Joshua still underestimated the flying speed of this ice dragon... unconventional creatures.
From Nolan to the Land of Frost, and then to the dark green basin on the border of the Land of Frost, this ice dragon took only three days to complete the journey that an ordinary person would take half a year to complete.
"I give a five-star praise to this Didi Dragon car."
When Catalion landed on the outskirts of the Deep Green Basin, Joshua gave his due evaluation of the trip.
"I've heard enough of your strange words."
Katarian shook his back, motioning for Joshua and Ciri to leave its back.
Joshua jumped from Catalian's dragon back and landed firmly on the grass in this basin.
With the physical quality of the Chaos Demon, Qiao Xiu could easily jump off the back of a dragon that was nearly four stories high.
Ciri is a more common application method for spellcasters who use the order system, which is to build a temporary ladder with a magic barrier, and then step down the dragon's back step by step.
"What about the city of elves?"
As soon as Ciri landed on the ground, she glanced left and right, and then raised her head to glance at the sky.
Because of the arrival of the ice dragon Katarian, all the monsters inhabiting this basin disappeared, and the surrounding silence was terrifying.
There was nothing floating in the sky. When Ciri was sitting on the ice dragon, he was eager to find the legendary city.
But nothing could be seen even above the clouds.
"There might be some kind of invisibility magic."
Qiao Xiu took out the token of the World Tree, which had already responded after entering the Dark Green Basin.
"I forgot how to use it." Joshua handed the token to Ciri, "Ciri, try to input magic power into it first."
Ciri took the token and entered his magic power into it according to what Joshua said.
The light on this token became brighter, and Qiao Xiu also put his hand on it, carefully inputting the magic of the Chaos Demon into it.
A pure white light beam appeared beside Qiao Xiu.
"This thing is... a portal?"
Ciri found a stone on the ground and threw it into the beam, and the stone instantly disappeared into the beam of light.
"The lead beam won't last long."
Suddenly, a translucent white bird appeared on Ciri's shoulder, and this white bird was the consciousness of the High Elf World Tree.
It tilted its head and glanced at Katalion behind Ciri.
"Ma'am please?" Joshua made a gesture of invitation.
"Space teleportation, um... Sure enough, I still can't get used to this kind of magic."
But Ciri actually showed a little fear in the face of this beam of light.
This spellcaster is a woman who can fight bears with bare hands, but several consecutive "spatial teleportation" during the demon world left a psychological shadow on Ciri.
"Okay, hold my hand."
Joshua held Ciri's cold hand and walked into the beam of light with Ciri.
A sense of weightlessness swept over Qiao Xiu. After just three seconds, Qiao Xiu opened his eyes again, and the scenery in front of him changed from a swamp to... a city that had been turned into ruins.
"This is Arthur Crowe?"
Qiao Xiu looked around, the style of the surrounding buildings looked familiar to Qiao Xiu, but these buildings had become rotten ruins, and even the ground was full of dust, it didn't look like someone lived in them at all.
This is a street that has been dead for a long time, and only its ruins are left here.
Joshua raised his head, there was a huge dome above, and the sunlight shone into it through the cracks in the dome, as if telling Joshua that it was not far from the ground.
"Arthur Crowe, isn't this Nolan's underground ruins?"
Ciri looked around, and the architectural style here is almost identical to the ruins in Nolan's underground.
"So what about the people who welcomed us?"
Joshua didn't even see a wild high elf, but felt a powerful magical barrier outside the street.
Just as Joshua was looking for the welcome person, Ciri, who possessed the beast-like intuition, suddenly noticed something.
"Who?"
Ciri raised his staff high, and the brilliance of the phantom inscriptions circled in front of the staff. The next second, the ruins were illuminated by strong light, and the dark figure hiding in the corner of the ruins slowly walked out.
"It doesn't look like you're welcome." Qiao Xiu looked at the person in front of him. The robe on his body was very similar to that of Nolan's spellcaster, but he couldn't see his appearance with a mask on his face. The emblem tattooed on his shoulder betrays his identity.
The emblem that only the robes of the Seven Sages of Nolan have.
Qiao Xiu had heard that there are currently only five sages in Nolan, and those in black and blue have not appeared in the Council of Sages for a long time.
Whether he is a man in black has nothing to do with Joshua, Joshua just wants to know where the high elves live.
"Humans from Nolan? There is also a... Defiler, why are you here!"
His eyes under the mask glanced at Qiao Xiu and Ciri, and finally his eyes stopped on Qiao Xiu's body and his pupils contracted slightly.
"What is a strange name for Blasphemer? My name is Joshua Arnorod, and I am a guest invited by the consciousness of the World Tree." Joshua introduced himself.
"It is impossible for the Holy Tree to accept a..."
Before the words in his mouth were finished, a white bird stopped on Qiao Xiu's shoulder. At this moment, he closed his mouth instantly, looking at Qiao Xiu as if he had seen a ghost.
"Then, are you a local? If so, can you take me to the gathering place of the high elves? I have something to talk to them about."
Qiao Xiu tentatively communicated with the man in black. This time Qiao Xiu came purely for the air mobile WIFI. Of course, he also created a few high elf idols. Qiao Xiu was quite happy.
"The place where you are is the forgotten land, which means that you have been rejected by the Council of Elders," he said.
"Rejection?" If Qiao Xiu remembered correctly, he should be considered a guest of the World Tree.
He answered Qiao Xiu's question in a more intuitive way, a silver inscription appeared in his hand, and a reflected image appeared in front of Qiao Xiu's eyes.
"The Council of Elders will not allow the defilers to step into this city again. It may be because they are sheltered by the holy tree that they did not choose to kill you." The image he summoned was the forest outside the ruins.
Joshua could see a group of high elves waiting outside, just from the equipment on them, it was not like they came to greet Joshua as a guest.
"We... seem to be the bosses of the copy?" Ciri whispered to Joshua.
"It seems to be completely treated as an enemy. I thought all elves were a group of cat slaves..." Joshua did not expect that he had the protection of the holy tree, and these high elves did not give Joshua any face at all.
"On your shoulders is a bird." Ciri reminded Joshua again.
"… "
"To the high elves, the sacred tree is just our symbiosis."
The man in black glanced at the white bird standing on Qiao Xiu's shoulder, and bowed slightly towards it and performed a strange etiquette.
"I don't know why the Holy Tree invited you to Arthur Crow, but please leave the city as soon as possible. Some elders will mercilessly execute any blasphemer." The man in black persuaded Josh said.
"Go back? You mean I'm being pigeoned by the high elves? Or am I being pointed at by a group of pigeons with a bow?"
Qiao Xiu did not expect that the attitude of these elves would be so bad.
The man in black ignored Qiao Xiu's words. He went straight to the center of the street, in front of an altar-like building. He stretched out his hand and brushed the dust on one of the discs.
"This is the teleportation array built by your defilers. With your magic, you should be able to build a teleportation gate to Nolan," he said.
"Although I also really want to get out of this dusty place as soon as possible, my answer is still that I refuse."
"If you force your way out of the Forgotten Land, the Council of Elders will not let you go." The man in black warned Joshua.
"Is this how you treat guests? If it's hostile... I'd be happy to lead the army to bring Arthur Crowe into the war." Joshua said with a smile.
"What did you say?"
This sentence obviously stimulated the man in black. He clenched his staff tightly, and the silver inscription appeared around his body, but the next moment, the gray magic power suddenly swept the area.
His inscription shattered into debris like glass, and even he himself held the staff in both hands as if he had difficulty breathing.
"After all these years... you guys are still so dangerous."
"I don't know the grievances between the high elves and our family, but this time I was invited by your holy tree. You don't need to bring some tea to entertain you, and you still want to put pigeons."
Joshua's hand was surrounded by chaotic magic power and then walked slowly towards him. After passing him by, he injected his own magic power into the teleportation formation.
This teleportation array, which has been abandoned for an unknown number of years, is activated again.
"You mean there's a connection to Nolan here?"
Joshua felt that the man in black was very... not vigilant, or was he very kind
If there was such a teleportation formation in his home, Qiao Xiu wouldn't tell anyone if he was killed.
He didn't answer Qiao Xiu. Qiao Xiu used the inscription of the skeleton to summon an unconscious undead. The undead walked into the teleportation array, and it walked out of the teleportation array again in the next second.
After the undead shattered into debris, what little memory it had poured into Joshua's memory.
Surrounded by three dumbfounded dwarves, Joshua also saw Frost Axe among the three dwarves.
Was it the teleportation formation leading to the Frost Axe
Qiao Xiu closed the teleportation array in an instant... and fell into contemplation.
"What are you trying to do?" The man in black seemed impatient, and he asked Qiao Xiu in a low voice.
"If you can't treat each other with courtesy, you can only use swords to meet each other. That's what it means... Once again, I'm Joshua Arnorrod, the third prince of the devil world."
Qiao Xiu's dark pupils stared at the blue eyes under the mask of the man in black, and the domineering borrowed from the skeleton man spread wantonly.
"Perhaps I should bring an army here, so the high elves might be able to sit down and have a good talk with me."
When Qiao Xiu made this proposal, the man in black showed a dangerous look in his eyes.
"I'll stop you," he said.
When Qiao Xiu was about to answer him, the white bird standing on Qiao Xiu's shoulder also tapped Qiao Xiu's head with its beak.
"It hurts..." Before Joshua could frighten it, the white bird tapped Joshua on the head with its beak again.
"Okay, okay, I'm just talking, I really don't know anything about leading troops to fight." Qiao Xiu covered the place where the white bird hit, saying that he was just joking.
"What?"
On the contrary, Ciri showed a surprised expression, and it seemed that the girl was ready for war.
"If you really want to break in, you will at most forcefully rush into the core of the World Tree, but it is impossible to 'sneak' depending on the situation outside."
Joshua didn't think he could make this holy tree happy if he tried hard.
"I'll give you a hint, your chaotic magic is useless to the elders." The man in black warned Joshua again.
He looked like he wanted to try his best to avoid this battle, but the words and actions Joshua said before were too dangerous.
"Can't we stop them from casting spells? That's a little tricky."
Joshua was also lost in thought.
"Why don't you just camp here for a while? You can go back to Nolan with the portal anyway," Ciri suggested.
"Stay for a while?"
Qiao Xiu glanced sideways at the portal leading to Nolan, and once again looked back at the street that had turned into ruins.
"Ciri come with me."
Qiao Xiu walked quickly towards a building on the street, Ciri followed behind Qiao Xiu, and the man in black followed.
The walls of these buildings are already covered with various plants, but the interior of the buildings is surprisingly well preserved, except that dust has accumulated in some places.
"After so many years, there is no sign of collapse. The quality of these buildings is quite good." Qiao Xiu stretched out his hand and brushed the dust on an unknown long table.
The people living on this street walked in a hurry, and many things were not taken away, but they all seemed to be evacuated safely. Joshua checked several buildings in succession, and no one's bones were found inside.
"What are you planning?" The man in black looked at Qiao Xiu walking around like a tourist adventure, and finally couldn't help but ask again.
"Are you really Nolan's sage? It's been a long time since I've seen you so... Straightforward, no, there is a high elves named Al who is very similar to you." Joshua said suddenly.
"Frankly? According to your human identities, I am Nolan's man in black." He said.
"It's really the man in black who has been missing for three years." Qiao Xiu was slightly startled, then turned around and suddenly stretched out his hand.
He took a step back vigilantly in an instant, and his magic was still in the state of being imprisoned by Qiao Xiu.
"I'm quite familiar with the other sages. I'm really sorry for scaring you just now." Qiao Xiu said.
But he did not accept this apology from Qiao Xiu, and continued to follow behind Qiao Xiu without saying a word.
Finally, after Joshua had gone through all the abandoned buildings in the entire street, he spoke again.
"If you expect to find anything useful in the Forgotten Lands, give it up, there are only ruins left."
"I'm not looking for relics, I'm looking at the storefront." Joshua gestured towards the largest building in front of him and said.
"Storefront?!"
"Introduction, I am the owner of a tavern in Nolan, and I plan to open a branch here."
At this moment, a smile appeared on Joshua's face that made him chill.