Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

Sitting on his sentry post, Silas grabbed a piece of dry grass in his hand, tore it into pieces, and threw them from a high cliff, watching them fall freely in the wind until they could no longer be seen.

This is a move that even he himself finds it very boring. In the past, he would never believe that one day he would be so boring, but now he doesn't know what else to do other than being bored.

He is staying at a sentry post that needs the least sentry in the world. The location of the Dragon Peak is really good. If an enemy invades, he has to climb up the narrow mountain road known as "Nine Thousand Steps", several hours in advance The people on the mountain will be able to see it all. As for the air, who else would not want to attack the dragon's lair except the giant eagle knight of the orc race?But the orcs had signed a non-aggression pact with humans a few months ago, and the war ended just before Silas became an alternate dragon knight.

So he can only sit in this post day after day, watching the sun rise from the east and set from the west, bored.

When he was really bored, he would look to the southeast. From this position, he could overlook the entire capital of Andorcia. He could see the meandering stream in the middle of Silver Stream City and several iconic landmarks. Buildings—the royal palace with blue roofs, the cathedral with a large square and the black mage tower, when the weather is particularly good, you can even see some faintly visible roads, one of the few pleasures he has left, Just trying to find the place where I used to live in the royal capital that was so far away that I couldn't see it clearly.

When he was a child, he had stood in the streets and alleys of Silver Stream City countless times, looking up at the high mountains in the northwest of the capital, dreaming that one day he would become a glorious dragon knight and stand on the top of that distant dragon, and now he is standing here, But only a line that is often used in the bard's ballad came to mind.

Destiny is a cunning liar.

Thinking so, Silas dropped the last piece of dry grass, watched it whirl in the wind, and disappeared into the distance.

Yesterday, his comrade Karl, who trained with him and was selected as a Dragon Knight on the same day, injured his left hand, and it is likely that he will never recover.Silas felt sorry for him. Karl could no longer be a dragon knight, and he was not disabled enough to retire. His future would probably only be an ordinary soldier, guarding prisons or city gates, spending his whole life with thieves, Dealing with drunks and hooligans and the like.

It must have been a huge blow to Carl, who was determined to ride the dragon back to dominate the world, but he looked so happy when he was strapped to a stretcher and lowered from the crane next to the cliff with other cargo He was so relieved that one couldn't help but deeply suspect that he deliberately injured himself to escape this terrible place.

Silas actually felt that Carl's mood was understandable, and he couldn't help but sighed helplessly for such himself.

Becoming a heroic dragon knight was Silas' dream since he was a child. He didn't know how many times he sneaked out of that gloomy and depressing home, wandered around the tavern or the square all day, just to listen to the bards sing a song about the dragon knight. The legend of the Great Eagle War.He aspires to be like the hero in the poem, soaring into the sky on the back of a dragon and fighting against the most ferocious enemy. Even if he dies a heroic sacrifice, the name of the hero will be passed down from generation to generation.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to go to the house of his aristocratic relatives every day, just because the relatives hired a swordsmanship teacher that his family could not afford, so he could learn swordsmanship with the children of relatives, and he often hung upside down on the swing, because I heard that this is a necessary skill for dragon knights, and they walk around outside the high city wall from time to time to overcome their instinct of being afraid of heights.

Finally at the age of 16, despite his mother's strong opposition, he secretly signed up to join the Dragon Knight's reserve army.

This can be said to be an all-or-nothing adventure, because every year many young people like him, either for fame and glory, or for generous rewards, come to squeeze this single-plank bridge, but in the end only a handful of outstanding people can become A real dragon rider.Those who are eliminated cannot go home, because the army is not a place where they can come and go as they please, they can only continue to serve as ordinary soldiers, and because the skills they usually train are very different from infantry, many of them fail In the end, they can only be responsible for guarding the gate, building bridges and paving roads, and transporting supplies, and spend the rest of their lives doing nothing, never having any chance of honor.

Fortunately, Silas's practice since he was a child has paid off. His physical fitness and agility surpassed most of his peers. In the end, he stood out from nearly a thousand reserve troops and became one of the lucky dozens of newly promoted dragon knights. .

Silas tossed and turned all night with excitement.

He thought that tomorrow he would be able to enter the top of the dragon that never let outsiders set foot, and see those dragon knight ancestors he admired most at close range, and then he would also have a dragon of his own. However, he believes that sooner or later he will have the opportunity to fight side by side with his ancestors, create his own legend, and be praised by bards.

However, like a ballad sung by a certain bard, fate is an insidious liar, waiting at the corner of time, ready to jump out and give you a loud slap in the face at any time.

The next day, the jubilant newly-promoted dragon knights set off from the barracks in Silver Stream City, the capital of Andorcia, and it took a whole day to climb up the cliff in the northwest of the capital. The mountain road is called "Nine Thousand Steps." Silas felt that this was definitely a modest statement, and he would bet on the pimples on Carl's face that the steps must be more than nine thousand.

When the group of dragon knights climbed to the top of the dragon exhausted, what greeted them was not beds, food and rest, but the vicious deputy head of the dragon knights.

"I'm the future chief of your group of fresh raw meat. My name is Saka. You may have heard of my nickname 'Saka the Butcher' or 'Saka the Devil'. That's right, that's me." The whole face The middle-aged man who seemed to write "You owe me a lot of money" stood in front of the newly promoted dragon knights, roaring like a bell, "In order to be lucky enough to stand here, you have been training for two full years, but you Do you think that to become a dragon rider, it is enough to roll 36 and a half times in the air without throwing up? How naive! I know what you are fantasizing about in your stupid little heads, ha! Before I eat it, the last lesson I will teach you is - give up your useless fantasies!"

The young dragon knights all stared wide-eyed, not daring to breathe out, not entirely because of the aura of the butcher Saka, but more because they saw a huge red figure approaching from the sky.

It was a red dragon.

Since he was a child, Silas didn't know how many times he raised his head in the streets and alleys of Silver Brook City, obsessively admiring those graceful figures across the sky, and his heart was full of longing for that kind of distant power and freedom, but until At this moment, for the first time, he really realized how dangerous and terrifying a dragon actually is.

The body that was as huge as a hill was getting closer and closer without slowing down at all, and it was about to hit them on the platform. These young dragon knights who were originally high-spirited started screaming, lying down, lying down, Fleeing and fleeing, only Silas stood there in a daze, watching the terrifying creature flapping its strong wings, and every blow brought up a hurricane with astonishing momentum.

The red dragon seemed to find this group of ants very interesting. When it was very close to them, it deliberately opened its mouth and let out a thunderous roar, then turned at an almost impossible angle and flew towards the nest on the other side of the mountain.

This... is the legendary dragon power. Silas has heard of this innate skill of all dragons. The roar from their throats can scare the prey so that they can't move. They can only freeze in place and die obediently. .

Now these dragon knights are like this. The young people who saw Longwei for the first time were completely conquered by fear. Only Silas was still standing in the field. Those lying on the ground, those whose legs were weak and unable to get up, and those who even pissed their pants, his reaction was quite brave.

The butcher Saka still didn't change his face. He watched the little commotion caused by the red dragon with satisfaction, and let out a gloating laugh: "Do you like the little greeting your master gave you? Get up and stand up for me!" Good team!"

The terrified dragon knights struggled back to their positions, and Saka shouted: "What is the spirit of a dragon knight?"

"Brave, dedicated and sacrificed." Dragon Knights replied tremblingly.

"I can not hear!"

"Bravery, dedication and sacrifice!" the dragon knights shouted at the top of their lungs.

"Very well, you will soon understand the true meaning of these three words, I promise." Sakayin smiled deeply.

Although they still don't know what's going on, the dragon knights who have faintly felt that something is not going well spent their first night at the top of the dragon in various speculations and whispers.

"I really can't figure it out, how did such an annoying guy become the deputy captain? Could it be that the person who chose him judged people with the soles of his feet?" Silas muttered unhappily.

"I think he's just trying to scare us," Hills said. "I've heard that it's a custom in the military that wherever recruits go, the officers and veterans will give them a warning and establish themselves. prestige, so that recruits can obey."

The blond-haired and blue-eyed Hills is undoubtedly the best member of this group of newly promoted dragon knights. Although he is the son of a merchant, he doesn't have the haggling faults of a merchant at all. His generosity has won him good reviews. Popularity, almost everyone regards him as a friend.Silas often felt that if they also became the characters in the stories that were sung in the future, the smart and handsome Hills must be the protagonist, and Carl would be the reckless and strong supporting role. In charge of the funny supporting role.The three of them are the most outstanding fighters in the reserve battalion and the iron triangle with the best relationship. Silas feels that no matter how the storyline develops, they will always be together.

The reckless and strong Karl said at the time that he would compete with the butcher Saka to see who was the one who needed to be disarmed.

Silas said lightly: "I'm afraid you have to get back your face from that dragon. After all, it wasn't Mr. Butcher's bad breath that scared you to your knees today."

"I... I was not mentally prepared." Carl clenched his fist and said solemnly, "Sooner or later, I will let that dragon succumb to my bravery and become my most loyal mount!"

Now that Silas recalled his rhetoric at the time, he still couldn't help but smile wryly.