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Chapter158

  It is said that the origin of the Dragon Cult can be traced back to the ancient Nestherian Arcane Civilization era when gods walked the earth and dragons danced with Titans.

  Although the exact age is no longer verifiable, it is certain that it has a history of at least tens of thousands of years.

  That was a very long time ago. Even in the era of Jia Lan, information about it was as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

  People can only capture some clues about that era from those ancient volumes and books.

  Fortunately, Jia Lan was born in the vast library of Kolanburg. He was fortunate to learn some information about the Dragon Cult and its founder in some extremely precious ancient fragments.

  The so-called "Sanctuary of Sammaster" is actually a special name for the Dragon Cult, which means "the holy place of the Dragon Cult".

  And those spellcasters who know it in the outside world prefer to call it "Dragon Witch Cult" - an evil sect that exercises its priesthood with the power of arcane magic.

  Its founder, "Saint" Sammaster, was not a great priest or a respected clergyman, but an evil and crazy necromancer.

  At first, the Dragon Cult worshipped not a dragon, but an ancient undead dragon named "Drogosa", or more precisely, a dragon lich!

  Sammaster longed to gain the power of the dragon lich Drogosa, and sacrificed his soul to become the undead slave of the dragon lich Drogosa. He finally gained the dragon power he dreamed of and became an extremely powerful lich.

  Sammaster, a powerful lich, tampered with the ancient prophecy, founded the Dragon Cult, and gathered believers to start building his own death dragon army. In that ancient era, Sammaster's dragon lich army once ran rampant on the continent.

  However, Sammaster, who was overwhelmed by the powerful force, dared to challenge the gods. The result is predictable. The Dragon Cult was destroyed by all the major sects, and the surviving believers were either hunted down or disappeared.

  This is the first destruction of the Dragon Cult that Jia Lan learned from the ancient files.

  But there is always a sequel to the story. In the long history of tens of thousands of years that followed, the Dragon Cult revived several times and was destroyed several times, gradually forming branches, and the name of the church gradually evolved into the Dragon Cult.

  As far as Jia Lan knows, most of the so-called "Dragon Cult" in history were not created by real Dragon Cultists, but some forces that worship death and dragons pretended to be them.

  There are five branches of the Dragon Cult that truly inherited the Dragon Cult:

  The Red Dragon Cult that worships the red dragon "Night Fang" Asardron.

  The Green Dragon Cult that worships the green dragon "Azure Blood Violence".

  The Black Dragon Cult that worships the black dragon "Black Dragon Queen" Goglad.

  The White Dragon Cult that worships the white dragon "Son of Winter" Rime.

  The Blue Dragon Cult that worships the blue dragon "Sharptooth" Iryklathagra.

  As for the small Dragon Cult factions that worship other miscellaneous dragons, there are countless of them. They are basically some forces with ill intentions and unclear intentions. They dug out a notorious dragon in history from ancient books and files, and dared to use it as the signboard of the sect, using its name to deceive people.

  Those giant dragons probably can't ask them for portrait usage fees.

  And the Dragon Worship ruins where Jia Lan and his friends are currently located is obviously one of the many Dragon Worship strongholds.

  Judging from the scale and layout of the ruins, this place is quite formal, but it is not clear which branch of the Dragon Worship it belongs to.

  Since there is no time to study the murals and reliefs in the ruins, Jia Lan cannot determine the detailed faction of this Dragon Worship.

  But from the red dragon reliefs on the secret doors and the details that the dwarves call him "Asadron Worshiper", Jia Lan suspects that this is probably the ruins of the Red Dragon Temple that worships the ancient red dragon "Night Fang Tip" Asadron...

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  Alas, the decline of this Red Dragon Temple has long become history. As time passes, the truth seems to have been buried in the dust of the years. Few people know what happened that year that caused the believers of the sect to disappear overnight.

  According to the elders of the Uga dwarves, according to the human calendar, about three thousand years ago, that is, around the 700th year of the Dawn calendar, the Dragon Worship Cult that ruled this underground world suddenly had some kind of change and quietly lost contact with its vassal races.

  After a long wait, the four vassal races that once served the "Dragon Worship Holy Land": the Uga near-earth dwarves of Gusyasdisen, the cold spring tribe lizard hunters of the Toraks Swamp Sea, the Hakaza tribe kobolds of the Frost Iron Mine Road, and the Dunbrook goblins of the Withered Hills, began to try to regain control of their own destiny.

  The first to take action were the Hakaza tribe kobolds and the Dunbrook goblins with amazing fertility. These two relatively weak races quickly became the most powerful of the four vassal races with their strong fertility.

  After being squeezed by the kobolds and goblins, the lizard hunters of the Cold Spring Tribe relied on their strong reproductive ability and powerful strength to firmly control the only exit from the underground world to the surface - the secret waterway in the Toraksh Swamp Sea, cutting off the connection between the other three tribes and the outside world.

  The Uga tribe, the near-ground dwarves who were originally responsible for guarding the holy land, became the most vulnerable group in this underground area after losing the protection of their masters due to their sparse population and long growth period.

  "Now, there are less than 3,000 of us Ugar dwarves in Gusyasdi Sen. Large tracts of forests have been occupied by lizard hunters, kobolds and goblins, and our living space is constantly being compressed!" The Ugar dwarf elder of Bloodmane Village said angrily, "Originally, with our powerful combat power and superb equipment manufacturing capabilities, we could suppress the invasion of the other three tribes, but the cold iron mine road was blocked by the Hakaza kobolds, and the lava river was cut off by the Dunbrook goblins. We have lost our equipment advantage..."

  "In addition, the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters have obtained a large amount of surface equipment and supplies from somewhere. We are almost unable to resist..."

  "But now it's good. Your Majesty the Saint Sammaster has returned. You will definitely lead our Ugar dwarves to wipe out those traitors!" The dwarf elder looked at Jia Lan enthusiastically, "Your Majesty, please summon the 'Holy Land Guards' and 'Dragon Riders' to kill all those rebels!"

  Jia Lan was a little embarrassed. Summon the "Holy Land Guards" and "Dragon Riders"? He had never even heard of it!

  As for the "Holy Land Guards", Jia Lan could probably guess that they might be the golden skeletons and skeleton knights in the cemetery on the second floor of the ruins, but what the hell was the "Dragon Knights of the Guardians of the Church"?

  Jia Lan coughed dryly and changed the subject: "You just mentioned that the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters received support from surface materials?"

  "Yes, Your Majesty!"

  The old dwarf elder climbed up with difficulty and took out some weapons and armor to show Jia Lan: "These are spoils captured in the battle, but unfortunately they are just inferior products and are not very useful to us dwarves!"

  With the exquisite forging skills of the dwarves, they can indeed despise most blacksmiths.

  Jia Lan took a weapon and looked at it. The quality of the battle axe was not bad, and the market price would not be less than ten gold talans.

  As for those half-body armors, they were obviously used by humans. The lizard hunters were as tall as humans, but they were slightly thinner and could barely wear them.

  And with the standard oak barrel body of the dwarves, don't even think about wearing them.

  Old Jimmy at the side took the half-body armor and looked at it. He exclaimed, attracting Jia Lan's attention. He pointed to the emblem on the half-body armor and said, "This is armor produced by several equipment stores in Kelan City!"

  Jia Lan was puzzled and said, "How could it be? According to the dwarves, the Toraksh Swamp Sea, the territory of the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters, is located in the east of the underground world. If my sense of direction and distance are correct, it is very likely to be connected to the 'Torak Swamp' in Dagon County..."

  Halfway through, Jia Lan suddenly stopped and looked at Captain Kenmet in surprise: "JQ Association!?"

  Some time ago, the conflict between the Kelan City Mercenary Guild Branch and the Pharmacist Guild was, to put it bluntly, a conflict with the QJ Association.

  In order to suppress the mercenary forces, the other party used the power and channels in their hands to restrict the industry within Kelan City, and banned the sale of weapons, equipment and various material resources to mercenaries, and the two sides were in a mess.

  At that time, I just thought it was just the other party's means, but now I think there are many doubts!

  No matter how powerful the JQ Association is, it is impossible to control all industries in the entire region and prohibit them from selling weapons, equipment and materials to mercenaries.

  The only way is for them to spend their own money to buy all the materials in various industries. Only when the interests of those industries are not affected, it is possible to cooperate with them to put pressure on the Mercenary Guild.

  The mercenaries who could not buy materials in the Kelan City area had to purchase them from the surrounding areas, but found that there were also forces that were purchasing materials on a large scale, so that the competition between the two sides caused prices to continue to rise.

  If it is said that the JQ Association spent all its capital to suppress the Mercenary Guild, it would be too ridiculous. How could those guys in the JQ Association who pursue wealth do such a thing that is not worth the loss?

  It would cost a lot of money to accumulate so many materials. If they were sold at the market price in the whole city, would they still plan to sell them at the market price at that time?

  For such a long time, there has been no sign of the JQ Association experiencing any shortage of funds or backlog of resources, and we don’t even know where the supplies intercepted by the JQ Association have gone... but now they appear in the hands of the lizard hunters in the secret underground world?

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