Chapter 271: Rotan Deji
Far Desert Southeast Peninsula, the city of Farina.
"It's finally done...... Whew, that's no problem......"
Located in the center of this small city is a building called the "Third Branch of the Dragon Knights Far Wilderness". On the second basement floor of the building, a young green dragon was working on a few recording crystals, and a magic computer was busy with the final work of the day.
His name is Rotan de Gili and his surname is unknown. He had just turned thirty this year, and his pale scales shimmered in the dim magical light, and his emerald green eyes looked particularly beautiful.
No matter how you look at it, Rotandergilly, who is now in the prime of his youth, has a pretty good appearance.
However, he himself was not in the mood to appreciate all of this at all, as he was a dragon affairs receptionist in the Third Branch of the Far Wilderness of the Dragon Knights.
And the various documents he was working on at the moment could be described as varied, and the workload was heavy enough to keep him busy from morning to evening.
As the largest non-governmental multinational organization in the Eastern Continent, the Dragon Knights are responsible for maintaining law and order throughout the continent, and are also responsible for coordinating conflicts and disputes between various regions, and after it officially replaced the Adventurers' Association more than a thousand years ago, it took over the management of large and small adventurer teams.
In short, it can be said that it is a nosy organization.
One can imagine how many things Rotandegilli needs to deal with every day as a receptionist, even if he is only in the Far Wilderness Region with the smallest number of people among the seven major regions of the Eastern Continent, even if Farina City is only a medium-sized city in the Far Wilderness, even if he is just a receptionist for dragon affairs.
By the way, all the branch buildings of the Dragon Knights are divided into two parts. The above-ground part is dedicated to humanoids and deals with races such as humans, orcs, elves, and dwarves, while the underground part is dedicated to dragons and dragon knights.
Even when visitors are not needed, the receptionist should not be idle, but concentrate on the tasks assigned by the leader.
Dragons are known to be huge, and while Transfiguration can solve this problem to a large extent, not all dragons are willing to turn into humanoids, and some dragons even consider transformation a shame.
As a result, the higher-ups of the Dragon Knights tried to implement Transfiguration, but were opposed by a large group of metal dragons and gem dragons, so they had to give up for the time being, and the study of Transfiguration was an encouragement rather than a requirement.
This division is due to another characteristic of the Dragon Knights: the humanoids and the dragon make a pact to advance and retreat together, becoming close comrades.
Yes, the Dragon Knights also have their own violent institutions, which are the Dragon Knights and their dragon companions. A dragon knight and its dragon are counted as a group, and when they go out on a mission, they are counted according to the number of groups.
Of course, in the end, this division has more profound roots, but that is not something that Rotan de Gili can understand.
After checking the long list of tasks on the workbench, Rotandergilli confirmed that all the documents had been sorted and processed accordingly.
A large part of them are official documents, such as the people of a certain place who find that the violent monster is occupying the main transportation route, then the relevant request will be sent here, and after being processed by the receptionists, it will become a task that adventurers can pick up.
The magic crystals are often filled with information, such as the promotion and demotion of the dragon knights, the information sent by the spies from all over the continent, as well as the changes in the members of various adventurer teams, the monthly reports, or the opinions on the infrastructure of the dragon knights.
Although Rotandergilli does not need to deal with these documents specifically, they are also numbered so that they can be smoothly collected by colleagues in the appropriate archives.
The last part is a variety of complaints, including complaints from people throughout the city and the surrounding area about a lot of trivial things, such as the unreasonable policy of the city lord, or the purchase of fakes, which also need to be categorized one by one, and then handed over to the dragon knights who "like" to settle disputes and mediate conflicts.
Dragon knights used to be powerful symbols, so why would anyone now be willing to do something that wasn't what a dragon knight should do?
It's easy to say, because in the last thousand years, the cooperation between dragons and other races has been suddenly increased, and many dragons who were not interested in contacting humans, or who were relatively weak in their own strength, had to enter the Dragon Knights and accept a series of dispatches.
No matter how resistant they were in their hearts, as loyal partners of the Dragon Sleeping Organization, the supreme governing body of the Dragon Clan in the Eastern Continent, no dragon could resist the orders of the Dragon Knights.
In addition to these messes, there are many times when Rotandegili can also see information about civil disputes, such as the son of a nobleman molesting a young girl, two groups of adventurers getting drunk and fighting, and a magic locomotive hitting and injuring a civilian...... And so on, there are so many tricks that it's unbelievable.
It is no exaggeration to say that he has been working as a reception staff in the Dragon Knights branch for more than a year, and he is really an eye-opener.
God knows why even this kind of thing has to be handled by the Dragon Knights? Could it be that the Dragon Knights even do the work of the City Watch?
It's no wonder that Rotandegilli thinks this way, because the city of Farina is not large, and there are almost no dragons living in this area, so the usual visitors are only those dragon knights who have returned from missions, and the workload is actually very light.
And his leader is an efficiency-oriented guy, although due to the regulations of the headquarters, he can't change the name of the "Dragon Affairs Reception" to the same "Non-Dragon Affairs Reception" as the above-ground part, but it is still okay to privately release a message and allow those humanoid creatures to come to Rotandergilly to deal with things.
As a result, Rotandergilli's daily working hours were doubled, and every now and then unknown people came to him to complain, and the volume was so loud that he could even give him the illusion of "I did this?"
And this kind of person is not something that can be dismissed in a few words, and Rotandergilli belongs to the type that is not very good at communicating with others, so in the end, it is often to alarm his leaders or seniors, and then these guys who think highly of themselves will habitually count him down after dealing with things, and then talk about it as a laughing stock in the next few days.
"Anyway, another day has passed...... Damn it, when will it end? ”
With a whisper of grumbling in his mouth, Rotan Degilli immediately subconsciously looked to see if there was anyone around. After confirming that there was no one, he breathed a sigh of relief, carefully put away the sorted documents, left the workbench, and stretched his already stiff body.
Looking at the time, it was already dusk, and most of the colleagues should have gone home, so Rotandergilli could only lock up the documents first and hand them over to the appropriate person when he got up tomorrow.
Locking the door to the room, Rotandergilli expertly exited the chapter building along a small dark passage barely enough to fit a dragon.
It's not that Rotandergilly likes to surrender himself to the path, but that with his position at the bottom of the chapter, he only deserves to take such a path.
That's right, not only in the Dragon Knights, but also in the entire Eastern Continent - all the intelligent races are under close surveillance, and are divided into different classes according to their race. The Dragon Sleep Organization is in charge of the Dragon Clan, and the Ancient Royal Court is in charge of the non-Dragon Clan.
There are five major tiers of this, and no matter what the higher ones do, they have priority over the lower ones, and at the same time, it is easier to get more resources and better opportunities.
In other words, the location that the vast majority of the residents of the Eastern Continent can go to is actually determined as soon as they are born.
This is, of course, unfair, and there are people who want to oppose it. However, this system was established more than 10,000 years ago, and after the incident called "Shattered Day" occurred in the Western Continent, the Ancient Royal Court and the Dragon Sleep Organization in the Eastern Continent were afraid that similar disasters would occur due to lax monitoring, so they successively strengthened the management in this area, and spent 10,000 years to make a lot of revisions and improvements.
Now the system of the five classes has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no one wants to change it - it has been more than 10,000 years, and even the fifth estate, which is in the lowest position, has long been accustomed to it.
The first class is the superior of the superiors, that is, the five royal clans of the five metal dragons and orcs - the wolf, the tiger, the leopard, the lion, and the bear, the members of these races can get the best growth environment and resources as soon as they are born, and at least the future will be worry-free for a lifetime.
The second class also belongs to the upper echelons, that is, the number of humans in the Eastern Continent is second only to the orcs. Although the treatment of human beings is not as good as that of the first class, as long as they work hard enough, they can still look forward to the day when they rise. In fact, almost all of the people who hold important positions in the big cities of Higashioji are humans, and even a few people have become castle lords. It can be said that except for the most core positions, other positions can be fought for by humans.
Originally, the Third Rank did not exist, but after the day of its destruction, the gem dragons that had originally lived in seclusion in various elemental planes also began to appear in various parts of the Eastern Continent. Later, in order to unify and manage them, the Longmian organization divided them into a separate class. And these gem dragons later began to act together, and the most famous Amon Chamber of Commerce on the Eastern Continent today is the alliance of gem dragons.
The Fourth Estate is considered the "ordinary majority", not noble, but also not the lowest, that is, all intelligent humanoids other than orcs and humans.
And the fifth estate......
Thinking of this, Rotandergilli's expression darkened slightly, and his gaze at his beautiful emerald green scales also carried a little disgust.
That's right, the most inferior race in the Eastern Continent is none other than the colorful dragon from Rotandeji!