A dark sight!
Leonas couldn't help but frowned. As a mage, he had been very sensitive to mental training for a long time. He always felt as if some malicious sight was being projected here. However, looking at the nearby terrain, there was nothing but an open space not far away. It's basically just bushes and woods outside, so you can't see any people at all.
To be honest, this was a bad choice for a luncheon.
Once a confidant of Prince Augusta, Leonas had already become a 17th-level mage at a young age. During the conflict between the Kalsemmen Empire and the Kingdom of Creses, he went to the front line more than once to assist the accompanying mage in deploying spells. Formation, I naturally have some military knowledge under my influence. Although the dining base chosen for this Karut Kingdom hunting meeting is in the highlands, in addition to the beautiful scenery and wide field of vision, it is also a location that is easily attacked by the surrounding woods and bushes. It allows attackers to easily lurk very close. If the opponent launches a surprise attack, even if they are at a numerical disadvantage, they can cause great losses to themselves.
Leonas wanted to remind Prince Andres, but considering that this was a hunting party held by the Karute Kingdom after all, it would hurt the other party's face to question the safety based on intuition without any conclusive evidence. Therefore, Leonas could only choose to do it quietly. As a mage who majored in the wind system, detecting spells was considered to be Leonas's strength.
On the side, Andres was still discussing with Celine some recent topics about world changes. As for the appearance of some legendary existences, the prince also thought of a recent domestic rumor: "In fact, some people in our country also reported sightings not long ago. News of a giant dragon flying across the sky.”
"The giant dragon~is it a dragon lizard?" Celine asked lightly.
"Of course it's not a dragon lizard, Your Highness Celine! This time the witness stated that the other party flew from the sky. Judging from the size, it is obviously not a monster like a flying dragon or a griffon." Prince Andres replied plausibly. Celine recounted.
Someone in the Kingdom of Karut did witness a giant dragon. To be precise, it was not a person, but a group of lumberjacks. When they were resting in a forest farm, they found a huge black shadow flying over their heads. Some workers with quick eyesight and quick hands quickly climbed up. They reached the top of the tree and successfully looked at the entire opponent. Although they had flown far away, the workers were still sure that it was indeed a dragon-like creature, and it was definitely not a small subspecies of dragon like a wyvern, but something larger. The appearance of the creature is indeed reminiscent of the legendary long-lost dragon.
"His Royal Highness Prince Andres~ Isn't there anyone observing behind?" Celine also asked with interest. Logically speaking, there was a giant dragon flying in the sky in broad daylight, and there should be many witnesses along the way. That's right.
Seeing that Celine seemed to be interested in this topic, Andres also cheered up and spoke in detail: "Unfortunately, there were no witnesses later, and I don't know if the dragon bypassed the inhabited area or improved. The flying height was lower, but witnesses at the time stated that the dragon seemed to have golden horns and a white body, and the worker who climbed the tree also bluntly said that he saw someone riding on the back of the dragon. "
"Someone is riding on the back of a giant dragon. Could it be that he is really a dragon knight?" Celine pretended to be surprised.
Dragon Knight! Powerful brave men who control giant dragons soar in the sky. They always fall from the sky with their companion dragons. Their overwhelming power sweeps the battlefield to destroy all evil. Of course, there are also knights and dragons who can transform into humans. Some imaginative romances. The dragons who fight side by side with the braves on the battlefield usually transform into extremely beautiful dragon girls off the battlefield to heal the brave's wounds and soothe his tired soul, allowing the braves to successfully be promoted to daytime dragon riders. The winner of life is being dragonrided at night!
But even in a different world, this is considered a legendary profession, and can even be said to be a legendary profession, because dragon knights, at least so far, have only appeared in novels, myths, and poems, and in reality the so-called I am afraid that the dragon knights can only ride some smaller subspecies of flying dragons. In the eyes of real dragons, these flying dragons can only be equated with wild beasts. As for transforming into a beautiful girl to soothe the hearts of the brave, that is even more It's something that only appears in dreams.
Even if a giant dragon that has become powerful will occasionally become friends with some mortals, most of the dragons will not reveal their true identity. It is good to have the best ones who can talk to each other as equals. Mortals want to ride on the giant dragon. He also commanded the dragon to fight, and even let the dragon sleep with him after the war. Don't be kidding, asking the strong to surrender to the weak is simply an insult to his identity in the eyes of the dragon. He is the one who occasionally favored the mortals in history. The dragon that gave birth to a hybrid child also treated the other party as its master. Even in the special era of the Dragon War, perhaps the dragons would act as 'transport planes' for mortals to ride on and carry out airdrops, but it would be unthinkable to accept the command of mortals as servants to fight. one thing.
Besides, what is the use of a profession like Dragon Knight
You must know that giant dragons are much stronger than humans, elves, and dwarves. Under the high-intensity battle between giant dragons, facing the dragon's breath that can reach thousands of degrees, it can turn a city into a ghostland. The poisonous breath, the frost breath that is enough to instantly turn flesh and blood into ice crystals, and the shadow breath that can blow away a mountaintop, a mortal body riding on a giant dragon can face such an attack even if it is lightly scratched. He is probably dead in one go, and if a mortal fights on a dragon, in order to ensure the safety of the mortal on its back, the dragon might be distracted and use its own power to protect him. In this way, what is the so-called dragon knight? It's not that it's holding back the dragon beneath him.
In fact, as long as you think about it, you will know that the dragon knight profession is not reliable at all, unless the dragon knight itself also has extraordinary power or exceeds the power of the dragon, but the status of the dragon itself among the extraordinary people is probably There are not many.
"There were reports in the Kingdom of Saxony that someone had witnessed a giant dragon, but it was later officially confirmed as just a rumor. I think the lumberjacks might have seen it wrong. Maybe they mistakenly thought the person riding the subspecies of flying dragon was "It's a giant dragon." Andres said with a smile: "After all, the giant dragon has disappeared for so long. No one knows what a real giant dragon looks like. Naturally, some ignorant country people will see it flying. Large monsters may think it is a dragon."
"That's true, but we can't deny that dragons did exist in the past, right? His Royal Highness Prince Andres!" Celine smiled elegantly.
Although many countries and aristocratic families paint their family emblems with dragon patterns, hoping that their family will last forever like the dragon, a creature that represents the pinnacle of power and power in the world, but for dragons like this There have indeed been no sighting reports on the biological continent for hundreds of years. The dragon itself is almost like a semi-legendary species like gods and demons. The only thing that is different from gods and demons is that there are many others in this world. Regarding the evidence of the actual existence of the dragon, such as the fragments of the language used by the legendary dragon and the few remaining dragon scales are excellent evidence. The language and characters may not be positive yet, but the extremely hard dragon scales have been tested It is indeed advantageous to smelt and forge the scales of a certain creature instead of ore, indicating that such a powerful creature did exist in the world.
The Karut Kingdom was once attacked by dragon lizards, which also provided good evidence for the existence of giant dragons, because the scales of the dragon lizard that caused huge losses in the Karut Kingdom before being killed were the same as those that remained. Comparing the giant dragon scales, we came to the conclusion that the hardness of the scales of dragon lizards, a monster that requires the use of regular national troops or even magic crystal cannons to kill, is actually far inferior to the scales of these giant dragons that have been left for who knows how long. Obviously these The owner of the scale itself is far more powerful than the dragon lizard.
But can there be any monster stronger than the dragon lizard in the world now
Okay~ There is still some! But the only area where monsters stronger than dragon lizards live is the seemingly endless endless sea. Those deep-sea giant beasts in the ocean may indeed be stronger than dragon lizards, but marine creatures usually do not survive due to the bad living environment. It will grow hard scales that prevent it from swimming in the water. Even most marine creatures with scales have soft scales.
While Celine and Prince Andres were chatting lively, Leonas, who was quietly casting a spell, suddenly changed his expression because the information fed back by the spell found that many unknown targets were quietly gathering nearby. Although I still don't know the identity of the other party, but I am sure that it cannot be some kind of wild beast. The wolves will not attack a team of hundreds of people, and the wild beast will not be able to form an orderly encirclement formation on their own side.
damn it! What the hell is going on in the Karut Kingdom? Didn't they say they had cleaned up the hunting ground before launching the hunting party? How come there are so many people ambushing inside now!
Leonas really wanted to shout a warning, but it seemed that the opponent was still setting up an encirclement. If he shouted at this time, he might immediately attract the opponent's attention and launch a surprise attack. Although the opponent's number was not as large as his own, As an attacker, everyone can fight, but too many of the people here are nobles with no fighting ability. Judging from their terrible archery skills in hunting before, unless the attacker stands still and acts as a target The probability of their archery hitting the target is really not very low, let alone close combat.
There are only fifty royal knights with real combat effectiveness, and there are about a dozen magicians. But considering that this group of nobles who enjoyed themselves before asked the magicians to support water barriers to block the sun or use flash magic to create a dining environment. , now it is unknown how much magic power these mages can have left for fighting.
But we can’t delay it any longer!
"Sorry~Prince Andres! I suddenly have something urgent to report here!" Leonas interrupted the conversation between Her Royal Highness the Princess and Prince Andres without regard for etiquette. (~^~)