Before ascending to God, be a good lord

"Everyone, our Tielongteng tribe was once a powerful clan with the same reputation as Yuegui, Jinhaitang, etc. About 2000 years ago, that was the middle period of the ancient empire, which was the best years of our tribe. At that time, our tribe not only had you The Nanzhu Mountain at the foot is also the Dongzhu Mountain over there.”

At dusk on February 2th, on the top of the almost platform-like mountain of Nanzhu Mountain where the Iron Dragon Teng Clan is located, the clan leader Vogt pointed out the locations of the other three mountains in the forest to Yawenni and Canine Ya.

In the vast sea of ​​​​forests, four peaks rise to the sky like four pillars. Even if the surrounding trees are 4-meter-high cedar forests, they still look very small under Pillar Mountain.

"These peaks are more like towers!" Canine Ya sighed.

"Actually, it's very similar to a tower." Vogt nodded, tapping the ground with a wooden staff, "But the founder of our clan once explored it and found that the mountain is not made of earth and stone, nor is it metal or wood."

"Oh?" The elder's words aroused the curiosity of several people.

"You also visited just now. Our clan has lived in this cave in Nanzhu Mountain for thousands of years. The cave in this mountain is like a high tower, extending in all directions on the inside, and completely entangled on the outside by metal vines that are tens of thousands of years old. , no longer afraid of ordinary magic and arrows."

"Yes, we also find it very strange that there are so many structures inside this mountain." Canine Ya nodded and said, "I participated in the construction of Galloping Horse Academy before, the magic building built by Queen Tenia using earth elements. The pagoda doesn’t have the space of Nanzhu Mountain.”

Before climbing to the top, Elder Vogt took all high-ranking and Frostwolf knights to visit the Iron Dragon Vine Clan and the interior of Nanzhu Mountain.

Different from other clans, the Iron Dragon Vine in their clan name is not a single plant, but hundreds of vines coiled around Nanzhu Mountain. These vines are not the same in variety, but after thousands of years The vines grow as thick and hard as iron ropes, and the leaves are often iron-red, hence the name of the tribe.

The interior of Nanzhu Mountain, where the iron dragon vines are entrenched, is simply a super magic tower. The 300-meter mountain is completely a cylinder with the same thickness as the upper and lower parts. The interior of the cylinder is composed of countless cavities. The areas, heights and even openings of these caves are different. , some caves even have several cave entrances connected up and down.

In the middle of the mountain, there is a cave similar to an atrium. This cave with a diameter of less than 10 meters actually has a height of 200 meters, and the atrium is limited to 200 meters. The area inside the cave above is not only larger, but also wider. High, there are mysterious magic circles and magic patterns carved on the floors and walls of many caves.

For 2000 years, the Iron Dragon Teng Clan has used these caves as rooms, workshops, warehouses, and training grounds. By utilizing the abundant magical elements in the caves of Nanzhu Mountain, it once surpassed many large clans.

"I think what's more magical is the magic patterns in those caves. I've read some magic documents from different races before, but I've never seen such strange magic patterns," Yawenni also said, "I can confirm that they are definitely not elves. , dwarves, and humans are probably not in the style of goblins."

"Yarvini is indeed a golden knight," Vogt said with a smile, "We once invited a demigod to read it. I am afraid it is an even older text. The demigod even copied some magic patterns here and took them back. "

"Oh?" Yawenni became interested upon hearing this, "If the magic circle here is extremely ancient, does that mean the other three pillar mountains are equally ancient? We can occupy those pillar mountains and obtain the magic patterns on them!"

"Actually, more than one demigod has tried to occupy and explore Xizhu Mountain. For example, my father tried it 700 years ago. He had already become a demigod at that time." At this point, Vogt's tone gradually became colder. Come down, "However, there are powerful monsters on Beizhu Mountain and Xizhu Mountain. My father and a group of high-ranking people lost to the monsters on Beizhu Mountain, which led to the decline of the entire clan."

"I see..." Canine lowered his head and said, "I wonder why there are so many remnant trees here." "Yes," when mentioning the current situation of the clan, Vogt was no longer in the good mood during the day, "It's just the South Pillar. Under the mountain, there are more than 12 guardian trees in a dormant state, and there are more than ten under Dongzhu Mountain.

As long as Princess Halkara is willing, our clan is willing to dedicate these trees to her. If it can be cured, it will be considered as a contribution to your knights. "

"Really? So many trees?" Yawenni lowered her head and fell into deep thought. "Is there a demigod monster there?"

Vogt glanced at Yawenni's expression and felt that the elf captain must have become interested in the other three pillar mountains. He quickly said: "Captain, those three mountains are too dangerous. For thousands of years, there have been at least Three demigods died nearby, you must not go near there."

"Oh? Demigod died?" Yawenni became alert.

"Yes, Four Pillar Mountain is very strange. The monsters inside the same Pillar Mountain will all have similar magical properties. For example, the rats on Xizhu Mountain that you defeated in the afternoon were of the thunder and lightning type, and there is also a thunderbird on the top of Xizhu Mountain. Nest, as for Dongzhu Mountain, many monsters will have light magic patterns..."

Compared with the common elements of water, fire, wind, earth and life, the advanced poison elements of thunder, light, darkness and even life elements are undoubtedly rarer and more precious.

After Yawenni and Canine first arrived, they discovered that the furs of the demon rats here all had rare lightning magic patterns. In order to prevent these magic patterns from being destroyed during slaughter, both the wolf knights and the magic archers all attacked the rats in one go. The neck is the place where the magic patterns are the rarest.

In just one afternoon, they harvested hundreds of precious lightning-type mouse skins. From then on, Canine Ya and Yawenni both speculated that this mouse hole should be next to some kind of precious mineral deposit.

However, after Vogt's introduction, they realized that it was the magical properties of Zhushan itself that caused the nearby magical beasts and magical plants to be infected with the same type of magical power.

"Elder Vogt, which magic element is the most abundant in Nanzhu Mountain where we are?" Canine asked.

"Knight of the Dogtooth, have you forgotten? Our clan is called the Iron Dragon Vine clan. The Nanzhu Mountain where we are located is rich in a special magical element - the metal element. Generally, this element appears along with the dragon element. "The elder said with a smile, "But in Nanzhu Mountain, he appeared alone."

Canine Fang frowned: "Doesn't that mean that if you stay here for a long time, it will rust?"

"Hahaha, it's not that kind of metal, but an element that can only be found in extremely active magic metal mines."

No matter how much Canine and Vogt talked and laughed, Yawenni's eyes never left the distant Zhushan Mountain.