Volume 4: The Cataclysm Chapter 43: Nightmare
Since when, a mist has been gathering around Ma Wen and Die.
This light mist enveloped them, not threatening at all, but rather very comfortable.
However, for a moment, Marvin still felt a little tingling on his scalp!
Another dragon!
But this time, what appeared before him was an elegant and noble silver dragon.
Unlike the evil colored dragons, most metallic dragons are kind, and silver dragons are the best example.
They live in cold mountains, like to manipulate clouds and mist, and never hurt people easily.
The silver dragon stared at Marvin with his beautiful eyes: "I've heard of you, little one."
"You have a weapon that is powerful enough to pose a huge threat to the dragon race, but it is obviously not enough when facing five cunning ancient dragons."
"Let's get out of here quickly while my fog confuses their vision."
Before Marvin could speak, Die stared at him with wide eyes and asked curiously:
"Are you a silver dragon?"
Silver Dragon said gently: "Of course."
"I heard that you metal dragons and five-colored dragons are natural enemies. Are you here for them?" Die continued to ask.
Silver Dragon nodded.
Marvin, who was standing by, could guess without even counting the scales - this was an ancient silver dragon!
The logging forest is quite lively today, as there is a gathering of ancient dragons.
Normally, these powerful creatures often sleep in their own homes.
Today, they all gathered at the edge of this small ruin.
With all five colored ancient dragons gathered together, a single silver dragon would definitely not be their match.
Marvin's mind raced: "You have other friends, right?"
"That's right."
A familiar voice sounded in the thick fog, and several figures walked over side by side.
"I didn't expect to meet you here."
One of the men in crimson iron armor looked at Marvin with a smile.
"professor?!"
Marvin asked tentatively.
The latter nodded slightly.
As expected, not only did the five-colored dragons gather, but there were also quite a few metal dragons.
These people in front of us are probably metal dragons who have used advanced transfiguration to transform into human appearances in order to make themselves smaller targets.
Marvin counted and found that, apart from the silver dragon which was still maintaining its status, there were three metal dragons, including the professor.
Judging from the colors of their clothes, it is not difficult to identify that they are a copper dragon, a brass dragon, and a golden dragon.
"Now they are almost no different from ordinary humans."
"This is at least a high-level Transfiguration of level 7 or above... As expected, are all of them ancient dragons?"
Ma Wen smiled bitterly in his heart.
Four ancient metal dragons and five ancient five-colored dragons.
These people gathered here, definitely not just here for a visit.
Could it be that [Wrath of the Dragon God] has been activated ahead of schedule?
Marvin did not deny this possibility in his heart.
Because of my arrival, the world has changed a lot.
Dungeons such as Saruha and Secret Garden have appeared ahead of schedule, so it is not impossible that the expansion pack Wrath of the Dragon God will be released ahead of schedule.
But this time, he was unsure.
Before, he had familiar gaming experience as a foundation, but when it came to [Secret Garden], he was already a little overwhelmed.
If he hadn't happened to meet his grandfather, he would have probably failed at the level of the space gap.
As for the place called Dragon God's Wrath, he knew nothing about it.
Once he lost his prophetic powers, Marvin was no different from everyone else.
Unfortunately, he is probably going to lose this ability in the coming time.
After all, times have changed.
Marvin took a deep breath. Fortunately, he had already made similar mental preparations.
He asked in a deep voice:
"What exactly is going on?"
The Red Copper Dragon glanced at the others, then looked at the five figures at the edge of the five-colored altar, and said:
"We need to talk somewhere else."
…
In a hidden cave north of the ruins.
The azure dragon's eye floated in the air, illuminating the entire world within the ruins.
With the professor's introduction, Marvin also got to know the other three powerful metal dragons.
The silver dragon Stein, the gold dragon Modico, and the brass dragon Cromwell.
These three, like the professor, are all ancient dragons of great age, extremely powerful, and would never normally appear in the sight of ordinary people.
"It seems that your joint appearance here has something to do with the Dragon God of the Five-Colored Dragon?"
Marvin asked curiously as he watched the scene appearing in the Dragon's Eye - the five-colored dragons transformed into humans seemed to be discussing something.
Since I'm already here, I might as well listen to what is going to happen here.
As for Die, she was seriously begging the silver dragon for a piece of scale - the reason was that it was very beautiful. This made the silver dragon Stein laugh and cry.
Dragon scales are extremely precious items to the dragon clan and would never be given to others; but Die's clear eyes and pitiful request made him unable to refuse.
Marvin was too lazy to care about this wood elf, since he couldn't do anything about it anyway.
The professor pondered and said, "Since you came here to track down the green dragon Modanna and stumbled upon this incident by accident, I won't hide it from you."
"In fact, the essence of the matter is very simple: the five-colored dragons wanted to take advantage of the chaos to open the [Nightmare Realm], and we predicted this and wanted to stop them."
"It's just that when we were organizing the manpower, we had a slight problem..."
…
From the professor's narration, Marvin almost understood the whole story.
In the previous game, Wrath of the Dragon God was an expansion pack that was released many years after the Cataclysm.
The key lies in [Hutson's Temple].
Hartson was once the Five-Colored Dragon God and the representative of evil gods.
In ancient times, he lived in the Lumber Forest and ruled his kingdom there.
At that time, the five-colored dragons had not yet split up. They gathered under Hartson and revered him as a god.
The five-colored dragons at that time were far from being as powerful as they are now. They were very weak, and basically only had instincts such as flying and breathing dragon breath. They also had low intelligence and posed no different threat than today's wyverns.
The evil dragon god Hartson bestowed wisdom and magic upon the five-colored dragons, and at the same time gave them different characteristics according to their ethnic groups.
As a result, divisions of camps appeared within the Five-Colored Dragon.
Hartson's original intention was to allow his people to develop on their own, but they eventually split up. After gaining powerful strength, they began to fight among themselves and compete for territory.
Some colored dragons feel very uncomfortable with the forest environment because of the attributes given to them by Hartson - such as blue dragons who like to live in the desert.
They began to protest.
Faced with these troublesome events, the Dragon God Hartson opened up a demiplane in the logging forest.
He created various environments in the demiplane, including deserts suitable for blue dragons, mountains suitable for red dragons, and swamps suitable for black dragons.
The world is big enough that they don't have to fight each other for territory.
Perhaps Hutson's original intention was to let his people calm down.
It is said that he has a deal with Lance, the god of wizards, that if too many five-colored dragons appear in Fenan, then Lance will take action to curb these chaotic and evil guys.
In short, after the demiplane was formed, Hartson stuffed all his people into it.
He originally thought that this would eliminate the disputes.
However, he miscalculated.
The original name of this demiplane cannot be verified. Now, it is called the [Nightmare Realm] by the five-colored dragons.
The reason why it is called the Nightmare Realm is because the original five-colored dragons were very dissatisfied with this demiplane and they felt that they were imprisoned.
After gaining powerful strength and cunning wisdom, many five-colored dragons secretly used various methods to leave the nightmare realm while Hartson was asleep.
The most exaggerated among them is the Black Dragon clan.
In a war with the red dragon, they were defeated and became angry and humiliated.
They were angry at the stingy Hartson for not granting them magical powers and for making their reproduction capacity shockingly low, so after being defeated , the entire black dragon clan defected to the Nightmare Realm.
This is a huge turmoil and reshuffle.
The red dragons became the masters of the nightmare realm. They celebrated wildly, and the sleeping Hartson was awakened.
Seeing the chaos in the nightmare realm, Hartson became completely furious.
He drove all the five-colored dragons out of the nightmare realm and closed it.
He confiscated some of the abilities bestowed on the five-colored dragons, and set the logging forest as a forbidden area for the other four types of five-colored dragons, leaving only the green dragons who had been relatively peaceful. He gave the key to open the nightmare realm to the chief of the green dragons and left a prophecy.
This prophecy is said to be related to the return of the five-colored dragon to the nightmare realm.
Even the professor is not very clear about the details.
In short, after all this, the five-colored dragons began to run rampant on the continent.
During that time, countless mortals, elves, dwarves and other creatures were killed or injured.
Their cities were captured and their wealth was plundered.
The five-colored dragon enjoyed its final glory to the fullest.
In fact, Fenan's most famous dragon-slaying three-piece set was forged at this time.
What happened next was exactly what Hartson had expected—the Wizard God, who had been warned in advance, acted without mercy.
He killed nearly 70% of the five-colored dragons and easily scared most of them back to their lairs.
Only at this time did they begin to miss the beauty of the nightmare world.
But the nightmare realm has been closed.
The Dragon God Hartson also died not long after due to some special reasons.
His temple fell into ruins, and he buried himself beneath it, guarded by a loyal guard.
The guard's name was - [Titus].
Many years passed.
When the catastrophe came and the black dragons were on the verge of extinction due to Ma Wentu, the five-colored dragons suddenly realized that this was a perfect opportunity.
Because the things predicted are happening one by one - it's time to open the nightmare realm!
It was time to take back the power that Hartson had taken away from them.
