Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 129: Temple of Heroes
In the endless green forest, the blood-red temple hangs high, and the Jingguan made up of countless white bones and skulls stands like a tall tower.

The flesh and blood of the owners of these heads were swallowed up by the temple, and their souls were imprisoned by the temple.

Judging from its behavior, this magical creation created by Caron's unexpected inspiration can be called an evil thing.

The exterior of the Bloody Cathedral is dyed in blood, and it looks particularly scarlet when it is quiet.

The hall has only one floor, but it is tall and wide enough. The sixteen white jade pillars at the door support the dome which is gradually covered with countless war murals. But now the originally jade-like white pillars are gradually engraved with countless souls who died in the battle.

These detained souls will be oppressed and driven by the Temple forever. Even the call of the Styx, the place where souls go to rest in the depths of the endless world, will be blocked.

Normally, these souls serve as servants to those warrior spirits who are loyal enough to the dragon.

During battles, they also need to transform into various drums and flutes, and beat out passionate music in the hands of loyal souls, bringing the dragon's blessing and the heroic spirit's support to the warriors under the dragon's command.

The quiet palace at this moment is like a palace located on the bank of a deep and quiet river, belonging to a certain evil god living in the human world.

As it continued to devour the corpses of its enemies, it became larger and larger. The space inside was also constantly extending due to the spatial properties of the space bag made from the heart of the World Tree and the stomach of the Titan Python.

At this moment, the interior of the hall has begun to appear vast and deep with overlapping spaces.

Charon and other dragons live in the deepest core space of the Blood Temple. This is the area where the core of the World Tree is located, and it is also the origin of the opening of the internal space of the Blood Temple.

The rest of the giant dragons were lying around, and the heart of the World Tree transformed into a giant pillar that stood between heaven and earth, emitting a faint glow, illuminating the figures of the surrounding dragons in every detail.

The dragons in the dragon group have far surpassed those ordinary five-colored dragons due to their good diet, gradually increasing wealth, experience and growth, and the replenishment of various resources.

This is the advantage of the lord dragon. In fact, those five-colored dragons that eat soil and wander around are often underdeveloped.

Now, if they face any giant dragon of the same age in the dragon group, they will be easily crushed in terms of strength and size. The dragon power of these young dragons can even scare some giant dragons of the same age.

The black dragon Rosani was now like a big black cat falling asleep with its favorite toy in its arms. Its long tail and limbs formed a semicircle, holding the giant pillar formed by the core of the World Tree in its arms.

It's just that because the core of the World Tree is too huge, the Black Dragon Rossani is like clinging to a pillar. Even though the Black Dragon Rossani has now grown to eleven meters in size, this black dragon is still a well-deserved strong man in the same age group.

Even in its deep sleep, the black dragon did not forget to stick out its tongue, occasionally licking the heart of the World Tree, and even gnawing on the heart of the World Tree with its fangs.

However, the heart of the World Tree is no longer an ordinary dead object, and the black dragon's unconscious actions cannot hurt it at all.

After being refined into a magical creation by ancient magic scholars, it possesses extremely mysterious abilities. Even Kalon is still unable to figure out the most fundamental abilities of the World Tree's core.

The most fundamental soul of Natis who was rescued by Caron had already fallen into a deep sleep. This was the price Caron paid for rescuing Natis.

Natis needs to use most of his soul to offset the threat from the descendant of the God of Wilderness before he can allow Charon to take action, annihilate the opponent's body and erase the opponent's soul.

This means that Natis and the descendants of the God of Wilderness died together, but fortunately, they were able to retain the last trace of their fundamental soul.

At this time, Charon's huge red body had grown to more than sixteen meters. For a juvenile dragon, the concept of sixteen meters was like a fantasy.

At this time, Charon has only been in adolescence for about three years. This teenage red dragon still has a long enough period of teenage development. No one knows what this red dragon will look like after completing its entire adolescence, and Charon doesn't know either.

Karon only knew that he seemed to have become a big guy among dragons. The current red dragon has a special sub-brain group in its body, and a channel to provide sufficient output of abundant magic power in its body that far exceeds that of other dragons.

His body no longer needed his will to drive it. It was spontaneously multiplying and proliferating more body tissues and nerve organs such as basal blood vessels and magic transmission cores, causing his body to be more robust than that of an ordinary red dragon.

The red dragon's head became increasingly broad, and its three pairs of thick dragon horns were like gnarled ancient trees growing on its head, yet possessed an unusual sharpness.

At this time, Kalon was lying next to the black dragon Rossani, like a red hill. Although the black dragon's flesh and blood body was becoming fuller, it still looked more like a black and skinny loach in front of the muscular red dragon.

Although Caron's main brain consciousness had entered a resting state at this time, there was still a trace of consciousness active under the spontaneous operation of the secondary brain node group.

This strand of consciousness felt the intersection and resonance of the glittering mental energy within the red dragon's massive body and the core of the world tree.

Charon's heart energy fills the core of the World Tree. It is this magical energy, spreading through the core of the World Tree, that gives the heroic souls who died in battle the ability to survive.

While sleeping, Charon kept trying to figure out how to use his abilities, and also experienced the various manifestations of the World Tree opening up space from the resonance of the World Tree's core. The never-resting sub-brain nodes were also recording this information and data all the time.

It can be said that this red dragon is constantly learning and studying the workings of the true laws of the world even in his dreams.

Although the Red Dragon’s ability is not enough to experience it at this moment, but at some point in the future, these accumulated knowledge will turn into a ladder to heaven. This is the foundation and the basis.

Kalon himself had never thought that now that he was a dragon with the ability to lie down, he had to work a thousand times harder than before when he did not have this qualification.

But from the behavior of those ancient wizards and scholars and the words of the squinty-eyed wizard, the red dragon, Kalon, who had an overly rich associative ability, had already made a worst and best guess.

This speculation is also combined with some things that the former White Tower wizard Lapers told the Red Dragon. Perhaps those crazy ancient wizards were not destroyed overnight because they wanted to study the gods, but because these crazy wizards caused a bigger mess.

A basket that needs to be cleaned up by all the powerful gods in the sky who are high above the starry sky and treat the erosion of endless years as a gentle breeze!

A night passed quickly, and Karon's sleeping main consciousness woke up from his rest. He was disturbed by the noise outside the Bloody Temple.

Passing by the other dragons that were still sleeping, Charon stepped out of the temple amid the praises of the heroic spirits.

The forest was filled with thick wet fog in the early morning. In the fog, a huge strange creature was walking.

Many werewolf warriors confronted the strange creature from a distance and did not launch any rash attacks.

This strange creature had limbs and neck as long as a giraffe, and a head shaped like a giraffe, but its mouth was like a bird's beak.

All the flesh and blood on its body seemed to have dried up, and there was no hair left. Only a thin layer of red skin was left wrapping its skinny body, and there were obvious dents on the joints of its bones.

On both sides of its head, above its eye sockets, there are horns that look like dry, thin branches, and on its neck there is keratin tissue that looks like dry branches.

Charon's sub-brain nodes were searching for their own heritage and knowledge with all their might, but they could not find any records of this strange creature.

However, Karon also knew that even the Dragon God of the dragon had knowledge that he didn't know, let alone the dragon's heritage.

He noticed that this strange creature seemed to be just wandering in the thick fog, not daring to step out of the fog, and did not show any hostility towards Caron's team.

Naturally, Kalon would not take the initiative to attack it. Being cautious about all unknowns is the most basic principle to survive in this endless world.

Kalon just told his warriors to stay away from the strange creature, because the appearance of the red dragon made the warriors who wanted to show off their skills ready to attack. Only the dragonborn werewolf Saha, with his tall guards, still stood under the temple, guarding the dragon's resting place meticulously, without any intention of showing off.

As the sun rose higher and the fog in the forest dissipated, the strange creature also quietly disappeared from Karon's eyes along with the dissipating fog. Karon couldn't even figure out what ability the creature used to leave.

Karon flapped his wings and landed around a group of mages. These mages were also discussing the strange creature, and even recorded the creature's appearance with magic crystals. Obviously, these mages didn't know the origin of this strange creature.

When these mages saw the arrival of the red dragon, they couldn't help but bow their heads slightly in salute. The red dragon's current power and actions made these proud mages put aside their stereotypes.

In the eyes of these mages, the heroic spirits in the blood-red temple hanging high in the air are already the fanatical followers of the red dragon. With this kind of development, it would not be surprising for the red dragon to ascend to the throne of God in this way in the future.

After all, if the tens of thousands of people in the dragon territory now become believers of this red dragon, it will be enough to support a giant dragon and turn it into a god with weak divine power.

But this is just the beginning. With the development of this red dragon, the potential of the dragon territory has just been revealed. Perhaps in the future, the dragon territory will also become one of the coveted targets of many gods in the sky.

However, they did not understand the red dragon's thoughts. Although becoming a god simply by the power of faith was powerful enough in Kalon's eyes, it also had its shackles. Kalon did not decide to take this path, but only regarded it as one of the alternative plans.

Just like the dragon's own path to godhood, the Dragon of Godhood is just one of the options for this red dragon. Speaking of the dragon's path to godhood, during his exploration and research during this period of time, Kalon had a vague understanding of some of the methods of this path.

Resisting the influence of the nature brought by inheritance and bloodline is one of the conditions for becoming a god. Those dragons that have brought out their dragon nature to the fullest are also the most ordinary dragons, with extremely limited upper limits.

Several dragons who became gods did so because they were born strong, not because they became gods. Even Tiamat, the five-colored dragon queen who became a god, could not completely get rid of the influence of greed because of her blood and priesthood. This shows how harsh this condition is for dragons.

The dragon must get rid of the greed for treasure and all the influences in its bloodline before devouring the treasure it has collected, so that it can take the next step of the ascension ceremony.

This condition is very difficult for Caron, because Caron can only control his desires and not let his desires affect his conscious will, not that he has no desires.

On the contrary, the strength of Caron's will proves how strong Caron's desire is. Having an absolutely free will is his strongest desire.

"Xiusier, get ready. Our next step will be to explore the ruins left behind by ancient wizards and scholars," said Karon to the squinty-eyed wizard Xiusier.

After several months of fighting, even though the morale of Caron's soldiers is still high, Caron, who has achieved initial results, needs to let these soldiers rest for a while.

He is not like other dragons who treat his followers as consumables. These warriors are now capable of becoming the elite foundation for building a kingdom.

As long as these soldiers are dispersed into the expanded combat groups in a certain proportion, many brave soldiers can be trained quickly, just like officers.

Experienced warriors will also bring their own style and will to the expanding chapter. With just a little training, Charon can build an army that is several times the size of the current chapter.

Therefore, Charon planned to leave these warriors to manage this base, and take turns returning to the main plane of Ekania to rest. He and the mage would take the imperial guards to explore the ruins left by the ancient mages.

It also gives the elven tribes of this world sufficient time to react, either to choose to surrender or to unite.

At that time, Caron will not have to start wars everywhere, but can just carry out targeted cleaning to stabilize the situation in this world.

Now Karon has the confidence. Even if it is just him, the wizard and the royal guards, not just any elf tribe can resist them.

In the end, Charon left the black dragon Rosani and a part of the ragtag group led by the barbarian leader Gib to garrison in the camp. The bloody temple would also become the foundation for guarding the camp, and there were also several ogre auxiliary soldiers.

With the help of the Tree of Life, these warriors and the black dragon Rosani no longer had to worry about being ambushed by the elves who dared to resist. The rest of the warriors and dragons returned to the main plane of Ekania to rest and transport the spoils back to the territory.

Kalon embarked on a journey of exploration with the mage and two hundred imperial guards led by the werewolf Saha.

The journey was smooth and peaceful, without even a single lurking elf appearing.

Even the several small elven tribes that Karon and his companions encountered on the road would take the initiative to open the gates of their camps to allow the warriors to enter and rest.

Obviously frightened by the previous battle, although the elves in these tribes disliked or even hated the dragon and his companions, they had to put aside their hostility and prejudice and welcome the arrival of the dragon.

There is only the Tree of Life. Although not every Tree of Life has wisdom, all of them have simple spirituality.

After learning that they would not have to worry about destruction as long as they surrendered, the trees of life welcomed the dragon's reward and shook their branches and leaves like dancing creatures.

In the eyes of these trees of life that only seek survival and growth, dragons are undoubtedly more powerful lives that are more suitable to be their guardians. After being unable to refuse, the instincts of these trees of life make them make a more favorable choice.

As Caron's huge body stood in front of the Tree of Life, which was only about ten meters high, his ferocious face softened.

He looked at the Elf Great Elder and several Elf Druids who knelt on the ground to show their submission, and deliberately lowered his voice and said: "You have made the right choice. Go, follow my warriors, and my warriors will lead you to where you should go."

"There, your tree of life will flourish and your tribe will become stronger and more prosperous. As the first elves to pledge allegiance to me, you will be appreciated by me and will equally enjoy all the rights that free people in my territory have!"

"Follow your great will, Lord Dragon!" The elves with bitter faces went back to pack their bags under the leadership of the elders. Facing an unknown future, these elves would inevitably worry.

Only this tree of life expresses its joy with its swaying branches.

As a magical creature, it can feel the dragon's perfect laws from another world, which are conducive to the growth of these trees of life.

Although migration will cause some damage to these trees of life in a short period of time, these small trees of life do not have many restrictions.

You just need to be careful when passing through the plane portal to prevent the growing branches from being washed away by the torrent of time and space outside the plane portal.

As the imperial guards left one by one, Charon and his companions had already accepted the voluntary allegiance of six small elven tribes before reaching their destination.

Kalon moved all the elves of these small tribes to the main plane of Ekania to replenish the population of the territory. As for other large tribes, they should still be in a wait-and-see state.

Charon was not in a hurry because they had reached their destination and were facing the ruins left by the ancient wizard.

This is a huge ruin, but the most eye-catching thing is not the relics left by the wizard, but the world tree that has been cut off.

Only the ten-meter-high trunk of the World Tree remained, but the entire severed surface was two miles in diameter.

Like the base of a huge flattened mountain, the dry wood surface is as rough and rugged as the stone skin of the mountain.

Charon and the wizard were observing the body left behind by the World Tree. Natis, who had been in a deep sleep, finally woke up.

The awakened soul of Natis seemed to have gained strength and became active.

He spoke under the red dragon's scales: "Go north, Kalon, next to the body of the world tree, there is a magical thing there, maybe you will be interested. Those mages settled here because of this, and I was born because of this too."

(End of this chapter)