Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Dragons are extremely powerful creatures in all fantasy works.

Even though some works particularly like to use dragons as stepping stones for the protagonists, they cannot deny the strength of the dragon race itself.

Of course Lind knew that there were dragons in this world. It was written in the background story of this game world, but they were more of an embellishment to add to the fantasy style of this world. Such creatures that were too powerful would never appear in the main story.

In this world setting, the dragon should be just a simple fashion item, but now this fashion item appears in front of Lind as a businessman.

Although he knew that greed for money was a basic setting for dragons in modern fantasy, and that the dragons in this world had also been described as greedy for money, Lind never dreamed that this powerful magical creature would personally engage in business.

Shouldn't it be that with a flap of its wings and a spurt of fire, it could destroy a village or castle, then capture the lord's daughter or something like that and ask the lord to exchange her for treasure?

As if she saw the suspicion in Linde's eyes, the proprietress's pupils turned into golden vertical pupils at some point. At this moment, a sound of breaking air came from outside the window.

"Fuck, dragon!"

"The dragon has arrived, protect the Governor!"

The noises outside suddenly became confusing. Linde helplessly held his forehead and looked at the proprietress in front of him. The proprietress did not seem to have expected that the guards outside were so dedicated to their duties. Their first reaction was to protect Linde, causing chaos in the city center. She could only smile awkwardly.

Hearing that the commotion outside was not going to stop for a while, Linde simply left his seat temporarily and went out to quell the commotion himself.

"Brother, it really is a dragon. I saw a giant blue dragon flying over us!"

At this time, Lena was dancing and gesturing at Lind, she was so excited that she couldn't control herself. This was a legendary creature. Although the adventurers in the tavern liked to brag that they had seen dragons, and Laurie even claimed that he had ridden one, such bragging was still different from the large-scale sightings like this one.

Sean tried to suppress his excitement and said, "Dragons symbolize infinite power, and blue dragons are the embodiment of magic. It just so happened that the magic train was officially opened yesterday. Perhaps this is what attracted the blue dragon, which shows the unlimited potential and broad prospects of our magic train project."

Although he knew that Sean was talking nonsense, he didn't expect that he had guessed it right by accident. Linde waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, maybe they are just passing by. Sean, go and appease those guards."

Seeing that Linde was not at all surprised by the appearance of the dragon and was even quite calm, Sean immediately reflected on himself and realized that he was not calm enough compared to his brother-in-law.

Soon the surroundings calmed down, and Lind returned to the room.

After an awkward silence, Lind said, "To be honest, when you showed me the map, I wouldn't be surprised if you told me what was behind you. Don't do this again next time."

"Well, I just wanted to prove our identity. I didn't expect that you humans are still the same as before. You are still so easily excited when you see us."

The proprietress shrugged helplessly and took a big gulp, but she seemed quite happy.

Lind glanced at the map still on the table, and remembered the settings that Bernice had talked to him about in the dream with the lantern. The closer you are to the sky, the closer you are to knowledge and mysteries, and the dragon is the highest-flying creature known so far.

Lind even suspected that this statement was inferred from the dragon.

"So did you really take this map from the sky?"

Lind asked curiously.

"You could say that, but no matter how high we fly, there is a limit. We put a lot of effort into this map, and we are forbidden to share it with others, otherwise those old guys in the tower will complain about it again."

After that, the proprietress rummaged around in her chest and finally pulled out a not-so-detailed map of the North. "Two hundred gold shields, do you want it?"

"No, that's not necessary."

Lind took a look and found that although the colors were richer, the detail was not much different from the ancestral map of the Lars family. Unless this map was made in real time in the past two days, it would not be of much significance.

"That's such a shame."

The proprietress stuffed the map back into her chest.

"So are you dragons what we imagined?"

Faced with this powerful magical creature in the legend that could destroy a city or an area, Lind couldn't help but be very curious.

As if she had anticipated Lind's curious question, the lady boss said proudly, "Yes, we can turn into dragons, fly, and breathe fire—not necessarily fire, but something else. In short, the legends you humans have about us dragons are basically the same."

Then the proprietress added: "Oh, besides we won't capture your princess, we have no interest in your human princesses."

"And our treasures were all earned through our hard work. The tower is our witness. We have never used our dragon form to rob you humans."

To be honest, it was still hard for Linde to imagine that the merchant organization he had previously cooperated with was actually a group of dragons who loved treasure.

The giant dragons, who basically only live in the bragging of adventurers, would actually obediently transform into humans and travel the human world to earn treasures and gold coins, although they also seem to like seeing humans panic when they see them.

Linde wanted to ask something else, but the proprietress took the initiative to say, "We only sign contracts with individuals, and we only protect the individuals who have signed the contract."

The proprietress exhaled a puff of smoke and continued, "Your Excellency the Governor should be very clear about the difference between an individual and an entire force, right? There was once a human who overestimated his own capabilities and wanted to borrow our strength and use our name to defeat his opponent, but unfortunately, in the end he couldn't even save his own life."

This is a warning to Lind not to think that just because he has become a partner of the dragon, he can use the dragon's name to bully others.

Throughout history, there have been many families that wanted to use giant dragons as their emblems. However, these families eventually either became small, insignificant families or disappeared in the long river of history. It was hard for Linde not to think that this was a warning from these giant dragons.

"Can I do whatever I want with this ring?"

Linde stroked the silver ring in his hand. This should be the dragon's token. To be honest, Linde really wanted to see what the structure of this ring was and whether there was something like a transmitter inside it so that he could refer to it.

The proprietress was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what Lind wanted to do. She laughed and said, "You are the first person who wants to dismantle this ring for research. Even the craziest alchemists in history have never had this idea."

"But with your current strength, you should be unable to tear it apart."

"Can it be transferred?"

"no!"

The proprietress saw through Lind's thoughts and advised, "Don't worry. With your wife's ability, she will probably still be alive and well when you use this ring."

Linde felt a little sorry that he couldn't transfer the gift, and then continued to ask, "So the transportation of the Shining Gold Merchant Alliance is so efficient, is it because you secretly turned into dragons to transport goods?"

"If that's the case, then why did we ask you to build the railway?"

The proprietress paused for a moment, as if she was imagining herself turning into a giant dragon, with cargo boxes hanging on her feet and cargo on her back.

"And that would be too embarrassing."

Linde also imagined that scene and nodded, "That's true."

After a moment of silence, the lady boss said, "Let me introduce myself again. My real name is Margaret Lanlin. I'm in charge of the trade of the Sparkling Gold Merchant Alliance in the North, and I'm also the person responsible for connecting with you. If you have any questions, just contact the Sparkling Gold Merchant Alliance as before."

Margaret then continued to discuss the specific details of the cooperation with Lind.