lord and his dragon

Negrim does have some things he wants to do, but he doesn't intend to rely on divination and fate. A comfortable life without making decisions by himself will sooner or later take away one's alertness and thought. Instead, he would rather experience it by himself Failure and pain.

Obviously, the people who have been relying on the stars can't understand such a choice, and Yates has a puzzled expression on his face, but Negrim doesn't intend to change his mind, and Yates has no choice but to stop persuading him.

They talked for a while, and Yates suddenly saw something, smiled slightly, pointed in one direction, and said to Negrim, "Lord, do you remember him?"

Negrim looked in the direction Yez pointed, and found a young centaur hiding behind his mother's buttocks, with half of its face exposed, looking this way tremblingly. Negrim raised his eyes and looked over. , He was startled, and immediately retracted his head, leaving only a round buttocks, and a long and smooth ponytail wagging anxiously.

Negrim froze for a moment, then remembered something, and said, "Is that the centaur cub?"

Yates nodded with a smile. After he was rescued by Negrim and others, he was still unwilling to reveal the curse of the centaur tribe to them. Negrim had to hold a centaur cub to force him to speak. The young centaur is the same cub back then. After a few months, he has grown up a lot, but he still doesn't look very smart. Maybe until now, he still doesn't know what happened back then, and he His mother was only a little short of leaving him forever.

But for the cub, not knowing what happened is obviously a good thing. At such a young age, it is much better to be afraid of Negrim and Abel than to be afraid of death.

Negrim originally didn't intend to add any childhood shadows to this little centaur, but Yates obviously didn't think so, he waved at the trembling little centaur with half of his head sticking out, and this gesture was not only seen by the little centaur , was also seen by his mother, and the little man looked at the two of Negrim, very reluctantly, but his mother knew all the ins and outs. The dawdling child was not so satisfied. The mother moved away without hesitation, exposing her child, and then slapped his ass with her hand, ruthlessly driving him towards Negrim come over.

Tears filled the little centaur's eyes, he walked towards this side with small steps in aggrieved footsteps, and then Yez bowed his head and saluted Negrim.

The little centaur bent its front knee unskillfully, and then stood upright tremblingly. A pair of big black grape-like eyes frightenedly glanced back and forth between Negrim and Abel, and stammered: "Lord, my lord, hello!" .”

Nigrim was amused by his expression of being ready to run away, so he put his stick under his arm and raised his hand to touch Abel's pocket. Abel was always trying to seize any opportunity to feed his master, He must have food in his pocket.

In other words, by feeding the little man one more bite now, Negrim himself can eat one less bite.

Negrim: A shrewd dragonlord never loses money.

Abel looked at his master helplessly. He could see the other party's plan at a glance, but he didn't dare to resist because of the presence of others, so he had to raise his hands, and Negrim found a handful of candies from his pocket.

Why are there so many? !Negrim thought about it, and couldn't help but glared at Abel. The latter didn't dare to say anything, so he could only watch as Negrim peeled off the candy and fed it into the mouth of the staring little centaur.

Like all cubs, sugar is an irresistible temptation for the little centaur, and Negrim's eyes were already straight when he took his hand out of Abel's pocket, and he was only brought into the city by his mother. There is a chance to eat candy when bathing and shoeing, and each time it is only one or two. I didn't expect that the person who caught him before would also give him candy. Could it be that he is actually a good person?Everyone seems to like the lord and all.

And when Negrim fed him the candy, the little man's eyes widened instantly. This candy tasted much better than the ones sold in small shops in the city!It was something he had never tasted before!

Of course, Negrim was the lord after all, and the candies he ate couldn't be ordinary cheap candies that could be bought outside. The materials and production methods were relatively complicated, and the taste was of course different.

Negrim saw the novelty of the little centaur's eyes shining and its tail unconsciously going up to the sky, and finally couldn't help showing a smile. He stuffed all the candies in his hand to the little centaur, and touched it again. With soft hair, he said: "This is a gift for apology. I didn't mean to bully you like that before."

The little man stared blankly at the candy in his hand, and then at Negrim. After a long time, his face turned red, and he unconsciously kicked his hoof slightly, his tail almost Turning it into a propeller, he stammered: "Thank you, thank you Lord Lord!"

Negrim smiled and waved his hand at him. The little man looked at him, then at Yez, and finally bowed to Negrim, wagging his tail and bouncing. ran away.

Nigrim watched him run back to his mother and share candy with the female centaur. Then, the adult horse also looked over and bowed deeply to Nigrim with a smile. Nigrim smiled, Ignoring them, he looked at Yezzy.

Yates was also looking at the little centaur, and turned his face after seeing Negrim's gaze, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Negrim raised his eyebrows, and stretched out his hand. Yezz saw that there was still a candy in the lord's white palm.

Negrim said: "There is one left for you, do you want to eat?"

In addition to being intelligent creatures, the general life habits and hobbies of centaurs are not far from those of real horses. Horses like sweets, and so do centaurs. Some sugar, in fact adult horses of course like sweets too.

Seeing this, Yates blushed, but Negrim didn't intend to take his hand away, so he could only sigh embarrassedly, took the candy, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Lord Lord."

Negrim fed all the horses and horses, and got a good understanding of the situation here, and said: "There is still one month until the birthday, and this is Gaydon's first birthday since he interacted with the Border Forest. I'm going to have a big carnival, and on your birthday you can stay in the forest to yourselves, but I want you to be there for the banquet and dance after that."

Of course, Yezzy was able to respond to Negrim's orders, and was about to solemnly promise, but Negrim said relaxedly: "This is not a rigid requirement, I am very confident in the degree of integration between the two parties, You just need to tell everyone about the banquet and dance, and I believe that many people will be willing to attend just by volunteering."

Yates froze for a moment, then smiled, and said from the bottom of his heart: "Indeed, even without your order, I am very willing to go to the banquet."

Negrim told him some more details, and said: "The situation of the centaur tribe is good, so I can rest assured. If there is anything to do in the future, you can entrust the messenger or go to the castle to report to me. There are three other races that need to be visited, so I won't stay here any longer."

Yezz looked very reluctant. He proposed that Negrim stay and eat, but Negrim refused. It is almost winter now. Although the centaurs can trade with humans, they will not be short of food. , but he absolutely couldn’t bear Abel’s meal, so he got in the car and left with only a bag of dried fruit.

Although Negrim was wearing thick clothes, the inside of the car was always warmer than the outside, and he couldn't help sighing softly the moment he sat down. Abel knelt on the carpet and warmed Negrim's body with his hands. Knees, very quiet, but the mood that emanated from him was decidedly less pleasant.

Driven by the coachman, the carriage began to move slowly. Negrim glanced at Abel, stretched out his hand and pinched his warm face, and Abel looked up at him.

Negrim wanted to laugh a little, but he still pursed his lips and said, "Aren't you happy that I feed them sugar?"

Abel looked at Negrim without speaking.

Seeing him like this, Negrim ignored him, and opened the cloth bag given to him by the centaur tribe, and picked out dried fruits from it to eat.

The people and horses are good at stargazing and divination. It is of course no problem to predict the weather of the next day. They know when it will rain, when the sun will be the strongest, and where the fruit grows the sweetest, so the dried fruit they dry out is also good. Very tasty - it would be even better if it wasn't so hard.

The bite force of the centaurs is very strong, this kind of dried fruit is the most suitable taste for them, and it is very suitable for passing the time, but for Negrim, unless it is soaked in hot water for half a day, it is impossible to eat at all.

Negrim gnawed for a long time, spending a lot of saliva, but only gnawed off a little bit of skin, and tasted a little bit of sweetness.

But the more this happened, the more Nigrim wanted to eat it. He touched Abel's face again, and pushed the piece of dried fruit that was stained with saliva in his hand to Abel's beautifully shaped lips.

Abel looked up at him again, and after a while, he still opened his mouth, swallowed the dried fruit, and began to chew.

A smile appeared on the corner of Negrim's mouth. He pinched Abel's ear and asked, "Aren't you happy that I touched his head?"

Abel paused for a while while chewing the dried fruit, then he straightened up, leaned close to Negrim's mouth, and said, "Okay, master."

Seeing this, Negrim snorted, and went up to eat the dried fruit he had chewed.

The dried fruit is no longer hard and cold, on the contrary, it becomes soft, moist and warm, just like all the difficulties that stand in front of Negrim, they will be chewed by the dragons of Negrim like that piece of dried fruit, It was easily destroyed and turned into what Negrim wanted.

The kisses that were not counted as kisses stopped quickly, and Abel's expression became gentle again. Negrim thought of what he was going to do in the future, and his eyes on Abel became a little complicated.

He doesn't want Abel to leave him, from any point of view, he knows what his dragon wants, but he doesn't want to change his identity as the controller, maybe he can try in some unrelated Make more compromises and concessions where it matters...

Abel: "Would you like another piece, Master?"

Negrim: "..."

Negrim said willfully, "No, I'm full, and I don't want to eat dinner."

The Dragon Lord can compromise on everything else, except for the matter of eating!

Although it was still eaten in the end.

Many trips have allowed the seasoned coachman to figure out the shortest distance between several races, but the area of ​​the marginal forest is so large, the shortest distance is not much shorter, and it is even more impossible for the speed of the carriage to catch up with that of Egypt. The three of Bull were advancing at full speed, so they still spent some time on the road. Negrim reckoned that by the time they turned around and returned to the castle, it should be almost the end of the month. Fortunately, he had arranged It is necessary to start preparing for the celebration of the birthday, otherwise it will be too late.

Originally, Negrim planned to take this trip as an opportunity to relax. After all, he didn’t have a rest day when he was in the castle, but what he didn’t expect was that the long journey not only made him feel relaxed, but also began to make him a little bored He didn't bring anything with him when he came out, no paper, no pen, no paperwork. After playing with Abel enough, Negrim could only sit in the carriage in a daze.

This made Negrim only think about some irrelevant information, and soon, he thought of the name that Yez provided him, Kosson.

Negrim vaguely felt that this name sounded familiar, but in the Golden Feather Kingdom, he couldn't remember any nobleman with this name.

Abel thought for a while and said, "So there is a copy of "Golden Feather Kingdom Noble Records" on your bookshelf."

Negrim froze for a moment, then said, "Really? It sounds like a piece of rubbish."

Abel: "..."

Negrim said again: "But now, it seems to be useful."

Abel heard the words and said helplessly: "Because you used to evaluate it like this before, so you have already burned it as firewood."

Negrim: "..."

Is there such a thing?Negrim thought for a while and remembered that this was the book Abel chose when he was learning to read with him for the first time. This book recorded the deeds of the famous nobles of the Golden Feather Kingdom in recent years. He was still 14 years old, full of hatred and contempt for the new nobles in the capital, so he ordered the kitchen to be burned as firewood.

The Golden Feather Kingdom once had a coup d'état when Negrim was ten years old. At that time, the Hugh Nordin family was destroyed, leaving only Negrim alone. Falling one by one, the little nobles who were obedient to the new king sucked the blood of the old nobles and rose rapidly, and when everything stabilized, Negrim was already 12 years old, just two years It wasn't enough for him to remember those upstarts who were flamboyant and had no background.

Negrim rubbed his chin. If he wanted to go back to the capital, he might not be able to recognize the names of those new nobles.

But it's not a big problem. If one day Negrim chooses to return to the capital, it must be the time when he is full-fledged and doesn't need to fear anyone. It doesn't matter whether those guys remember or not.

Abel didn't know what was going on in Negrim's mind, he could only see that Negrim was thinking, and he was afraid that he would be unhappy because the book was burned, so he comforted him: "This may also be the surname of nobles from other countries. .”

Negrim froze for a moment, thinking that this was also a possibility.

The king of the Golden Feather Kingdom didn't think that the Border Forest was a good place at all. It can be seen from the fact that he entrusted Negrim here, so he didn't restrict people from other countries from contacting this place. It may be that people from the other two countries got the news, so they sent people to the Adventurer's Union to issue tasks in an attempt to contact the Centaur.

However, this possibility is still relatively small. Although Gayden has grown up at an extremely fast speed, his reputation has not spread so far. Maybe there is no news from the capital.

Negrim's thinking about the name Cothson did not last long, because they reached the territory of the elves.

When Negrim came to the elves' territory last time, because of the outbreak of the curse, what he saw was desolation, but this time, he saw the true appearance of the elves' homeland.

Although the weather has cooled down and the leaves of some trees have begun to turn yellow, most of the vegetation is still as green as summer, lush and lush, and the dense leaves of plants are intertwined. The various passages built by the elves relying on their familiarity with trees make people feel Dazzling, like an illusion.

When Negrim got out of the car, he couldn't help but let out a sigh at the scene in front of him. He had never seen such a scene before, and it seemed that it was not a wrong choice to come out.

After experiencing the curse, the elves have restrained their personalities a lot, and because of their recent association with humans, their impression of humans has changed, so when the carriage belonging to the dragon lord arrived, the elves still sent a few People came to greet him, and although Sigma was not among them, some elves happened to have seen Negrim and remembered him, so they immediately sent someone to inform the Elf Queen, and he took the others to go to Negrim together. With a salute, he said respectfully: "Welcome the Dragon Lord to the elves, and I will take you to see Her Majesty the Queen."

Negrim nodded, and looked at them as he followed the elves inside.

The biggest change for the elves is their clothing. Originally, all elves wore hemp-woven clothes, but after they started interacting with humans, they all changed into delicate clothes. Although the weather was getting colder, all elves wore Little jackets, but it still does not affect their appearance and temperament, which makes them more eye-catching. Negrim took a visual inspection and felt that about half of the so-called nobles in the capital could not match the demeanor of these elves.

In addition, the elves seem to have brought in some vegetation that only grows in the human world outside the forest, and some crops that were not supported by the surrounding environment of Gaiden were actually planted by the elves and grew more luxuriantly.

But it’s normal. After all, the elves have the pool of life. Of course, anything can live. Negrim remembered that the message passed down clearly stated that in addition to handicrafts, elves traded most with humans. For herbs and fruits, Negrim speculated that the elves might have started to learn how to plant them. Now that they were in the elves' territory, they did see a few small fields.

It seemed that he didn't need to worry about the situation of the elves, they were already self-sufficient, but correspondingly, Nigrim began to worry that things from the human side could not attract the attention of the elves.

Facts have proved that Negrim's worries are unnecessary. Not only did the elves not find human goods unattractive, but they liked human clothing and accessories for decoration. In addition, food and books are also favorites of elves. thing.

The elves like bread, candy and desserts made of various fruits. These things cannot be made in the forest, and the branches and leaves of so many plants have to be burned for a little food. The elves are not very willing. Instead, they might as well go to the human city Purchase, the utilization rate of plants is even higher.

However, because they started to communicate with the human world, the elves discovered another thing. It turned out that before they didn't know, there were humans cutting down trees outside the marginal forest from time to time. The elves were very angry, but because of Ni Graham’s reasons could not conflict with humans, so they simply sent people to patrol the periphery of the forest. They strictly prohibited humans from cutting down trees secretly, and only allowed them to collect some litter. There are not many, and every time the elves go to Gaydon, they will bring a lot of firewood from the deep forest and give it to humans for free. After going back and forth, there are no people who secretly cut trees, which also makes the elves to some extent Realizing that changing your attitude towards others can actually make many things work out in a better way.

When Nigrim walked deep into the territory of the elves, he heard elves playing clarinets. It seems that unlike the centaurs, humans have more influence on the elves in terms of literature and art, but this is also a good thing, Nigrim Graham was originally worried that the elves would be conservative and would not be willing to participate in Gaydon's birthday celebration. Now it seems that the elves might be the marginal forest race with the largest number of participants.

Soon, Negrim met the elf queen under the guidance of the elf.

Negrim was stunned the moment he saw the elf queen. Her appearance was completely different from what Negrim had seen before. The linen dress and decorations made of leaves were completely abandoned, and the queen wore gorgeous and complicated clothes. Her long platinum-blond hair was rolled up, she was wearing a crystal crown on her head, and her face was lightly made-up, which complemented her already delicate face, so that Negrim couldn't help shaking god.

But soon, Negrim came back to his senses, and then he couldn't help but glanced sideways at Abel. If Abel was also looking at the Elf Queen, he would be angry.

However, Abel didn't look at the Elf Queen, not only that, but he also looked at Negrim with no expression.

Negrim: "..."

Even though I wear a lot, I still feel cool.