Throne of the North.

Chapter 491: The Flower of Dawn in the Hands of the Imperial Nobles

The value of the dragon can only be reflected outside of Nidhogg.

When the legendary knight Earl Clayton personally launched a sneak attack on a legendary dragon that was seriously injured after fighting with the Dusk's followers, even the Earl could not help but burst into laughter due to his excitement.

This giant dragon is worth the two hearts of the Frost Giant King that he had paid before.

The fire dragon Christman had no aversion to this at all, and even rushed forward to devour the dragon's heart.

"That's not yours."

Earl Clayton held him down, and Ivar was emitting a gorgeous glow. Ryan could see clearly that this guy was actually a magician at the level of a great wizard.

"The dragon's fresh heart can be traded with that Ivy."

He said this because Earl Clayton has been quite active recently and has been communicating closely with the ten legendary magicians of the empire.

There is nothing to hide from Ryan about this matter. After all, Ryan is now a member of this political alliance.

"The Emperor's war against the Church has already begun. He needs to use the nobles in the south to lead the army to attack the Church's faith. Not every noble has such an opportunity, and the one that the Emperor trusts the most right now..."

It is the aristocratic interest group headed by the great nobles such as Grand Duke Fleming and Earl Clayton.

Earl Clayton wants to become the fifth Grand Duke of the Empire. This goal cannot be achieved by just talking to the nobles. That is the last step, and the process happens in every corner of the world.

Their best opportunity came during the reign of Columbus III, the emperor with the best relations with the Fleming and Earl Clayton families.

Once you miss it, the chance is completely slim.

"The court magician priests will follow the army, but the ten legendary priests only have mandatory orders to protect the nobles. His Majesty the Emperor cannot control anything else they do."

"But we need the help of a powerful legendary magician. Their power in war is more terrifying than an extraordinary army."

“So we have to build good relations with them.”

Ryan understood that, after all, this matter still involved the political issues of the empire.

"But, from what I know, it will be difficult for Lord Ivy to leave the Andara Kingdom."

Ryan met the legendary magician not long ago. The Holy See of Light in the Anda Kingdom had been attacked more than once or twice, and the other party was unable to leave at all.

"He wants to fight against the Church in the Kingdom of Andara, but he has something that another legendary magician needs."

Ivar said this and Ryan understood.

To put it bluntly, Earl Clayton wants to use the dragon heart to trade for something in Ivy's hands, and then use that thing to trade with another legendary magician in exchange for friendly cooperation between the other party and the Clayton family.

This is the function of this dragon heart. When it was dug out, its future destination had already been determined.

And this world...

Ryan looked at the sky. At this moment, they should be very close to their target.

The sky was resounding with the roars of numerous giant dragons. They circled high in the sky, blocking out the light, leaving only scattered patches of aurora that seeped through the gaps between their flapping wings and fell down.

Shining on the bloody ice.

The dragons were not wandering around without reason. The flames of dusk had spread to the edge of the sky. One after another, the ferocious dusk dragons roared over. Their bodies were more or less damaged. Some had half of their heads shattered with keratin, some had broken wings that fluttered like kites, and some had large holes pierced through their bodies, so they could see the brilliant sky behind them...

Crooked and broken melons... no, the battle-hardened army, these followers of dusk rushed out from the flames and madly killed the giant dragons hovering in the sky.

Surtur's will influenced them, and Ryan even heard a subtle call. It was a scorching heat wave coming from the south, and Surtur's roar was transmitted to the north of the world in this way.

“He is sleeping here.”

Earl Clayton spoke rarely and looked at the end of the ice, the undulating glacier.

"This glacier was not created by the power of the frost giants."

“It’s already been here.”

"It freezes the great existence. Here, the great gods are sleeping."

Is the dragon sleeping here? Ryan looked at the glacier only two miles away from the Flame Dragon Knights. This extraordinary army stopped for the first time, and the flames on the horses' hooves almost melted the surrounding ice.

The giant dragons in the sky were fighting with the followers of Dusk, and some of them would fall, becoming the target of the Fire Dragon Knights.

"How do we banish Him?"

Ryan asked, their goal this time was not to kill God, but to exile the great existence and obtain all the resources of this world.

"First, wake Him up."

"Otherwise we won't be able to move the great being's body."

Earl Clayton drew out his knight's sword, which was a blood-red sword. The moment it was unsheathed, the fire dragon under his feet and the many giant dragons in the sky all looked over.

This is a sword for slaying dragons. At the same time, it seals the curse of the dragon slayer in Clayton's bloodline. They are the enemies of the dragon. The existence of this sword makes the dragon unable to sense the existence of this natural enemy.

The giant dragons roared, and their furious eyes stared at Earl Clayton.

Ryan fell off the back of the fire dragon, not because he was afraid of the scene, but because he was thrown off by the fire dragon, along with Ivar.

Brand led the Bucks Legion to Ryan's side. Ryan looked up and saw that Earl Clayton had already rushed towards the thousands of dragons alone, riding on them.

"If my father wants to become a demigod, the four grand dukes and the emperor of the empire will lose 90% of their reasons to stop him."

Ivar said this at the side. Ryan didn't understand what the relationship was between becoming a demigod and the dragon rider now killing the dragon alone. He was a little envious, but quickly came to his senses.

The battlefield in the sky has nothing to do with him.

“What are we going to do.”

Earl Clayton came to Nidhogg, and Ivar, the bloodline heir who was best at handling all major affairs of the earldom, also came with him. It must be more than just a chance to see the world.

“Doing what we do best.”

Ivar looked at Ryan, then glanced at the Stag Legion behind Ryan.

"I heard you won many wars in the North."

"From now on, you are the commander-in-chief of the Flame Dragon Knight Legion."

"Don't let the dragon interrupt me from releasing the artifact."

After he finished speaking, thumb-sized water droplets condensed in the air around him and wrapped Ivar in them. In his hand, he held a flower.

The snow-white flower with golden veins looks like a flower bathed in sunshine on the snowy mountains.

Ryan had never seen a flower like this, but he knew what it was.

Its name is as glorious as the Holy See - Dawn.

The token bestowed by the Lord of Dawn to the believers appeared in the hands of the Dawn Church's greatest enemy, the great nobles of the empire.

"The Church has been corrupt for many years. This thing..."

“I bought it.”

What a formal way. Ryan turned around and saw Winter had come to his side. He climbed onto the horse and saw eyes from all directions looking at him.

Each pair is hidden under the cold armor.

At this moment, he had the confidence to flatten any land in the world.

The moment he raised his head, a giant dragon swooped down, roaring and howling wildly, and getting closer and closer with its terrifying dragon power.

The moment it came within ten meters of his head, Ryan drew out the sword in his hand. The power of the legendary weapon made his strike extremely sharp. Moreover, this sword had once received the power released by the Dragon Emperor.

The dazzling sword edge flashed by, followed by the wailing of a giant dragon. It also lost its original direction and smashed towards a distance of dozens of meters.

The dragon was not dead. It had strong vitality and struggled to get up. When it spread its wings, one could see a majestic look above it, with a crown that was even more majestic than a dragon's.

The Dragon Emperor's crown.

Ryan looked at the dragon. This dragon, like those dragon kings, had lost the instinct to fly.

"kill!"

Ryan shouted loudly, and the Bucks Legion behind him rushed out, roaring loudly.

"kill!!!"

"kill!!!!!!!"

An even louder roar came from the legion of tens of thousands of Fire Dragon Knights. The fiery red extraordinary army surged like a wave of flames, and the densely packed army surrounded the giant dragon.

It's just a sanctuary, so it panicked.

It struggled, tensed its wings and neck, opened its bloody mouth, and exhaled a fiery dragon breath in a fan-shaped pattern, trying to burn these human cavalry to death, but...

"For the glory of Ryan!!!"

Brand's loud shout came in the dragon's breath, and then the sturdy warhorse leaped up in the flames, leaping out and jumping out of the flames.

Behind Brand, northern war horses carrying knights leaped out, but they could not withstand the lethal power of the pure energy of dragon's breath.

Because in the front, Brand's eyes were bloodshot and he let out a roar that was not like that of a human. Behind him, the mighty blood and energy like a giant dragon turned into the shape of a stag for a while, and then into the shape of a giant dragon. No matter which one it was, they were all devouring the power of this young fire dragon.

The power of the Dragon Spirit Blessing is like a giant dragon having a strong physique and a natural affinity for magic. It also gives the blessed one unparalleled elemental resistance and adaptability.

And this power has undergone further evolution and sublimation in the heroic unit Brand.

After entering Nidhoggr, the thing Ryan regretted most was not capturing a dragon to make it his mount, nor was it that this world was not as stable as he had imagined and could not serve as a permanent retreat.

But he didn't find any human beings like Brand in this world.

Ryan had seen many powerful beings, from the Luna Mage at the beginning to the Rose Alchemist. He had seen the legends of the empire, the powerful magicians, and the dragon-slaying might of the Flame Dragon Knights...

Ryan was never overly jealous.

He always felt that he would also possess those powerful legendary knights, powerful legendary magicians, and even the so-called demigods, he would possess them in the future.

His guardian knight Brand inherited a world and the last goodwill of a great being after its fall. He will grow to be as powerful and extraordinary as Ryan has seen.

Ryan never envied the power of the great nobles, because he had Brand, Bogurd, Egil, and the fur-covered berserkers, and his men were never bad.

So he regretted not seeing humans like Brand in Nidhogg. Do the Chosen Dragons count? No, they are just cannon fodder pawns of the great existence.

Perhaps, but they also fell before the dragon of this world.

Ryan's flag was not bright and beautiful in the army. The number of the Stag Legion was too small compared to the Flame Dragon Knight Legion, but Brand's figure was particularly eye-catching.

He reined in his horse high, raised his hooves, and chopped down at the dragon's head.

The flags of Rhino Horn Mountain were fluttering. When Ryan became the commander of the human army here, Brand naturally became the leader of everyone.

The knight's sword tore the hard dragon scales, and the hot blood splashed down, melting big holes on the ice. The headless neck of the dragon slammed heavily on the ice, and the gushing blood made the war horses restless.

They still crave a bath in dragon's blood.

There were less than a thousand knights of the Stag Legion who reined in their horses, as the Northern warhorses could not withstand the consequences of drinking blood directly. The Fire Dragon Knights did not have this concern, and fortunately they did not ride their horses to eat the flesh and blood of the dragon as they did before.

That belonged to Ryan.

In the sky, more dragons seemed to be affected by something and began to struggle to break away from the battle with the followers of Dusk, swooping down towards the icy battlefield.

In the huge vortex-shaped dragon battlefield, brutal dragons fell one after another like dumplings.

"The will of the demon dragon has indeed awakened."

Otherwise, with only its instinctive body, the dragon would not be able to command these lone dragons to launch an attack in such a coordinated manner.

Ryan reined in his horse and stayed where he was, beside Ivar, looking up calmly at the ferocious dragons falling.

Surtur should have known what was happening here, but the great being would not watch the war of ants. He was always waiting for the great being to fall into his kingdom.

Ryan looked up and gave orders once again.

"Hang them!"

The Flame Dragon Knights were under his control, which once again confirmed Ryan's previous thoughts that they were already moving closer to the so-called "followers".

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen, with Ryan and Ivar as the center, began to circle in three layers inside and outside. The Flame Dragon Knights were burning with flames, so there were blazing fire rings around Ryan. Whenever a dragon approached, the flames would rush towards the dragon as if pulled by gravity. At the same time, the powerful knights in the Extraordinary Legion would fly into the sky and deal a fatal blow to the dragon.

They attacked unexpectedly, and tens of thousands of troops rushed in formation, making it impossible for the dragon to capture where those sky and sanctuary knights would appear from.

The Dragon Emperor's Crown suppresses the dragons' instincts. Once it falls, they will be surrounded by humans.

The followers of Dusk fought with a large number of dragons. Earl Clayton fought against powerful legendary dragons. The dragons that fell on the ice battlefield were slaughtered by the Extraordinary Legion like butchers, until... Ivar bloomed the Dawn Flower in his hand.

"The power of the Lord of Dawn?"

Ryan was shocked by the power shrouding Ivar at this moment. Is he a clergyman of the Vatican?
"No, it's the power of magic."

It was Ivar who answered Ryan, but the voice came from... under his feet.

The frozen ocean is like a huge mirror, reflecting every life that steps on it.

In that mirror, Ivar was doing the exact opposite of the Ivar next to Ryan. He was manipulating magic.

So on the ice, Ivar next to Ryan ignited the Flower of Dawn with divine power and threw it to the vast glacier a thousand meters away.

The favorite forbidden spell of magicians who are good at water element attribute——[Mirror Flower Water Moon]

The flower of dawn fell on the glacier. It was the power of the Lord of dawn, a greater and more powerful being. The blooming of the flower of dawn would attract His attention.

To a sleeping dragon, the gaze of another god is deadly.

Born out of instinctive power struggle and fear, the glacier that stretched for tens of thousands of meters collapsed, and cracks appeared on the frozen sea surface created by the frost giants.

Ryan clearly saw the horrific reflection of flesh and blood in the broken glacier.

(End of this chapter)