12-第九章：威力蓄须王的预言(8)

The Dragon spoke in Norse, for Seadragons can speak Norse when they so choose. ‘This is the Doomsday of Yule, and on this day, destruction awaits you all! CROWN your pathetic new King of the Wilderwest, put him on your silly human Throne, and then bring him out here to face ME in single combat… And once I have destroyed him, I shall not rest until I have destroyed every last human being breathing on this earth!’ The Dragon lifted up his great head, and lightning poured out of his mouth in an upward storm, and the sky lit up with an extraordinary bright light, as all across the Archipelago the dragons answered his cry. On the clifftop, the Dragonmarkers and the Alvinsmen held up their arms and hid their faces to shield them from the blinding brightness of the light as the whole world in front of them turned into a sea of flames, burning with the brightness of mini-suns. The numberless dragons of the Dragon Rebellion joined in that terrible unearthly screaming, a sound of WAR so dreadful that the mountains echoed with it, and the ground actually shook with the multiple stamping of the dragons’ feet as if it were the beginning of an earthquake. It was a sound that sent the hair on every Viking’s head a-quivering, for a people