Gawain just watched the agent girl stagger and walk out of the room, his usual elegant, calm and reliable temperament gone.
He felt quite guilty - he felt that he should have stopped the other party, and should arrange appropriate medical services and recuperation care for him, and make adequate compensation - even if he just did not mean to do so. The loss actually caused real harm to the agent. This cannot be justified.
However, after thinking calmly, he decided to give up the idea - the main reason was that he was afraid that the dragon would die directly here...
"Why are you so stubborn... "Looking at the direction Melita left, Gawain couldn't help but muttered, "If you don't want to answer, you can refuse to answer..."
A moment later, Hetty came to the study after hearing the news. The great ruler of the empire As soon as the official entered the door, he said: "Ancestor, I heard someone reported that the agent of the Mithril Treasure House was in a bad state when he left...ah - what is going on?!"
She noticed There was blood splattering in the room, and he suddenly screamed in surprise.
“Let’s find someone to clean it up,” Gawain sighed, and looked at the desk that was corroded and damaged by Melita’s blood (it had only been used for less than two weeks). “Besides, my desk is too damaged. It’s time to change—and the carpet.”
“Ah? Oh, okay,” Hetty was stunned for a moment and hurriedly agreed, while carefully avoiding the blood stains and coming to Gawain, “ Ancestor, there was no conflict between you and the agent of the Mithril Treasure House, right?"
"No, but I may have accidentally caused some accidental damage...I would like to make amends if I have the opportunity in the future. ," Gawain shook his head, and then his eyes fell on the blood stains, and his eyes suddenly changed a little, "By the way, Hetty, it is said that... dragon blood is a very precious magic material, right? "
"That's true," Hetty didn't know why, but nodded. "A few records from the ancient Gondor era mentioned that dragon blood has various magical properties. And its pure magic power can be used to analyze complex crystal structures..."
"Then find a way to collect the blood that has not dried up when you find someone to clean it up," Gawain said seriously, "It cannot be wasted. "
He was full of emotions: Melita is his dragon friend, and by doing this, he has made the friendship fully valuable - he will give it to Melita in the official information when he gets the chance. Leave a place on the tower and add the name "Friendship Dragon". Anyway, he doesn't plan to let go of the MyLittlePony thing...
Hetty will never be able to tell from the serious-faced ancestor. The other party's mind was slutty, so her expression was easy to understand: "?"
......
Outside Cecil City, in an uninhabited valley, a figure appeared Embedded with intense turmoil of magic and strong winds, he suddenly burst out of the trees and stumbled onto a flat sandy land.
Melita Pernia stopped in this deserted place, and then suddenly let out a low roar - countless ordinary birds and beasts fled crazily from the corners of the valley, and there were even more powerful monsters. She also joined the fleeing queue in horror. All the creatures in the valley fled far away from this place under the power of the dragon, while Melita herself was completely enveloped by a sudden light curtain.
In the surging changes of the light curtain, a giant blue dragon appeared in the middle of the sand. She was crawling there, her wings hanging down weakly, her scales seemed to have lost their luster, and there were even fine drops of blood. It seeped out from the gaps between some scales and quietly gathered on the sandy ground below her body.
After injecting herself with several powerful boosters and emergency repair fluids, she relaxed slightly, and then directly started communication with Tallond.
The light golden communication interface opened in front of her eyes, and the voice of the rear support staff came from the other side of the communication interface: "Melita? Why did you suddenly initiate exclusive communication on this line?"
p>"I can't fly for the time being... I'm in a bit of a bad situation," Melita said weakly, "Noretta, didn't you receive the alarm signal from my implant?"
"The monitoring system here is doing clock calibration. It was not pointed at Loren just now. Let me take a look..." Noretta's voice came from the communication interface. The next second, she exclaimed, " Oh my God! What happened to you! Your heart..." "I had a rather exciting conversation with Gawain Cecil," Melita said with a wry smile. "His words hurt my heart - three of them..."
"Are you still in the mood to joke at this time!?" Noretta's voice sounded extremely anxious, "Everything about you All the auxiliary hearts are shut down, and only one native heart is beating. It cannot drive all the functions in your body. How is your condition now? Can you still move? You must return to Tallond immediately for emergency repair! >
"As I said just now, I can't fly for the time being... I may need the 'Recycling Team' to help," Melita said slowly, "Also remember to bring enough 'Big Wave' boosters, I Just used up all the quota."
"Okay, the recovery team is on the line, they will take off in ten minutes - with the "Big Wave" booster you want. Damn it, you. He may be the only dragon in the past two thousand years who found himself in need of a recovery team while performing regular field missions... What on earth did you talk to that human emperor?" Noretta couldn't help but ask curiously, But then she added, "Ah, if it's not convenient to say it, I won't say it..."
Obviously, she realized that this was not the "safe signal zone" located in the upper atmosphere. Considering that at this moment The communication may have attracted the attention of the Dragon God, so she reminded Melita.
"It's really not convenient to talk here..." Melita thought of the terrible news she had talked with Gawain, and thought of herselfEven now, she was still frightened by the memory of her abnormal actions and mysterious disappearance. She shook her head slightly and said in a low and serious voice, "After I go back, I want to... meet God. This may require the help of Speaker Andal to arrange it." ."
Before the friend on the other side of the communication interface could say anything, Melita heard an old and majestic voice suddenly intervene in the communication: "I'm online - Melita, do you want to meet? See the gods?"
"Yes," Melita thought for a while and said seriously, "I have some questions that I want to get answers from the gods. I hope you can tell them to Herago. High Priest..."
Halfway through her words, a majestic female voice, as if made up of countless voices superimposed together, suddenly came into her mind, carrying an irresistible oppression. With strength and momentum, she saw a pale golden shadow appearing in front of her in a trance, and her mind exploded: "I allow it."
For a moment, the entire line was silent. All "people", including Speaker Andal, fell silent. A tense and solemn atmosphere filled the communication channel. Even this silence seemed to be filled with awe.
Melita felt that her only remaining biological heart even twitched. She became alert and swallowed hard: "God...my Lord..."
< p>"Relax," the voice continued, "You can come to see me anytime after you return to Tallond."The next second, the voice and the coercion it carried left , everything seemed to be just an illusion, it left so simply, it even seemed to deliberately tell everyone on the communication channel: I have left, you can just continue chatting.
However, no one dared to really relax. Melita heard her friend's nervous voice break the silence: "Just now...it was the gods who intervened..."
"It looks like You have had a special experience," Speaker Andal's voice then sounded, "Melita, rest well where you are and pay attention to safety. The recovery team has taken off. They will pick you up soon. Let's talk about anything when you come back. ."
Subsequently, the old Dragon Clan Speaker also left the channel.
For a while, only Melita and her friend who served as a rear support staff were left in the communication line.
The effect of the potentiator has been fully exerted, and the pain and abnormal signals everywhere in the body have been temporarily relieved. The chaotic thoughts in Melita's heart kept rising and falling. In the end, she put aside all the irritability They were all temporarily forgotten, and the communication interface was also hidden. She adjusted her body slightly and lay quietly on the ground in a relatively comfortable position, staring at the dark mountains in the distance that had fallen into night.
Over the dark mountains, night enveloped the sky, and stars were twinkling, dotting the entire sky.
After a long time, she suddenly heard her friend's voice ringing in her ears: "Melita, are you okay?"
"Have you not ended the communication yet?" MelitaShe moved her neck slightly, "I thought you were offline."
"I'm a little worried about you," Noretta said, "I happen to have no other liaison missions here, and other dragon clans sent abroad I heard about your accident and gave up the line... By the way, Pector stopped in the Mossy Wood area. He happened to have nothing to do. Do you need him to go over and take care of you?"
"No need...I don't want to be laughed at," Melita said immediately, "The booster has worked, I just need to stay here quietly for a while."
"Okay... "
The channel was quiet for a few minutes, and then Melita couldn't help but break the silence: "Hey, are you still there?"
"Yes."
"I suddenly want to ask you... Do you know what it feels like to have only one beating heart in your body? A heart that has been there since it hatched from a dragon egg without any modification, when it beats Feeling."
"Me? I don't remember..." my friend said in confusion, "I had the original heart replaced when I was very young...like you, you still have the original heart. There should be quite a few dragons in the heart..."
"That's right...I am a young old antique," Melita couldn't help but smile, but then she grinned and put away her smile. "Hiss...it still hurts a little."
"So don't get carried away - hey, you haven't told me yet," the voice of my friend came, "It feels like when you only rely on a primitive heart. What kind of thing?"
"...very weak, every heartbeat is unsettling, all my life depends on the only fragile flesh and blood organ, which makes me feel like I will die at any time. , I'm afraid that it will stop when, and there will be no backup circulation pump to maintain its own survival..." Melita said in a low voice, the distant stars were reflected in her jewel-like eyes, the stars in the night The background moves slowly, "But... there is a wonderful sense of reality. I can really feel that I am alive, and living in a real world.
"I often feel that I There are too many implants in the body. Almost every key organ has an implant to assist in its operation, and even every muscle and bone... This makes me feel that I am no longer myself, but have a copied and made-up replica. 'Melita Pernia', composed of machines and auxiliary brains, lives in the same body as me. It is like a parasitic monster made of steel and polymer, hiding deep in my flesh and bones... But now this parasite's heart has stopped, and my own heart is supporting this body... This feeling is quite good. "
Her consciousness became trance-like, a little drowsy, and while she was half asleep, she heard Noretta's voice coming vaguely: "You have taken too many enhancers. I'm getting sentimental... But you did say one thing right, the feeling that you will die at any time is real..."
"Good night..." Melita said drowsily.
She finally fell asleep due to the side effects of the booster.
A pale golden light curtain appeared out of thin air the moment she fell asleep, tightly protecting her defenseless body, and above the light curtain, a figure of adulthood seemed to vaguely emerge from the void. Hundreds of pairs of eyes floated indifferently, staring unblinkingly at the blue dragon protected by the light curtain.
......
In the territory of Typhon, in the center of a town near the eastern desert, the Church of the God of War stood quietly in the night, with its steeple decorated with black iron spikes. Pointing to the sky, it looks like a sharp sword under the starry sky.
An ordinary priest holding a lantern walked in the church, checking the conditions of various rooms and corridors.
Behind each door was a room with everything as usual. There was only the footsteps of the priest himself in the long corridor. He gradually came to the end of the tour, and the room belonging to the priest was in front of him.
In the priestly system of the Church of the God of War, the "Priests of the God of War" are clergy at a higher level than ordinary priests. They are usually deacons of small churches in the area, and this is no exception.
There was a faint light coming from behind the door at the end of the corridor, and one side of the door was obviously ajar.
"Priest Costo hasn't rested so late..."
The patrolling priest murmured curiously and walked forward slowly.
However, just halfway through, a strange sound, like a person moaning in pain or talking in sleep, came into his ears.
Under the special intuition of the extraordinary person, the priest instantly felt a thrill all over his body, and a bad premonition emerged in his heart.
Something is wrong!
The priest reacted instantly and quickened his pace. He rushed to the door of the room at the end of the corridor in a few steps. The smell of blood rushed into his nostrils at the same time.
Regardless of any etiquette within the church, the priest decisively applied triple protection on himself, prepared a stress-type warning spell, and then pushed open the ajar wooden door.
Behind the wooden door, there was only a shapeless lump of flesh lying on the ground, gradually losing its vitality...