Chapter 82 Exploration of Dragon Cave (2)
Bypassing the closed bronze door, Ian and his men entered the interior of the dragon's lair through a collapsed wall.
Passing through the gap under the boulder, Ian quickly came to a hall.
After entering inside, his first reaction was cold.
It was clearly still in the long summer, but Ian, who was wearing a silk shirt, plate armor and burqa, actually shuddered when he walked in.
This hall is very empty, even to the point of shocking. Its length and width are more than a hundred meters, and the remaining walls around it are twenty to thirty meters high. There is nothing in the whole hall, giving people an inexplicable feeling of loneliness. feel.
After passing through the hall, Ian and his group came to an identical 'hall'.
Only then did he realize that these spaces, which were larger than the halls of any castle in Westeros, were just 'dragon chambers' for a dragon to live in.
Ian couldn't help but think of the description that Quentin Martell recalled in the original book when he stole the dragon from the dragon mother - the closed dragon lair restricted the growth of the dragons in it, and no dragon bred in the dragon lair reached the level of The size of Vhagar or Meraxes is much smaller than the Black Death.
Seeing these 'Dragon Rooms', Ian was a little suspicious of the records Quentin read. After all, although Balerion, the Black Death, could not live here, it could already house Meraxes or early Vhagar. More than enough.
Perhaps what really affects the development of these giant dragons is not that the space here is too small, but that they cannot fly freely.
"Let's all look around and see where there is the entrance to the underground passage." After walking for a while, Ian began to give orders to his companions.
Although he said it lightly, he actually knew in his heart that this was a big project.
The dragon's lair is too big, and most of it is covered by ruins. It is obviously very difficult to really find the passage leading to the underground of Flea Bottom that Ian imagined.
Fortunately, he has time and manpower advantages over other players.
After the mercenaries dispersed, Ian took a torch from Rolle's hand. At this moment, only Rolle, Case and Bronn were left with him.
They found a spiral staircase, and after Ian confirmed that there was oxygen below, they followed the staircase and began to explore the underground.
Four torches illuminated the entire corridor in orange, and the echoes of Ian and others' footsteps echoed in the long stone corridor.
Ian put the torch close to the wall and found that there were many gray murals on it, telling stories about dragon training.
After continuing through the corridor, they finally came to a stone wall. There were pieces of armor covered with dust, which looked like guards standing here.
These armors were all made of black stainless steel, and the helmets were inlaid with dragon scales. Ian reached out and touched one of them, trying to find one or two intact parts, but to his disappointment, these armors were already rusty and lightly A light touch and it disintegrates into dust.
"It's a dead end." Bronn made a judgment after checking the surroundings. "There is no other passage here."
It was bad news, but not the first one Ian heard tonight.
Because more than 20 of them searched for half the night and found nothing.
They explored a total of 44 basements, 18 underground corridors, and found 2 secret tunnels, but neither of these tunnels led to the direction of Flea Bottom, and there was nothing inside.
But overall, this is within Ian's expectation. After all, the dragon's cave is so big and has collapsed for many years.
They had brought enough wine and food when they came this time, and were ready to search here for several days.
After all, compared to finding the tunnel exit at the Flea Bottom, it is still much less difficult on the Dragon Cave side.
That night, the number of players, which had been stagnant for several days, changed again and reached 68.
The next day, Ian and others started the operation again. This time they searched all the searchable parts of the entire Dragon Cave ruins.
This time he found the wildfire jars that appeared in the original work, but still found nothing in terms of tunnels.
This made Ian wonder whether the exit of the target tunnel in the dragon's lair had been buried by collapsed boulders.
But if they want to verify this problem, they have to start dealing with those collapsed areas. This is a huge project that depends on luck. Ian is not willing to choose this option.
And he didn't quite believe that the system would design the task this way.
If the clues sold in the mall point to the dragon's lair, then the tunnel exit of the dragon's lair should be easier to find than the exit in the flea nest. If the exit of the dragon's lair requires cleaning up the ruins to be discovered, then these clues will be useless. value.
So Ian ordered his men to re-search the areas that had been explored, this time focusing on some blind spots and possible traps.
Time soon came to the third day, and there was still no progress in the exploration of the dragon's lair. However, the number of remaining players was reduced to 67 last night.
Ian knew that he couldn't save these 8 points, so he logged into the points mall and purchased the fourth clue.
[The transaction was successful, and the second clue of the bounty mission (Holy) was obtained, remaining points: 10]
Sheng looked at this last clue, and Ian had an inexplicable headache. On this bounty task two, he spent a total of 15 points to buy clues.
Of course, as long as you get a box, the cost will definitely be cost-effective, but if you can't get it, you will be a pure injustice.
Unfortunately, this last piece of news failed to bring any breakthrough to Ian's treasure hunt.
Because the word [holy] seems to only point to the dragon's lair.
Of course, the dragon's lair itself has nothing to do with the word sacred. The reason why [holy] points to it is because the place where the dragon's lair is located was once the holy place of King's Landing - the Temple of Thought.
During the reign of Aenys Targaryen I, because the Faith of the Seven Gods could not tolerate the incestuous behavior of intermarriage within the Targaryen family and some other factors, the church at that time launched what would later be called the 'Order's Armed Rebellion' of rebellion.
In the early days of the rebellion, the church relied on the two armed orders of the Warrior's Sons and the Poor People's Assembly as well as a large number of mobs to drive the Targaryen royal family out of King's Landing. However, with the counterattack of the Targaryen family's dragon knights, this The rebellion was eventually suppressed.
The successor of Aenys I, the cruel Maegor I, rode the dragon Balerion left behind by his father (the dragon that was probably the largest dragon, Drogon) in the fifth volume. 20 times) descended on the Rhaenys Hills and burned the Temple of Remembrance with dragon flames, burning thousands of believers including 700 elite warrior sons to death at once.
After that, Maegor I ordered the ruins of the sept to be cleared and a dragon's lair built on top of it.
The ruins where Ian is now, as a combination of the former Temple of Thought and the Dragon's Lair, undoubtedly fit the three clues of [Death], [Relics] and [Sacred], but [Underground].
etc! underground?
Suddenly, Ian figured it all out.