Chapter 12: Backtracking Archives 01811-1301
Today's weather is exceptionally good, the wind and birds that got up early have already begun to chirp happily, and the villagers have basically started farming when the sun outcrops.
The nobles summoned from heaven a great deal of food that they had not eaten, wrapped in precious tin pots and cloth of unknown material. But it was so delicious that every household got a little, and only the one whose smoke rose was the one who prepared rations for the grandfather and the noble lady.
The other villagers could only watch with envy as their family ate breakfast with the mage grandfather. But thinking about the potatoes in their fields, the villagers all lifted their spirits and greeted each other and walked towards the farmland.
Natiri didn't wake up in a very good mood in the morning, yesterday's events had delayed him all day, and even then she still felt very weak. Looking at the blue scar on her stomach, the princess of the Black Dragon Empire felt even more depressed for a day, although the mage said that she would not leave a scar.
Since leaving the palace, Natilly has learned many things she wouldn't have been able to do, such as how to put on makeup and how to shrink the six straps of the wrap. Natiri rolled up the black stockings, starting at her toes and down to her thighs, and then hooked them with a small metal hook that prevented them from slipping. This kind of thing called stockings is also an extreme luxury, and normal people have no right to buy them even if they have money.
It can outline the long legs of women very well. It must pass through a special spider monster of the Sang Empire, a country on the high mountain, which feeds on a special plant and has a lifespan of three years, and when this monster is about to die, it will weave a mausoleum for itself with an extremely special and elastic filament, and finally give birth to children in it, and then the newborn spider monster will use the corpse of the mother spider as food to break out of the cocoon and start over and over again.
And this cocoon will be collected by the spider farmers of the Mulberry country, and after a series of processing, it will be sold to other countries, in addition to being woven into such high-end socks, it can also be used as a bowstring on a giant crossbow, so it is a necessary strategic material for various countries, because of the good relationship with the dwarves. Living on a high snow-capped mountain, the country has not been attacked by anyone for hundreds of years.
She chose a rose-red dress and put black leather shoes on Natiri's little feet. Looking at her attractive face in the mirror, Natiri smiled and patted her cheek:
"Natily Black, how can you be so spiritless, the kingdom is still waiting for you to save." Natiri cheered herself up. Then he opened the car door and walked out.
Natiri's carriage stopped in the central square of the village, which was already the largest of the surrounding villages with a population of nearly 500 people. Despite all the unpleasant things that happened, because of Natiri's kindness and generosity, she still won the respect of the villagers in just a few days.
Walking briskly to the front of the narrator's hut, the butler knocked on the door. The door was opened, and the narrator scratched his head sleepily, his muscular body was not wearing the soldier's uniform he usually wore. The personal server flew over. A red light emanated from the server's electronic eye, scanning the butler and returning to the narrator's side.
"Why are you here so early~" Narrator Jun yawned and scratched the itchy little Ding Ding through his pants.
The butler's embarrassed sideways approach blocked the princess's view, but in fact, the flushed face already showed the fact that she had seen it a long time ago. The butler bent down slightly, and after greeting him, he cut straight to the point.
"Honorable mage, the princess has been waiting for a long time, and after the delay a few days ago, she has to go to the viscount's castle today."
Narrator-kun held the wooden door with his right hand, put his left hand on his waist, and scratched the itch of his right foot with his left foot. Lazily asked:
"Anyway, I've always had a question why you are a princess of a country, why do you deign to marry a viscount of a neighboring country, as far as I know, this title is also a knight-level title, right?"
"It's a long story, can the archmage get dressed and get into the carriage, so that the princess can talk to you in detail?"
"Okay, you wait."
After saying that, the narrator closed the door with a bang, and the heavy closing sound made Natiri's brows rise, and the butler smiled awkwardly at the princess, and after a while, the narrator packed his bags and asked the soldiers to tie his supplies behind the mine mule, and let the server connect to the mine mule to be responsible for control. Follow the princess into the carriage. As the mine mule begins to move. The carriage was also towed slowly out of the village.
After waving goodbye to the village chief who came to say goodbye to the narrator. The carriage left the confines of the village, and in a moment the village was no longer visible at a corner.
The sun was shining through the shade of the leaves, shining on the ground, and the breeze was gently blowing through the leaves, as if the leaves were rustling and chuckling. From time to time, an unknown animal or two ran through the roadside bushes.
Amazed by the diversity of species on this planet, Narrator-kun has only now truly discovered the charm of this unexplored planet. The princess of the kingdom seated opposite him explained why she was a princess and had to commit herself to marrying the son of a viscount of another country. Natiri's nation was founded by a dragon slayer several generations ago, Luke Black.
At that time, his ancestors got the dragon spirit of the dragon. Later, the warriors who slain the dragon with his ancestor embraced his ancestor and established the Black Dragon Kingdom on the corpse of the dragon. Because of the greatness of the ancestors and the good communication with the Mage Guild, the kingdom was once strong, but the dragon spirit will be used up one day.
As the dragon spirits decrease day by day, the area controlled by the kingdom is also being eaten away little by little. Now that the dragon spirit has been completely used in various ways, the kingdom without the support of the dragon spirit is left with a giant sword inlaid with the last dragon spirit to maintain the loyalty of the last three city-states of a country. It's here
In Natiri's generation, the kingdom has nothing to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the two surrounding powers. Because the country relies on the preciousness of the dragon spirit in exchange for materials, technology and military support, now that the dragon spirit is exhausted, the kingdom in the hilly area with almost no output will naturally decline. Only one mage city directly managed by the mage association is still thinking about the old love and still providing all kinds of help to the kingdom, but now that the king is old, and Natiri's brothers are fighting openly and secretly for the next throne, the mage city is not helping the kingdom in vain, but hoping to gain new control of the city-state to contain the power of the church. The capital of the kingdom is a good choice. Another city belonging to a certain Grand Duke has also become more and more domineering recently, and it is almost finally torn its face.
If the country where the narrator is located is called the Kingdom of St. Henry, as long as there are countries on this continent that start with the holy word, they all belong to the country of the church, and the church is an extremely large religious force in this world, and the kings of many countries must go to the holy mountain to worship and be crowned, and the mage union that has always been inferior is a combination of groups that are unwilling to learn church magic.
In contrast, in order to study magic, mages were not very interested in politics, until decades ago, when the sky suddenly tore apart, and a huge rectangular moon appeared in the distant sky split into three, accompanied by a real meteor shower. Countless meteorites fell from the sky, countless people died because of this meteor shower, and many more were homeless because of the tsunami and earthquake caused by the meteor crashing into the sea.
Many kingdoms were destroyed as a result, and even one island nation was hit directly by a meteorite, causing the entire island to sink to the bottom of the sea. The Order declares that this is a punishment from God by the Mage Guild for failing to summon demons. Officially declare war on the Mage Guild. The Mage Guild has only begun to tighten its grip on politics and territory year by year.
Narrator-kun looked at the sky outside the window in embarrassment, and even in the daytime, he could still clearly see the three huge hulls. Indeed, at night, if you look closely, you can even see the muzzle of the macro cannon. Dana is just too big. Together, the three are about the size of the other two moons on the planet, and that's from the ground, of course. But Dana is in synchronous orbit, while the other two moons are in orbit away from the planet. The actual volume is much larger than Dana.
The Kingdom of St. Henry is a huge kingdom that controls nearly one-fifth of this continent, if the Black Dragon Kingdom can be incorporated into this kingdom. Then it would be much better, and for the king of the Henry Kingdom, the Black Dragon Kingdom was just a city in his territory. did not attract attention, on the contrary, the princess's younger brother, that is, the current viscount, fell in love with the Black Dragon Kingdom.
Because his fiefdom and the Black Dragon Kingdom were only separated by a valley and a snow-capped mountain. This valley is often called the Valley of the Dragons because dragons often pass by. And the mountain peak, which has been covered in snow for a long time, is the habitat of the Frost Dragon. Therefore, although it is only separated by a valley and a snow-capped mountain, it still takes several months to reach it.
After two years of negotiation and negotiation, finally this year Natilly came to the border area of the Kingdom of St. Henry, and then was attacked by the villagers, and Natiri hoped that her country could be peacefully merged into the Kingdom of St. Henry, so that her people would not have to endure the pain of war.
After listening to Natiri's story, the narrator asked:
"If I follow what you say, I now feel that it is the most suitable choice for me to trade with this Kingdom of St. Henry. So why should I choose you? ”
Natiri looked nervously at the narrator, indeed, this archmage is strong, and there is hardly anything in his own country that he needs. After thinking for a moment, he said:
"Indeed, presumably in the Kingdom of St. Henry, our country does not have any advantages, but I believe that the meeting between the two of us must be arranged by fate in the dark. And a contract is a contract. ”
"Fate? But I don't believe in fate, I think man will conquer heaven. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I'll probably talk to them directly when I arrive at the Viscount's Palace. ”
Natiri frowned, bit her petite lip lightly, and as if she had made up her mind, she took off the pendant that she had been keeping close to her neck from her neck, and after some delicate magic runes, the lid of the pendant popped open, and the object inside exuded a diamond-like brilliance, and the substance that was almost the same as the energy block that the red dragon gave to Narrator Jun before lay quietly in the pendant.
This piece seems to have been carefully carved, only the size of the nail of his little thumb. Natiri carefully held the block of energy in both hands. I opened the window and shouted to stop. He opened the car door and stopped the guards who wanted to keep up, and then dragged the narrator into the jungle next to him.
The narrator-kun looked at Natilly's nervous appearance amusedly, waiting to see what she was going to do. Natiri held the pendant in her left hand, raised her right hand, and pointed in one direction with her slender and delicate fingers, and the narrator looked in Natiri's direction, and Natalie stood as if a huge air current was passing under her. Dress with blonde hair swinging without wind. Then the small mouth opened slightly, and made a strong voice that did not fit the image at all, just a syllable:
“dunm!”
In the blink of an eye, the incomparably dense temperate forest in the direction of Natiri's finger was suddenly filled with sunlight, and a straight line of forest was crushed and shattered by invisible energy, as if it had been penetrated by a cation cannon, but it did not produce traces of high temperature burning like a cation cannon, but it was like a hurricane passing through, destroying a straight line of forest.
The dense forest formed a path large enough for an Imperial tank to pass through, and the energy stopped destroying until it hit the cliff, which caved inwards as if it had been hit by a giant mechanical battering ram.
Narrator, who was surprised by the destruction in front of him, looked at Natiri blankly, and the mastermind who caused all this gasped slightly, and then put the pendant back into his chest. Turning his head, he put his hands on his waist, and said to the narrator with a smile:
"This dragon stone, if you are willing to help me, I will give it to you, how about it?"
Narrator-Jun was surprised, and asked casually:
"Is that just a small piece of power? How much damage can you do if you are given a bigger one? How many people in your country can use such power? ”
"Hmph~Hmph~ I know how powerful this princess is, I haven't seen a bigger one, but I only know that every time I use power, the dragon stone will decrease a little bit. This dragonstone was given to me by my mother, and it is said to have been the size of a pigeon's egg. But under normal circumstances, mages who obtain dragon stones will make it into gems and inlay them on the staff, through a series of magic circles to form a mana amplification, and I don't know the detailed principle, only people who really learn dragon language can use it directly. ”
Natiri put the little dragon spirit back into her pendant, brushed her long windblown hair behind her ears, then turned around, bent over, and continued with a serious face to the narrator, who was sitting on the stump:
"That's all I can do until now. I'm the only one in my kingdom who knows it, and it's a secret that even my father doesn't know. ”
Natiri raised her head haughtily, like an underage girl showing her work to an adult, and hummed at the narrator.
"To be honest, I'm not interested in this dragonstone." The narrator picked at his nose and bounced into the distance. At the same time, I scraped on a leaf next to it.
"What! This is a dragon stone, you know that this thing is the foundation of our country, I am willing to give it to you, you don't want it? If I give this to that viscount's son, let him lick my feet, he'll do it! ”
"If you don't give it to me, I'm willing to lick it.... Ahem, no, I mean I have a lot of this stuff."
"It can't be!" Before he finished speaking, he watched as the narrator-kun magically took out a dragon spirit the size of a human head from his compressed bag. Like a deflated ball, Natiri seemed to see something incomprehensible, and the moment the huge dragon spirit appeared, he could feel the energy in it, and she slumped on the ground.
"This can't be, this can't be, since you have so many dragon spirits, then what more do you want. How can you be willing to help me, no matter how many conditions I offer, even if I give you the entire kingdom, it will not be worth even one ten-thousandth of your dragon stone. ”
Sitting on the ground, Natiri covered her face with her hands, tears oozing from between her fingers. For the killer feature she came up with, the person on the other side laughed at herself as if she was watching a joke, and Natalie, who had lost her last hope, finally couldn't suppress her feelings. Let go of the cry of bitterness.
After Natiri's mood stabilized, the narrator-kun squatted next to her, dug into his pocket, and found that his handkerchief had already been given to the woman next to him, shrugged, so he took out a piece of candy called chocolate for the Imperial Navy and gave it to Natiri. Natiri, who was angry, held her knees with her hands, buried her head and face between her arms, and shook her body, indicating that she didn't want to pay attention to the narrator. Seeing that Natiri didn't want to pay attention to herself, she took a bite of the wrapping paper and said:
"Don't you really want to eat it? Actually, I didn't say I wouldn't help you, but you had to pay something else. ”
Hearing this, Natili raised her head instantly, and her makeup, which was melted by tears, frightened Narrator-kun like a female ghost
"Really? What do you want? ”
"I want you."
After listening to the narrator's answer, Natiri snatched the narrator's chocolate, stuffed it into her mouth, and said vaguely
"Deal! You can come into my room tonight. ”
Then he walked to the carriage without looking back. Leaving the narrator alone to mumble to himself in the deep forest
"Why do I always think she misunderstood something? I'm not done yet. ”