Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 828 The Five-Colored Dragon Queen Who Was Stopped
Armies growled anxiously, "Katarina, can we leave right now?"
that……"

Katarina tilted her head: "Of course."

“But…” Armies pointed to the door, “…you don’t need to take that with you?”

“No need,” Katarina readily replied. “Why do you think Lori would let these two living feathers exist in the form of the Night Owl in the Subspace?”

That owl can pass through all tangible and intangible walls and reach all the coordinates that were once recorded in their mental sea.

She had just never been here before, which is why she needed my guidance.

No, not anymore.

"Can she just go back?" Persephone asked with great interest.

“Of course.” Katarina blinked. “She can use dimensional jumps too!”

How could Lowry possibly let his subordinates, who couldn't escape on their own, take such a risk?
That's not only bad for her, it's also bad for me!

Sending incompetent colleagues out on errands with me is the greatest sin!

The giant Gale Wolf tilted its head: "You're not human, you should understand!"
Only humans pretend not to understand.

The countess and Bowen exchanged glances, all sensing the wolf's mockery.

However, normal military deployments cannot possibly consist entirely of experienced personnel!
Otherwise, what will happen in the future?
Every one of his men was trained from scratch.

It's normal for the Swift Wolves, accustomed to elitist policies and inherently powerful, to not understand human behavior patterns.

However, it's understandable why Gale Wolf can stay in Green Maple Territory.

After all, as an archmage, Lori also used the laws of the elite in her own territory.

However, it seems that he did not do so because he gave jobs that matched the abilities of those who were incompetent or even incapable.

But in reality, those jobs were all... things that had no training value whatsoever.

Noble territories do have similar positions, but usually a dozen or so people are enough.

Who can do what Lowry did, throwing out hundreds or thousands of jobs to support so many people?

Those who barely manage to become professionals and will never see any further growth in their lives... no, in other noble territories, these people can't even become apprentices.

But in Qingfengling, not only are there jobs, but the salaries are also high.

However, these people have never actually been involved in the real government affairs of Qingfeng Territory; they basically only do repetitive tasks assigned to them.

They may never have access to the true secrets of Qingfeng Territory in their entire lives.

But in other noble territories, officials with this ability must have certain channels for advancement... otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of their training?
Then we went back to the old approach: experienced mentors guiding newcomers.

This inevitably involves some social etiquette and interpersonal relationships.

Of course, it's not necessarily a bad thing that Qingfengling did that.

After all, elites can indeed catch their breath after getting rid of those monotonous, repetitive, and tedious jobs.

For example, besides the Knights, the officials stationed throughout the villages and main city of Qingfeng Territory took care of many trivial daily matters.

At the same time, their knowledge of each area allowed Lowry to know everything about the territory without leaving home.

However, in order to ensure that these administrative officers do not cause problems, he also has to arrange a certain number of inspectors to ensure that no corruption occurs.

In other territories, these matters were handled by the castle.

In the village, only the village chief, whom they themselves elected, can solve those minor problems.

The castle only needs to deal with the arrogant village chief.

But this does indeed drain the energy of civilian officials like Bowen.

What normal territory executive can go on vacation like Chesca?
It is precisely because these trivial matters do not require the assistants to handle that they are able to maintain the territory when the executive is not present.

It sounds good, but the price-performance ratio is terrible.

The money spent on maintaining these people is enough to support a small knightly order.

Almost no nobleman would do that.

Doesn't Ezra want his territory to follow the same style as Lori's?

But look at his own wallet, does he even deserve it?

But only places like Qingfeng Territory can truly retain talent.

Not everyone is willing to be bound by past emotions and spend their whole life as someone else's subordinate.

Especially after a professional reaches a sufficiently high level.

So, in a sense, Lowry's approach is the true elite model... Simply training them isn't enough; you also need to make them willingly stay.

This requires the lord to have an extremely tolerant mindset.

Of course, the most important thing is to have money.

Ezra avoided Bowen's complaining gaze, grabbed his wife's arm, and hid his head behind her.

Unfortunately, his superior height allowed him to see everything.

Looking at the humans exchanging glances silently over there, Katarina asked, somewhat confused, "Are you in a hurry or not?"

Armies sighed and took out the key that had automatically appeared in his hand after he entered the last treasure vault.

The adamantine key in his hand quickly transformed into a small hourglass, from which drops of adamantine sand slowly fell.

"Huh?" Katarina, who thought the key looked familiar, looked at her storage ring and her expression became extremely serious. "This key, it actually goes back by itself?"

So, does that mean if she breaks the contract halfway through, she might end up digging her own grave? Katarina didn't really want to do that.

But this doesn't mean that Armies could have failed to make this clear beforehand.

What if she suddenly goes berserk, or encounters some danger that forces her to flee on her own?

Although Lori asked her to bring Huoyu along as a precaution... but, this kind of thing...

Armies quickly offered an explanation: "I didn't know about this beforehand."

It wasn't until I entered the fifth cave that I suddenly discovered the key had inexplicably appeared in my pocket.

"A pocket? Not a spatial ring?" Katarina asked seriously.

“It’s this pocket.” Armies tugged at the small pouch at the waist of his robe.

That was originally a side bag for the Nature Master to carry some seeds he might need.

Only the robes of the Nature Mage have this.

Katarina knew this, of course, so her expression quickly softened.

As a rare swift wolf with spatial powers, she had learned a lot from Lowry in the past.

Although she was lazy, she was proud and ambitious, and unwilling to fall behind the other wolves.

Especially after those fools who thought her attributes were strange and that she was not qualified to compete for the position of Wolf King.

Learning was painful, but the knowledge she gained benefited her for life.

As a cultured Swift Wolf, Katarina knew very well that even if the key to a soul-bound spatial ring like the one on Armos's hand only recognized his aura, it couldn't enter on its own without his permission.

Almes was probably not lying.

Katarina glanced outside... She'd check the answers with Huoyu outside when she got back.

That Ms. Huoyu is always meticulous; she should be able to find some clues.

A clever wolf will not act arbitrarily based solely on its intuition or feelings.

We need to find more evidence.

"Then why were you in such a hurry just now?" Katarina looked at the hourglass, which seemed about to fall but wouldn't, and asked with a puzzled expression.

“It wasn’t this slow just now,” Armies said with a bitter expression. “Timing is always changing.”

“Oh, I see.” Katarina nodded. “Gilgar is dead, Enlil is gone, but Tiamat is still thinking, right?”

Armies nodded.

Although he asked about Huoyu as soon as he came in, he immediately gestured to his parents to "stay put".

This is just a door.

Even with all the precautions he took, he might not be able to stop Tiamat from truly falling ill.

Therefore, she had to appear as if she could leave at any time, but not immediately... She wanted to appear as if she could be intercepted at any moment.

“Then she…” Katarina pointed outside.

"The only one who can save you is yourself," Armies murmured.

Then, staring at Katarina, he said, word by word, "So, I need you to be able to leave whenever you want, instead of suddenly shouting that you're waiting for someone."

“Oh…that’s no problem.” Katarina glanced at him casually. “Swift Wolf never breaks the contract first.”

Armies smiled at her... It seemed like they weren't talking about the same thing.

But since the other party had given a proper promise, he...

Ok?
He stared at the hourglass where the sand suddenly cascaded down like a waterfall, then turned and gave a look to the two groups of people standing in different corners.

Hades smiled and suddenly disappeared from the spot.

However, on Persephone's clothes appeared extremely beautiful black and red patterns of red spider lilies.

A flower from the underworld swayed on his shoulder once more.

"Go!" As soon as Armies shouted this word, Katarina's swan boat was in place.

Ezra grabbed Bowen and quickly jumped into the last row of seats.

The Countess and Persephone jumped into the middle row at the same time.

Almes had already taken his seat in the front row.

The Katalina silently tore open the gap in front of it and jumped in.

"Hmm?" Tiamat, who had moved closer again because she sensed the sudden and violent fluctuations in the Thunder Shield, suddenly raised the black dragon head on her side.

Frustrated, she spewed out several streams of black flame, intending to break through the annoying lightning in front of her, when a voice called out, "Don't move, Tiamat."

"Asmodeus?" the five-colored dragon queen said with displeasure, "What do you want to do?"

This is my treasure trove! How dare you enter so casually!

The Lord of Hell, who had just revealed himself, looked at her expressionlessly and replied with practiced ease: "What you got is yours. I'm not here to share the spoils."

Tiamat, are you going to talk to me like this?

"Why not?" Tiamat's words were tough, but her body language betrayed her, and she transformed into a black-haired woman.

She still retains the original Enser people's appearance.

(End of this chapter)