After Ganon left temporarily, only Patriz and Isabel, mother and daughter, were left in the hall.
Isabel became nervous again: "Mother, what do you want to tell me?"
"Tell me the truth, that Red Dragon really didn't do anything to you?" Patriz confirmed with her again alone.
"Really not!" Isabel waved her hands repeatedly.
"Then what do you think of him?" Patriz asked.
"..." Isabel didn't know how to answer for a moment. If she revealed her truest thoughts about Ganouen, it might give her mother the same impact as when she saw the collection. .
After hesitating for a while, she said coyly: "I think he... is pretty good."
"You like him, don't you?" Patriz sighed.
After all, she is an experienced person. She can basically tell the clues from the way her daughter looks at Ganouen and the manner in which she answers questions.
After a moment of silence, Isabel replied softly: "Yes..."
She could feel that she couldn't deceive her mother by lying now.
"Is it because of your interest?" Patriz's eyes were sharp.
"Yes, yes..." Isabel answered cautiously, noticing that Patriz's eyes were getting sharper, she quickly added, "But it's not just because of this..."
"You've only known him for two days!" Patriz reminded with a serious look.
"It's not a matter of the length of time..." Isabel defended, and then she suddenly thought of something, "Mother, I remember that you were also chosen directly by your father when you were choosing a concubine? You were just at that time Let’s meet.”
Patriz was immediately silenced by her daughter's rhetorical question.
"Queen Mother, why did you choose your father?" Isabel tried to ask.
"Because he was a prince at that time." Patriz replied calmly, "Is there anyone with better conditions than him?"
Seeing her mother's natural expression, Isabel didn't know how to refute for a moment.
Then Patriz thought for a moment and added softly: "But it's not just because of this..."
With her talent and status in her youth, if she didn't want to marry the current Elf King, no one could force her.
The most important thing is, after all, your own choices and choices.
"But choosing a dragon as your partner is no small matter. Have you really thought about it clearly?" Patriz stared at Isabel and asked.
"Is it really possible!?" Isabel was suddenly overjoyed.
In fact, she had never considered the possibility that her mother would agree to her being with Ganouen, but judging from her mother's question, it seemed that there was room for negotiation.
Seeing her suddenly revealing her true thoughts so bluntly, Patriz couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Isabel realized that her desire was too explicit and quickly calmed down her expression.
Patrice let out a long sigh, frowned and said: "I actually don't want to agree at all, but I have to consider the reality. Now that you have become like this, it is really hard for me to imagine that you can be with any normal person. The target is getting married!"
"Also...you don't have to say it so harshly, right?" Isbel's expression became even more awkward.
"I ask you again, have you really thought it through?" Patriz asked formally again.
"I have thought it through." Isabel replied seriously this time.
Patrice and she looked at each other for a long time. Several times, Isbel wanted to escape from her mother's majestic gaze, but she resisted the urge and looked directly into Patriz's eyes.
In the end, Patriz lowered her gaze, as if she had given up. She shook her head slightly, and then took off the wooden short bow that she had been hanging on her body.
"Take it." She solemnly held out the short bow to Isabel.
"Mother, this is not——" Isabel looked stunned.
This ordinary-looking short bow is one of the two high-level artifacts held by Patriz, the Dominion Edict.
This short bow can fire special magic arrows, transforming the target's life form like the master of all things that creates life, and producing various positive or negative special effects on the living beings it hits.
These effects include but are not limited to healing, growth, physical strengthening, sensory strengthening, weakness, paralysis, poisoning, mutation and growth, and can also force the hit target to turn into any natural creature for a short period of time.
If you use this short bow to shoot wooden arrows and hit the ground or living creatures, the arrows can also turn into trees or vines to grow.
As a druid, Patriz's spellcasting distance is only fifty or sixty meters. With this artifact in hand, with her own archery skills, the range of her spellcasting ability can be extended to two hundred meters, and the intensity of the effect will also be increased to the divine realm. level.
For Patrizia, this is a very important artifact.
"Take it," Patriz emphasized.
Isabel hesitated for a moment, then took the artifact.
"To protect your safety, the 'Crown of Rebirth' is actually more suitable for you." Patriz's tone became much softer, "But with your level, it is far from enough to use a real artifact. This 'Edict of Dominance' 'It was originally a sub-artifact. The Red Dragon's goal is to strip the divinity from it. After it becomes a sub-artifact, you should be able to use it reluctantly."
"Queen Mother!" Isabel finally understood the other party's intention at this moment.
"I allow you to decide where to go or stay according to your own will for the time being, but there are two conditions. First, you must stick to the basic bottom line and put your own national interests first. Do you understand?" Patriz warned seriously.
"Bell understands." Isabel nodded seriously.
"Then, you have to keep in contact with him for at least three more years, carefully consider it before making a formal decision, and you must reconfirm with me." Patriz continued, "During this period, you are not allowed to do anything immoral. Do you understand? ?”
"Three years? This is too long, Queen Mother!" Isabel almost blurted out.
How could she endure it for three years with a living dragon in front of her? Isabel is very self-aware about her own self-control.
Patriz was about to scold her, but she calmed down again and tried to ask her daughter's opinion: "Then what do you want?"
Isabel thought for a moment and raised three fingers.
"Three months?" It was suddenly shortened to this amount. Patriz was somewhat reluctant, but it was not impossible to consider.
"Three days..." Isabel tried with a smile.
Patriz's face suddenly darkened, and her eyes filled with anger that was almost overflowing.
"Just kidding, three months." Isabel quickly changed her tune.
"Then let's do it." Patriz then relaxed.
Isabel thought quickly and realized that the definition of immorality differed from person to person. What the Queen meant was not to do things that made her feel immoral...
In fact, as long as the mother doesn't know, she won't feel immoral, and it doesn't count as a violation of the agreement, right?
Finally, Patrice stretched out her hand and gently placed it on Isabel's shoulder: "Remember to tell us if you have something to do. Don't forget, this is your home."
Isabel was startled for a moment, then a smile appeared on her face: "Beier understands."
"Go and call the red dragon in." Patriz returned to her solemn look.
When Ganouen came in again, she announced to Ganouen seriously:
"Red Dragon Ganon, I have decided to accept your proposal and sign a covenant with you on behalf of Mu Xia. I will lend you this artifact 'The Order of Dominance' in exchange for the divinity in it, and ask you to protect the west side of Mu Xia. Five cities for a period of three hundred years. In addition, the artifact will be kept by my daughter Isabel, and you must protect her safety at all times."
"Did you mean during this war?" Ganon asked smoothly.
"It could be three months, or it could be...her lifetime." Patriz said meaningfully.
Ganon heard what the other party meant, looked at Isabel in surprise, and asked with his eyes: "What on earth did you talk about?"
"Mother, she..." Isabel replied shyly, "I tentatively agree."
Did you skip my opinion? Ganon thought.
Although thinking about it carefully, he actually didn't seem to have any reason to refuse this matter.
Although Isabel was a little abnormal, it was not beyond his acceptance range. He was just very surprised by Patriz's agreement.
"You don't have any objections, do you?" Patriz stared at Ganouen closely, once again exuding the coercion of a natural enemy.
Here, Ganon chose the wisest thing to do—nodding silently.
"Very good." Patriz nodded, but her aura did not diminish at all, "I hope you will abide by the agreement. If you fail to protect Muxia's territory in accordance with the covenant, or if you let Isbell suffer any harm, Muxia will ...No, I, as the princess of Mu Xia and Bei Er's mother, will never let you go, remember this."
