Noretta? Another senior agent of Mithril Treasury
Melita went to perform the "dunning task"? So is this temporary "substitute" Noretta also a giant dragon
Hearing the voice from the ring, several thoughts popped up in Gao Wen's mind, and then he frowned suddenly, realizing one thing—
I can't play my little pony meme this time!
After suppressing the momentary weird thoughts in his mind, Gawain immediately coughed twice, and while gathering his thoughts, he said to the "Miss Noretta" on the other end of the ring: "That's it, I need to consult something— It may involve the Dragon Clan, I hope to communicate face to face."
"Dragon... I understand," Noretta's voice paused for a second, "Please wait a moment, I will see you in about an hour."
Gao Wen blinked—it took another hour to arrive. Among other things, the group of senior agents of Mithril Treasury, this kind of service attitude on call is really admirable. Where are the cats when people are on missions? If you think about it carefully, there are quite a lot of suspicious things in it...
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Dark red lava meanders and flows on the dry and hot land, and the blazing flames are wrapped in the amazingly hot cyclone. The burning tornado sweeps across the red sky like a flaming python, continuously sprinkling hot ash and fire rain ——This is a world dominated by flames. Everything here, including soil and stones, maintains uninterrupted restlessness and changes in a state enriched with fire elements, and a large number of "creatures" with fire elements as the main body live in This place looks like hell to mortals, and each has its own strange "life forms".
Magma jumping insects jumping in the lava, fire monsters growing in the crevices of stones, living heat waves moving swiftly in the wind, all kinds of fire elemental creatures are blindly burning, fighting and consuming in this hot world. Whether it is a long or short life—however, a loud noise that seemed to break the space and a heartbreaking roar suddenly resounded through the entire space, causing the restless elemental creatures in the earth and the lava lake to scatter in an instant—
"Damn! You damn reptiles!!"
Amid the deafening roar, a shocking rift suddenly opened in the scarlet sky, and a gigantic giant composed of burning boulders and viscous magma fell from the rift to the ground in embarrassment. It was beside the magma lake. A large pit with a radius of 100 meters was smashed out, and then the boulders crawled out from the bottom of the pit wriggling and roaring, and gradually reorganized into a daunting flame giant.
The giant raised its flaming head and roared to the sky once again, while in the sky that was raining fire and ash, several equally huge figures were hovering—that was the seven-headed dragon.
The giant raised his arm, and a hot and bright flaming spear was condensed into shape. However, before he could throw the spear out, a dragon roar came from high above. The balance of elemental power was instantly shattered by the dragon roar, and the flame spear was torn apart. , Immediately afterwards, lightning, frost, strong wind, and arcane power descended from the sky like a violent storm, suppressing the giant firmly on the cracked surface of the earth.
Those low-level elemental creatures that could only rely on instinct to act had escaped cleanly as early as the outbreak of this terrible battle, and only irrational pure flames rose from the cracks in the cracked earth.
"You... how dare you be in the field of elements..."
A blue dragon descended from the sky and directly stepped on the flame giant's head. A deep and majestic voice came from the dragon's mouth: "No one can owe the Mithril treasury—including the elemental lord."
"You lunatics... idiots... reptiles!" The giant struggled, but became more and more powerless to resist under the influence of the gravity spell, "The cycle is coming, it's coming! Everything will be shuffled, the whole world will be reshaped, What debts, what contracts, everything is meaningless! You do this... "
"You are such a young elemental lord. I am afraid that you were born from the source of fire less than a thousand years ago—didn't your elders tell you a truth?" A head with thick scales, an alloy shield embedded in the back armor, and both eyes have been replaced. The red dragon with prosthetic eyes sneered and interrupted the flame giant's curse. He took a step forward and looked down into the giant's eyes, "The world can be destroyed and civilization can be rebuilt, but even if a planet crashes into the sun, you You have to pay off the debt of Mithril Treasury before dying!"
The giant exhausted all his strength, and let out intermittent roars at the feet of the blue dragon: "You... you guys... crazy people!!"
"It seems that your elders really didn't educate you well," Red Dragon shook his head, "but it doesn't matter, we will complete this business. You secretly hid the pledge that you promised to hand over to Mithril Treasury, and it has already expired Centenary, today we brought the bill—after your confirmation, Mithril Treasury will collect late fees and collateral today.”
The blue dragon who stepped on the giant's head also lowered his head: "Also, don't forget to give a good review of this transaction—"
Standing by the side, the black dragon who never spoke took a step forward. Accompanied by an inaudible whisper, complex dragon language runes condensed in front of her, and circled to form countless spinning arrows. A little closer to the torso of the flame giant, the latter roared frantically: "Stop! Stop! You can't do this! You..."
Sparks flew, and the swirling arrows tore open the shell of the stone as easily as a knife cut butter. The flame giant's roar finally weakened, and only intermittent cursing remained: "You reptiles...you can't take it away! …that was what I managed to steal…it is mine, it is my treasure…”
After a low, muffled sound, the elemental shell inside the giant's body was cut through by the sharp arrow, and its solid body finally began to shatter. A weak and intermittent voice floated in the air: "You... are just... a group of prisoners..."
The blue dragon looked down at the rapidly extinguishing stone head, and stomped it to pieces: "Thank you for your comment, I have received your comment."
The elemental body that lost its life turned into hot stones, scattered all over the ground with a clatter.
A small flame like a candle jumped out from the crevice of the stone, screaming angrily and running away from here, its scream spread far away: "I will come back! I will come back of!"
"Next time you are reborn, ask your elders about the market situation in this world!" Red Dragon shouted at the fleeing little flame from a distance, "We will not charge business consulting fees this time!!"
Blue Dragon shook her head, and a light golden projection panel appeared in front of her. After activating the work system, she began to record the attendance report on it seriously: "... In summary, after the service is completed, the customer made I gave a sincere and enthusiastic evaluation. Due to the rush of time, customers will not have time to choose a star rating in the future. With the unanimous agreement of the agents present, we think it should be a default praise... "
"Melita, don't record those things, you can write slowly after you get back," the black dragon who summoned Fengya stepped forward and said in a young and immature voice, "Let's clean up these things first."
"Ah, it makes sense," the blue dragon—Melita Purnia put away the light golden panel in front of her eyes, and looked down at the pile of hot rocks on the ground. It is time to break the record of debt evasion in the Mithril Treasury. Now let us see what kind of treasure this guy is hiding, and it is worth the risk of violating the Dragon Oath contract... "
The invisible magic power blows over those scorching stones, dispelling the last bit of malice entrenched on these elemental residues. The already fragile stone shells silently turned into dust and drifted with the wind, finally exposing the tightly wrapped The "treasure" in the pile of debris.
It was a piece of silver-white metal with a black inlaid decoration on the surface.
It looks like a shield, but it does not look like any standard shield in the world at present. It has a very symmetrical rhombus structure, and the raised side still flows with a dim and weak brilliance even today. The energy tremors caused by dragon language magic Wandering around the shield, a low and pleasant humming sound came from the ancient and solid metal, like some kind of resonance.
Several giant dragons came over one after another—these huge creatures stretched their necks and looked at the metal plate that could almost be described as "small" to them, as if a group of people squatted on the ground to watch a Small pebbles, after a few seconds of silence, puzzled and curious expressions appeared on the faces of each giant dragon covered with scales (or bionic skin).
"...what is this?" An exceptionally strong red dragon muttered, and carefully grabbed the piece of metal with two "fingers" outstretched from its front paws, "an elemental lord, at the risk of being chased by the mithril treasury The risk of debt, just to collect such a thing?"
The red dragon whose eyes had been replaced with electronic prosthetic eyes before muttered: "This is a human shield, isn't it obvious?"
"I know the human shield, but I don't understand why an elemental lord would take it so seriously..."
At this moment, the blue dragon Melita suddenly interrupted the conversation of the other giant dragons: "Friends, I think I recognize the mark on this shield."
While talking, she raised her front paw and pointed to the imprint on the surface of the diamond-shaped shield—the material of the shield itself seemed to be somewhat special, so that it was still intact and undamaged after centuries of erosion by the elements, but it Some metal parts on the surface are obviously added later, and the imprints are on those metal cladding plates added later, and they have shown serious signs of weathering and erosion.
But its general outline is still recognizable: crossed swords and plow.
"...I seem to have the impression too... ah! Last time we were tossed around to check whether the deceased clients showed signs of resurrection, it seems that it is because of the owner of this mark..." The extraordinarily strong red dragon exclaimed He got up, with an unbearable expression on his face, "This seems to belong to that human named Gawain Cecil?"
Melita nodded solemnly: "It should be like this."
The giant dragons at the scene fell silent. These powerful and extraordinary creatures looked at each other, and suddenly felt that this originally simple and rude debt collector suddenly became complicated.
"... Mithril Treasure House operates with integrity, we should contact the owner..."
"But this is a lost property from a century ago. If the owner fails to pick it up after the deadline, it will automatically give up ownership."
"But the owner has been lying in the coffin for hundreds of years, so the overdue responsibility should be borne by the specific responsible person?"
"But the person responsible is also dead!"
"... try calling back the soul?"
"I don't think so—and can you leave out the spirit?"
"Stop, friends," Melita finally couldn't help interrupting the increasingly heated conversation among colleagues, "Should we take a closer look at this shield before discussing the lost and found process? Don't you Think...even if the shield belongs to a legendary human hero, it's not worth the risk for an elemental lord?"
"Melita, you mean..."
"There is a problem with the main material of this shield—take a closer look."
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An hour's waiting didn't take too long, and soon, Betty came to tell Gao Wen that a strange visitor who claimed to be a senior agent had come outside Cecil Palace.
Not long after, a beautiful and elegant lady wearing a long snow-white dress, long pale blond hair and a soft shawl, with a tear mole at the corner of her eye, walked into Gao Wen's study.
"Hello," this elegant and beautiful lady bowed slightly to Gao Wen, with a gentle and professional smile on her face, "I am the senior agent acting as Melita, you can call me 'Nuo Lei' tower'."
Gawain controlled his curious gaze, and after ordering Betty to close the door before leaving, he nodded to the lady in front of him: "Nice to meet you, Miss Noretta."