75. Take a sharp turn
Smoke billowed and fire rose to the sky, and everyone was roaring.
"I curse you! I'm going to curse you forever for this night, and my family for never having peace! β
With the curse of the Dragon King, Count Maned Wolf's belly was set on fire.
"I cut you!" Kempins was also completely insane.
"No, Kempins! Don't kill any more! A roar made the Count sober up a little, and was suddenly blocked by a man before the throne and the Earl.
The woman was so vague, so familiar, with a jeweled badge in the shape of a wolf's head on her fiery red gown.
That... Is that... Ariana?
The blurred face became clearer and clearer, and countless screams and murmurs were tearing at the Count, "Ah, Ali? β
"Kempins! No! A scream made the Count stop completely.
"Where am I? Where is this? Why is this happening? β
When Count Maned Wolf came to his senses, he found himself holding his wife, Ariana Red Dragon, and watched as the hot blood on his hands continued to drip to the ground.
A dozen paces away, Arnold Red Dragon, the current king of the Dragon Kingdom, fell to the ground.
"No!" Kempins finally remembered that he had killed Redeye and attempted to assassinate the king, and that his wife was in the way of Arnold Red Dragon.
"Kempins... Don't do that anymore ... You have been deceived by those promises ... Wake up... My Kempins... Let's not stay in the royal capital anymore... Let's go home," the countess comforted the count with her last strength.
"Don't close your eyes, my dear, let's go home, go back to our wolf's den, and leave the dragons alone," the count whimpered.
The fire was suddenly extinguished, and light poured into the hall from outside the door.
"When the Prime Minister of the Empire arrives, all personnel will stop, and those who violate the order will be killed!" The loud voice echoed over the palace, but the Count could no longer listen.
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"No!" In an instant, the Count awoke.
Tears blurred Count Kempins Manewolf's eyes, but he still recognized the ceiling of his Blue Magpie Castle dwelling.
More than once a month, he would go back to that night nine years ago, from the initial fear, to the later humiliation, and now at the end of the dream, it was the most warm moment for the count, because at this moment his Ariana was so clear.
"How are the vassals?" These were the first words the Count said when he woke up.
"Are you awake, Lord Count?" The waiter on the side found that the Count had woken up and hurried over, "Hurry up and invite the eldest prince!" β
"I'm asking how your vassals are doing!" The Count roared angrily, so loud that it startled Fernando, who had rushed through the door
"They're all right, father!" Fernando ran to the Count's bedside and kept comforting him and telling him the latest information on the situation.
"That dragonborn lady Grea Blue Dragon shot to disperse the barbarian cavalry, the vassals have all returned, and the wound in your abdomen was also suppressed by Lady Grea!"
"I see," the Count breathed a sigh of relief, "how long have I been asleep?" β
"Less than a day" Fernando looked at the count, hesitated and then said, "Father? β
"Tell me, who's coming?"
"Lord McLaren Blue Dragon"
"Hmph"
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"Lord Count must have been cursed by Dragonyan," said the dragonborn girl Gurea Blue Dragon to Antrechi and two middle-aged looking men in a guest room in the castle.
"I've helped him stabilize the curse, but it's also stabilized, and the Earl's body is only afraid that it will continue to deteriorate."
"I'm afraid it has something to do with what happened 9 years ago, and the curse that can make the Silver Knight burn directly is estimated to have been planted by His Majesty Arnold Red Dragon back then." The person who spoke was one of the three pillars of the Dragon Kingdom, the legendary knight McLaren Blue Dragon.
"I didn't expect that such a curse could last to this day" Another middle-aged man is a magister of the Kingdom Academy of Magic, and the current highest-level magician of the Maned Wolf family, Cohen Maned Wolf.
"Arnold was able to cast a curse on Kempins on the throne, the throne carries the faith of the entire kingdom, and can make the curse break through from the level of a magus to the level of a legend."
"As far as I know, nine years ago, after that incident, both the Tower of Purity and the Temple Alliance were involved in the aftermath and exiled a group of knights who participated in the coup d'Γ©tat at the time, and it is said that the curse of the Maned Wolf Count was also alleviated by the legend of the Temple Alliance."
"I didn't expect that this group of barbarians could actually know the secrets of the year!"
"I'm afraid this is not something that a group of barbarians who dig salt in the salt mine every day can come up with"
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In the lord's chamber at Blue Magpie Castle, Count Maned Wolf met with McLaren Blue Dragon and Cohen Maned Wolf with his body bent.
"Kempins, like I said, we're here to see if there's anyone who can help, there's no other meaning, and it's not a family that wants to seize the territory of the northwest, don't worry about it"
In order to take care of the old maned wolf's physical state, the legendary knight can suppress his fighting spirit, so that the count can look at himself levelly, Rao is so, and only the maned wolf count in the room can barely look into his eyes.
"Yes, Your Majesty and your lordships sent the Dragon Knights to the Northwest Territory in the name of escort in order to protect the integrity of the Northwest Territory."
Although Cohen Maned Wolf is the leader of the Maned Wolf family, he is not from the same clan as the Earl, and he has long heard a lot of gossip about the Count and the Northwest Territory in the magic tower of the royal capital.
Now that Cohen Maned Wolf has been appointed, it is more of a messenger specially selected by the higher echelons of the kingdom in order to make Count Maned Wolf less resistant, no matter what Cohen himself thinks of Kempins and the current Northwest Territory, there are some things he must say.
"Nine years ago, you asked me to persuade Arnold to abdicate, and I did." The Earl spoke calmly, but McLaren could hear the anger.
"He has abdicated, and Dusen, whom you all approve of, has come up, but what about the marriage you promised?
You promised to make my family a Magister," the Count became more and more excited, "but look at me now, what do I have left?" β
"Kempins, don't talk about it, we can't help what happened back then, Prime Minister Mitroa personally arranged the rest of the matter" McLaren was a little weak when he spoke, no matter what, he really didn't fulfill his promise back then, and breaking his promise was a great stain on any level of nobles.
"But you didn't suffer, and the curse on your body couldn't be suppressed without the legendary priest.
Even this recurrence was suppressed by the descendants of our family. The legend knew that he was wrong, so he frantically made up for it.
"Yes, Your Excellency, but for whom did I suffer the curse? And now who betrayed me, so that I was defeated at the last moment of killing the barbarians? β
"Who else? Of course, it's the group of bedbugs in the front of the palace, who else dares to collude with the alien race so blatantly? β
The room fell silent again, and Count Maned Wolf still looked at the legendary knight.
"So, our Northwest County should be sacrificed?"
"I can help you delay for a while, and don't let other forces interfere first," McLaren finally relented, "but now that the barbarians are currently unable to launch a second round of decisive battles with your body, you must think about how to end up in the future." β
The Count nodded, finally relieved as he watched the legendary knight and fellow magus leave.
The family's territory was still kept by him, although only temporarily.