The Dragon Clan starts with poaching the corner of Kassel

Chapter 263 The Purgatory of Golden Land, the Wail of Eternal Purgatory

The eternal land of gold.

From the name, it sounds like a place full of treasures and a magical spring of youth.

But since setting foot on this land, all the "guests" can feel is infinite suffocation.

And... "Despair".

This is a world filled with despair from beginning to end.

As the lord of the world, the Dragon King binds and exploits all the lives living here with rules, regards their dignity, life, and existence as purely abstract "values", and takes them all away without mercy...

It can be said that life in this world has gained equal despair from the moment it was born.

Creatures that are slaves die first.

Losing life, losing spirituality, losing soul... However, the body with nothing is still in the twisted rules, and is reawakened as a part of the golden land, becoming the cornerstone of this living hell, being used as a consumable by waste...

Next to die were dragons who were subjects of the Lord of Bronze and Fire.

The "lifespan" of ordinary dragons is related to the power of their bloodline. The higher the purity of their bloodline, the longer the dragons can maintain their spiritual existence.

A dragon can maintain its youth for at least a thousand years, but they will still usher in spiritual decay under the shackles of their own bloodline...

The cocooning of the soul can only ensure the health of the body. The dragons who have lost their "spirit" are just mindless beasts. This is "death" to the dragons.

The real death - the withering of the "heart".

The rules of Golden Township will even accelerate this decadent process.

Because cocooning is a behavior that cannot provide "value", but will continuously consume "value".

As the absolute ruler of Svartalfheim, Norton does not allow the dragons of the Golden Land to cocoon in his territory.

As the body ages, the spirit deteriorates faster, and both the living and the newly born will turn into beasts without exception... This is why there is no living dragon in the Golden Land.

During the thirteen thousand years that Svartalfheim was closed, no dragon could resist the rules of this golden land.

These dragons, who could no longer pay the "value", degenerated into mere monsters with huge bodies, and were then swallowed into the earth by the living abyss, turning into the cornerstone of flesh and blood.

Under the scorching sun of the Bronze City, there is a "world-class alchemy array" built with their blood and meridians.

In the years since it lost its king, the city has been driven by burning everything of its former subjects. The temple remains the same, but the creatures prostrate on the ground can no longer be seen.

The only exception is Norton's retinue...the dwarfs.

After the dwarf clan was born from Norton, they became the most diligent producers under the Lord of Bronze and Fire.

It was their resonance and fusion with each other in the fields of countless alchemical products enshrined in them for 960,000 years that finally formed the core of Svartalfheim——

This is the abyss of despair called [Golden Country].

As a result, the dwarf clan has received preferential treatment from the Golden Township. As long as they are still casting new cornerstones for the Golden Township, they can receive the gift of being exempted from "taxation"...

"So they can be regarded as the only race in this abyss that is lucky enough to preserve their own intelligence."

Bu Shun lowered his head, stroked a lonely dwarf head with wide eyes on the ground, and said calmly: "Even now that the king is gone, they are still faithfully executing the orders left by Norton... Very good subordinates ,What do you think?"

His answer was a sound of vomiting.

Looking at the scene in front of them, Old Tang and Shutoku Aki vomited sour water with twisted expressions, wanting to spit out everything they had eaten in the past two days.

Caesar and Ye Sheng looked pale, and even Chu Zihang, who had always been paralyzed, looked extremely livid at the moment.

With his eyes turning red, Lu Mingfei clenched his fists tightly and roared:

"W-What the hell is this!!"

His angry roar echoed in the space where they were at this moment, but it actually seemed insignificant.

In a huge underground space like the hollow earth in anecdotes, on a bronze base with an area of ​​more than 600 square kilometers, mercury and blood flowed like a river.

Each ravine is more than 500 meters deep and can only be described as a rift valley. Poisonous steam flows on the bronze ground, sucking in metal-like storms.

The metal wind, the bronze ground, the blood-silver water, and the fire inside outline an extremely majestic and amazing super giant alchemical formula.

This is a spectacle beyond human imagination. The base area alone is the size of more than 9600000000 football fields. Even if humans are crammed into it, it cannot completely fill its space...

However, the area in the center of this alchemy array accommodates a "merely" 880,000 humans.

——Painful, twisted, squirming.

Nearly a million humans, whose bodies are half-melted but still alive, are wailing in this real hell.

"These...could they be...those people who disappeared...?"

Chen Motong's face was as pale as paper, and his mind, which was already riddled with holes, was like a piece of glass that had been hit hard by a hammer, instantly shattered by Ah Bi's call.

She gasped for breath, her body was shaky, and she had to lean on Caesar because her legs and feet were weak, and her pupils were trembling.

The hands and feet of those people melted into something like flesh, and their bodies merged with the bronze earth, but they did not lose their lives for some reason.

So I was suffering unimaginable pain every minute.

The highly toxic metal vapor tortured every nerve in them, followed closely by the pain that gnawed at brain tissue, strangling rationality and promoting madness.

Anger, pain, hatred, despair...the most extreme human emotions are condensed in these infernal wails. No human being can remain indifferent when seeing this scene.

"Yes."

Reaching out to release the dark blue light, maintaining the passage leading here behind her, the beauty with blue hair and red eyes said softly: "This is the 'raw material processing room' for extracting fresh living creatures and preparing the fuel needed for the alchemy ceremony. "

"The hundreds of thousands of people who disappeared from your world... are the 'materials' that Norton prepared for himself."

Through the passage opened by Bu Shun, the "expedition team" entered the deserted Bronze City.

Helena Meta, who had been waiting here for a long time, immediately opened the door to the underground world hidden in this Bronze City for Bu Shun and others.

Together, everyone witnessed the most terrifying "truth" in this golden land.

"What a disgusting method..."

Even as a Meta ship that had witnessed many "world destructions", Helena was still shocked by the Dragon King's cruelty.

This cruelty does not lie in how many people Norton has killed before and how many people he plans to kill now, but that everything she sees is actually a kind of deliberate torture.

In demonology, when preparing sacrifices, the ritual leader often uses some means to torture the sacrifices. Because they believe that souls full of despair and pain will be more pleasing to the devil - even if there is no real devil in this world.

Everything that is happening now can be said to be similar.

Torture is to release stronger emotions, and pain is to extract more active spiritual elements.

The legendary "Philosopher's Stone" among hybrids is a highly pure aggregation of the fifth element "Spirit". And human beings are a race with sufficient spirituality and easy reproduction...

Therefore, humans are also regarded as a regular raw material used to mass-produce the Philosopher's Stone.

In the era when dragons ruled the world, human slaves were often used as an "additive" to create better alchemical results. As the country of the King of Alchemy, this method is even more common in Svartalfheim.

This was what shocked Helena.

Because for the Dragon Clan——

The scene happening now, apart from the difference in the quantity used... is actually a quite "ordinary" thing.

"It is precisely in order to activate this unusual alchemy formation that Norton's relatives are here and actively sacrifice their lives."

After Bu Shun finished talking about these dragon clan secrets that had been buried in history, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the bronze high platform where they were standing at the moment.

More than three hundred dwarf corpses were densely displayed on this high platform. Even though they had been dead for several days, they still maintained their praying postures, without exception.

There is an almost eerie solemnity that exists on the corpses of these dwarfs, large and small... as if they are rushing towards death without hesitation in order to achieve a sacred goal.

The last remaining life in Golden Township ended here.

So...loyal.

Lu Mingfei also looked at these dead creatures and couldn't help shouting: "It doesn't matter if they all die? What on earth are they going to do? What on earth is Norton trying to do!!"

Bu Shun turned around and scanned the people he brought one by one, taking in all their different expressions.

In response to Lu Mingfei's question, he smiled with an unknown meaning:

"Of course... to forge a terrible weapon."

"It's called [Seven Deadly Sins]."

PS: Shocked, I suddenly discovered that since the Cross of Torture, I have been writing Norton’s territory as [Jotunheim] incorrectly, but it is actually [Svartalfheim]! please forgive me!

PS2: Jotunheim is Fenrir's territory. I should have changed my mind now. Making such a big mistake is really my fault!