Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

On the second day after coming to the top of the dragon, after the group of new dragon knights assembled, they were thrown by the impatient butcher Saka to a dragon knight veteran who was said to have been on the top of the dragon for many years .

"I'm Yelan, the knight of the blue dragon Xiansaier. The deputy head asked me to familiarize you with the daily work of the dragon knight." The senior dragon knight in front of him is not what Silas imagined at all, and he doesn't look mighty at all. Domineering, he didn't even look like a seasoned warrior. He rolled up the sleeves of his uniform, carried a bucket, and hung a rag on his shoulder, with a gentle and peaceful face.

"You will temporarily serve as backup dragon knights, guarding the camp, standing guard, or doing some work assigned by the deputy head." Yelan said while walking with a bucket in hand, "until there is a vacancy, one of you will be selected as a replacement. "

"That means that there is a dragon knight sacrificed?" Silas asked.

"Sacrifice?" Yelan paused for a moment before saying, "...Yes."

Carl was anxious at the time: "Didn't we sign a peace agreement with the orcs, which means that there will be basically no battles in the future? Then we have to be on the bench forever? The reason I train so hard is to be able to ride dragons , not to see the gate!"

Yelan glanced back at him, and said flatly: "Dragon knight is a very dangerous job, it doesn't matter whether you fight or not...you will have a chance."

Speaking of which, Yelan led them into a huge cave. Everyone was shocked when they entered the cave. The ceiling and walls of the cave were covered with all kinds of shiny things, reflecting the sunlight coming in from the entrance of the cave. It seemed that the entire cave was resplendent and magnificent. Many people here lived in dark and cramped small houses in the civilian area. It was the first time they saw such a spacious and magnificent scene, and they couldn't help but stare blankly.

"Appreciate it when you are in the mood to appreciate it. In the future, you will wish that the cave is as small and simple as possible." Yelan seemed accustomed to their shock, "Who over there, don't touch it, they are all worthless Glass beads and copper and mirrors. Dragons like shiny things, and they don't care much about value."

"No wonder dragons like to plunder gold to fill their caves in the past." Hills showed a thoughtful look, "I have always wondered, if the wealth is never used, what is the point of hoarding gold itself? Is it just for looking good?"

"Yes, we have to keep their residences shiny at all times. This is an important prerequisite for humans to attract dragons as allies." Yelan put down the bucket and soaked a rag in it to clean, "But these small decorations hanging all over the walls are very It is prone to dust and cobwebs, and every half a month, Dragon Knight has to take everything down and wipe it, and then hang it back up."

Everyone took a deep breath.

"Go to work, move that ladder over here, and after you are no longer substitutes, you will have to scrub the entire cave by yourself." Apparently, this is what Yelan usually does, and he began to work skillfully.

Everyone gasped again. No wonder Yelan said that they would "hope that the cave would be as small and crude as possible."

"Why don't you hire some servants to do this kind of work? We are warriors, not servants." Hills questioned. He is undoubtedly the most frequent thinker and questioner among all the new dragon knights. Silas even I feel that he may be more suitable as a commander than a dragon knight who charges into battle.

Yelan sighed: "Except for the very good-tempered lady Sencel, the other dragons simply don't allow anyone else to enter their caves or touch their things. And you know how many spies from other countries are waiting Are you sneaking in to sabotage and steal dragon eggs?"

Hills smiled wryly, and said comfortingly to everyone: "Even noble noble knights usually have to bathe and feed their horses in person to ensure that their mounts can live and die with him during battles, let alone Where's the dragon?"

"I don't think dragons will be happy when you compare them to horses." Silas reminded that horses are just docile mounts domesticated by humans, but dragons have such great strength and higher intelligence than humans that even every dragon will How can magic be compared with horses?

Ignoring the mutterings of the newcomers, Yelan continued to say while working: "The daily work of the dragon knights is not only to clean their decorations, but also to scrub them with warm water every time the dragons fly back from the outside. body, use a special grindstone to polish their nails, and some dragons even ask the dragon knight to clean their teeth."

Carl threw the rag into the bucket bitterly: "Is this what we have been trained for for two years?"

"You can't do this, you didn't wipe it clean enough." Yelan picked up a glass ball that Karl had just wiped and said, "If you hang something like this back, even a gentle lady like Sencel will be very angry. Yell, if you're unlucky enough to serve the bad-tempered red dragon Harrog, he might trample you to death."

"...Your joke is not funny at all." Carl took the glass ball over and wiped it vigorously.

"I'm not joking." Yelan said flatly, "Harrog is the red dragon you saw yesterday. He has a very violent personality, so his knights always die very quickly. There is a dragon knight because He accidentally knocked over the bucket on his feet while wiping his body, and was bitten to death by him. Another one was eaten as food because he didn’t prepare the food in time. Even the other relatives Friendly dragons often accidentally trample knights to death, if you want to live longer, you'd better learn to be careful."

"...Don't the officers care about it?" Even Silas was stunned.

"Yeah, are there no rules to restrict their behavior?" Hills was also stunned.

"They are dragons, even if the court-martial convicts him of murder, who has the ability to carry it out?" Yelan continued calmly, "Besides, to Andorcia, the value of a dragon is far higher than us... ...'Consumables'."

"This...it's unreasonable..." Carl said incredulously, "I'm not afraid of dying in battle, but no one ever told us during conscription or training that the dragon knights are here to give dragons a free hand. It exists because you can eat whatever you want!"

"They say it all the time," Yelan said flatly, "courage, dedication and sacrifice."

Bravery, dedication and sacrifice, these are the slogans they heard when they first joined the Dragon Knight Reserve Army. It is only now that they really understand the meaning behind these three words.

Bravery means that you have to be fearless, except that you are not afraid of death and heights, you must not be afraid of dragon power, because you have to live under the shadow of dragon power all the time, until such instinctive fear as the butcher Saka or Yelan and other veterans is completely eliminated. until immune.

Devotion refers to the daily work of the dragon knight, cleaning the dragon's residence, feeding the dragon with water, grinding claws and cleaning scales, these jobs that are not gorgeous and magnificent at all may occupy most of the rest of a dragon knight's time.

Sacrifice is easier to understand. The dragon itself has extremely terrifying combat power, and there is no such thing as a weak human being. Only when the dragon fights with the agile and hordes of giant eagle knights, they will need the dragon knight. To defend the dead corner of the back, but the existence of the dragon knight is not so much a shield as a target, and most of the attacks will fall on the head of the dragon knight, because obviously killing a human on the back of a dragon is better than killing a dragon It is much easier in itself, and it is much easier to kill the weak dragon after killing the human beings.

And all kinds of deaths in battle and accidental death are fine. In some cases, such as in a previous battle, when the dragon was besieged, the dragon knights were still the dragon's reserve food-they ate their own food. Although this situation is extremely rare, the Dragon Knights have always praised and promoted this ultimate spirit of sacrifice. Every dragon knight must have the awareness to dedicate all his flesh and blood to the dragon, and must With this so-called "dragon knight spirit" voluntarily eaten by dragons as reserve food.

This is totally different from what Silas and many young people who have been deceived by legends and stories have expected. It is like paying a lot of money to buy a plate of beef, but they will serve you a plate Chili must also be eaten and no return is allowed.This year's newly promoted Dragon Knights, like every previous Dragon Knights, fell into deep depression.

But the chiefs of the Dragon Knights didn't care about this depression. Anyway, sooner or later, they would be depressed like every previous Dragon Knight, and they got used to it.

The sound of flapping wings brought Silas back to reality from his memories. He stood up and saw several dragons in the distance landed on the platform of Dragontop.

He recognized that they were the blue dragon Xiancell, the red dragon Harrog, the black dragon Sarannar and the golden dragon Makailin. For the sake of the secrecy of the war, everything on the top of the dragon is always covered with a mysterious veil. So much so that most Andocians don't even know how many dragons there are on the Dragon's Peak, and it was only recently that Silas finally satisfied his curiosity—with a pile of food reserves that would be eaten sooner or later. identity of.

The red dragon Harrog seemed to have had a dispute with the black dragon Sarannar, and roared at the latter several times in dragon language. Despite the distance, Silas still felt his legs and feet tremble. Zhiding has been a guard for more than three months, but he is still not completely immune to Longwei, and the same is true for the other new dragon knights. Yelan said that this is normal, and it took him more than half a year to fully adapt to it.

The red dragon flew away angrily, and Silas noticed that the dragon knight on the back of the black dragon was lifted off motionless, with his head hanging down, apparently unconscious.

This made Silas a little concerned, but he couldn't leave this unnecessary post without authorization, and he wasn't allowed to set foot above the barracks area, so he could only silently put away his curiosity.