The Defeated Dragon

This chapter rewards and adds to the Alliance Leader's "Song of Dusk", temporarily more, and then makes up for 11 more. Speaking of which, the war song boss got three numbers, and they're all allies...

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Mission failed.

Happy journey to the smoke mission, failed for the first time, Lester thought about what would happen if the mission failed, long before he first discovered the smoke mission.

Fearing an unpredictable outcome, however, he has been trying to accomplish the task or change it. Coupled with the rewards of those tasks, it was impossible for it to fail. Even this time, as tulip bugs evolved, Lester didn't want to fail.

Still failing, he stared at the smoky serpent, which had begun to change, without blinking.

Waiting for the latest change.

Slowly.

The twisted smoke starts to form a new serpent: "Mission: When it's used up, bad luck replaces it, often walking by the river without wet shoes, but you have to learn to grow in adversity, like a sea swallow for a storm, defeat the bats in the dark. Reward: Bloody Mary. ”

“Hmm?”

“Still have a mission? ”

“Good use, bad luck to replace it?” Lester was surprised that he had considered that the smoke mission would keep him away from himself or cause anti-phagocytic injuries, and had no idea that it was just a few words expressing "good luck” to “bad luck” and demanding that the bats of the dark night be defeated.

The mission is complete, there are still rewards, and there has been virtually no change.

He was somewhat disappointed and relieved - he was satisfied with the form of the smoke mission and did not want any change.

Immediately.

His focus was on the mission: “What are the bats in the dark and what are the bloody maries? Seems to have heard of Bloody Mary, like a cocktail? Remember in many movies there was a cocktail called Bloody Mary, which was to give me a new drink recipe? ”

Bloody Mary has an interpretation, it's a cocktail.

As for bats in the dark, Lester doesn't quite understand, does he think it's some kind of bat beast, or is it a vampire?

In a knight's novel, there's a vampire story that can turn into a special human being for bats. Ghosts, witches, and sea demons have all proven themselves, and he believes that vampires are absolutely present - in Curtis Truth's notes, too, “vampires” have been listed alongside magicians.

Seems, like Druid, to be some kind of special impostor.

“So, would some vampire carry a bloody Mary cocktail recipe with him and then let me kill the explosive recipe?” Lester is not nervous, he is no longer Ng Xiao Amun. As a half-step dragon knight, he has no fear of any challenge as long as he is not a dragon knight.

“Bats in the Dark Night, when will they come? ”

He waited until the second half of the night, not for bats in the dark, Magic Eye to patrol, even landed the bird Rocky, wandered around and still found no suspicious dark night bats.

Sleeping this night wasn't very solid.

But until dawn the next day, when the Knights departed for Tulip Chamberlain, there were still no bats waiting in the dark. He stopped waiting, and maybe the bats in the dark would attack him on the road - as far as attacking territory was concerned, Lester could only hope that Paris, Chris and Archer would stop him.

He had already told steward Carter that if there was any danger to the territory, he would escort the Pokémon to the beach castle and keep blowing the horn he had deliberately placed. By then, when you hear the trumpet, you will protect the elves, believing that the elves hiding in the water will survive safely.

Protecting elves is protecting half the territory.

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Coral City Harbor, fleet departure.

Lester is no longer with the Count on the Tulip family's largest sailboat, Tulip, where he stays on his Sunset and enjoys the comfort of thermostatic air conditioning. Until the arrival in Bullshoe City, the smoke mission remained static and the bats in the dark did not show signs.

“I talked to Archer, if there was a vampire or something to attack the territory, she would come to me quickly with the protection of the elves... At Archer's speed and strength, there should be no danger in the sea, there should have been a situation to tell me... should be no problem. ”

Black Horse Island is a four-day voyage from Bullshoe City, and at the speed of Acura, it can arrive in half a day.

Even going from Black Horse Island to the mainland won't take a day.

So if Archer didn't show up, he wouldn't worry about territory.

The port of Ironshoe City is very lively and almost all the nobles of the Grand Duchy are involved in this pioneering order. The large noble fleet is dense and numb, squeezing the entire port out of water. The Count was going to the meeting, and Lester didn't know much about nobility, so he just wandered around Bullshoe City.

And shortly afterwards, it was heard that in the trading market of Bullshoe City, there was a trade of Pokémon - rarely have domestic nobles come together, and naturally this opportunity cannot be wasted.

Just as bored as Lester, I wouldn't miss it.

He wore a mask and did not wear a characteristic tulip-like flower on his chest to guard against the smell of smoke in Bullshoe City, leading his servants into the market.

“Viscount Lister, it is you.” Lister was walking in the market and suddenly someone greeted him and turned to Jonas Moonray, son of Moonray Count Jonas Moonray.

“Sir Jobs, are you in the market too? ”

“Yeah, ready to see if there's a Pokémon deal.” Jobs was enthusiastic about socializing and immediately introduced Lester to several young men with him, all of whom were noble descendants of the Blue Blood Alliance.

Unlike the Feng Di aristocracy, the noble descendants of the Blue Blood Coalition basically go to war when they grow up. Though the death rate is relatively high, the rate of ascension is much faster than that of the clandestine nobility. Basically, their resources are either given by the Grand Duke or plundered from the battlefield.

The percentage of income from closed land operations is small.

The Blue Blood Alliance and the Forbidden Lords themselves are not a social circle, and young nobles rarely interact with each other, but Lester, as the youngest sky knight in the country, is a first-rate bluff. You're welcome to greet some young nobles with Jobs.

Lester was also kind enough to give back, not to look arrogant, not to look hot.

After saying hello.

A few words and they spread apart without further communication. Lester continues to look for Pokémon in the market. There are too few Pokémon worthy of access. It is rare to see an uncontracted barley worm. The seller will ask for 4500 gold coins to bite.

4500 gold coins for barley bugs is a silly thing to do, and even Pokémon bugs that can grow magic are not necessarily worth the price.

Liszt didn't ask for it.

He didn't have barley magic and bought it at a heavy cost. And the death of Tulip Bug alerted him that he didn't get a smoke mission, and his Pokémon didn't have a chance of evolutionary failure —— he even decided to give up his stimulus plan for Jura.

Pokémon evolves toward a Pokémon with equally great odds of failing - although not dying like tulip worms, it is certain that energy is badly damaged and life is compromised.

So he wants to let it go.

Instead of thinking about interfering with the evolution of Pokémon, just provide them with information elements and so on as much as possible to help them increase their chances of success with their own evolution.

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At night, he accompanied the Count to a dinner hosted by the Grand Prince.

At the banquet, once again, the youngest sky knight in the country was blown hard by everyone. Is Forgiveness trying to avoid, or is it a drunken drunk, supported by a servant, who goes back to sleep on the Sunset.