Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 382: The Legend of the Time Dragon

"Dad Long, you look so big!"

The girl who had been talking to Noah for a while suddenly showed a suspicious look on her face. She leaned down and moved a little closer, as if she wanted to cross the infinite distance and stretch her little head to Noah's side to take a good look at Noah's current appearance.

"Is it my illusion? I feel like you are more than twice as big as I remembered."

"I'm an adult dragon now. Isn't it normal for me to be bigger?"

"You are an adult. When did this happen?"

The girl was startled, her expression actually revealed a trance. Because she knew that the golden dragon who took care of her was different from ordinary dragons. His age was almost twice that of ordinary dragons, and this number was still increasing.

So, the girl who witnessed Long Dad's transformation thought that he was still a long way from adulthood, but she didn't expect that before she went back, he had already become an adult. Time passed too quickly.

"Five or six years."

Noah downplayed the situation and said that after he woke up, he immediately launched a war of retaliation against a True God country, and then suppressed the discordant voices on the continent of Alvis. The whole process took no more than three years.

“I still haven’t caught up!”

Gwen's face showed regret.

"Catch up with what?"

"Dragon father, I was by your side when you were transforming into a teenage dragon, but I was not there when you were promoted to an adult dragon."

"This doesn't delay anything. It's a good thing that you're not here."

What Noah called good things naturally referred to the group of god hunters sent by the gods.

"Dad Long, are you disgusted with me?"

The girl frowned. Although she had gradually lost her girlish charm except for her appearance due to the passage of time, she had completed her long-cherished goal. She gradually unloaded some of the burdens in her heart, and her mood at the moment was much more lively and cheerful.

"Dislike? How come?"

At this time, Noah had already noticed something was wrong. He looked up and down at the disembodied girl in front of him through the 3D image constructed by the communication array.

"Have you been staying in an isolated place during this period of time and have not communicated with the outside world?"

"Yeah, what's going on? A mage like me who wants to run for the tower master must enter a special secret realm in the process of receiving inheritance. There is no way to communicate with the outside world, and I can't receive any information. Is there something happening that I don't know about?"

Gwen also responded.

"You haven't communicated with the outside world. There are things you don't understand everywhere. Go and see for yourself."

Noah has no interest in being a newsreader.

"No? Long Dad, how old are you now?"

"Counting the time, I'm about 270 years old."

Noah told his current age right away.

For ordinary dragons, this is already the age of prime age, but for Noah, he has just entered adulthood.

It is estimated that he will still be at the peak of his adulthood before he is four hundred years old, and he may not even enter into a dormant transformation until he is five hundred years old.

In fact, Noah was quite skeptical whether he could still undergo dormant transformation. He had already touched the pinnacle of the material world. If he entered into transformation again, he would truly be stepping into the realm of the gods.

This isn't an invasion of a domain of authority, but an entry truly based on one's own combat power. However, how could the bloodline of the dragon race grow and transform so greatly to achieve such a huge enhancement?

Noah felt that only by being promoted from an ancestor dragon to a dragon king would he have a chance to enter this field.

But how could it be that easy to become a Dragon King? Noah already knew some of the conditions for becoming a Dragon King. He didn't think he could achieve them now, but it wasn't completely impossible.

"I have been cut off from the outside world for forty years!"

The moment she heard Noah's age, Gwen couldn't help herself.

"Why are you so startled? You will soon be the next master of the tower. Aren't you afraid of losing face for the Holy Land of the Tower if you look like this?"

"If the reputation of the tower is maintained by these false rituals, then there is no need to call itself a holy place."

Gwen said nonchalantly, and then she told Noah the reason why she had just exclaimed, which was also the problem she had just realized.
"There's something wrong with my perception of time. In my mind, only ten years have passed since our last communication."

"Time flows?"

Noah's expression became quite subtle. Time is a very dangerous area, and it is a taboo even for the gods. One of the iconic abilities of the gods is that they can stop time.

Of course, in Noah's eyes, this is not true still time at all. This is the gods using higher personal power to force objects in a limited area to remain still, which creates the illusion that time is prohibited. In fact, time is still passing.

The gods never really mastered the ability to stop time, they just said it to bluff people. The famous Nine Rings spell, Stop Time, was even worse, it could be said that it had nothing to do with time.

Because this spell does not interfere with the outside world, but instead manipulates the caster's thoughts, making the thoughts run so fast that everything seems to be still, achieving the so-called time standstill.

However, for a Nine-Ring Spell, being able to produce such an effect is quite good. One cannot expect a spellcaster who has not even reached the legendary level to create an effect like a god descending to the earth after exhausting all his magic power. This is unrealistic.

Therefore, in Noah's cognition, there is no power to manipulate time at all. At most, it is just like a god, using powerful force to force the matter in a certain area to stop moving.

By analogy, it is also possible to create an effect similar to time acceleration. Of course, if the computing power is strong enough and the power loss is not taken into account, in theory, time can be reversed in an area.

But there are differences in the speed of time flow, which really involves the field of time. However, according to Gwen's description, this situation occurred because she entered a special secret realm, which is understandable.

"interesting!"

Noah had never seen a being that could truly manipulate time. Although there were legends about the Time Dragon among the dragon clan, even though Noah had evolved to his current level and obtained many secrets that only ancestral dragons were qualified to know, he could not find any record that could verify the existence of the Time Dragon.

Therefore, in Noah's cognition, the Dragon of Time is just an illusory legend.

The so-called time standing still, time accelerating and time going backwards can only be limited within a certain range and target the matter in a certain area. All of these are created by a more powerful and higher-level force. Even if they are achieved, they often have no meaning. For example, they cannot be used in battle.

If a god casts a time ban on his life and it hits another god, the god will be exempted directly, and intervention will not have any impact on him.

To a certain extent, this is the gods showing miracles to mortals, demonstrating the gods' supreme magic. If used in a battle of the same level, it would not even be worth a use.

"Dad Long, are you interested in this?" "Who wouldn't be interested in time?"

"Then when I become the master of the tower, I can invite you to visit the tower."

"Is the place that distorts your perception of time the core secret realm of your tower? Can I visit such a place?"

Noah was a little surprised.

“In principle, it is not allowed.”

Gwendolyn hesitated for a moment and answered in a serious tone, but soon the girl started to laugh triumphantly.
"But I will soon be the one who sets the principles!"

"You are the master of the tower, not the ruler of the tower. Don't get carried away and forget who you are."

Noah reminded.

“It’s really okay. Although the Secret Realm of the Stars is important, it is not completely closed to the public. In history, many powerful people who are friendly with the Tower have entered and visited it.

But in fact, no one can gain anything from it, because it is a power that cannot be simulated or imitated, just like our tower has only thought of using the power contained in it to complete the adjustment and transformation of life forms over the years. "

Gwen explained.

"I don't seem to have any dealings with your Star Tower, but we can't say we have any friendship."

"But you and I have a good relationship. You are my dragon father!"

"Does this count as abusing your power for personal gain?"

Hearing this matter-of-fact tone, Noah asked with a smile.

"How can this be called abusing power for personal gain? Father Long, you are so..."

When the girl heard Noah's words, she couldn't help but shake her head, but she stopped in time before she could finish her words of emotion.

"What's wrong with me?"

Noah's dragon pupils narrowed slightly.

"I am a little naive. I have spent decades competing for the position of tower master. Is it for the selfless service of the 30,000 mages in the Star Tower?"

Gwen said confidently, with an air of old-fashionedness.
"I am only showing you a secret realm that is open to the public on a limited basis. I am not encroaching on any resources of the tower. Compared with the previous tower masters, my behavior is a model of saints."

"Wow, it sounds like your previous tower masters didn't do anything serious?"

"Of course they did the right thing, but while doing it, my predecessors also did not forget to use their authority to plunder resources."

When she said this, Gwen couldn't help but shake her head.

This may have been the reason why she was able to stand out from a crowd of candidates and successfully enter the Secret Realm of Stars to receive inheritance.

Several masters of the Star Tower have been unrestrained after taking office. They all have an attitude of wanting to shake the earth. This has really scared some elders who are unwilling to be in power. So this time they tend to choose a little guy who is a little more restrained, even if he just looks noble and upright, to be in power.

"I'll tell you about these things in detail when I come back. It can also be used as a reference for you to add some regulations to the code to restrict the appearance of these guys."

"Are you planning on coming back?"

"Yes, now that I have reserved the position of tower master, there is nothing else worth my attention. Of course, I have to relax for a while. What's wrong? Is there anything inconvenient at home right now?"

The girl keenly noticed that something was wrong with the dragon's expression.

"It's not a question of whether it's convenient or not. Alas, there are many things that I can't tell you."

Noah sighed, not knowing how to start, because to a certain extent, he was the only relative of this girl still active in this world, and the rest, except for his children and nephews, could be said to have been silent.

"You should find out for yourself first. A lot of information is public."

"it is good."

Gwen, who already had a bad feeling in her heart, agreed immediately. After chatting with Noah for a while, she ended the communication and investigated all major events in the eastern region of the Zealandia continent through the channels of the tower.

However, even in a wizard's holy land like the Tower of Stars, where one can understand the underlying causes of many major events, there are still some things whose reasons are difficult to find out.

"How could this happen? Why are the gods targeting Dragon Dad so much? It's so abominable! I wasn't here at such a critical moment!"

Only a few short decades had passed, but in Gwendolyn's eyes, as only ten years had passed in her consciousness, it was like a world of change. When she came out again, everything was different. The world had undergone earth-shaking changes, and everything she was familiar with had disappeared.

"Dad Long, are you hurt?"

In just less than ten days, as was both reasonable and unexpected, Nuoyan saw Gwendolen, the daughter of Augustus who he had raised, again after a hundred years.

"Although I know you care about me, don't you think this is a bit too much of an underestimation of me?"

Faced with the wizard who wanted to imitate her grandmother and touch her body, Noah half-jokingly avoided him.

"Are you really okay?"

"Do you think I'm in trouble?"

"I have learned about what happened during this period, and I support you in launching a war of revenge against the gods."

"Gwen, your current status is different from before, so be careful with what you say. Don't act on impulse and say things carelessly. It will have a bad impact."

Facing Gwendolen, who had such a clear stance, Noah felt happy and relieved, but he also gave a sincere warning.

"Do you think I was just saying this in a fit of anger?"

"I know you're not speaking in anger, but your status is different now. Can you represent the Star Tower? Not to mention that you haven't taken over yet, even if you have taken over, you can't decide on such matters."

“I can represent myself.”

"You can't represent. You can't lead the Star Tower to oppose the gods, nor can you break away from your current identity to represent yourself. This is irresponsible of you. Go back!"

Noah waved his dragon claws, making a gesture of expulsion.
"This is a war between me and the gods. I will not involve any outside forces. It will not be good for anyone! You have spent so much time and effort to run for the position of tower master. Are you going to fail just because you helped me?"

(End of this chapter)