In the easternmost mountainous area of ​​the ruins of Jinbatur City, fluorescent and flickering fungus plants cover the jagged hilltops, reflecting a pale and morbid beauty.

In this silent underground world, there are only occasional roars and roars from far away, which add a bit of their unique symphony to this dim world.

At this moment, a ghostly shadow appeared silently, and under the illumination of the luminous flora, it flickered hazy and illusory.

Looking at this chaotic mountain top, Thorne, who was walking silently by himself, stopped and looked around in the cold wind.

"The little dragon's lair should be nearby." Thorne sniffed the faint smell of lava sulfur, whispered to himself, and walked directly along the narrow passage formed by the gravel walls on both sides.

Because the first ritual of the ancient weapons of the desert wind faction needs to be carried out in the fire element plane or the crater of the main material world.

Unfortunately, the Fire Elemental Plane is a place he can't reach now, so naturally he can only choose to go to the lava of the crater.

And it happened that there was such an underground volcano in the ruins of the city of Jinbatur, so after the Sonto people helped him deliver the materials for the ceremony of fire, they rushed over without stopping.

"There is a situation! Found the intruder!"

When Thorne arrived at the red dragon's lair, a barking dragon siren sounded.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen gaps covered by dense fungal clumps were opened directly around the natural cave, and at the same time a dozen well-loaded crossbow bolts emerged, all of which locked Thorne.

Following the sound of panicked metal collisions, a kobold warlock led five heavy kobolds to quickly run out of the cave.

These little guys immediately erected sturdy metal shields in front of them, and raised the sharp blades in their hands to block Thorne in front of him, forming a faint attack.

Thorne didn't pay much attention to these annoying kobolds, and finally turned his attention to the headed kobold warlock, and said calmly:

"I'm an adventurer from the surface and a friend of your red dragon Argottus. Please help me announce."

"It turned out to be you, oh, I know you." The kobold warlock's eyes lit up, he immediately recognized Thorne's identity, and then turned around and said to his men:

"This adventurer from the surface is the half-elf ranger who rescued me in the rat man camp, and is a friend of our holy dragon leader."

As soon as the kobold warlock finished speaking, the other kobolds relaxed their guard a little, but had no intention of giving way.

"Mr. Ranger, please wait a moment, I'm reporting the leader of the holy dragon." The kobold warlock glanced at Thorne, and disappeared into the cave in a hurry.

Thorne, who was standing in the same place, didn't wait for a long time. About half an hour, there were footsteps in the half-buried natural cave in front of him.

Then the red dragon player named Argotus climbed out of the cave.

"It's you?" The red dragon Argottus saw Thorne's figure, and his big eyes jumped involuntarily, as if he had a premonition that something bad would happen next.

So he immediately stared at his big eyes, raised his head and turned left and right vigilantly. When he confirmed that he did not find the figure of the black dragon, he exhaled two light smoke from his nostrils and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your name is Thorne, isn't it, that... What's the matter with you?" Then, Argottus raised his front paws and scratched his head, staring at him with a pair of flaming dragon eyes, and asked.

When he thought of this ranger, Argotus became angry, because the other party once ruthlessly trampled him under his feet in the crowd of his own men.

As a arrogant and vengeful red dragon, Argottus believed that if the ranger had anything to ask him for help, he would never agree to it casually.

Because he is not a casual dragon, he must be embarrassed a little, and he must not leave a stain on his dragon life.

Although the stinky boy of Carlos has specially explained that he should not have bad relations with this half-elf ranger, it should be no problem to play with this half-elf without harming the opponent's life, Argotus thought to himself.

"I want to use the underground lava in your lair." Thorne naturally didn't know what was going on in the head of the young dragon in front of him, so he directly explained his purpose.

"No problem!" The beating flames in the eyes of the red dragon Argotus flickered, and he readily agreed, then grinned and continued:

"But I have one condition. As long as you agree, I will lead you in immediately."

"tell me the story."

Thorne looked at the other party with interest. Although he couldn't see the expression on the cute dragon face of Argotus, as long as he listened to the tone of the other party's words, he understood that the dragon player must be fighting something. idea.

"I want you to help me experiment with the power of my latest research on the dragon's breath." Argottus drilled his entire body out of the cave, watching Thorne eagerly slapped the dragon's wings a few times.

"You are a young dragon." Thorne was silent for a moment, then said with a smile.

"I'll be able to advance to a young dragon soon. I'll see if your mouth can be so hard."

Argotus retorted a little angrily, although he couldn't beat the opponent, but the ranger would never dare to break into his labyrinth-like cave without his leadership.

After all, he spent a lot of effort to complete this cave. There are dense traps and traps set up everywhere. Otherwise, he would not have survived until now under the suppression of those rat people who are good at digging holes.

He just grasped this, and if he wanted to get in, he had to take a bite of my dragon's breath.

"Since you want to play so much, let's have a simple competition. If I win, do me a favor." Thorne's eyes wandered on the red dragon for a moment, and said slowly.

"What are you busy with?" The red dragon Argotus seemed to sense an unpleasant aura and asked subconsciously.

"I need you to give me a drop of true dragon blood and a few faded scales." Thorne said his thoughts directly.

"True dragon blood and scales are very precious things, what can you exchange for it?" Argotus said angrily when he heard that the ranger had made up his mind.

"Don't be so excited, you first listen to my conditions, you will definitely be very satisfied." Seeing the other party's nose spewing out two more smoke, Thorne comforted, and said with a smile:

"You didn't sign a contract with that black dragon last month. If you win, I can make it void and give you back your freedom."

"Really?" Argotus immediately became interested. This was the biggest stain on his dragon life. Although Carlos patted his chest and promised that he would definitely help him solve this trouble, he didn't think it was a problem. Can be done so easily.

After all, it was a black dragon in his prime, and the most important thing was... a woman.

"Of course, after all, I'm also from Falls Town. Carlos should have told you something about me." Thorne assured him immediately when he saw the other party's interest.

"But I can't beat you..." Argotus stared at Thorne a little dejectedly.

"Don't fight, don't you know how to breathe dragon's breath?" Thorne smiled and said directly: "Well, if your dragon's breath can hurt me in the slightest, even if you win."

"I'm a young dragon. I still know how much damage my dragon's breath hurts. Don't lie to me." After hearing this, the red dragon Argottus reacted immediately and gave Thorne a vicious look.

"Well then, I'll attack you with flame damage. If you can survive the flames unscathed, even if you win, it's not too much, right?"

Seeing that the other party refused, Thorne was not surprised, and put forward another condition.

"You? Flame?" Argotus looked at the half-elf ranger, scratched the dragon's face with his front paws, and began to ponder.

He is a red dragon with special abilities of the fire subspecies. Immunity to fire damage is not a joke. Bathing in magma is one of his daily activities.

Argotus was a little moved by Thorne's proposal. After all, a drop of true dragon blood didn't affect him much, not to mention the scales, so for the sake of freedom, he thought he could give it a try.

"Okay." Agotus, who wanted to understand, immediately nodded in agreement.

As soon as the voice fell, a raging flame shrouded it directly, and in just a moment, there were bursts of red dragon roaring begging for mercy.

"Let's lead the way." Thorne put away his sword, glanced at the disgraced red dragon, and said with a smile.

Then, he followed the other's footsteps into the cave.

One person and one dragon walk in the winding corridor of the cave.

Thorne looked at the kobolds who were pushing small carts to pull ore, as well as several working mining rails, carts and some very modern industrial tools in the flat area. He glanced at each other in surprise and said: : "I can't see it, you are quite capable."

In this labyrinth-like cave, it has almost been developed into a semi-industrial state by the kobolds under Argottus. Share a rhythmic hustle and bustle.

"You think I've been sleeping for the past two years, and I'm proud of being a dragon." Argotus gave Thorne a smug look, and began to complain:

"It's not like that black dragon. It doesn't use its natural advantages. It has to be a salty dragon. If you give me four hundred years, I can create a complete steel torrent for you.

Do you know what is steel torrent? If you don't know, you should know about tanks. You can imagine the spectacle of the densely packed tanks pushing the emerald field. "

"As for your broken tank, if there is no magic support, in front of the construction golem, it is a pile of broken copper and iron, a small tank with one punch. Boy, this is a magical world, don't go astray."

Thorne looked curiously at these kobolds wearing sleeveless leather vests and knee-length breeches, and said to Argotus.

"Then I'll make a construction tank." Argottus retorted stubbornly.

Under the leadership of Argotus, Thorne walked through for about half an hour, and finally came to a rather spacious hall.

In the hot hall, there is a strong smell of sulfur, and the flowing lava flows out of the cracks in the walls, and then all gather together to form a pool full of lava.

At the end of the hall, there is a polished obsidian altar with a circular platform made of steel, which is obviously the place where the red dragon rests.

Thorne glanced around and walked directly to the lava pool not far away.

Immediately afterwards, the ritual materials that had been prepared were taken out from the dimension bag.

Then he took out a sharp carving knife and began to engrave complex ritual formations on the ground.

Although Thorne is not good at engraving the magic circle, he can still just draw a gourd and a scoop, so it is not as difficult as imagined.

The complex ritual circle was engraved for nearly an hour and finally completed. Thorne did not dare to delay, and immediately embedded precious red zircon and blue and white diamonds into several positions of the ritual circle hub.

Almost all natural gemstones contain abundant elemental energy, which is usually used by spellcasters as casting materials and driving energy for constructing creatures. These gems in Thorne's hands contain fire elemental energy.

The main function of these fire element energies is to drive the ritual array he just engraved.

"Bring your dragon blood and dragon scales here." After the gems were inlaid, Thorne said to the red dragon Argotus, who was watching this complex ritual formation with fire energy.

The red dragon belongs to the fire subspecies, and their bloodline hides amazing fire energy, and the ancient weapon he is about to awaken also belongs to the fire attribute.

When Thorne saw Agotus, he had an idea and came up with the idea of ​​adding the true dragon blood and dragon scales of the red dragon to the magic circle, and he also had a very special bloodline of flame.

Therefore, he wanted to try mixing his own blood with dragon blood, and then adding it to the ritual array to see what special effects could occur.

Taking the two dragon scales and a fist-sized drop of true dragon blood handed over by Agotus, Thorne's thoughts moved, and the dragon scales turned into a mass of powder in his palm.

Immediately afterwards, he mixed the powder with the blood of the real dragon, and then opened a slit in his palm to mix the flowing blood with the dragon's blood, and finally sprinkled it evenly on the gems of the ritual circle.

After everything was ready, the ritual array began to flash a deep orange light and exude amazing fire energy. Thorne immediately pulled out the Demon Slaying Sword and inserted it into the center of the array.

Then all the fire energy in the magic circle began to gather towards the sword body frantically, and it continued until the inlaid gems were all consumed and turned into powder, and the ritual magic circle gradually became dim.

The function of the ritual array is not only to allow the sword body to absorb the huge fire energy to facilitate the subsequent rituals, but also to protect the sword body from being damaged by high temperature in the following rituals.

Thorne pulled out the long sword inserted in the center of the circle, and without delay, directly inserted it into the tumbling lava pool in front of him.

When the blade was white-hot from the boiling lava, Thorne took the sword out of the lava again and began to cool down.

In this hot hall, Thorne repeatedly heated and cooled down like this, and the whole process continued continuously for 24 hours later.

In a fiery flash of fire, the ritual of fire of the ancient weapon desert wind was finally completed.

desert wind

Type: Legacy Weapon

Equipment requirements: Fire resistance 5 points, Basic Fortitude +3

Ancient Ritual: Ritual of Fire (Completed)

Ancient Ability:

Guardian of Fire: When the user's kendo level reaches level 5, he gains the spell effect of enduring the environment.

Flame Slash: When the user's kendo level reaches level 6, he can use Desert Wind to cut out a fan-shaped flame, 3 times a day.

Dance of Fire Wind: When the user's Kendo level reaches level 7 and holds Desert Wind, Agility gains +2 enhancement value. This bonus is +4 at 14th level and +6 at 17th level.

Sword of Flame: When the user's kendo level reaches level 8 and draws the desert wind, the speed of drawing the sword increases by 50%.

Blazing Sword: When the user's kendo level reaches 9th level, when using Desert Wind to make melee attacks, it will inflict additional fire damage of 1 + Wisdom modifier.

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