As dawn approaches, Mdolph feels that he has ushered in the coldest north wind since the arrival of winter.

Snowflakes fell from the sky, and the burning city had been extinguished before the north wind came. Mdolph thought that the world had finally burned out and was only dark. But dawn came at last.

All this is true. Master Mdolph turned his head and looked at the edge of the city wall, which was like a broken cliff. When he arrived last night, the demon dragon had been buried by the collapsed city wall.

"Sir! The monster has escaped back to the mountain!" Master Badong, who was standing behind him, said to him in a deep voice. His body was finally wrapped in a thick cloak. "We cut off the heads of 123 monsters! There may be more heads outside the city wall that have not been cut off yet!"

Mdolph took a step and lifted the long cloak with one hand to prevent himself from stepping on it. Then he slowly walked to the edge of the city wall. The melted bricks had solidified again, but he could see the traces of the burning melting on the bricks. He lowered his head, and the mercenaries were digging the pile of stones that buried the demon dragon.

"Sir..." Master Badong's voice also lowered. Mdolph couldn't help but want to laugh, but he couldn't laugh. He knew that Master Badong was afraid that his loud voice would scare him and cause him to fall from a distance here. In this way, there would be no duke in Jinhu City.

I don’t want to be a duke either. Mdolph recalls what he said to Duke Udolf when he was young. I don’t want to be a duke either! I want to be a wandering knight!

Then the Duke sent him to Aide Town.

"Sir Badon," Mdolph said softly, "we killed a dragon."

"Yes, sir." After hesitating for a moment, Master Badong said, "But sir, the dragon is not something that will die so easily. It may still be alive, so I think sir, you should go back to the inner castle."

Ah, that's right, Mdolph thought that just before the flames in the city were extinguished, there were guards reporting to him that smoke had come out under the collapsed city wall. All the guards were frightened. Only Master Badong scolded the soldier and shouted to him: "It's not Master Mdolph in front of you! It's Duke Mdolph!"

By the way, he was not scolding the soldiers. Mdolph thought that he was scolding himself, and he was reminding me that he had been a duke since that moment.

I have fantasized about the arrival of this moment countless times, but never once did it, becoming a duke in the smell of smoke, blood and sulfur.

"I'm going to watch here," Mdolph announced softly.

My father always spoke in whispers like this. Mdolph had never seen him angry before. Even when his mother passed away, he just locked himself in the study without saying a word. It was not until the crying sound of Kadiya he was holding him that he opened the door of the study again.

"Yes, sir." Master Badong lowered his head and said nothing more. But when Mdolph turned around, he saw him staring at him all the time.

It was a miracle. Mdolph thought that even when his father was alive, Badong of Langshi Town was not so quiet. He was the bravest of his father's vassals. He was no longer the warrior Badong. When Mdolph turned his head and looked at the pile of stones covering the demon dragon and the mercenaries.

Mdolph heard that Badong was his father's youngest child. It was not his turn to be the lord of Langshi Town, but the brave and fearless Badong drove a sailboat to sea alone and killed a North Sea shark on the sea - a monster like that could swallow a man's body in one bite. From then on, the name of the Warrior Badong resounded throughout Beiroo Bay, and he also obtained the inheritance of Langshi Town.

But the Warrior Badong no longer dares to be fearless. He is now my vassal and needs to assist me. What I need is not his muscles that have begun to grow old, but the wisdom in his head that is wrinkled by the sea breeze.

The Duke was killed by his own sword, and Mdolph thought bitterly.

He looked at the mercenaries shouting at each other under the city wall and moved away the gravel together, then his eyes moved to a cannon crossbow next to him. It was the last cannon crossbow that the mercenaries moved down from the city wall, and was now placed in the inner courtyard.

And three other platforms were placed on the open space outside the inner castle, which were the mercenaries' companies.

The night was transported from the northeast city wall and was also disturbed by giant monsters during this period.

In his mind, he had already thought of various sounds that would sound among the survivors in the city after dawn: the duke was killed by his own sword, maybe it was done by the ghost of the Furious King, maybe it was done by the devil, or even Kadiya.

Thinking of this, Mdolph tightened his fist. The dragon was dead! Mdolph seemed to hear the untouchables shouting, but he immediately felt that there must be other untouchables shouting, "The dragon is not dead!"

I didn't care what they shouted. The more Mdolph thought about it, the more he became more and more irritable, and all kinds of shouts rang out in his mind: the voice of the old man, the voice of the child, the voice of the man, the voice of the woman, the voice of crying, screaming, laughing, and praying.

Mdolph wanted to shout at them, telling them to shut their mouths!

Mdolph had also fantasized that he would become a more kind-hearted duke than his father. He had been willing to listen to their voices and let them tell them about their sufferings. But at this moment Mdolph wanted to kill them all. He looked under the walls and the mob's bodies were piled up. They were not worthy of enjoying cremation. Mdolph thought that he wanted to throw them into the Canjin River, let their souls fall along the waterfall, and finally sink to the bottom of the water.

But Master Badong told him that he would be punished by gods if he wanted to pollute water. His father was never pious, and Mdolph knew it, but this did not mean that he was not a god-worshiping person.

"What should I do?" Mdolph asked Feng, who wanted to ask his father in person, but at this moment his father's body had been handed over to the Sabre Girl and sent to the church square, where the funeral of the Duke of Udolf would be held.

But Mdolph didn't have time to attend his father's funeral, and Golden Falls was broken and a duke needed to come out and take charge of the overall situation.

"Sir," Mr. Badong spoke out at this moment. He might have thought Mdolph really asked him what to do, but in fact Mdolph knew that he had been waiting for the opportunity to tell him that, "Sir, Duke! I think the army should be assembled immediately at this moment. Now is the best time! If you miss it, it will be difficult to have such an opportunity again."

"The monster has escaped back to the mountains, Sir Badong," said Mdolph on purpose, "Winter is coming, the snowflakes have fallen, we have no time."

"No, sir! I'm not talking about the monster!" Master Badong's tone was low and cold. Of course Mdolph knew what he meant, and he knew that this was also what his father meant.

But I can't do it, nor will I do it.

"I will not send any soldiers to the war for the time being, Sir Badon," Mdolph said in a cold tone.

"Sir," But Master Badong obviously would not give up so easily. Mdolph turned his head and looked at him. He saw from Master Badong's eyes. He still regarded himself as a child. "Sir Fower must be inseparable from the Duke's death! Miss Kadiya is also missing! Even the damn female mercenaries are gone! All of this is planned no matter how you look at it! If you allow the fat Sir to return to Linle Town, it is tantamount to letting the truth of the matter slip away! We must immediately send soldiers to "please" the lord of Linle Town back, and all these questions need an answer."

Children, not all questions need answers. Mdolph remembered that his father once said to him.

"Please" back? So that you can kill him? Mdolph cannot mock him so much, because he knew that Mr. Badong did this for himself. Everyone knows that Lord Fowger, the Apple Knight, is the teacher of Duke Udolf's eldest son. If Brother Catanis returns to Jin Falls, Mdolph's position as the Duke would definitely be shaken, and the lord of Linle Town is very likely to stand on his side.

Then there will be a very likely war, a war between brothers and brothers. This is not what my father wants to see. Mdolph thought melancholy, but father, have you ever thought about it? If Brother Catanis is willing to be this duke, I would kneel down to him and give him the position of duke.

"I said, I will not send soldiers to war anymore." Mdolph replied impatiently. What else did Master Badong want to say, but Mdolph raised his hand and told him not to say anything again. Of course he understood his thoughts. The war with the monsters had just ended, and the soldiers and a large amount of supplies in Linle Town were transported to the town.

Come to Jinshui City, Linle Town is no different from having a difficult time this winter.

This is the best time to pull out the apple tree. The sea people in Langshi Town have been waiting for this opportunity for many centuries.

But no, Mdolph thought, I am the Duke now, and I said no.

Then the two fell into silence. Mdolph stared blankly at the mercenaries under the city wall. They shouted at each other. Mdolph couldn't hear clearly what they were saying, but he didn't know why, and he could calm down just by looking at them. Maybe it was because they were my most trustworthy power now, right? Mdolph smiled self-deprecatingly. The power I can trust most now is a believer who "betrayed God". If my father knew about it, he would definitely scold me, right?

Just as Mdolph was staying, Master Badong talked to a servant who came to report the news, and then he turned to look at Mdolph: "Sir, there is a mercenary who claims to be Anthony to ask for his visit."

"Anthony?" Mdolph had heard of such a name, but he couldn't remember who it was.

"The mercenaries called him 'Drake', and I don't know what it means," Mr. Badong said in a deep voice. He was obviously not interested in the mercenaries, but at this moment he explained to Mdolph patiently, "but he seems to have a certain influence among the mercenaries."

"Ah, I remembered it," Mdolph nodded, then turned his head, "The 'witness' among the mercenaries, I once heard my father say this name."

"Then I'll tell me that he would be driven away?" Master Badong asked in confusion.

"No, bring him here." Mdolph paused, and another cold north wind blew, and snowflakes fell in his room. He wrapped his cloak tightly, then turned around and called Master Badong who was turning around to leave, "Prefer to take him to...the study room!"

"Yes, sir." Master Badong nodded and said goodbye and left the city wall.

Suddenly, Mdolph heard a burst of exclamations from the bottom of the city wall, and the mercenaries began to shout as if they were in an uproar. Mdolph hurriedly walked to the edge of the city wall and looked down.

They seemed to have dug something, Mdolph thought, maybe it was a dragon? Is the dragon still alive? Mdolph couldn't help but worry, but seeing that the mercenaries did not escape or activate the crossbow, he felt that some other things must have happened. Although he was very curious, Mdolph still left the edge of the city wall.

I still have the Duke's responsibilities to be fulfilled. Mdolph thought, I had no time to give me a lot of thoughts, father.

Duke Mdolph walked towards the inner castle in his cloak, but he didn't know that the stone bricks that had melted at the edge of the city wall he had just stood suddenly cracked, and then the gravel rolled down to the bottom of the city wall, causing several mercenaries to scream.

...

Atherland wanted to find Joel, but was severely stopped by Aleya and Anthony.

"It's not just you," Anthony warned her, "no one in the Stone Fort should appear before him, and I can't guarantee that he will do something extreme!"

Even Alev nodded in agreement with their statement.

"No matter how guilty or apologize, it cannot save what we have done." Alev said to her in a deep voice. "Although this is despicable, or cowardly, it is all born. He will not make things better if he kills anyone among us. It may be shameless to say that it is an extremely wasteful thing to let him kill us in anger. Instead of letting him kill it uselessly, it is better to live a life and find a way to make up for it."

"And he can't kill us." Atheran said bitterly.

Although she didn't know what Joel had to do with Hermi, Anthony told her that "Hermi was like a daughter to Joel."

Such things are often born, and the player infused real feelings into the NPC. She also heard that the female NPC who had been following him had also died. Although she didn't know the specific details, she heard that he was like crazy at that time and almost killed two other people Anthony and him with his sword.

Fortunately, he fainted for some reason in the end. Maybe it was because of his emotions, right? Atherland thought.

Then she heard

Anthony took advantage of his coma to give him a "snake sleeping potion". The expensive potion he originally planned to leave for himself could cause the player to fall into a short sleep and recover from his injuries.

Athran organized the excavation of the magic dragon. At first, NPC wanted to stop them, but it seemed that the newly appointed duke let them go. But even so, they were blocked by Barolwufu. They were not able to start work until he organized people to transport the crossbows from the city wall. It was almost dawn, but the stone pile had basically cooled down and no more smoke.

Everyone hoped that the demon dragon would die like this, while the surviving craftsmen of the Stone Fort prayed more that the girl was still alive, although the chances were slim.

Until Ethran, who was tired of resting on the crossbow, heard the mercenary's screams, she never thought that the girl was still alive.

This was like a miracle. The mercenaries seemed to have found a treasure. They pried open a huge stone, which was a large stone solidified by melting and solidifying after multiple stone bricks. The stone rolled down the pile of stones, revealing the gap below. A mercenary looked inside, and then he exclaimed: "It's eyes! There are a pair of bright eyes looking at me!"

Then the mercenaries were almost all excited. They didn't know what was buried below, maybe a dragon's cub? Or some other equipment? The mercenaries were excited, swept away their fatigue, and started the excavation work even harder. Only the craftsmen guessed that it was the girl's eyes. Before they shot crossbow arrows at her, many people saw her eyes that were shining with molten gold.

As the stone was moved away and pried open, the gap became wider and wider. Ethran saw the dragon's wings. At first, a mercenary even put his hand on it and had not yet appeared. It was not until someone reminded him that he was so scared that he ran away pale. The demon dragon cooled down. After Ethran carefully observed the wings of the demon dragon in the country, he must have arrived. It was dead.

"The dragon is dead!" Atherland announced, and the mercenaries around him cheered, and even the NPCs who had the courage to watch also cheered.

Then they continued to move the stone bricks away, and Ethran's mood became heavier. Because she knew that it was the right choice for them to shoot crossbow arrows at the girl. The demon dragon's wings and claws protected the girl until it died. It protected the girl under itself and endured the collapsed city wall alone until its bones were completely broken.

The girl crawled out of the gap that the mercenary moved out. When she appeared in front of everyone, many people made surprise sounds. A girl? And her eyes were still flashing with golden light?

The girl looked around them and finally fell on Ethran.

"Take her to rest," Ethran said to Alev tiredly, "protect her."

Many mercenaries wanted to come up and talk to the girl, but Hemi just blinked at him and did not reply. The other mercenaries were very dissatisfied with the craftsmen's actions to take the girl away. They did not calm down until the burned Uncle Ryan shouted to ask the other craftsmen to aim the crossbow at them.

But Ethran knew that the craftsman had offended many people, but she was so tired that she didn't want to say anything about it.

At least she was still alive, Athran thought, and the guilt in her heart also decreased a little.

Just as she wanted to leave here and go for a good rest, he suddenly heard a mercenary shouting loudly.

"It's water?! Water flows down the dragon's body! What's this?!"
Chapter completed!