Alien Knights

Todd, who maintained his dragon form, crawled on all fours on the steep slopes of the Supuha Mountains.

Todd glanced back, and Eliade was far, far behind him. In the former's eyes, the old man's figure was like an insignificant black dot on the horizon.

Todd stopped and his voice echoed throughout the foothills: "I can hold you while flying, which will save a lot of time."

Eliade raised his cane and shouted something to the sky, and Todd barely heard the former's voice.

"My dignity does not allow you to do that."

Todd shook his head helplessly, slowly leaned down and lay on the hillside.

Fifteen minutes later, Eliade finally walked to Todd's position.

Todd raised the dragon's head, looked at the panting old man, and asked him: "How far is it?"

Eliade pointed his cane at the top of the mountain in the distance, where gray smoke kept rising out. It looked like a burning lake embedded in the top of the mountain.

Todd squinted and said, "That's the crater."

Iliad: "One of the many volcanic craters in the Supuha Mountains."

Todd: "You mean where Sutherland lived? That sounds incredible." Eliade took a breath and continued walking forward.

Todd looked at his back and said, "Why did Sutherland test me?"

Eliade: "You have asked this question several times along the way. As for the answer, you can ask Sutherland himself."

Todd said in a deep voice: "Are people from the Presbyterian Church very enthusiastic about testing? You are like this, Sutherland is like this... Rachel is like this too..."

Eliade: "That's because the past has taught us how to cherish trust."

Todd: "But with that emotion, you're going to miss out on a lot."

Eliade: "It is better to miss than to be betrayed."

Todd didn't plan to say anything else. One person and one dragon just walked and walked like this, and finally came to the edge of the crater.

The pungent smell of sulfur filled his nose, and Todd looked down. In the bottomless abyss, a large amount of smoke and dust obscured the entire field of vision.

Looking back at Eliade, Todd was surprised that the old man didn't seem to be much affected by the environment.

"Go from here. There is a downward path. It is a bit narrow. You need to change back to human form first..."

After taking a look at the narrow road Iliad mentioned, Todd shook his head, stretched out his dragon claws, grabbed the former, then flapped his huge dragon wings and jumped towards the crater.

Passing through the thick smoke and letting large and small gravels hit him, Todd descended for several minutes and finally saw a piece of flat land.

Stretching out his feet, spreading his dragon wings, and slowing down, Todd stopped steadily in an open space, and gently put down Iliad in his claws.

Hot and rolling magma, rugged stone forests, and vast rock formations.

Todd looked around at his surroundings and found it hard to believe that there were still people living in such a place.

Eliade, who landed on the ground, first rubbed his waist and legs, then patted the dust on his body, and said to Todd: "Young man, it's not a bad thing to walk more."

Todd looked at the vast sea of ​​magma in the distance and asked, "Where is Sutherland?"

Eliade first looked into the distance, then slowly leaned down and said to Todd: "He's here."

"Coming? I didn't see it..."

Before Todd finished speaking, a huge vibration came from the underground. Magma spewed upwards more than ten meters high, and the entire volcano even made a deafening rumble.

An extremely huge shadow rose from the magma, covering the sky and dispersing the smoke.

It was a strange creature that was too huge to be described in words. Compared with it, Todd, who had turned into a giant dragon, was like putting a babbling baby next to an ancient giant.

The creature's body was covered with a thick, burnt-black carapace, and it had hundreds of pairs of sharp limbs nearly ten meters long, twisting and swinging like the foot segments of a centipede.

Its head is red all over, and its skin is covered with huge wrinkled scales. Hundreds of eyes of different sizes are scattered between the scales. It has a bloody mouth full of sharp teeth. Even a demon will be frightened when he sees it.

Todd, who was standing on the rock, raised the dragon's head and looked at the huge monster. His heart was filled with shock beyond measure.

He once saw the image brought back by Rachel in the soul space, and there was a vague figure of Sutherland in it.

However, only by truly standing in front of Sutherland can we truly feel the power and terror of the other party.

Sutherland moved his body and came to Todd, lowered his head and stared at the latter. The countless eyes on his head kept blinking as his body rose and fell, as if he had seen something interesting.

Todd opened his mouth to say something, but was a little worried about whether the other party would understand.

Eliade stood up and said to Todd: "You don't need to speak. He can hear clearly what you are thinking."

Todd turned around in surprise and asked Eliade: "You mean, Sutherland can read minds?"

Eliade: "The sages are capable of far more than you imagine."

Todd turned his head, looked at Sutherland, and said, "I need your help with something... But even if I didn't say it, you should have guessed it."

The huge monster swung its body and extended a sharp limb towards Todd.

Todd subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but the opponent was very slow and did not look malicious.

The limbs touched the faucet, and in the next second, Todd instantly felt his consciousness pull away and be pulled somewhere.

When Todd opened his eyes and regained consciousness, he found himself in a vineyard.

The ripe grapes are grown on the climbing frame. Their heavy feeling and bright purple skin give people a sense of beauty and yearning for harvest and rebirth.

Raising his head and looking into the distance, he saw a pure white garden-style house built on a low hill among the endless vineyards.

Todd pushed aside the plants in front of him and walked towards the house. The setting sun behind him drew a slanting shadow from his back on the ground, pointing into the distance.

Walking to the foot of the hill, Todd heard the voices of people, including women and children.

Going up the rocky steps, Todd saw a person in the garden outside the gate before he reached the house.

The man looked to be in his fifties. He was wearing a men's toga that was common in the Taylor period. He was holding a half-empty watering can in his hand and had a faint smile on his face.

"Come in and sit down, I've been waiting for you for a long time."