Hidden Secrets

On a stretch of high ground south of the Forgotten Land Teleportation Portal, at the edge of the Forgotten Land, stood the only elevated area in the entire region.

The building atop this high ground resembled an observation tower, except the equipment inside had long since been abandoned.

Frost Axe was leading the dwarven demolition crew under his command as they tore down the ruins.

Elder Queitoan watched the dwarves raise their hammers and effortlessly demolish an entire wall with a single blow, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably.

The Forgotten Land had once been a human outpost near Aserkelo. Queitoan often came here to negotiate with humans as well, so this place carried some of his memories.

Though some of those memories were unpleasant, Elder Queitoan could not help feeling melancholy as he watched the scene.

"Child of the Forest, do you truly have a way to suppress the gate inside Lord Redri?"

Elder Queitoan had no way to stop the demolition, so he could only turn his attention to the black dragon.

"You should ask your World Tree about that. But seeing Cat and Mouse regain its ability to speak should be a good sign."

Joshua looked toward the Black Dragon Duke in another area.

Elder Enya had become something like the black dragon's wet nurse. Wherever the dragon went, she followed.

The black dragon's food supply had also been settled: the World Tree's avatars.

It was swallowing the seventeenth World Tree avatar whole. The World Tree seemed determined to use this method to train the black dragon's hunting abilities.

Queitoan wanted to ask more, but something seemed to have happened on the Black Dragon Duke's side, and he hurried over.

After seeing Elder Queitoan walk away, Frost Axe, who had been directing the dwarves' demolition work, slowly approached Joshua.