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

Chapter 325 Ancient Black Dragon

Dragon's Back Empire, its capital is Longshou Castle.

When the first ray of morning light illuminated the city wall, the dragon knights of the fortress gathered at the take-off field at the top of the wall to prepare for routine patrols around the city.

The Dragon Head Knights have the largest flying dragon cavalry team in the country. At three times every day, knights will ride flying dragons to patrol around the capital. This is also their daily flight training.

The leader of the Dragon Head Knights stood in a tall watchtower, watching the patrolling knights taking off one by one. He took the pipe that had fallen into his mouth and blew out two smoke rings.

"It seems that our regiment leader is thinking about life again." The combat staff officer smiled and walked over, lighting a match and lighting a cigarette for himself.

"When I joined the army ten years ago, I never thought I would be able to reach this position before I was 40 years old." said the regiment leader.

"The former head of the regiment, I mean our Prince, was only twenty-six years old when he took office." The staff officer reminded.

"This is a weight comparison with a dragon. We are all older than him, but in front of geniuses we can only be regarded as the top soldiers." The leader smiled mockingly to himself.

"No matter what, it's a blessing to be able to sit in this position so early, both you and me." The staff officer smiled.

"Kelly, I have to confess that I didn't talk about this with the feeling of 'this is a good thing'." The group leader sighed.

The smile on the staff officer's face gradually disappeared.

"I have indeed dreamed that one day I will lead the most elite knights in the country." The leader said.

"You did indeed, leader of the Dragon Head Knights." The staff officer shrugged.

"I'm talking about the most elite, just like the elite when we were still working in the branch. The leader is our legendary dragon-slaying hero, and every knight is as strong and experienced as us." The leader said from the watchtower. Looking out the window at the first batch of knights who landed after their patrol, "But now, looking at these new recruits under my hands, I think the level of the entire knights is no longer as good as the Black Iron Knights."

"That's not true." The staff officer forced a smile.

"We were promoted faster than cannonballs, not only because someone became a prince, but also because of the sacrifice of one regiment commander and two deputy regiment commanders, as well as many senior brothers. In the end, I was just the top There is a vacancy. We have been fighting, Kaili, and our greatest achievement is just surviving until now." The regiment leader said while sighing.

Over the years, the Dragon Head Knights fought in the north and south, attacked Muxia, and conducted two secret dragon-slaying operations. After that, they also participated in pacifying a civil war, for which they paid heavy casualties.

After Lucio was promoted, the captain of the knighthood who succeeded him died in the second battle against the Red Dragon, along with a deputy captain, several branch leaders and many experienced knights.

The current group leader was only a branch leader when Lucio was the group leader, but within three years he jumped several levels to become the group leader.

He knew very well that although the scale of the Dragon Head Knights had become larger, the combat level was not as good as before.

Under the instruction of Prince Lucio, who once served as the leader, the Dragon Head Knights received a lot of resources, expanded its members, and cultivated more flying dragons, but the additions were basically new recruits with little experience.

The staff officer frowned and said sternly: "Brother, you sit high up, so you should understand the importance of keeping your mouth shut. You also know that the situation is not right recently. We have been together through life and death for so many years, and I don't want to see you being raped. The gendarmerie took him away for investigation.”

After Queen Fred came to the throne, many reform measures aroused some conflicts, and some local nobles even rebelled because of this. She took quite tough measures to deal with this.

Now Her Majesty the Queen is obviously still planning a route for external expansion. If the leader's negative remarks reach the top, just being dismissed from his post can only be said to be a sign of mercy from the Queen.

The knight leader nodded after hearing this and whispered softly: "You are right, you are right."

At this time, a messenger hurriedly rushed in, saluting and shouting loudly: "Report, the First Flying Team has discovered a suspicious target at the one o'clock position of the flying field."

Both the knight leader and the staff officer were subconsciously excited. The staff officer immediately pointed at the other party seriously and asked: "What do you mean by a suspicious target? Please explain clearly!"

"This... the report was from Sergeant Meade of the First Flight Team. He only said that he saw a group of black and very suspicious flying objects, and he also said that he might have been blinded." The messenger stammered. said.

The knight commander and the staff looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

This is the problem they were just discussing. Many recruits who serve as dragon riders cannot even do reconnaissance work well. They come back to report before they have figured out the key information, and they have no confidence in the report. This will delay the reaction time of the troops. , if it is a false alarm, it will also cause confusion in command.

"I'll take a look myself." The knight leader stood up.

"There's no need for you to go in person -"

As soon as the staff officer was halfway through speaking, the knight leader raised his hand to stop him: "Stretch your muscles and bones. The new recruits always need some demonstrations from the veterans."

The staff officer could only smile when he saw this. The captain of the knights personally brought several guards to the flying field. A new group of cavalry was ready to go to the sky to patrol with the captain of the knights.

"Come on, old man, let's fly around for the first time in a long time." The knight leader comforted his mount, mounted the flying dragon and led the team to set off.

He headed straight towards the one o'clock direction, and soon he saw the unnatural black shadow in the clouds in the distance.

A chill ran down the knight leader's back, he frowned, and then quickly picked up his telescope.

"Please, I must have seen it wrong, please..." He muttered and picked up the telescope.

Unlike the new recruits, he could see the problem at a glance. The black mass was obviously the shadow of the clouds, and there was only one type of creature that could fly to that height and size - a true dragon.

If it was really a dragon, based on his empirical estimation of its size from this distance, it was definitely a big guy.

In the telescope, he saw more details.

He saw black scales looming in the rolling clouds, and then gradually became clear.

The black dragon was breaking out of the clouds.

"Damn it!" the knight leader muttered with his eyes wide open.

He saw the largest dragon he had ever seen in his life, surpassing the ancient dragon, the ancient dragon...

Ancient black dragon!

Along with the terrifying dragon roar, more black shadows emerged from the clouds.

The knights' mounts, the flying dragons, became restless under the influence of the dragon's power.
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At the same time, Ganouen was listening to Anya's report in the study.

"Civil war?" Ganon asked.

"Yes, the empire has recently experienced a civil war. A total of four lords, led by the Duke of Warhammer Territory, and three highly respected bishops announced the establishment of an alliance without the Queen's permission. This is to a certain extent an open war. . Queen Fred has always been very tough. She directly sent troops to the two lords closest to the capital to confront the local troops. There were several conflicts." Anya held the notebook and read the shorthand cipher text on it.

"How did it end?" Ganon asked.

"Soon the leading Duke gave in. He announced his withdrawal from the alliance and sent his heir to apologize to the Queen. The other three lords lost their leader, and two of them quickly surrendered. They were all deprived of their titles. The last lord did After the resistance was put down, the whole family was imprisoned. Only the Duke was let go because he gave up first. As for the bishops, they basically went to the Papal States to take refuge." Anya said.

"It sounds like it didn't cause much internal friction." Ganon said a little regretfully.

"There is a way to this. The Duke is obviously with the Queen. He pretended to be the enemy of the Queen, led the rebellion, lured other rebels out, pretended to be the backbone to tie them together, and then withdrew at the critical moment. , so that these rabble will collapse at a moment's notice, and the most troublesome resisters can be fished out and eliminated at a small cost." Anya explained.

"So that's it." Ganon suddenly realized.

"This is nothing compared to our political struggle." Anya shook her head.

"Thank you for helping me analyze it." Ganon smiled.

"If you want to thank me, could you be a little gentler with your hands?" Anya lowered her gaze and looked at Ganouen's hand rubbing her thigh.

She was sitting on Ganon's lap.

"You didn't refuse even if I asked you to sit on my lap." Ganon shrugged.

"I did not agree to any further excessive demands." Anya frowned.

"Is this too much? Haven't we done more?" Ganouen began to smell her hair.

"Don't make such a scene in broad daylight. I still have a lot of work to do!" Anya stretched out her hand to push Ganouen's face.

Suddenly, a voice sounded in their heads at the same time, coming from an intelligence officer sent to the empire:

"Emergency report, a black dragon - probably an ancient black dragon, led several dragons to attack the imperial capital, Longshou Fort!"

(End of this chapter)