Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 175: Leviathan’s Song (12)

Dragon Raja 5

“For King Arthur, who died in battle in England, the voyage to Avalon in the Arctic Circle is a bit too long,” said Caesar.

“Indeed, most mythologists believe that Avalon is located in Glastonbury, England. However, in recent years, archaeologists have discovered land within the Arctic Circle on very ancient Phoenician maps, including Greenland and the Franz Josef Land archipelago next to us. With the Phoenicians’ shipbuilding and navigation skills, the area they could freely navigate was limited to the Mediterranean Sea. They knew of Greenland and Franz Josef Land only by hearsay, which means that people had sailed to the land in the Arctic Ocean before the Common Era. However, in addition to the land we know about, there is another archipelago that has never been discovered by humans.” EVA said, “Although the spelling is different, the pronunciation of that island in Phoenician is similar to Avalon. Therefore, some researchers fascinated by King Arthur mythology began to claim that Avalon is located within the Arctic Circle.”

“At this moment, there are at least hundreds of satellites orbiting in low-Earth orbit. They are looking at the Earth from space and can see everything clearly. But there are still people who believe in the ‘unknown land’?” Caesar said slowly.

“Humans always tend to believe in unknown things, and are even willing to believe that they exist in other dimensions.” EVA has a profound meaning.

The people at Cassel Academy exchanged glances. Caesar wasn’t actually questioning the situation, but rather drawing a conclusion. An island recorded on ancient maps, nestled within the bitterly cold Arctic Circle, yet warm as a corner of paradise, where time barely flows and only accessible to the chosen… So what else could it be but the Nibelungen?

Only the Dragon King or something close to the Dragon King could construct a Nibelungen of this scale and support it for thousands of years. The distance between them and Leviathan was shortened.

Rebalco was excluded from this conversation, and as an outsider, he should have been confused.

He certainly didn’t try to join in the conversation; the smoke from his cigar blurred his expression.

The video resumed playing, continuing with Xue’s cold and dejected narration. “They often sent people down to the surface along the way. Sometimes they would pull up some metal objects with patterns on them, but they wouldn’t let my father and I get close to them.”

“Patterned metal, can you describe it?” Abbas asks in the video.

“It looks like part of a pillar, a black pillar,” Xue said. “It looks like stone, and also like iron, but it doesn’t rust even when it’s soaked in sea water.”

Schneider nodded slightly.

Although he was already very interested in this Inuit girl, he did not expect her to provide so much valuable information. The dragon tribe did have the habit of building giant pillars. They recorded history and prophecies on these pillars. The pillars that reached the sky could be said to be the landmarks of the dragon city.

So those mysterious Finns and Russians actually found a city built by dragons on the seabed. Besides Takamagahara, the Japanese seabed, there are many more dragon cities that still exist today, their ruins standing on the seabed, which is exciting to think about.

“But we never found the sunset place until… that night when there was an aurora in the sky,” said Xue.

Rebalco used up nearly all his strength to pin himself down on the chair. The aurora-shrouded night appeared before him again, the eerie, dazzling sky, the dancing dragons and snakes. Everything seemed like an illusion, like the ancient Mayans, taking poisonous mushrooms and accepting the sorcerer’s suggestion, as if they had traveled through time and space and been baptized by the will of God. So ethereal, so chaotic.

But amidst all the hazy chaos, the silhouette of the man surnamed Chu, whose name was unknown, wielding an AK47 and firing indiscriminately, was so solid, like a human figure carved out of rock by a tomahawk.

“The sea was exceptionally calm that night, with not a speck of ice to be seen. As usual, everyone except those on duty was asleep,” Xue said softly. “I was woken by the noise. By the time I ran up to the deck, everyone was already there. The bow was pointing towards the night sky, and the ‘Goddess’s Skirt’ was fluttering.”

“The hem of the goddess’ skirt?” asked Abbas in the video.

“We Inuit call the most magnificent cyan aurora the ‘Goddess’s Skirt,’ saying it’s a sight seen only once every century, bringing blessings to those who see it,” Xue said. “Right below the aurora, We actually saw an island, but it seemed to be floating upside down in the sky. The people on the boat went crazy, sailing their small boat towards the island but wouldn’t let my father and me on board. We just waited quietly on deck. Their boat had a long rope behind it, and if they were in danger, they would pull hard on the rope, and then my father would use the winch to pull them back.”

“So, you found Sunset Land?” Abbas asks in the video.     

“I didn’t see the sunset,” Xue shook her head. “I was on the deck watching the aurora for a long time until the copper bell on the rope suddenly rang.”

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