Make the dragon great again

Chapter 166 The Change of the Duchess' Mentality
The Lord of Cold Wind City walked onto the platform, looked at the shattered obsidian pyramid in front of him, and cast his eyes through the hideous cracks on it, into the unknown deep and different space.

"The giant dragon... is really a race that is dead but not dead."

While the city lord let out a sigh of indeterminate emotion, he silently felt the killing desire and madness that slowly calmed down in the depths of his soul after approaching this place.

"I didn't expect that after so many years, there would still be giant dragons jumping out of unknown corners. I just don't know if there are other giant dragons still hiding in the dark, observing this continent."

The soul became clearer, and the thinking of the cold wind city master became smoother, and even the body movements became richer, and he would do some actions with a strong human flavor such as "thinking with his chin on his hand".

The Cold Wind City Lord at this time is completely different from the cold and stiff look in the hall just now, as if he came to this place to complete the missing piece of his humanity...

"Dragon clan...is it because they know what's in the dragon tomb that they broke their 5000-year concealment and reappeared in front of the world?"

With his left hand holding his chin, the Lord of Cold Wind tapped his mandible slightly with his index finger, making a crisp sound that echoed in the quiet underground cavity.

After a long time, he focused his eyes on that different space again, to be precise, he focused on the huge floating creature inside that did not know whether to live or die.

"Could it be that there are other [gates of space] that were opened, and some dragons who left at the beginning finally came back? But the last [root of the dragons] left in the world of Ella has been destroyed by the dragons themselves, and now there are Who can open [the door of space]?"

The legendary lich was lost in thought.

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[City of Thunder] is still surrounded by thunderclouds, but outside the range of the magic circle that protects the city, the manors near the capital have enjoyed sunshine for three consecutive days, and the tenant farmers and slaves are busy in the fields.

There is a scene of vitality everywhere, except that the water level of the river is still a little high, it is impossible to tell that three days ago, this place was being poured by heavy rain for three consecutive days.

Compared with the people at the bottom who are busy in rectifying their crops, the middle and upper class of the capital, as well as the circle of superhumans, are still immersed in a relatively depressive atmosphere.

A few days ago, the legendary battle that took place on the [Bechymos Inner Sea] was not a secret to some rangers or magicians with outstanding observation skills. Adrian, who claims to be the protector of the kingdom and the leader of the dragon family, fought with another powerful being, and the result of the battle is still unknown.

Everyone is waiting for the royal family to come out and give an explanation.

The unknown is always the greatest terror. If you don't understand the cause and result of that battle, panic will continue to spread and magnify.

——After witnessing that battle, I am afraid that everyone will have a sense of humbleness towards themselves and a strong sense of crisis...

In the palace hall, Elizabeth, the Duke Regent of the Kingdom, sits on the prime minister's seat under the left hand of the throne that has been vacant for more than 20 years, and the right hand side of the vacant throne is also vacant, which belongs to the crown prince.

Under the steps in front of the three high-backed chairs, stood many nobles of the kingdom, as well as a diamond-level magician representing the Adventurer's Guild - of course, this magician was also of noble origin.

"His Royal Highness, Duke Keton, why haven't you contacted His Excellency Adrian? Now panic has gradually spread among the merchants, and it will soon deal a blow to the business activities of the royal capital!"

"The royal family should immediately open the king's capital formation. When is it necessary to keep it at this time? Your Excellency the Duke withdrew the control authority of all nodes in the formation. Is it just to keep the formation as a display?"

"Second!" "Second!"

Elizabeth looked coldly at the people in front of her. She knew that the marquis who first questioned why he didn't contact the Dragon Clan was one of the major shareholders of the King's Capital Merchant Guild, and enjoyed a large sum of money from the guild every quarter. dividends;
And the earl who questioned the royal family not to open the big formation, kept at least five properties in the upper city of the royal capital, and the interior decoration was so luxurious that even the royal family would feel inferior;
As for the others who seconded the proposal, they all have their own properties more or less in the capital, or in other words, on the south bank of the [Behemoth Inner Sea]...

After all, these people are only concerned about their own interests. Those northern nobles who are a little farther away from the battle center, and the southern nobles who are farther away and have suffered bad luck recently, have kept silent for the time being—anyway, the real If something goes wrong, the royal family's sphere of influence will be the first to suffer...

Elizabeth didn't need to think about it. They must still be complaining about the first princess who was not in the capital at the critical moment. They felt that the crown prince who maintained the closest relationship with the Dragon Clan had not fulfilled the responsibilities of an heir to the kingdom.

Even, these people are probably still "blessing" Anastasia who followed Adrian to leave the capital in their hearts. "Falling into it...

If she hadn't known that the matter had already ended, Elizabeth might have made bad guesses about it.

"quiet!"

Elizabeth was a little annoyed to hear that, she let out a soft drink, and suppressed the "righteous and strict" speeches of these so-called nobles.

"Ms. Glennie from the Council of [Gautalin] has already contacted Lord Adrian. The battle is over and ended with Lord Adrian's victory. Please don't panic."

Apart from the loyalists of the royal family, the other nobles still had a skeptical attitude, asking why the first princess hadn't come back so far, and Elizabeth sighed in her heart.

In the past, even when the three factions were still fighting endlessly, Elizabeth, as the regent Duke with a strong attitude, still had considerable authority in her words and would not be so questioned;

But now, after more than three years of changes in people's hearts, even though he is still in power, and the whole kingdom is increasingly awed by the royal family because of the birth of the dragon, this awe is almost entirely due to the awakened dragon descendant, the strength On the body of the first princess who is powerful and maintains a close relationship with the dragon.

As for her, the Duke Regent, because the methods used to take back the rights of the various factions were too violent, under the cover of the dazzling light of the first princess, she seemed a lot more hateful and attracted a lot of dissatisfaction.

Elizabeth didn't care about this. On the contrary, she was very happy to see that Anna was gradually forming her own authority, which would be of great benefit to her inheriting the throne in the future and becoming a king as great as her father, or even better .

For this reason, Elizabeth doesn't care that she has completely become the target of the kingdom's upper class, attracting all the dissatisfaction and resentment against the royal family, and even has to pay the price for this after she loses power in the future, she will not hesitate...

But what made Elizabeth feel a little uneasy was Anna's own attitude.

Thinking of the joy in Anna's eyes that was almost invisible in the capital when she followed Adrian to leave the capital, and when she talked about the mysticism of the extraordinary world in front of Adrian and Granny , the kind of vitality that cannot be seen in political activities at all, Elizabeth was deeply disturbed.

And when she thought again, Adrian's legendary level of personal power was almost incomprehensible to mortals, and when Anna was gradually approaching such inhuman realms, Elizabeth felt deeply powerless again.

Especially Elizabeth knew very well that the reason why these nobles were in awe of the current Anna was not only because she was the bridge between the kingdom and the dragon, but also because of Anna's current heroic strength.

——It is not so much that these nobles transferred all their resentment towards the royal family to Elizabeth because of certain tyranny, it is better to say that they dare not resent the current Anastasia, but can only transfer their emotions Moving on to the rest of the royal family...

'In this world...is it really still determined by extraordinary power? '

Shaking her head slightly, shaking off the negative emotions rising in her heart, Elizabeth turned her attention back to dealing with these nobles.

"Everyone, how can me and other mortals easily guess the thoughts that exist in the legendary realm? Regardless of the reason why Lord Adrian has not shown up until now, and the first princess who is by his side, why is it so? Continue to stay by Lord Adrian's side under the circumstances, these are not something we can change by guessing."

Elizabeth's words stopped the discussion of the nobles below.

In fact, when Elizabeth said this sentence, she used the extraordinary mighty force to deter ordinary people, which inevitably meant breaking the pot, but because the effect was surprisingly easy to use, Elizabeth did not notice the slight change in her mentality... …

At this moment, a guard trotted in from outside the hall, and after Elizabeth nodded in agreement, he reported loudly in front of everyone.

"Your Excellency the Duke Regent, and all the ministers, there is a new movement in the energy vortex in the land of the ancestors."

The energy vortex is what those people who don't know what the "stable space structure connecting the two spaces" is called for the [Space Gate] built by Adrian.

"It seems that there is finally news, everyone, let's go out and have a look."

As soon as Elizabeth finished speaking, the nobles who had their own worries filed out and came to the half-mountain platform [Glory of the Kingdom] directly in front of the main hall, and followed the guards' pointing, looking at the "original" ancestral land in the north, Today's empty sea.

Elizabeth also came here and looked at the [Space Gate] built by Adrian to connect to the subspace of the Dragon Tomb.

I saw that the energy vortex that had been silent for three days began to shine with unstable energy light at this time, and the speed of the vortex's rotation was also greatly increased.

Some nobles thought that the legendary battle was not over yet and was about to break out again, and they all yelled in horror, but Elizabeth, who had received high-end occult knowledge in [High Tower Forest], knew that some kind of special magic was starting to work , according to what Granny told her, something was going to come out of there.

"It's finally coming out..."

Elizabeth subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Adrian showed up, the meaningless and troublesome noble meeting like today must have ended...

At this time [City of Thunder] Shangcheng District, which has a higher terrain, many people have noticed the movement in the north, and they have turned their attention to the location of the land of ancestors.

In the attention of everyone in the capital, the [Gate of Space] slowly expanded while rotating and flickering, until the diameter was nearly twice as large as before, and then slowly returned to flat again.

Before everyone showed disappointed expressions, a pair of huge skeletons shining with bronze luster under the sunlight flew out of the [Spatial Gate] first, and hung in midair with a pair of bone wings.

Due to the long distance, what most people see is just a black dot, while the supernatural beings with enhanced visual ability can see clear or blurred pictures according to their strength, but this is enough for them to see. It turned out that it was a skeleton without flesh and blood attached.

"Is that an undead creature? The dragon will also become an undead creature?"

The noble magicians around Elizabeth exclaimed.

Yelansi and the others had been squatting on the reef before, and the supernatural beings in the capital still couldn't see clearly, but now, they could clearly see the identity of Yelansi's undead creature.

It was also the first time for Elizabeth to see Yelans. Although from Glenn and Anna, he already knew that it was a sane dracolich that was "raised" from another dragon tomb, but At this time, Elizabeth still had an inexplicable bad feeling in her heart.

The Land of the Ancestors is also a dragon tomb, and the one buried in it is a white dragon of the same origin as Adrian, so could the one in the Land of the Ancestors also be a dracolich?And since Adrian can accept the bronze dracolich, will he also...

When Elizabeth felt a little confused by her sudden flash of inspiration, the topaz dragon Fay and the brass dragon Smaug also flew out from the [Gate of Space], following the skeleton dragon, flying out in succession. Hovering, the dazzling luster emitted by the body surface under the sun, so that ordinary people hundreds of miles away can vaguely see the two figures flying in the sky.

Afterwards, the legendary white dragon Adrian, who had already exited the [Over Limit Mode] and returned to his normal state, also flew out from the [Spatial Gate], and the nobles who saw this scene breathed a sigh of relief.

The asylum showed up, looking calm, and the biggest suspicion was lost. They can also relax and don't have to worry about their interests being damaged by the battle between legendary creatures...

But it seems that this is not over yet, in the [Gate of Space] that has been doubled in diameter, after Adrian, there is another behemoth slowly flying out of it.

That is a white dragon whose body structure and proportions are very similar to the pure white dragon Adrian from a distance, but lacks a pair of wide fleshy wings? !
It cannot be said that it has no wings, but that the proportion of the "White Dragon" on the back of this "White Dragon", which is bigger than Adrian, is a little cute. The black semi-illusory wings are not strong enough, and the eyes are good enough. ...

"Is this a new giant dragon?"

"Sure enough, the dragons still live in seclusion in various parts of the mainland, right? I don't know how the previous rumors of extinction came about. In just a few years, we have seen many giant dragons."

"What would be the reason for the collective emergence of the dragon..."

The nobles were talking about the appearance of the "new face" of the dragon clan, but Elizabeth, at the moment, had no intention of participating in such a discussion. While seeing the "new face" clearly through a pair of enchanted monocles, her heart felt like falling ice. cave.

The distorted horn, the ferocious arrangement of scales, the body that looks like a white dragon but lacks wings... Elizabeth will never forget the details of that body for the rest of her life.

That is, the "monster" that caused her family to slide to the bottom, ruined her youth and dragon blood, and transformed her from a still somewhat innocent girl magician into a ruthless Duke Regent!
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To be continued, change first and then change.

(End of this chapter)