Bud walked on the ground that had been flattened, crouched down, caressed the soft earth, and with a little sadness and melancholy on his face, he kept this movement motionless.

This land once buried an army from the Baltic Empire with a dream of slaying dragons, and now these dead warriors have been buried by Seismology, and a tomb will be built on this land in the future to commemorate these warriors who gave their lives for the Empire.

Yes, it is true that these warriors paid with their lives because of their arrogance and arrogance, but no matter what, they died for the empire, gave their lives for the cause of the empire, and they should not be left in obscurity, and they disappeared into the long river of time without even leaving their names.

"Okay, let's go, we can't waste too much time here. ”

The gnoll walked up to Bud's side, patted Bud on the shoulder, and whispered.

The atmosphere between the two of them is hardly reminiscent of the-for-tat quarrel they had ten minutes ago.

Unlike other national powers, the Baltic Empire has a perfect system and a fair environment, and although the relationship between the commanders and generals is not harmonious, it will not become the kind of sworn enemy relationship for the sake of victory and victory.

Many of them are right about things and not about people, and their actions and words are directed at things and problems, not at the people who create them, and there will be no such situation of opposition for the sake of opposition.

This phenomenon cannot be seen in the Scandinavian Empire and the Attila Empire, and even in the Assyrian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Uruk Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Egypt in the south.

"Bude, something is not right, it may be very different from what we suspected. ”

The gnolls twitched his nose slightly, hoping to find some useful information from the various smells in the air, but his usually invincible sense of smell did not bring him a satisfactory answer this time.

"There was no smell of dragons in the air, no smell of gnolls and goblins. ”

"Nothing?"

"No, it smells of the undead, but it must have been that the corpse had been sitting here for too long, and the dirt was stained here. ”

“…… It seems that the information given to us by our intelligence services is wrong again. ”

Bud looked in the direction of the dragon's nest and was speechless for a long time, he was now hesitating whether he should continue to move forward and confirm the situation inside the dragon's nest, or turn back and let the intelligence department provide more accurate information before conducting a second sortie.

The two commanders, the Jackal and the Rhino Man, whose abilities and prestige were only greater than Bud, looked at him silently, without saying a word, they were waiting for Bud to make a decision, whether it was to move forward or turn away, they would follow it carefully.

"Go ahead, even if the information provided by our intelligence department is useless, we can't leave without finding anything, at least the situation on the Dragon's Lair needs to be confirmed with our own eyes. ”

"Let's scout a little more careful, and let the Harpy take off and patrol the surroundings from above, and don't give the dragon any chance, the other side is stronger than us, so our only chance to win is not to make mistakes. ”

"Dragons are so mobile that they have a lot of room to make mistakes, but unlike us, if you make one mistake, you can be wiped out, and while it's not appropriate to say that right now, you don't want to be buried in this strange land. ”

Bud said slowly, the scout troops in his hands are basically composed of harpies and gnolls, harpies fly in the sky with an extremely wide field of vision, and the jackals' sensitive sense of smell can easily catch small smells from the air, so as to extract the information they need from these smells.

The gnolls and harpies quickly spread out in a circular circle, and they had already probed back and forth several times around them, but even so, they did not show any impatience, trembled, and seriously completed the task assigned by Bud.

Of course, the information they gave back was no different from before, and there were no anomalies in this canyon that had been erased, no dragons, no undead, and no foul smell that belonged to the dragons' families.

"Keep going, we have one more afternoon to go, and we must get to the Dragon's Lair before dark. ”

Most of the people in the army have the ability to see in the dark, especially today's weather is good, there are no snowstorms or rain, there are no dark clouds in the sky, and when it comes to night, the moon and stars will provide them with illumination, and they will not be weakened too much in the dark night.

It should be noted that they are on the offensive side, and if they attack at night, they will need to deal with not only difficult enemies, but also an unfamiliar environment, which will limit their combat effectiveness, which Bud needs to avoid as much as possible.

However, if they arrive at the dragon's lair before dark and camp near it, then it is very likely that the attacking side will become the dragon, and they will become the defenders, and they will not need to worry about the unfamiliar environment.

The tactics of the Baltic Empire, compared to a tough attack, are actually more suitable for defensive counterattacks, waiting for the enemy to attack with intact defense, and waiting for the moment when the enemy has a flaw to counterattack, and finally win the battle.

Eventually, the army came to the vicinity of the dragon's lair without any waves, and standing outside the lair, the dragon's lair could be clearly seen, and Bud vaguely felt that the dragon's lair had become an empty shell.

Not to mention the dragon, not even the dragon's dependents, only a bubbling black swamp with a disgusting rancid smell in its place.

"Be careful, the opponent may attack at any time, and this is not the time to relax. ”

"Let's scout search the dragon's lair and see if we can find useful clues, I don't believe that our intelligence department can make such a mistake, even the information that the dragon is not there will be mistaken. ”

Bud was still cautious at this time, and if it were another commander, he had begun to spread the news of the dragon's departure in fear among the army, and began to declare his army victorious.

After another half an hour, the gnolls who had returned from the dragon's lair did not bring much good information, and even the smell of the dragon had dissipated a lot, and it was conceivable that the dragon had left this lair for a long time.

In this way, instead of gathering the other dragons to fight the Baltic Empire's army head-on, the dragon did not hesitate to turn away with his dependents.

But if that's the case, Bud has a new question, how the dragon tricked the intelligence forces into leaving here, and how he hid it from the intelligence forces to find out about him.

You must know that the intelligence force of the Baltic Empire is composed of those assassins and hunters, the former are all strictly trained and successfully obtained a good evaluation from Hassan's hands before they can return to the empire, while the latter is a group of experienced hunters, and if these hunters cooperate in the northland, monsters such as dragons and mammoths cannot escape their hunt.

Bud had a hard time believing that the intelligence force composed of these two would make such a big mistake, and he could hardly believe that a dragon could get away from being tracked by the intelligence forces, especially the hunters.

"You go find five spellcasters and personally lead a team to the dragon's lair, and I will send two teams of heavy infantry to follow you and protect your safety. ”

Bud, who still has no dead heart, said like a rhinoceros commander that if the scouts don't find a trace, then the spellcaster, with those magical magic, can always find some clues.

The opponent is a cunning black dragon, no matter how cautious and cautious it is, it is not excessive.

The so-called heavy infantry is those who hold a shield in one hand, a weapon in the other, and wear heavy armor all over their bodies, usually by rhinoceros people with relatively strong strength to fill this role, although some excellent, strong, tall Scandinavians can also be qualified for such a role.

With the shield in their hands, they can even resist the physical attacks of the dragon, which can effectively limit the dragon's movements, buy time for other troops to attack, and provide their lethality.

"Others, pay attention, if anything happens, just wait for my orders, and go to the aid at any time, the dragons will never give up so easily, with their greed and arrogance, there is no way to run away like this. ”

Bud said calmly, his eyes still sparkling with a sparkle even in the twilight.

Under the escort of the heavy infantry, several spellcasters slowly walked towards the place where the dragon's nest was, their faces were not good, but they did not resist Bude's order, after all, compared to the danger, their efforts can also get extremely rich benefits, if they can defeat and kill the dragon, then they will get the priority to choose the materials on the dragon's body.

A dragon that has died, especially the dragon that has just died, is also of immeasurable value, for the caster, every inch of flesh and blood on the dragon's body, every organ, is a very precious casting material and experimental material, and even if they don't use it, it is very cost-effective to pick it up and exchange it with others.

"Pick yourself up, pull yourself together, stand ready to support. ”

Bud loudly boosted morale, what is the situation of the dragon slaying battle this time, it is on those spellcasters, if even the spellcasters can't find information in the dragon's lair, then they can go home, and then go to the intelligence department, why in such a battle, there is a situation where there is a wrong intelligence.

"It's really cautious, should I say that it is worthy of coming out of the Baltic Empire?"

The dragon hidden in the shadows watched the movements of the army from afar, and laughed in a low voice, but the smile looked unusually hideous.

"Are you scared? The army of the Baltic Empire, that is the woman's army. ”

Another red dragon lay on the ground, yawning.

Of course, I don't think anyone would have fear and regret when they think back to that woman. ”

"But I was more angry than scared and regretful, and I think you were too, having rushed back to the lair from Scandinavia overnight, and there was nothing left of the treasure that had been stored before. ”

"I have to make that woman regret it, make her feel pain, we don't have any negotiating capital, so I need to use force to force the other side to come to the negotiating table to negotiate with us, I just want my treasure back, that's my stuff. ”

Even the cunning black dragon could not overcome the dragon's greed hidden in his soul, and with the cunning he showed, he could have had more ways to acquire wealth, but he chose the most stupid method, in a way that would surely anger his enemies, in the hope of reclaiming his treasure from the enemies he could not defeat.

"Ah, I just want my treasure back, I won't pay attention to the rest, the reason why I am here is willing to listen to your wordy, just because of the promise you gave me, if you can't fulfill this promise, I will tear you off, I think a fresh black dragon's corpse should be able to exchange for a lot of treasures." ”

Lying on the ground was an adult red dragon with armor the color of lava, and he casually warned the black dragon that he had the power to kill the other easily.

There is also a gap in strength between the dragon and the dragon, not to mention the white dragon, which is known as the shame of the dragon, the black dragon, which is not much stronger than the white dragon, and the strongest red dragon, there is still a very obvious difference.

Not to mention anything else, just by looking at the size, the red dragon lying on the ground is almost one and a half times the size of the black dragon, and it even makes people wonder if the black dragon can be easily defeated by physical strength alone.

"That's right, the rest is your problem, Black Dragon, we only care about our treasure, whether we can take it back from that woman's hands. ”

Not far away, a white dragon is clicking and biting on the ice, and inside the ice, there is also a frozen corpse of a bull.

"Shut up, idiot, it's not your turn to interject yet. ”

The black dragon scolded back fiercely, and the red dragon reprimanded him, after all, there was still a big gap between them in terms of combat effectiveness, but the white dragon also said so, and he couldn't help it.

"The black dragon speaks, the white dragon doesn't intervene, eat your ice with peace of mind. ”