my age of magic

Chapter 1628 177. Ancient Ruins
The swamp dragons built their lairs on the cliffs of Shifeng. In front of the lair hole is a stone platform with only a few tens of square meters. The adult dragons have a wingspan of nearly [-] meters. Usually choose to stand on the stone platform outside the dragon's nest, first stretch the dragon's wings, and then jump up and fly over the valley rainforest.

Scattered on the stone platform of the Dragon Nest are some scales that fell from the swamp flying dragon when it was shedding its skin. However, after being eroded by wind and rain, most of these palm-sized scales have lost their original luster, and the natural magic patterns on the dragon scales are also incomplete. , took the whole dragon scale in his hand and gently broke it, it shattered like a walnut cake in a pastry shop.

The edges and corners of the protruding rocks at the entrance of the dragon's lair have long been smoothed by the hard scales of the flying dragon. The lair is filled with a sour smell. This is the smell of flying dragon feces. These dragon feces are piled up like mountains near the corner of the lair. They are all high-grade magic materials, even dragon dung can be sold at a good price in the magic market of the imperial capital.

After the dragon dung is dried and ground into powder, it can be combined with some other medicines to synthesize a powder medicine called 'dispersion'. This kind of dispersing medicine can be sprinkled around the outside of the camp when camping. Although it has no expulsion effect on creatures such as snakes, ants and poisonous insects, some large monsters will not easily approach the camp with the smell of dragons.

Walking into this dragon's nest, the only dragon egg in the nest has been taken away by Deborah.

The surrounding stone walls looked very smooth, and the entire lair was empty except for the piles of dragon dung in the corners.

Dragons are greedy and like to collect treasures, but subspecies of dragons such as wyverns are not the case.

There is a layer of white animal bones under the feet. It is difficult to tell which kind of monster these broken animal bones are from. Kalancuo picked up half of the bone that looks like the eye socket of the skull, and looked at it carefully for a long time. Cai said: "This may be the skull of a snake lizard..."

I don't know what she was based on to make this conclusion.

Deborah folded her wings and walked in from the outside platform. She looked at the empty dragon's nest, and she didn't understand why we ran into the dragon's nest that she had already searched, so she spread her hands and shrugged at me. , put on an unbelievable look, and said to me: "I have already searched this lair, and the young dragon is in the dragon lair on Shifeng next to it."

She pointed to the dragon's nest next door.

I nodded to her to show understanding.

Then, I ordered to Kalancuo beside me: "Let the female half-orc collect all these dragon dung..."

After finishing speaking, I opened a portal in the dragon's nest, and Kalancuo immediately walked into the portal and went to the underground cave in Xinliu Valley to summon the female half-orcs there.

I stood on top of the fine white bones, and stepped on these animal bones as hard as gold and stone with my leather boots. I couldn't believe that the dragon's appetite was so good.

At this time, Justus was holding a pair of bone swords in his hand. He casually used the bone sword to pry aside a layer of bones, and said in surprise, "Hey, what seems to be hidden under the bones?"

As he spoke, he squatted down and separated the thick layer of white bones from the ground, exposing the uneven ground of the cave. He saw that the ground was piled up with fist-sized, gray irregular round 'stones'...

However, these strange stones are clearly a pile of magic cores of different sizes...

Justus was very excited about his discovery, he greeted me and said loudly: "Uh, Ji Jia, look quickly! Here are all the magic cores of dead monsters. These magic cores should be hunted by swamp dragons." We should search here for the monsters left behind."

Deborah obviously didn't want to wait any longer in this dragon's lair, so she reminded me in a low voice: "Jijia, there are still some dragon eggs in the unexplored dragon's lair ahead, and there are still some dragon eggs in the dragon cave over there." Young dragon of the swamp wyvern, let's not waste time here, we should explore the more important dragon lair."

Just when Deborah started lobbying me, Kalancuo gathered a group of female half-orcs from the underground cave in Xinliu Valley, and asked Deborah, "Where are you going?"

Seeing Kalancuo coming out of Xinliu Valley, Deborah immediately folded her wings and shook her head vigorously.

"I mean, if I can catch those baby dragons, I think I'll take good care of them." Deborah immediately changed her words when she saw Kalantso, as cute as she could be.

In fact, we are not slow at cleaning these dragon nests.

A day later, I stood on the dragon nest of the last stone peak. The dragon cave here is obviously much larger than other dragon caves, and the pile of white bones inside the dragon nest is also thicker than other dragon nests. The harvest in this dragon nest After collecting nearly an entire box of magic cores, we preliminarily concluded that this dragon nest should be left by the Dragon King.

Looking at the seventeen dragon eggs, three young dragons jumping alive, and eleven boxes of magic cores, all of us took a deep breath in front of these wealth, but these seventeen dragon eggs are worth nothing. Liancheng, this means that in the next few years of the Green Empire, seventeen sub-dragon knights will appear one after another.

Of course, if I have a choice, I hope that Prince James’ South Wind Legion can form such a sub-dragon knight squad. At least Prince James has a plane where time flows too fast, and that plane is also where these sub-dragons are stocked. Fabulous 'ranch'.

I think that for any security considerations, His Majesty Charles should not allow legions other than the Royal Knights to form such a dragon knight combat team.

I plan to send the three young dragons to the Royal Academy of Magic, the Imperial Academy of Magic and the Imperial Institute of Magical Creatures respectively. These young dragons can just be the research objects in the hands of magic scholars. Compared with adult flying dragons, they are not too dangerous .

For the eleven boxes of magic cores, I want to transport them to Xinliu Valley for temporary storage. These magic cores need to be cut open, and the magic crystals inside need to be taken out. How many magic cores can be solved depends on luck. No matter what, but even if there are eleven boxes of magic cores, many lords and nobles will not be able to earn so many magic crystals in their lifetime.

In addition, dragon dung filled with [-] light rail trailers has been transported back to the underground warehouse in Xinliu Valley in advance. These dragon dung can only be sold after special drying. If you want to sell them at a good price, how to pack them? appears to be particularly important.

The loot was unprecedentedly abundant, and everyone's mood was quite high.

……

The ruins of the ancient ruins are just surrounded by 47 needle-shaped pinnacles. Standing on the platform in front of the dragon's nest, the ruins in the valley can be seen at a glance.

A bottomless big crack appeared in the ruins from south to north. The big crack stretched for more than ten kilometers, and the widest part between the cracks was nearly a hundred meters wide. The ruins were divided into east and west areas, where several rivers converged here, and the river water flowed into the bottomless crack, and the whole crack gave out billowing thunder, which was very majestic.

Except for this large crack that is more than ten kilometers long, most of the ruins are covered by lush woodland, and a thick layer of moss grows on many broken stone walls and broken Roman columns. I used the external platform of the Dragon Nest to open up a good field of vision, try to record the criss-crossing rivers in the valley as much as possible, and try to find the most convenient one.

After collecting the spoils of the dragon's nest, we repeatedly confirmed that there was no threat from the dragon's nest, and then led the team to the ruins in the center of the valley.

This valley is the territory of this group of flying dragons, so there are almost no traces of other monsters in the valley rainforest.

The terrain here is low-lying, and dozens of rivers converge here from all directions, so the water situation here is quite complicated. After entering this rainforest, I can already recognize the scenery in the surrounding woodland. The scenery in the image magic crystal is completely identical. The only difference is that Morayal and her adventure group strayed into this valley by mistake and were discovered by a group of flying dragons guarding here. The powerful group of flying dragons chased them away.

And now, when we enter this valley again, the first thing to do is to clean up the flying dragons in the valley.

Now the whole valley is quiet...

We crossed six fast-flowing river valleys, only to see the ruins hidden among the giant trees. Those mottled stone walls show the traces of heavy history. The sun penetrates into the dense rainforest and shines on those moss-covered stone walls. On the ground, there was a gust of breeze blowing, and small white flowers bloomed on the stone wall and fluttered in the wind.

This is the east area of ​​the ruins. Seeing the ruins, the two sisters Su and Annie were very excited, and I was also deeply moved. For this trip to the ancient ruins, I have made almost two years of preparations. First, I was in the imperial capital. In the auction house, the 'Star of Elune' was exchanged for a precious soul gem.

At that time, I didn't expect that the army of undead would go to war with the orc tribe on the Pai Plateau this autumn...

It never occurred to me that the orc powerhouse killed one of the three Lich Kings and obtained a soul gem, which is now in my hands.

In order to find the clues of the Horn of Soul, Noah and I sailed on the Vashki plane for nearly three and a half months, but the harvest is still very satisfying. Justus, the descendant of the siren, tricked him out, and finally found the treasure of the Pirate King in Vashki's sea area.

Step by step to the present, every step is extremely thrilling.

I took the first step toward the ruins of the valley, and the others followed behind me.

Barbarian slaves walked warily on either side of the procession, armed with heavy crossbows.

Just as he was about to enter the dilapidated ruins, the lizardman nobleman Inzaghi behind him stopped and stood outside the ruins, hesitating.

I turned around and glanced at him. He shrugged helplessly at me, then glanced at Nathaniel again, and motioned for him to translate for us.

"...Sorry, Mage Jijia, I can only follow you to this place. The ancient ruins in front of me belong to our ancient Zahel tribe, Muniji tribe, Laksha tribe, Calicut tribe, and Lamindi tribe. The place we guard together, according to the instructions given by our ancestors, we cannot enter this ruin anyway, so I can only follow you here, we abide by the teachings of our ancestors, and will not enter this ruin."

Nathaniel imitated the tone of the lizard nobleman Inzaghi and said.

When I heard what Inzaghi said, I could only nod my head and ask him, "The ancestors of the lizardmen didn't allow you to enter the ruins?"

Inzaghi nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

So I said: "Then you are waiting for us in the rainforest outside the ruins. If we haven't come out of the ruins after a week, then don't wait any longer and ride your flying dragon back to the ancient Zahel tribe as soon as possible." Bar!"

Inzaghi and Cavani stopped with a group of lizard warriors and waved goodbye to me:

"Magician Jijia, I wish you good luck."

……

Walking into the ruins of the dilapidated city wall, it looks like it was originally a city. The outermost city wall has completely collapsed, but a large number of stones for building the city wall are scattered in the forest. These stones are also covered with moss, and it is abnormal to step on them. It was slippery, and the soles of the boots had a slimy layer, and when I walked, it felt like I was walking in mud.

These stones for building the city wall are very large, and it seems that they need to be as big as a barbarian slave to move them.

We crossed the stone-like city wall, only to find that the ruins were much larger than we had imagined. We could still see some dilapidated flagstone roads and low walls of houses that had completely collapsed, but many places were covered with weeds and grass. The bushes, we walked through the ruins, it was still quiet here, and there was no danger in sight.

I stood in front of a circular arched stone gate, looked up at the broken arched stone beam, and then quickly condensed a water arrow, which washed away the thick layer of moss on the circular arched stone gate in a short while, revealing the inside The original stone walls, these stone walls are all carved out of granite, and there are some complicated patterns on them.

The drawing technique of the stone carvings here is very different from that of the Green Empire. Most of the patterns on the stone walls are tropical plants, and I can't quite understand many lines.

A horse lizard emerged from the bushes, and in the blink of an eye it was in a crevice in the rock.

A giant crossbow arrow flew out from the barbarian slave team, chasing the civet cat and flying out. The giant bed crossbow inserted into the gap between the stones, and firmly nailed the two-meter-long horse lizard to the stone wall. The giant bed crossbow completely overturned the pile of stones.

The barbarian slave happily ran over, pulled out a giant crossbow bolt from the stone pestle, punched the dying horse lizard to death, carried it on his shoulder, and ran back.

I glanced at Justus and asked him to take care of the barbarian slaves. Justus shrugged his shoulders and said he could only do his best.
We continued to walk along the dilapidated stone street. There was no danger along the way, but the more we walked in, there were many broken walls in the ruins that were still standing. I found some of them from these stone walls. Strange magic symbols that don't look like runes, nor any kind of writing I've ever seen...

(End of this chapter)