lord and his dragon

Viscount Pasil had suffered enough in this dilapidated castle, and really didn't want to endure another moment, urging Negrim to go to the land of no man.

Seeing his haggard and urgent look, Negrim smiled and said, "It's still early, and you should be a little hungry. Let's go after breakfast?"

Pasil was indeed hungry, but when he thought about the food in this castle, he lost his appetite at all. How could he want to have any breakfast? With a smiling face, he said: "Actually, I'm not that hungry. In comparison, I still want to see what Borderlands looks like now, under your governance, the situation there will improve a lot, right?"

In fact, Pasir just offered a flattery. This is a habit among nobles. Who knew that after hearing what he said, Negrim's face would show an expression of embarrassment and guilt, which immediately made Pasir's heart skip a beat. One sound.

I'm afraid it's because Borderlands hasn't changed at all. Xiaoxiu Nuoding was just bragging to him yesterday, right?

Before Pasil's retreat started, Nigrim had already concealed the expression on his face very artificially, and said: "Since you have said so, let's set off now, but when we get to Wuzhu After the land, you must be careful..."

Negrim closed his mouth after he finished speaking, scaring Pasir so much that he didn't even care about his face for a while, and asked repeatedly: "Be careful? Be careful of what?"

Negrim laughed dryly and said, "Nothing, nothing."

Then he turned around, leaned on a cane, and limped away at an extremely fast speed, as if he was escaping from something.

Pasil suffered from the cold all night and didn't have a good rest. Seeing Negrim's reaction, his mind became even more confused, filled with terrible thoughts.

For example, what if you encounter a murderous thug in Borderlands later?What if Xiaoxiu Nuoding left him and ran away?The terrifying reputation of Borderlands is well known to the entire continent, and Pasil's mind is full of bloody images.

Negrim didn't care about the envoy's thoughts, and asked someone to tell him to go downstairs after the carriage was ready.

Pasil had eaten two mouthfuls of bread and drank some cold water since noon yesterday. He was not in good spirits, and he was paranoid because of Negrim's reaction. When he went out and saw the sun, he was in a daze.

When Abel looked at him, he couldn't help but think that in the first year he thought he was an invincible enemy representing royal power, but now that he looked at him, it was nothing more than that, and his master was more powerful.

Negrim took Abel and Pasil into the carriage together. Pasil always felt scared, so he asked his guards and the coachman to follow the carriage together, so as to cover up if something happened in the land of no man He escapes.

Of course, Nigrim didn't stop him, he just sat in the carriage and tried to talk to him, but Pasil had already become suspicious of the situation in Borderlands, and Nigrim felt that the other party was guilty and reluctantly wanted to To appease himself, where he still has the mind to talk to him, he just echoes absent-mindedly, focusing all his attention on the outside.

If the land of no man is still the same, how can Xiaoxiu Nuoding guarantee his safety?Maybe there will be danger halfway!

He couldn't have more regrets in his heart now, he shouldn't have come here from the beginning!

Negrim just pretended not to see his perfunctory, and was still talking about his own with great interest. Just when Pasil couldn't help feeling that he was getting bored, the carriage that was moving at a constant speed stopped suddenly. , The whole body shook violently!Negrim was unscathed under the protection of Abel, but Pasil slammed his head against the wall of the carriage. He clutched his painful head, and before he could get angry, he heard his people outside screaming: "Ah!!! Monster! Monster!!!"

Then I heard people from Negrim shouting: "It's the orcs! The orcs have come out!"

Orcs!Orcs in the marginal forest!Pasil's heart almost stopped beating in fright?Didn't you just go to the land of no man? !Why did the things in the marginal forest also escaped!

In the legend, the Boundary Forest is even more ferocious than the Borderlands!

Pasil couldn't care about anything else, and as soon as he lifted the curtain covering the car window, he saw a group of orcs with long hair and long mouths and fangs squatting around the roadside, bleeding so much that they didn't know what they were eating. In the meantime, Pasil only saw a piece of cloth on the ground, it seemed to be a person!

Pasir was completely frightened. At this moment, one of the werewolves glanced over and met Pasir's gaze. That ferocious animal face, green eyes, and blood-smeared big The mouth instantly made the blurred horror picture in Pasil's mind have something to fill in his brain, and the next second, the werewolf stood upright and rushed towards his face!

With a scream, Pasil rolled directly from the seat onto the carpet, lying on the ground and shouting: "Turn back! Turn back!"

The screams and growls outside were mixed together, and the orcs had already rushed to the car door, so Nigrim could only yell, "Turn back! Turn back!"

The servants brought by Pasil had already run away, the coachman turned the horse's head in a panic, the carriage fell with difficulty, and fled back quickly.

Pasil couldn't care less about complaining about the bumps of the carriage, what could be more important than his life!He hugged his head and lay on the carpet shivering for a long time, until the howling of the orcs could no longer be heard outside, then he raised his head tremblingly and asked, "Escape... did we escape?"

"Ah, yeah..."

Hearing that the tone was wrong, Pasil raised his head and found that Negrim was sitting firmly on the seat under Abel's protection, looking at him awkwardly.

Pasil instantly felt ashamed, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to sneak in, and hated Negrim for hiding the truth from him and making him suffer a great crime.

Pasil got up from the carpet in a desperation, his face turned blue and red, he wanted to yell at Negrim, but he didn't know where to start, scolding him for neglecting himself?Scolding him for not being able to protect his own safety?But the conditions at the fucking border are like this!In case Xiaoxiu Nuoding climbed up the pole, complained about the environment here and then said he wanted to go back, how could he refuse the other party?

Negrim was not as impatient to return to the capital as Pasil thought, he admired the other party's face for a while, and after confirming that he couldn't say anything, he pretended to comfort him: "I'm really sorry, Viscount Pasil, I don't know that the orcs in the border forest will come out at this time. They should usually appear when the weather is colder... How about we go back and rest for a day, and go see it tomorrow. No Man's Land?"

Parsil now has no idea about Borderlands at all. Human-eating orcs can appear near Hugh Nordin's castle. How can Borderlands be any better? !Even if he can make money, he doesn't have the guts to stay here!

Pasil held back for a long time before forcing out a smile, and said: "No... no need, I thought about it, if I go back to the capital, I still have time to catch up with my birthday, I have been absent from the celebration of the capital for a long time, Your Majesty misses me too!"

A regretful expression appeared on Negrim's face, and he said, "The situation in Borderlands has rarely gotten better..."

Pasil wished he could pooh his face, halfway was so dangerous, how could Borderlands be any better?Anyway, he wouldn't go if he was beaten to death!

Negrim had no choice but to say, "It's rare for you to stay here for a longer time. You'd better spend another night and leave tomorrow morning. After all, there are orcs outside now, so it's not safe."

This made some sense, Pasil nodded reluctantly, and agreed to stay for another night, waiting for the orcs to disperse.

They turned around much faster than when they left, and they returned to the castle in a short time. Pasil had a few guards with fast feet who returned to the castle before them. These people are protecting him!When he was in danger, they all left him behind!

But one is that Negrim is here, and Pasil doesn't want to be ashamed anymore, and the other is that he is not in a good state and was frightened, so he doesn't have the strength to punish the people under him, so he just returned to the guest room in a daze lie down.

The rest of Pasil's guards and coachman didn't come back until dinner time, they were all lost and lost, and there were not many of them, everyone was thankful that they were not caught by the orcs.

Negrim smiled and didn't say anything. He just asked the butler to wake up Viscount Pasil in the guest room for dinner.

It was rare for Pasil to sleep, and he was woken up again. He was so tortured that he really wanted to kill the nasty little Xiu Nuoding, who the hell would want to eat your dinner that is not as good as pig food!But in order to prevent Negrim from thinking that he was doing badly, and arguing with him about going back to the capital, he could only hold on and eat a little.

Not to mention, after being hungry for so long, the hard and dry bread seemed to have a taste.

After dinner, Pasil just wanted to sleep, but it was too cold in this impoverished castle, and Pasil couldn't fall asleep in the end. He lay on three layers of quilts, tossing and turning with great difficulty. Feeling able to ignore the cold, I suddenly heard a faint howl outside.

Pasil was startled, and immediately sat up. The ferocious appearance of the orcs during the day was too shocking. He was terrified, and tried to listen with his ears. Unexpectedly, the howling sound was getting closer and closer. , it is actually near the castle, it seems that it is about to come in!

Pasil has completely given up on Negrim. He believes that little Hugh Nordin is an idiot, and this drafty castle is not safe at all. The next winter food!

Pasil fell off the bed in a panic. He wrapped his clothes in a mess and escaped from the guest room. He didn't have time to argue with Xiaoxiu Nuoding. He's leaving now, he's leaving now , Before the orcs got into the castle!

Viscount Pasil was sleepy, cold, startled and frightened, and he hadn't had enough food for two days. When he went downstairs in the dark, he fell down. Fortunately, he was at the bottom of the stairs, but only hit his arm. and knee, but he didn't care about the pain of the wound on his body, and fled to the backyard, calling his guards and coachman who were also cold and scared, and directly set up the carriage with a heavy burden , took advantage of the night and fled away.

Negrim was already ready to test the outcome of this farce. He didn't sleep tonight, but stood by his window, opened the curtains and watched the gorgeous carriage fleeing from the castle. Viscount Pasil's guards chased behind the carriage in disheveled clothes, which was funny and ridiculous.

Negrim did indeed smile, and a hazy moonlight shone on his face, making this malicious smile reveal a bit of innocence and innocence.

But Abel knew that his master was not really a pure and innocent person, he was smart, cunning, domineering and willful, full of irresistible desire to control, but he was deeply fascinated by it, and willingly became his property .

When Negrim turned his head, he saw Abel's naked eyes, but he didn't mean to expose it. Instead, he said after Abel lowered his head: "The orcs have done a good job, and you can distribute more Bonus, besides, ask someone to restore the castle to its original appearance tomorrow morning, there is not much time, and the festive decorations can also be done by the way... I don’t know if this guy will come next year.”

The news that the land of no man has become Gaedon has not been known to the nobles of the capital, just because they are not interested, but the matter of the marginal forest can never be hidden, there is a lot of wealth and opportunities here, next year the capital will There will be no specious news circulating, and everyone will clearly know about Gaydon and Boundary Forest.

But by that time, Negrim had already accumulated his own strength, and he would not let anyone have the opportunity to take away what belonged to him.

Abel smiled and said, "I don't think that messenger will come again. Compared with wealth, he seems to cherish his life more."

Negrim twitched the corners of his mouth and did not speak. He turned his gaze out of the window again. In the dark night, there was no carriage, only the hired orcs were roaring with all their strength, and the cold wind blew The ground came in through the gap in the window, which made Negrim's mind much clearer.

He suddenly remembered something.

"Cosson..."

"What?" Abel didn't understand.

Negrim put down the curtain in his hand, turned around abruptly, and violent fluctuations that Abel had never seen appeared in his usually indifferent dark eyes.

"Why have I never thought of it, Duo Cosson Milwes!" Negrim said in disbelief, "Cosson is the king's middle name!"

"What?!" Abel was surprised this time.

Negrim walked up to Abel, held his face, and murmured: "Is the king divination to the centaurs? No, no, it shouldn't be the king. If he knew about this, he would definitely not just Sending an idiot like Pasir here, he can't just ask for two thousand gold coins for a divination, not to mention that he doesn't have any troubles of using divination—"

Seeing that his brows were tightly furrowed, Abel stretched out his hands and wrapped Nigrim's cold hands, but he didn't dare to disturb Nigrim's thoughts, so he only held his breath.

Negrim looked deeply into Abel's eyes, as if his whole thoughts were immersed in the deep green. After a long time, he took a long breath and said suddenly: "Ales Kos Son Milwes."

Abel was taken aback and asked, "Who is that?"

Negrim closed his eyes, let go of his hand, and said: "The king's brother, the loser in the coup eight years ago, Cosson is also his middle name, if it is him, then it makes sense gone."

When the coup took place, Negrim was still a kid who was bullied all day long and didn't understand anything, but in this coup, after all, he was a beneficiary in disguise, so during the short time when he gained power, Negrim has tried to understand this as well.

It seems that in the smoke of gunpowder back then, little Milwes failed to cut all the power of his brother under the guillotine, and they actually kept a power secretly. If Yezzy told his Cosson really If it was this Cosson, then what they wanted to ask through divination could only be treason. They wanted to overthrow the current king and regain the position that belonged to Arles Milwes.

Numerous messages flashed through Negrim's mind in an instant—the ones who helped this force survive and grow were probably the veteran nobles who were innocently affected back then, and Arles Milwes is dead. , there is very likely that there is a "prince" in this force. They originally planned to launch a rebellion next year, but the prophecy of the people and horses indicated that it would fail. Will they continue?

Ultimately, this information all converges into one question.

How will Negrim stand in line?

He got the news before everyone else, so now he has two choices, one, to tell the current Golden Feather King about the news, get rewards and reuse, but he will definitely expose his undeveloped hole cards.Second, turn to Great Milwes. If he operates properly, he can be a speculator and become the second group of emerging nobles, but he is not sure that this force will definitely succeed.

In the end, Negrim still chose the third path—waiting.

Neither Gayden nor Boundary Forest had yet reached their peak, and his wings were not yet full. No matter which choice he chose, it was too early for him now, and being too quick for quick success would only ruin everything he had painstakingly worked on in an instant. Once, he still needs at least a year, just next year, the forces of Great Milwes are very likely to stand still under the reminder of the troops. As long as this year passes, he can choose a path against him in the next turmoil. In terms of the way to grab the most benefits!

After Negrim figured it out, he quickly calmed down.

It was a little slow for Abel to realize what kind of undercurrent was behind the name that Negrim said. He didn't know if it would involve Negrim, so he couldn't help watching with some worry. looking at his master.

Negrim noticed his eyes, couldn't help but amused, and said, "What's wrong?"

Abel thought for a while, but still couldn't hold back the words in his heart: "If you encounter a problem that can't be solved anyway, I can protect you, and I can take you to a place where no one can find you go……"

Negrim understood where he was going, but he didn't tell Abel that even if he was not involved in this matter, he would take the initiative to jump in at the right time. Instead, his eyes darkened slightly because of Abel's words eye.

"You want to take me where no one can find me?"

Negrim's tone was too ambiguous, and Abel didn't know whether he was happy or not, so he could only mumble, "I want...to protect you."

Negrim looked at his tame dragon for a while, and said calmly: "There won't be such a day."

Abel's mind was empty, he didn't know whether to think that Negrim was arrogant, or whether he should think that Negrim was denying his ideas.

But before he fell into wild thoughts, Negrim had already sat on the bed, lifted his foot towards him, and said reservedly and delicately: "Come and undress me, I'm going to rest."

Abel glanced at his master whose attitude hadn't changed at all, finally settled down in his heart, and took a rest after serving Negrim.

The castle was quickly restored to its original state, but faster than that was time. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, the birthday came bustlingly.

On this day, even Negrim didn't waste time on dealing with affairs. He woke up early, celebrated with the butler and servants in the castle, and then got into the carriage and took everyone together. Go to Gaydon, which has a new look.

Gaydon is a very large city. It not only includes the former No Man's Land, but also includes a large piece of land around it, which is almost close to the old town of Harlan. In order to hold this celebration well, we must It’s just that the song and dance troupe that performed in Harlan Town every year, Negrim hired several other circus and dance troupes, and there were stage sets and carnival crowds everywhere in Gaiden.

Negrim has retained the parties and dances, but now the scale that Gaedon can achieve is much larger than before. All kinds of rich food can fill a street, and adults can't empty it. The children have inexhaustible candies, and not only the people in the Negrim territory, many caravans and adventurers also took the opportunity to stay, wanting to experience Gayden birthday celebration.

When Negrim and the others entered the city, as expected, they found marginal forest dwellers mixed in the crowd, among which the dwarves had the largest number. Where to drill, so come a lot.

Negrim didn't expect it to be so lively, and specially sent someone to call the head of the guard in charge of security, and asked him to pay attention to prevent anyone from being injured.

The captain of the guard felt bitter. There were so many people crowded together, how could he manage it, but if the lord ordered it, he had to do it if he couldn't.

Negrim has already presided over four birthday celebrations. Although this year's scale was unexpectedly large, he was also familiar with the process. He quickly finished preaching his manuscript and retreated amidst the cheers of the crowd.

He is no longer the young lord who needed beautiful words to buy people's hearts. As long as he speaks from his mouth, everyone will believe it for no reason, because he is the lord of the dragon, and he built the barren and poor frontier to such an extent. people.

Soon, the enthusiasm stopped for a while, and the long-lost familiar dance music sounded. Negrim turned his head and looked at Abel.

Abel also looked straight at Negrim.

At this time, Negrim showed a rare, gentle smile on his face. He stretched out a hand to Abel and said, "I only gave you a promise, but I will accompany you." You danced for four years."

Abel also smiled. He looked at Negrim as if looking at the whole world, and said softly, "No, master, it will be far more than four years."