Blue Dragon Emperor: Lord of Thunder

Chapter 51 Happy People, Disappearing People

Ron flew over the territory, and the family members who were cutting down trees, leveling the land, and building houses knelt down and chanted his honorable name of Lord of Storms.

Most of these family members are goblins, but there are also semi-beast races such as jackals, wild boars, and spotted cats.

They are all uncivilized savages, and most of them survive in a difficult and dangerous situation. A tribe even has only twenty or thirty tribesmen or less.

They have no resistance to becoming Long En's family members, and they have lived a precarious life. To become a real dragon's family member, they have gained shelter. Maybe the real dragon will eat some of them, but also It doesn't have to be yourself.

They came to this land with the idea of ​​competing with others for luck, but what greeted them was enough food for them to eat, and even shelter from the wind and rain.

Dilidis got up from the ground, looked up at the huge and majestic figure in the sky and flew away, until she couldn't see the shadow in the sky no matter how contracted her pupils were, and then she took it up with difficulty and put it down when she knelt down. planks.

Her amber eyes looked at the shining sky, because she knew that it was their master, a powerful and majestic dragon, who not only did not eat them, but gave them a safe place, gave them Food that will fill you up.

As a weak tabby, Dilidis has been hungry and restless since she was a child.

The Zebra people do not have a strong body and strength, and their minions are not sharp. Only their agile speed and excellent perception ability have made them survive so far.

Now, they no longer have to risk their lives for a barely-satisfying meal, and no longer need to worry about poisonous snakes and insects hiding in the leaves of bushes.

They will even have their own "house" with the help of the owner's other family members, which is much more comfortable than a tree hole.

"Diridice! Don't stare at the master all the time! That's very offensive! If you are found out, you will be punished by the master!"

A tabby man with gray hair walked past Dilidis carrying a board, and warned sternly.

It is a tabby cat in his 50s, which is already considered a long-lived wild tabby cat. Most tabby cats died in hunting or being hunted when they were young and middle-aged.

Diridis nodded obediently: "I know, meow, Uncle Kakashimi."

Uncle Kakashimi's tone just now was as severe as when he was teaching them to "avoid beasts that are too big or with tusks", "shake branches before climbing trees", and "don't eat blue and purple berries".

Facts have proved that what Uncle Kakashimi said is correct. Bibimir was bitten to death by a poisonous snake hidden in the leaves without shaking the branches before climbing up the tree.

But Diridis felt in her heart that Uncle Kakashimi made a mistake this time, and he had never been a member of the True Dragon Lord, how could he know this? Just watch and punish them.

Dilidis's thin body carried the plank with difficulty and walked forward, but her heart was never happier than before, and she couldn't help humming the meowing song.

……

The huge blue true dragon flew towards the ground, twisting and shrinking before his huge body ran over the canopy, becoming a scaly man with blue scales on his face.

"What's going on in Heishi Town? Why can't I buy any food?"

Curelia shook her head solemnly: "I don't know, I went to Baron Bray's manor, but I couldn't get in. In addition, I felt a dangerous and evil atmosphere in the town."

Ron originally asked Curelia to come to Blackstone Town to buy more food for emergency because of the sudden increase in the population of the family, but he didn't expect that he didn't even see the greedy Baron Bray.

Food can be bought in another place, but the presence of an evil aura in Blackstone Town that could make Curelia feel dangerous made Ron a little curious.

With Curelia Silver Dragon's righteous and kind nature, she probably wouldn't sit idly by this evil aura.

Ron decided to visit Blackstone Town.

……

As soon as he entered Blackstone Town, Ron frowned.

Although the original prosperity of Blackstone Town was distorted and based on the pornographic and violent industries, at least the whole town was full of vitality and had a kind of wild vitality.

But now, looking at the empty streets, there are less than ten figures.

The few passers-by either wandered numbly or in a hurry.

"boom!"

Ron kicked open the wooden door of Bray's Sword Tavern. In the usually crowded and noisy tavern, there were only two gloomy drinkers and one drunk under the table.

Ron walked to the bar and took out two gold coins: "Two glasses at will, one is for you, and another glass of wort for this lady."

Old Hadow, the bartender who was wiping his glass absently, came back to his senses and saw Ron's appearance clearly.

"Oh thank you very much...er, is that you?"

Ron nodded, took a sip from the wine glass handed over by Old Hadow, and said, "What happened here? Where did everyone on the street go?"

Old Hadow poured himself a glass of rye and sneered inexplicably: "Wars, taxes, and hard labor have brought this town down, my lord."

"War, taxes, hard labor? But what about adventurers and mercenaries?" Curelia frowned and wondered.

Extraordinary people in this world have the status of free citizens by default. Only those merchants, civilians, and serfs are the subjects of the nobles. Logically speaking, war and hard labor have nothing to do with free extraordinary people. At most, only taxes will treat them. Make some impact.

And how could Blackstone Town, a small town full of adventurers and mercenaries, decline because of wars, taxation, and hard labor.

Ron shook his head, and old Haddo also sighed helplessly: "Beautiful lady, adventurers and mercenaries are also human beings, they need to eat, sleep, and excrete, oh sorry, please forgive my rude words, but the fact is In this way, the serfs were taken to be used as hard labor, and the merchants and civilians went bankrupt due to taxation. If they wanted to continue to live, they could only escape secretly. Without the services provided by these people, adventurers and mercenaries could only leave. The towns in the Storm Mountains are not limited to the town of Blackstone in Berun."

If the people flee without the permission of the lord, they will become refugees without identity certificates, and face the fate of being captured by slave traders. A serf without human rights for a lifetime.

Taking such a risk and just wanting to leave is enough to prove that staying here is even more terrifying to them.

Ron frowned when he heard old Hador's words, and suddenly asked, "Where are those whores?"

Prostitutes belonged to the lord's subjects, but they could not serve as hard labor, and their families were unlikely to be businessmen who had gone bankrupt due to taxation. Even if they were military prostitutes, they would not be so much. After all, the food transported by the army was very expensive.

Old Hadow was silent for a moment, and said: "I spent some money to find a safe place for some of them, but most of them disappeared, maybe they all left Black Stone Town."

Ron squinted his eyes. Judging from Curelia and Vidirpan's investigations, the expeditionary force in the western provinces did not bring so many slave laborers, and Blackstone Town, which only contributed a few hundred soldiers, was even less likely to send serfs They were all taken as hard labor.

Serfs plus those prostitutes, there are too many people who suddenly disappeared.

Coupled with the evil aura and danger that Curelia was vaguely aware of, Ron's eyes immediately became sharp.

"Let's go, let's visit that Baron Bray."

Ron walked out of the tavern, and under everyone's shocked eyes, he transformed into a huge blue real dragon, flapping his wings and setting off a strong wind, and flew towards the sky.

(End of this chapter)