High Above

The Dragon Cult is a global organization with branches all over Terra, and even branches in the New World. Its internal membership is very complex, but generally speaking, it is divided into 'dragon-blooded ones' and 'true dragons'. There are three parts: "intelligent dragon beast" and "non-dragon blood person".

Among them, those with dragon blood will form small organizations internally depending on the country and region they are in. True dragons and intelligent dragon beasts act alone in family units, while those without dragon blood are those who tend to be secretive in public perception. A member of the mysterious organization will hide in deep mountains and forests or remote small towns to conduct mysterious research. Once there are some results, it will cause harm to the surrounding areas.

Although it is said to be a Dragon Worshiping Sect, even true dragons do not receive preferential treatment within the Dragon Worshiping Sect because of their status, but mostly because of their strength. Their goal is generally to use the Dragon Worshiping Sect's long-standing accumulation of resources. Research to improve your own power, or do some research for your dependents like Qiang Ganglong.

Dragon-blooded ones are similar to intelligent dragon beasts, such as Elder Manya and Ian. They both hope to obtain the power or knowledge of true dragons.

Those with non-dragon blood aim to become those with dragon blood.

These are the three major strata within the Dragon Worship Cult.

There are not many real dragons in the Dragon Worship Cult within the empire, and they are mainly organized by different dragon-blooded organizations. On the Nanling side, the Mountain King is more directly affiliated with Dragon Island and is the 'Dragon Guard' guarding the Qiang Gang Dragon treasure. His relationship with the Dragon Worship Cult is more personal. He wants to obtain technology to heal his children, so his connection with the empire is not close.

This is actually a relatively rare situation.

The core figure of the Dragon Worship Cult in the northern part of the empire is the Dragon-Blooded Earl of the Paxico family. His relationship with the Dragon Worship Cult is a well-known secret, and this fourth-level powerhouse can basically be said to be a worshiper of the Empire. The core figure of the Dragon Cult and the main channel of communication between the empire and the Dragon Worship Cult.

In other areas, too. As a global religion that is not one of the orthodox religions, the Dragon Worship Cult can comfortably exist and continue their experiments and plans precisely because their branches are closely connected with officials in various places.

This is a common situation.

Therefore, for the branches of the Dragon Worship Cult in various places, except that the Dragon Worship Cult in other areas share the name of the Dragon Worship Cult with our own, and may cooperate and exchange information in some experiments, most of the time We are strangers.

Even if they attack each other, it's not unusual.

Just like now.

The elite members of the Canaanite Moorish Dragon Worshiping Cult, the Feiyan Land Dragon Worshiping Cult, and even the Cangtian Royal Court Dragon Worshiping Cult, the Three Kingdoms branch, all gathered in the border city of the Southern Ridge of the Setar Empire, inside an oyster breeding factory. In the small room, they planned to join forces to kill another member of the Dragon Worship Cult.

If Ian knew this, he would definitely be surprised - it is normal for the Flying Flame Dragon Cult to want to kill him. If nothing else, the 'Glade' he had threatened would definitely do so if he had the chance. Take action.

The Canaanite Moorish Dragon Worship Cult should be related to Anfa.

But where did the Cangtian Royal Court come from? They are an inland grassland country. How can they send people to this coastal city?

This also starts with the political struggle within Canaan Moore.

Since Canaan Moore and the Cangtian Royal Court ended their century-long military confrontation nine years ago, driven by the peace factions on both sides, trade and exchanges between the two sides have continued to increase.

Although the people were extremely discordant, as far as the Dragon Worship Cult was concerned, they did not care about nationalism or the trauma of past wars, so bilateral cooperation was quickly launched.

But the faction that Anfa belongs to is not a faction that cooperates with the Cangtian Royal Court.

The supporters behind both sides are the two major political parties of Canaan and Moore respectively. The relationship cannot be said to be incompatible, it can only be said to be a matter of life and death.

This assassination of Ian was a provocation by the enemies of Anfa's faction to warn Anfa.

After careful investigation, they determined that Anfa had made considerable gains from the Nanling Dragon Worship Sect.

The Xiahui Territory where Ian is located has also shown extremely amazing development potential after receiving a large amount of food aid from Anfa.

This is also due to the fact that Ian did a great job in attracting investment some time ago. Many elven chambers of commerce came to Xiahui Territory for inspection, and all of them gave very high evaluations.

After the news was known to Anfa's enemies, it immediately attracted their attention and even shocked them.

They believe that Xia Hui Ling is an important long-term investment made by Anfa in the empire. When Ian's territory develops, Anfa's voice as an important early investor will be greatly increased.

This is intolerable.

The easiest way to destroy Anfa's plan is to kill Ian as the lord.

In Terra, the development of the territory is naturally centered on the lord, and the death of people and the death of government is the norm.

Of course, a cross-border assassination of a local lord must be a safe plan, and it is best to find a few more allies... Coincidentally, the Dragon Worship Cult on the side of the Cangtian Royal Court also has a plan to assassinate the underground of Canaan Moore's Half Moon Lake. The ruins' are of great interest.

In addition, the target was an Imperial person, and as a feuding member of the Royal Court, it was naturally their duty to do so, so they sent a team to support them.

As for Feiyandi... is there any need to say that?

They really can't take this breath without killing Ian!

As for why the powerful-sounding joint team of the Dragon Worship Cult of the Three Kingdoms would stay in an extremely narrow coastal breeding factory that exudes a strong fishy smell...

The answer is actually very simple.

Their ship was hit and sunk.

There are many reasons why a ship sinks in the South China Sea.

For example, if you encounter a storm or ocean turbulence because of poor crew management...

But if it was said to be hit and sunk, then there is only one possibility.

They were attacked by monsters.

"hateful!"

During the meeting to discuss how to attack Ian, a representative of the Canaanite Dragon Cult, an elf with long light silver hair, hammered the table angrily: "If it hadn't been for that damn steel-armored shark that sank my Ship...we can even dispatch sniper magic missiles for long-range sniping!"

"Now, we can only look for opportunities and attack head-on."

At this point, the elf gritted his teeth with hatred: "My ship...my support...my funds..."

Obviously, he hated the steel-armored shark that hit him without any reason - if he couldn't beat it in the water, he wouldn't have cared about Ian, he would have led the team to kill the shark long ago!

Far away, the distant sea of ​​the South China Sea.

【Oh oh oh oh! ! ! 】

A bright flashing shark shadow is happily cutting through the waves, heading into the wind, looking for enemies and enemy ships that dare to invade its territory!

Shark, you are still charging happily today, looking for today’s prey!

Especially knowing that his boss is about to return.

Shark Shark's enthusiasm during this period has been three times as usual!

"Don't worry too much, my friend."

The representative of the Cangtian Royal Court is a horse-eared man with a long whip beard and a face covered with tattoos.

He said solemnly: "According to our intelligence, this lord and his guards have only recently become the second level."

"Even though they are all geniuses, they have stabilized their realm and mastered new abilities in just a few months, but they can never be called masters."

"As long as we make sure that the third-level true dragon in their territory is not hidden in the convoy, we can directly attack and crush them!"

"Hmph. Don't underestimate each other."

The representative of Feiyandi, who was also the black-haired swordsman 'Glade' whom Ian had met before, snorted coldly and was rather disdainful of the opinions of the other two representatives: "The lord of Xiahui Territory is a real genius. He may indeed have just mastered the true form of his bloodline, but when it comes to utilizing dragon blood, I'm afraid none of us can be better than him."

After being forced back by Ian and the Manya elders, Grenade was reprimanded by his superiors without any suspense and was beaten to death.

But he did not lose his calm because of this. Instead, he stayed in Nanling and quietly observed the development of Xia Hui Ling and Ian's actions.

The result shocked him.

Not to mention the rapid development of Xiahui Leader, Ian's strength has also improved at a speed that shocked him.

If we say that at the beginning of the confrontation, Grenade was still confident that he could defeat Ian in a head-on battle, but two months later, he was vaguely unable to use his dragon blood organ to sense Ian's source from a distance. Quality has fluctuated.

This can only mean one thing: that is, the purity of Ian's essence essence has exceeded the sensing limit of his dragon blood organ!

——The purity of Ian’s source essence has probably reached the peak of the second energy level!

This is what he came up with. Although it is incredible, for the sake of safety, it must be regarded as reality.

The blade suspects that the function of Ian's dragon blood organ is to greatly improve the purity of the essence by compressing the essence... Although this will reduce battery life, the improvement in combat power in a short period of time is quite amazing, and it will not be stuck. Stay at the pace of advancement.

This is the real reason why the other party was able to successfully break through to the second energy level at the age of sixteen!

Therefore, faced with the rather 'arrogant' performance of the two allies, he kindly reminded: "I suggest that you should treat Ian as an ascendant with the peak strength of the second level."

"Furthermore, when he returns to Port Harrison this time, he will definitely bring his armor with him... not to mention his magnetic storm armor escort team."

"Although it's not a big problem for us, for our subordinates, they are quite difficult enemies."

The other two representatives of the Dragon Worship Cult were rather unconcerned with Grenade's suggestion.

Although as allies, they can't taunt the G-blade, "You, Feiyan Land, lost, but we didn't lose, and we weren't scared out of our wits."

But the disapproving look and the tone of voice were enough to show their disdain for Grenade's suggestion.

After all, a rural place like Nanling is really not something they can value... Apart from anything else, the lord of Port Harrison where they are, the Viscount Grant, looks quite average. He spends all day doing nothing but drinking and partying. He did almost nothing and was not at all like the rumors. He almost pacified the entire Sequoia natives with one person and blocked the fleets of the Three Kingdoms by himself.

The intelligence was all exaggerated, so of course they wouldn't believe it.

And what else can the G-blade do? He said everything that needed to be said. If the other party didn't listen, that was none of his business.

The worst-case scenario is to just run away when the time comes - reputation is not as important as life.

The brief negotiation ended.

Next, what the Dragon Cult assassination team has to do is to continue to collect intelligence, look for opportunities, and suddenly raid Ian's convoy.

And they also made a rough action plan: as soon as Ian's convoy passes through Three Rivers City, they will take action, and then hide directly along the river into the depths of the Byson Mountains, heading to the Flying Flame Land to escape the pursuit of the empire.

There's just a problem.

——Can anyone really assassinate the prophet?

"Someone is going to attack me."

Just after passing the entrance of the Indigo Mountain Gorge, Ian's eyes flashed with cyan light. Ian, who was watching the convoy, suddenly said this: "Good guy, it's quite ferocious - most of the entire convoy will die. They came prepared."

"What?"

As soon as he said this, Qingchao, who was observing the surrounding situation, was suddenly startled. He immediately tried his best to sense the surroundings, but found nothing.

That's not to say there wasn't any - he caught a few brittle-bone finches and brought them back, which provided them with snacks for the rest of the afternoon.

"not now."

Ian continued to look at it for a while, then shook his head and said: "In about a few days, anyway, some time after passing Trois-Rivières, someone will attack our convoy, and the attack will be very fierce."

"Qingchao, prepare your sword and stretch your body. We must prepare in advance."

"Boss, you..."

Qingchao looked at Ian in confusion, confirming that his boss was not mentally depressed and hallucinating because he had been away from the laboratory for a long time: "How do you know? I don't doubt you and your information channels, but just now I didn’t see you receiving the letter, boss?”

"Didn't I say that?"

Ian turned his head and glanced at Qingchao: "I am the prophet of thunder. Is it strange that the prophet knew in advance that someone was going to attack? Rather, it is strange that he could be attacked."

Qingchao showed a complicated expression that said, "You can be a prophet, there must be some signs that I was stupid enough to not notice." This made Ian sigh: "Anyway, I got the news."

"Qingchao, when we arrive at Sanhe City, let the team rest. The two of us will go for a walk in the countryside to give the enemy a chance. Now, inform the Viscount and tell him that there is a great achievement for him, and ask him to prepare his etheric weapons at any time. Get ready to go."

"no problem."

Although it is still unclear how Ian knew that someone would attack him, the advantage of Qingchao is that no matter how confused he is, he will still do his best to complete the task entrusted by Ian.

However, he was still a little confused: "But what if Viscount Grant doesn't believe it?"

"He will definitely believe it. Fuel is not expensive anyway."

Ian said calmly: "Just tell him that the attacker this time is a foreign force. I have a way to get the empire to reimburse the maintenance cost of his etheric weapons - we can also work together to deceive him again... Ahem, apply for another one. Approval of aid.”

After saying this, the young man smiled confidently: "Don't worry, as long as it involves defrauding funds and aid..."

"Viscount Grant will definitely take action."