Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

Silas sat from dusk to dusk, and then from dusk to dawn, and the noise outside gradually died down.

The chaos in Silver Creek City finally subsided, the open flames had basically been extinguished, and the tired people began to clean up the mess either numbly or sadly.

Several times during the period, people who took advantage of the fire saw that the door of this house was unlocked and there were no lights inside, so they wanted to come in to see if there was anything valuable to take, but they were stunned by the scene that seemed to have just been ransacked and sitting quietly inside. The silent Silas was taken aback, and hurried away again.

Shortly after daybreak, King Heather arrived at Silas' house, escorted by a troop of guards.Weary, Silas barely rose to his feet and saluted his king.

"Don't be too polite, sit down." King Heather said wearily.

The captain of the king's guard picked up a fallen chair and placed it next to the table. An old man with a white beard helped the king to sit down. Silas recognized him.

After King Heather, who was obviously not in a good state of mind, sat down on the chair, the others retreated in a well-trained manner, and only the captain of the guard knight stood at the door like a statue.

King Heather looked pale, with dark bags under his eyes, as if he had aged more than ten years overnight, and he said to Silas with a hoarse voice: "Son, I know that those people outside have misunderstood you a lot, Some people even blame you for the dragon's attack on Silver Stream City, but I believe you will not be an accomplice of the dragon clan, you have already proved with your actual actions that you are on our side."

"Thank you for your trust." Silas said with a wry smile, "Unexpectedly, you are still willing to trust me today."

"I have always known that you are a good boy. You are about the same age as my child, but much more sensible than him." King Heather sighed heavily, "I already know what happened, and everything It was Ai Lien who caused the disaster. I only blamed me for pampering him too much, which caused him to lose his life. The anger of the Dragon Clan is understandable, but since the matter has reached this point, it is already too late to say these things .”

"I understand, Your Majesty the King." Silas, who had been calm all night, now looked at his king calmly, "But I don't understand why there are so many dragon-slaying crossbows in Silver Stream City?"

The old mage Nalz coughed lightly and said: "We must learn to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Dragons have always been a huge threat to human beings. We can't put such a threat next to the king's capital, but have no ability to resist and restrict them at all." No, is that so, my lord?"

"My child, you are still too young." King Heather sighed again, "Maybe you think that if there is no dragon slaying crossbow, the dragons will not attack Silver Brook City, but if there is no dragon slaying crossbow, what if the dragons suddenly die If there are other reasons to attack humans, how can we defend ourselves and fight back?"

"Yeah, I'm still too young..." Silas smiled bitterly again, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I didn't mean to question you, I just... feel very uncomfortable..."

"I understand...children, I can understand." King Heather reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "You are not wrong, this country is sorry for you, it taught you to dedicate everything to the Dragon Clan wholeheartedly, and now Forcing you to stand in such an awkward position against dragons. Even though people don't understand you and even attack you, you still choose to stand on the side of humans, you are an amazing person."

"I'm just a person who has been cornered." Silas rubbed his face, "Your Majesty must not have come here to comfort me."

"Indeed." King Heather stopped playing around with him, "Since we have already gotten into trouble with the Dragon Clan, it will not help to find out who is responsible now, we can only try to avoid bigger ones. Havoc. Yesterday we wounded a dragon with the only remaining dragon-slaying crossbow before forcing them to retreat, but I am worried that the dragons will not let it go. We must be prepared to deal with their possible attacks in the future. You know the dragons best Man, I'd like to hear your advice on this."

"There are not many ways to deal with dragons." Silas looked at the table blankly, "Is there still a dragon-slaying crossbow that has not been destroyed?"

King Heather hesitated before saying, "...There are two more."

"Then it's not easy to handle. Although the dragon is not as flexible as the giant eagle in the air, it is more than enough to dodge one or two crossbow arrows under precautionary conditions. Unless there are many dragon-slaying crossbows attacking at the same time, forming an encirclement net, Otherwise, if you want to hit a dragon like yesterday, you can only rely on luck."

King Heather sighed: "It's just that we didn't guard against dragon spies in the past. Ever since you brought the model of the dragon-slaying crossbow to the top of the dragon, I knew that things were not good, but I didn't expect them to even take us to the dragon's peak." I found out where the Dragon Slaying Crossbow was hidden, I really underestimated them."

"Who would have thought of it? My Majesty." The old mage Narz said comfortingly, "The dragons have kept such a primitive way of life for tens of thousands of years, and now they have suddenly learned to use such high-end means as spies and spies. Chief Sarannar is a formidable opponent."

King Heather didn't answer, but asked Silas, "What do you know about the smiling hand?"

"I only know that the Smiling Hand is an intelligence organization established by Sarannar. My original steward, Barristan, is a member of the Smiling Hand. Their headquarters are in the abandoned sewers of the slums. I don't know much about the rest. Salanar doesn't want me to get involved in these things." Silas lowered his gaze, "I always thought...he used humans to scout for the Dragon Clan just to protect himself."

"Obviously he doesn't trust you very much, and he hasn't told you the truth about many things." King Heather said, "The headquarters in the sewer was evacuated last night. premeditated."

"Just like here." Silas looked at the messy room with a wry smile, "He really didn't tell me a lot of things, such as he has a younger sister, such as he found the Dragon Slayer Crossbow in Silver Stream City, if I can If I knew earlier, maybe the dragons and humans would not have to fight each other. To put it bluntly, in his eyes, I am nothing more than a 'human'. I am so stupid, he just showed me A little bit of fur on the smiling hand, I thought he trusted me."

"Even among humans, it's rare to see someone who knows how to use people's hearts like Sarannar. With such resourcefulness and the lifespan and strength of the dragons, the future of mankind is really bleak." King Heather sighed worriedly. , "Everything has been taken up by the Dragon Clan, and we don't even know the real purpose of the Dragon Clan. Has he mentioned any long-term plans to you?"

"He once told me that all he did was to allow the Dragon Clan to have time to cultivate their health and rest, but now, I can't believe a word of his words."

King Heather frowned and said seriously: "Could it be that Silver Stream City, and even the whole of Andorcia, will be destroyed by this catastrophe?"

"I don't think so." Silas took a deep breath, raised his eyes and looked at King Heather firmly, as if he had made a difficult decision, "When Salanar disappeared last time, many members of the Dragon Clan The problems have been exposed. As far as I know, most of them don't want to change their primitive way of life at all. The only one who really has the ability and interest to fight wits and bravely with humans is Saranar from the beginning to the end. If we can kill the leader of the Dragon Clan, everything can be turned around."

King Heather looked at him in surprise: "Isn't he your lover?"

"Not anymore." Silas had an expression of almost ferocious hatred on his face, "I hate him more than anyone else now, thinking about how I used to be with such an ambitious dragon...I wish I could kill him Myself."

"...Then do you have any way to deal with him?" King Heather looked at him intently.

"I know one of his secrets, maybe we can use it." Silas said, "Yesterday, something happened suddenly, and Salanar directly launched an attack on the city before he had time to return to the Dragon Summit. He will definitely find a way Come back again and take away the dragon egg he hid on the top of the dragon."

"Aren't those dragon eggs fake?" King Heather asked suspiciously.

Silas was not surprised that King Heather knew that the dragon eggs were fake. He had already made up his mind and said calmly, without any ups and downs: "This is his wisdom, using fake dragon eggs to attract People's eyes, people who don't know will steal the fake egg, like Prince Alistar did. And people who know it's a fake egg will take it for granted that the real egg must be hidden somewhere else, In fact, the real dragon egg is also hidden in the top of the dragon, and the entrance is in his residence."

King Heather frowned: "But as far as I know, the Dragon Clan has a secret nursery outside of the Dragon's Peak, right where the guards caught his sister."

"With Sarannar's prudence, he will definitely not hide all the dragon eggs in such a defenseless place. Like this time, if more people go there and explore a little deeper, wouldn't the dragon clan want to hide them once? Just lose all their young children?"

"Indeed." King Heather said solemnly, "Then do you think those eggs are still there?"

"It must still be there. Salanar not only doesn't trust me, but also guards against other dragons, fearing that they will reveal this crucial secret intentionally or unintentionally. Only he himself knows the location of the hidden eggs." Lars smiled lightly, but there was sadness in his expression, "Or, he thinks that only he knows that I didn't have any intention of betraying him in the past, so many times he was still not on guard against me. I accidentally learned a lot of things I shouldn't know."

"Since he planned this attack long ago, wouldn't he have moved the dragon eggs to another place in advance?" King Heather asked. A kind of spatial magic that stores things where no one can get them."