novelraw Chapter 12 – The queen's many relationships
Chapter 12 – The queen's many relationships
"Master Mesent, His Majesty is willing to offer an additional five hundred Golden Lions for your use."
A knight, having washed his face, arrived at the residence of Archmage Mesent to convey the king's decree.
"Five hundred Golden Lions?"
A glint of greed flashed in Mesent's eyes, but he complained discontentedly, "What can five hundred Golden Lions do? It's barely enough to buy the materials for a Tracking Spell Array. What about my labor fee? I still have to personally slay the Black Dragon!"
"Does your king not know that Lord Cassius, the border general of Aililan, only sent me here out of respect for your queen?"
The knight paused for a moment, staring at the greedy archmage in front of him, wondering what this had to do with Queen Anrius.
Wait, it might actually be related.
He suddenly recalled that last month the queen seemed to have attended a court tea party hosted by the Queen of Aililan. Could it be...
Hiss...
The knight took a sharp breath, feeling that the archmage's words carried a lot of information. He needed to share this with a few fellow knights to fully digest it.
And if given the chance, he would also like to closely communicate with Queen Anrius about how she managed to handle the border general of Aililan.
Despite his utmost sympathy for the king, the negotiation had to continue. So the knight said to Mesent, "This is His Majesty's last savings. If you demand more, we can only abandon the plan."
Mesent's eyes darted around, his bright red, wine-stained nose making him look somewhat comical. He weighed his options for a moment and reluctantly said, "In that case, for the sake of Queen Anrius, five hundred Golden Lions it is. However, I need your army to cooperate with me. I can't possibly take on that Black Dragon alone, even if it's just a young one."
"Then I'll return to report."
The knight saluted, handed over the king's five hundred Golden Lions to Archmage Mesent, and left.
He now needed to organize the king's thousand Royal Guards. By tomorrow morning, once the archmage had prepared the Tracking Spell Array, the guards would set off with him.
As he walked, the knight pondered over Mesent's words.
What was the connection between Queen Anrius and the archmage?
Hiss...
The knight shook his head thoughtfully, deciding to avoid discussing life and ideals with the queen in the future. He was still young and didn't want to contract the lust demon's plague early.
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In the morning, a pale white dawn appeared on the horizon, gradually permeating the light blue sky. A gentle breeze blew, carrying a leaf into the Dragon Nest, where it wobbled and landed on Su Nian's nose.
The tickling sensation from his nose and the intense hunger in his stomach forced Su Nian, who wanted to sleep a bit longer, to wake up.
As he prepared to turn over, he suddenly felt a weight on his belly, as if something was pressing down on him. Looking down, he found that his curled-up sleeping position had turned into lying on his back, with a soft and adorable elf girl lying on his stomach.
Who else could it be but Anna Hathaway?
Seeing the elf girl curled up on his belly, with her fox ears and tail drooping gently, covered by his dragon wings, Su Nian felt a bit helpless.
He guessed it was because his belly was warmer, given how cold the cave got in the latter half of the night.
But what should he do now? He was really hungry!
"Hu... Big Dragon... eat candy..."
A soft murmur came from his belly as Anna mumbled in her sleep.
Goodness, she was even talking in her sleep.
Su Nian's dragon mouth curled into a grin as he suddenly tasted a faint sweetness. Using his claw to pull it down, he found it was the White Rabbit Milk Candy he had given Anna yesterday.
Anna had eaten less than a quarter of the candy, leaving the rest for him.
Are all girls in this other world so considerate?
This reminded Su Nian of his nephew who had broken his figurine. Not only did he feel no guilt, but he also wanted Su Nian to give him two more.
Truly, starting with an SSR was a treasure.
Su Nian couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He decided to find something good for his treasure to eat. Although the System Shop could exchange for some sweets, just eating sweets wouldn't do. She was so flat, and at her age, she needed to eat more meat to grow.
With this in mind, he carefully used his dragon wings to lift Anna's petite body.
However, doing so caused the shackles on Anna's limbs to lift and tighten around her. Su Nian had no choice, but luckily he had four claws and a tail; otherwise, he wouldn't know how to support all four heavy shackles at once.
After finally wrapping Anna in bear fur, Su Nian was about to go out to hunt.
But he found that the little girl's small hand had somehow grabbed the tip of his tail, her delicate face looking pitiful, frowning in her sleep, mumbling helplessly:
"Mr. Dragon, don't... don't go... Anna... Anna is scared..."
Ah, was she really asleep?
Su Nian carefully checked Anna's status panel: [Sleeping], no problem.
On one side was the reluctant and charming fox-eared girl, and on the other was the primal urge of hunger.
In the end, Su Nian chose to replace his tail with a strangely shaped rubber baton.
Don't ask where it came from; just know it was exchanged from the System's daily necessities shop, pink, 10 system points each, and probably quite painful if used to hit someone.
Half a minute later, Su Nian tiptoed out of the cave. Outside, the morning light was faint, the morning dew rising, and the early bird catches the worm, while the early Black Dragon finds meat.
Where was the meat? Of course, at the spot where he had dumped a body yesterday.
Su Nian concealed his Dragon's Might and quietly made his way to where he had left the human corpse the night before.
A proper dragon rarely did such things, as all dragons, despite their varied personalities, shared one common trait: pride.
This pride was so ingrained that even if their mouths were beaten to a pulp, it wouldn't change their stubbornness.
But Su Nian was different. In his previous life, he was always a sly player in games.
He would never show off unless he could completely crush the opponent, and even then, he would ensure absolute safety with his teammates and underlings.
Just like before he died, although he seemed to have escaped Thor's pursuit in a rather pathetic manner, there was still a blind monk hiding in the river grass...
Su Nian thought, shaking his head, bouncing from tree to tree like an oversized monkey, and soon saw a pack of ordinary Mountain Wolves feasting at the spot where he had discarded the body.
[Mountain Wolf - Level 5 (Tier 1) - As insignificant as insects]
Although they were called ordinary Mountain Wolves, they were much larger than wolves on Earth, each the size of a small elephant, with strong hind legs full of meat, making Su Nian drool.
As he quietly approached a tree near the pack of wolves, Su Nian suddenly unleashed his Dragon's Might and let out a deafening Dragon Roar.
"Roar—"
Under the dual effects of Dragon's Might and Dragon Roar, the pack of Tier 1 magical beasts, the Mountain Wolves, immediately cowered on the ground with their tails between their legs, forgetting which leg to use to run away.