From Baron to Lord

It was already known that gem dragons were inherently arrogant, and it seemed that the Thunder Dragon, after its successful evolution, had also raised its standards considerably.

As for Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil, they were only at the peak of the eighth level, not even ninth-level knights, let alone Saint Domain experts. How could they possibly be noticed by the dragons?

Allen frowned. Dragons were good in many ways, but they were just too arrogant.

He could naturally force a dragon to choose a master, but whether the dragon would listen was uncertain.

Moreover, this was not child's play; it was choosing a partner for life and death. Forcing such a thing could lead to unforeseen accidents.

Allen was plagued with a headache. Suddenly, he thought of something.

"Now, I can only try a desperate measure." Allen returned to Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil.

"Greetings, Duke." Seeing Allen, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Allen was pleased that they didn't say too much. "Next, I will conduct an experiment. Do not resist, understand?"

"Yes."

Allen took out the demigod's heart from last time. Back then, to rescue Cecilymina, he had extracted all the essence from this demigod's heart.

However, after all, it was related to a god, and there was still a trace of power remaining, which seemed quite extraordinary.

Allen looked at the demigod's heart, closed his eyes, and chanted incantations. A magic circle slowly appeared in his hand.

From the demigod's heart, streams of milky white gas were extracted and appeared in Allen's hand.

Soon, the heart, with its last trace of power extracted, turned into a pile of ashes, while Allen had a ball of gas in his hand.

Allen waved his left hand, and the ball of gas split into three, entering the bodies of Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil.

The three were startled, but they didn't move. They didn't believe that Duke Allen would harm them.

Allen also waited quietly to see their reactions. The four of them stared at each other, and the atmosphere was very awkward. "Do you not feel anything?"

Chapter 396: The Great War Begins

"It seems... I don't feel anything." Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil scratched their heads, looking innocent.

"This... Could it be that the time was too long, and the divine power has all dissipated?" Allen felt a sense of unease, but he still didn't believe it. He put his hand on Emil's shoulder and thoroughly examined him.

At this time, Allen realized that for some reason, Emil's aptitude had improved a lot, and he looked very different from before.

Honasan and Lucinger were the same. Only then did Allen feel relieved.

It seemed that this demigod's heart was still useful, capable of improving a person's aptitude, which would drive countless people crazy.

Seeing that they were still unaware, Allen didn't say anything, only saying, "Wait a little longer." Then he returned to the dragons.

This time, the gem dragons no longer had their previous arrogance. They looked at the three men with great interest.

"Now, what do you think of them?" Allen said smugly.

The dragons looked at Allen and nodded repeatedly, seeming very satisfied.

Allen chose a yellow gem dragon, a purple gem dragon, and the Thunder Dragon.

Seeing the remaining black gem dragon looking depressed, Allen said with amusement, "Don't be unhappy. You'll have to wait for a while this time. Next time, I'll find you an even better master."

Allen was naturally referring to Cecilymina. He had always been generous to his woman, and he had specially reserved the strongest black gem dragon for her.

However, Cecilymina was still overseas, so the gem dragon could only wait for a moment.

Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil were getting a little bored while waiting, when they heard a startling dragon roar.

The three looked up at the sky in surprise, only to see three huge dragons soaring in the sky. It was the first time they had seen dragons so close, and they were all stunned.

The three dragons quickly landed in front of the three men, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil were greatly startled. If they hadn't seen Duke Allen also coming down, they probably couldn't help but run away. "No need to be nervous," Allen said with a smile. "Do you want to become dragon knights?"

"Dragon knights?" Seeing the three dragons in front of them, even if they were stupid, they would know what was happening. They were immediately moved to tears and knelt down, saying, "Thank you, Duke."

"Alright, come and meet your partners." Honasan, Lucinger, and Emil excitedly stepped forward, each choosing a dragon to approach, and the dragons were very cooperative.

The three of them were currently only eighth-level peak golden knights. After they had a good understanding with the dragons, Allen helped them break through to the ninth level.

Then he left the three of them in the palace, constantly giving them special training, striving to help them break through to the Saint Domain and become true dragon knights.

Soon, two months had passed, and Allen had three more dragon knights under his command.

On this day, a soft chime rang in Allen's mind, and a voice came out.

"Epic Mission: The Undead of the Ates Empire Begins."

"Mission Completion Time: Unlimited. Mission Requirements: Successfully resist the undead attack of the Ates Empire and purify them."

"Each ghost soldier killed earns one merit point, each ghost knight killed earns ten merit points, and so on for ghost generals, ghost kings, and ghost emperors."

"Mission Hint: Violence sometimes cannot solve all problems. Perhaps you can try another method?"

“This day has finally come.” Allen stood up abruptly. Ever since he learned about this great battle, he had made many preparations. Now that the battle was about to begin, he calmed down instead.

“A ghost soldier is only worth one point of merit. The number of undead this time is probably not simple.”

Allen thought of the task description and pondered silently.

Since opening the merit system, the merit points he had obtained had been increasing.

If nothing unexpected happened, this time his merit points would be at least several million, even tens of millions.

According to this, could it be that there are also tens of millions of undead?

Allen thought for a moment, imagining the overwhelming undead rushing towards his Allen Duchy, and couldn't help but shiver.

“Also, what is the other method the system mentioned? Could it be that if they want to kill me, I still have to reason with them, persuade them to lay down their butcher knives and become Buddhas on the spot?”

Allen thought for a while, but couldn't come up with any ideas, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, preparing for battle was always a good thing.

“Duke, Duke!”

Allen was awakened, seeing the many people below the platform looking at him with surprise.

Knowing that the great battle was coming, Allen naturally gathered all the forces of the territory to the front line.

Thanks to the two railways that Allen had previously requested the Minister of Finance to build, transferring troops and supplies was not very difficult.

And now, the five marquises, including Allen's cheap old father, had also arrived.

Allen didn't say much, but instead looked serious.

“Everyone, I have received the revelation of the God of War. The great battle has already begun today.”

The people below were shocked. Allen continued, “I have decided to go there myself. Thomas, Marco, and Jackson, take the Knights and go with me.”

“Duke, you can't.”

“Duke, think twice.”

The ministers below were doing their best to dissuade him, “The front line is too dangerous. It's better for the Duke to stay in the palace.”

Allen didn't want to agree. After all, he also vaguely guessed that this war probably couldn't do without him.

Besides, without his war halo, this war would probably be difficult to fight. He also needed merit points and couldn't not go.

“Alright, no need to say anymore.” Allen stood up, and the voices below immediately disappeared.

“When I'm not here, you must do your jobs well.”

“Yes, Duke.”

Allen led the three marquises of the Allen Duchy, as well as Jackson, Marco, Thomas, and five hundred two-headed dragon knights to the coastline at high speed.

When they arrived at Sphite City, they found that the atmosphere here was very tense.

Allen and his group flew in the sky, naturally seeing more.

Even Allen, who was well-informed, couldn't help but feel a little numb.

On the beach not far away, countless corpses were constantly walking up from the sea, looking disorganized.

And the sea was also full of skeleton soldiers. At a glance, there were at least hundreds of thousands of them.

These skeleton soldiers were not particularly many. After all, there were 400,000 dragon blood warriors here, as well as three major legions.

However, Allen thought about the task and felt that this matter was not that simple. Moreover, this pile of corpses looked very creepy.

Allen and his group landed, and the soldiers regained some composure when they saw Allen.

“It's Duke Allen!”

Chapter 397: First Victory

What the hell are these things? Allen cursed inwardly.

Even though he was prepared and well-informed, he still felt a little numb when he saw these skeleton soldiers for the first time.

The soldiers below were even more so. Suddenly seeing so many skeletons, their faces turned pale, and the hands holding their weapons were shaking non-stop.

Seeing the situation below, Allen knew that he should step up, otherwise, if they waited like this, their morale would be gone. What would they fight then?

He would rather face twice as many enemies than encounter these ghost things.

Fortunately, there were not many undead this time. It should only be the first batch of troops.

Could it be that they are here for me to practice? Allen thought of leveling up and fighting monsters in the game and landed.

The soldiers below had already seen the dragon knight regiment in the sky, and they only discovered him when Allen landed.

“Duke Allen!”

“Duke!”

Seeing Allen, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The Duke was a person watched by the gods. There were no enemies that the Duke could not defeat. As soldiers who followed Allen to fight in all directions, they naturally thought so.

And the newly recruited soldiers had also heard many stories about Allen and were very curious about him.

Looking at the pairs of fanatical, worshipful, and curious eyes below, Allen took a deep breath.

“My warriors, many of you have followed me in battles in all directions. Thanks to you, Allen has the glory it has today.”

Allen roared and drew the long sword from his waist.

“Now the Allen Duchy has encountered a new crisis. The time has come for you to be needed. Are you willing to fight for the Allen Duchy?”

“Willing!”

“Willing!”