Chapter 25: Portrait of the Dragon

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sand. sand. sand.

Walk Cactus!

Oh, it's dead.

sand. sand. sand……

Fankel forced himself not to fall asleep out of boredom during the flight. He was tired of the endless desert, carrying his chief of staff in one hand and a large sheepskin bag for the princesses in the other. "Why am I invisible again?" the dragon asked his minion, who insisted that Wink use his "wink" ring. "Why don't we bring the other minions?"

"Because otherwise B

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e will shoot as soon as he sees us, and my 'death cloak' gives me some camouflage. The Minion sounded tired and just as bored as his master. "It's best to travel light." "

"Minion, I mean why should I care if the demon notices?"

"Because we are on a mission to rescue the princess, that means we need to proceed with caution. Otherwise, Moore will evacuate them somewhere else, and we may not know where it is this time."

Finally, as Winkle squinted at the horizon, he noticed their destination.

A rock as big as the highest peak of the Alban Mountains floats above the desert, a fortress city built of blood-red bricks; beneath the flying building, the green stone releases a whirlwind of sandstorms that make the city Floating in the air. Winkle noticed a number of flying creatures patrolling the skies near it, each of which made for a passable snack.

Finally arriving at the destination, instead of feeling happy, Victor Manling let out a heavy, depressed sigh.

"Minion, why are you so depressed?" Manlin Victor's enthusiasm for this adventure was far less than Winkle imagined. Come to think of it, he wasn't arguing about Fankle bringing a princess bag, which is all the Minion would normally worry about. "Have you given birth?"

"No. I tried." The servant sighed dejectedly. "But it turns out Alison likes girls..."

Forest Goddess? "Minions, I am not so harsh on the harassment of minions. For example, I allow you to give your eggs to Manlin Charlene."

"I'm pretty sure the croissant arrived first."

"Then eat him," Winkle could have sworn the slave was looking up at his master quizzically, but he couldn't tell due to his cloak. "You're the chief of staff, he's below you in the food chain. If he bothers you, eat him. I've never had a werewolf before, but they must taste like Chelburles, thick and rich ."

"Your Majesty, did you eat a monster?"

"When I was a young maggot, I fought with the other dragons against the ancestors. In those days, they kept sending demons to kill me." Eventually, the fairy lords gave Winkle and his relatives A large sum of gold was offered as tribute, as an apology for lying about having created the world in the first place.

Speaking of food, what does the wind smell like? "I can feel someone following us," Fankle hummed in the air. "It smelled like a big bird with a human head on its back."

"Huh? We should be careful, it could be Maul's person——"

“(Solar Judgment!)”

A sudden beam of light struck Winkle in the back, and the explosion sent him crashing to the dry sand below.

[Solar's judgment bypasses your [Fire Immunity]! You are seriously damaged!

"Minion, my back feels bad," Winkle said, opening his palm to find his chief of staff unharmed. "What's this?"

"I suppose that's pain, Your Majesty!"

Is it painful? Of course not, only mammals suffer from this disease.

Winkle looked up at the man tickling his back, a burly knight in heavy green armor. This treacherous fellow rides on the back of a golden lion with the head, wings and talons of an eagle.

Vulture! And he’s an adult, fat one!

"I doubted your guilt until I looked over your course, Victor. [Monster Squire] and [Death]!" The knight pointed a shining sword at Winkle, who could tell it was a A cursed artifact used to kill dragons. According to the voice, the knight is a female Manling. "The evil offspring of a soul thief and a necromancer, and a bit of scum!" And your perks! [Haim], [Hellfire Channel]! You reek of evil!"

"That armor..." the Minion continued after the dust settled. "Oh my god, the 66th floor?"

“My name is Kia Bekele, Ga

demag

e's Shining Knight! "Prepare to die, bad guy!"

Fankle was annoyed that the Green Knight did not announce his royal name next, so he blasted the bird out of the sky with a fireball.

"[B

avewi

d! To the dragon's surprise, the bird and its rider were blown away by the strong wind and flew away from his flames. They swooped down as Winkle kept trying to fire on them, so fast that even the dragon had trouble keeping up. Before the knight could react, he slashed between Winkle's neck and shoulder, cutting off a scale.

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dight causes double the effective [Fairy][Dragon Slayer] damage!

Like that damned lich, the knight and her flying bull retreated before the dragon could attack them. Manlin Victor tried to aid his master, firing blue hellfire at their enemies, but she flew out of range and circled in the air. Winkle suddenly wondered how she could notice him without being seen, and with just a glance at him, the sand on his body gave away his position.

Above, the knight prepared to swoop back, gleaming in the sunlight.

That woman, Manlin, was anxious to make Winkle live up to her name. "Minion, stay there and don't move." Winkle ordered his Manlin, placing him and the princess bag on the ground. “I’m going to get on a plane and handle this flight snack myself.”

"Your Majesty, she is the strongest adventurer in the northwest wind and the one who killed King Bara-ul! "Don't underestimate her!"

"Bala Urlong?" This time, it made Winkle stop. "fomo

?”

Just one man riding a flying bull killed Balaur. This was the second greatest disaster of this era? When?

"Magical cleansing!" roared Fankle, revealing his dragon in all its glory, his Pe

k denied the invisibility of his ring. "Fear my wrath, knight!" You are facing Emperor Vanquil Knight Baine, his first life, the great catastrophe of this era, the emperor of Silent Forest and the Alban Mountains, the killer of Freeburn!"

"I know about the lich," the knight said, raising his sword. "I would like to say thank you, because we didn't have time to kill him before, but -"

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"What happened?" Fankel glared at the knight, suddenly furious. "You didn't do anything?" Do you know what he was doing in the dungeon? Do you know?"

The knight stopped, preventing her from going down. "sorry?"

"I believe he must have sacrificed hundreds of little princesses to prepare that terrible, dirty, evil spell!" Before I could stop him, he was about to make it public! Do you know how much he made me suffer? I The bloody wars I had to fight in? The sacrifices I had to make? You know what?"

"Uh, no, I-"

"You would, if you were literate enough to read Hoarding Wars!" Winkle kept ranting. "My servant is trapped

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Kidnapped and tortured! The lich stole his vegetables and forced him to eat baby coins!"

"Your Majesty, maybe you are exaggerating..."

"My servant risked his life to seal the soul of that evil lich!" Winkel ignored his chief of staff and continued to humiliate the knight who put down his sword. "We must fight three hundred demons until he becomes strong enough to imprison that fallen monster!"

"I, I..." Faced with her obvious incompetence, the knight struggled to find the right words. "I...I'm sorry, I didn't know..."

"I've had enough of you people's racism!" Fankel fumed. "I am the best dragon adventurer among your backward races, and when I solve your problems, you refuse to give me the reward I deserve! You even send thieves to steal my treasures, even after my hard work After saving the only true way of life from Frippon!"

"His Majesty always said that all species are inferior to dragons," Victor Manlin reminded his master.

"It's a fact, not a silly superstition!" Winkle replied, as the knight fell silent and her griffon looked up at her in confusion. "Your kind's attitude has not changed my opinion at all! I obey

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Saved all the good things in the world in my hands!”

"Also, attacking us after using magic scanning is because I have a monster class and Vai

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Is it a dragon?" the servant Victor shouted to the knight. "This is called racial profiling!"

"Yes...no!" the knight protested weakly. "Two seconds. [Enhanced Karma Scan]."

"You're here again!" Victor accused her, words of relief appearing in front of the helmet as she looked at Winkle and his servants.

"No, I didn't!" she protested, her words quickly fading away. "Well, I checked your karma and you're both neutral, with Dragon leaning towards chaos and Dalton leaning towards good."

"Dalton?" Fankle narrowed his eyes at his servant.

"That's my last name," Manling said, and Winkle realized he had never even thought his servant might have one. "Also, neutral...isn't that a polite term for plain?"

"Enough talking!" Fankel spread his wings. "I will kill you, Knight Chia, and eat your flying cow, for your treacherous attack."

"I, uh... I don't think we need to fight anymore, I've been too hasty." The knight said and cast a spell. "I'm sorry, (Healing Rain)."

A shower of gold dust fell on Winkle and his servants, and the dragon instinctively tried to grab the gold dust; the powder disappeared as soon as he touched it, but his back no longer itched.

You have recovered all HP!

"I'm sorry," the knight said, though she kept a respectable distance. "I mistook you for the bad guys instead of the good mercenaries you are. I can't believe I never thought you would be that kind of hero."

"This happens all the time," Manling Victor said with surprising enthusiasm.

"Minion, you're going to have a baby with someone else." Wankle scolded him for having his priorities wrong, and the Minion hung his head in shame, and the Knight flinched. "She attacked me and she will salute me as an apology. I demand at least five gryphons as compensation."

"Your Majesty, I don't think this is a good idea. She has to be as strong as you and we have to save the princess."

"Minions, a true dragon has no rival," Winkle replied, unwilling to let it slip away. Even if she killed Bara'ur, he would be only the second most dangerous thing after the dragon. Winkle earned that title.

"The princess you want to save?" the knight interrupted. "Princess Me

Veille? Are you planning to go to Mauria to save Princess Merville?"

"She and all the other princesses were captured by Maul," Manlin Victor shouted.

"Then you...are you going to keep them to yourself?" Flash Knight asked, her hand holding the sword swaying.

"Of course not, do you think of me as a terrible pro-human?" Fankel shuddered in disgust. "As soon as I finish this, I will release them back into the wild. Your King Manling has promised me the favor of saving them."

"His Majesty has not yet told me how much they intend to ask for in this matter."

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Want a special gift. If King Manling cannot deliver, the dragon will not ask for anything but a million gold coins or a hundred thousand jewels to add to his current reserves.

"Okay, we've come to an agreement." The knight let her griffon land on the ground in front of Wankel. "I deeply apologize for my unreasonable attack, but I will not give up my gryphon. However, if you agree, I can make it up to you by helping you search."

Winkle narrowed his eyes at the gryphon, and the gryphon stared back at him. "I'm listening," he said, hoping that the knight would help deliver his princesses to the Cuckoos.

“First of all, I have to ask you, are you yourselves going to fight Moore? Because I can’t support it. "

"Why? Because it would be dangerous?" Minion Victor asked.

"What? No, it would be great, I have to go." This sentence sounds really dizzying. "I've been trying to convince my party to teach that pompous demon bastard a lesson for months, but they keep putting off. Same with the Lich. If we had known he would cast an evil spell that threatened the world..."

"Your weak mind cannot imagine the depths to which Fuliben has fallen," Winkle said grimly. "He's pure evil, the kind of evil that exists for its own sake. He's a lifeless piece of lead."

"For a dragon... I don't want to ask about the bloody details. Is it his soul in the scythe?" The knight looked up at Manlin's victor's weapon, "I understand... you chose the cursed one Death class because it's the only way to defeat the Lich. It must have been a tough choice."

"you can say……"

The Green Knight took off her helmet, and Winkle narrowed his eyes because this was the first time he saw a man with such dark skin and not ugly hair. Manlin Victor stood speechless, but his master remained indifferent. She doesn't smell like a princess.

"I'm the KIA. KIA Bekele. Sorry for shooting you out of the sky." She ran a hand through her hair. "You both have a bad reputation."

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aph?" Manling Victor spoke too fast, even Winkel's noble ears could not understand. The female Manling smiled happily. "You are the Flash Knight, the greatest paladin in the world !"Are you really who you say you are?"

"Me. I'm from Ethiopia, but I spent some time in the UK." Knight seemed to be struggling to find her words, apparently just as badly as Manlin Victor was in the pre-breeding conversation. "What about you, Victor, where are you from? Can I call you Victor?"

"Of course! I am Ame - - - - - -"

"Manlin." Fankel puffed out smoke, annoyed that the knight ignored him. "You hit Mu

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Emperor and the Alban Mountains, how will you atone for your crimes?"

The knight put away the scabbard of his sword and opened his empty palm. A shining blue egg-shaped stone appeared in his palm. "It's an (Agartha Warp Stone), a one-time-use item that can teleport you and anyone back to wherever you've been. It even bypasses protections against teleportation effects, like the barrier protecting the city of Mauria ."

"My (Treasure Hunting Eye) tells me this is the real thing, Your Majesty." said the Minion.

"I always carry two, just in case," Knight said. "You can use it to move everyone to a safer place, away from Moore."

Oh, and that way Fankle doesn’t have to burn fat on the flight home! Perfect. "As the Emperor of Silent Grove and the Alban Mountains, I accept this tribute and forgive you for your personal sins against me. Any other dragon would have killed you for your arrogance, but I am magnanimous. ."

The two men exchanged glances. "It's a dragon," they said at the same time, and Victor frowned. "Have you met someone else again?"

"I had a fight with the old party. Blight Swamp, I think that's her name."

"That pauper who lives in the country?" Vai

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sneered. "There's not even a hole in her swamp!"

"Before we removed her, she had a tar pit. I don't know where she ended up escaping to."

She escaped from Manlin?Ma

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gs? Think about him inviting her to his show off day, what did Fankel think?

That makes his celebration all the more important. As far as Winkle knows, he is the only one protecting the dragons' honor against hordes of lichs and peasants. He must restore pride to his loved ones.

"Also, the intelligence agent in Nostradam told me that you lost the Apple of Wisdom to Brandon Moore." The knight asked the servant Victor. "As far as I know, this is an iPad?"

"Engineers from Lockheed Martin," the minion said, and the knight frowned. "There are also corresponding schematics."

"Well, it's definitely time to kick Moore's ass. Don't underestimate him." He's quirky, but no one can survive a duel with him, and he has one of the most optimized combinations of fighters in the world. "

Fankle shrugged contemptuously. "He's an elf. Elves are cows and they eat grass. I'm going to eat him and get the princesses."

"However, don't underestimate him." She turned to Fei Shi. "let's go?"