Chapter 276: Pass 1
Chapter 276: A Hand
Linquan City, the interior of the originally tidy city is now in ruins. After months of continuous fighting, most of the houses here have been destroyed by dragon beasts, and dried blood can be seen everywhere.
There were no signs of pedestrians walking on the streets, and most of the ordinary people had already left Linquan City under the protection of the Yinglong Army.
The only ones left are gamblers who want to take a chance.
Although the dragon beast's siege is a disaster, it is also a huge fortune. Among the materials of the same level, the dragon species' materials are always at least two or three times more expensive than the materials of the same level. If it is the core material, the price will double.
It is rare to see so many dragon beasts gathering at the same time.
The fully armed Yinglong Army patrolled the streets. Compared to the immature men they were a few months ago, they now had an iron-blooded aura and determination on everyone's face.
You have to be perseverant, because those without perseverance would have been eliminated long ago. They either died from the dragon beast's sneak attack, or retired because they could not survive the monthly mental examination and switched to other careers.
But even so, the Yinglong Army continued to grow.
The territory of the Principality of Bello has been completely absorbed by the Yinglong Army. Naturally, Yaxiu selected more Yinglong Army and Yinglong Guards from the larger population and dispatched them to Linquan City for training.
Now in Linquan City, there are 36,000 ordinary Yinglong soldiers and 872 Yinglong guards.
However, even so, the defense of the Yinglong Army was gradually becoming difficult, because the reinforcements from the dragon beasts were gradually increasing, and even high-level followers such as the Slaanesh Demon appeared.
The giant dragons also found the weakness of Yinglong Army. Although they relied on equipment to make up for the gap in strength, the shortcoming was still quite obvious, that is, their main body was still relatively weak.
Whether it is spirit or resistance, they are quite weak in these two aspects, so corruption, curse and other dark means are constantly released on every Yinglong soldier.
This also made it difficult for Nass, who had to stay in charge at all times to prevent corruption from spreading.
However, on this day, the dragon beasts that had surrounded Linquan City like a tide retreated. When the Yinglong Army scouts went out to investigate, they found that they had even retreated from the Snow Peak Mountains.
How is this going?
Of course, it was Tiamut, their mother, who was threatened.
Ash appeared on a mountain peak, where six people were already waiting.
Seeing Ash appear, a plump woman with hips wider than shoulders rushed over and hugged Ash: "My little man, you are finally here!"
"Okay, Carissa, there are outsiders watching us." Ash showed helplessness on his face and patted Carissa on the back.
"It doesn't matter." Carissa twisted her waist, a little dissatisfied, but still let go of her hand and changed from hugging to hugging.
"This little kid is the main force?"
An impolite voice sounded, and Ash turned around to see a bald burly man looking at him with displeasure and questioning eyes.
Chosen by the Earth Mother, the ancient dragon carrying the mountain, Salvatore.
With just one glance, Ash saw through his background, and his information naturally emerged in his mind.
"He is. Do you have any objection, Salvatore?" Karisan narrowed her bloodshot eyes and spoke in an impolite tone. It seemed that she did not have a very good relationship with him.
"Of course I have an opinion. Look at how skinny he is. How can he be so strong?" Salvatore snorted coldly. "Why, you're not convinced? If you're not convinced, why don't you let me practice with him?"
Carissa subconsciously looked at Ash. She wanted to refuse. After all, in terms of pure strength, Salvatore could even compete with the giant chieftain.
Even though Ash has the blood of an ancient dragon and has just broken through to the level of a demigod, he may not be able to match Salvatore in terms of strength. However, Carisan also knows her little man's personality. He hates others making decisions for him without authorization. Whether to compete or not depends on his own opinion.
Ash nodded slightly: "Okay, then let me take over."
The six people present were all chosen by the Earth Mother. They came here naturally because Ash tipped off.
Ash is naturally not afraid of a single Tiamt, but it would be quite troublesome if there were other Slaanesh gods around.
Moreover, with Tiamt's exposure, Slaanesh will definitely know that there are righteous gods coming to encircle and suppress it, so it must be ready at all times for other Slaanesh gods and even other evil gods to come to support it.
By then, it will be unclear who is the prey and who is the hunter.
In order to avoid a situation where he was outnumbered, Ash naturally called for help through the Earth Mother, Karisan.
However, Ash would certainly not give the most core and important prey Tiamt to others, but others also wanted this achievement, such as Salvatore in front of him.
Ash let go of Carissane's arm and walked towards Salvatore, with each step he took, more gravity pressed down on him.
The competition has already begun.
Looking at Ash walking towards him step by step, leaving only shallow footprints, the contempt in Salvatore's eyes slowly disappeared.
The moment Ash agreed to the competition, he had already used the power of gravity to put pressure on Ash, and now it was a hundred thousand times higher.
Moreover, each of Ash's steps was neither too deep nor too shallow, showing extremely high skills in dissipating force.
One hundred thousand times, two hundred thousand times, three hundred thousand times. By the time Ash stood in front of Salvatore, the gravity on his body had reached tens of millions times.
Combined with his own weight which was constantly increasing with evolution, he felt like he was carrying a mountain weighing hundreds of millions of tons.
Looking at Ash who was walking in front of him, there was no more contempt on Salvatore's face. Although his physical fitness was not as good as his, it was not something he could look down upon.
"I take it back. You have a pretty good physique." Salvatore held out his hand. "But whether you can get the main position depends on me."
Ash glanced at the hand that was bigger than his head, then his body swelled silently before he reached out his hand.
The two hands were clasped together, and a shocking explosion sounded, and the air between the two palms was expelled the moment they touched.
The other candidates of the Earth Mother Goddess were watching this scene, lowering their heads to chat privately about who would win and who would lose, but most of them were more inclined to Salvatore. After all, the name of the Ancient Dragon Carrying a Mountain really came from the fact that this ancient dragon carried a huge mountain on its back every day.
However, the final outcome was beyond everyone's expectations, the two actually ended in a tie.
Salvatore and Ash let go at the same time and took a step back. Then the mountain began to shake and it was about to collapse.
Salvatore stomped his feet, and the mountain slowly stabilized.
This mountain would naturally not collapse for no reason. Even the battle between demigods would cause the sky to collapse and the earth to break, let alone Ash and Salvatore.
However, both of them used their own methods to unload the force into the ground, which eventually led to the collapse of the mountain structure, forcing the two to end in a draw.
Salvatore shook his right hand, whose bones were almost broken, and said:
"I have no objection."
(End of this chapter)