Legend of Mir 2: Seeking the Truth in Marfa

Dragon Valley is enormous, dozens of times the size of a Warcraft battlefield. Furthermore, the undulating terrain of mountains, forests, and valleys makes navigating it difficult. Fortunately, Brook and Bayin possessed teleportation rings, allowing them to reach safety in an instant.

"Xiaobai, do you feel anything?" Brook asked.

"No." Xiaobai replied.

"That's good, let's move on."

Brook and the other flew forward more than 200 yards again, and Xiaobai, as Brook's summoned beast, automatically followed behind them.

According to the ancient dragon Elder, dragons also tend to live in groups, though they don't share a single lair. Instead, they live on one or two hills, like a large village. Lairs are kept at a distance from each other. The ancient dragons live in the central part of Dragon's Valley, while wind dragons reside in the southern part. As for thunder dragons, Elder mentioned they live in the eastern part of Dragon's Valley. It's unclear why the thunder dragon moved to the southwest corner of Dragon's Valley yesterday. Perhaps it has a rebellious personality and prefers to go its own way.

Regardless, to protect the valley's teleportation array, the area around it must be carefully inspected. If there are any dragons, they must be eliminated.

Actually, dragon lairs aren't difficult to find. Their massive size often leads them to larger caves, so we just need to search the larger caves. But if, like the Thunder Dragon yesterday, the cave is hidden behind a boulder, it's difficult to find. Plus, the dense trees here obscure our view, so to be on the safe side, we need Xiaobai's help in sensing it.

After a long search, they finally completed the three mountains closest to the valley. They found a few caves, but none of them were dragon lairs. So they expanded their search and finally found a lone Thunder Dragon on a farther mountaintop.

This Thunder Dragon, with 3600 million HP, was likely relatively young for a dragon, and its strength was relatively average, yet it was even more ferocious and aggressive than the one from yesterday. Perhaps in the eyes of the dragon, Brook and Bayin were mere brats that could be crushed to death with a single claw, and now that they dared to attack it, it was naturally furious.

Unexpectedly, these two humans were quite formidable. After a fierce battle, it was Thunder Dragon himself who fell, and in the end, he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

Brook and his companions found three more pieces of dragon-slaying equipment: a dragon-slaying belt, a dragon-slaying bracelet, and a dragon-slaying ring. Bayin put them on. Afterward, they searched the lair and found quite a few more items, including an invisibility ring! Bayin was delighted; the invisibility ring was the artifact she'd been missing. Brook couldn't help but sigh at her good luck today.

Continuing their search, they found a third lone Thunder Dragon before nightfall. This one had even less health, only 3000 million. After killing it, three pieces of Dragon Slayer equipment dropped: Dragon Slayer Boots, Dragon Slayer Bracelet, and Dragon Slayer Ring—just enough for Bayin to complete his Dragon Slayer set, greatly increasing his strength.

Not only that, in the cave of this young thunder dragon, in addition to a large amount of equipment, there is also a second-level fashion Beidou*Huangquan, and a very practical artifact: the teleportation ring!

"Are dragons so rich? There are artifacts in every lair!" Bayin exclaimed.

Brooke seemed to be thinking about something, shook his head slightly, and said:

"I've previously used my invisibility ring to raid nearly a hundred nests of wind dragons, but I only found two artifacts. They were both found in large caves, likely the homes of powerful wind dragons. Most wind dragons have very few gems or equipment in their caves; some don't even have a few decent gems. These lone thunder dragons seem to have some issues..."

"...Maybe they got lucky and found a good place to get equipment."

"Maybe. Forget about that for now. It's getting late. We should go back."

"Ah."

Visibility is poor at night, and even with a teleport ring, it's difficult to travel through Dragon Valley. If you teleport recklessly and accidentally fly into a dragon's mouth, that would be disastrous. You must be cautious and wait until daytime for clear vision before continuing your journey.

The two returned to the valley. They just happened to see Ning Yu slightly adjust the copper ring, then use the peephole to aim at the energy gem in the center of the transmitter. Finally, following the direction of the feed tube, he gathered all his strength and powerfully shot out a blue laser signal, which flew far to the south.

"Senior Ning, we're back. How are you today?" Brooke came over to greet him.

"Everything is going according to plan. I've already transmitted 60 signals. I expect to cover the entire 45-degree range within 5 days. If nothing goes wrong, the Warcraft battlefield will receive our signal soon; if not, I will expand the range."

"Are there enough energy gems?" Brooke asked. Ning Yu had said before that energy gems could only transmit long-distance signals 200 times.

"Don't worry, it's enough!" Ning Yu patted his backpack. For this trip to Dragon Valley, the Dragon Guard had fused 15 energy gems and made full preparations.

"We've searched several nearby hills. We only found two thunder dragons, which Bayin and I have already killed. We'll search again tomorrow."

"That's good! I'm very confident in your work!"

"Senior, can you let me try the laser signal next time?"

"of course can."

"How do I use this transmitter?"

"It's simple. See that handle on the right? It drives the gear below that's connected to the copper ring with the scale. There are 10 teeth in total. Every time the gear rotates, the copper ring moves one scale. And we only move one tooth at a time, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the scale. Then we aim with the peephole and we can fire. But you have to wait a while, the agreed firing interval is 10 minutes."

"Why a 10-minute interval?" Brooke asked puzzled.

While each shot consumes over 5000 mana, Healing Stones are available to cultivators above rank 4. While Xiao Renlong of Wolong Villa may be a nuisance, the Healing Stones he produces are quite valuable, boasting infinite resiliency. Due to Brook's falling out with Wolong Villa, his Healing Stone remains at rank 1, restoring 180 health and 90 mana every 10 seconds. Brook's frequent use of level 6 Bloodlust consumes a significant amount of mana, forcing him to use additional magic potions when his mana isn't replenished quickly during intense combat.

A first-tier healing stone's recovery wasn't very effective, but as far as Brook knew, Ning Yu was equipped with a sixth-tier healing stone, which could restore 1800 health and 900 mana every 10 seconds. A seventh or eighth-tier stone would restore even more. With the healing stone's healing power, the 5000 lost mana would be fully restored in less than a minute, so even without taking medicine, there was no need to wait 10 minutes.

"This is to allow the energy gem to fully rest. If it's fired too quickly, it will get hot and damage the gem. For example, the energy gem equipped on a siege vehicle has a theoretical range of 120 yards and can be fired 2000 times. However, due to the need for sieges, the frequency of use has to be increased, and the energy gem will become very hot and can only last for a maximum of 5 hours. Even if it is not used for 2000 times, it will still be scrapped when the time is up."

"Oh, I see. Senior, if we succeed in positioning, how do we set up the formation?"

"Besides positioning, there are three more steps to building the formation. First, five types of crystals and six gemstones are needed..."

Brook and Ning Yu sat cross-legged on the big rock in the square, discussing things related to the teleportation array.

Bayin returned to the cave alone and took out several books about Dynasty Warriors from her backpack. She had borrowed them from Wenhua Hall and was supposed to return them within three days, but she was wanted on the warrant and had to keep them with her.

The guard commander explained that king-level monsters were incredibly powerful, and even a 7th-rank cultivator wouldn't necessarily be able to withstand their attacks; only an 8th-rank cultivator could withstand them. Although Brook and Bayin quickly reached 7th-rank, reaching 8th-rank proved difficult. Currently, only 7th-rank pills could be found; 8th-rank pills were widely denied.

Since reaching Rank 8 isn't possible anytime soon, other methods are needed to improve your strength. The White Tiger and Black Tortoise Secret Stones in Wushuang City can increase your attack and defense by 1, and the Dragon Slayer equipment dropped by the dragon also significantly increases your attack damage. However, these two items alone aren't enough. Currently, there's another way to significantly increase your strength: Wushuang Awakening. Attack, defense, movement speed, attack speed, and attack range are all doubled, even protecting you from powerful control skills. The boost is truly incredible!

Since materials like the Military Manual and the Misty Feather can be brought out of the ancient battlefield, perhaps other special items can be taken out as well! It's just that no one has found a suitable method yet.

Wushuang City is a very special place, and there are still many secrets in the ancient battlefield that have not been discovered.

Where is the master who created the Awakening Seal? We must find him.

With the light emitted by the medal of honor, Bayin carefully flipped through the books, looking for clues in the long river of history.