Chapter 25: Personal Journal—The Dragon's Attack
Dragonfire, like a curlotted incendiary bomb, spewed out of the earth, and the screams of grief and the crackling sound of flames burning flesh formed the only symphony. The wings that obscure the sky cast an incomparably large shadow in the sunlight.
The dragon flapped its wings and landed at the gate of Wind Cliff Castle, and Narration slid to the top of the city, and Adelicia turned around. The dragon's tail was simply flicked by the way, and the kingdom knight who touched it was immediately smashed into a meat paste mixed with metal.
The knights who tried to slay the dragon slashed at the dragon's spear-like claws with their greatswords, but they had no effect except for a little spark, and the arrows that could have pierced through the hard armor were only feeble to hit the scales and were easily bounced.
The few remaining mages were evaporated by the innumerable amount of dragon breath after throwing a few fireballs. Being instantly evaporated by the dragon's breath was already a very merciful way to die, almost no pain was felt, the dragon seemed to be enjoying it all, several soldiers were bitten into two and swallowed into their mouths, and then under the dragon's chewing, the stumps and blood fell to the ground along the dragon's grinning fangs.
The knights of the kingdom, whose morale was already very low, collapsed, most of them had laughed at the rebels in the Wind Cliff Castle, thinking that this was an extremely simple cleanup of the mob, but after a few days of peace, the violent explosion that fell from the sky was even more powerful than the ball magic item of the fireball technique. And the magic iron pipes that spew the flames of death.
Today, even the legendary dragons have joined the fray, turning from a mob to a one-sided slaughter. The commanders were burned to charred by the dragon fire as soon as the dragon arrived. The group of nobles who had been drinking in the tent before the battle was over screamed and tried to extinguish the fire on their bodies, but no one dared to touch the glue-like dragon flame, and could only watch them burned alive like this.
"I don't want to die! Don't kill me! I have a wife and children! ”
A young knight huddled in the craters of the cannonballs, his armor already dirty, he held his head to look at the dragon head that was getting closer and closer, trembling and praying to the gods, and the gods seemed to hear the prayer, the dragon just glanced at him shivering in the crater, and walked away without interest. The fragments of the stumps that fell from the dragon's mouth smashed all over his head.
"Don't flinch! Grab your spears and aim for the crevices of his scales! Running away will only arouse the desire of the beast to chase! ”
A centurion grabbed a fleeing soldier and forced him to draw his weapon with his sword, and in a few moments a crowd gathered around the centurion, trembling and roaring to cheer himself up, and rushed towards the raging dragon under the centurion's intimidation.
"Ah~~~~~~ don't!"
A knight with a heavy shield was trampled directly under the feet by the dragon, and when the dragon lifted his foot, he seemed to dislike his corpse stuck in his fingers, and shook his foot vigorously, as if he was juiced by a juicer, and the blood and minced flesh fell on the heads of the other knights like rain with the shaking of the dragon's feet, and the centurion finally gathered the crowd, so simply discarded the weapon, and scattered and fled again.
The brave centurion once again set out on a mission to gather deserters, but when he gathered the soldiers again, and before he could command them to charge, the soldiers scattered and fled, not even afraid of his sword, and a scorching breath caressed the centurion's neck, and slowly turned around, and the last thing the centurion saw was an incomparably large cage mouth, like a passage to hell.
Adelicia ate the centurion in one bite, chewed it in her mouth, seemed to stuff her teeth, and spat out the centurion's body, which disintegrated in the air, mixed with fragments of armor and fragments of bone into the bodies of the soldiers beneath her feet like shotguns.
Finally, because the number of people on the scene decreased sharply, which increased the difficulty of Adelisia's chase, she seemed to have lost interest in playing, flapped her wings, accelerated her feet slightly, and flew into the sky, flying to the Wind Cliff City, where the narrator was located.
In Wind Cliff City, I watched as the giant dragon landed beside Narration Jun, its wings fanning the air currents like a hurricane, blowing the survivors to the ground. Looking at the human fragments that remained in the dragon's mouth, no one dared to approach for a long time. It wasn't until Adrisia turned into a human form that Rett slowly approached with the crowd.
"Can they eat it?"
"Can't!"
The narrator, who was wiping Adelicia's mouth, shook his head helplessly, and everyone stopped in unison because of the little girl's words. In the end, it was still a bold Rett who walked to Narrateur's side, and Narrator smiled helplessly.
"Hurry up and organize people to arrest those knights who are scattering and fleeing, and catch as many as you can."
After explaining the matter, the narrator led Adelicia into his half-blown away Broken Tube to the cheers of everyone, where Ayrine was waiting.
See your benefactor ride a dragon like a hero to save the city from falling. The hero has never failed his group of people who believe in him, and when Aroline finally learns that she is safe, she slumps on the ground, and the fear and fatigue of more than a month are all directed towards this young elf who is tightly eighty years old, and the irrepressible feelings hit her tear ducts like the sea.
"She's so noisy, can she eat?"
Dividing any food into food and drinking and not eating Adelissia showed a fierce face.
"Can't! Aren't you full after eating so many? Go outside to play, you're not allowed to eat people, I'll get you food later."
"Oh!"
Adrithea obediently walked out of the room, expecting to transform back into a dragon, humming the Imperial March that the narrator had taught him in a dragon's voice. And all this is simply synonymous with horror in the eyes of those who survived. Adleesi, perched in the square, basking in the sun with her belly facing up. While comforting Aroline, the narrator arranged the next matters, and there were too many things for him to deal with.
Feeling that the dragon lice in his scales were haunting again, he forced several young men with pale faces to open their scales and let them go to catch dragon lice for themselves, and while enjoying the sunshine, Adelicia fell asleep with the illusion of being able to eat a big meal.
"Master, it's great that you're okay to come back."
Arowline's eyes were red and swollen, and after venting the emotions that had been stored in her chest, the elf adjusted her mentality, and now she had taken a shower and changed into a standard maid outfit. said to Narrator Jun sincerely, for more than a month, she didn't expect Narrator Jun to save their group of people and fire and water.
"Thank you for your hard work, we still have a lot of things to do next, and we may need your help even more."
A week later
"Smack!" A large hand with a huge gemstone ring on its index finger slammed on the ornate desk
"You mean our knights are all gone? How is this possible! A whole legion of 20,000 plus private soldiers in each territory is at least 30,000. ”
"But according to the reports of the soldiers who escaped, they had a red dragon."
The guard, who was making a report, was frightened by the king's anger, he had never seen the king so angry. Henry III walked back and forth in his study, he was not an incompetent king, he fought among his many brothers, became king at the age of thirty, and at the same time made his kingdom three times larger. Although there were occasional mob uprisings, this was the result of the untouchables' dissatisfaction with the aristocracy in relation to the kingdom as a whole.
Originally, he thought that this rebellion must have occurred with the support of the Mage Tower, after all, that kind of magic prop, the people of the State Religion disdain to use it, and only the Mage Tower has the ability to produce it on a large scale, so he deliberately strengthened his military strength to help the Viscount quell the chaos. Finally, I learn that a dragon has joined the battle! This is impossible!
The Black Dragon Empire has never bred dragons, and their clan has always been known for slaying dragons, but now they are so weak that they don't need to worry about it. The known dragons are entrenched in their own mountains, digging for rare ores, and will not participate in the world at all, so there is only one possibility, that is, a new dragon knight was born, and the legendary dragon knight is the existence that can control the dragon.
Every dragon can easily destroy a city, and once there is such a force and is still at war with itself, then there is very little choice. Glancing at the guards who were trembling from kneeling on the ground and their legs were numb, Henry III nodded slightly and motioned to get up, and then ordered:
"Call me the foreign affairs minister."
"Yes! My Highness! ”
The relieved guard bowed and withdrew from the king's study, and hurried to find the herald to give the order. A few days later, a diplomatic legation with thousands of guards, carrying an envoy staff made of white rat tails, set off from the royal capital, this time it was the foreign minister himself who was in charge of the mission, which shows that the Henry Kingdom attaches great importance to this matter.
A month later
"Hey~ spread this scale!"
A teenage child stood on Adleesi's body, stepping heavily on a piece of obviously bulging scales with his foot, under the gaze of the huge dragon head, the little boy first pinched the dragon lice's huge feeding mouthparts like a large needle tube with his hand, and then sprinkled a little salt on the dragon lice's mouthparts, because the salt absorbent, the dragon lice felt uncomfortable. Naturally, the mouthparts were withdrawn.
Then the little boy pulled it hard, and a dragon lice bigger than his head pulled out of the scales, and then threw it into the hands of another little boy who carried a basket on his back. The little boy cut off the limbs of the dragon lice with a knife, stuffed the bulging dragon lice into the basket, and followed the boy in front of him to another piece of spirit with a grin.
"Block!"
Adelicia snorted comfortably, and under the boy's instructions, she spread her scales one by one to enjoy the painless process of pulling out dragon lice. Unlike the goblin extraction method, this method does not leave the dragon lice's mouthparts in the flesh at all, so it does not hurt or itch.
Adelicia was satisfied. And the little boys were also very satisfied, dragon blood is a rare medicinal material that is extremely difficult to obtain, and it can be exchanged for a lot of things from the prescription specified by the archmage.
Ever since the children learned about Adelisia's plight, they took the initiative to take care of her, and the adults had already left Windcliff City to plant potatoes in the newly developed city in the forest. The empty city was filled with only their parentsless orphans and the fat dragon Adleesia. They caught dragon lice and cooked food for Adelisia, and Adelicia took them into the sky to catch prey.
Occasionally, the archmage would come here and give them some canned fruit or something, and whisper something to Adricy. After the loss of their parents, only this fat dragon came to live a much more comfortable life, many people living in the village did not live as well as a few of them, and they also felt extremely safe after getting acquainted with Adelisia.
"What Weidu!"
Suddenly, Adelicia let out the sound of a dragon that told them to hide, the dragon's head was raised high, and there was obviously a fire burning in its mouth, and the flames kept trying to break through the dragon's teeth, and a luxurious carriage appeared at the tattered city gate. The towering spears that followed behind showed great force, and a richly dressed man at the lead held aloft an envoy's staff strung with a white rat's tail.
Just as the dragon's chest began to glow, and the light emitted by the dragon flame as hot as magma passed through the dragon's flesh, through the gap between the scales to outsiders, it was extremely dazzling to outsiders, the group of little boys hurriedly ran to the dragon's head and blocked Adriacya's dragon flame attack line, waved their hands to show that this group of people had no malicious intent, and then quickly used the magic props left by the archmage to contact the archmage.
Adleesia, put away her wings and vigilantly circled around the envoy group of thousands of people, the huge dragon tail dragged on the ground, flicked twice from time to time, and jumped one or two pieces of bluestone Pucheng floor. The men of the envoys seemed to be frightened. Even a circle of a thousand spears could not stop this fear that seeped into the soul, knowing that they were facing a mythical dragon.
Many people grew up in the story of the Dragon Slayer, but the shock of the first time Majin faced the dragon still made the veterans of several wars tremble. Good discipline can crumble with a simple dragon roar.
In the midst of the fright, at last, from the corner of a certain building, a group of children came out, and it seemed that this group of children was not afraid of the dragon, but the dragon followed them like a mature dog.
"You're an envoy from the Kingdom, aren't you?"
The young man who looked a little older at the head asked in a childish voice, and under the support of the servant, an old man with white hair and gorgeous clothes and a wig stepped down, and the old man did not lose his manners because he was a young man who did not understand the world. The old man held his heart and bowed slightly to the teenagers:
"That's right, we are an envoy from the kingdom, and we are here to send greetings to the Lord of the Red Dragon and apologize for the misunderstanding."
"The archmage is not here, he has been busy lately, you may need to wait a few days. There are a lot of empty houses here, so you can pick and choose to live in them. ”
"It's better to be respectful than to obey. Here is a little gift, please accept it.... Forehead.... Can you bring the decay closer? ”
"It's okay, come here, Adlicia doesn't like to eat old men."
The foreign minister of the kingdom wiped the sweat from his head, thinking that he would eat it if he didn't like it, so he didn't move, but waved his hand, and the shivering entourage around him put the gift in front of the boys, and after the entourage ran back to the team, the minister instructed his team to find a few intact rooms near the city gate.
"What a thing, it's not as delicious as the lollipop given by the archmage."
"Alas~ If you have some to eat, let's eat, and make dinner for Adlisi after eating."
"Well, today she caught another Xiongsky. Watch me show my hand. ”
Listening to the defenseless conversation of this group of children, the diplomatic master stumbled and almost fell down in shock, thinking:
"What? The candied fruit made by the royal chef with potpourri nectar is not as delicious as the candy? And a powerful monster like Xiongsky that he casually caught to make dinner? I heard you right. ”
At the request of the Foreign Secretary, he took a few of his entourage to join the boys' dinner, watching the chef he brought with him cooking with luxurious ingredients, and looking at the group of teenagers who were simply stringing huge wooden sticks, the minister breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had a little bit of a rival to the others.
However, it didn't take long for the teenagers to really understand what luxury was, the old man lived to be almost seventy years old, and he always felt that he had more bragging capital when he returned to China this time, only to see the teenagers kicking the dragon's head with their feet to control the heat of the dragon fire, and the pepper and various spices like no money were almost sprinkled all over the entire Xiongsky. There is also a spice called cumin, which even foreign ministers who have traveled all over the continent have never seen it.
Amid the grunt of displeasure from a dragon named Adelisia, the old envoy cheekily took a bite of what he considered to be the most expensive bear meat in the world. Looking back at the surprised expression of the palace chef he brought, he felt that he had lived in vain for so many years, and he had probably been eating before. The old man blushed at the polite greeting of the young men, and devoured it with his own minions.