Chapter 13: Dusty History

"It's not good, this true dragon is unexpectedly smart, and he is still stingy."

Gandalf's face changed slightly, and it seemed that he had to start the second plan.

Sunlight poured through the window on Vivian's long eyelashes.

Gandalf gave Vivien a tangled look, then sighed, as if he had made some kind of decision.

"Your Excellency True Dragon, would you like to hear a story from me? The story has some long twists and turns. ”

Gandalf's heavy voice rang out in the room.

"No, I think it's more comfortable to solve you with a breath."

Ron said he didn't want to hear any bedtime stories, and that it would be better to study and learn new magic when he had that time.

Gandalf was teased, a little embarrassed.

But the play still has to be played.

"Then I'll make a long story short, you're tired to listen, Vivien's life story is involved here, I think you will be interested."

This aroused his interest, and Ron changed his comfortable position and let the other person start his performance.

With Gandalf's heavy, magnetic voice, a dusty history is slowly revealed.

Fourteen years ago......

The current king of the Kingdom of Roses, Brian XVII, had a whim one day that year.

He threatened to take a good look at the land he ruled.

To this end, he organized a grand parade of the kingdom, in which His Majesty the King, with his army of court mages and part of his army, set out from the royal capital of Ovia, all the way to what appeared to be a tour of the kingdom, but in fact he traveled everywhere.

One of the towns passed through on the way, the town of the Oracle was where the king and his army stayed overnight to supply food and water.

It happened that on this night, the king got so drunk that he forcibly had sex with a very good-looking commoner woman.

Old-fashioned bridges. (Ron complains secretly)

Originally, this was a good thing, although His Majesty the King was deaf, he was still more concerned about his own women.

When she woke up the next day, the king rewarded the woman with hundreds of gold coins on the spot, and ordered the woman and her family to be taken to live in the royal capital.

The person in charge of handling this matter was Gandalf, who was still in the court mage's order.

Later, due to some unexpected events, the king's travel plans were forced to be terminated and he returned to the royal capital, Ovia, and the pregnant woman was also taken to live in the royal palace.

She was Vivien's mother.

Originally, this was a love fairy tale of a Cinderella who successfully married a king.

At this point, Gandalf glanced at Ron, and seeing that he was in high spirits, he continued to tell the second half of the story.

When the king returned to the palace, he became more and more violent, often executing the maids who served him for small things.

The Rose Kings of all ages could only have one queen, so the maids and maids who served the king were actually responsible for the king's desire movement, and the children born were nominally raised by the queen.

Occasionally, there are maids who give birth to princes or princesses, and their mothers become popular in front of the king.

One day, Gandalf receives a notice from the palace that he is guarding a special group of condemned prisoners, including Vivien's mother and Vivien, who is still an infant.

Most of these special condemned prisoners were women in the royal palace who served the king.

Vivien's mother, knowing that she could not survive, wept and knelt down and begged Gandalf to take Vivien, a mother's last plea before dying.

Looking at the mother with the rain and the crying baby in his arms, Gandalf was a little touched.

That night, under the cover of sleep magic and mirror magic, he successfully brought out the baby.

He sent the baby to an ordinary villager in Oracle Town for adoption, and gave them enough gold coins to live until they reached adulthood.

After the incident, Gandalf returned to the palace, where the condemned prisoners were secretly executed by the Janissaries.

No one else knew about it.

"It wasn't until a year ago that there was a disturbance in the Warcraft Plains, and I was appointed to come to the Oracle Town Magic Branch as the dean, that I saw the baby back then."

Gandalf was also quite emotional when he said this, he originally thought that he would never have a second chance to meet this child in his life.

Gandalf was actually resistant to Vivien's learning of magic, as she looked a lot like her mother.

If the king finds out what he has done back then, it is likely to lead to the destruction of his family.

Even if he was an archmagister, he could not resist the power of the king.

It's just that her magic qualifications are not good, and it is estimated that she can only be a magic apprentice for the rest of her life. Gandalf turned a blind eye and let her continue her studies at the Academy of Magic.

The parachuted director of the Magic Academy hinders the interests of many people.

Oracle Town does not have a mayor, and is actually run by the Crusader Guards and the Academy of Magic, with Gandalf's position originally held by the three vice-principals.

They thought that the next headmaster must be chosen among the three, but they didn't expect that a headmaster was parachuted in the royal capital, which annoyed them and teamed up to empty Gandalf's power.

Gandalf didn't care about these rights, he was only obsessed with studying magic, and he joined the court mage group just to get access to more high-level magic books.

However, the actions of these three people became more and more excessive, and they even began to collect money to manipulate the admission quota of the Magic Academy.

This made the academy become a miasma, and the poor students could only give up their magic dreams and turn around to join the mercenary group to become a mercenary or a wild mage.

Gandalf then made up his mind to get rid of the moths.

"So what are you going to do with them if I'm not called?"

Ron asked, curious.

Gandalf chuckled dryly.

"In fact, Oracle Town occasionally suffers from night attacks by Warcraft, even if the magic master is attacked by Warcraft during his sleep, he will die......"

Ron was thoughtful.

"The story is good, but you didn't say anything worth sparing your life, and these things have nothing to do with me."

Vivien's eyelashes twitched slightly.

"I understand what you mean, I'm telling this story just to hope that you will treat that child well, and if you need to, I can help you break the pact of equality, as long as you don't hurt that child."

Look at the silent Ron

Gandalf thought for a moment, then spoke again:

"The most valuable item I've ever had is this rare staff, if you need it......"

......

The conversation continued into dusk, and Gandalf finally paid the price of a rare staff and a copy of all the magic rubbings he had learned, and was forgiven by the true dragon.

Gandalf then left with the three stunned vice-principals.

This is what Ron meant, he decided to stay here for a while, these three people will be useful in the future, and Ron will have to "check" the gold coins they have embezzled over the years.

It's a shame to say that Ron already has the strength of the legendary rank, but he doesn't even have a single gold coin on his body, which is really a shame for the face of the true dragon clan.

Dragons are naturally interested in collecting shiny gold coins and treasures.

Every dragon that has been successfully defeated mostly ends with a brave man returning with a princess and a large amount of gold coins, which is also the favorite story of bards.

The room was quiet again, except for the sound of a man and a dragon breathing.

"They're gone, how long are you going to sleep?"

Ron said as he looked at the girl pretending to be asleep.

Although Vivien had tried her best to disguise herself, the sparkling tears on her face betrayed her.

"I'm sorry Mr. Ron, I didn't mean to."

Vivien propped herself up and half-sat on the bed, her sad expression overflowing, her slender fingers tangled together, her white teeth biting her lower lip.

"Mr. Ron, I ......"

"Shut up!"

Ron interrupted her, he didn't want to make a girl drift away and have some picture of regret for life.

This is not a bloody eight-o'clock theater!

"I know what you're trying to say, you don't have to worry about my background being involved in me, because..."

"You're my first friend"

The first friend in this world, Ron added in his heart.

With that, Ron grinned, leaking out his white teeth.

"If anyone wants to draw the wrath of a legendary dragon, let him come, I promise he'll regret making that decision."

Even God!

Vivien looked at Ron's confident speech in a daze, and the sadness in her heart seemed to be diluted a lot.

Birds outside the window skimmed by, and a bustling crowd loomed in the distance.

Mom, did you see that?

Vivien has made new friends, although he has a bigger appetite and likes to tie people up by his tail...... But he's really gentle.

Ron's voice interrupted her distraction.

"Vivien, I'm hungry"

"Huh? Okay, Mr. Dragon, I'm going to prepare dinner."

"Call Me Ron"

"Okay, Mr. Ron"

"Mr. also removes"

"Okay...... Ron"

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