Volume 1 Prelude to the Storm Chapter 2 Lost Memories
The bone dragon Eribus gathered his bone wings and lay on the top of the Soul Bell Tower, the tallest building in the Underworld, looking up at the dull sky of the Death World, quietly listening to the ringing of the "Soul Bell".
Whenever it wakes up from its sleep, when the "soul bell" rings every day, it likes to lie alone on the roof of the "soul bell tower" and listen to the "soul bell" bell, year after year, day after day, never stopping...
Why does the low and sad bell sound make it sound so sad? You know, the undead have no emotions, but why does it feel sad? Moreover, whenever that sadness emerges, it can resonate with the trembling of the soul fire in its bone marrow.
It was a feeling that was indescribable and unspeakable.
"What does that red dragon mean to me that day?" After the bell rang, Iribus began to think about what happened a few days ago. It seemed that it had arrived in the world of death less than a hundred years. Compared with the long years that the eternal world of death has experienced, a hundred years of time is just a drop in the ocean and is not worth mentioning at all. Since the time to become an undead creature is still short, Iribus's mind is not yet fully mature. It cannot understand the words of the red dragon that day. And the undead creatures who came to the world of death cannot remember the past he had experienced.
"What an inexplicable guy!" Iribs gave the attraction to the Red Dragon.
A white light ball as bright as a fist, bright as stars suddenly flew out of the throne hall in the dark city and flew quickly towards the "Soul Bell Tower". When the light ball flew to Iribus, who was entrenched on the top of the "Soul Bell Tower", it stopped.
Iribus looked at the white light ball in front of him that was quietly confronting it, his eyes were full of doubts. What kind of thing is this? It stretched out its claws and was about to disperse the thing in front of him that could only be regarded as a small "light spot" compared to its huge dragon skeleton.
The "light spot" suddenly moved and sank into the huge dragon skull of Iribus.
As if a drop of ice water was dripping into the boiling oil, the sea of consciousness deep in Iribus' soul suddenly exploded. Except for a feeling of pain that tear apart the soul spreading in its sea of consciousness, countless people, objects, light and scenery came one after another, and rushed into its sea of consciousness.
Iribus raised his head to the sky and let out a silent roar of pain.
The roar of the bone dragon radiated from the ghost city and spread far away. Feeling the endless dragon power contained in the roar, countless low-level skeletons and zombies wandering around the world of death became instinctively fearful, and lay on the ground with their heads in their arms, trembling and dared not move.
After the dragon snarled, Iribus returned to calm. The ghost fire in its eye sockets continued to burn, and scenes of memory about past events appeared in its sea of consciousness...
Above the vast blue sky, two silver-white frost dragons were fighting hard. Sometimes they thrust and entangled together, leaving marks of their claws and teeth on each other; sometimes they were separated from each other, facing each other from a distance, spewing out a series of majestic and magnificent ice dragon breaths, crossing the sky, and whistling towards each other.
Ice dragon breaths collided in the air, bursting into the air, countless snowflakes fell from the sky, and the world was filled with wind and snow.
After a long and arduous battle, one of the frost dragons finally lost their strength. They fell from the air in a whine, and fell heavily to the ground. They struggled for a long time but couldn't get up.
"Ah, Matherina, I won, I will give this victory to you, the goddess in my heart." After circling around the sky with excitement, the victorious young frost dragon swooped around for a while, landed in a group of more than a dozen frost dragons watching the battle, shouting loudly to one of the most beautiful young female frost dragons.
"If you win, you win. Who wants you to give me any victory?" Seeing the hidden smiles from the dragons beside me, Messelina's cheeks dyed two reds.
"Haha, Iribus, look, you made Matherina shy."
"Ah, Messelina is still a little girl now, and she is tender-skinned. After Elibus marrys her, Messelina will not be shy."
"Iribus and Maserina grew up together. One is a talented man and the other is a beautiful woman. It's such a pair of people who are made of heaven and earth!"
"Hehe, Iribus, although you have been a "doll marriage" with Messelina, but Messelina is so beautiful, it will definitely attract a lot of crazy bees and waves. You should be careful, be careful that the fat water flows into the outside world. I heard that the giant dragon among the red dragon, Tyrangraterissa, who is known for its arrogant and unreasonableness, has publicly claimed to pursue Messelina. It also said that if someone dares to become a stumbling block for its pursuit of Messelina, it will beat that person to automatically exit."
"It dares!" Iribus curled his lips with disdain.
Just as a group of frost dragons were holding two little couples in a quack manner, the elderly frost dragon king officially announced the result and significance of this battle.
"Iribus defeated Katlark, so from today onwards, the crown prince of the Frost Dragon Clan is Iribus."
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Another memory scene in Iribus's consciousness
Appears in the sea.
This is an unprecedentedly fierce battle.
The ice that crosses the sky collided with the flames, and after it exploded in the sky, it bloomed like colorful flowers, turning the sky into a world of ice and fire.
The battle between the frost dragon Iribus and the red dragon Tyrangraterissa has entered the third day, and the two dragons have not yet decided the outcome.
"His grandma's, the frost dragon, Iribus, is indeed well-known. I didn't expect to be able to tie with me, Tyrangraterissa." Tyrangraterissa pulled its loud voice and panted and scolded in its usual rude language.
"Your strength is beyond my expectations!" Eribus glanced at Tyrangraterissa, and asked coldly while gasping for breath: "Tyrangraterissa, how about you, do you still want to attack Messelina?"
Tyrangraterissa glared at Iribus fiercely and said, "I can't win you, you can't win me either. Since I can't beat you away from Messelina, and she likes you but not me, why do I waste my energy in vain? Do you think I like fighting a fight that I can't win?"
Tyrangraterissa vibrated her wings and dragged her tired body away from the habitat of the Frost Dragon clan while cursing.
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The screen continues to switch.
"What? Masselina, you actually signed a contract with a humble human and became his mount? Why do you do this?" Listening to the news brought back by Masselina who returned from the human kingdom, Eribus was shocked and extremely dissatisfied.
"Iribus, is there anything strange about this? In the long and long history of our dragon clan, aren't there many dragons who have signed contracts with humans, elves, orcs, and even dwarves, becoming their friends and mounts, adventures and traveling together, leaving countless legends on the continent that make people praise?" Maserina's beautiful big eyes blinked, answering Iribus' question.
"Hmph, the dragons who are willing to sign contracts with those lower creatures are all lower dragons. You are the superior dragon, the noble frost dragon Messelina. How can you let those lower creatures ride on your extremely noble dragon back?" Iribus said unwillingly.
"Iribus, how can you discriminate against other creatures with colored eyes? You must know that all living beings on the mainland are people created by God, and all living beings are equal." Messelina's voice was still so pleasant.
"Equal all beings? What a ridiculous joke! Matherina, I don't know what blinded your eyes and polluted your thoughts after you traveled to the kingdoms created by lower creatures, and you would say such words that make people laugh out loud." Eribus said annoyedly.
"Iribus, you are so proud and look down on all creatures that are weaker than you, so you are so lonely and so lonely that you have no friends around you. Not to mention other creatures from other races, even among the dragons of this race, aren't you not friends? Since you rely on your own strength to defeat all competitors and become the heirs of the king, aren't the dragons in the clan not taken seriously by you? Because they are also weaker than you, you think they are not worthy of being acquainted with you, right?"
Iribus was silent.
"Even the pride in the red dragon, the dragon Tyrangraterissa, who is as famous as you, has signed a contract with an elf who is weaker than it, and has become a friend and mount of the elf. Why can't you let go of your proud heart and try to be friends with creatures that are weaker than you?"
"Also, the human who signed a contract with me is not as weak as you think. He is one of the top human beings. He is a knight with a combat power level of 12. Although I am an ice dragon, my combat power level is only 11. I don't feel any shame to sign a contract with him. Besides, there are examples like Tyrangraterissa to be my role model!"
Masserina's words made Iribus speechless.
Finally, Iribus acquiesced the invariable fact that Messelina becomes a dragon knight's mount.
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A scene that made Eribus heartbroken again appeared quietly.
What is the most painful thing in the world? I think it is the person you love deeply. When you enter the solemn and sacred marriage hall with you, you will run away from others?
In the majestic and magnificent dragon hall, there are lights and colors, indicating that a couple is about to enter the marriage hall. However, the wedding scene, which should have been extremely festive, was so depressing and so deserted at this time.
The groom Iribus looked up at the dome of the Dragon Hall in a daze, his eyes dull. Dozens of frost dragons pointed and whispered something. The Frost Dragon King, as the wedding host, looked at the newcomer in front of him who was only one person left, couldn't help but shake the dragon's head and sighed.
Time passed minute by minute, and Iribus finally woke up from the long-term painful blow. Two bears were thrust into pieces.
The bear's burning rage appeared in its eyes.
"Why, Messelina, you actually fell in love with a human who had signed a contract with you, a so-called dragon knight? Why? Why?" Eribus roared at the top of his lungs.
"Ryans, you actually snatched away my Messelina. You humble human, I want you to pay the price of blood for the shame that is imposed on me!"
With a shocking dragon roar, a corner of the dome of the Dragon Hall exploded, and a huge silver-white body flew out from the Dragon Hall and flew towards the distant human kingdom.
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The picture finally freezes in a night with heavy rain and thunder.
A swordsman in black armor walked slowly step by step in the face of the wind and rain. The heavy sword in his hand was dragged behind him, and the sharp tip of the sword could even make sparks incredibly on this ground full of water.
The swordsman stopped in front of a huge shadow standing in the darkness. A flash of lightning flashed past, illuminating the shadow, which was a huge frost dragon.
Iribus stared proudly at the swordsman who looked so small compared to its huge dragon body, and said coldly: "Rence Kleman, you are finally willing to appear in front of me."
"Yes, I finally appeared in front of you, your bloodthirsty dragon. The entire 217 lives of the Keleman family, you should repay it today!" The heavy sword in the swordsman's hand pointed at Iribus, his voice full of sadness and resentment.
"Why are you? Just because you reach the level 12 fighting spirit level? It is undeniable that in your lower-level creatures, your level 12 fighting spirit level is indeed at the top. Even if you look at the entire dragon clan, there are many dragons that are not your opponents. However, facing me, the strongest frost dragon, Iribus, what can your level 12 fighting ability do to me?" With a sound of the shaking dragon, Iribus shook his head violently, and a violent ice dragon breath immediately spitted towards Reins.
Reins also roared to the sky, waved the heavy sword in his hand, and rushed forward towards Iribus.
One man and one dragon, on this stormy night, a desperate battle started.
This is an extremely tragic fight.
The earth is shaking, the mountains are collapsed, affected by the huge energy released by one man and one dragon in the fight. With the position of their fight as the center, within a hundred miles, no grass grows, no people and animals exist, and all living things are destroyed.
Iribus fell last on a rainy night.
When the heavy sword in Reins' hand penetrated into the dragon's heart, the dragon slowly stopped on the ground with an incredible expression, and with the light from the moment the lightning in the sky pierced the darkness, the dragon saw that the swordsman in front of him, the former dragon knight, had his original blonde hair turned into purple hair and fluttered, and his blue eyes also turned into purple demon eyes. The blood flowing from the wound on his body was also purple.
That is the purple color representing the demon clan!
"Ahem," the dragon spitted blood foam in his mouth and kept sneering: "A humble creature, I didn't expect that you would actually fall into the arms of the demon."
"That's right," Reigns' voice was filled with a hint of coldness and sadness. "This is all for revenge on you, the most powerful frost dragon, Eribus. In order to gain the power to fight you, I gave up my faith in the Lord, gave up all glory and all self-esteem, and handed over my soul to the master of darkness, the terrifying demon god Archmond, and exchanged for endless dark power from him. Now I am no longer the dragon knight Reigns Kleiman, who admired by thousands of people, but the most powerful demon swordsman Reigns Kleiman, one of the ten lords of the Abyss Demon Realm, and the most powerful demon swordsman."
"Hahahaha..." The giant dragon looking back at the sky gave off the last long laugh in the world before the fire of life was extinguished: "Poor man, although you killed me, the price you paid was too high! My death in this life only shows the beginning of my next life's reincarnation! And what about you? You sold your soul to the demon, but you just became a walking corpse controlled by the demon. You will endure endless and endless pain and torture in that suffocating and mad dark world in that suffocating and madness."
Reins smiled. His laughter was filled with bitterness and helplessness at first, but in the end, it became so vicious.
"Iribus, yes, I will endure endless and long pain in the dark world, but you will not be much better than me. In the case of being killed by the "Sword of Cursed", do you think your soul can return to God's arms or enter the reincarnation of reincarnation? You will become "the eternal cursed person" and will become an eternal cursed undead in the world of death that is even more depraved than the dark world."
"Sword of Curse?" The dragon's eyes, whose consciousness had begun to blur, showed a look of fear for the first time. It wanted to get up from the ground and tear the demon in front of it apart, but it felt that it could no longer use any strength. Its pupils were scattering, and the trace of its spirit representing signs of life in its eyes quickly dimmed.
"Hahahaha..." The knight who fell into the darkness made a burst of crazy laughter mixed with endless resentment and bitterness in this biting rainy night.
Chapter completed!