Chapter 289
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Lin Yun didn't know how long he stayed in that darkness .
It might have been an instant, it might have been a hundred years .
"Badump, badump, badump…"
Ultimately, the familiar heartbeat echoed once again in Lin Yun's ears . Lin Yun subconsciously opened his eyes but only saw boundless flames . It looked as if the whole world was ignited . Amidst the flames, countless scenes flashed, shocking Lin Yun to his core .
That was the Draconic War .
Countless Dragons soared through the sky, covering it in a rainbow of colors . Numerous Dragon Breaths swept the earth, scorching it . The figures of the pure-blooded Elves could be seen everywhere, both above and below . Silver Moon Elves, Dark Night Elves, Blazing Sun Elves, and the Sacred Song Elves . The four Elven clans which mastered elements as well as archery, spearmanship and holy light, all fought to the death .
The sky was torn in half, the earth caved in . Lin Yun once again witnessed the horrors closely resembling what would happen 30,000 years in the future, mountains crumbling and seas boiling, the world ending .
The Chromatic Dragons decayed while the Elves turned to dust .
Everything was engulfed in flames, blood flowed, corpses were mangled . Even if Lin Yun knew this was but an illusion, he couldn't help being shocked by this fierce scene . Even the thick smell of blood assaulted his nose .
'Who is the enemy?' Lin Yun tried to rush through the flames to see the realm's enemy in this tragic war .
But . . .
There was no enemy .
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There was no enemy from the beginning . The casualties of the pure-blooded Elves and Chromatic Dragons came from the void storms, comets, from the sinking earth, the torn sky and the flaring seas . It looked like their true enemy was this world destroying disaster .
In the end, everything became quiet .
The world gradually recovered its peace, the surviving Chromatic Dragons and pure-blooded Elves converged and silently mourned their fallen companions . They didn't say anything, they didn't move, but pain and sorrow wordlessly spread before a Three-Headed Golden Dragon let out a loud Dragon Roar . His roar was full of anger and unwillingness while still melodious and dignified . A God-like Sun Elf came out of the crowd, a staff in his hand, and chanted a very long incantation .
A Planar Path then opened .
The surviving Chromatic Dragons and pure-blooded Elves silently approached that Planar Path . None of them aware where it led to .
"This is…" Lin Yun was startled, this scene felt familiar .
But the scene remained immobile, disregarding Lin Yun's attempts to see where that Planar Path led .
"Fuck!" Lin Yun swore . The scene that appeared within the flames carried too much importance to him . Lin Yun even felt that many of the unanswered questions in his mind would be solved as long as he kept watching .
Unfortunately, he couldn't get closer, the scene was locked on that location .
Lin Yun simply couldn't accept such a result .
Right at this time, an earth-shattering Dragon Roar echoed in Lin Yun's ears . Lin Yun raised his head with a mix of shock and hope . A black shadow flew across the sky . That was a huge Black Dragon covered in flames whose body spanned over several kilometers . His head, body, and wings were spreading flames in the sky .
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Lin Yun held his breath .
That was the ruler of the Black Dragons, an existence comparable to the Three-Headed Golden Dragon, a powerhouse that could contend against a God, the Shadow Dragon!
When the Shadow Dragon flashed through the sky, he turned his head to look at Lin Yun . It was followed by an earth-shattering Dragon Roar, and by the time Lin Yun recovered, the Shadow Dragon's silhouette had already disappeared .
But Lin Yun was completely frozen .
Because Lin Yun very clearly heard the few Ancient Draconic sentences mixed within that Dragon Roar .
In the current Noscent, very few people would dare say that they understood Ancient Draconic . That was a language used by the Ancient Dragons of the Gold Era . Even in the Nesser Dynasty established by the Dragons and Elves, there would rarely be a Dragon that used Ancient Draconic to communicate .
Only those Ancient Dragons who experienced both the Gold and Silver Eras and whose lives were unimaginably long would use Ancient Draconic, and only accidentally or under specific circumstances .
Lin Yun knew about it because some mages at the peak of the magic era believed that the Ancient Draconic and Ancient Elven contained some mysterious power . They crazily researched these two extinct languages . After excavating many temples and ruins, overturning almost all of the Nesser Era once, they spent a few hundred years to sort what they found and assembled what they thought to be a rough book of Ancient Draconic words .
Unfortunately, they were both right and wrong . That set of Ancient Draconic words didn't actually hold any mysterious power, in fact, it was ridiculed by all Dragons . They said that this was completely different from the Ancient Draconic they inherited from their bloodline . Over time, mages put this specious Ancient Draconic to the back of their mind and went on to study other ancient languages . The research on Ancient Draconic serving only as a teaching material or a reference in studies of other languages from that point on .
When Lin Yun read that book, it had only been to study some language grammar composition, it was purely used as a leisure read .
He never expected it to be actually useful, he surprisingly managed to pick up a few of the words in those sentences . . .
"Unexpectedly… Saw… Descendant… Ancient War… Fragment… Balakra…"
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Although it was only some scattered fragments, Lin Yun firmly engraved those keywords in his mind, especially that final one, "Balakra" . Lin Yun felt that this might be a powerful True Name . As for who the owner of that True Name was, it would have to wait until Lin Yun returned and did some research .
With the Shadow Dragon sweeping through the sky, the surrounding's flames started dissipating .
His surroundings changed again and Lin Yun regained consciousness . Before his eyes stood that throbbing Black Dragon Heart . The drop of blood he had dripped on it was slowly soaking into the heart . William was still standing still not far from him, his expression unchanged .
Lin Yun realized that his previous experience might have been very long to him, but it might have only lasted a few seconds in reality .
Nothing seemed to have changed .
No . . .
'What is this!' Lin Yun was just about to walk down the altar when he suddenly noticed a trace of blood not of his own within his body .
That drop of blood was incredibly hot and carried a thick smell of sulfur . Lin Yun felt a sharp pain and realized that this berserk and flaming aura definitely came from a Destruction Black Dragon .
'Could it be that the Merlin Family Bloodline Ceremony was actually trading a drop of their blood for a drop of Destruction Black Dragon's Blood?'
'But if that is the case…'
'Wouldn't the Merlin Family's bloodline be the bloodline of a Destruction Black Dragon?'
This discovery toppled Lin Yun's knowledge .
Unfortunately, Lin Yun didn't have much time to think . After merging with his body, that drop of Black Dragon Blood burst with terrifying energy . Suddenly, Lin Yun seemed to hear a loud sound, immediately followed by that drop of Black Dragon Blood crazily swallowing everything . It instantly expanded like a snowball rolling in the snow and started flowing through Lin Yun's veins like burning lava . At the same time, a slumbering power seemed to be awakening in response to that Dragon Blood .
Lin Yun understood that this was the real bloodline ceremony .
Using the blood of a Destruction Black Dragon to awaken the bloodline slumbering within the Merlins .
'No wonder, the Merlin Family's bloodline is quite remarkable…'
Mafa's bloodline was too thin and Lin Yun gave up after studying it a bit . But now, this drop of Dragon Blood was awakening another kind of bloodline . Lin Yun finally realized that the Merlin Family might possess a top class bloodline .
Only a top class bloodline would need the blood of a Destruction Black Dragon to awaken it .
Lin Yun already made some conjectures .
He already theorized that in the Draconic War, the ancestor of the Merlin Family withstood the Destruction Black Dragon Clan, along with the Dark Sage .
Now, it could be assumed that the relation between Merlin Family Ancestor, the Dark Sage and the Destruction Black Dragon Clan might not necessarily be that of allies and enemies .
Unfortunately, Lin Yun didn't have much time to think about it now . That bloodline was on the verge of awakening .
It would have been a lot better if Lin Yun had been the true Mafa Merlin .
Mafa Merlin would completely transform if he let that bloodline awaken, whether it was potential or power, he would reach a very shocking stage .
But unfortunately, Lin Yun wasn't Mafa Merlin .
Lin Yun came from 30,000 years in the future and had magic knowledge transcending the era, he had ten Magic Arrays and already walked a magic path others never dreamt of . How could he be willing to be restricted by his bloodline?