19.
It took us more than a month to rectify the newly annexed Monka territory, but we are all under control.
I kept my word, gave 70% of the treasure to Frius, and watched with heartache as they turned into a pile of scum after half a day.
Frius's complexion was visibly better.
Probably because he became familiar with me, Frius's words became more and more, and he began to tell me some stories about Ikang Continent.
To be honest, I was skeptical about what he said.
Because in the description of Frius, the elf prince who was described by the bard as beautiful, noble and proficient in spells has become an ugly woman with a disguise, not at all as handsome as him; the most powerful magician in the Ikon continent is one Ice hockey can knock down a bad old man. If he didn't uphold the virtue of respecting the old and caring for the young, he would not easily let go of this guy who dared to play his Dragon Ball idea; the king of the mighty human kingdom Biyin is a greedy man. Dead, the villain who gave his daughter to the dragon family and his son to the dark wizard to seek shelter and obtain the law of longevity...
The worldview that I had built up from the stories of the bard since I was a child will be destroyed by him.
But I remembered that the bard said that the dragons are a very proud and vain race. I'm also honestly being an obedient listener to get Frius to say a few more words - I really like the way he speaks and his voice. Especially when he talks about how he has defeated so many people, I will look at him with admiration in my eyes and praise him from time to time: "Ah, Frius, you are so amazing!"
I think my acting skills must be outstanding, so after nearly a month, Frius doesn't think my actions are fake and contrived.
20.
After the annexation of the Monka territory, our intelligence services finally came into play.
The news came that Lord Kath was very upset and dissatisfied with our annexation of Mongka, and the news that I had a dragon made him even more upset. What's more, after the annexation of Monka, the power I have is almost equal to his.
After discussing with Andy and other ministers again, the countermeasure I came up with is: a quick solution.
After all, the power of a dragon is enough to upset the balance of the moment. Those lords who are afraid of the dragon heart are likely to unite to take the opportunity to kill the forces that I have not yet grown up.
One thing everyone, including myself, is not sure about is how long Frius will stay here to help me - after all, unlike the dragon of Ansel, he has no contract with me.
I think Frius will leave when he recovers and regains the power to fly over the sea of death
twenty one.
We breached Cass' fortress, but we did not capture Cass himself, who fled with some of his men to the adjacent Carroll realm to seek refuge.
In this battle, Frius was always at the forefront, using his powerful body to attack the army. The bows and arrows that hit him were like toys, and they could not pose any threat to him. The scales will snap off.
But I still feel a little distressed for the scratches on his beautiful blue scales, and insisted on giving him medicine, and by the way, I freely touched those dragon scales.
Frius lay on the ground indiscriminately, with the seven layers of treasure assigned to him under it, and wagging his tail occasionally.
He said: "This is nothing to me at all. When I was a child, I soaked lava on the Tianhuo Mountains every day. Sometimes I was willing to come out until the scales were peeled off. It felt like you humans soaking in hot springs."
I felt frightened when I thought about it, and said to him, "Don't go to the bubbles in the future, it's too dangerous. Besides, aren't you an ice dragon?"
Frius put his face on a pile of night pearls and said dully, "Okay."
twenty two.
Even if Cass hadn't defected to the past, Carroll would have come to us sooner or later.
Carroll's power is equivalent to two and a half Cass, equivalent to five Monkas. He himself is in the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the territory has been growing under his leadership, even for us today. Tough bones to chew.
He and I have a deeper hatred - my father suffered from an old injury that year because Carol intended to take advantage of his father's old age and weakness to take advantage of the opportunity to loot. He and his father are old rivals. The attack eventually hurt his father's old creation, and robbed his father of the precious resources for the development of the territory that he had worked so hard to save. As a result, his father fell ill and died.
I have always been short-sighted and sentimental. In my eyes, my incompetent self is a sinner, and Carol is an enemy.
I ran back to the fort - after the annexation of Kas's realm I settled in Monka's fort, which was relatively decent and in the center of what is now my realm, allowing me to manage the realm.
Frius also lived here, and he shrunk down and slept in the big, palatial room that belonged to Monca, and I lived next door to him.
Frius was disgusted by this, and the Monca fortress, which seemed to me to be very good, was to him "small and rudimentary, not as good as his cousin's pet house".
Instead of going back to my room, I ran into Frius's room, sitting on the carpet and hugging his tail: "Alf..."
Frius raised his head lazily: "Put down my tail."
After getting along for a long time, I found that he is actually good-natured and easy to talk. At first, he would be vicious and ill-tempered and ask me not to touch and hug casually. Later, I didn't pay attention to it a few times and couldn't hold back. I found that he didn't say anything other than nagging.
Afterwards, I didn't even bother to nag.
I let go of my tail obediently, and instead leaned forward and hugged his neck.
I stick next to him and tell him about Carol.
I have always been a clingy child since I was a child. When I was a child, I always cling to my mother. Later, my parents and my mother joined forces to beat me up, and I never dared to do it again. I'm not too embarrassed to stick to others, after all, as a young lord, I still have a good face.
Well now, I can stick to a dragon unscrupulously. Anyway, when he is raised, flaps his wings and flies away, no one will know about it.
I am still a young and promising lord.
I said, "Afo, avenge me, this time the treasure is yours."
twenty three.
I woke up cold the next morning.
It was uncomfortably hard under me, and despite the fleece blanket, I slept on the ground and not the velvet-cushioned bed I had just confiscated from Cass.
Last night, I had been complaining about the revolutionary family history with Frius again, and accidentally fell asleep beside him when I was too late and tired.
Next to him was the big body and big head of Frius, who was soundly asleep. The coolness emanating from his body made me shiver.
It was still dark, and there was no candle in the room. With a dragon, I couldn't afford the luxury of magic spar. Only dim moonlight and starlight poured in. In the dark room, the scales on Frius' body exuded a silver-blue light.
it's beautiful.
I couldn't help but put my palms on his back, it was cold. His scales are no longer the jet-black blue that was similar to black when they first saw him, but a slightly darker and silver-black blue than the sky, clean and deep.
I still feel very sleepy, want to sleep, and feel cold, so sleepy that I don't want to move at all, I don't want to stand up and move my legs back to the room next door.
When I got close to Frius, I found that his back was always cold, but his abdomen was warm. So I pushed him.
Frius actually turned his body sideways in coordination, revealing a slit in his lower abdomen.
I rolled, squeezed in, and hugged the warm and fine scales on his abdomen.
My last thought before falling asleep again was hoping that Frius wouldn't suddenly change his gravity support position in his sleep and crush me to death.