Law of the Dragon

The scouts didn't bring any news about the Black Forest. Just like the king said, it was just that the trees were tall and blocked the sunlight, so it looked extraordinarily gloomy, and it didn't mean that it had anything to do with darkness.

Hasen came out from the home of the captain of the guard, feeling a little anxious. The captain's health has begun to deteriorate recently. Since a serious illness three years ago, he has always been weak.The family has already decided that he will be the captain of the guard, and they will not easily hand over this job to another family.But his relatives are also worried. Hasen is too young, so young that he has not experienced the change of the court, the war and the depression of personnel.

If his guard captain Uncle could serve another seven years—no, four years, four years would be enough, but...he worried that his elders might change his heir, no matter how good Hasen was.

As soon as he arrived at the guard, he received a message from the king's envoy. The king hoped that he could enter the palace, so he entered the palace without stopping.

When he arrived at the palace, the servants did not let him wait in the audience hall but took him to the garden.

The history of Hildor is quite long. It was established decades after the Demon God War, so it has been 300 years ago.This is a rather astonishing number. Each generation of kings and courtiers have carefully managed it so that it will not decline. This is not easy.This country has moved its capital three times, and finally settled here, and divided the whole country into five districts, and the imperial capital is independent of these five districts.

The palace has a history of nearly 200 years, and it has been expanded three times to form the magnificent and magnificent garden. The garden is undoubtedly the most exquisite art building. Hasen even heard that the construction of it was participated by elves, even though he often passed by. But every time I can't help being amazed.

He really believed that elves were involved in the construction, because it is indeed different from ordinary human buildings. The beautiful garden seems to be filled with vitality, and even the vines are arranged just right.

The flowers exude a sweet fragrance, the green plants are wrapped around the exquisitely carved Roman columns, and the precious gems are also used generously in the carvings.

——This is why Eros loves this place so much.

The relationship between dragons and elves is not good. To be honest, elves do not have a good relationship with several races. Humans can be regarded as a race they are relatively close to.However, the dragon will not deny the aesthetic artistic talent of the elves, and they have excellent taste and creativity in fine workmanship.They can make an inconspicuous, gray stone into incomparable brilliance, and the beautiful facets carved out make the light passing through it more delicate. Their skills in gem carving are much higher than those of the dwarves.

So, Eros is much more comfortable in this garden.

At this moment, he is playing chess with Duke Sacre, yes, the dragon is playing chess.They usually don't like this kind of game too much, but it's okay for Eros to play it as a human being now.

After Duke Sacre handed him the rules of chess, they spent the afternoon here. For Eros, the afternoon without financial meetings was a bit boring.

As a result, Eros found that he really didn't have any talent in these games. He was a dragon and was not good at planning and layout. Hasson's arrival just allowed him to save face and stop this not-so-interesting game.

"Good afternoon," he greeted cheerfully, trying to look as friendly as possible, turning his attention away from the board to show that the game wasn't all that important, that he wasn't really bad at it, he was just distracted, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Hasen was a little flattered by such kind words. He looked at the king who was rarely pleasant, and didn't know what to say, so he could only reply: "I'm sorry, I just received the news from Your Majesty."

"Never mind," Eros said, "I'm not blaming you."

The intimate attitude made Sa Keluo feel a little uncomfortable, so he coughed and said: "I heard that you sent scouts to the Black Forest, I hope you can make the best use of this army."

Hasen looked at Eros with some embarrassment, not understanding why the Duke of Sacre suddenly became hostile to him, and whispered, "The scouts didn't find anything in the Black Forest, but there is a small village established by refugees. "

"Refugees?" Eros was a little confused, "Where did you come from?"

"The third district, Your Majesty." Hasen replied.

Eros was dissatisfied. His finance minister cheated and stole [-] gold coins from his small treasury to support the third district, but now the refugees from the third district have arrived in the imperial capital.

"Is there any loss for those refugees? I mean death in the slums?" Thakro suddenly asked.

Hasen shook his head. He paid special attention to the connection between these refugees and the murders in the slums, so he quickly replied: "No, my lord, they have people who died in the forest, mostly because of wild animals and hunger. , but no one died like the dead in the ghetto, they had nothing to do with it."

"That's it..." Eros nodded, "What about after that?"

"Refugees shouldn't be in the imperial capital, Your Majesty," Hasen replied, "I asked the guards to deport them back to the third district."

Su Keluo suddenly said, "I have some news here."

Eros read the financial report this morning. The tax revenue in the slums is still not improving. They try to shorten their working hours to ensure their own safety. Disasters are still happening. They are at a loss. Sa Keluo had some news, but it was a bit unexpected.

"Hurry up," Eros urged him because he didn't like Thakro's slow-moving and leisurely attitude.

Sa Keluo felt strange about this matter before, so after leaving the king's sight that day, he asked Anu to check something—to be exact, the source of the news.

Witnesses have always said that the time of the Rat Man's appearance coincided with the murder case, almost at the same time as the murder case, and such rumors spread.Hasson also questioned these witnesses, but their answers were vague, and even most of the so-called witnesses were hearsay.

"So, I went to find the source of the news." Thaklow said, "The strange thing is, the source of the news is in the guard." If he didn't use Anu's intelligence network, he really couldn't find the exact source , These messages are distributed extremely widely, as intricate as a spider web.

"Guards?" Hasen was the first to be surprised. He was stunned for a while before he stammered to answer, "Why, how could it be?" Could it be that this is the "court strife" rumored by the elders who planted and framed the gods? ?It's just too scary!Duke Sacre is really not a good person!

"I also find it very strange," Thakro continued, ignoring Hasen's reaction, "but you can imagine, who can know the exact route of the guards' night patrol, and only look for their forgotten places...? "

"This is an insult! This is slander!" Before he finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Hasen, and his voice was also raised. This was the first time he was so excited—can you not be excited, "Sak Duke Luo, you actually doubted the guards! You actually! You actually..." If he was compared to a cat, his fur would definitely stand on end.

"You have to be glad that I'm only in the stage of doubt, vice-captain," Thacklow confronted each other unceremoniously. Young people nowadays have no manners at all, it's so annoying!

"Okay, okay, Thakro is just narrating the information he found," Eros took on the role of mediator, he is a dragon, which is a bit embarrassing for him, "he has nothing say."

"He's said so much!" Hasen endured a series of righteous words of condemnation, suppressing his anger and said, "Your Majesty, please believe that our guards have nothing to do with this matter. As guards, How could...do these things that endanger the people?"

Sa Keluo taunted him a little bit: "It should not be the whole guard team." The implication is that part of the guard team participated in it.

Hasen glared at Duke Sacre, although it was a little impolite, but he still expressed his anger with sharp eyes, and then he said: "It is also possible that our guards saw the refugees from the Black Forest. The dusty refugees might be regarded as Ratmen..." Before he finished speaking, his voice became softer, with no confidence at all, the guards only discovered the refugees today, and the reason why the Ratmen were called "Ratmen" ", not because they look like humans, but because they look like mice. The most obvious features are mouse-like faces and slender tails. For the time being, no one will confuse rat people with humans.

Duke Sacre snorted coldly, which made Hasen even angrier.

Just as Hasen was about to explode, Eros quickly ended the verbal battle: "Let's make a comment after listening to the Duke's information." After he finished speaking, he added "I think" to show his fairness.

Sa Keluo was silent for a while and said: "The source of the news...is the captain."

Eros quickly looked at Hasen, but he only saw surprise and panic on that young face, followed by anger: "I didn't!"

Sa Keluo said coolly: "I'm not talking about the vice-captain, but the captain of the guard."

Hasen didn't know how to express his anger anymore. Should he stand up, throw the white gloves on the Duke, and ask for a duel with his reputation as a bet?

In fact, he was already ready to take off his gloves.

But Thakro stood up before him, and with a wave of his hand, some soldiers walked up to Hasen.

"What?"

Sa Keluo looked business-like, with a generous smile: "In order to avoid suspicion, it is best for the deputy captain to stay with us."