Make the dragon great again

Chapter 209 Hook City

Facing the pressure from the Church of the Holy Spirit, Adrian wanted to seize the time to advance to the seventh level [Sanctuary].

"As long as I reach the [Sanctuary], my comprehensive strength can reach the level of the eighth-order [natural disaster] when the [Extra Limit Mode] is turned on. Under normal conditions, I can probably compete with the ordinary eighth-order ancient species... ..."

In a state of deep sleep, Adrian can grow 100 times faster than a normal dragon by digesting feedback from the void.

As an ancient giant dragon, Adrian, who was promoted to [Legendary] at the age of 118, grows from a [Legendary] adult dragon to a [Sanctuary] old dragon, normally at least 500 years old, that is, it takes about 380 years;
But after sleeping and digesting the void feedback and accelerating it a hundred times, this time can be shortened to between three and a half to four years.

Adrian is now 122 years old, and it has been nearly four years since he was promoted to [Legendary]. During these four years, although the "sleep" was always interrupted due to various disturbances, in general, he was in a hundred times accelerated state. The time in the middle is almost three years.

In other words, it is about half a year to a year before Adrian grows to the limit of an adult dragon and triggers [advanced judgment].

"As long as the operation of [Sky City] is on the right track, the revenue of Void Feedback will be able to enter a better positive growth track. Even if I enter a 'sleep' at that time, it will be guaranteed that the Void Feedback reserves will not experience negative growth."

The key is to go back to the issue of "open source".

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It is another autumn harvest, and the residents of Hooker City are busy in the fields on the outskirts of the city.

As a rare grain-producing area in the actual control area of ​​the Royal Family, Hooker City has always been a strategic location for the Royal Family for the past 200 years. This has also spawned a large number of local emerging dignitaries. Relying on the advantages of Hooker City's grain production area, The royal faction quickly gained a place within.

During the "royal capital turmoil" three years ago, although the rebellion within the royal faction was led by the two Marquis Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs, the actual backbone of the rebellion was actually some nobles like the local nobles in Hooker City. Emerging dignitaries who are divided and have a rising right to speak.

However, after the "royal capital turmoil", the regent duke and the first princess joined forces to rectify the kingdom's internal affairs by taking advantage of the power of the giant dragon. These emerging dignitaries became the primary targets. The fiefs are "cloaked nobles", and those fiefdoms with strategic value are almost all owned by the royal family.

The same is true for Hooker City, a city whose strategic value has risen due to the fact that the southern faction, which has occupied 200% of the kingdom’s grain production area for nearly [-] years, has increased its strategic value. Now the land ownership has been taken over by the royal family.

Although this disintegrated the power foundation of the emerging local nobles, it did not eliminate these nobles themselves. However, these nobles who lost their land had to participate in the "new rules of the game" formulated by the royal family in order to maintain their family honor and remaining interests.

Some people with experience in governing have become limited-term local governing officials under the new system dominated by the royal family, but the few bureaucratic posts obviously cannot absorb all the "unemployed nobles", so the remaining people either do business or join the army.

Among them, the soldiers accounted for the majority. After all, everyone can see that the kingdom's attitude of launching a war of revenge against Griffin is very obvious. When they go to the battlefield at this time, not only can they become officers immediately because they are nobles and have better knowledge than ordinary civilians. , and can also accumulate military merits in the following wars in exchange for benefits from the royal family.

A few days ago, the troops stationed on the southern border of the Kingdom suddenly went to war without declaration against the [outpost town] of the Principality of Griffin. Behind this was the influence of revenge within the army, but among them, those nobles who were eager to make military exploits after losing their fiefs, It is also an important factor that promotes the ignition of the war...

However, since the Duke Regent's reforms have only begun for a few years, some old ideas inevitably still prevail.

For example, the eldest son inherits and the rest of the heirs are not taken seriously.

Even if the fief is lost and there is only one vacant title left to be inherited, these local nobles, whether they become bureaucrats directly under the royal family or join the army to become officers, are more willing to let the eldest son take the position, while the rest of the heirs let themselves develop.

This also means that the noble heirs of the second, third, and fourth sons, etc., have almost zero possibility of entering politics because they do not have family support, and lack of capital to engage in business, and joining the army has become the only reliable way out, but only Able to start as a low-level sergeant...

Cassie Keller is the second son of such a noble family who lost their land.

Three years ago, the Keller family was one of the three nobles on the ground in Hook City. According to Kasai's original life trajectory, after his father died, the eldest son of the Keller family, his elder brother, would inherit his father's title of viscount and fief, And he will go out independently after being given a sum of property, and whether he will be in business or something in the future has nothing to do with the family.

But since the coup d'etat failed, the royal family used the power of the dragon to strengthen the centralization of power and cleaned up the "wrong team" nobles like the Keller family. Like the families in the same situation, they regard the remaining property of the family as a valuable resource for rising, and are no longer willing to divide it for the second son of the separated family.

So when he became an adult, Cassie Keller, the former playboy of Hooker City, was simply cleansed by his father and brother, except for a title of Lord that could not be hereditary, only a bag of copper coins, A dagger and a leather armor.

This is obviously the meaning of "you go to the army"!

"But if I join the army like this, what else can I achieve besides becoming a low-level sergeant and cannon fodder on the battlefield!"

Cassie said harshly.

Not everyone has the courage to go to the battlefield. The second son of a nobleman like Kasai, perhaps because of the good living conditions earlier, has better physique than ordinary people and is easier to open the door of the extraordinary, but let them go On the battlefield, most people are unwilling.

——Even the eldest son of a noble family becomes an officer when he goes to the battlefield, and few are willing to be a member of the charge.

"That guy Pierre joined the counterattack army on the southern border as a freeman. I heard that when the war broke out some time ago, he was sent to the front line as a low-level sergeant. It is unknown whether he is still alive... "

Thinking of his pig and dog friends back then, Kasai couldn't help but sigh.

"Go and be an adventurer! Hunting monsters, running errands and doing errands is better than going to the battlefield and getting involved in large-scale battles that are not under my control. After I have accumulated some wealth, I will start doing business! I heard these days If you do business in [Murion Great Forest], you will make a lot of money, try it then..."

Kasai planned his own life route and made up his mind that he must live a better life than his father and brother in a few years, and then appear in front of them again as a winner!
After drinking the last sip of ale and throwing down a few copper coins, Kasai held a straw he picked up from nowhere in his mouth, opened the door and left the tavern, ready to embark on his adventurer journey.

But as soon as he walked out of the tavern, he found that the atmosphere in Hook City seemed a little weird.

The people on the street were a little flustered, some were discussing something with each other, but more people ran around in an escaping gesture.

"What's going on here?"

At this time, the sky suddenly darkened, and people screamed all around.

Kasai looked up, his eyes were dumbstruck for a moment, and the straw in his mouth slipped to his feet.

——A circular continent hanging upside down from the sky is slowly moving from the southwest, and its edge just protruding from the sky above the city has already covered the sun from the sky.

……

To be continued, change first and then change.

There will be more later... Today, the magician is live broadcasting, watching the barrage in his live broadcast room, I almost forgot the code word orz
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