keep tracking.
keep tracking.
“what?!”
Batis forgot all the anger he had been getting a little while ago and let out a cry of astonishment. After a while, his face went pale as if he had finally begun to grasp the situation properly.
“Then who did I give my blood to…?”
Soldos replied in a grim voice.
“We have to figure that out now.”
“No, I believed it more easily because Ferris belonged to the Empire! No no!”
A small light flashed in Batis’ eyes for an instant. He quickly glanced around us and opened his mouth quickly.
“Come to think of it, if this happens like this, isn’t it unconditionally my responsibility for what happened?”
At that remark, Rusona must have been dumbfounded. She forgot the sharp argument she had just a while ago and asked again.
“How on earth do you think that will happen?”
“listen! Wouldn’t there have been no problems if such a suspicious, unidentified woman had been prevented from wandering around the palace in the first place? Isn’t it! After all, this is a problem for me too, who was deceived! It can be said that the responsibility of the Empire for allowing that woman to enter and leave the palace…”
“Stop it.”
Rusona frowned slightly and cut her words firmly.
“Now is not the time to take responsibility, but now is the time to bring back dragon blood. And brother.”
After a short pause, she stared at Batis and glanced at Soldos.
“Since Lord Soldos came to the Rose Palace to help us and is sitting here like this, do you really think that if you insult them by making statements like holding the Empire accountable, you can really get the Empire to cooperate? Don’t you intend to seek out your brother’s blood?”
Only then did Batis, who had been laughing with excitement, recalled the existence of Soldos. Realizing his mistake, he quickly bowed his head to Soldos.
“I made a slight mistake.”
“it’s okay.”
Soldos didn’t seem to attach much importance to Batis’ words from the beginning, just quietly said that it was okay and then moved on to the main topic.
“First of all, before coming here, I ordered to find an unknown visitor.”
Rusona whispered to him.
“I want you to keep the dragon blood a secret.”
“Of course I did. Then it’s better to move things like this as quickly as possible, but would it be okay if I asked the Dragon Princess just one question before moving?”
“What are you curious about?”
“Dragon blood. What can I do with it that I must get it back?”
The golden eyes sank heavily. Rusona faced Soldos and answered firmly.
“I cannot tell an official from a foreign country. Lord Soldos, I hope you will understand my position.”
“Yes, I won’t ask any more.”
‘killing!’
My mother, who had been quietly listening to the conversation, was guessing the use of it, saying, ‘It’s definitely dragon’s blood, so if you eat it, it’s good for your body.’
‘Kill kill!’
Suggestion that if you find it first, why don’t you stick your tongue out a little.
I was slightly taken aback by my mother’s suggestion.
Since ancient times, it has been said that the blood of spiritual creatures is good for the body. Anyway, if it’s my body, there will be almost no side effects no matter what I eat, and I can only take care of the good things.
While I was fantasizing about useless things, Soldos and Rusona chatted about how to start the chase. In the meantime, Batis listened with his mouth shut like a child who had been in an accident.
After a while, Soldos and Rusona’s opinions eventually came together.
The various investigations conducted by freeing people were assisted by the Empire under the command of Soldos, and we decided to move ourselves and follow Batis’ movements that day.
Soldos insisted on bringing a few guards along in case of an unexpected situation, but Rusona objected to increasing the number of people accompanying her.
“Even though we look like this, my brother and I are dragons. Who would dare to disrupt the dragon’s performance? Our strength is sufficient, so I think it’s best to move as a group of four.”
One master and two dragons. In fact, it was already a combination that was full of chasing someone except for me.
“You do.”
Soldos bent over and we ended our short but long conversation and followed Batis across the Rose Palace.
“So… I crossed the road…”
Batis had a little trouble finding the exact route that day, probably walking as he pleased, but he still remembered the road and guided us somewhere.
“Why are you silent, Marnak?”
While walking silently behind Batis, Rusona suddenly spoke to me.
‘killing!’
A warning to stop talking and do what you have to do.
Actually, it’s not that I didn’t say anything, it’s just that my mother was chattering to herself as usual, so I was busy listening to it.
“Oh, I was thinking about who was behind this incident.”
“exactly?”
“Is there a culprit that Princess Rusona can guess?”
“You mean me?”
She closed and opened her golden eyes a few times before continuing.
“First of all, you can see that it was not an individual act. Dragon’s blood is very sensitive, and unless proper collection and preservation methods are used, its value is very easily volatilized. That’s why our dragons don’t hesitate to fight outside and bleed.”
“Are you saying that an organization with enough technology to collect and store dragon blood is the culprit?”
“exactly.”
How many such organizations are there?
Just as I was counting the organizations one by one, my thoughts broke and Rusona spoke up.
“So I believe it is very likely that the dragon’s blood has already become useless because it has not been properly processed.”
“indeed.”
Well, there was some truth in Rusona’s words. Rather than knowing how to use dragon blood and collecting it, there is a good chance that he took precious dragon scales and claws as a bonus.
‘killing!’
Then, since the dragon’s blood might have gone bad, a word to say, don’t drink it immediately after finding it. I replied that I would know by tapping on my breast pocket.
“But the worst case is if you really know the use and go through the proper collection and preservation method to take the dragon’s blood…”
She paused for a moment, then shook her head.
“I almost grew suspicious.”
At the end of her line of sight was the back of Soldos, who was walking ahead.
Perhaps she recalled the number of cases in which the Northern Empire had taken dragon’s blood and then pretended that they did not know about it.
In the midst of various thoughts, Batis arrived at the place where he met Ferris.
“Here it is. The woman called me here. And then…”
Batis accelerated his steps, as if his memory was quickly returning.
“After going all the way from here to there…”
Following him, we left the vast imperial palace. After leaving the imperial palace, Rusona narrowed her eyes and stared at the back of Batis, who was walking ahead.
“Your brother is being guided out of the palace by someone you don’t know, so did you just blindly follow him?”
Batis didn’t even look back and gave a rough answer.
“Then the research center was built outside the palace, so there’s no way it was built inside.”
It was quite a word. Rusona, who had been hit by Batis for the first time, didn’t blame it any more, probably thinking that what Batis said was reasonable.
He made his way across the busy street without hesitation. I had no choice but to ask a question about her appearance, which was completely different from when she was wandering around the imperial palace earlier.
“Why do you remember the road so well?”
“hmm? That’s because Ferris was chattering about things around him the entire time he walked. So I remember it well.”
It was strange.
Doesn’t this mean that the woman named Ferris was very kind and helped Batis to find her again?
However, there was no way we, the pursuers, could deny such clear traces.
‘killing!’
My mother’s sharp point that it feels like a trap for some reason.
“Why is there a problem?”
As if I wasn’t the only one who noticed, the eyes of Soldos and Rusona, excluding Batis, sank heavily.
“no. no. Please continue to guide me.”
“Nothing.”
Batis quickly turned his head and quickly crossed the narrow alley. And soon after, a three-story mansion greeted us.
“Here.”
A neat and well maintained mansion. The vegetation in the garden was neatly showing off its own appearance as if it had been carefully managed.
Soldos quickly scanned the surroundings and inspected the exterior of the mansion.
“When we return, we will first investigate who the owner of this land is. It’s a bit unfortunate. If I had accompanied the guards, I could have ordered them to go back and find out right away.”
“It has already passed.”
A subtle war of nerves between Rusona and Soldos. Although Soldos noticed the Dragon Princess, he did not blindly follow her to the point of giving up what he thought was right.
In the first place, he was the emperor’s bodyguard and a master belonging to the empire, so the current respect was just a way to avoid trouble.
He took out the long stick from his back and held it in his hand.
“Be on your guard, just in case. I will take the lead.”
With Batis backing down and the master at the head of the group, we entered the mansion.
“I entered through the front door here.”
“All right.”
bang!
Soldos broke down the door without hesitation and ran into the mansion.
As we followed him into the mansion, the neatly organized interior greeted us. All that was littered on the tidy floor was the fragments of the door Soldos had just broken down.
Batis glanced around the interior of the mansion, then pointed to a long passageway.
“I went over there. Then I went down the stairs and headed to the basement.”
“I’ll have to check that first.”
“Good.”
“I agree too.”
We quickly decided to start looking around where Batis got the blood. As Batis said, after passing through the long hallway, the stairs leading to the basement greeted us. Quickly exchanging glances, we headed underground without hesitation.
every time.
After going down the stone stairs for a long time, where only the sound of our footsteps could be heard, we were greeted by a much larger facility than expected when we reached the basement of the mansion.
At first glance, it is a facility that would have cost a lot of gold coins to build, but to expose such a place so easily?
“Haam.”
A relaxed sigh.
end of facility. Several small chairs were attached to each other, and the woman lying on them slowly rose. She opened her bright red eyes and opened her mouth.
“Why are you all here so late? If you lost the dragon’s blood, wouldn’t it be right to run to the top last night? By the way…”
The red-haired woman, who must have been Ferris, smiled as she ran her fingers through her hair.
“It came more than I expected. I thought that the dragon brother and sister would come alone, but the master and… the priest?”
When she saw my outfit, she sighed briefly and smiled.
“It’s difficult when there are four of them… Then, shall we send the most annoying master first?”
“What is that now…”
Exactly!
As Ferris snapped his fingers, Soldos’ expression hardened. Ferris smirked and teased Soldos.
“Should I go? is not it? Hurry up and leave to fulfill your role as the emperor’s escort! Soldos Garandibald! You know better what is more important: helping these immature siblings and doing my duty, right?”
aww
Soldos gritted his teeth and murmured briefly at us.
“I’m really sorry, but I have to go right away.”
He took out a flashing red badge from his chest.
“Your Majesty is in danger.”
After that, he ran away in an instant without saying a word.
Ferris burst into laughter as he watched Soldos leave.
“First of all, the most annoying one has been sent back… Now there is only one unexpected guest… but at least one would be fine!”
right!
She snapped her fingers once more, and the door we had passed slammed shut with a thud.
“Give me my blood back! Ferris!!!”
Ferris smirked and spread his white palm.
“I want to return it, but I already wrote it all? What if I’m sorry?”
“Brother, please get out of the way.”
The golden pupil was torn vertically and long. Golden scales sprouted on Rusona’s cheeks and on her rolled up wrists. A dragon princess with long, sharp nails. She glared at Ferris and growled into the day.
“I will make you pay for scorning the dragon.”
Ferris glanced at Rusona and giggled. But soon the laughter stopped. She looked down at Rusona with an expression like a broken doll.
“What do you say about the patched-up lizard? You know what my least favorite animal in the world is…”
Bang!
Rusona, who had taken her seat, ran to the question-and-answer dance and jabbed her nails at Ferris.
“I am ignorant.”
right!
When Ferris snapped his fingers, the floor cracked open and an irregular mass protruded. That dark purple gelatinous mass absorbed Rusona’s attacks too easily.
Boeing!
Ferris giggled behind the giant slime.
“Why would I have been kind enough to bring two of your reptiles here?”
Red eyes glittered like jewels.
“I’ll take only ten barrels of blood from each animal and send them back. Of course, as long as they’re still alive after that amount of blood is drawn.”
