I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 17 Prisoner Contract
When he returned to the lobby on the first floor, Li Yuan heard the roar of animals and the sound of chains.

"It's awake." Said the stone walking in front of Li Yuan.

That Luxingsaurus is in the corner of the hall. All varieties of Luxingsaurus have no wings, and their appearance is somewhat similar to dinosaurs. Although they are far less than real dragons, they are still quite ferocious carnivorous beasts.

When it was unconscious, the stone clasped its legs with the shackles taken from the dungeon, and the other end of the chain was tied to the pillar.

Lu Xinglong who woke up now was desperately trying to break free from the shackles, even biting the chains with his teeth.

Lu Xinglong's sharp teeth can bite through long swords made of ordinary steel, and can easily penetrate light armor.

But the shackles used in the Infinity Tower are obviously not made of ordinary materials. It has been struggling for a long time, but it has always been to no avail.

Lu Xinglong suddenly sniffed alertly, it smelled the smell of other creatures.

It loosened the chain in its mouth, turned its head suddenly, and saw Li Yuan, who had changed into a human form, walking slowly towards him.

It growled vigilantly, but did not rush up immediately.

Although he didn't see through Li Yuan's real body, it was highly domesticated by humans and would not easily attack humanoid creatures.

And its instinct is telling it that there seems to be something wrong with the creature in front of it.

"Do you remember me?" Li Yuan greeted.

At the same time, his eyes glowed amber, and his pupils became slender.

Just releasing part of Longwei, Lu Xinglong shivered on the spot.

The effect of the stimulant has long faded, and without the command of its master, the real dragon's might instantly aroused its instinctive fear.

Lu Xinglong turned around and ran away, then tripped over the shackles on his legs on the spot.

After being tripped, it still struggled to get up, continued to try to escape, and then tripped again.

It repeated this twice, and finally its legs were entangled in chains, and it could only roll back and forth on the ground.

It doesn't look very smart... Li Yuan thought to himself.

The difference between subdragon creatures and real dragons is not only in strength or weakness, they do not have real intelligence, and their intelligence is not much higher than that of domesticated horses and hounds.

Li Yuan searched Helganon's memory, and tried to speak in Dragon Language for the first time.

This is a pronunciation that humanoid creatures are absolutely unable to make. His voice rings like a bell, and each syllable carries the majesty of a king, and finally forms a simple and clear command:

"Submit to me!"

Dragon language is a special language built on the basis of dragon roars, which can arouse the instinct of dragon creatures to a certain extent.

Just like a wild beast can learn that a low growl represents deterrence, and a sharp howl represents fear, which is an instinct carved in the blood.

Even if a true dragon doesn't learn it the day after tomorrow, it can still understand and express some of the relatively simple general meanings in dragon language, and use this to communicate with other true dragons.

While the sub-dragon creatures can't speak the dragon language, they can understand the intentions expressed by the dragon language users on the instinctive level.

Hearing the order to submit, Lu Xinglong immediately lay down with his head facing Li Yuan's direction, his chin and neck firmly pressed against the ground, and he let out a "woo-woo" roar from his throat, which was a signal for dragon creatures to express their submission.

"My lord, what shall we do with it?" said the stone.

Li Yuan began to think about it. It is impossible to release life. This Lu Xinglong is a knight mount domesticated by the empire. If it escapes back to the empire after being released and is discovered by others, it is basically equivalent to letting someone go back to report the news that the dragon slaying team has been wiped out.

Killing is a good option, and it can also be used as rations.

True dragons don't even mind cannibalism at all, let alone eating sub-dragon creatures. For Li Yuan, neither his human consciousness nor dragon instinct would resist eating this Lu Xinglong.

However, there may be other better options.

"Stone, can [Prisoner's Contract] work on this kind of creature?" Li Yuan asked the housekeeper.

"Theoretically, any creature capable of accepting domestication can take effect, and the contract can be directly instilled into the subject's consciousness." Stone replied.

"Then let's try it." Li Yuan said, and started targeting Lu Xinglong to obtain the authority of the prisoner's contract.

With such an experimental subject in front of him, it was a rare opportunity, and he planned to experiment with the newly obtained authority.

A ball of flames appeared in front of Lu Xinglong, without any words in it.

But under Lu Xinglong's surprised gaze, strange scenes began to emerge in the flames, and Lu Xinglong immediately fell into hallucinations.

In the hallucination, it saw two different futures in which it was enslaved by the red dragon and killed by the red dragon.

[Prisoner's Contract] expressed a multiple-choice question in front of him in the most intuitive way:
A. Surrender; B. Death.

The survival instinct made it make an immediate decision, and Lu Xinglong let out a long howl.

"Choose A! AAAAA!!" Its long howl at this moment basically represented such a meaning.

Li Yuan sensed that the prisoner's contract came into effect on the spot, so he asked the stone to untie Lu Xinglong's chains, and then ordered Lu Xinglong: "Get up."

Lu Xinglong stood up, but still bowed his head to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan tried to call up the authorization letter in his consciousness, and checked the page of the repair progress.

The repair progress didn't increase at all, and it still stayed at [-]%. It seems that letting this Lu Xinglong sign a slave contract doesn't make much sense for the repair of the tower, it just adds a manpower.

"From now on, you will be in charge of guarding the outer perimeter of the tower, patrolling the surroundings in the morning and evening, and guarding the entrance at other times. While patrolling, you will hunt along the way and bring the prey back. Do you understand?"

Li Yuan further ordered Lu Xinglong.

This order is basically beyond Lu Xinglong's comprehension, but [Prisoner's Contract] can convey the content of the contract to Lu Xinglong's consciousness, so naturally he can convey his order in the same way.

Lu Xinglong let out a short roar, expressing that he accepted the order.

"Very well, let's work."

Li Yuan nodded in satisfaction, then pointed to the gate of the tower.

Lu Xinglong strode towards the gate of the tower, then crouched down outside the gate, stretched his neck at the same time, and began to carefully guard his surroundings.

"My lord, what do you plan to do next?" Shito asked respectfully.

Li Yuan still has a lot of things he wants to do, and he also has a lot of questions he wants to ask.

But right now, what he wants to do most is...

"I'm going to rest." Li Yuan replied.

After working so hard for a long time, the accumulated injuries and fatigue made him want to fall down immediately and take a good rest. If there is anything else, let's talk about it tomorrow.

"The living room and study room for the owner of the tower are on the second floor. Please come with me, and I will prepare it for you right away." Shitou saluted Li Yuan and walked towards the stairwell.

Just as Li Yuan was about to keep up, for some reason, the batch of treasures kept in the cellar—the treasures collected by Helganon suddenly appeared in his mind.

No, those treasures are already his!

He suddenly began to care about those treasures.

Wanting to sleep on top of the treasures he collected——Li Yuan found that after gradually adapting to the body of the red dragon, various natures that belonged to the real dragon began to emerge.

And he remembered that the root magic circle that the stone mentioned was bound to his life was also in the cellar, right under the pile of treasures.

"Not going to the second floor." Li Yuan suddenly changed his mind, "Today I will sleep in the cellar."

(End of this chapter)