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

Chapter 53 The Princess Who Has No Shelter

The capital city in late summer, the woodland in the evening glow.

The royal city in late summer was built on the huge holy tree in the center of the forest. The wood elves who believed in druids built complex corridors and palaces on the trunk of the holy tree with exquisite craftsmanship and the idea of ​​symbiosis with nature.

There are countless tree houses among the luxuriant branches and leaves of the holy tree. Under the shade of the holy tree, the most prosperous forest city of the wood elves guards the holy tree and the royal palace.

Elf Princess Isbell walked cautiously through the corridor and came to the entrance of the temple where the Goddess of Life was sacrificed.

The elderly female head guard was leading the guards outside the closed stone gate. When she saw Her Royal Highness, she first showed a surprised look, and then bowed her head and said, "His Royal Highness Isbel."

"Excuse me, is Queen Mother... in there?" Isbel asked timidly.

The head female guard showed a somewhat complicated expression when she heard the words. After thinking for a moment, she said:
"Please leave first, the princess doesn't want to see you for the time being."

Isbell lowered her head when she heard the words, and the head female guard looked at her with a look of pity on her face.

"Can you, try to inform..." Isbel lifted her face and asked in a low voice.

"Please don't embarrass me, Your Highness." Before Her Royal Highness could finish speaking, the head female guard looked away.

Isbel's heart sank suddenly.

At this time, the stone door of the temple suddenly made a deep sound, and then slowly opened.

The faces of the female guard and Isbel changed at the same time.

Patricia, who is the supreme leader of the Muxia Druids and also the princess of Muxia, ended the sacrifice ahead of time, and walked out of the temple slowly accompanied by the elders and maids.

Patricia, who was wearing a flower crown, saw Isbel as soon as she came out, and she frowned immediately, showing a bit of disgust in her eyes.

"Mother!" Isbell bowed her head in a flustered greeting, her attitude seemed a little apprehensive.

"Have you forgotten what I told you? You are not qualified to approach this temple, don't defile this sacred place!" Patricia reprimanded sharply.

Hearing this, tears welled up in the eyes of Isbel who lowered her head.

Patricia ignored her daughter's aggrieved appearance and walked straight past her without looking back.

With such an attitude from the princess, the others did not dare to show unnecessary concern to Her Royal Highness, so they could only ignore her one after another.

Isbel didn't raise her face until Patriz left, and the guards who stayed at the scene deliberately didn't look at her.

Isbel left the temple, wandered in the corridor of the palace for a while, and finally shuffled towards the stairs leading to the upper floor, preparing to return to her room and stay alone until dark.

When she was about to reach the stairs, she heard a discussion coming from above the stairs.

"... After observing it for a month, is there really nothing abnormal about that red dragon?"

Isbell stopped in her tracks. The voice was his brother, Prince Lampard of the Elf of Summer.

"If you look at it by normal standards, the red dragon is actually quite abnormal. In the contact with the forest guards, he was very calm. He was not as arrogant and irritable as ordinary red dragons. He showed no hostility to the elves, and the conditions of the citizens detained by him were also very stable. This can also be confirmed from the interviews with visiting family members." Another elf said.

Red Dragon?Isbel immediately pricked up her ears.

She hesitated for a moment, then tiptoed up a few steps, stood on tiptoe to look around, and then saw her brother Wang standing by the window of the corridor on the upper floor, listening to an officer's report, presumably, brother Wang happened to meet someone who came to report to him when he was passing by.

"We still can't relax our vigilance. There are many cases of giant dragons enslaving other creatures. Maybe this is an expedient measure by the other party. The key is whether he can release the detained person as promised. It is actually hard to say what the relationship between the princess and the red dragon is..." Lampard said while thinking.

Princess... red dragon?Isbel quickly extracted the key words and held her breath.

At this moment, Lampard turned his head and noticed Isbell standing under the steps.

"Bell?" Lampard called out, frowning.

Seeing this, Isbel could only walk up, and bowed her head to Lampard with embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Brother Wang, I just happened to pass by..."

The elf officer immediately saluted Isbel: "Your Highness Isbel, I greet you!"

Lampard's brows did not open at all, and he quickly looked away from Isbel, as if avoiding.

"Reply to Jamil, continue to wait and see, and report any abnormalities at any time." He instructed the officer.

"Yes!" The elf officer saluted.

Then Lampard strode straight towards the steps, passing Isbel wordlessly, just glancing at her.

Isbel hesitated for a moment, and mustered up the courage to turn around and want to call Lampard: "Brother Wang!"

"Sorry, I'll talk about it later!" Lampard stopped her from continuing with a gesture, without stopping at all.

What Isbel wanted to say got stuck in her throat, and she could only stand there and watch Lampard disappear from her vision.

"Sure enough, there is no place for me in this palace anymore." The thoughts that had recurred these days popped up in her heart again.

The officer didn't leave right away, and looked this way with some concern.

He could feel that something was wrong with the atmosphere, Prince Lampard was obviously ignoring and avoiding his sister.

He is not someone who works in the palace. This time, he was sent to replace another officer to report to His Royal Highness, the commander of the guards. He actually doesn't know much about the situation inside the palace.

The royal family always tries to present a glamorous image to the citizens as much as possible, but no one can tell how complicated it is inside.

Could it be that Her Royal Highness has always been treated like this here?He muttered something in his heart.

But that's obviously not something he should worry about.

Thinking of this, he bowed again to Her Royal Highness: "May the Goddess of Life bless you, Your Highness Isbel, I will take my leave first."

"Please wait a moment." Isbell suddenly turned around and called him to stop.

"What is your Highness's order?" The elf officer stood up in surprise.

Princess Isbel put her hands in front of her body, with a reserved smile on her face, which was the dignified image she always maintained to the outside world.

"May I ask what you were talking about with Brother Wang just now? I heard you guys mentioned... dragons?" she asked.

It will be discussed here, and it is probably not a confidential matter, so she will not beat around the bush and ask questions directly.

"Ah, it's about a red dragon that settled on the west side of Breeze Forest..." the elf officer replied.

Just halfway through speaking, Isbel's eyes widened: "Could it be the red dragon that was called Kuja by humans that kidnapped the little princess of the Dragon's Back Empire?"

She had heard gossip from the Human Dragon Spine Empire:

Zhenna, the little princess of the Longji Empire, a paladin, took the task of crusade against the red dragon and went to the border, but the red dragon was taken away, then trained and brainwashed, and finally became the slave of the red dragon physically and mentally, and even became the accomplice of the red dragon, killing the knights of the empire.

For some reasons, Isbel paid close attention to this news, and always wanted to find a way to confirm the authenticity.

"Yes, yes." The elf officer replied in a daze.

He wasn't sure if it was his illusion. When Her Royal Highness heard this answer, she seemed a little...

Bright eyes?

"Tell me about it in detail!" Isbel said seriously.

(End of this chapter)