secretly bring people to dig for treasure.
During the argument between the two, Hitzfeld obtained a large amount of lost information, including that "the Dragon God's Tomb is a war fortress built by King Kyle himself. One of the meanings of its existence is to be restarted and utilized when the country encounters a disaster."
She thought this might be the reason why... there were those weapons and armor, as well as more than 2000 dragon riding saddles in the first few levels of the Dragon Tomb.
All members of the Dragon Guard family knew of its existence, and they all knew that this thing was alive and would continue to move underground.
It’s not that they don’t want to dig this thing, but... on the one hand, they have checks and balances on each other, and anyone who dares to act rashly may be discovered by the opponent.
On the other hand, how to find this thing is also a problem.
This is what makes Heyerle most angry - finding and locating the dragon's tomb has been a problem for many generations of his family. He himself doesn't understand what is the point of fiddling with such a treasure that would run around underground?
But he was indeed devout enough to King Kyle, and he saw it as a test for future generations. If he could not pass the test and grasp it with strength and wisdom like Heiler in history, he would not be qualified to seek anything.
In recent years, because there has been no unrest in the country, he has been able to devote most of his energy to the investigation of the Dragon Tomb.
Although this thing is prepared for disasters, we can't wait until the disaster really comes to find it.
This is what Heiler thought. He hoped to use this precious time to research something. At least he wanted to find the pattern of the excavation of dragon tombs, instead of just finding its traces every time... those strange deep holes that broke out of the ground.
As a result, he didn't figure out the secrets of the Dragon Tomb, but he discovered that the movements of the Hot Spring Dragon were not normal.
The abnormality did not just start recently, but started many generations ago - the hot spring dragons always have the habit of spring outings. According to them, this is a ceremony to commemorate King Kyle, and by giving their body and mind to nature, they can experience how hard it is to get everything.
Of course there is no problem with this. Haierle is not so idle as to care about other people's customs.
There is a similar custom in Gralant, but that is after the autumn harvest... They will burn the remaining straw and leaves together and sing folk songs to the flames.
This is not a problem. The problem lies in the "spring outing" of the hot spring dragon, the time cycle of which is not very stable.
In most cases, people set out in spring, travel around, and return before winter.
Sometimes, if you are delayed due to special circumstances in the wilderness, it is understandable that you can spend the winter and come back next spring.
Haierle was too lazy to care about other people's affairs, but he accidentally discovered that the irregular time points of the hot spring dragon's spring outings and hunting could be compared with the time points of each dragon tomb unearthed in history!
This is not normal!
He immediately asked others to conduct an in-depth investigation, and gradually discovered... It turned out that the hot spring dragon had been secretly following the footsteps of the Dragon Tomb. Unlike other dragon guards who could only find the pits left by the Dragon Tomb's activities, they could grasp the patterns of the Dragon Tomb's activities each time and keep biting its tail!
This shows that the hot spring dragon has mastered the secret method of tracking!
Otherwise there is no way to explain why they can do this!
At the first moment, he thought he should stop them.
Searching for treasure is not something shameful. All Dragon Guard families want the treasure, and their ancestral precepts do mention that they are qualified to "receive their share."
But its real owner is the royal family... The hot spring dragon went to great lengths and spent several generations doing this, deliberately concealing the news.
Heyerle didn't really believe that they didn't want to embezzle the treasure.
This violated the rules and oaths, so he immediately wrote a letter to his childhood friend Lazuli, implicitly raising his doubts in the letter, hoping that Lazuli was actually unaware of the situation and that he would investigate the hidden truth and tell him.
Just like when they were kids playing together, Lazuli would tell him the same thing every time he found some secret base... a cave in a mountain stream, an abandoned brown bear's den... He hoped that everything would be the same as before.
But he was soon disappointed. Lazuli did reply quickly, but he wrote a lot of nonsense in the letter and finally lied that the hot spring dragon was not chasing treasure, but was simply guided by fate to dig out the "Fei Che Holy Spring".
What is the Fei Che Holy Spring?
Heerle asked many people and read many ancient books but could not find any record of it. Finally, under his questioning, Lazuli revealed the truth: there were secret codes hidden in the remaining pages of ancestral precepts that the Deka family got, and the movement of the Dragon God's treasure was not without pattern.
No matter how the mechanical puppet carrying the treasure moves, no matter how it appears randomly like an irrational beast, it always has to regularly look for a holy spring to replenish its energy from its water.
Many years ago, it was related to Lazuli’s grandfather... According to his description, his grandfather once read a record: an ancestor of the Deka family first discovered this secret. He did not inform anyone, but embarked on the hunting journey alone. As a result, he actually found the location of the Holy Spring of Feiche and the Dragon Tomb - he caught them at the moment they met!
But he was only one person after all, and the power of the hot spring dragon was not suitable for fighting. He was injured after only passing a few checkpoints on the surface of the dragon tomb. He had to retreat first and watched the dragon tomb and the holy spring separate and disappear.
He thought he had found the right method. Next time... next time he would bring more people with him, and he would definitely be able to catch the treasure.
He also had evidence, he brought out an antique long knife from the tomb. The knife was bathed in holy spring water and thus gained strange magic. In his subsequent experiments, no sword weapon could collide with the long knife, and no matter how he experimented, the knife was always intact.
This is the story of the ancestor of the Deka family, and his name was Ferry Deka.
The spring water discovered by Fideliscus, which he described as "incredible", "extremely clear, extremely holy, extremely miraculous", was naturally named "Fideliscus Holy Spring" by later generations.
This is the origin of the name of the spring, but Firi-Deka did not wait until the second time to seize this great opportunity. His injuries worsened rapidly, and the doctors were helpless. He died soon, and only struggled to leave behind a few manuscripts before his death, warning family members not to give up chasing the holy spring.
Chasing underground spring water is the natural power of hot spring dragons. As long as they can find the Fei Che Holy Spring, it means they can monopolize the treasure.
"You are so selfish!" Heiler rushed forward again and grabbed Lazuli, "Your ancestor was a villain! Do you want to become like him?"
"Don't be stupid, Haier!" Lazuli began to resist for the first time.
He pinched the other's hand, and used brute force to pry open Haierle's wrist little by little, and said to him word by word: "No matter how prosperous the Dragon Guard Family is, it can only be their watchdog... Don't tell me you can't see this fact."
Heiler's face changed.
Obviously, he knew.
"That is King Kyle's will!" he said in a deep voice, "He has his thoughts!"
"I don't care!" Lazuli roared. "He has his thoughts! Yes - but what does that have to do with me?"
"Why should my fate be determined from the moment I was born and came into this world?"
"Why can't I? Why can't we?"
"Do you really think I want to betray the Dragon Guards? Haier...you know me best among my friends. Do you really think I want to do that?"
"Lazuli, this is no reason for you to act so crazy..."
"I'm not messing around!"
It was Lazuli who pinned him against a tree.
His eyes were bloodshot: "I just want to know what will happen once the balance is broken."
"I don't want to usurp the throne, not at all."
"I'm not interested in that position. I'm not interested in becoming a wild beast scrambling for scraps of meat!"
“I just want the option.”
"Understand, Haier?"
“The right to choose…”
Chapter 99 Fei Che Holy Spring 8
Lazuli began to persuade Haierle with great effort. He cited many examples of outstanding heroes in the history of the Dragon Guard family, saying that they "may not want to go further."
But Heiler has always been particularly cautious in this regard. He insisted that those people may not think so, and Lazuli "lacked respect" for their arrangement.
"Then how do you know they don't think that way?" Lazuli wanted to strangle him to death.
But he saw his distorted face clearly in Heyerle's eyes - in the clear reflection, and he finally understood that they were both thinking the same thing at this moment, that is, "this childhood playmate...how did time turn him into this?"
"Anyway, I won't betray the Dragon Guard!" He let go of the other person and straightened his collar again.
"Do you think I'm afraid of you bringing people here? Not Heil... Whether it's you, Xim-Smurf, or Bury-Sally! I'm not afraid of any of you coming! Because I never thought of taking it all for myself! I wish you were all here!!"
"I firmly believe that King Kyle must have his reasons for doing this." Heiler whispered, "I mean that he deliberately gave power and bloodline separately. Perhaps breaking the rules means disaster..."
"Do you believe it yourself?" Lazuli said coldly, "All evidence shows that he did this to continue his rule, so that his descendants can firmly sit on that position no matter how they fight and kill each other - in some countries, the bloodline of the previous king will be cut off because of the nobles' struggle for power, so he turned the nobles of Talignan into his descendants!... He is so smart!"
"Lazuli..." Haierle wanted to say something, but Lazuli didn't give him a chance.
"Stop talking, Haier." He interrupted him, "I know you didn't bring many people with you. You might as well go back and ask your brothers and elders. Just tell them that I am willing to share the treasure with them and that I am willing to break the curse that has lasted for a hundred years. Go and ask...see how they react."
Haierle was even more speechless, and it was obvious that he also understood: on ordinary days, his brothers and uncles were all pious to His Majesty the Dragon God, but if the choice was really given to them, it would be good if half of them could remain restrained.
"And the people from the Frost Dragon... they are coming too, right? You can go and ask and discuss it with them." Lazuli snorted.
"You can try it and see how many people will be like you!"
The pace of time accelerated again.
Hitzfeld saw the air flowing, the clouds in the sky rolling and turning, and people turned into small black dots on the grass, shuttling back and forth. After a while, two smaller military camps appeared next to the simple town of Wenquanlong.
It was from the military camp... because the people brought by the Simov and Gralant families were all elite fighters, and they thought that Lazuli went to so much trouble just to keep the treasure for himself, and did so because he was afraid that there would be a battle for the treasure around the valley. They never thought that he was willing to share it with them.
“That’s not sharing!”
In the tent, Haierle shook his beard and roared, "That's stealing! That's robbery! Didn't you understand? He plans to take away everything on the fourth floor of the Dragon Tomb!"
"So what?" An elder of Heiler looked at him coldly, "He is not going to keep it for himself, but to share it with us equally."
"But..." Heiler stared at the man in disbelief, his tone rising unconsciously: "But that doesn't belong to us, right?"
It is mentioned in all the ancestral precepts of the Dragon Guard family that the treasure can only be taken from the first three floors, and the fourth floor is inviolable.
"Oh, it's been so long now." The elder just raised his eyebrows, "Calm down, Haier, think about it... maybe the situation today requires us to get it? You also know how useless those bloodline families are... It would be a bit of a waste to give it to them."
"We don't even know what's inside!" Haierle growled, "Even if it's a mountain of gold, it's still theft! It's even more of a robbery!"
"Then what do you think we should do?" one of his peers suddenly said, "Send someone back to inform the old king? Tell him that we are going to catch it, and ask him to come over quickly and take his share?"
Heyerle was speechless.
It would definitely be too late... The Misty Valley is at least sixteen days' walk from Kerg, and the round trip would take more than a month. By the time the old king gets here, a quarter will have passed, and the Dragon Tomb may have already run away.
And he suddenly had a dark thought, that is, since his fellow tribesmen felt that King Kyle's will... that is, the ancestral teachings were problematic and that they should be the ones to take all the treasures, would the old king also have similar thoughts as them?
If the old king really knew about this and rushed over, would he really be so easy to talk to and give them the treasures from the first few floors?
Gazing at these familiar yet unfamiliar faces, Heyerle suddenly became uncertain.
He felt as if the whole world had changed in an instant...those familiar people and things were moving away and would never come back.
"I think you don't need to be so excited."
The tent was opened, and a stern young man in silver armor walked in.
"Sim!" Heerle shouted.
Seam Smurf, like Lazzuri, was his childhood playmate, and strictly speaking, Bury Salley should also be included. At that time, there was no group closer than them.
He looks the same, still so young...but does he have the qualifications to barge into a meeting in a tent at this time?
Heyerle was suddenly startled: Could it be that he was the one leading the Frost Dragon's army?
