Volume 4: The Cataclysm Chapter 53 Library
Being able to encounter a black dragon on the second underground floor is what Marvin wants to see most.
He was not sure of winning against the other five-colored ancient dragons.
Although under the constraints of advanced transfiguration, their strength was greatly restricted.
It's basically the equivalent of a legendary wizard with a strong body.
Only the black dragon could be eaten by Marvin because it had no magical ability of dragon language.
It is said that this is somewhat related to the betrayal of the Black Dragon Clan.
Although Marvin is interested in these ancient histories, they are not the focus at the moment.
His most important goal now is the library.
As for the nightmare realm, he had just volunteered to help and was not the main force.
With sword master Conn, professor and others personally taking action, Ma Wen originally came with the mentality of just joining in the fun and seeing if he could get any benefits.
After all, although the underground temple is dangerous, it also hides many treasures, and the library is one of them.
Besides, the underground temple is so complicated that finding the entrance to the next level is not an easy task.
Marvin believed that even a five-colored dragon would not be able to find the entrance that easily. At least that was what the metal dragons' intelligence showed.
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As for entering the library, Marvin deduced based on the information he had at hand, it was still a bit troublesome.
Administrator Fati is a very powerful spellcaster who controls the entire library and guards the library's door.
Anyone who wants to enter the library must get her permission.
The Dragon Soul warned Marvin that since the fall of the Dragon God, Fati had become moody and inclined towards extreme evil.
She was a subordinate of the Dragon God, and should have disappeared with Hartson's death.
For some other reason, she survived, but became extremely deformed.
This descendant of a dragon and a human possesses terrifying dragon language spells and his own divine template, which basically means he is equivalent to a super servant of God.
In fact, Marvin is not afraid of simple servants of God.
Because most of the gods' servants are spellcasters, they have experience in mastering and applying divine arts.
Their weakness is physical, but because they are protected by divine power, they tend to ignore this.
After all, there are very few weapons in this world that possess the [God-forbidden] attribute.
Ma Wen's green leaf is one of them.
So he really likes hunting God's servants.
But the problem is that Fati is not only a powerful dragon wizard, her body has also been transformed by Hartson.
It is said that Hartson injected her with his own blood and divine essence, giving her a powerful vitality.
Marvin always stayed away from any creature related to the origin of God.
It can be seen from the killing of Ming Feng so many times before.
If Marvin made even one mistake, he would be dead.
In fact, during the battle, he did give Ming Feng a chance. If Eve had not arrived in time and stabbed Ming Feng to death with a sword, Marvin's infinite killing streak would probably not have continued.
It can be seen that fighting with this kind of creature that can be resurrected is a very troublesome thing.
Marvin didn't want to face Fati directly.
So he needs a helper.
And the Black Dragon Ikalina is obviously an excellent candidate.
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Faced with Marvin's request, Ikalina hesitated for a moment and finally chose to agree.
In fact, she had no choice but to bow her head when she was under someone's roof.
Any dragon in human form would tremble from the bottom of its heart if a dragon-slaying spear was pressed against its heart.
Because they can hear some sounds that ordinary people cannot hear - all of them are the wailing sounds of the dragons that once died under the Dragon Slaying Spear.
Ikalina even heard the cries of several black dragons.
They cried and begged her to avenge them.
However, she could only choose to cooperate with Marvin with a bitter face.
"Can you please take your gun away?"
Ikalina said with a look of surprise: "My husband's life is still in your hands. You don't have to worry that I will do anything to harm you."
Ma Wen smiled slightly: "In order to have a pleasant cooperation, I think it would be better for us to sign a contract."
Ikalina was alert:
"Contract? What contract?"
"If it's a slavery contract like Izakka's, I'd rather die."
Marvin shook his head and said, "No. It's just a contract to ensure the cooperation."
Marvin had no intention of taking both black dragons as his servants.
Although he does have such ability.
Izaka was conquered in the first place because the situation at that time required it.
The Baihe Valley was in a state of crisis at that time. Conquering the Black Dragon forcefully would not only undermine the enemy's morale, but also enhance one's own strength.
The power of the black dragon is also very strong, which is also reflected in the subsequent battles.
Apart from the three-piece dragon-slaying set, the black dragon's body is almost invincible in the world.
Even though he is seriously injured and recuperating now, for the outside world, the fact that Lord Marvin of the White River Valley has an army of black dragons (many people will mistake the shadow dragon for a member of the black dragon) is still very deterrent news.
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And now, he just wanted to use Ikalina's power.
Of course, it would be great if we could stop the five-colored dragons from entering the nightmare realm.
The professor once said that to open the nightmare realm, not only the green dragon's key is needed, but also the gathering of all five colored dragons - it is said that the prophecy also specifically points out the return of the black dragon.
It would be more advantageous for the professors if Ikalina was held back by them.
They will have more time to plan and prepare.
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The two parties signed a one-time contract, which will take effect within three days.
Within three days, neither side could fight. Ikalina had to lure the administrator Fati away for Marvin, and Marvin promised that if Ikalina fulfilled her promise and successfully detained the administrator Fati, he would release the black dragon Izaka within three months.
This contract seems a bit disadvantageous to Marvin.
Ikalina just helped to attract the administrator's hatred and gained so many benefits.
But if you think about it carefully, Marvin didn't lose out either.
What's more, he played a little trick in the contract - he clearly promised: if Yizaka was willing to terminate the contract, then he would take the initiative to terminate the slavery contract with Yizaka.
However, in fact, based on his experiences in the past few days, Marvin had already figured out what kind of guy the Black Dragon Izaka was: his characteristics of being afraid of death and bullying the weak were fully reflected in him!
Why did he sign a slavery contract with Marvin?
There is only one reason: fear of death!
Although the slavery contract allowed Marvin to order him around, the contract also restricted Marvin from taking any action against him!
This is a disguised form of protection.
By then, if Marvin showed even a hint of murderous intent, Izakka would probably ask not to terminate the contract...
After all, once the contract was terminated, Marvin could shoot him at any time.
This is the helplessness of the Black Dragon.
This was also Marvin's plan. Having dealt with the devil so many times in his previous life, he was very familiar with the laws of the contract.
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"With Ikalina's help, things should go much more smoothly."
"Yizaka is her husband and brother after all, she wouldn't cheat, right?"
In front of a dark gate, Marvin hid in the shadows on the side, thinking quietly.
Ikalina glanced at Marvin, and finally walked slowly towards the depths of the gate.
This is actually a hall, only two corridors away from where they had talked before.
The number of biting books in these two corridors and the hall increased almost exponentially, making Marvin's scalp tingle.
If Ikalina hadn't helped, he would have probably been bitten a lot if he had to deal with it himself.
Unless you transform into Anzura the Bear.
But that would make too much noise.
It is bound to alarm Fati, the library manager.
While moving forward, Marvin also learned some information from Ikalina.
The reason why she extinguished those flames was because the flames in the brazier were the surveillance eyes of another powerful monster on the second underground floor - [Fighter] Rogue.
The entire second underground floor is under the control of the fighters.
These flames are all his eyes.
If Administrator Fati will not attack you as long as you do not try to break into the library, then Fighter Rogge may attack every creature that breaks into the second underground floor.
After all, the information about the Five-Colored Dragon is more direct. The professor did not mention any information about the Fighter Rogge, and it seems that he doesn't know either.
Marvin wanted to get more information from Ikalina, but unfortunately the black dragon just casually said that Fighter Rogue was a pet raised by the Dragon God Hartson.
A mutated fire demon with terrifying strength and many tricks. No one knows where it exists or what it wants to do.
Anyway, we are on the second underground floor, so just put out the brazier when you see it.
After hearing this, Ma Wen couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
I have encountered so many braziers before, but nothing happened to me. I am lucky.
This underground temple is indeed full of dangers.
However, the Dragon Soul did not remind him of any information about the Fighter Rogue. Could it be that he didn't know either?
Or maybe this dragon soul has ulterior motives?
Ma Wen was full of doubts.
This trip to the underground temple was indeed full of uncertainty, and this uncertainty seriously affected his judgment.
At this point, he can only take one step at a time.
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Ikalina knew the location of the library
It’s just that black dragons have no interest in libraries. Unlike humans, they do not have an almost endless thirst for knowledge.
So when Marvin asked if he could trade the parchment scrolls dropped from the Book of Bite to him, the Black Dragon was so generous that he gave all the scrolls to Marvin.
This time, Marvin was so enthusiastic that he found it hard to believe.
He counted, and with Ikalina's parchment, he could almost put together a book, only missing a few pages.
The name of the book is "Bileg's Force Field Theory".
It seems to be the experience and insights about force field witchcraft written by a wizard named Bileg in ancient times.
Because it was a wizard book, Marvin's reading naturally failed.
He just put the parchments together. If he wanted to read them, he would at least need to learn many basic skills of a wizard - such as [spell book interpretation], [rune knowledge], etc.
As a professional who makes a living by cooking, I am almost as illiterate as an illiterate when faced with these books.
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Marvin waited quietly.
Soon, an angry shout came from behind the dark door.
Then a black shadow quickly passed through the gate and fled into the distance like flying.
That was Ikalina’s figure.
Chasing behind her was a fiery red phantom, and her speed was even faster than Ikalina!
Marvin's eyelids jumped. Is this the speed of manager Fati?
With my own strength, I can only see a shadow?
This means that the opponent's speed with the bonus of magic is faster than yours!
"Time is running out! I don't know how long Ikalina can delay!"
Marvin knew that he didn't have much time left.
He did not hesitate at the moment. After a simple strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain, he sneaked in directly.
He started quickly and rushed into the dark gate.
Inside the gate is a huge space.
Inside the space, there are endless bookshelves.
These bookshelves seem endless, extending from an unknown distance to infinity.
It’s just that the books on these bookshelves are just there to mislead people.
If it weren't for the Dragon Soul's reminder, Marvin would really have searched the bookshelf.
But in doing so, he would only find a bunch of mundane and useless books.
You might even run into some traps—alarm traps, or perhaps instant-death traps for book thieves!
Yes, all the bookshelves in this space are just a cover.
This is not the real library of the dragon clan at all.
"Entrance!"
"Entrance……"
Marvin ran quickly along the bookshelf, muttering:
"The thirty-ninth row, the thirty-ninth row..."
"The seventy-second bookshelf..."
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Outside the dark door, two shadows fled quickly.
Suddenly, Ikalina stopped.
"Almost."
Black Dragon sneered at the administrator Fati and said, "Your mind is still so simple? Do you think I am really interested in those crappy books?"
The administrator, Fati, is an extremely ugly woman.
She was very fat, like a balloon, and had a horrible tumor on her face.
Her voice was very low, like a man's: "Betrayer, what else do you have to quibble about?"
"The entire Black Dragon Clan is a fallen being that betrayed God. Even if you have no interest in the library, I will kill you."
The black dragon smiled and said, "Really? What if I tell you that there is a human boy who has quietly entered the library?"
Fati's face suddenly changed: "You are lying!"
Ikalina leisurely took out a mirror, and in the mirror appeared a scene of Marvin rapidly passing through countless bookshelves.
"He is the one who is interested in the library. If you want to stay at your post, you should kill him."
The black dragon raised his proud chin and said, "But unfortunately, he is much more cunning than you think. I even doubt whether you can catch him in the library."
"For this, I am ready to help you - of course, this is a deal."
"Tell me the entrance to the third underground floor, and I'll give you this mirror. Don't be suspicious, Fati. This mirror is just an ordinary alchemical product. I left something on it, so I can capture its shadow."
Administrator Fati said coldly:
"Your calculations are really good, aren't they?"
"I can definitely kill you first and then deal with that human. I don't believe that a human can find it so quickly..."
The next second, her face turned completely liver color!
As a library manager, her heart is connected to the real library door.
When Marvin found the secret door mentioned by the Dragon Soul and entered the key to open it, Fati sensed it immediately.
The next second, she yelled, "Give me the mirror!"
Once Marvin enters the library, if she cannot locate him immediately, she may be severely punished!
Although the entire library is under her control...there are still some places that are her blind spots.
If Marvin entered those places, she couldn’t imagine what would happen next.
Black Dragon said with a smile:
"The entrance to the next level."
"You must know that."
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library.
Behind the secret door is an ancient and desolate world.
When Marvin opened his eyes for the first time, he was stunned.
It turns out that the dragon clan’s library is like this.
This is a small island.
There is a mountain on the island, and there are four types of terrain on the four sides: desert, lake, forest and mountain.
At this time, Marvin was standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking everything.
As for the edge of the island, there is endless blue ocean.
"This is... the outer plane?"
Marvin swallowed with some difficulty.
If this is really the outer plane, it must be full of dangers.
Whether it is the [Book of Forgiveness] needed by the Dragon Soul, or the [Book of Wisdom] that is said to be able to suppress the Book of Naaru, they are all hidden in some secret places on this island.
"What kind of library is this? It's clearly an island with books."
Ma Wen couldn't help but complain in his heart.
The next second, he took action.
The first thing that can be confirmed is that the mountain itself is also a place where books are stored.
Going down all the way, he could see many caves. The caves were densely packed and there was a powerful divine power sealing off the outside.
Through these transparent bans, Marvin could see some light balls constantly impacting the bans.
These are ancient books that are who knows how many years old. They have absorbed a large amount of divinity and possess a certain level of intelligence.
If time and conditions permit, Marvin would really like to bring back a few more books like this.
No matter which book here, although not as terrifying as the Book of Naaru, it is definitely a treasure-level book.
Unfortunately, administrator Fati won't let him have his way.
He could only search for what he wanted as quickly as possible.
According to the description of the Dragon Soul, the Book of Forgiveness and the Book of Wisdom are buried on the east and west sides of the library respectively.
However, in this space, Marvin had lost his sense of direction and could only pick a direction at random and run quickly towards it.
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After descending the mountain, he entered an undulating mountainous area.
These mountains are also very interesting.
There are many stone tables here, with some books scattered on them.
This way of collecting books may seem messy, but it actually follows certain rules.
Next to each book, there are names marked in Dragon Language, Elvish and Common Language respectively.
Thanks to the common language, Marvin was able to recognize it.
He moved quickly across the desks without touching the books themselves.
Because once the books are touched, it will inevitably trigger the library's alarm.
At this time, Marvin didn't know that Black Dragon had betrayed him.
Administrator Fati is actually on the way.
