Hearing Victoria's answer, Modir looked much more at ease, and a comforting smile appeared on his face - although to him, Victoria was still just a stranger who had just met for a while, but the word "descendants" still had some indescribable marks in the heart of this old mage who often lost memory. As for Victoria... her feelings were much more complicated.

But no matter what, it would be great to fool our ancestors with this topic - the smart, powerful, mature and steady Duke of the North who always showed in front of others had an unprecedented sense of powerlessness.

"I'm here... in addition to recognizing you, I want to know your situation," After breathing a sigh of relief, Victoria immediately took the initiative in the words to prevent the atmosphere that had finally stabilized from sliding into a direction that she could not control again. "I learned from the Dragon Clan some things that happened to you... such as memory confusion and lack, and a short period of mental confusion, which may be related to your experience six hundred years ago..."

"Six hundred years ago..." Modir couldn't help but mumble softly, with a complicated expression on his face, "Actually, although I said that just now, I still couldn't believe it. Six hundred years... As you say, I almost lived from the early days of Ansu's founding of the country to the present, and have been wandering around in a daze for so many years..."

"The ancients who have survived for centuries are not without them. The miracle of resurrection has also appeared. In the extraordinary realm, something beyond common sense will inevitably happen," Victoria said softly. "As a legendary strong man, it is not unimaginable what you experienced in that year that can change the essence of life..."

"Yes," Modir thought for a while, and finally smiled relieved, "If you don't think about these things, it's rare for you to come here. You mentioned my memory and mental state just now, right... Indeed, I have had a big problem in this regard. Not only can I remember my surname, but I can't remember all my hometown and all my experiences when I was young. Look, I don't even know that I have left behind a child, I don't know that you are a descendant, nor that I have wandered in this world for so many years - but compared to the memory problems, I feel that I may have encountered greater trouble recently."

"A bigger trouble?" Victoria immediately frowned, "What kind of trouble?"

"Recently, I have been trapped in a strange dream more than once, and in the dream I have arrived in a strange and terrifying place that seems to be a shadow world," Modir recalled his experience not long ago while telling his experience in his dream. "I saw the gray-white desert and the ruins of the city in the distance, and a huge god...

"...The dragon leader told me that what I saw was most likely the ancient god "Shadow Goddess" who had been 'missed' for nearly two million years, but as for the other voice that was almost exactly the same as me, he didn't even know what was going on..."

The old wizard slowly told all the details she could remember, while Victoria became more serious as she listened carefully: even if an outsider who had only a brief understanding of the extraordinary realm stood here, she could realize from this story what a strange and dangerous experience it was, not to mention that she was a learned spellcaster herself, and she also had the authority to access the huge information published within the Theocracy Council - more she could think of.

It is related to an ancient god, who even existed in the same era as the Dragon God... The complexity and importance of this matter instantly exceeded her expectations before she set out.

When she heard the old mage talk about his last moment of his "dream", and when she heard that he was about to step out of the street and step onto the gray-white desert, Victoria's eyes finally changed slightly, and she subconsciously said: "You almost stepped into that desert? But I pulled her back?"

"I'm not sure what force I was pulled back, but this is the biggest possibility," Modir said very seriously. Although his memory was messy and broken, the knowledge he had in his mind was still vast. As a knowledgeable extraordinary person, he could roughly guess what factors caused him to wake up by speculation. "Your magical interference, spiritual comfort, maybe there is still a little blood power that works..."

"If this is true, then we should be really grateful," Victoria said from the heart. "It's a pity that we can't determine what the essence of the 'dream' you are experiencing, and we dare not try what would happen if we really stepped into that desert... Judging from common sense, if it was a realm created by an ancient god, no matter what His own will, that realm would be a fatal threat to mortals."

"I think so. Anyway, if I am pulled into that dream again next time, I will definitely find a way to wake up as soon as possible. If I really can't wake up, I have to find a way to fix myself in a safe place to prevent being lured by inexplicable forces and run to commit suicide..." Modir curled his lips, and raised his foot and shook it as he said. It was the foot he almost stepped into the desert in his dream. "It's just a little bit, my toes are touching..."

The old mage was halfway through his speech, and his speech stopped abruptly. He stared at his toes with wide eyes, and the expression on his face instantly became extremely serious.

Victoria immediately noticed this and subconsciously followed the old man's gaze. She immediately saw something that made Modir suddenly become serious: at the front of the old mage's boots, a few gray-white particles were quietly sticking to the leather surface of the boots. Against the black background, the gray-white substances that seemed not to belong to this world seemed particularly eye-catching.

"This..." Victoria was stunned and reacted instantly, but before she took action, Modir's voice sounded first: "Don't move first, this is the sample!"

While speaking, the old mage raised his hand and waved it in the air. The invisible magic power then condensed into a translucent hand of shaping - Victoria had never seen such a dexterous and precise magic spell. She saw that the hand condensed with magic power carefully pinched the gray-white sand and slowly put them on a small wooden plate on the desk next to her. Then Modir stood up and walked out along the route when he entered the house with a serious look on his face. It took another half a minute before returning to the house.

Victoria knew that the old man went to check whether there were other grains of sand left on the ground when she walked around before - a very meticulous and cautious personality under her peaceful and unconventional appearance, and she finally established her first impression of her ancestors.

"No more," Modir returned to his desk, staring at the sand in the wooden plate, muttering in a low voice as he thought, "It seems that I brought this thing from 'the other side'."

Then he raised his head, looked at Victoria, and smiled on his face: "It goes against common sense, right? I have just encountered such a thing that goes against common sense a while ago. But think about it, it might be related to an ancient god behind this matter... It goes against common sense if it goes against common sense."

"You arrived there in your dream... and then you actually brought the things over there to the real world!" Victoria opened her eyes slightly, and her thoughts flew in her mind, "Does this mean... the distance between you and the 'over' is..."

"Yes, I'm afraid I'm getting closer and closer to 'over there,'" Modir nodded slightly without waiting for Victoria to finish speaking, but there was no tension or fear on his face. "At first I could only hear some sounds and some pictures, and then the notes I left there were reflected in the real world, and then... you see, I even brought out everything there. Think about the 'attraction' I was over there, it was very like a gradual process..."

"Then can you still be so calm?" Victoria's face, which was always lacking in expression, finally changed her expression. "The power of that ancient god is chasing you - whether it is malicious or not, this is definitely not a good thing for mortals!"

"Yes, I'm afraid it's not a good thing. I've encountered many thrilling situations in my life, but this time I've been with God, it's too exciting," Modir said helplessly, "I will think of some ways to deal with it and do my best, but I don't think this will have much effect - we have to face the power of ancient gods, and the strangeness of gods is beyond the imagination of mortals... Let's take one step at a time."

"No, this is far from enough," Victoria stood up from the chair. "I will report this matter to the upper class of the Dragon Clan immediately, and they will find a way to do it. Please rest assured that even if the opposite side is really the power of the gods, we are not powerless. The empire also has the power of equality with God..."

Modir looked at Victoria with a serious face in surprise. After looking up and down a few times, he couldn't help but say, "But aren't you just an ordinary administrative official in the Government Affairs Department? Why does this sound like..."

"...You believe me," Victoria interrupted the old man a little stiffly, "This has nothing to do with my identity. What happened to you is extremely special and is enough to attract His Majesty, the upper class of the Dragon Clan, and even the attention of many leaders of the Alliance - your existence is much more important than you think."

Modir looked at Victoria deeply, and after a moment he withdrew his gaze, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he sighed softly: "Since that's the case, of course I believe in you. But before the big guys you mentioned react, I still have to find a way to protect myself..."

"I will stay in Tallond for a while," Victoria said immediately. "Since I can wake you up from the 'dream', then I should play a role in staying by your side..."

"I won't talk about this for now," Modir waved his hand. "I have to master as much information as possible before I get pulled into that 'dream', some information about...myself. In addition to the information that I cannot access, I hope you can complete my missing memories as much as possible."

"Of course," Victoria nodded immediately, "where do you want to start to understand?"

"Let me talk about my 'missing' first," Modir thought for a while and said slowly, "that's probably the 'starting point' for my loss of memory... Victoria, what is the last clue I left in front of the world?"

“In Mosswood, your last adventure is in Mosswood North…”

...

In the southwest of New Argondor, the whistling sound of giant wings tearing the air fell from the sky. With the surge of magic and two gusts of strong winds, two huge black figures landed on the hills on the edge of the desolate wilderness one after another.

They were two black dragons. One of them was smaller, but they were covered with the intimidating steel armor and the magic machinery with complex structures. The other was huge and strong, but the strong and wide wings were covered with scars, and there were even more hideous scars on the back that penetrated the entire torso.

"This is the boundary of the safety zone," the black dragon covered with scars came to the edge of the hills, and his low voice rang out, "Did you see the beacon lights flashing in the wilderness in the distance? That is the boundary set by adventurers and soldiers of the propulsion troops. Every time we clear the monsters in an area and repair local elemental cracks and space cracks, we will set this beacon light on its boundary. When we clear the new place, we will expand the beacon lights outwards - but this expansion is not always smooth. Many times, wandering monsters will suddenly appear and reoccupy the security boundary that is not stable enough, and then we have to push the defense back... Sometimes this tug-of-war will last several times before we can truly stabilize a safe area completely.

"As a result, the new review team has divided the clear 'security level' for each area. Major cities such as Argondore and Binhai County, as well as the surrounding suburbs, belong to green safety zones. This area has been completely stable, and there will be no elemental organisms and malicious spirits. The pollution has been removed, so you can survive with peace of mind and the facilities are relatively complete;

"The wilderness farther is divided into orange areas. These areas still have sporadic monsters, or there are unstable geological structures and uncleaned pollution sources. Occasionally, disasters occur, but basically no activated elemental cracks appear. The chances of deterioration in these areas are very low, and they are basically transforming towards green areas - most new adventurers are also active in these areas. Their main task is to maintain stability in the orange area, clear small-scale monsters in the area, and at the same time ensure that the various resources produced in the orange area can be safely transported to the green area;

"Alongside, there is the unsafe 'red zone' - it has basically reached the boundary of the 'survivable zone'. These areas have only basic cleaning and stances. In addition to the only supply lines that can barely pass, there are still large-scale elemental creatures and malicious spirits in the wilderness, and unstable elemental rifts and space rifts will emerge at any time. The main responsible for these areas are the dragon warriors who are promoting the troops, but there are also a few senior adventurers who have passed the assessment to assist in some reconnaissance and finish the work."
Chapter completed!