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

Chapter 61 The real reason

"What's going on?" Ganon narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

Lampard's proposal is obviously unreasonable.

Even if he not only didn't hurt Isbel but also persuaded her to go home, which increased the trust of the elf royal family in him, normally speaking, Isbel shouldn't be allowed to stay with him.

"Brother Wang, what do you mean?" Isbel asked Lampard timidly.

"I think this may be an opportunity for you to temporarily leave the palace for a while. It would be better for you to come back when everyone gradually forgets about this matter." When Lampard said this, he obviously avoided Isbel's sight.

So can shocking things be easily forgotten?Ganon thought to himself.

But Isbel, who was originally worried that her family would not accept her easily, interpreted another meaning: "What is this... You guys still don't want to see me, do you?"

"I mean, everyone keep a distance and calm down for a while. You see, the queen mother is also angry. When she calms down and misses you, it will be easier for you to talk when you come back, isn't it?" Lampard continued to persuade.

"Has the queen mother returned to the palace?" Isbel asked.

"She..." Lampard replied after a pause, "I'll be right back."

"If she is willing to go back to the palace, she should be willing to see me. Let me confess to her first." Isbel said seriously, she had already made up her mind not to evade this question.

"Let's not do it first, listen to me, you stay here for a while." Lampard insisted.

Gannon watched from the side, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Lampard's words and expressions seemed a little unnatural.

Isbel also obviously noticed this unnaturalness, and tried to ease it: "Brother Wang, I know that what I did made you feel embarrassed, and running away from home this time also caused you trouble, don't be angry, let's have a good talk first, shall we..."

"I just really think it's better this way," Lampard said over and over again.

"Tell me the truth, do you think it's better for me not to appear in the palace again? Because I'm too embarrassing for you?" Isbel stared at Lampard.

"Of course not, how can you think that way? It's just that this matter is more complicated than you imagined, and it will take a little time to deal with it. Please trust me first, okay?" Lampard continued to persuade.

"How can you tell me to believe you if you don't look at me yourself!?" Isbel suddenly burst out.

Lampard finally raised his eyes to look at his sister, and Isbel had already retreated step by step, with tears oozing from her eyes.

She managed to pluck up the courage to face her family directly, but Lampard didn't have the determination to take her seriously at all, and that prevarication and evasion attitude made her clearly feel the other party's rejection.

"You're just fooling me. I admit that you did something inappropriate, but why do you want to do this?" She said aggrievedly, then turned around and ran towards Gannon's territory.

The guards around Lampard stood by at the same time, but Lampard neither chased him nor ordered the guards to chase him. Instead, he sighed and looked at Gannon: "Can I ask you, Mr. Gannon."

"Zhenna, you go after her first." Ganon said to Zhenna.

"Okay." Zhenna immediately chased after Isbel's back.

"Thank you, I will definitely reward you heavily." Lampard nodded to Gannon.

"I haven't agreed to your proposal, unless you tell me the real reason," Gannon said.

Lampard's decision to let Isbell stay was obviously made on the spur of the moment, and the remarks were probably made up on the spur of the moment. Lampard is actually not very good at lying.

Isbell had been worried all the time, and Lampard's attitude made her sensitively think that her family still refused to accept her.

But Ganon felt that there might be something hidden in this matter, even if Isbel was not allowed to go back to the palace, Muxia was so big, there would naturally be a suitable place, and there was no need to stay in the territory of a red dragon.

Lampard hesitated for a while, glanced at Isbell who had already run away, and said, "Okay, please keep this matter a secret from Bell for now..."

Later, Lampard explained a very shocking news to Ganon:

Ten days ago, the southern region of Muxia was invaded by the coalition forces of the Dragon's Back Empire and the Beishan Dwarves.
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In the southern part of late summer, the elves' stronghold was ablaze and smoke was everywhere.

An army armed to the teeth gathered into a torrent of steel, and the elite knights of the empire rode a land dragon to lead the front, following the scent to track down the retreating elves.

Their armor kept steaming and their engines rumbling.

In the sky, hundreds of flying dragon cavalry were also searching for the fleeing enemy soldiers.

Lucio, the knight king of the Dragon Spine Empire, raised his Duankong sword high on the back of a flying dragon, and let out a battle cry that resounded through the sky: "Conquer! For Your Majesty the Queen!!"

"For Her Majesty the Queen!"

Accompanied by the corresponding sound waves, the flow speed of the steel torrent increased a bit.
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The Empire appears to be targeting the mineral lands within Breeze Forest.

Before that, they had sent envoys to discuss with Mu Xia, but they did not make a decent bid, and Mu Xia had no intention of this at all, coupled with the envoy's contemptuous attitude, in the end the two parties broke up, and the elf king expelled the envoy in a rage.

As a result, it didn't take long for the empire to declare war on Mu Xia for this reason, and a large army directly invaded Mu Xia's south, and the dwarves of Beishan Kingdom, which was allied with the empire, also contributed to this incident.Looking back, all this had already been arranged.

With new weapons including steam armor, the balance almost immediately tilted toward the coalition of humans and dwarves. Mu Xia's side retreated steadily, and could only ask for help from the high elves of the Elemental Federation.

Before the reinforcements arrived at Mu Xia, the situation on several fronts was not optimistic, and the Dark Elf forces who had been hostile to Mu Xia might also be ready to move.

Maybe there will be a party that wants Mu Xia's situation to be worse, and sends assassins to the royal family members who are specifically targeting Mu Xia.

It can be said that Mu Xia's royal city can no longer guarantee safety.

This is the fundamental reason why Lampard chose to keep Isbel in Ganon's territory.

"—That's probably how it happened." In the Tower of Infinity, Gannon explained the whole incident to Isbel, "Lampard gave me a good price, on the condition that I hide you well and guarantee your safety."

Speaking of this, he remembered that when he reminded Lampard that he had also been attacked by the empire, and there was no Mu Xia army stationed here, so it was not a safe place at all. Lampard actually replied:

"You have repelled the empire's attack at least twice, which is enough to prove your reliability. And no one wants Bell to hide here. Sometimes dangerous places are safer."

This brother and sister's thinking mode is quite similar...

Although Lampard kept Gannon a secret on the grounds that "it would only make her worry in vain, and she might act impulsively", Gannon didn't care at all.

He felt that this reason for keeping secrets was troublesome and awkward, and Isbel should have the right to know, so he just told Isbel when he came back.

Anyway, when Lampard asked him to keep it secret, he did not agree to this part.

(End of this chapter)