“Just what were the clockwork dragons?” I asked. “Actually, where are the real dragons?”
I had been in this world for so ti now, and the closest thing I had seen to a dragon other than the clockwork dragon was Gram. They called him a lower-tiered dragon, but he just looked like a lizard to . I also seed to recall soone calling himself “the dragon” in the gladiatorial match to seem dangerous. When it ca to actual dragons, I had seen no sign of them. In comparison, I had run into more dinosaurs than dragons.
Originally, I had considered it my luck. If this was a video ga, dragons would be saved for the late ga. Yet, after all of the lore I had absorbed and the various dungeons I had entered, it seed like I should have encountered at least a few dragons by now. Maybe, I could have even acquired a dragon as a pet, or a dragon lover with an attractive female form. What was I thinking? When did I beco the kind of guy who thought about so powerful beast and wondered if it was secretly a cute girl?
“There are so traces and relics of dragons.” Mary explained, “But no one knows what happened to them. They disappeared, and even the dungeon lore doesn’t seem to have any concrete record of them. Only in so ancient tos from the church does it suggest that dragons used to be more prevalent. I believe they were hunted to extinction though.”
“Extinction?” I thought back and an idea struck . “They hunted them for their dragon souls?”
I hadn’t understood it at the ti, but the clockwork dragon had been my first ti truly seeing souls and lore together. The clockwork dragon had been powered by a dragon soul. That soul had also ended up serving as the core for Terra’s dungeon.
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Mary nodded. “Anne and her people left the church and went to form their church, so they don’t have access to the church’s original records, but the cathedral in the capital existed from before the schism. I’ve sotis looked through the old records to understand our history and find ways to restore us to our forr glory. That’s where I found information about the guardians, and sent Carmine to Terra’s Dungeon.”
“Guardians?” I asked, feeling Terra shift inside my soul world.
I felt a bit foolish not talking to her more about this before now. Terra had never seed to care much about her forr life though. Like Lydia, she felt her life had started with . The death of her parents and the destruction of her ho were painful subjects, and she didn’t like rembering them.
Mary shrugged. “Your guess is as good as mine. I heard that Terra was a golem guardian, but I do not know the connection.”
“You do believe they are connected though, right?” I asked.
Mary looked uncertain for a mont. “The ancient records speak of war. It was a deadly war between the church and so unknown enemy.”
“The demons? The fae?” I offered.
She shook her head. “I do not know. They used the clockwork dragons as their ans of battle. I believe it was the church that wiped out the dragons, and they converted them into an army. The records of this enemy though have been wiped out.”
“What do you an, wiped out?”
“It was as if the very lore itself was consud.”
Sothing that ate the lore itself? I had seen sothing like that once before. Down below in the Deep, Twilight consud every ntion of her existence. She even scraped the words from signs and engravings, absorbing every trace. Had sothing like that happened on the surface once? It was truly a terrifying prospect.
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