Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 1: The Illusionist Captured by the Dragon

Elsa never expected that after defeating the ogres today and eating bread and singing on the way back to the city, she would suddenly be robbed by a dragon!
And it is the red dragon with the worst reputation!

Cracked horns, crimson scales, flaming wings, and lava-like eyeballs.

All these characteristics point to a terrifying name - the unprovoked natural disaster, the ancient red dragon, Drogo.

The city of Tallinn fell, the Lion Knights were destroyed, the elves' secret treasures disappeared, and the Magic Goddess Temple burned down...

All sorts of horrific disasters created the dragon's fame.

But why would an ancient dragon capture a mere second-level illusionist instead of charging into the capital and snatching the princess?
Eating?

Impossible, if she were to eat it she would be almost in her rectum by now.

You can't expect her to create a small illusion.

Could it be that……

She suddenly looked at the giant dragon in horror, then turned to look at the little dragon, and absurd thoughts spread in her mind.

I can’t get in, no matter how hard I try.

She was caught and flew farther and farther away. A salty smell came from the wind, and she had already reached the sea.

There is a volcanic island a few hundred meters ahead. The giant dragon spreads its wings and begins to slow down. It must be the dragon's nest.

I'm sorry, mom. My daughter probably can't go back.

The dragon's claws grasped her and placed her on a stone platform, followed by a dragon's roar.

The powerful pressure made her heart beat wildly and she almost fainted.

After the roar, a brown-green goblin crawled out of the cave, rolled and crawled to the dragon's feet, and started communicating with Drogo.

Elsa knew that this was the dragon's servant. This evil and powerful creature would never lack followers.

The goblin stood up and walked towards him with a wretched step.

It was over. It was worse than she had expected. Death by the dragon's claws was at least quick, but death by the goblins was hard to predict.

It turns out that arresting me was just a reward for the slaves.

Shouldn't a hero appear at a time like this in the story?

Who will save me? I'm only nineteen years old and I don't want to die yet.

It would be better to bite your tongue and commit suicide, so that you can still have some dignity.

Ah, it hurts so much, I can’t eat it.

The goblin came closer and closer, even rubbing his hands. The dirt between his fingernails made people feel physically uncomfortable.

Elsa closed her eyes, not daring to face the cruel reality.

"Dear young lady."

Huh? What did she hear? She opened her eyes nervously, either it was hallucination or the goblin was speaking human language.

"My great master wants to hire you as the chief toy illusionist at a price of fifteen silver coins per month. You choose to agree or not."

"what?"

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Xu Linsen, also known as Drogo, is a former game planner and current ancient red dragon.

Hobbies are money, beliefs are money, and XP is also money.

This pure pursuit of wealth comes partly from the nature of dragons and partly because humans are the same.

If it weren't for the desire to earn more, who would be willing to be woken up by the phone on a weekend morning and reply with a curse: "Received."

After crossing over, due to his desire for gold coins and his slightly better physical condition, he quickly entered the dragon clan's comfort zone.

grab!
Of course, since he is still a human soul, he basically only seeks money and does not kill, and his targets are mainly nobles.

Although his notoriety spread far and wide, and all kinds of exaggerated or fabricated crimes were attributed to him, he didn't care.

For many years I was in the "I don't eat beef" state.

Until a temple of the Goddess of Magic was accidentally burned down.

After that, a warrior of only level eight appeared in his lair and challenged him.

He admired the other party's courage, so he decided to give the soldier a chance to live and send him away.

Then I watched the warrior take out a spell scroll of the eleventh ring from his bag.

He immediately realized who he had offended and decided to run away, but he still lost half his life before escaping.

While recuperating from his injuries, he reflected upon his mistakes and realized that the risks of fighting and killing were still too high.

Even though the ancient dragon is already the world's top fighting force, it would be difficult for it to protect itself if it provoked any god.

But a lot of property was lost, and it would be against Long Lun not to get it back.

When I was in trouble, I thought of my boss in my previous life who was a bad guy. He had dabbled in various entertainment industries, including games, movies, music, etc. His reputation was extremely bad, but he made a lot of money.

This is much faster than robbing money!
In the past, I was either fighting or on my way to fight. It was not until I had some free time that I realized that the entertainment options in this world were ridiculously poor. It was like a mountain of gold was right in front of me, but I never knew where to dig.

It's time to let the natives of the other world have a taste of the sweetness of consumerism.

He first tried a less expensive approach, launching a series of novels.

Such as "The Runaway Lover of the Demon Lord", "My Father-in-law is the Lionheart", and "The Tentacle Monster Becomes a God".

The final profit was not very good. Although there was money to be made, most people were not used to buying books just for fun, and they were only circulated among aristocratic circles.

Due to the shame of their reputation, the nobles could not display such books in public, which led to rampant piracy and the inability to sell genuine books at high prices.

Shuangwen is still a little too advanced for this world.

After reflection, he decided to delve deeply into the blue ocean market, organically combine innovative products with the local ecosystem, complete industry iteration, and realize business empowerment.

In simple terms, it means finding something that already exists here and improving it so that the market can better accept it.

So he chose the toy industry.

First of all, the popularity of toys is high enough. As long as the family is not particularly poor, the children will have at least two or three toys.

Secondly, the upper limit is high enough, and young masters and young ladies often spend a few gold coins just to buy a handmade toy.

In order to investigate the market, the dignified ancient dragon arranged for his orcs to buy toys everywhere, the more types the better.

After some research, I found that the toys in this world are generally just about appearance, with very little innovation in gameplay.

He intends to combine magical elements with toys on Earth to achieve a dimensionality reduction attack on the fun of local toys.

But after initially planning out several toys, they soon faced a difficult problem: what to do with the magic.

Dragon language magic is an art when it explodes.

The magic of the Goblin and Orc Shamans is in a delicate "I'm thinking" state and is extremely unstable.

The magic of the undead is more or less tainted with curses. How could anyone be so bold as to buy this thing for a child?

In such a big Dragon Island, no one knows non-violent magic.

So, he "invited" Elsa.

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Elsa was confused. What happened to this world?
She was kidnapped by a dragon while walking on the road, and the reason was that he wanted her to be a toy illusionist.

Where is the greedy, evil, despicable and arrogant villain?

Although I am not allowed to refuse and I don't know what this job is about, to be honest, the monthly salary of fifteen silver coins is really tempting.

Their family of four spent no more than fifty silver coins a year.

She worked as an assistant in the laboratory and occasionally took on some expedition missions. If she was lucky, she could only earn ten silver coins a month.

No, Aisha, Aisha, what are you thinking about? That's the red dragon Drogo. What if the toy illusionist means an illusionist who is used as a toy by the goblins?
I instantly recalled the obscene stories that countless bards would tell in nightclubs.

She was determined to never agree to the dragon's request, even if it meant death.

"Absolutely not!" Elsa's voice trembled when she said this.

The goblin turned around to ask his master's opinion.

"Roar--"

"Twenty silver coins."

"My ideal is to pursue the truth of magic, so that I won't go along with the evil dragon."

"Roar--"

"Twenty-five silver coins."

"Serving the great ancient red dragon is an important step towards the truth of magic!"

A moment later, a subordination contract was placed in front of Elsa.

The treatment was better than she had imagined. She had originally thought it would be a slave contract.

There will be no life-threatening consequences if you break the contract, only financial penalties.

This red dragon looks much more like a human than many of the beasts in the dark wizard tower!

After signing the contract, with the help of the magic in the contract, she can communicate with Drogo through consciousness.

Drogo suddenly shrank to a height of two meters, probably with the help of some kind of treasure that could change his body shape.

He took out the treasure chest from the cave again, and then slapped it. The treasure chest opened its mouth wide, revealing its fangs and tongue.

Are you using the treasure chest monster as a box?
Elsa looked shocked.

Drogo reached out his claws and fumbled around, then pulled out a small gadget and tossed it to Elsa.

She took it and looked at it. It was not a magic prop, but just two hemispheres put together backwards with a rope tied in the middle. It looked familiar.

"Your job is to make this toy trigger illusions," Drogo's voice in my mind was unexpectedly nice, "I call it a yo-yo."

(End of this chapter)