Make the dragon great again

Chapter 58 Rumors (seeking votes and investment!)
Rannord town.

The noble private soldiers who made a mess here half a year ago have already withdrawn, and this town belonging to adventurers has once again returned to its former hustle and bustle.

Compared with why those noble lords set their sights on this small town, the adventurers in Rannord Town are now more concerned about two rumors that spread across the entire eastern part of the continent at an extremely fast speed.

——A fantasy creature named "Giant Dragon" reappears in the world, and a mysterious dungeon that can be given powerful power after passing through!
At this time, in the White Fox Tavern in Rannord Town, most of the themes of the noisy adventurers were related to these two rumors.

"Dragon or something, do they really exist? It can't be fake news, right?"

"I think it's true, after all, so many people claimed to have seen a dragon flying in the sky."

"Speaking of which, what is a 'dragon'? A larger wyvern?"

"I heard it was a flying curly-haired baboon with three legs and eight arms..."

"Compared to this, I care more about that mysterious dungeon. Do you think that rumor is true?"

"Whether the rumors are true or not, the existence of that dungeon must be true. Several gold-level teams have gone deep into the Great Mullin Forest. On the west side of the forest near the Roaring Mountains, a huge dungeon has really been discovered. The surface entrance!"

"Recently, more and more people have gone there to explore. I plan to wait for those guys to come back alive before considering whether to go."

"It is said that the lone traveler Karen, who has recently risen rapidly in the guild ranking, has successfully broken through the dungeon and obtained the powerful power bestowed by the mysterious dungeon master..."

"Isn't the dungeon master just some powerful monsters? Is it really okay to get power from him?"

"Never mind him! If I can really be endowed with great power, I'm willing to sell my soul..."

After Damon and Kane entered the tavern, apart from the sound of the clinking of oak wine glasses, what they heard in their ears were the above-mentioned messy conversations.

Damon reached out and clenched his fist and put it under his nose. He couldn't bear the strange smell of low-quality fruit wine mixed with the drunk's vomit.

"Kane, hurry up and find a reliable guide, I really don't want to stay here any longer!"

"Yes, master."

When the guard Kane began to look for the guide, Damon found a seat near the window and sat down, carefully breathing the "relatively" fresh air coming from the window.

"Ugh……"

Damon sighed, sighing again at his bad luck.

This person was the noble young master pretending to be a robber that Adrian met at the edge of the forest when he first came out of the dungeon.

More than half a year ago, Damon came here to hunt down the first princess for the regent duchess under the order of his father, the Duke of Volker;

The result was that, except for himself and Kane, all the private soldiers of the Duke of Volker disappeared inexplicably, and there was no clue about the trace of the princess.

After returning to his father's duchy in a daze, Damon was severely reprimanded by Duke Volker.

It turned out that after he and Kane left, other nobles who arrived later discovered the bodies of his missing private soldiers outside the town of Rannod.

After some inspection, a diamond-level magician hired by the Duke of Volker judged that Damon and Kane had been deleted by a special magic method! (Note 1)

It didn't take long before news came that "the princess fled from Lannold Town into the Great Mullin Forest".

This time, Damon, who was already "incompetent", was once again publicly reprimanded by his father at the family meeting, and was considered a sinner who made the family lose face in the kingdom's noble house...

Dimon felt wronged, but there was no way, who let himself really damage the interests of the family?
A few months later, the missing First Princess unexpectedly returned to the kingdom openly, and she was accompanied by her teacher from the High Tower Forest—Glaine, a heroic magician!

This time, the already turbulent situation in the upper echelon of the kingdom became even more strange.

Some people rejoice at the safe return of Her Royal Highness, and some feel sorry for her premature return, but more people want to convict this "war instigator", and it is best to calm the anger of the Principality of Griffin. Put an end to this war that is tearing them apart.

Daemon's father, the Duke of Volker, the leader of the southern aristocrats in the kingdom, was one of the main voices advocating for the princess to be convicted.

The most severely injured in the war were the southern faction nobles whose fiefdoms were close to the front line, or even in the war zone.

These southern factions initially challenged the war passively, and even allowed the Principality's army to enter the territory as a threat, forcing other local nobles in the kingdom to agree to concessions in various aspects in the House of Nobles;

In the early days of the war, the Southern Faction severely tore away a lot of benefits from other nobles, and would wake up laughing every night;

But after the war lasted for several months, and the Principality of Griffin was still stubborn and unwilling to retreat, the relaxed attitude of the southern faction gradually turned into boredom, and finally became the current anxiety:

The losses of the war have far outweighed the benefits negotiated in the House of Nobles, yet the Principality has no intention of retreating or negotiating.

At this time, the reappearance of Princess Anastasia should have been beneficial to the southern nobles——

The reason why the Principality of Griffin launched the war is that Her Royal Highness, as long as she is convicted or even handed over to the Principality, then she can sit at the negotiating table with the Principality that has lost the reason to start the war and resolve the war that has lasted for a year.

However, the returned princess is not alone, she also has the heroic magician Glennie Angeles from Gotalin!

The reason why the hero class is called the hero class is because they have reached the peak of the Gaia species, and their individual strength has been able to fight against an army of hundreds or even thousands of people. They are "heroes" who are enough to leave their names in the classics.

With this heroic magician around, unless an army of thousands of people was dispatched and supported by a powerful transcendent, no one would be able to arrest the princess who insisted on her innocence. (Note 2)

Moreover, even if an army of thousands of people is dispatched, it may not be able to retain the second seat of the Supreme Council of the High Tower, not to mention that the current war situation is tense. With other factions continuing to wait and see, the southern faction cannot squeeze out a capable army. The thousand-man army in the Kingdom of Revolving...

And as the "sinner" Damon who was suspected of letting the princess go, causing him to bring in reinforcements, now not only within the family, but even in the entire circle of southern aristocrats, he is almost ashamed.

"Alas..." Damon sighed again.

"I hope the rumors about that dungeon are true, and I can gain great power there... Otherwise, it's just a trivial matter to be kicked out of the sequence of the duke's heir. I'm afraid I will even be kicked out of the Volker family in the end..."

Strong extraordinary power is also a guarantee of identity. Damon knows that he may have lost the qualification to compete for the succession of the duke, but if he can obtain strong extraordinary power, at least he can keep himself from being expelled from the family, becoming a commoner or even a slave .

"However, can Kane and I really break through that dungeon?"

Damon's face was full of sadness, and he knew that the chance was not great, but this was an opportunity he had to fight for, even though this opportunity came from rumors among adventurers...

At this time, Kane's voice came from the side:
"Master, I have found a guide."

Damon turned his head and saw three adventurers wearing hoods covering most of their faces behind Kane.

Damon originally wanted to ask why these people didn't show their true faces, but when he saw the gold nameplates on the chests of these three people, he froze for a moment.

"Gold-level adventurer?"

"Yes, master, now Ranold's silver-ranked and above adventurers have basically set off for the dungeon. This is the only gold-ranked team that remains in the town and is willing to accept employment."

"But...we can't afford the gold-level commission..." Damon looked helpless.

At this time, the middle-aged man who seemed to be the captain among the three took the initiative to say:

"Oh, this noble lord, it doesn't matter if the commission is less, we just went to the dungeon by the way, so we should consider it as a friend."

"That's right, master, I've already negotiated the price with them."

There is such a good thing?
In any case, it is a good thing to be able to hire a gold class at a low price, and Dimon quickly reached a consensus with the other party.

After reaching an agreement, Damon carefully observed the three of them, and found that among them, the middle-aged captain and another young team member were all human races, while the other female magician in the team seemed to be a half-elf.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Damon always feels that the three of them seem to be a little nervous.

'Could it be a liar... Heh, what am I thinking?How can there be a gold-level liar, and the money he cheated is too little...'

……

To be continued.

Note 1: [Asylum system] originated from a personal attachment system in ancient Rome, which is similar to the door-to-door system in ancient China.

Note 2: [Scale of Wars in the Middle Ages] The scale of noble wars in the European Middle Ages was generally not too large. Thousands of people would be considered a big war, but there were also some famous wars with a scale of tens of thousands, such as the War of the Alliance, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years of Britain and France. war etc.

　Thanks to 'Three Points, One Line and Half Circle' for the reward of 1000 points!

　　Thanks to 'Minister Redemption' for the reward of 100 points!

　　Thanks to qq readers for the 100 points rewarded by 'running like a car'!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)