novelraw Chapter 178-2: The Hidden Canyon of the Bamogo Mountains (2)
Chapter 178-2: The Hidden Canyon of the Bamogo Mountains (2)
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[He didn’t know how much time had passed when a desolate horn call resounded over the battlefield again.]
[You jolted awake. All around you were piles of grotesque monster corpses, while farther away, endless monsters still lunged toward you.]
[You have finally waited for the signal to retreat from the battlefield.]
[You looked back, only to see not a single legion soldier still alive and standing. Of the entire Oath Legion, of all the humans on this battlefield, only you remained…]
[Soon after, even the horn call was drowned out, leaving you alone, utterly surrounded by the infinite ocean of monsters.]
[All your joy turned into sorrow. You knew there was no escaping death.]
[You knelt, bracing yourself on your greatclub…]
[You feel extremely exhausted!]
[The Starborn Creatures closed in from all sides, their sharp claws glinting coldly as they approached!][Your body was weary, barely able to muster a shred of strength. But most lethal was the despair in your heart, unable to see any path to survival.]
[Cold glints flashed. The claws were almost upon you. Gritting your teeth, you swung the greatclub, driving back the attacker, yet even more claws came slashing toward you without mercy…]
[You were struggling desperately, and the side effects of having consumed four ores in succession were now painfully clear.]
[Your strength had greatly diminished. Blows that could once smash monsters into pulp now could only barely push them back.]
[The scale armor covering your body had already protected you from countless fatal strikes, and its self-repair was slowing down more and more.]
[Exhausted in both body and spirit, you were covered in wounds. Facing the countless claws of the monsters, you were about to die on the spot.]
Lin Xun knew that this was the most critical moment.
He still had one last trump card: the Epic+ grade item, High-Energy Particle Shield Generator.
[The monsters crowding around you saw that you could no longer stand. They surged forward, jaws gaping with hideous maws.]
[You had no strength left to counterattack and could only wait for the slaughter…]
“If you don’t give me a giant dragon as a reward after this trial, you hellish game… I swear I’m not done with you!”
Lin Xun gritted his teeth, about to activate his final trump card…
[A dragon roar that shook the heavens filled your ears as a jet-black inferno poured down from the sky!]
[The monsters around you were instantly corroded and melted beneath the waterfall of dragon breath, dissolving into pools of reeking black sludge.]
[You smelled a strange odor that made your head spin and your body sway unsteadily.]
[You immediately covered your nose and mouth and held your breath, knowing full well that the falling breath carried an extremely potent toxin.]
[Even with the Antitoxin Core of the Divine Light Moth, even with only a whiff of the stench, you struggled to resist such deadly poison.]
[The hurricane stirred by titanic wings dispersed the fumes, the howling gale pressing down on you from above.]
[A colossal shadow blotted out the daylight. With a thunderous crash, an enormous monstrous creature landed beside you, trampling countless corpses beneath its feet.]
[Its monstrous head was covered in countless pitch-black eyes, all fixed upon you.]
[You were instantly chilled to the bone, your mind flooded with a suffocating terror.]
[The surrounding monsters, cowed by the dragon’s horrific aura, dared not come closer. A primal fear left them unable to attack.]
[The dragon opened its fanged jaws, and another blast of virulent black breath poured down. Centered on you, a wide clearing abruptly opened in the battlefield as countless monsters turned to putrid black slime.]
[A figure rose to stand on the dragon’s back, clad in full metal plate armor. A bright silver helmet concealed his face from view.]
[You could only see a pair of eyes filled with sincerity and a large hand reaching out toward you.]
[A young voice echoed beside your ear…]
[Come home, my comrade!]
[As the voice rang out, the illusions around you began to tremble, and the scene before your eyes gradually lost its color…]
[You were rejected by this world and detached from the Residual Illusion of Knowledge…]
[In a daze, the scenery around you shifted once more, and you returned to the Underground Abyss Cave.]
[You have passed the Trial of the Dark Dragon Knight!]
[You have obtained Memory of the Dark Dragon Knight (Item)]
Lin Xun set down his phone and let out a long breath.
After a good while, he calmed himself, picked up the phone again, and checked the item.
[Memory of the Dark Dragon Knight: A mass of hazy, drifting light within which fragments of memory occasionally flicker by. Judging by the scenes depicted, it seems to originate from the depths of some unknown mountain range.]
[While carrying this item, you will be able to follow the guidance of the memory and head to the Hidden Canyon located in the Bamogo Mountains.]
Lin Xun felt the Bamogo Mountains looked somewhat familiar.
He suddenly remembered, wasn’t this the very mountain range mentioned on the stone stele, where the Dragon Knight had gone to seek the Ancient Black Dragon?
The meaning behind the name Hidden Canyon was now self-evident.
The ‘Hidden One’ referred precisely to the Ancient Hermit Dark Dragon.
“So this is telling me to go catch a dragon, and after subduing it, become a Dragon Knight?”
Lin Xun thought back to the text in the illusion just now. Facing the still juvenile Ancient Dragon, he had been so terrified at a mere glance that he felt chilled to the bone.
If he really had to fight that Ancient Dragon, he doubted he’d even know how to spell the word ‘death.’
“Why not just reward me with a giant dragon outright and be done with it?”
Lin Xun was only grumbling to himself. Every time he experienced one of these knowledge illusions, the reward had always been the ‘Memory of XXX.’
Memory wasn’t a tangible prize but contained crucial information or perhaps the comprehension of skills.
He guessed that even if he reached the location from the Dragon Knight’s memories and found the legendary Ancient Dragon, he wouldn’t necessarily have to fight it to receive the reward.
According to what the Servant of Knowledge had said on the stele, it was necessary to earn the Ancient Dragon’s recognition.
His only worry was that so many countless years had passed since the Dragon Knight’s death, and who knew how much time had really gone by.
What if he went to the new map and couldn’t find an Ancient Dragon…
[You looked toward the massive stone stele before you, vaguely sensing that something about it had changed.]
[You tried to touch it again, but the stele crumbled into a pile of powdered stone.]
[You understood that the power the Dark Dragon Knight had left behind in the stele had already faded away, and you had taken a small step onto the path of inheritance.]
[You walked a full circuit around the underground cave. Aside from the remains of the Ancient Hermit Dark Dragon and the Dark Dragon Knight, you found no other special items.]
[And after countless years of erosion, the two skeletons had long become useless.]
[Do you wish to pass through the curtain of water and return to the underground lake?]
Lin Xun searched the area one more time to be sure he hadn’t missed anything, then clicked ‘Yes.’