Chapter 758 Remember Your Name

The boy stood above the entrance of the tunnel, and a dragon was coiled at the entrance of the cave under his feet.

Unlike the energetic and motivated boy, the dragon coiled together a little listlessly, and had no interest in the things outside.

The boy looked at the farmland, lakes, and the Black Iron Tribe that had already taken on the appearance of a city in the distance.

It seemed to be waiting for something.

Although he looked down on the existence of mortals, when he saw the city, he had to sigh because of it.

When so many mortals gathered together, these seemingly useless "materials" created a picture like a miracle.

In the north, he had seen all kinds of mortal tribes.

He even saw some large tribes with more than a thousand people born for various reasons, but the mortals there were like bugs in the ditch. In his eyes, they were just a group of beasts living in caves.

And here.

He saw those mortals mastering writing, seeing them build magnificent buildings, and seeing their farmland.

They followed certain rules in an orderly manner, they helped each other and had stronger emotions, and they began to record their lives instead of letting everything be forgotten in an instant after death.

At this point, people completely began to break away from the group of beasts and became another kind of existence.

The boy didn't know that this thing was called civilization, but he yearned for it.

"Yearning?"

"You ask me what I yearn for?"

"I don't envy those materials, nor do I yearn for that... Helfas said it's called a city, right?"

"I think of us."

The boy waited alone and suddenly spoke.

He actually started chatting with the dragon below, but the dragon didn't respond at all, so it looked more like he was talking to himself.

But for him, only this dragon could "talk" to him.

The person who created him abandoned him. This land is full of mortals and monsters, but it is difficult to find a unique existence like him who is willing to go with him.

So, he wanted to create another existence like him.

He said to the dragon.

"I'm thinking, if there are more of us like us, we can live together in groups like this."

"It would be great if we could build such a place."

After saying that, the boy also became excited.

He was even a little impatient, his eyes were filled with strong desire, as if he hoped that this moment would come in the next second.

"It will definitely come."

"I will find a way to create our tribe."

"We will build a city that is a hundred times and a thousand times more magnificent than this one, as long as we want, and then we will live together there."

What he longed for was not the civilization built by this mortal, but a strange country.

He spoke alone, danced alone, and performed a one-man drama.

Like a madman.

This is a lonely monster.

He jumped down and jumped onto the dragon's head, sitting on it and swaying.

"So why did I have to ask Helfas to send his tribe here? He seems to be a little obsessed with playing the role of a mortal leader and forgetting which side he belongs to."

"I want to tell him that those mortals are just materials. He can have as many as he wants and consume them as he wants. They are not worth his efforts at all."

"He has such powerful power. He has mastered the method of controlling other weird things and has unique black hair and eyes."

"He is so smart and different, as if he does not belong to this era and world. Look at him. Those materials can create such pictures in his hands."

"What if it is us?"

The dragon boy did not hide his admiration for Helfas at all. In his eyes, the other party is his ideal best partner. Compared with the other party, the dragon under his feet seems to be missing something.

"He has such power and wisdom. Those mortals are not worthy of what he gives."

The boy lowered his head, sat on the dragon's head and looked into its eyes.

"I want him to be part of us and build a city with us."

The dragon would not answer, but bowed his head because of the high-level pressure from the other party.

The boy was waiting anxiously, and at this time, there was finally movement in the distance.

The boy raised his head and smiled.

"Look, he's coming."

--

On the path beside the lake.

Several peak-backed dragon beasts pulled several wooden two-wheeled trailers. This is something that appeared after the caravan became popular. There may have been similar things used for short-distance transportation before, but few people combined cars with peak-backed dragon beasts.

Because the tribes that raise dragon beasts cannot make cars, and the tribes that make cars cannot raise dragon beasts.

The car is full of heavy black iron blocks. It is difficult for the dragon beast to walk when it is pulled, but it can only move forward under the threat of the whip.

Helfas led a dozen people to set off. Everyone seemed very calm, as if this trip was just an ordinary transportation trip.

Helfas walked in front, pulling a peak-backed dragon beast, followed by merchants.

Helfas asked about the scene when they first met: "That was eight years ago!"

The businessman remembers it better than Herfas: "It's been nine years."

Helfas: "Has it been that long?"

Businessman: "It's been a long time."

Helfas said: "At that time, I didn't know anything, I didn't understand anything, so I stupidly walked towards the bipolar insect and was almost eaten by it."

Businessman: "But you sealed it in the end and trapped it in the mask forever."

The two of them talked about each other, and finally Helfas finally said.

"You can still regret it now. You are not from my tribe, let alone my subordinate."

"This is our plan, there is no need for you to participate."

The businessman looked at Helfas: "Actually, I have been waiting during this time."

Helfas: "What are you waiting for?"

The businessman said: "I know what you will do. You will not sit back and let the dragon do whatever it wants, just like you did before. Sure enough, you can still find a way even when facing such a terrifying monster."

"And I also want to do something because I'm going to go crazy if I don't do something."

Helfas: "Do you understand the consequences?"

Businessman: "Have you forgotten, you said that?"

Before setting off, Helfas told them what the dragon wanted to do. Helfas did not explain the function of the ritual in detail to them, but he told them about the flaws of the ritual. In fact, it was It's not a flaw, because that's what the ritual is, but it's a breakthrough for them.

It was a battle between man and monster for power and wisdom. Whoever can carve his name on the pillar can become the owner of extraordinary power, and whoever can break through the eternal darkness and enjoy the wise life and future.

Helfas also told them some techniques about the mind and the inscription of the pillars.

But for people.

Even if you succeed in suppressing the weirdness with your real name, it does not mean success, but it means that you will always be with madness.

It is unbearable for the controller to seal weird things into objects, let alone seal weird things directly into one's own body.

Of course Helfas knew that he had said it, but that was not what he meant by asking.

The businessman said: "It's always good to have one more person. Maybe I can carry it to the end?"

Helfas: "My witchers are the strongest. They have fought against the most terrifying existences, and they can persist in fighting even if they are seriously injured without making a sound."

Businessman: "I don't know how many times I have faced danger. Every time I did business, I was on the verge of death, and I was left with scars all over my body."

"And another thing is, they don't have the unforgettable hatred I have."

"They can face death without making a sound, but I...must make that dragon die."

At this point, Helfas was completely speechless.

After walking out of the farmland, no one spoke anymore, only silence.

Gradually, large and small rocks fell at the end of the road in the distance, and a mountain towering above the ground appeared in front of us.

"arrive."

Helfas looked at the merchant and everyone.

It seems to be saying that there is no way out from here.

Helfas led everyone to the tunnel. The dragon guarding the cave suddenly stood up and lowered his head to look at them.

When Helfas raised his hand, everyone stopped and lined up like an army.

The young man jumped down from the dragon's head. He looked at these people as if he was a little suspicious.

The young dragon looked at Helfas: "Do they know you gave them to me?"

Helfas's voice sounded very arrogant and condescending, as if he had become an inhuman existence at this moment.

"In their eyes, I am their god."

"If God wants them to die, they have to die."

The young man Long nodded, his eyes were very clear, and he said extremely arrogant words with a nonchalant attitude.

"indeed."

"For these mortals, there is no difference between us and gods."

"We can show them strength and majesty, or we can make them fall to their knees and worship us."

The young dragon walked around the "materials" and finally looked at Helfas.

"I occasionally heard those mortals talk about you. You seem to have a good reputation among these mortals?"

"You won't be so addicted to it, and then gradually think of yourself as a person, right?"

Helfas glanced at the young dragon, and his voice suddenly appeared in the other person's mind, talking to the young boy in a strange way.

"so what?"

"When I want to be a benevolent leader, I can become a benevolent leader; when I want to show my majesty, I can also become the most terrifying existence."

"It doesn't matter what they think, my will is above theirs."

Helfas's power was revealed in order to show his "weird" side.

Sure enough, this force startled the young man in front of him.

However, compared to the magical power, the young man was more concerned about what Helfas said. He felt that this sentence was so appetizing.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud, saying that what Helfas had said was so wonderful.

"Ha ha ha ha."

He kept nodding.

"Yes, yes, that's it."

"We can do whatever we want. Nothing can restrain us."

Long was completely relieved. He might be a little worried that the fellow in front of him would be assimilated by mortals, but all he could think of was that Helfas would refuse.

If that was the case, he would have to go to war with Helfas.

But he was not prepared to kill Helfas, but to kill everyone in Helfas's tribe, so that Helfas could completely stand on his side in his opinion.

But now it seems.

It is completely unnecessary.

Because only people like them can experience this feeling and say such words.

He walked towards Helfas. If he was sure that Helfas was a weirdo physically last time, then now he was sure that Helfas was also a weirdo psychologically.

"You are the same as me."

In fact, in Long's view, as long as Helfas came, it meant that he had made a choice, and this was his purpose.

Long completed the "transaction" with satisfaction, and drove out hundreds of captured mortals from the tunnel and let Helfas take them back.

Helfas nodded with a smile and walked back.

Before leaving, he walked through the crowd and the figures of the people he brought with him.

He did not speak, but a sentence rang in their minds.

"Remember your name, you must not forget it."

The merchant and others did not speak, nor could they speak.

They just looked at Helfas and watched his back quietly.

But when Helfas was about to leave them completely, the merchant suddenly shouted angrily and rushed towards Helfas, cursing.

"Helfas, you monster, we regard you as the leader, but you..."

The young man immediately looked at the merchant and his group, and his pupils burst into light.

With a roar and the dragon's might, all of them knelt on the ground and could not move.

"Mortals, dare to roar at us great beings?"

"We let you die."

"You must die."

Helfas turned his head and glanced at the merchant.

He said expressionlessly: "There is no way, there are always people who are stupid enough to say no to us."

The boy imitated the person in front of him and said what Helfas had just said with the same expression and gesture, but added one word.

"It doesn't matter what they think, our will is above theirs."

Helfas left.

The boy looked at the companion who had not yet gained wisdom and said happily.

"Look!"

"I knew he would stand on our side."

He took all the "materials" that could not be resisted and entered the largest cave in the tunnel and came to the ritual array.

"Now, we have to find a way to make more."

"We."

——

After being shocked by the dragon's might, the merchant felt confused, and his body, which was strong enough to wrestle with the earth dragon beast and chase and hunt wild beasts in the jungle, became weak.

It was not until he was thrown into a huge ritual array that he came back to his senses.

He saw that the dragon also squeezed in and coiled in the center of the ritual array.

And they were surrounded on all sides.

Looking at the array patterns arranged around him, he already knew what this thing was used for from Helfas.

He raised his head with all his strength.

With his blurred eyes, he could see a figure of a god standing faintly in the dark depths of the cave.

He knew that the monster in front of him wanted to use it to let another monster occupy their bodies, so that they would have wisdom.

A monster with wisdom had already caused such a terrible disaster. They couldn't imagine what it would be like when two dragons with wisdom were wreaking havoc in the sky.

The merchant knew what would happen next, but he was not afraid, but rather a little happy.

"Success."

"Helfas deceived the dragon and didn't let him suspect anything."

The rest was theirs.

The boy stood at the edge of the ritual array, he pressed his hands on the ground, and began to chant a spell.

His expression was solemn, as if he was praying to God.

After chanting a long and difficult spell that the boy himself didn't know if it was useful, he shouted out the most critical part of it.

"In the name of the pillar, give the existence in front of you the power of anchoring."

Seal and anchoring, from the outside, look similar in form, but they are two sides of the same power.

The ritual radiates light.

One symbol after another lights up, and then a force leads to the heights, ignoring the mountain and rushing to the sky, connecting to another world.

The dragon began to struggle painfully under this power, it felt as if its body was burned and scorched by an extraordinary flame, and its body seemed to melt.

Its power began to leak out and spread along the ritual array.

And this power just acts on the "materials" in the ritual.

Soon you can see that their bodies begin to metalize little by little, and the brass color begins to spread from their feet and spreads in the form of spots.

A sharp pain surged into their bodies, as if countless steel needles and countless knives stabbed into their bodies.

Some of them wanted to scream in pain, but they immediately held back. They remembered the rows of "copper shell statues" they had seen before.

"My feet can't move."

"So this monster turned them into bronze statues in this way."

"How many people did it kill in this way? How many people did it kill? How many more people will die in its hands in the future?"

They raised their heads and looked at the dragon fiercely.

"There is no future, Lord Helfas said there is no future."

Some people couldn't help it and cursed and screamed directly.

"You monster, you will die a bad death..."

"I will kill you... I will..."

"Ah!"

Some people began to struggle to get up, but found that their feet and lower body could not move at all, and they could only watch themselves become metalized bit by bit.

The dragon boy listened to the wailing of these people, and was not moved at all, and his whole heart was in the ceremony.

But his eyes were also paying attention to these people all the time.

Soon, he found that some people were actually in pain and pulled out their eyeballs, as if they were tortured to lose their minds.

These people from the wild tribal era seemed to be crazy, laughing and roaring, and then did something crazy that the evil dragon could not imagine.

Although Helfas had led them to build the initial civilization, the beastly nature and cruelty of the past were fully displayed in these people at this moment. They were not afraid of death and pain, but only wanted the dragon in front of them to pay the price.

They just wanted everything to return to the past, when there was no dragon.

"Dragon!"

"Evil dragon, you deserve to die!"

"You will have retribution, there will be retribution."

While cursing, they stared at the evil dragon that turned into a god with their terrifying blood holes.

As if.

Just look at the dragon and imagine its end.

All the pain in their bodies will disappear.

The dragon boy was a little stunned. Although various situations occurred during the ceremony, he had tried to make the "material" unconscious before, but later found that it was best to be awake.

He tried to use men, women, the elderly and children, and tried to use pregnant women and newborn babies.

But I have never seen such a situation before.

Perhaps, they saw something very scary in this ceremony?

However, half of the people may not be able to make up their minds, or their bodies are completely stiff and unable to move after reacting, and finally they become a statue bit by bit.

But the young dragon did not have time to think too much, because when these people dug out their eyes one by one, until one of them, the ceremony changed again.

To be precise, it was not the ceremony, but the power of the life species, which felt the intelligent body that could be accommodated.

At this moment, the dragon, who was also in great pain in the center of the ritual array, stopped struggling.

It was attracted by something unprecedented.

The attraction of that thing was so strong and so irresistible.

It made it rush over regardless of the pain and even if it was broken into pieces.

Since the advent of the ancient creator, life and wisdom were born at the same time, and the two were like twins.

The existence of the life species requires the body of the wisdom species to be shed to get rid of chaos.

The dragon roared, and in its eyes there was only the desire and greed that penetrated deep into its soul and will, because it understood that it was about to break free from the eternal darkness and see the real "light".

And with the dragon's roar.

The power and phantom of the pillar descended.

The dragon boy looked up at the sky, saw the light falling from the sky, and shouted in ecstasy.

"That's it!"

The conditions of the ritual were completely met. This was the first time the boy succeeded. He found a complete way to create a companion.

The dragon in the center of the ritual array melted directly under the power of the pillar, and a stream of brass-colored light flowed to the other end and into a body.

——

The merchant could not feel his body.

Similarly, he could not feel the pain.

He saw himself standing in an endless dark void, and there seemed to be nothing around him, or he just couldn't see it.

All he could see was a huge pillar in the distance.

"Pillar!"

He finally saw the pillar that Helfas said.

There was amazement and wonder in his eyes.

He had never thought that just a pillar standing there could be so spectacular. It seemed that it should not exist in this world. It seemed to be pressing down on space and time.

Just looking at it, you can feel its antiquity.

It is so ancient and sacred that it seems to transcend the concept of time. In this world, except for the eternal stars and the sun, it seems that there is no existence older than it.

Even the land under their feet has risen and fallen over the years, and the ocean has turned into peaks again and again.

But the stone pillar has come across the years and still exists.

He was addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.

An idea came into his mind. He wanted to see what was engraved on the pillar, just like the blind girl in the past.

But soon he woke up from his obsession and remembered something.

Because a voice appeared in his mind: "Remember your name, you must not forget it, merchant."

That was what Helfas had engraved in each of their minds with his psychic powers when he left.

"No."

"I'm going to go to that pillar and carve my name."

But as soon as he moved, he felt something was wrong.

He lowered his head.

He could see that his body was covered with metal scales.

He was clearly a dragon, not a human.

In an instant, the chaotic and disordered memory of another existence immediately surged into his mind. The long and distant memory swallowed him up in an instant, wanting to completely occupy his mind and cover up his past.

And this was only the second, because immediately after that memory, a crazy consciousness also surged up, greedily and madly wanting to take away everything from him.

The merchant instantly felt his brain go blank. The dragon's body just took a step forward, and he vaguely forgot his original intention of setting out.

"Whose name should be engraved?"

"Engrave my name."

"Who am I?"

"I am a merchant, a bearded man, and an outcast."

"No, I am a dragon, and I live in a forest."

The two consciousnesses kept colliding in his mind.

One of them was extremely chaotic, like a storm.

The other was very weak, but as hard as a stone.

The merchant was surrounded by storms and couldn't get out. He couldn't see outside, but the shadow of the dragon was moving towards the pillar little by little.

It spread its wings and soared high.

At this moment.

The voice suddenly sounded in the merchant's mind again, and repeated it again.

"Remember your name, you must not forget it."

"Merchant!"

Only this time, the voice was a little weaker.

But the dragon's figure gradually turned into the merchant's appearance in a trance.

"Roar!"

Just then.

He let out an uncontrollable roar from his mouth, which was the cry of a dragon.

The merchant's appearance turned into a dragon again.

The crazy consciousness attacked again, and all kinds of long-lost memories appeared one by one.

He saw the ancient times of the full moon land, saw the older people walking on the land, and saw the decline of the thousand-year-old tribe.

The battle between the two consciousnesses started again, and the figures of the man and the dragon were constantly changing.

The huge waves wanted to crush and expel the stone, but the stone stayed where it was.

Although the weirdness has a strong power, in this place, pure madness and desire may not be able to completely defeat a wise will.

The merchant saw himself leading the caravan walking on the land, and then watching himself spread his wings and soar in the sky.

A large number of memories kept emerging, but they were covered by more powerful and chaotic pictures.

The closer to the pillar, the less the merchant remembered.

"Remember your name, you must not forget it."

"Remember... your name... must."

"Remember... remember... remember..."

The voice in his mind repeated over and over again, constantly reminding the merchant that he could forget everything, but he could not forget his own name.

Although the sound was getting weaker and weaker, it kept the merchant's wisdom from being taken away by the weirdness in the storm.

But at the same time, many things he remembered gradually became blurred.

Suddenly, several pictures appeared in front of his eyes.

It was about to be submerged, and at this moment the merchant suddenly became very excited.

"No, these can't be forgotten."

He would rather forget his name than forget all of them.

At the last moment, he found that what he couldn't forget the most was not his name.

But a few memories.

In the picture.

He saw a black-haired young man waving at him with a backpack behind a mountain in a familiar tribal residence.

He saw a woman sitting on a dragon beast, turning back and smiling at him.

He saw a child reaching out to him and throwing himself into his arms.

Madness and chaos surged endlessly.

In an instant, he forgot who he was, only these pictures were repeated, but they never dispersed.

"Who am I?"

"I am..."

"I don't seem to remember."

Finally.

He saw himself standing in the forest and looking up, he saw the head of an evil dragon sticking out of the jungle, looking down at him with contempt.

He suddenly woke up, and boundless hatred and malice projected from his heart.

That evil thought not only occupied his body, but even began to cover another chaos. Even if he forgot everything, he could not forget the hatred for the dragon.

"Yes!"

"It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if I can't remember the name. Everything doesn't matter."

"As long as it can't succeed, it can't succeed even if it dies."

"I want it to die, I want that dragon to die, I want that dragon to live a life worse than death."

The muddled consciousness finally struggled out of the chaos.

The dragon flying towards the pillar opened its eyes, and the look in its eyes clearly belonged to a person instead of a monster.

It pounced on the pillar.

Let out a heart-wrenching roar.

"Saren!"

It means to kill, kill that person.

Or to say, kill that dragon.

The real world.

The ritual array was completely activated and successful, the power of the ritual and the words of the real name were entangled together, and finally mixed into one.

It crossed the boundless distance and appeared on the ancient pillar.