Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

"Even if he gave birth to a child with a female adventurer without your consent?"

Noah's emotion was mainly surprise. After all, in the current era, let alone aristocratic families, even ordinary poor people do not have the final say in marriage.

Freedom and love are very strange and distant words for most humans, not to mention the combination, which is a phrase beyond the cognition and understanding of the current era.

"What's the problem?"

Hearing the lord's wife's question, Noah was a little confused.

"You don't pick on the identity of the woman?"

"It's fine if Teddel likes it himself, not to mention, what can we be picky about, he has found more than one."

"More than one?!"

Noah was immediately numb. No wonder the mother in front of him didn't care. With such a style, it is really hard to believe that the guy would really fall in love with those female adventurers of civilian origin.

He was a little confused just now. How could Teddel, who had already revealed his philandering nature, perform a vulgar and old-fashioned drama on the road of training - the heir of a noble family who hides his identity falls in love with a commoner adventurer.

He misunderstood the feelings. That guy was not playing innocent at all, but opened a harem of commoners. It is difficult to judge how much true feelings there are and how much is impulsive.

"Don't talk about that guy who spoils the fun. Although he suffered a lot on the road of training, most of the time, he lives more comfortably than you think. That's why I said that even if he breaks through, he may not be willing to come back."

"I see."

The topic about Teddel was naturally revealed, and the focus of the next topic naturally shifted to his adoptive father Cassius, who was promoted to a legend more than half a year ago.

Noah was very curious about what huge changes his adoptive father and the Augustus family had experienced after his promotion. Although he could predict some of them, it was nothing compared to the personal experience of the person involved.

"The kingdom didn't give any benefits. It just followed the convention and expanded the territory and promoted it to a dukedom. But it's a little different..."

Because Cassius is a newly promoted legend, he is a person that all countries will compete to win over. Naturally, it is impossible to assign some uninhabited wild lands where no one can be seen to the Augustus family as they did before to fool the border nobles.

The kingdom did this before, which can be understood as contempt for the border pioneer nobles, but if it is still done this way to a legend, it is contempt and insult. If it is not handled properly, it will cause a big problem.

Therefore, this time, the Augustus family was assigned many lands within the kingdom.

However, although there are humans building cities and living and breeding on these lands, they are still slightly barren and sparsely populated because they are close to the border. Therefore, the territory ruled by Cassius, who was promoted to the duke, is two or three times larger than a normal dukedom.

Not only that, because the territories assigned to the Augustus family at one time were too many and too wide, many territories of border nobles were naturally included.

The royal family was too lazy to transfer these nobles, so they just threw all of them to the Augustus family with a stroke of the pen, making these border nobles pledge allegiance to Cassius and become vassals of the Augustus family.

This order seems to be that the royal family is unwilling to bother, or despises the border pioneer nobles, but as long as you think about it, you can find that this is simply a last resort.

If the royal family still wants to retain the nominal jurisdiction over these border nobles, either transfer the territory for them, or allocate more land in the kingdom to the Augustus family.

The former is naturally impossible, as there are too many interests involved, and any king's head will explode, but if they are not moved, even the soles of the feet can guess it.

Faced with a legend so close and a royal family thousands of miles away, which noble can still remain loyal to the royal family, not to mention that they are not loyal at all, it is better to just go with the flow and throw them all to the new legend as a favor.

"The royal family is really generous!"

Although it can be seen with a little thought that this is the best decision made by the royal family after weighing the pros and cons, Noah can't help but sigh at the generosity of the royal family.

Because to some extent, this is equivalent to helping the Augustus family establish a grand duchy, but it has not been officially declared.

"What's generous? This is just because the old king is not confused. He needs Cassius to guard here. In comparison, these additional territories are nothing at all."

Selena disagreed with the royal family's additional title. In her opinion, this level of reward is justified.

"Is there anything very dangerous in the wilderness?"

Noah heard the resentment and dissatisfaction hidden in the lord's wife's tone and asked immediately.

"Of course there is, and there is more than one. Otherwise, why do you think there are no decent nobles sealed here? It's because the environment here is too bad!"

"Danger? Legendary monster?"

Noah couldn't think of anything else except legendary creatures that could make his adoptive father dangerous after he was promoted to a legend.

The adoptive father and his knights hunted countless monsters of the extreme level.

Thinking of this, Noah's expression became serious. If there was a problem with the Augustus family, it would definitely affect him, so he had no choice but to take it seriously.

"At present, we have found a swarm of destroyers, a large passage leading to the Underdark, and traces of a lava demon."

"Lava demon?"

Noah's eyes twitched slightly. This is a very famous legendary undead creature. The corresponding one is the frost corpse demon, also known as the winter ghost.

"Thanks to that demon, we haven't seen many monsters from the Underdark in recent years. However, after that demon is killed by Cassius, we will probably have to deal with the invasion from underground in the future."

"Is my adoptive father sure to kill the lava demon?"

Noah was a little surprised.

"Soon, he promised me that he would be able to bring me the demon's head and soul crystal before the end of the year."

"My adoptive father is so strong!"

Golden Dragon couldn't help but sigh. The lava demon is not a legendary gatekeeper.

This thing is terribly powerful, because it has the characteristics of an undead creature, as well as the characteristics of an elemental creature, and also has legendary spell-like abilities. The most outrageous thing is that this thing can cast a portal at will.

In simple terms, the Lava Demon is a mobile active volcano that can teleport over short distances. It is simply unsolvable.