From Baron's Second Son to Dragon Rider

Although Grand Duke Veronica has reached an agreement with Vivian and Xilong, they all know that when the gap in strength between the two sides widens further, a new round of war will inevitably be triggered. However, neither side paid much attention to this.

Xilong's idea is very simple: if it cannot defend the Great Forest of Moi, it will fly directly south to the vast ocean to find an island suitable for living.

Grand Duke Veronica is still obsessed with her idea of ​​killing Xilong and has no intention of asking the Emerald Kingdom for help.

The same is true for Vivian. As a giant dragon, she has always been proud and never disdains to use strategies such as siege.

She prefers to defeat the enemy in a head-on confrontation and show her great strength. It must be said that these two guys are indeed a perfect match, and their competitive personalities are exactly the same.

However, Vivian has always been resistant to the decision to kill Xilong.

After all, they are both dragons, and are both darlings of the world. If she is asked to stain her hands with the blood of the tin dragon, she will definitely feel a little uncomfortable.

Despite this, the close relationship between Veronica and her is incomparable. Even if she is unwilling, she will still favor Veronica over the tin dragon.

However, if there is a glimmer of possibility, Vivian still hopes that Veronica can spare the life of the tin dragon, let it join the principality, and find a suitable dragon knight for it.

In this way, not only can the country's strength be enhanced, but tin mines can also be mined at the same time, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

In fact, Veronica had also held such an idea in the previous war.

However, after that fierce battle, she and Veronica were attacked by the tin dragon and were seriously injured. Since then, Veronica's attitude towards the tin dragon has taken a sharp turn for the worse, especially when the tin dragon attacked the camp of the noble coalition, Veronica's anger reached a terrifying level.

It was from that time that Veronica had marked Tin Dragon as an enemy she must kill.

After the two sides reached an agreement, Veronica rode Vivian away from there. After all, since the peace treaty was reached, the western area of ​​the Moy Forest still belonged to Tin Dragon, and the eastern area belonged to the Golden Duchy.

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At this moment, in the extremely solid fortress of Hild, a fierce and unusual quarrel was taking place.

I saw the Frost Wolf Marquis slapping the table in front of him with anger on his face. His originally cold and expressionless face was slightly distorted because of extreme anger.

However, what best exposed his true emotions were his bloodshot eyes, which seemed to be spewing fire, showing his resentment and anger to the fullest.

Opposite him, a large group of people stood in a black crowd. Among them were Odysseus, the leader of the Dragon Breath Knights, the nominal leader of Krober; Count Stephen, an old acquaintance of Krober; and even his grandfather, Count Daniel.

"Explain to me why a huge army with nearly 10,000 members, each of whom has the strength of a formal knight, has not been able to search the western part of the Moyi Forest after more than half a month? Have their legs been drained of strength by those damn goats, so that they can't even walk?!"

The voice of the Frost Wolf Marquis was deafening, full of uncontrollable anger and disappointment.

In a furious state, the Frost Wolf Marquis' eyes flashed with raging anger, as if he wanted to burn the person in front of him to ashes.

At this moment, he was completely unable to control the powerful momentum of the Fantasy Beast Knight in his body.

A majestic breath gushed out from him, shocking like a volcanic eruption.

The nobles who were originally looking uneasy and wanted to refute a few words, chose to shut their mouths directly after feeling this terrifying momentum like the abyss.

They felt like they were being pressed by a mountain, and it became difficult to breathe. Only those who had strength above that of a sky knight could barely keep their inner peace.

Although Marquis Qingyucao was scolded by Marquis Frost Wolf and felt a little unhappy, he understood Marquis Frost Wolf's anger from the bottom of his heart.

So, he also spoke up and said: "It seems that the Grand Duke is too tolerant and kind to you. Now that the war is imminent, you dare to be so lazy! If the Grand Duke fails because of the wrong or delayed information you provided, then you must be prepared to bear the Grand Duke's anger! By then, I'm afraid no one can save you!"

After hearing these words, some of the nobles turned pale and beads of sweat rolled down their foreheads.

It was just because they were responsible for searching the western area of ​​the Moyi Forest at that time, but what they did was disgusting.

At first, they were quite serious about their mission, searching every corner carefully.

However, as time went on, they gradually lost their patience, forgot about their mission, and indulged themselves in hunting and having fun.

After all, they had already searched those places from top to bottom, and the westernmost part of the forest seemed unlikely to be the habitat of the tin dragon.

But who could have expected that fate would be so cruel, and the tin dragon appeared in the west of the forest.

As a result, they, as the elites under the Grand Duke, did not make any achievements and failed to play any role.

Grand Duke Veronica ruled the entire principality and was very powerful, but she was caught off guard when facing the wild tin dragon and was caught off guard.

If Xilong had not planned to eliminate the main force of the principality that was still in the forest at that time, I am afraid that a tragedy similar to the annihilation of the main force of the kingdom would have happened again.

This group of nobles stood out among the bustling crowd for no other reason. The rest of the people around them either stood silently with stern faces or lowered their voices to chat with their friends. Only their faces were as pale as paper. , standing there trembling all over, anyone could easily see the guilt and fear in their hearts.

Marquis Frostwolf's face was as dark as water, and his cold eyes were firmly locked on this group of social silverfish. At this moment, he has made up his mind. When the Grand Duke returns, he will not hesitate to write a letter of remonstrance, pleading to deprive these people of their titles and fiefs, and demote their entire family to life-long serfs, allowing them to work until the end of their lives. .

Putting these useless borers aside for the time being, Marquis Frostwolf continued to summarize other problems exposed by the country in this war.

"Let's talk about the intelligence department next. Where is the intelligence chief now? Why didn't we conduct intelligence research on Xilong in advance? We are left wandering around in the forest like headless flies!"

The intelligence chief is a fat, middle-aged, bald man. His skin is extremely pale, as if he has been in the dark for a long time.

At this moment, when he heard Marquis Frostwolf mention his name, he stood up from the crowd without hesitation and bowed quickly.

"Your Excellency, Lord Frostwolf, and all my lords, I am Nick, Director of Intelligence. I would like to express my greetings to you."

The intelligence department is a special agency directly subordinate to the Grand Duke. They only obey the orders of the Grand Duke.

Because of this, even though Nick himself did not hold any title, many nobles still had the most basic respect for the intelligence chief.

The nobles present also responded with concise courtesy.

Even the Frostwolf Marquis himself is no exception.

Although he was filled with anger, this emotion did not affect his rational judgment; on the contrary, it was this anger that kept him highly alert and thinking clearly.

"Ahem..." Nick cleared his throat and briefly told the ins and outs of the incident.

Originally before the war, Nick had proposed to Archduke Veronica to send people to spy on Xilong's intelligence. However, the neighboring country to the north of the Emerald Kingdom at that time, the Blazing Steel Kingdom, suddenly had troops on the border.

The king of the Emerald Kingdom has a serious shortage of intelligence personnel, so he can only find someone to borrow from his sister, Grand Duke Veronica.

As a result, most of the intelligence personnel in the Golden Duchy were seconded to the Emerald Kingdom, and the remaining people could barely maintain the daily maintenance of various hideouts. It was simply impossible to spy on intelligence!

After hearing the ins and outs of Nick's explanation, Marquis Frostwolf sighed helplessly. He was not worried about Nick deceiving him, but just because it was true, he felt helpless from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, for these nobles, Grand Duke Veronica is not a qualified ruler. In the Grand Duke's heart, her status as the princess of the Emerald Kingdom far exceeds her status as the ruler of the Golden Duchy.

Although Marquis Frostwolf could understand the Grand Duke's mood, what should the nobles under his command think?

Are they nobles from the Golden Duchy or the Emerald Kingdom?

Although the rulers of the two countries are indeed brothers and sisters, Grand Duke Veronica is the ruler of the principality after all. How can she sacrifice the interests of the principality for the benefit of the Emerald Kingdom?

This is undoubtedly a joke on the future of the Golden Duchy!

If Grand Duke Veronica is willing to merge into the Emerald Kingdom as a duke, then there is no problem with this move, but the problem is that the current Golden Duchy is still an independent country after all.

An independent country must put its own interests first and focus first on its own sovereignty, not a country ruled by relatives.

"well……"

Marquis Frostwolf suddenly felt a headache. As his master, Archduke Veronica naturally couldn't point out his master's mistakes directly. He could only express them tactfully. But with the character of the archduke, I'm afraid it won't take long for him to mention this matter. Leave it behind.

Thinking of this, Marquis Frostwolf suddenly felt that the anger in his heart had dissipated a lot, and instead felt more confused than ever before.