Law of the Dragon

For a creature like a dragon who lives alone and is somewhat "isolated", eating is an important and personal matter.In particular, dragons are also self-proclaimed "rebellious" creatures, so they can't tolerate others telling them how to eat, no matter whether they eat lying down, eating on their stomachs, or eating while running, others can't have any objections .

However, since he is so hungry that there is nothing he can do now, Eros doesn’t care at all whether Sakeluo asks him to eat on his knees or on his stomach. In short, it’s like filling his stomach with the food in front of him first, so he sits at the table Sit down and eat obediently.

"It seems... the third district is really seriously affected by the disaster." Duke Sacre said seriously when he saw the other party's eating.

Eros drank a large glass of red wine with his neck up, and rolled his eyes at the other party: "Didn't I say that a long time ago?"

Duke Sacre felt that the opportunity was too late to come back, and immediately asked Eros to hold a financial meeting in the name of the king to formulate a final rescue plan for the disaster in the three districts. By the way, he showed his face in front of the ministers. These days, the king There was a lot of noise about the disappearance.

Eros shook his hand: "It's not yet time, I have something else to discuss with you."

"What?" Thakro pushed the empty dining car out, and then turned around to ask, "Is there anything else, or...are you still hungry?" He had already eaten the meals of seven or eight adults, If he continues to eat like this, some rumors will spread in the mansion.

"I'm not hungry anymore." Eros said solemnly. When his body becomes human, the amount of food he needs will also be converted into the volume required for this size. Although this time it is a bit excessive, but, After all, he was really hungry.

After hearing this, Sa Keluo breathed a sigh of relief, and put down the bell on his hand—there was no need to ask his attendants to bring a table of food.

"There's something wrong in the third district," Eros didn't notice Thaklow's thoughts. He sat on the soft couch, put his legs on the shoe stool, and told the whole story of what he saw in the third district. Of course , I didn't say anything about the red-haired traveler I met, because it was just a passing traveler, so there is no need to mention it.

"You mean..." Sa Keluo quickly lowered his voice, "The God of Darkness has been resurrected!"

Eros rolled his eyes: "He didn't die in the first place, so he can't talk about resurrection."

"That's... the dark forces are planning to make a comeback?!" Thakro said in surprise.

Eros was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "It's not that serious. Although according to my recent observations, the magic elements in the air have become more active, but it will take at least seven months to reach the level of the Demon God War. 800 years... The problem is, the level of magic elements in that area is about the same as normal, but the dark elements are much higher. I think there must be something there. I don't know what it is, but it probably affects the entire A dark creature in the third district."

"Do you think it's dangerous?" Sa Keluo frowned. He didn't expect this kind of problem to appear in the third district. If necessary, he should make preparations in advance.

Eros shook his head: "I can't say it's dangerous, but the scope is too large, and it has affected the activities of some small monsters." The black feather fish is one of them, and they happily share the corpses in the flooded river. The illusion has come. "It will excite some little monsters, and the death and devastation caused by the flood may cause considerable loss of personnel."

"We have to let the church send someone there," Thakro said after a long silence.

Eros raised his eyebrows, it's time for these gods to contribute!He happily thought, of course, the Church of Light has fallen in recent years—it’s easy to understand, during the battle between the demons and gods, the most powerful members of the Church of Light were busy sacrificing themselves, and the rest of them Hey, let's start to move closer to the core of rights.In this generation of the Church of Light, most of them are people who deceive the world and steal their names. Eros has no doubt that the glorious era of their Church of Light is like the era of the demon gods that passed away. the glory of God.

However, the method of making money is probably the pinnacle in the history of the Church of Light. Although the dark power in the three districts is not very powerful, it cannot be underestimated to have such influence in this era.The church should have no talent to solve this problem, so just in time, in the name of the king, he can not only reduce the power of the church, but also take the opportunity to blackmail them!

"You have slept all night," Thakro patted Eros on the shoulder, "can you now chair the financial meeting?"

"Of course," Eros nodded, "It will be held during the afternoon tea. By the way, let the church send two cardinals. They also have to participate in this matter."

Although Sa Keluo wasn't sure what Eros was planning, but those golden eyes were full of schemes and calculations, and probably nothing good happened, so he changed the subject tactfully: "What excuse are you going to use to explain the situation in the third district? You can’t say you made the trip yourself, no one will believe it.”

At the speed of human beings, it will take more than ten days to reach the third district. This is still the speed of riding a fast horse. If it is really going at the speed of the king's inspection, it may take a month to walk, and it will take two months to go back and forth. .

"Just say that I sent someone there," Eros calculated the time, "I went there half a month ago."

Sa Keluo sighed: "You forgot to count the return time again."

"Oh... that was more than a month ago," Eros coughed awkwardly, as expected, he was still not good at calculations.

That's how things settled down.After lunch, Eros and Larry set off to return to the palace, where Thakro would arrive for the afternoon meeting.

As soon as he got back to his room, Eros sent Larry back first, then pulled out his little treasure chest from under the bed, checked it out and heaved a sigh of relief, then lay down on his bed and let out a sigh of relief .

Human life is really depraved, and now he understands a little bit why he once heard that some dark creatures have nostalgia for the human world.Because almost every day, you have to calculate and calculate, and there is no time to be bored.For dark creatures with long lives, the only thing they do every day is to pursue more powerful power and kill endless time during the journey of life.

Human beings have at least achieved one thing. Although they can be said to be mediocre, no one dies of boredom anyway.

He lay on the bed for a while, letting his thoughts settle down. Now he should think about how much he spent for the third district.

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"Ask us to attend the financial meeting as well?"

Norman was fiddling with a seedling in a flowerpot in the room, and he couldn't help but raise his head when he heard the cardinal's words.

The bishop nodded: "The meeting is at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's almost time to send someone over."

Norman frowned, something that had never happened before.Every generation of kings will carefully distinguish between imperial power and religious power. Very private matters such as financial meetings are never allowed to involve people from the church—in fact, as long as it is a meeting about politics, people from the church have always been required to Do not ask.

Unexpectedly, they were asked to attend this time, and more than two cardinals were designated to participate, which shows that this financial meeting must not be simple.

"What's the matter? Lord Norman." It was the first time Cardinal Marvin encountered such an invitation. In the past, in order to avoid suspicion, they would not even enter the palace without an invitation.

Norman was silent for a while: "You go with Custer, and I will go with you as a follower."

This must be no problem, just from the appearance, this distinguished Lord Norman pretends to be an intern, it looks too much like it!

"Then let's go right away!" Marvin said immediately.

Norman stretched out his hand to stop Marvin from turning around. After a moment of silence, he said, "I... had a dream yesterday."

Everyone dreams, it's nothing special, but for "Norman" it was very unusual!Hearing this, Ma Wen's heart was in his throat.

Norman's bloodline is very special, and there have been many records in the Church of Light, but almost all of them are gossip, without systematic explanation.Almost every generation of Norman will become the guiding light of the Church of Light. They not only possess the purest power essence of the God of Light, but also have oracles and prophetic dreams.Therefore, Norman's dream usually guides the way for the church. It can be said that in difficult times, the church relies on Norman's dream to move forward.

However, neither the oracle nor the prophetic dream can be known to ordinary people in the church. Usually, only Norman himself and the Pope can know it, which is why, in the church, these two people have the greatest rights.

But now that Norman told about the prophetic dream, Marvin stood there a little at a loss. Hearing Norman's oracle before was exciting enough, and he didn't know what the prophetic dream was about.

"Bring the map!" Norman said to the entourage, and the entourage quickly brought Hildor's map, spread it on the table, and then left the room together with the priest trainee brought by Marvin.

Norman stared at the map for a long time before asking, "I don't know much about Hildor. I can only tell you about the place I saw in my dream. I don't know if you can tell me what it is."

Marvin thought for a while and said: "When I was young, I left the church to practice and went through all five districts. I can probably know most of the places combined with the map. It will also be easier to find in Hildo's topography."

Norman's precognitive dream is such an unreliable thing, Marvin thought so, of course, he couldn't say this idea out.In the history of the church, due to the experience of Norman and the Pope, occasionally he did not understand what the prophetic dream represented or interpreted it wrongly, which caused the church to take many detours, but the Pope would always call it "mistakes are life part of "to cover up their error.

"I dreamed of a very wide river, and its... flow is fast," Norman closed his eyes, trying hard to recall the black dream of last night, "The sky is very dark, and the river looks like black Yeah, I'm not sure if that's what it was or...that's what my dream was like." His tone was uncommonly depressing, "I saw a lot of things floating down the river, swollen by the water Corpses, human and animal, and a mess, like... a flood."

"You are probably talking about the Crota River in the third district," Marvin pointed to the largest river in the third district of the Hilldor area. "The entire third district lives on this river, and it Almost cut through the entire Crota Plain..." The bishop's finger moved down the river, "This river enters the sea here, and it floods every year during the rainy season, but every three years is a peak period."

Marvin paused and said: "This year's disaster is particularly serious. I heard that financial meetings are held in the palace all day long. They probably want to build river dams and other facilities. After all, many people die due to flooding every year." People, the economy of the three districts has also been dragged down."

"Then this is the river I dreamed about," Norman said flatly.

That dream made him feel a little chills when he thought about it. Precognitive dreams have the power to make people feel immersive.

He remembered the feeling there, even though the river was flowing, he walked barefoot on the soil by the river, he could feel the sticky wetness of the soil, but the whole field of vision was black with different depths. The world formed by it seems that the colors of life have been filtered by something.There is no life here, only the river flows quietly carrying the corpses, like a silent funeral procession.

Norman still remembered the feeling of standing there, neither fear nor shock, he didn't even feel alone, like everything here, his emotions seemed to be filtered, just watching in silence This funeral procession has no end.

"I don't quite understand the meaning of this dream," Norman said, frowning, "I just saw the river, floating down with the corpses, the houses were flooded, and even the church... nothing else arrive."

It was also the first time for Marvin to hear the most original version of the prophetic dream. He sighed in his heart that the God of Light is really a joker, and he made troubles for others, while comforting Norman, maybe this just foreshadowed that the Clota The river will cause more disasters, more people will die from this flood, maybe we should go and warn the royal family.

Norman was silent for a while, and frowned: "I... I have too little information," he said suddenly, "I didn't even know that the third district was suffering from such a flood."

Marvin wasn't sure what Norman meant, so he remained silent and didn't speak.

Norman stood up and walked a few steps in the room before he stood up and said, "My prophetic dream is very accurate."

Marvin was stunned, and immediately complimented: "Norman's blood comes from the God of Light, so naturally there will be no mistakes... Maybe we should call all the cardinals for a meeting, maybe we can come up with the right meaning. ?”

Norman shook his head: "No, only the pope and I know about the premonition dream, and usually the pope is responsible for interpreting it. This time I told you about the premonition dream..." He looked at Marvin, and Marvin was seen by him. He was in a cold sweat, of course he knew what Norman meant—he temporarily replaced the Pope's interpretation work, which was simply too scary, everyone knew that the Pope was a narrow-minded person!In case the Pope finds out...for the sake of the God of Light!This is really not what he asked himself!

Therefore, naturally there is no way to gather the bishops here. As long as the Pope knows about this, he will definitely hold a grudge!

"Maybe, maybe it's just because of this disaster..." Marvin stammered.

Norman continued to shake his head: "It's not right, that feeling..." He remembered the feeling in the prophetic dream again, he didn't see the living there, there was only endless darkness, even if there was something alive... He also seemed to foresee the death of the living creature.

"No matter what..." Marvin bit the bullet and reminded Norman, "We should enter the palace. Regardless of whether the current king is real or not, at least he is sitting on the throne now."

Norman nodded, rang the bell to let the attendants come in, helped him change into ordinary intern clothes, and then asked Marvin to call another Cardinal Carlos to walk to the palace together.

But after the palace fell, Norman regretted it again, because the financial meeting did not allow idlers to enter, that is to say, Norman, who is now an intern, has no right to enter and observe.As a result, Norman had to wait for the meeting to end before asking Marvin about the content of the meeting.

So the current situation has become, he can only hang out in the palace!

Meanwhile, in the gorgeous conference room, Eros is facing a difficult choice.

"If Your Majesty thinks that human civil engineers are not up to the task, who should do the construction?" A minister asked with a frown.

Although His Majesty the King agreed to the proposal to build the dam in the third district, the amount and candidates for the treasury appropriation have not yet been decided.It can be said that there are a lot of talents in the country of Sildur, and the imperial capital is the gathering place of these talents, and the royal family has the best architect resources.But in fact, there are too many candidates for civil construction, but when it comes to water conservancy projects, there are no suitable candidates.His Majesty the King even made generalizations and felt that no one in the entire human race could be selected to manage the floods in the three districts. This made some of the ministers present somewhat dissatisfied.

"I think we can choose from other races," Duke Thaklow said. "In terms of architecture, the only ones hired now are dwarves and elves."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone discussed it. In the end, most of them were partial to the dwarves. Even the two cardinals of the church agreed that the dwarves should take up this job.

The forging technology of the dwarves is the best in the entire continent. Even the elves will order weapons from the dwarves, not to mention that most of their famous weapons during the Demon God War were made by the dwarves.In terms of architecture, they don't show much. As long as they have seen their underground castles, they will not have doubts about their construction skills.

In fact, no human iron or elven steel can compete with the alloys made by dwarves. They have always kept this technology, which is unknown to humans and elves. When the demon gods fought, their steel pillars went deep into this The fragmented land cut by the power of the demon god supports the entire battlefield!For them, such a project as building a river dam should be regarded as a trivial matter.

Compared with the elves who demand perfect and exquisite buildings, the buildings of dwarves are more stable and thick, and can definitely stand the test of time.Therefore, most ministers believed that since they planned to invite other races to do it, dwarves were more suitable than elves.

"No, I've decided to hand over the project to the elves," Eros shook his head and rejected most people's opinions.

Duke Sacre also felt that it was a good choice for the dwarves to take over the job, but when Eros insisted that the elves do it, he didn't make a sound.In this case, if he questioned the king's decision, then most of the ministers would not agree with Eros' decision, and the king's status in the entire imperial capital would decline.This is not the result he wants to see.

"Why do elves build the dam?" a minister retorted dissatisfiedly, "Should those guys carve flowers on the dam, or plant some vines? The dam is a very serious project, and it doesn't take that much Unrealistic decoration! Moreover, the friendship between humans and elves has faded to almost nothing, and there are still some business contacts with dwarves... Don't you think dwarves are more useful than elves?"

Eros waved his hand: "I decided to use the elves, and I will handle the negotiation work."

There is no way, the other party is the king. Since he insists so much, these ministers have no choice but to ask the Minister of Finance for help even if they disagree.Here, apart from the Duke of Sacre, only the Minister of Finance dared to confront the king.Now the Duke of Sacre is firmly supporting His Majesty the King, so everyone has to ask the old Minister of Finance for help.

"I think..." The chancellor cleared his throat, and finally someone came to ask his opinion. Since just now, these people have been chattering and discussing without any point, so he stood up and dusted Brushing off his robes, he seemed to say to the ministers who had placed high hopes on him, "I think what you said is very correct..."

With the support of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, these people are like chicken blood, they can't wait to climb on the table and argue with the king!

"However, I also support His Majesty's judgment." The chancellor made a sharp turn and let those people sit back on their chairs like deflated balls. "Although the skill of the dwarves ranks first on the continent, the asking price is too high." Yes! The elves, if they are willing, can even build it for us for free, they are not short of money!"

I mean it too!Eros agreed in his heart. Although he had never dealt with the dwarves, he learned from some relatives that these dwarves are money-spinners.Now that the disaster is urgent, if they are asked to build a river dam, they will definitely be slaughtered, so he must die of love!Anyway, it's just a river dam, and it's not about building any huge dungeons, or fortifications during the Great War. The elves are enough for things like river dams!

At this moment, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Eros finally thought of going together. Under the premise of money, they rarely stood on the united front.

Therefore, this matter was decided in this way. According to Eros, he would personally negotiate with the elves to finalize the price for the construction of the dam. If there were elves, the construction period would definitely be greatly shortened.

Then there is the matter of the church.

"The flooding of the Crota River this time is worse than before, so I hope..." Eros cleared his throat and looked at the two cardinals sitting on one side of the conference table. The two people who looked at them were terrified, and they didn't know what problem to give them.

Eros showed a comforting smile, but in the eyes of the two cardinals, it looked like a grin no matter what.After all, this person is a false king, this is what the oracle said, and they all know it in their hearts.But after all, the news of the oracle did not leak out, so why did the king find trouble with them?Did someone say something before the king?

A huge doubt rose in their hearts. Since this person is a false king, what is his real identity?

"I would like to ask the church to send some people to the third district. The death there has plunged the people of the entire third district into silent darkness," Eros said emotionally, "there needs the holy light of the Church of Light, and uses faith to comfort people who have lost their loved ones I think it would be great if the Church of Illuminati could send people there.”

"There are bright churches in the three districts," Marvin reminded the king in a low voice. According to the church system, although they are the Guangming church in the imperial capital, they are also assigned by the general church in the first district.In the final analysis, they are also equivalent to the district churches, and the dispatch of priests and bishops requires the approval of the Pope.

The first district is the holy place of the Church of Light, which is equivalent to the heart.Under the Pope is the College of Cardinals, and he has sent cardinals to preside over each district, including the imperial capital.There will be three cardinals in each district, and the location of the imperial capital is important, so two more cardinals will be assigned, making a total of five.In other words, there are also three cardinals presiding over the daily work in the three districts.If it was sent by the first district, it would be fine, but if the cardinal was sent by the imperial capital, it would be a bit unreasonable.

For a long time, the imperial power and the religious power have not invaded and interfered with each other. Although there have been several conflicts before, they have tended to ease in the past 100 years.Therefore, although there is nothing wrong with the form of Eros directly instructing the cardinal, it is a provocation to the church and even the religious authority.