Chapter 984
Although Brandon’s proposal caught the black hair wizard off guard, and seriously suspected that he was planning to let himself carry the culprit; but he also understood that this was indeed the only choice.
Because the attitude of the giant dragon is crucial to this war.
According to a certain prince, the number of "dragon riders" in the Imperial Family of Desalion, if ranked according to generations, will decrease successively-from the most glorious second life generation, All the sons of Queen Brunhild are dragon riders, and he is the only one in the fourteenth generation, and even the Imperial Capital cannot be "favored" by giant dragons.
Obviously, the giant dragons on Jufeng Mountain are no longer willing to implement the agreement between the two parties as they did in the past.
But the opposite is their threat to the empire-such a group of Great Desolate Giant Beast standing at the top of the food chain, once they lose their final control and shackles, no one knows they will It will not become a disaster.
Even if it is to ensure that they will not stand on the opposite side of the empire, it is necessary to figure out the fundamental attitude of the giant dragon-even without the help of the giant dragon, it is necessary to ensure that they will not ally with the elves.
This is somewhat similar to the elves of the ancient wood forest, but the difference is also very big...No matter how powerful those fierce war dancers are, they are at best a duchy "trouble" that threatens Lotaire. That's it.
But if the giant dragon turns against the water, it will be a disaster at the national level!
For Loren, he also wanted to take this opportunity to communicate with the giant dragon about how the kingdom of giant dragon died back then-the plan of "Black Cross" Serel, Four Evil God His conspiracy, the origin of the Holy Cross... He has so many things he wants to know.
"So...you have agreed to this matter?"
In a room in Floating Void City, the Count Eckert, who just listened to the explanation, is desperately trying Restraining my shock, I try my best to keep calm and look at the indifferent black hair wizard.
"Do you disagree?"
"no! It's not that I disagree, it's just..." Eckert frowned, seems to be thinking about how to express his meaning: "It's just... Well, if you are your vassal, I firmly disagree with your act of committing a risk again, especially when you have not completely recovered completely!"
"You are right Byrne, it is too important to the Torino family-no matter how glory and victory, Byrne can never afford to lose a duke!"
"Especially in the era of the'Black Duke' After that, I believe that it’s not just me. If you are standing here, they would rather replace you with any count of thirteen collars. They are not willing to let the leader of Byrne take such a big risk on the orders of the Imperial Family. Risk."
"But as a Byrne Knight...I fully support you in doing this!"
Sighed, Eckert's conversation turned: "Dukes of Byrne...even It is King Knight, who has never had such an honor to go to Jufeng Mountain in person and confront the giant dragon; this is undoubtedly a challenge to the'privileges' of the Imperial Family of Desalion."
"Special It is that you still have the special ability to communicate with the giant dragon. If one day—of course, this is just an assumption—you or your descendants can establish a bond with the giant dragon, the “dragon rider”... will no longer be Desa The privilege of Leon’s Imperial Family."
"It’s so glorious, even if the fourteenth generation of Lords of Byrne add up, it’s impossible to mention on equal terms; not to mention that all the people in the Empire know it, Desaly The Imperial Family relies on the power of the giant dragon to have the power to rule the empire."
"The Lord of Rhobyne can do the same thing, which is the same as the Torino family... The legal principle of ruling the empire!"
Speaking of this, even Eckert Count himself was a little excited.
"So...Do you agree or disagree?"
Isaac, who was sitting on the side of the black hair wizard, opened his hands and looked at him inexplicably.
The count complexion stiffened of Fury Castle with an excited expression, a complex expression appeared in his pupils.
"Eckert means..." Loren slightly smiled, softly round the field: "He supports this trip to Jufeng Mountain, because the benefits are obvious; on the contrary, the dangers are also the same. Obviously."
"But on the other hand, if I don't go...is there no danger?"
lightly snorted, the black hair wizard turned his eyes to the Castle of Fury count: "In addition to us who witnessed the death of Iolite, there are two other giant dragons-Grum and Mirasis. Even if we don't go, Dragon Clan of Jufeng Mountain will know this when the time comes. "
"We who did not go to explain in person at that time, at least are very passive in the book of reason; it seems that we are very guilty and intend to pretend that nothing happened."
The expression tightened. Count frowned.
"In any case, the initiative in this matter is still in our hands; no matter what their final attitude, at least there is still room for mediation." At this point, Loren couldn't help but smile. :
"I can’t wait until the giant dragon arrives at the Scarlet Blood Castle, and when Longyan descends from the sky above Byrne, I will think about'what to do'?"
" The people who can solve the problem, but the dead, the destroyed farmland, manor and housing city... will never come back; if there are any serious casualties on both sides, it is equivalent to finding an irreconcilable enemy for Byrne."
Count's face in Fury Castle finally became serious.
After a while, he finally nodded.
"Then, what is your plan?" Sighed, Eckert asked, "Since you have made up your mind, you must have a plan?"
"For the time being... if you insist on saying something, probably only improvisation." Shrugged, Loren whispered: "The only thing is that we must never explain to them in the name of'please sin'."
"In addition, Brandon will also go with me. Instead of thinking about it, wait for him to tell me what his plan is. After all, he is more experienced in this kind of outrage and deliberate courting death."
With a deep sigh, Eckert, who stopped asking too much, slowly got up: "I'll go outside and let the team prepare and arrange a team to escort you to Jufeng Mountain. ”
Loren, who is pleased to know, counts slightly nodded towards the Fury Castle.
Just before leaving the room, his heavy and firm footsteps suddenly stopped in front of the door.
"Duke, there is one more thing I want to ask." Eckert, who spoke suddenly, attracted the attention of everyone in the house: "About this time's trip to Jufeng Mountain, you should have written I told the female count of the Scarlet Blood Castle, Charlotte Torino...right?"
The black hair wizard's expression froze.
The little wizard, with his head down, couldn't help but secretly side his eyes, watching him cautiously.
"...I understand." Seeing Loren's reaction, Eckert immediately understood: "The messenger I will arrange, please make sure to write the letter within today, and send it to Scarlet Blood immediately. Fort."
After finishing talking, he bowed his head and left the room without waiting for Loren to answer.
Only the black hair wizard with a slightly awkward look was left in front of the round table, Isaac who had not figured out the situation with the back of his head, and a little wizard with his head down and silent.
No one speaks in the quiet room.
Until a certain "arrogant" comes forward first.
"So, we are going to Jufeng Mountain?" Isaac raised his eyebrows, and glanced over Loren and Ai Yin intentionally or unintentionally:
"Um...no I know you haven’t heard of it, but when I was looking for information in Eboden, I found a lot of interesting things and superb views about Jufeng Mountain-for example, it is actually an'dead volcano', so there are a lot of great things around. Hot springs, it’s said that taking a bath is particularly good for the body."
"Although this mountain is located in the very center of East Sacrament, it has been blocked all the year round-considering the life of a giant dragon, It can’t be blocked either-so there are a lot of precious medicine ingredients, maybe it can bring us a lot of surprises!"
Isaac's self-talking voice echoed in the room. , It seems lively and quiet.
"Of course, the most important thing is that we can see giant dragons...giant dragons, but giant dragons...not one that appears occasionally, but a few or even more than a dozen of them. Some of them are possible. The age is more rescued than the empire, and it already existed in the era of the giant dragon kingdom!"
"Maybe they know a lot of things we don't know, maybe they can tell us the truth about what happened back then—— For example, how did the giant dragon kingdom be destroyed, how did the Battle of the Skeleton Valley be won, and how did Roland the Black Duke happen to be the same; maybe..."
"You What do you want to say?!"
The little wizard with his head down interrupted.
"I want to say, this may be a great opportunity." For the first time, Isaac was not dissatisfied with Ai Yin's attitude: "Think about it, superb views, hot springs, and clouds of smoke. The mountains... what a wonderful place, think about how many times you two will leave Brandon and me and run to be alone!"
"Smog-shrouded woods, surrounded by water vapor On the edge of the hot springs, sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces... Oh, especially the last one. I read a book by Bandelke Master. It says that the more dangerous the environment, the more it stimulates the human’s physiological response and improves the inner Some kind of desire level."
"Of course, in my opinion, this may be the key reason why he didn’t find a wife for a lifetime—after all, you can’t expect a wizard to stay in the tower of the wizard. What can be dangerous; when he is generous, his unflattering looks will not attract any woman who can give him a child..."
"Get out!"
The little wizard with his head down interrupted for the second time.
"Understood, let's go now." Isaac looked at Loren with a comprehensible expression, and kept winking at Loren: "Right, have you found that Lucien is missing? It doesn't matter, I'll go now. Find him-don't worry, I will never let him break in before you two leave..."
"peng!"
A magic wand is accurate It hit Isaac's head, blocked the second half of his sentence in his throat, and ran out of the room without forgetting to close the door.
Now, there are only two people left in the room.
The black hair wizard glanced at the magic wand on the ground, and then at the little wizard who cautiously retracted his right hand, speechless in embarrassment.
"Ayin..."
"no! Loren, don't talk!" Lifting his head suddenly, the little wizard snatched with a panic expression, his azure blue eyes gleaming with complex luster Staring at his face firmly:
"At least for now, don't say anything."
The black hair wizard who hesitated and stopped, can only look at her silently expression.
Three years...No, it has been more than three years, and her expression is still the same as when she was at Wimpal.
Wronged, worried, apprehensive, determined, not knowing what to do... Countless contradictions and emotions are displayed so clearly in the sapphire eyes.
A few years have passed since I left Wimpal Academy. I have changed, Isaac has changed, and Dalton's instructor has also changed.
Only Ai Yin, still the little wizard from the past-only her, who always knows who she is, where she came from, where she is going, and what she does.
The hesitation and confusion of the little wizard is always the contradiction between compromise and self-persistence; it is always between hurting oneself or others, constantly making choices.
Whether it is a friend or an enemy.
She bit her lower lip, trying her best not to let the crystal from the corner of her eyes fall, and her motionless lovable body shuddered slightly.
"Loren Torino, I know you too well... If I force you to agree to something now, even if you don’t think so, you will still agree to me."
" I also know that the arrogant Isaac must have said to you such things as'compensation' or'asking for forgiveness', because he is this kind of person-he doesn't notice when he hurts others, and when he thinks of remedy I tend to be more anxious than anyone."
"But that...is not the result I want."
"I don't want to get any compensation, and I don't want to be "weak" in your eyes. I get any bias from my identity—the day I decided to become a wizard, I just wanted to be treated fairly by others and use my ability to fight for what I wanted."
The little wizard, his expression became more and more excited: "I... don't want to be pityed, do you understand?"
Sigh, the black hair wizard nodded without a word.
"Now...at least for now, I still don’t know what I really want—not that I can’t feel it, but I can’t tell, I can’t see clearly, I...I don’t know if I am It’s as I imagined it to be."
"So that sentence, please don’t speak anyway; also please wait for me for a while...it won’t be very long, it’s not very short, when the time comes, I will tell you by myself."
Tighten the powder fist, Ai Yin's words seem to be squeezed out of the teeth: "Before that, I hope you can still be like the past Treat me with an attitude, even if we can't go back!"
"Promise me, Loren, okay?"
Before the silent round table, looking at her pair almost begging Expressions.
In addition to "good", Loren really couldn't think of the second word he could say.
"Thank you." The little wizard said indifferently, with a solemn expression:
"Really, thank you."