Catastrophe Card King - Chapter 1599

Chapter 1599: Chapter 486 The Truth Behind the Fall of Lanlingster Chapter 1599: Chapter 486 The Truth Behind the Fall of Lanlingster Tea-bearded bruiser’s heart skipped a beat when he heard Sophia Jones’s words.

The slight panic in his eyes, mixed with doubt, was wondering: who exactly are these people?

In the Southern Continent, even mentioning the name of the Dragon God “Airel” was taboo.

Yet the person before him had mentioned that supreme Dragon God without a hint of respect?

In that moment, Tea-bearded finally confirmed these people before him were definitely not from the Holy Church!

Could they be “heretics”?

They had been conscripted by the Church before and participated in several campaigns to exterminate heretics.

It wasn’t surprising for him to run into those heretics in the Magical Beast Forest, whom the Holy Church claimed to be evil and cruel.

If it were before, he would have fought these heretics to the death without hesitation.

But now…

The Holy Church’s supreme halo of holiness had shattered cleanly when they silenced witnesses in the Mysterious Realm.

They were nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.

On the contrary, encountering people who were not from the Holy Church was his real chance for survival.

Moreover, Tea-bearded’s face showed a hint of bitterness when he heard the word “buy”.

He thought for just an instant and then replied, “Fine! I can sell you both the information and items…”

He had no other choice.

Given that the others had the power to rob him outright, speaking those words was already the best scenario.

…

“That Mysterious Realm seems to be where a God fell during an ancient battle, and the Relics still have many chaotic zones left…”

“The Mysterious Realm appears to connect to the Underworld, filled with numerous Hell and Abyssal creatures. We only explored up to the thirteenth layer of the Underground Cave and already encountered many incredible High Tier creatures. These beasts were huge and much stronger than other Magical Beasts of the Same Tier. Some had bizarre abilities. We suffered heavy casualties… and there’s no telling how much deeper it goes…”

“….”

After recognizing the reality of the situation, Tea-bearded stopped being so evasive in his speech.

He recounted everything: how they were conscripted, the path they took, what they found, and why they were silenced…

Leonard Churchill had heard enough from the beginning to guess the whole story.

Tea-bearded’s “Mithril Serpent Mercenary Group” was one of the many Adventure Groups responding to the Holy Church’s conscription. They came to the Magical Beast Forest and completed various tasks assigned by the Church.

Then they found the “Death Domain” and went to explore it.

However, he did not expect the rest of the story to be so complicated.

That Mysterious Realm was indeed the place where Emperor Lanlingster had perished!

Tea-bearded continued his tale.

“In that Mysterious Realm, there are many ancient Spirit remnants and connections to the Alternate Dimension… That allowed us, the first Adventurers to delve deep into the Mysterious Realm, to glimpse the truth of that divine battle…”

“It seemed a God Tier battle took place in ancient times… The Dragon Clan of the Southern Continent conspired to ambush Emperor Taron of the Lanlingster Dynasty…”

“At that time, the Altranc civilization was at its peak, with the Golden Dragon God Marlodis leading the Dragon Clan. He led the Brass Dragon, Iron Dragon, Platinum Dragon, and Bronze Dragon, with at least five Divine-Level Giant Dragons participating in that Earth-shattering assassination… Emperor Lanlingster came to the Southern Continent apparently to explore the depths of that Mysterious Realm, but was gravely wounded and emerged, thus falling prey to a surprise Dragon attack. However, nobody expected the Emperor to be so powerful. The fierce battle left both sides seriously wounded, and the Dragon Clan suffered heavily…”

“The outcome of that battle was unknown initially. But unexpectedly, a Three-Headed Dragon suddenly entered the fray… it ambushed both the Golden Dragon God Marlodis and Emperor Lanlingster… I don’t know what happened next…”

“But it was by spying on these ancient secrets that our group was brought to catastrophe… At that time, we realized that the Holy Church had conscripted us with no intention of letting us leave alive with these secrets…”

“…”

As Leonard Churchill and the members of the Great Sword Group listened, their expressions were motionless, but the trembling in their eyes betrayed their inner turmoil.

This news was explosive.

Even Leonard was surprised; so this was the true story behind Emperor Lanlingster’s fall.

Ambushed by the Dragon Clan of the Southern Continent.

Although Tea-bearded didn’t know what followed.

The reality now was that the mighty Altranc collapsed overnight, replaced by the rule of the Ariel Empire over the Southern Continent for tens of thousands of years.

That “Three-Headed Dragon God Airel” indeed played the role of a dishonorable ambush predator in that battle.

It perfectly demonstrated the “cunning” of dragons in this story.

No wonder the Holy Church wanted to erase that chapter of civilization from history.

Listening, Leonard’s understanding of previously seen incomplete documents fell perfectly into place.

…

Before coming, everyone thought the “Death Domain” merely had a high mortality rate.

A newly discovered Relic area with a high death rate seemed normal.

But they had not anticipated that the Holy Church never intended for these conscripted mercenaries and Adventurers to return alive.

That Tea-bearded managed to escape was extremely lucky.

In the end, he said, “We knew those ancient secrets were of great importance and initially intended to keep them hidden. However, for some reason, the Holy Church quickly noticed something was amiss and then the Holy Dragon Knights began to encircle and silence us. They didn’t want us to bring these secrets out. The captain, all the others died in the encirclement… I survived because our battle accidentally lured out an Eighth-Order Beast Lord lurking in the Mysterious Realm, which disrupted the encirclement. I was lucky enough to avoid death by a hair’s breadth and escaped during the chaos…”