Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 660 The Reputation of Being a Money-Grubber
The Lord of Storms said with extreme pride, "The Night is indeed arrogant, but she has the right to be."

At a time when everything was just beginning to sprout, and humanity was tempted by outsiders, she rushed in without hesitation, teaching those humans who were just beginning to know how to make and use tools. In fact, she personally taught them the earliest group combat skills.

We're too slow to react to these things!

If we followed our usual work style, it would definitely be too late.

Lowry asked in surprise, "Were there outsiders from the very beginning?"

"That's right, we came by the smell."

"There's no way around it, after all, it's a new world born on the edge of the multiverse." The Lord of Storms sighed. "Moreover, our world is just a small galaxy with a few planets and dozens of minor stars. It was basically formed slowly by the multiverse itself."

We possess the will of the world, not a creator god, which is certainly a good thing.

No one can control our future.

However, it also means that we have no protectors... Small and comprehensive, but without any advantages, not even the ability to conceal our strength.

Most importantly, I had bad luck.

That level of divine war wouldn't happen suddenly; they had conflicts there long ago.

White dragons... dragons from the multiverse, especially those that move in groups, are attracted here because that area can capture their attention.

Dragons actually really enjoy going to high-level battlefields to join in the fun.

Lowry, you should have been able to figure that out!

There are plenty of usable artifact fragments to be found on this planet... On the battlefield or in the nearby starry sky, these dragons could definitely make a fortune.

They were originally drawn here by the smell of money.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the White Dragon King is sitting obediently on the ground; I absolutely do not believe that he has no backup plan to collect these things outside.

He wasn't in a hurry to go out; that device must have been working all along.

Huh~
"Lori, do you remember that ancient magical ruin your teacher was so eager to know about?"

Lowry nodded quickly: "Those traps..."

"Initially, these trap-like places appeared because the White Dragon King created them to prevent anyone from finding the devices he had placed in the starry sky."

However, there are indeed people looking for it.

Mages, although many powerful ones died in the two calamities of the Dragon War and the fall of the gods, at least half of them survived.

Moreover, they already had a deep-seated hatred for Bai Long, so they had every right to go and find his treasure trove.

The White Dragon King, as you know, he... doesn't eat anything, not even air.

Regardless of whether those who were plotting against his treasure actually discovered the true location, he would ruthlessly eliminate them, even going so far as to use fragments of artifacts that he considered worthless but highly lethal as the main material for his traps.

But as a white dragon, he still made preparations for its recyclability.

However, once the mages realized they had been tricked, their first reaction was to tamper with the trap so that it would explode if anyone touched it... The White Dragon King could never dream of getting back those artifact fragments.

And so, after a long back-and-forth struggle between the two sides, those increasingly elaborate traps truly became relics where approaching them meant certain death.

In the end, those who still had some sense didn't dare to go near those areas anymore, so we used them.

It really works great.

Although some outsiders do not believe that the ancient mages in our world have anything of value, they believe that what the ancient dragons are so fiercely fighting over must be a rare treasure.

No matter what you say to them, they won't believe that the only valuable thing in those ruins is the traps.

Lori blinked. "Are you talking to me?"

Travis turned sharply to look at him.

“You have indeed been overly interested in those things lately,” the Lord of Storms replied honestly. “I know you don’t have any greed, but your curiosity is too obvious.”

I had already planned to remind you at the appropriate time.

“Hmm.” Lori nodded. “Don’t worry that I’ll do something stupid. I only became interested after I understood everything and realized the dangers over there.”

"Why?" Travis asked calmly. "Even Al-Saran has stopped muttering about that thing."

“Teacher…” Lowry smiled with a complicated expression, “He wants to find ruins, not to get rich, but for knowledge.”

Moreover, his interest in magic is more focused on the essence of spells, so he naturally has no interest in the messy mixture of spells and magic circles.

For him, the sense of accomplishment from being able to control magic at the level of laws is far greater than that from using external objects.

But I'm different~
I love studying those interesting, erratic runes, because when one unexpected leap combines with another rune, it creates bizarre strings of runes… Is there anything fresher and more interesting in this world than those ruins?

The Lord of Storms said noncommittally, "You only mentioned part of the reason, but it is indeed the reason that led you to make this choice."

Then do as you please! Anyway, you know that no matter how much you pay, all you'll get is an empty foundation.

The White Dragon King wasn't stupid; he simply acquired abandoned buildings from other places and added some ingredients to them.

Those buildings are definitely not worth much money...you two should both know that."

Lowry narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing an innocent and naive smile.

Travis shuddered at the sight: "The last time you smiled at me like that was when you and Luscania trampled the Queen's magic garden back then."

Do you know what I paid to calm this furious woman down?

Lori tilted her head in confusion: "A son?"

Travis was so angry he couldn't speak... His former queen did indeed die after giving birth to her second child.

After all, although he didn't show any particular concern for Leon at that time, he did secretly observe the condition of his children.

Even if he makes the smallest movements, once he does, it can't be hidden.

However, his dissatisfaction was even more impossible to hide.

Some of the nobles who are now at odds with Leon are indeed desperate because they have invested too much and cannot recoup their losses, so they are giving up and hoping to make one last effort.

After all, while Leon may meet Travis's requirements in many ways, he has spent relatively little time in the court and may not be able to withstand the tests of 'family ties'.

His dissatisfaction, before he even began to purge the 'remnants' from the nobility and the court, gave certain families an opportunity to think, 'Maybe I could be one too.'

Whether the queen and her family had their own agenda, or someone wanted them to abdicate as soon as possible... in any case, even with a princess who had passed the awakening stage and, although not very talented, had at least established herself, the queen became pregnant again.

Travis never expected her to be so stupid.

The reason he was able to have so many children is largely due to his dragon transformation.

However, correspondingly, having his child is indeed very dangerous.

Every pregnancy is a gamble, especially after he becomes stronger.

If it weren't for the fact that the only requirement these queens had when they married into the family was to have an heir... Travis would have wanted to take some medicine and end it all.

He had actually wanted to do this a long time ago, but Luscania dissuaded him.

They had previously considered pursuing the path of becoming deities, so there must be no news of such a path spreading.

Unless something goes wrong, no deity would generally want to give themselves the title of 'God of Sterility'.

In particular, at that time, they did not know much about the gods and had a lot of wishful thinking in their hearts, so they would not give up the seemingly most convenient path of noble royal power.

Then you should show the spirit of being a family.

Make sure that when people think of Travis, they immediately associate him with a large family.

Fortunately... fortunately, only he and Luscania knew about these stupid thoughts, otherwise, he would have been ridiculed by Lori forever!
Travis knew why Lowry was mocking him so much.

Because the queen had always appeared composed, reliable, and caring towards her daughters, and because her family was generally clear-headed, Travis had assumed that she would be his last queen.

He even felt that he could see a queen aging gracefully again... Previously, only Leon's own grandmother had shown him what a woman over 40 looked like.

As a result, he turned 30.

This was because the queen's family wasn't very upright, so even after offering a large sum of money, she only dared to ask him to have a child within three years of marriage.

Travis even had his steward take care of her health for two years... It wasn't that he was particularly satisfied with the queen; he simply didn't want to be seen as a jinx to his wives!

It was so hard, so hard.

The result was a complete mess.

Perhaps it was because Travis was quite satisfied with her... even willing to blame Luscania for the destruction of her magic garden.

However, he would do the same thing no matter whose garden it was!

However, before that, the queens generally wouldn't come to him about these matters.

And then, naturally, that was it.

In order to prevent his small family from becoming too powerful, Travis had to take another wife when he was already considering ending his life on the throne.

However, this time, he chose a noblewoman from a wealthy family who was seriously ill and unlikely to live long... so that he would have no worries when he left the throne.

In any case, her parents were willing to spend a large dowry just to leave her with the title of Queen of the North, and they didn't expect anything else.

That's it; Travis's reputation for being greedy for money has only grown stronger as a result.

(End of this chapter)