The dimly lit carriage was crowded with sleepy office workers, most of whom looked drowsy and worried, and their bodies swayed numbly as the carriage swayed slightly.

"Clang!"

Suddenly, the entire carriage froze, and panic quickly began to spread among the crowd. They screamed and roared in fright and ran around. Many people pushed and collided with each other and fell to the ground, looking embarrassed and frightened.

...

The sleeping Thorne seemed to be frightened and opened his eyes suddenly.

Immediately, a constant magic crystal embedded on the pure white ceiling came directly into his eyes.

"I actually dreamed of the real world again. Unfortunately, it's not a good memory, but a nightmare. It's really bad luck."

Thorne just stared blankly at the soft white light emanating from the magic crystal. After a while, his godless eyes gradually recovered a little bit of expression, and finally became as sharp as a blade.

"Huh? What is this place?"

As if realizing something was wrong, Thorne, who was lying on the bed, was startled, immediately sat up, looked at the soft purple-red quilt resting on him, and muttered to himself in doubt.

Then he plunged his hands into the messy strands of hair wet with cold sweat, gently kneading his slightly drowsy head, and began to recall some things that happened before he fell asleep.

After arriving at the ruins of Jinbatur City and receiving the ritual materials, he immediately went to the underground volcanic cave of the red dragon Argotus to awaken the ancient weapon of the ritual of fire.

He also took the opportunity to extort a drop of true dragon blood and two dragon scales from the young dragon of Agotus.

The whole incident went very smoothly as he had imagined, and his Demon Slaying Sword was successfully awakened as an ancient weapon, Mo Feng.

Then he directly put the weapon in the scabbard and turned to leave.

"So it is." Thorne, who was sitting on the bed, showed a sudden look and whispered to himself.

He remembered very clearly that when he touched the legendary weapon, he felt a faint tingling in his mind.

He didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but this feeling became stronger and stronger as time went on, and finally caused him to be in a coma halfway in front of him, and then he seemed to fall into a deep sleep, until he was hit by a nightmare just now. wake up.

Thinking of Thorne's expression here, he immediately called up his own attribute bar to check to see if there was anything missing.

Awakening the ancient ritual of the ancient weapon desert wind, self loss: permanent loss of health by 10 points, permanent reduction of physical attributes by 1 point.

"Permanent loss of 10 health points. If this is put on civilians, it will die directly. Fortunately, it will only reduce 1 point of physique." Seeing his own loss, Thorne couldn't help but secretly relieved, and muttered a little fortunately. .

He originally thought that the ritual of awakening the ancients would just consume a lot of precious materials, but he did not expect that there would be hidden punishments, which he did not expect.

However, 1 point of constitution attribute and 10 points of permanent health point are not very important to him.

After all, he is a 9th-level ranger and a 9th-level kendo master. He has twice as many attributes and occupational characteristics as those ordinary 9th-level professionals. After the level is increased, the attribute points can be replenished.

Moreover, he still has a predetermined dragon blood baptism, and with the blood of the black dragon in Sigrid's prime, after the dragon blood baptism, he can at least gain 1 additional physique attribute.

Thinking of the black dragon, Thorne immediately realized that he should be in Sigrid's room, because he smelled the little girl's breath on the quilt of the bed.

Immediately afterwards, he got up and got out of bed to put on his boots, and then checked his own condition, and found that there was nothing missing except the newly forged one-handed sword.

"It should have been taken by Sigrid." Thorne was worried and guessed secretly.

Then began to subconsciously look at the layout of the room.

This room is equipped with a large fireplace that flickers with constant fire, and the overall appearance is warm and comfortable. Apart from a few tables and cabinets, the most conspicuous thing in it is a tapestry on one wall.

The tapestry depicts a majestic white deer in a valley, with a black dragon hovering over its head, while deer, wild boars and hedgehogs shiver between dense woods or foliage.

In addition, there are one or two hunting trophy decorations hanging on each wall, including two beautiful heads of subterranean ross, an elk head with ten horns, a direclaw head with giant claws, A metallic tauren head, a griffin head with front claws, and a white boar head with tusks.

Looking at the grim head pictures on the wall, Thorne's eyes became strange.

However, when he thought that the other party's true identity was actually a black dragon, he was relieved.

This can prove that although Sigrid retains the modern soul and character of a teenage girl, her own behavior and habits are not completely unaffected by the hundreds of years of life in this ruin.

After all, hanging the heads of all kinds of terrifying beasts in the room where he lives, even if he gets up every day and sees it, he feels a little too intrusive, let alone a teenage girl.

Then, Thorne was deeply attracted by the full body armor next to the wardrobe, so he walked over directly.

"It turned out to be a pair of dragon scale armor." Thorne was surprised when he saw the full body armor on the equipment rack.

This is a complete set of dragon scale full body armor. This armor is made of dragon scales inlaid according to the curves of various parts of the body, connected with rivets and hooks, and also comes with matching steel gloves, heavy boots and masking helmets. .

Through the color of the dragon scales, Thorne found that this set of dragon scale armor should be made of dragon scales that Sigrid had fallen off himself.

And he also found on the surface of the dragon scale armor that this armor seems to incorporate the clockwork mechanical technology of the gnomes.

Because there are many retractable spikes, grappling hooks, hinges and two blades hidden in the iron glove, which can be sent and received freely, and on the back of the armor, Thorne also found two accessories similar to jet devices.

"Is it a pair of magic power dragon scale armor? If you wear it, it is not a mecha warrior from another world. It seems that she has not lived in vain for more than 400 years, at least higher than that red dragon research tank. A few grades up."

Thorne guessed curiously, and recalled a group of underground gnomes that he found when he went to the blacksmith shop with him.

Looking at the dragon-scale full-body armor, Thorne's pestle stayed on the spot for a while, but finally resisted the urge to pick it up and examine it carefully, and turned to leave the room.

After all, this is a girl's thing, and without the owner's consent, it's always a little embarrassing to fiddle with it at will.

Thorne walked out of Sigrid's bedroom and came to this spacious and bright living room. The first thing that caught his eye were the dozen or so dragon-shaped wooden pillars supporting the ceiling, and then the various underground monsters decorated on the walls. 's head.

Finally, Thorne's eyes fell on a sofa in the room that looked very comfortable.

Because this seemingly quiet girl is leaning there at the moment, and the weapon in her hand is the new weapon he forged in the Underdark.

This made his dangling heart drop. After all, he had spent half his life forging it in the Dark Region. If he lost it directly, it would be too embarrassing.

Suddenly, Thorne was again attracted by the dragon beast slumbering under Sigrid's feet, so he recalled another image in his mind, that is, before he lost consciousness, he released the dragon beast. come out.

Obviously, his animal companions should have brought him here.

However, the size of his animal companion seemed to have grown a little bigger, and the faint green light that the whole body could have emitted under the illumination of the light also dimmed a bit, but the black scales on the whole body seemed to stare a lot.

"Thorn, you're awake." At this moment, Sigrid, who was leaning on the sofa, suddenly noticed Thorne who was standing at the door, and immediately greeted him with a smile.

Thorne came back to his senses, nodded to her, and walked over.

Just as he was about to speak, he immediately smelled the strong smell of wine emanating from the Fulong Beast.

So with a thought, he directly restored it to the form of an obsidian sculpture, and then took the opportunity to check its properties.

"What did you do?" Thorne turned his gaze to Sigrid in front of him and pointed to the obsidian sculpture in his hand.

Because his animal companion, Fulong Beast, has increased his strength and physique a bit, and has also acquired strong acid resistance, and his natural armor has also increased a lot. Of course, the most critical thing is that this little guy's breath attack has strong acid attributes.

Obviously, the reason for this must be the black dragon in front of him.

"That's right." Sigrid said indifferently: "It's the dragon scales that I fell off before. I saw that this little guy also has dragon blood, so I used it casually."

"Thanks." Thorne thanked sincerely, and then stepped back a few steps. After keeping a certain distance, he leaned on the soft sofa, because he felt that his body was still very tired and needed to have a good rest.

"Thank you for what?" Sigrid got up, blinked a pair of pale green eyes full of smiles, looked at Thorne and said:

"Are you thanking me for improving your animal companion's strength, or thanking me for seeing you in a coma and bringing you back."

brought it back...

Hearing the last few words, Thorne's mind instantly flashed a picture of himself being carried by the other party like a chicken, so he glanced at the little girl helplessly and said, "Both."

"It's that simple? Just one sentence sent me away?" Sigrid glared angrily at the half-elf on the other side of the sofa, and added: "Also, your gray dwarf is stealing mines on my site, I Haven't said anything yet."

"..."

Sigrid's words hit the nail on the head, causing Thorne to not know how to say it. He could only meet the other's slightly dissatisfied eyes: "Then what do you want."

She was the one who escorted the gray dwarves here. Couldn't she see the purpose of bringing these dwarves here? Since he didn't say anything at the beginning, it must have been the default, so Thorne thought that the little girl was deliberately looking for trouble.

"It's very simple. As long as you promise to be my pet and my sidekick in the future, you can remodel the entire ruins in any way you want. Anyway, I'm not bad at that. If you want, you can go directly to the dark area to loot."

Seeing that Thorne seemed to want to compromise, Sigrid immediately became interested, and then stated her terms.

In fact, she really wanted to keep this half-elf with good potential, but unfortunately this guy is too stubborn, and belongs to the kind of difficult to control, so she gave up this plan long ago, just wanted to see more of the other party's depressed expression .

Of course, there is another very important matter, which she has considered for a long time and thinks it is feasible. She is going to take this opportunity to raise it directly.

"Can we not mention pets?" Thorne said depressedly, rubbing his head with a headache.

Anyone who is yelled at by a dragon every day to keep them as pets feels helpless, let alone him.

If it's a big deal, he will bring those gray dwarves who stole mines...mining to the surface. It's impossible to be pets, Thorne thought to himself.

"Then be my valet, this condition won't be so difficult for you." Seeing the other party's depressed expression, Sigrid laughed out loud.

"Don't even think about it, I'll evacuate all the gray dwarves to the surface later." Thorne refused directly.

The main purpose of recruiting these gray dwarves is to help me mine and build equipment.

The main reason why I chose to stay here is that there are ready-made ore veins to mine, but the emerald fields on the surface also hide many minerals.

Thorne believes that with his own strength and the group of gray dwarves, as well as the tauren he brought, it should not be a big problem if he wants to hold on to a mining area.

"Forget it, I'll just mention it casually. Look at your dead morality. You can develop here if you want, but you have to promise me a few conditions." Sigrid waved her hand and stared at Soo Yep.

Seeing this familiar gaze, Thorne immediately remembered the expression this little girl had when she fooled the red dragon Argotus, so he refused the other party without waiting for him to speak.

"You wait for me to finish, and then consider whether to refuse, really." Sigrid rolled her eyes at Thorne.

"Then talk about it." Thorne smiled helplessly.

"I want the knowledge of constructs from the goblin wizard Malvasia, and then when your girlfriend is capable, we will work together to make constructs."

Sigrid suddenly flashed pale green eyes, thought about it seriously, and told Thorne her purpose.

Although her subordinates master the clockwork technology of gnomes, she is not proficient in the knowledge of wizards' construction. Seeing Thorne reminds her of another possibility.

"Then you can go directly to Malvasia, why bother." Thorne sat up straight and looked at the little girl puzzled: "Don't you two know each other?"

"Malvasa's routine is too deep, this woman is a ghost, and I don't want to be involved in her routine." Sigrid told the truth.

"The problem is that we don't have knowledge of Malvasia's Constructs." Thorne was a little moved when he saw the rare serious look on the other side.

At the same time, he also instantly understood that the other party was indeed researching the combination of clockwork technology and construction, but it was stagnant due to lack of construction knowledge. It seems that this black dragon is not as salty as he imagined.

"But your girlfriend is already Malvasia's student, don't worry, she will definitely teach it when the time comes." Sigrid moved her body towards Thorne and winked at him mischievously. said with a smile.

"That's fine, I promise you." Thorne pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Anyway, the eight characters have not been written yet, and no one can tell what will happen in the future.

Moreover, the threat of Waterfall Town has not been lifted, and it is even possible to be captured by Hobgoblins. In the current situation, it is natural that one more ally means more hope.