Chapter 152: Time Dragon Nest and Bronze Dragon   Chapter 151

At the edge of the Great Rift of Time, the distortion of time causes the lifespan of those living here to be greatly reduced.

  Therefore, there are no human cities near the Great Rift of Time, but there is an ancient castle here that has stood for 20,000 years.

  Rosen rode his mechanical mount suspended in the sky, gazing at the dilapidated castle in the distance.

  Seeing it with one's own eyes, it is hard to believe that the nobles living in this dilapidated castle are actually the Duke of Milburn, who are ranked in the top three among the nine hereditary dukes of the Thunder Empire.

  The Duke of Milburn's family was notoriously small in number, and no demigod had been born in the family in the past 20,000 years.

  The reason why it can still rank in the top three is that the extraordinary bloodline inherited by the Milburn family has the attribute of time.

  That is why Duke Milburn's family has lived on the edge of the Time Rift for generations, and why they were appointed by the Thunder Empire to manage the spiritual realm here. If he wants to enter that spiritual realm, he has to go through Duke Milburn.

  The castle gate is guarded not by living people, but by two sequence 7 alchemical puppets.

  "The Hereditary Duke, Rosen Howard, comes to visit the Duke of Milburn."

  After Rosen jumped off the back of the mechanical mount, he displayed the family crest.

  The alchemical puppet glanced at the noble emblem and contacted the butler immediately.

  The butler who was watering the flowers in the castle did not dare to delay and immediately informed the Duke of Milburn who was fishing.

  "A strange hereditary duke, please ask him to come here."

  Duke Milburn thought for a moment and gave the order.

  The butler soon came to the castle gate and respectfully invited Rosen to the Crystal Lake behind the castle.

  When Rosen followed the butler to Crystal Lake, there was already an alchemy puppet setting up a lounge chair and fishing gear next to Duke Milburn. He actually entertained the guests who came to visit him to go fishing. This Duke Milburn was really unusual.

  "It's an honor to meet you, Duke Howard."

  Duke Milburn picked up the fishing rod beside him and handed it to Rosen.

  Just now, he had investigated the Howard family's strengths and weaknesses through his family's connections in the World Government.

  A hereditary lord, concurrently a non-hereditary earl, became a hereditary duke in the blink of an eye.

  Moreover, he is no more than thirty years old, but he is already a Sequence 7 painter who can paint spiritual realm paintings.

  No matter from which angle you look at it, Rosen's future potential will not be low.

  "It's an honor to meet you, too, Duke Milburn."

  Rosen took the fishing rod and sat down beside him, looking at the Crystal Lake in front of him with some curiosity.

  "My Crystal Lake is a great place..."

  Duke Milburn said proudly, "Although the place is small and the diameter is less than one thousand meters, there are high-quality time fossil veins at the bottom of this lake. I have released a lot of aquatic species with time attributes. What we will have for dinner today depends on our harvest."

  "Then I really have to get serious about fishing."

  Rosen smiled a little envious.

  Fishing is a very boring thing, but fortunately Duke Milburn is very enthusiastic.

  But the enthusiasm is only on the surface. In fact, each of them is testing each other's strengths and weaknesses.

  The situation did not improve until Rosen took out the gift.

  There are five rare and precious pregnancy stones. If the luck is not too bad, it is enough for the Milburn family to have another child.

  For the Duke of Milburn, who has a small family, this is more sincere than any precious gift.

  However, when he learned that Rosen wanted to go to the Time Dragon's Nest Spirit Realm, Duke Milburn still hesitated.

  It's not that I'm reluctant to leave, but this spiritual realm is too dangerous.

  The core of the Time Dragon's Nest comes from the fallen Apostle of the God of Thunder, the Sequence 1 Bronze Dragon Vlada Valencia, who knew from the beginning that he had fallen in reality.

  Therefore, when the bronze dragon was first born in the spiritual realm, it had already completely integrated its own combat power in the spiritual realm.

  In order to open up this spiritual realm, several gods even sent down their incarnations, which allowed them to slay the bronze dragon time and time again, gradually depriving the spiritual realm of its origin. Finally, it took the efforts of the entire nation and a thousand years to weaken the original Sequence 1 spiritual realm to Sequence 5.

  However, nineteen thousand years later, the level of the spiritual realm of the Time Dragon's Nest is still Sequence 5.

  The reason is very simple. A Sequence 5 spiritual realm can only accommodate Sequence 5. The strength of a Sequence 1 bronze dragon is also suppressed to Sequence 5. Although its level is suppressed to Sequence 5, the bronze dragon still possesses divinity and its skill level is also terrifyingly high.

  Of course, the skill cannot reach LV9, because the spirituality of Sequence 5 is not qualified to activate LV9 skills.

  However, it is not a problem to activate LV6 skills, which means that the bronze dragon is a super high-end sequence 5 that has mastered divinity and LV6 skills. Even extraordinary beings with the same level of beast king strength are not as powerful as the bronze dragon.

  To defeat a bronze dragon of this strength, one needs to send out the Son of God, or a Titled Demigod who has taken the initiative to seal his power.

  However, how could a super-specification Sequence 5 with such strength risk his life in the Time Dragon Nest and the Bronze Dragon?

  If they died, they would really die. If the Bronze Dragon died, it would just be waiting for the Spirit Realm to refresh.

  Therefore, things like spiritual realms, especially those formed based on historical traces of alien races other than humans, do more harm than good to humans. Some people have even publicly said that humans will sooner or later suffer backlash from the spiritual realms.

  Those civilizations destroyed by humans will rely on spiritual nirvana and rebirth to subvert humanity.

  During their time, the Milburn Duke family guarded the Great Rift of Time. Besides the fact that the environment here was suitable for the growth of the bronze dragon bloodline owned by the family, the key was that they could suppress the Time Dragon's Nest through other means, and the spiritual realm level that was suppressed would not rebound.

  Rosen's desire to enter the Time Dragon's Nest was no different from suicide in the eyes of Duke Milburn.

  If this were to get out, many people would definitely think that it was the Milburn family that harmed Duke Howard.

  And Duke Milburn was also worried that Rosen wanted to enter the Time Dragon Nest for some ulterior motive.

  Duke Milburn naturally had concerns about this matter, which would only bring him trouble without any benefit.

  If the pregnancy stone in his hand had not smelled so good, Duke Milburn would have refused it outright.

  In desperation, Duke Milburn could only think of an excuse to decline and a treasure to give as a return gift.

  Rosen's mental canvas could not yet reveal what Duke Milburn was thinking, but he could more or less guess some of his concerns.

  "I can guarantee under the witness of the Contracted Spirit God that I will not do anything that is detrimental to the Time Dragon Nest."

  Rosen said first, "What I want is a specific extraordinary material to strengthen the time trap manufacturing technique. Duke Milburn does not need to worry about my safety. I have prepared a treasure that can restrain the dragon clan. I dare to do this only when I am absolutely sure."

  "Time Trap Creation Technique?"

  Duke Milburn wondered.

  Rosen expanded the trap space and instantly placed a time dust trap on the surface of Crystal Lake.

  "Free skill crystal in the dungeon?"

  Duke Milburn immediately looked at Rosen with envy.

  The time trap manufacturing technique that Sequence 7 can master has a minimum value of tens of millions of spiritual crystals.

  If the word "freedom" is added, and there is no restriction on the sequence of mastering this skill, the value will increase tenfold. A sequence 7 skill worth hundreds of millions of spiritual crystals is something that even the Milburn family cannot afford to do.

  Now that things have come to this, if I refuse again, I'm afraid we'll just be enemies instead of friends.

  Anyway, even if something goes wrong, it would be Rosen who died. With the witness of the contracted spirit god, he doesn't worry about someone making up rumors afterwards.

  "The Time Dragon Nest can be opened at any time. Detailed information about the Time Dragon Nest is in the study."

  The Duke of Milburn stopped fishing and took Rosen directly to the castle study.

  Rosen spent two days in the castle study looking up information about the Time Dragon's Nest, and his confidence in conquering the Time Dragon's Nest was greatly reduced.

  Relying on the Dragon Blood Bottle and a few precious life-saving trump cards, he thought that the mere Sequence 5 spiritual realm was within his grasp. But now it seems that it is not as simple as he imagined. The Time Dragon Nest is completely different from the spiritual realms he had experienced in the past.

  But the valuable gifts have already been given out, so it would be a loss if I don't go now.

  Moreover, the true hidden value of the Time Dragon's Nest far exceeds the information that can be found on the surface of the virtual network.

  Rosen had a good sleep that night, and was fully rested early the next morning, ready to go to the Time Dragon's Nest.

  Duke Milburn personally led Rosen into the Great Rift of Time, and soon they arrived at the ruins of a collapsed bronze tower at the bottom of the rift just below the castle. Only the base of the bronze tower remained, but it was surrounded by layers of seals that even demigods could hardly cross.

  Duke Milburn opened a barrier and Rosen walked into it.

  Finally, after passing through nine layers of barriers, he appeared alone on the remains of the bronze tower base.

  Rosen took out a special space key, and after activation, a space vortex was formed instantly.

  Watching Rosen walk into the space vortex, Duke Milburn shook his head and returned to the castle.

  Rosen passed through the space vortex and appeared in a forest full of dense vegetation.

  Release the Hunting God Eye into the sky, and use the shared vision to see everything around.

  The woods are located behind a magnificent city. Surrounding the city are endless fertile fields and beyond are endless grasslands. In the center of the city stands a three-kilometer-high bronze tower with countless mysterious bronze dragons embossed on it.

  Finally, at the top of the bronze tower, you can see a giant clock made up of countless gears and emitting billowing black smoke.

  The city had no walls, so it was easy to see what was going on inside.

  Many buildings on the outskirts of the city have been demolished and converted into farmland for growing crops.

  Only in the inner city, preliminary estimates show that there are still tens of thousands of people living numbly.

  Most of these people are humans, but there are a few rare half-dragon demi-humans.

  While Rosen was secretly observing the city in front of him, the outside of the bronze tower of the Time Dragon's Nest had become lively.

  The great bronze dragon Vlada has issued a divine decree that the blasphemer has sneaked into this world again. They must find the blasphemer at all costs, hang the blasphemer's body in the inner city, and sacrifice the blasphemer's heart to the great bronze dragon.

  The originally lifeless city came back to life, but it looked like it was struggling to survive. When the Time Dragon Nest was still Sequence 1, the world space was tens of thousands of miles in radius.

  However, after being weakened to Sequence 5, only a few thousand miles were left.

  It still seems huge, but almost all the spirituality in the entire spiritual realm has been gathered by the bronze dragon to the City of Time. Except for the land on the edge of the city, which still has spirituality, everything else is a spiritual desert where only ordinary plants can grow.

  Logically speaking, since Time City is a city with a high concentration of spirituality, the residents there should be living a good life.

  However, all of these spirits were restrained in the Time Tower by the bronze dragon, so even the spirituality within the city was very thin, to the point that the residents of the city could not even find a single Sequence 7. Without exception, all of them were the weakest Sequence 9.

  Rosen looked at these cannon fodders who were ready to die and felt a little pity for them.

  These people are simply the servants of the bronze dragon. Or they have been completely brainwashed and are pitiful creatures who are proud to be cannon fodder.

  These cannon fodders are easy to deal with, they only have quantity but no quality.

  The only real trouble was the bronze dragon. Rosen didn't intend to confront it head-on. This was not the way to seek death.

  He stretched out his hand and placed it on a tree to open the mysterious study, then walked straight in and came to the window facing the Time Tower.

  Then he set up a giant god-killing crossbow that was as big as a sniper cannon, and projected and rendered the four-phase bombs of the time element through the mind canvas.

  The fission and fusion of the time element results in the bullet flying in a straight line at an unimaginable speed.

  Rosen himself had lost his perception of the bullets, and could only barely reverse the bullets into spiritual paintings at the moment when the four-phase time element bullets hit the Time Tower. In the painting, the rose of the poor was close to the Time Tower, and an explosion cloud in the shape of a rose rose up.

  The light and heat spread over a radius of thousands of meters, but did not destroy everyone in the Time City.

  However, the virus that followed was too much for some Sequence 9s to resist. They could only feel their body functions collapsing and their spirituality collapsing. Finally, they could only look towards the Time Tower in despair and confusion.

  Rosen could clearly feel that there was a gaze in the Time Tower focused on the place where the bullet first appeared.

  He was even certain that the bronze dragon had the ability to intercept the four-phase elemental bomb.

  But the bronze dragon did nothing and let all of its followers die.

  Anyway, they are just spiritual beings. When the spiritual realm is reset, all the dead will be resurrected.

  There are more than just a few people in Time City, but most of the dependents have been eaten by the bronze dragon.

  Of course, the bronze dragon would not allow the spiritual realm to be reset unless it was absolutely necessary.

  Because that means that he would be in his weakest state, and all the hard work he had accumulated over 19,000 years would disappear.

  The essence of the spiritual realm is actually a piece of history that has come to life and then continues to circulate this piece of history.

  According to common sense, the Time Dragon's Nest spiritual realm should have cycled countless times.

  However, ever since the Time Dragon Nest weakened to Sequence 5, the internal historical plot line has never been reset.

  Relying on the power of the Time Tower, the Bronze Dragon intercepted a section of the historical plot line, and then artificially created a small loop, so as to avoid the reset of the spiritual realm. The Bronze Dragon did not have to worry about the reset of the spiritual realm, allowing him to start from scratch with the power accumulated for tens of thousands of years.

  The bronze dragon's idea is very simple, to continuously accumulate spirituality and then quantitative change will lead to qualitative change.

  As long as he could unleash a demigod attack, he would be able to break the seal that the Thunder Empire had set up on the interior of the Time Dragon's Nest.

  The Thunder Empire also saw through the Bronze Dragon's idea and continued to consume the Bronze Dragon's power through the seal.

  So after accumulating for 19,000 years, the bronze dragon still saw no hope of escaping.

  Even if it was Sequence 1, the will of a bronze dragon could not withstand such torture.

  So usually a bronze dragon will be in a dormant state and will not wake up unless it feels truly threatened.

  Rosen determined that the elemental four-phase bomb awakened the bronze dragon and began to continuously shoot at the Time Tower.

  I saw crossbow arrows hitting the Time Tower, causing no damage but causing a loud explosion of mental energy.

  The damage is zero, but it has a very strong provocative effect.

  The bronze dragon Vlada was staring through the window of the Time Tower, his time dragon eyes almost sore, but he still couldn't find the human who kept provoking him. What was certain was that the human was hiding in an alien space, a space that was so large that he couldn't even stare blankly.

  This is a situation where we are constantly provoked by humans, but have no way to fight back against them.

  The bronze dragon felt even more aggrieved than being trapped in the spiritual realm. After all, in the past, they had fought with real guns and swords, and it was acceptable whether he died or lived. However, being provoked and humiliated unilaterally like this almost made the bronze dragon unable to suppress his negative emotions.

  Seeing that the bronze dragon could still endure, Rosen put away his God-killing Crossbow and looked towards the Time Tower.

  I saw the mental canvas projected in front of the Time Tower through my eyes. The painting showed a time dragon tied with a collar, kneeling at the feet of humans like a walking dog. The bronze dragon's nose was sparking when I saw this painting.

  However, this was just the beginning. Various extremely humiliating spiritual paintings were constantly projected into the sky.

  Finally, the bronze dragon could no longer bear it, and instantly accelerated time to leave the Time Tower and move a mountain from afar. He used this mountain to directly press down the forest where the mysterious study was located, and the provocation finally stopped.

  However, the mountains were soon pierced by crossbow arrows, and the mental canvas was projected again.

  The bronze dragon then thought of various ways, such as setting up a barrier to block off a piece of space, stripping off the entire space where the forest originally existed and sending it to a place far away from the City of Time, or actively closing off his own perception.

  Unable to find humans and unable to do anything to them, the bronze dragon can only be forced to become an ostrich that ignores everything.

  Rosen didn't see the bronze dragon show up for several days in a row, and realized that the bronze dragon, which was helpless against him, was likely to choose to close its perception.

  He immediately released his self-portrait clone, which disappeared into the shadows and lurked towards the Time Tower.

  After approaching without encountering any danger, the self-portrait clone immediately pressed the tower to open the door of the mysterious study. At this time, Rosen also left the mysterious study and walked into the space transfer trap, and then transferred his original body to the side of the self-portrait clone.

  Rosen instantly entered the mysterious study, and the self-portrait clone returned to the self-portrait in the void gallery.

  If the bronze dragon had not been forced into the state of intolerance and closed off his senses, he would never have been able to get close to the Time Tower.

  Of course, it is also possible that the bronze dragon does not have closed perception, so the chance is actually fifty-fifty.

  Rosen didn't mind taking a gamble because he had a trump card that was enough to save his life.

  Now that the gamble was successful, Rosen walked to the window and opened it inwards, and immediately saw the scene at the bottom of the Time Tower.

  The entire Time Tower has only three floors, and the bottom floor was originally where the followers met the bronze dragon.

  According to the investigation of the Thunder Empire, this place has been transformed by the Time Dragon into a place for gathering spirituality, compressing spirituality, and creating spiritual crystals of time attributes. So Rosen saw the spiritual crystals of time attributes that the Bronze Dragon had worked hard to accumulate for thousands of years.

  The entire Time Tower was an extraordinary building of Sequence 3 at its peak.

  Even though it has been weakened to Sequence 5, the Bronze Dragon still has absolute confidence in the Time Tower, because only Sequence 3 has the possibility of breaking through the Time Tower.

  Previously, the Poor Man's Rose had exploded right in front of his face, but it had not caused any damage to the Time Tower.

  But with the help of the mysterious study's ability, Rosen successfully opened a door and a window in the tower.

  Rosen released his spiritual perception, covering the mountain of time spiritual crystals.

  All the spiritual crystals soon disappeared one after another, and were all transferred to the scavenging space by the Void Scavengers.

  The bronze dragon, who was unaware that his home had been robbed, was still on the middle floor of the Time Tower, thinking about how to find the humans. He had no idea that his nest, which he thought was the safest, had been robbed.

  However, the bronze dragon soon realized that something was wrong because the concentration of spiritual energy around it seemed to have decreased.

  The bronze dragon's spiritual perception spread to the bottom floor of the Time Tower, and the entire dragon collapsed at the sight of the empty space at the bottom floor.

  This was the wealth he had saved for 19,000 years, how could it suddenly disappear without a trace?

  The bronze dragon immediately realized that the human who he couldn't even find had a way to ignore the tower defense of the Time Tower Gundam Sequence 3 and quietly stole his savings of 10,000 years.

  "Damn human rats..."

  The bronze dragon's curse didn't sound angry at all, but rather a bit like crying.

  Rosen heard the bronze dragon's curse through the window, and without hesitation, he projected various sharply provocative images on his mind canvas. Among them was a picture of a faceless human sitting on a mountain of spiritual crystals and counting things.

  The bronze dragon, already extremely grief-stricken and angry, roared in grief and anger at not being able to find the human being.

  "Ahem... Actually, we can make a deal."

  Rosen's voice came out through the window, "I am not a noble of the Thunder Empire. If you can meet my conditions, I can return the spiritual crystal to you. If you refuse the deal, I can only stay here and torture you."

  "..."

  "What do you want to trade?"

  The bronze dragon asked through gritted teeth after a while.

  "I don't mind your dragon blood, your dragon horns, your dragon scales, and your dragon teeth."

  To the bronze dragon, Rosen's voice sounded even scarier than the Sequence 0 devil he had encountered before.

  But at this time, the Bronze Dragon couldn't say no to the deal.

  After a fierce argument that broke their defenses, the Bronze Dragon finally reached an agreement on the terms of the deal with Rosen.

  The bronze dragon placed a ball of dragon blood at a designated place, and immediately a suction force came from the air and sucked the dragon blood away.

  Seeing the disappearing dragon blood, a ferocious smile appeared on the bronze dragon's mouth.

  He couldn't find the alien space where the human was hiding, but the human was greedy for his dragon blood. He had already integrated some divinity into the dragon blood and could transform the dragon blood into a dragon blood clone at any time. When the time came, relying on the dragon blood clone to locate the human rat, it would not be difficult to catch it.

  However, after a moment, the bronze dragon's smile disappeared and only despair remained.

  Rosen held the dragon blood bottle and watched a mini bronze dragon struggling inside. If it weren't for the dragon blood bottle, he would not have made a deal with the bronze dragon. The mysterious study could withstand almost all external damage, but it was defenseless against the inside.

  Now that the bronze dragon's blood is in hand, all that's left is to find an opportunity to escape from the spiritual realm.

  (End of this chapter)