The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

Besides these believers, some Sauron dragons, also dressed in robes, were also carefully observing Regus as he descended among the crowd.

Regus carried strange human-made artifacts on his back, which looked like weapons. Although this made the dragons a little nervous, they ultimately did not attack or ask any questions. After all, it was perfectly normal for Regus to bring some weapons when he dared to come here alone.

After landing, Regus transformed into human form, looked around, and immediately locked onto the Sauron dragons that had also taken human form.

"Hello!"

Regus warmly and generously stepped forward to greet him and began to introduce himself.

“I am Regus, the dragon of the continent of Mu that you speak of, and now an imperial envoy.”

Regus then performed a rather imperfect bow.

The dragons, who looked rather old, exchanged bewildered glances, seemingly unsure how to deal with Regus's overly familiar enthusiasm. Finally, a woman who looked very young stepped forward and said, "Welcome, Regus. I am Martha, one of the representatives of the Sauron Dragon Church."

Just as Regus was about to greet them warmly, Martha interrupted him and began introducing the members of the Dragon Church, steer the conversation onto the right track.

"So, Lord Regus, are those rumors true? Has the Sauron Dragonflight been defeated on the Mu Continent?"

"of course."

Regus proudly put his hands on his hips.

"I even shot down two giant dragons back then."

Upon hearing this somewhat arrogant answer, the dragons' expressions twitched, but Regus looked completely oblivious.

"That's impossible. The dragons that went to Mu Continent were not only cautious, but also the strongest among us. How could they be defeated so easily?"

One of the older dragons clearly could not accept this answer.

"so what?"

Regus's tone suddenly turned cold. The sunny and cheerful boy from just moments ago was gone, replaced by a blue beast.

Regus, whose pupils had turned vertically, turned and stared intently at the old dragon, saying in a slightly threatening tone, "What I said is not the truth, because the truth may be harder to accept than you can imagine. The white light that fell from the sky destroyed everything and extinguished all the ambitions of the Sauron dragons."

“Ignorance and lack of knowledge are not factors that hinder development.”

Regus took a step toward the group of humanoid dragons and said, "Arrogance is it."

For some reason, upon seeing Regus take that step forward, the dragons all took a small step back in fear.

"There is another truth that may be even more unacceptable to you."

Regus pulled out several photos from his pocket, showing Margaret in her dragon form sleeping on a large bed of gold coins in a cave.

"Gentlemen, are you interested in joining our Shining Gold Merchant Alliance?"

Regus reverted to his carefree and cheerful self, and pulled out a gold shield coin from somewhere. With a crisp sound, the coin shot into the air, attracting everyone's attention. This coin, in terms of both quality and sound, far surpassed the so-called gold coins on the continent of Soron. Under the sunlight, the coin shone brightly.

A group of dragons were drooling over the gold coins in Margaret's private photos; no dragon could resist the temptation.

At this moment, Martha coughed, drawing everyone's attention back, and said, "We didn't invite you here to talk about this."

Martha, whose gaze was now completely drawn to the gold coins fluttering in Regus's hand, sighed and said, "So we want to know what your Mu continent's attitude is towards the Sauron dragons?"

Regus put away the gold coins in his hand and asked in return, "And you? What are your plans next, Sauron dragons?"

At this moment, Regus's gaze was extremely deep as he continued, "Actually, your Sauron dragon race is quite chaotic internally because you can't confirm the authenticity of the information, right?"

Seeing that she had been seen through, Martha no longer concealed herself and said, "That's right. Some elders inside don't believe that we've been defeated. Even if they do, they think that the Mu Continent will settle old scores and new grudges together to eliminate them. So they are actually preparing for war more actively."

Martha shook her head and sighed, "But some dragons don't have any special feelings for the Mu Continent. We hope to establish normal relations with the Mu Continent, and even want to return to the Mu Continent, but we don't know what that empire across the sea is. Many people are wavering."

After Martha's detailed explanation, Regus understood that one faction of dragons, fearing retaliation, was prepared to perish together with the Empire, or to use this as a threat. The other faction hoped to normalize relations between the two sides, but because they lacked influence and had no clear understanding of the Empire, most of the dragons wavered between the two factions. They did not know how strong the Empire really was.

"This is simple."

Regus tossed the coin into Martha's hand and said, "We have some people who are planning to go back soon, but I can't spare the time to help with the escort. You can go with that fleet back and see what the empire on Mu Continent is like now. You can make a decision then."

......

Linde was currently playing with the dragon's keepsake.

Back then, Margaret said that the technical skills of a white-collar worker wouldn't be enough to disassemble this thing, but now, the work of deciphering the dragon's token has been put on the agenda.

Of course, this was with the dragons' consent. Although Linde had asked them directly, the dragons couldn't really explain it. It was as simple as breathing for them as transforming into human form.

How can you teach a creature that can't breathe to breathe through its nose? That's simply impossible. Even if you could teach it, you'd have to figure out how breathing works yourself.

There is still a long way to go in the study of dragons.

Linde inherited Capet's roundtable system and went a step further, requiring not only officials in the capital to have regular audiences, but also officials in other regions to report on their work regularly via communication devices.

However, since the external war had ended, all that remained was some domestic affairs to sort out, so life was quite peaceful and nothing major happened, which gave Linde and Lena time to do other things.

For example, when it comes to trying to conceive, they hadn't had children before because of the unstable situation and the fact that they were both young. However, it's quite easy for professionals to have a child, so this isn't a problem. The main reason is that if there are no offspring, the empire will always be in turmoil, even though Linde is still young.

Also, we need to thoroughly investigate the case of Lena's father's disappearance.

The disappearance was so perfectly timed, and the fact that he was presumed dead because of the extended absence made it all seem too natural. It was hard not to suspect that Augustine III was behind it. Linde even brought out the dossiers left behind by the Augustine royal family, which greatly alarmed the Augustines.

Lena's father did not disappear suddenly. After carefully reviewing the files, they did find clues about Augustine III's assassination plot against the heir to the North.

Augustine III did indeed have an assassination plan targeting Lena's father, Connor Lars. Connor Lars had noticed something, forcing Augustine III to take a risky gamble to eliminate him. However, the plan failed on the night it was executed. The guards were misled by something Connor Lars threw out, allowing him to escape.

After the other party escaped, Augustine III also placed a large number of secret guards at Lars House and the northern border. If Connor turned back to pass on information, he would be captured by the secret guards immediately. But at that time, Connor seemed to have vanished into thin air, and even Augustine III did not know where Connor had gone.

Linde carefully read through the compiled information and examined it closely against the map from that time. Connor was probably assassinated after returning from a ball on the outskirts of the capital and then disappeared. Neither Lars nor Augustine III, who had placed secret guards in the capital and the North, could find Connor.

Perhaps the truth is quite simple: Lena's father may have headed south. Given the level of martial law in the Middle Ages at that time, if Lena's father had any magical items that could eliminate his aura, he could easily have blended into adventurers or caravans and passed through the territories of those nobles.

Although nobles were sensitive to new population growth in their territories, a glance at the bards reveals that nobles at the time did not really scrutinize passing adventurers and merchants.

Lind guessed that Lena's father might have anticipated being followed by secret guards if he returned directly to the North, so he planned to take a long detour, but an accident occurred on the way, leading to his disappearance. Based on the intensity of the search by Augustine III and the Lars family, Lind even reasonably suspected that Lena's father was no longer in the country due to some accident.

Because he didn't know the details, Linde could only get a portrait of his father-in-law from the Lars family and distribute it to his men, using the power of the state to find someone. Linde also sent a copy to Isa, who was far away in Anjou. At that time, the relationship between Capet and Anjou was not so tense, but it was impossible to reveal the inside story to Anjou and ask Anjou to help find someone. However, now that Linde had begun to gradually control Anjou, he decided to give it a try, just in case.