Throne Steps

The strong wind formed a turbulent flow here, the ground under his feet slowly rose, the sparse flying arrows were bounced off by the protective magic, and the lake water poured into the cracks around it, making a deafening sound.

Li Chen stared fixedly at the necromancer who was lying on the ground.

"Long time no see." Li Chen moved his lips.

The necromancer twitched the corners of his mouth. In the interweaving of high-frequency sound waves and the roar of the earth, Li Chen could actually "hear" his voice clearly: "It's not...for a long time."

40 years, isn't that long?Li Chen had a question in his heart, but he didn't ask, he just glanced at the iron crossbow stuck on the opponent's body.

That's right, the iron crossbow that knocked down the Necromancer was still stuck on his body. It was inserted obliquely downward from above the right chest. It must have penetrated his internal organs, and it was impossible to pull it out easily.The necromancer's chest rose and fell with difficulty and haste, and every breath was accompanied by severe pain.

Li Chen's tone was light: "You are going to die."

"Yeah... I'm going to die, people will always die." The necromancer's voice was hoarse, and the corners of his mouth were pulled, "You want to..."

Li Chen frowned and leaned over: "What?"

"Read the 'Dragon's Contract', I asked you to memorize it." Even when he was so close, the necromancer's voice was hard to distinguish, "At the same time, he cut his finger and dripped three drops of blood."

"What's the 'contract'? What does that non-common language mean..." Li Chen was asking him a question that had been strange for decades, when he suddenly stopped, "'Dragon'...? It's a dragon!"

He corrected his pronunciation a little, and then suddenly realized that this was the word on the cover of the Dragon Language Dictionary - "dragon"!

"Yes... do it, do it!" The necromancer twitched the corners of his mouth, mocking even though he was struggling to breathe, "They want to take it, but they can only die, hahaha... cough! cough cough!"

Li Chen looked at him with complicated eyes: "Do you have any last words?"

"...Yes." The necromancer also looked at him, "After reading... right here, cut off the...'magic sealing circle' on your feet!"

There seemed to be a bit of mischief in his tone, but he was too weak, Li Chen always felt that he had heard wrong.

"It turns out that this thing is called 'Magic Sealing Circle'..." Li Chen asked, "Are there any more?"

The necromancer stopped making a sound, and he slowly closed his eyes.His chest was still heaving, indicating that he was still alive, but I'm afraid this slight heaving won't last long.

Li Chen straightened his waist and stood up, still holding the necromancer's dagger in his hand.He weighed his hand and turned it. One side of the handle was engraved with a pattern very similar to the logo of the Rock Eagle Mercenary Group, and a word was written on the other side in a cursive non-common language.

"'Higgins'...?" Li Chen looked at the necromancer on the ground, is this... is your name?

"Are you ready?" Saenz, who took out a very special staff to support the barrier, turned around and asked, "It's getting more and more shaking here, we have to go down quickly, or things will change later."

"Stay a little longer!" Li Chen took a dagger, walked a few steps away, and shouted at Saenz, "Stand firm! I don't know what will happen!"

Saenz frowned: "What did you say..."

Then, he watched Li Chen draw a line on his finger!

"Lichen?!"

Li Chen was unable to answer, his lips moved lightly and quickly, and the lengthy incantation he had memorized 40 years ago miraculously uttered from his mouth.The drop of blood slipped from his fingertips, but did not fall to the ground, but was suspended in mid-air and swirled with the wind.

One drop, two drops, three drops!

Saenz watched Li Chen's three drops of blood whirling around in the gust of wind, then gathered into one drop, and then dispersed into a pattern in an instant, before disappearing into blood mist.At the same time, Li Chen's incantation also ended.

The shaking of the ground suddenly increased, and the center of the lake suddenly pushed upwards, as if something huge was about to rush out of the ground!

Saenz couldn't even stand still, let alone continue to maintain the barrier, but anyway, those who survived couldn't shoot arrows in this situation.Pure white rushed over to support Li Chen who was about to fall, and said loudly: "Go!"

"Not yet!"

Li Chen squatted down, pulled off his boots and trousers, exposing the metal ring on his ankle, and clenched his dagger——

"Wait, don't stay here...!"

clang!clang!

The metal ring snapped in two, and the blockade on Li Chen's magic power source also disappeared.It was as if a "nuclear explosion" had suddenly occurred in Li Chen's body, and the magic power exploded, overwhelming mountains and seas!It hit Li Chen's consciousness like a tsunami, his blood, and violently washed away all the contracts tied to him!

Even though they were thousands of miles away, the people on the other side of the contract were still tensed by this strong "vibration", not to mention Saenz who stood closest to him and had the strongest contract.Saenz's contract was shaken violently, as if an invisible hand was tightly grasping the rope called "contract", ruthlessly and forcefully pulling it out, as if to forcibly tear the contract off.

Saenz's heart was thumping violently due to this force, but he didn't care about himself, he just clung to the people around him: "Li Chen! Li Chen!!!"

Li Chen couldn't hear anything anymore. He put his hands on the ground, dug his fingers into the soil, and gritted his teeth to prevent himself from passing out in the "storm".The transforming potion was losing its effect, and his true face was gradually revealed.He felt that the sky and the earth were spinning, the world was roaring, his limbs lost their senses, and something was eager to burst out of his body——

"Ahhh!!!"

He roared uncontrollably, and his voice gradually ceased to be human!Saenz suddenly heard from his mouth the high-frequency fluctuations mentioned earlier, which sting the eardrums and nerves, making people go crazy!

As if in response to his roar, another voice rang out—no, not one, it was a long and loud roar mixed with high-frequency sound waves, rushing from the deep underground to the sky.That long howl resounded through the heavens and the earth, the sound waves numbed the nerves, and the voice carried a strong coercion, as if everything in the world was stopped by this roar!

A similar scene is described in the epic as follows:

"Scream like a mighty sword in the air,

Coercion covered the wilderness.

The overlord spreads his black wings,

Covering the sky and covering the sun—”

Ow-! ! !

Huge explosion energy erupted from the ground, and Li Chen and Saenz, who were originally high above the sky, were rushed to a height of 60 meters by the invisible shock wave!Saenz grabbed Li Chen and pulled him into his arms. At the same time, he opened his mouth to crush the spell of wind magic, but Li Chen, who seemed to be unconscious before, suddenly opened his eyes.

Golden yellow, vertical pupils!

Saenz's eyes widened, and an extremely absurd thought popped into his mind: "You...!"

Li Chen hugged Saenz's back with his backhand, and turned his other hand downward, and the speed of their falling suddenly slowed down.At the same time, the center of the lake, which was squeezed to an altitude of 40 meters, began to shatter. Small trees with crooked necks fell, weeds fell with mud, and the figure of the black cloak also...

Li Chen stretched out his hand towards him, and a cyclone immediately enveloped his body.

The center of the lake rose higher and higher, no, it was no longer the center of the lake, and the soil fell one after another, smashing into the lake below.Huge, white objects began to manifest—

It was a bone!

More than one piece!

Ow-! ! !

The long howl came again, and Saenth could clearly see that the source of the sound suddenly opened a hole with a diameter of five or six meters, and then the mud clods fell, revealing thick fangs!

Li Chen seemed unable to control himself, hugged Saenz tightly, raised his head and opened his mouth in agreement: "Aw!!!"

Saenz's eardrums were about to be shattered, but he couldn't figure out how the sound came from Li Chen's body.About ten meters away from his feet, a white animal skull about three to four meters long is breaking through the ground, and it is connected with long spines one after another. The end of the spine is connected to the tailbone, and the tail Still pulling up from the position of the lake—

On both sides of the spine, the bones of the upper limbs are especially slender, and the sum of the humerus and radius and ulna on one side is already longer than the body length represented by the spine.In addition, the phalanges of the third, fourth, and fifth fingers are also amazingly long. When the upper limbs on both sides are unfolded at the same time, the length of the span even exceeds 70 meters!

Saenz was led by Li Chen and landed on the white skull.On both sides of their feet, there is a large hole about one meter in diameter.

"This is... a keel!!!"

"The keel, or the bone dragon." Li Chen was finally able to speak normally, "This is its tomb, and the necromancer resurrected it. However, because it was me in the end... so the contract is cheap, and I took it."

Saenz reached out and stroked the corner of his eyes: "You... it's not because of the contract with it, is it?"

"Of course not, those are his own eyes!" A slightly vicissitudes but extremely loud voice cut in, "I didn't expect that there are still living cubs in this world, even though they are only half-blooded, they are still cubs, haha Ha ha--"

When it laughed, the whole skeleton was shaking. Li Chen took back the necromancer's body and put it at his feet, then stamped his foot: "Stop laughing, go!"

"Okay, okay! Who told you to be my dragon knight?" The bone dragon spread its wings, and even though there was no flesh, the magical power of the dragon clan made it fly into the air, "And, the cub always has privileges Yes. Let’s go! Uncle will take you for a ride—”

"Shut up—old man!" Li Chen shouted loudly while opening the windshield.His current casting speed is faster than Saenz, no, he doesn't need to talk about casting speed at all now.With a thought, the talent from his blood can allow him to do many things that he never dared to think about in the past.

Yes, blood.

Li Chen turned his head to look at Saenz, Saenz held his hand, stroking his fingertips that were bleeding from being inserted into the soil: "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Li Chen smiled, "Maybe it won't hurt much in the future."

In the sky, above the dragon, Saenz took out a handkerchief and wiped off the dirt and blood: "It turns out that this is the reason for your insensitivity... now you are even more insensitive, and you don't even know when you are attacked by something." What can I do?"

The bone dragon laughed and said, "Oh, a human is worried that a dragon will be attacked, are all the jokes so funny in this era?"

"Can you stop laughing all the time, you're shaking so badly!" Li Chen stomped his feet again, honestly wiped his hands for Saenz, and then stretched out his left ankle, "Chop off this circle." Yeah, the necromancers say it's called the 'Sealing Circle'."

"I know it's gone." Saenz said with a smile, "It turns out that its function is to seal you who is so powerful."

"It's not me that is sealed, but the non-human blood in my body." Li Chen also laughed, his pupils became rounder, "Let me introduce myself formally.

"This body is a hybrid of human and non-human. The non-human part was sealed by the necromancer Higgins with the 'magic circle' before, and now it is untied. But because it is only a hybrid, it can be transformed without returning to the ancestors. It’s very difficult, so don’t think about it for now.”

Saenz touched the corner of his eyes again: "Then are you still human now?"

Li Chen laughed.

"I am a man and a dragon."