Warhammer: Return of the Dragon

Chapter 98 Conversation
"So the purity ceremony is like putting on a layer of shackles. If you untie it in other ways, you will become a fool?"

After communicating with the High Priest of Vaal, Imrik roughly understood the effect of the ritual of purity. The Priest of Vaal used a ritual to add a lock to the soul. This lock is the bottommost thing, and the outer layer will add The original spell handed down from the dragon trainer by the high wizard of the upper flame tower serves as a protective shell.

The protective shell will filter out the consciousness of the outside world to ensure the consciousness of the descendants of the dragon trainer is clear, but once the threshold reaches the upper limit, the protective shell will be broken, and the last is the lock as a safety measure. This lock is matched with the legendary dragon horn. Used by Hall of Dreams.

Suddenly he thought of what happened when Ardaeus and Minasnier met him for the first time. Ardaeus did not doubt his identity as a time traveler. Could it be that the effect of the purity ceremony to prevent the entry of external consciousness was still on him at that time?
But Minasnir found out that it might be the blessing of the dragon. Imrik thought of the process of holding the purity ceremony. First, the heir would accept the blessing of the dragon, so as to ensure strong fighting power and resonate with the dragon. The feeling will be stronger, and then it will be sent to the Vaal Temple to accept the ceremony.

"It should be because of the disappearance of the dragon blessing of the soul, Minasnil can detect my changes, but the effect of the purity ceremony has not disappeared, so Ardaeus did not notice."

Then there is a strange place. Could it be that the purity ceremony uses a certain part of the body as the casting point, and it will disappear after being cut off.

This made Imrik think of the pineal gland mentioned by Descartes. The philosopher believed that there is an organ in the human body that allows the soul to control the movement of the body. Maybe there is something similar in the pointed-eared thing. After all, Osu An culture and traditions are all dualistic, maybe the same is true for the body.

For a while, I didn't understand what was going on, and then I remembered the matter of the purity ceremony.

Vaal Sanctuary and Flame Tower only know how to hold this ceremony, but they don’t know how to unlock it, and they don’t have any test subjects. The maximum number of dragon tamer families is no more than five people, and no one dares to use these people as test subjects. Once an unexpected situation occurs, it will have a huge impact on the Dragon Palace, Vaal Temple, and Flame Tower.

In addition, no one knew about the ancient covenant, and the dragon's horn was also lost, which directly put Caledon in a state of failure, and the problem of the sleeping dragon could not be effectively solved.

After understanding the ancient covenant from the Dragon's Rest Temple, I wanted to make some adjustments to the covenant so that other people could also start to transform into dragons, but it seemed that this idea was not feasible.

If a purity ceremony is held for other people, although the consciousness will be guaranteed, the effect of dragon transformation is not obvious, but the body is stronger, and there will be a disadvantage, that is, the probability of fertility will be greatly reduced.

It's not that the Dragon Trainer family has never thought of finding two people to set up a harem to breed horses and breed offspring, but the effect is extremely insignificant. The mainstream theory before is that those people are not worthy of conceiving children of the Dragon Trainer family because of their noble blood.

Imrik thought it was nonsense at first, but after understanding the ancient covenant, he found that it really meant something. In addition, Azul is a long-lived species, and the fertility rate is already low. Now he is the only one left in the family , Dragon Trainer really buried a big hole for the family.

Resist the mentality of wanting to complain, since the problem of dragon transformation can't be solved for the time being, let those dragon princes fight honestly on horseback, wait until they complete the dragon lord ceremony, get the dragon horn and then ride the dragon.

After thinking clearly, he looked at High Priest Vaal in front of him and said.

"There is no way to solve the problem of dragon transformation, let's put it on hold for now, let's talk about the recent situation of Vaal Anvil."

High Priest Vaal nodded to show that he understood. Dragonization is Caledor's highest-level secret. It is about the succession of the dragon lord. easy thing.

"We have stockpiled [-] pieces of standard equipment in the past month. The standard enchanting effects are uniformly used for enchanting. Two-thirds of it has been completed. It is expected that it will take some time to complete the enchanting."

The standard equipment is the armament made of steel plus a part of Ithilama silver. After the delivery of the batch of Ithilama silver by Tyrann Locke and Iris, the resources have also been well replenished. Imrik has ordered Take those old, old-fashioned equipment to the Vaal anvil to re-smelt, but the effect may not be good.

These pieces of equipment represent the honors obtained by the ancestors of the previous family. Every retired soldier will receive a piece of equipment to be honorably discharged, and then the descendants will enshrine it as a symbol of the family. Unless they are forced to, they will not use these equipments. It sounds like Kind of like a dwarf, but that's Caledor's reality.

The quantity mentioned by the high priest is actually not bad, and it has been greatly improved compared with the previous output, so Imrik nodded and expressed his appreciation, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, the pressure on the armament caused by the expansion of the army made the dragon The palace is also a little nervous, but Vaal Anvil must forge everyone's equipment as quickly as possible, and I will provide you with a sum of financial support."

After finishing speaking, seeing the high priest nod in agreement, Imrik thought of something.

That's the problem with the siege crossbow. The eagle claw ballista has been used in Azul's army for thousands of years and is popular for its precision and lethality. They didn't kill all the hydras, and then they attacked Druzzi and Chaos. Among them, the proportion of giant beasts is not low.

So he asked, "Can the Church of Vaal produce some powerful field ballistas, such as those that are placed on chariots and drawn by horses. The power should be three times greater than the Eagle Claw Ballista, and there is no need for shotgun mode."

Hearing this, the High Priest of Vaal pondered for a while. The Eagle Claw Ballista is also produced at the Vaal Anvil. After all, it is the largest armaments factory in Ulthuan, and the Vaal Church is only responsible for making arrowheads. The man who built the ballista.

"Our research on engineering is very shallow, and even most of them still use what we got from communicating with dwarves before the Longbeard War. Although the eagle claw ballista has been improved for thousands of years, the overall framework is still the same as before. Something, Vaal Anvil has a workshop that specializes in making eagle claw ballistas, you can go there and have a look.”

There were only three people present, and their status in Caledor was also very high. The high priest of Val bluntly explained the situation of the Eagle Claw Ballista. Everyone knows the real situation. Art and other cultural fields have made some progress, but the field of war still uses the old things, basically unchanged.

Prince Long pointed at the table with his index finger. Azul's engineering is largely in the field of construction, and the brilliance of this construction engineering is also because he wants to pretend to be aggressive. As long as the palace is built higher, bigger and wider, then The construction engineer will gain a great reputation.

However, compared with dwarves, mechanical engineering is a bit of a hip, because it is highly dependent on magic and dragons, and does not need powerful siege weapons to deal with giant beasts.

"I'll take a look later. We lack some means to deal with giant beasts. We can't let giant dragons take risks to snipe the enemy's giant beasts."

The current Dragon Prince is very precious to the giant dragons under him. He is the leader of the giant dragons of Caledor, and Minasnil is his pendant. The death of one is a huge damage to the ethnic group.

The High Priest Ardaeus sitting next to him was silent. His status is not low, but because of his beliefs, he has never been able to integrate into the inner circle of Caledon. This is caused by the change of the situation, and he has not complained about any People, since the Dragon Prince has let him know the core secrets of Caledon, such as dragon transformation, he thinks it is time to contribute to a greater extent, so he said.

"Prince, are you interested in the Burning Despair of the Church of Ardaeus? If possible, I can let some believers receive training from the Burning of Despair and let them enter your command."

Imrik, who was communicating with the High Priest of Vaal, was overjoyed to hear this. The Burning Despair was Ardaeus' catguard. They had a great reputation during the Chaos invasion and were extremely powerful in combat, but their numbers were very small. The Dragon Prince was on the same level, or even a little higher. They were all two-handed heroes with big axes and heavy swords.

"Of course, Caledon needs everyone's strength."

(End of this chapter)