I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 301 Atonement
Ganon once again visited Amanda's secluded village in disguise. When he came to Amanda's residence, he saw Amanda giving lessons to several young apprentices.

He waited outside the house for a moment. Amanda noticed him and waved him inside to listen.

Ganon entered the room and sat down at the back.

After sitting down and listening to the lecture for a few minutes, Ganon unexpectedly discovered that this was not just a mage course. The second half was basically about wilderness survival skills and safety matters that need to be paid attention to, including finding water and food. and ways to avoid the scorching sun, as well as venomous snakes and insects that need to be careful.

When the class was over, Amanda said goodbye to the children one by one, and then received the guests: "Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Gaynor, I wasted a lot of your time."

Gaynor is the pseudonym Ganon gave himself, and he introduced it to Amanda specifically last time.

"Anyway, I'm here just to listen to your class." Ganon replied politely.

"This course is of little use to you, and your wife didn't come this time either." Amanda said.

"When she heard your reply last time, she felt that she had been rejected by you, and it was inappropriate to continue to pester her, but I still don't want to give up." Ganouen said.

In fact, Anya came with him, but after arriving, Anya entered the village in hiding to investigate the followers of the Fenglong Order.

At the same time, people from the Night Blade family sent by Ursula were also investigating the signs of the dragon in the wild.

"Unfortunately, as I said before, I currently don't have much energy to teach apprentices like you who have already entered the door. I welcome you to observe, but as you can see, my courses are not worth your journey. Come here." Amanda stood up, took out a worn notebook from the bookcase, and handed it to Ganouen, "This should be considered as making up for my apology."

Ganon took it over and flipped through it, and found that it was a notebook from the beginning to the advanced level of a mage. It recorded many techniques and knowledge principles in detail.

The original power of the elemental mage is to control matter, change the physical properties of matter, manipulate the forces between matter and reactions such as combustion and discharge, and then cast a variety of complex and changeable spells.

This requires mages to have a deeper understanding of matter. Unlike other god-given professions that can be advanced by intuition and experience, elemental mages often need more accumulation of theoretical knowledge to cast spells well.

But in this world, knowledge is very expensive. In the Federation of Elements, an introductory course at a magic academy can consume a family's savings.

In this village on the edge of the civilized world, the children here should have had no access to such advanced knowledge.

All this was possible thanks to the generosity of Amanda, who now generously gave the book to an "orc" who came to him to learn from him.

"Master Amanda really still looks down on talented students like me." Ganouen said half-jokingly.

"I really don't have the conditions to accept an advanced apprentice like you." Amanda smiled and shook her head, "And recently, some villagers have discovered signs that a giant dragon is suspected to be nearby. It's better for you to come less often."

"There is a dragon? Isn't this very critical? If a dragon discovers this village, something big will happen." Ganon pretended to be worried.

A juvenile dragon is enough to destroy a village with soldiers stationed there. Although the dragon has declined to the point that it has been driven out of the civilized world, for a settlement like this without the protection of national military power, the dragon is still important to them. It was a horrific natural disaster.

Even if this village is protected by Amanda, if it is a dragon that has reached the prime of life, an extraordinary mage like Amanda may not be able to handle it.

"How long has Mr. Gaynor been here in Sandman City?" Amanda asked patiently.

"Less than two years." Ganon said casually.

"If you have walked around, you should understand that there is not much livable land in this area. The vast majority of people are refugees who have fallen outside the civilized world for various reasons, and this village takes in some of the refugees. The weakest.”

Amanda said and looked out the window. At this time, the group of apprentices she had just finished class were still chasing and fighting on the village road outside.

"I live in seclusion here. The first group of villagers who moved here were a group of female slaves who escaped from Shaman City. They were sold to the brothels of Shaman City and lived like animals used for breeding. This is not an exaggeration. When they fled to me, some were still pregnant, and some were carrying unborn children. You should have seen a lot of young people and children of mixed races here, and their life experiences are basically the same."

"That's it." Ganon nodded.

"These weak and insecure people, as well as these mixed-race children, have no place anywhere. They can't even go to a place like Sandman City where dragons and snakes are mixed. They are either excluded or exploited. They left. The only option here is to wander in the desert and find a new home, which is tantamount to suicide," Amanda said. "You are really kind-hearted." Ganon commented.

"It's just sympathy. After all, I have been excluded and exploited in the past." Amanda replied lightly.

"Is this the reason why you haven't returned to the Federation of Elements? To protect the people here?" Ganon asked tentatively.

Amanda smiled kindly and said: "That's right. I tried to get ahead in the Federation, but was excluded because of my mixed-race origin. I also concentrated on pursuing academics, but in the end I found that I didn't have the passion to explore endless knowledge. But when I I feel fulfilled when I try to help these people who are in the same situation as me, or even more frustrated than me..."

She seemed about to tell a story about finding a noble meaning in life, but midway through, she suddenly stopped.

"Master Amanda?" Ganon noticed her unnatural pause.

"Sorry, I said some big words." Amanda suddenly smiled apologetically, "I'd better tell the truth. In fact, I didn't do good deeds, but stayed here to atone for my sins."

"Atonement?" Ganon was suddenly confused.

"In the beginning, I didn't actually help these people much. This place was originally a deserted village, and I was not the owner here. I just lived with these people who fled. The one who protected them was another person. A mage who searches for ruins in Sandman City, she is a noble person," Amanda said.

"Are there other mages in this village?" Ganon asked.

"No, she is no longer here, because of my fault. I came here to explore in the early years, and accidentally provoked an adult blue dragon. Later, the blue dragon chased me everywhere, and it may have found me here. The smell, and I happened to be out that day..."

Amanda sighed softly when she said this, "The blue dragon launched a massacre, and the mage resisted desperately to protect most of the people in the village. When I came back to drive away the blue dragon, she was already dead. We buried her in the middle of the village and erected a monument for her. I would sometimes visit her grave. To make up for my sin, I stayed to take her place."

Ganon frowned slightly when he heard this: "I understand your thinking, but it is too strange to say that it is a sin. If it is true as you said, shouldn't the blue dragon be the guilty one? Could it be that you did what you did to him? What happened?"

Amanda shook her head: "No, I just broke into his lair by mistake. When he attacked me, I fought back, that's all."

"Then it's all the blue dragon's fault." Ganon said firmly, "You don't need to take the blame of the villain on yourself. You may feel sorry for it, but there is no need to feel guilty about it."

Amanda was stunned for a while, then suddenly laughed: "I didn't expect that I would be enlightened by a young man like you."

Then, she put away her smile again and said seriously:

"But after all, this happened because of me, I feel that I still have the responsibility to stay. Recently, some villagers found signs of dragon activity near the village. I suspect that the dragon has come again. Dragons are very vindictive, and I have wounded him before. I think he is planning to take revenge on me. In the worst case scenario, he may join a clan and prepare to attack with his accomplices. So Mr. Gaynor, you'd better not do it again in the future. It’s best to come over.”

Ganon silently analyzed in his mind how credible Amanda's story was. Amanda's village was obviously connected to the Dragon Order.

He didn't think Dolan Sloani and the Dragon Order would be afraid of a mere adult blue dragon. Dolan Sloani specifically commissioned Ursula to investigate the village, and also prohibited Ursula from intervening in the village. It was basically certain that the village Within her protective confines.

It can even be said that the village where Amanda lives in seclusion can be regarded as one of Dolan Sloane's forces.

Maybe the blue dragon mentioned by Amanda is actually Dolan Sloane's hostile clan in the Dragon's Lair - just like the Reginal mentioned by Claregor. According to the information provided by Claregor , Reginald once sent a young dragon to attack Dolan Siloni, and he has also acted suspiciously recently.

"Ganoen." Anya's voice suddenly sounded in his head.

"What's wrong, dear?" Ganon responded.

"Fuck you! Who wants to play such boring tricks with you?" Anya was embarrassed, and then said seriously, "Listen, my subordinates are now tracking a cultist who previously came from the contact point between the cult and the Night Blade family. When he came back, he was probably the person Dolan Siloni sent to lead the investigation team of the Nightblade family. But now that he came back, he immediately left the village. I had someone try to follow him, and they found out something shocking. !”

"Speak." Ganon signaled Anya to continue.

"He secretly met another dragon, another blue dragon!" Anya said seriously, "This cultist may have betrayed Dolan Siloni and was tipping off blue dragons from other clans!!"

(End of this chapter)