Chapter 376 Omen
Russell was thinking about what kind of reward he wanted.
Earl Merlin said: “The title of baron will definitely be approved. I would like to congratulate my new baron in the Grand Duchy in advance, Russell Fluorescent Fungus… Of course, you can change the nobility by being promoted to a hereditary noble and creating a new family. ”
Mel admired him and said: “I really envy you, Russell. You will become a hereditary baron in the future.”
Russell was about to be modest.
Mel joked again: “Unlike me, I can only be your monarch and become the new Grand Duke of the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy.”
Russell quickly rolled his eyes: “Grandpa, I’m ready to side with Queensley.”
Earl Merlin stroked his beard and smiled: “Okay, you two boys, stop talking nonsense… Tell me Russell, what reward do you want, grandpa can satisfy your needs as much as possible within the scope of his authority.”
“Population.” Russell pondered for a long time and finally gave the answer, “Grandpa, I hope to get enough population.”
“Okay, I will try my best to get you serfs as a reward.”
With Earl Merlin’s guarantee, Russell was relieved. As long as he could get the population reward, the pressure to develop Blackfire Land and Lei Ze would be greatly reduced. Moreover, in the future Russell will establish his own independent country, which will also require a large number of people.
All in all, the population is never too large.
After a while, the topic came back to the Demon Exorcism Order, and Earl Merlin still couldn’t decide whether to take back the Demon Exorcism Order.
This made Russell sigh with emotion.
In the past, I always felt that my grandfather, Earl Merlin, was a heroic figure who controlled the world. Not only was he wise and mighty, he was at least decisive and courageous. But after the filter brought by status disappears, when you look at Lord Merlin, he is actually just an ordinary person.
There is also hesitation in his character, and he also looks forward and backward when doing things.
“Yes, times create heroes… We are all the same people, but different times will create different situations…” Russell sighed in his heart. He himself had a clear understanding of this.
Now in the entire Shadow Flame Grand Duchy, everyone is praising him and imagining him as that kind of young genius and a hero with infinite wisdom.
But in fact, apart from Goldfinger, he is just an ordinary person.
In other words, if others have such a golden finger, they may not be able to prosper: “On earth, talents from one county of Liu Bang can govern a country…Zhu Yuanzhang also relies on his hometown to conquer the world…”
It can be seen that there is no shortage of talents, but what is lacking is the soil for cultivating talents.
Russell even had some thoughts of not respecting his elders: “If it were Charles, with the title of Earl of Flotilla, he might not be much worse than his grandfather in doing things… Of course, with Charles’s character, he is more likely to become the second generation of a dandy.”
After a brief distraction, Russell quickly brought his thoughts back.
Just listen to Cousin Mel shouting: “Grandpa, in my opinion, there is no need to recall the demon-killing order. Snow Giant Da has been seriously injured by His Highness Shadow Flame and Russell, and he may not dare to show his face again. After all, the Torrent Dragon can help at any time.” !”
Then he glanced at Russell.
It didn’t want to admit it, but sighed helplessly: “The Snow Giant Da attacked Russell probably because His Highness Yingyan admired Russell… It was also afraid that His Highness Yingyan would choose a new knight, and that would be its end. “
Russell does not have the blood of the Shadowflame family, which severely limits his possibility of riding a dragon.
But if the Shadow Flame Dragon is willing, the contract cannot limit its choices at all. It can still bypass the previous contract and choose to contract with Russell again.
Like human contract elves.
The contract is still the same, but humans are stronger and have more choices. They can completely cut off the contract and trade or inherit the elves.
With the power of the dragon, it is impossible for the contract to stop it.
Just like the lost dragon depicted in “Song of the Volcano”, he is himself a dragon of the kingdom and has a contractual bond with the female king. In the end, he was infected by Seacroft’s hatred, and finally cut off the bonds of the contract and chose Seacroft.
From then on, it transformed into a lost dragon born for revenge. Only a knight with a blood feud can summon it out of hatred.
The story is not true or false.
But at least it shows that in the eyes of the world, the contract between the dragon and the Dragon Blood Family is by no means static.
That’s why Mel thought that Snow Giant Da was going to kill Russell, the possible future Shadow Flame Dragon Knight, and he didn’t hesitate to risk his own life to attack and kill him in a dangerous situation.
“Now that Russell has been promoted to Dragon Territory Lord, Snow Giant Da knows that he can’t kill Russell. I’m afraid he has fled deep into the snowfield long ago.” Mel said, “In short, the Demon Exorcism Order can continue to be implemented, but Grandpa, you can change it. Let the flying dragon knights go out together to hunt the snow demon.”
Lord Merlin pondered.
Russell also nodded: “My cousin is right. If you are timid because of fear, you might as well just bring down the Kingdom of Blazing Torrents… But I’m afraid that in turn, the Kingdom of Blazing Torrents will directly sacrifice my Grand Duchy.”
Russell was somewhat dismissive of the “hunting ground rumors” that Count Merlin had said before, that the Kingdom of Blazing Torrent might intend to sacrifice the Grand Duchy of Shadowflame.
I don’t think that the Kingdom of Blazing Torrent spent so much effort just to sacrifice the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame.
But through what the Shadow Flame Dragon said, it could sacrifice a warm enclave and then obliterate the Snow Giant Da.
This reminded Russell of something.
If it is the Kingdom of Blazing Torrent, it wants to obliterate a certain powerful snow giant, but does not want to sacrifice its own warm land. Then the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy is a very good substitute. At that time, all the wealth and population of the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy can be robbed and then sacrificed.
Sacrifice a warm enclave, if it can wipe out the snow giant, sacrifice a volcano, maybe even the legendary frost giant can be wiped out.
A giant dragon, exchanged for a frost giant, a great deal!
After some persuasion from Russell and Mel, Earl Merlin also made up his mind: “Yes, I am a little scared. The snow giant Daryl can’t even kill Russell in a sneak attack, so how can he hunt down the flying dragon knights of my grand duchy!”
He took a puff of his cigar and said: “Not only should we continue to implement the demon-killing order, but we should also form an expeditionary knighthood to go deep into the snowfields to hunt for snow…”
The words have not yet finished.
The door to the study room was pushed open. The steward of the castle stood at the door and leaned forward and said: “Master, I’m sorry to bother you. There is an urgent report from the Golden Roof Castle. The Golden Baron Davis Golden Rooster died in the snowfield for the Snow Giant. Attacked and killed.”
“What?” Earl Merlin stood up.
Russell and Mel also sat up in shock. They had just boosted their morale and prepared to go to the snowfield for a big fight, when the bad news arrived first.
“Where is the messenger? Call him over!” Earl Merlin clenched his fists and his face instantly turned gloomy.
It was only when the messenger was brought in and questioned carefully that the whole process of the matter was known.
Baron Davis was bored in the Red Castle, so he returned to the territory to prepare, and then went to the snowfield to hunt snow demons and collect the requirements for this year’s demon-killing order. In the end, only the Fossil Dragon was seriously injured and escaped, and barely regained consciousness after being fed a bunch of magic potions.
After some communication, everyone in Jinding Fort knew what happened.
The Snow Giant repeated his old trick and unexpectedly attacked Davis again and killed Davis on the spot. Only the Foul Dragon escaped.
“Da!” Earl Merlin took a deep breath, “That is to say, yesterday it attacked you Russell, and today it attacked Baron Davis… two consecutive sneak attacks, it didn’t hide at all, it still hunted the dragon knight unscrupulously!”
(End of chapter)