From Baron's Second Son to Dragon Rider

After the nobles left, Grand Duke Veronica slowly stood up from the throne. From her expression, it can be seen that she was not in a very good mood at this time.

"Klober..."

Hearing his master calling him, Klober stepped forward, bowed slightly, and quietly waited for the Grand Duke's order.

"Do you know what the most basic thing is to manage a country?"

Klober frowned and pondered for a moment. He felt that the Grand Duke's question seemed to have a deeper meaning, but he had to answer it, so he had to answer in the most mediocre direction:

"Is it power?"

"Heh!"

Klober clearly felt that when he said the word power, Grand Duke Veronica's face was obviously wearing a mocking sneer.

"If power is really useful, those guys just now would not dare to question my decision openly.

"You are still too young, Viscount Klober. ”

"Watch carefully, learn carefully, and see where those nobles got the confidence to dare to disobey my orders, and how I should make them surrender. "

Grand Duke Veronica shook her head.

Although her little rose had also gone through some hardships, she was still a little immature compared to other nobles.

Perhaps this expedition was a good opportunity for her.

It would allow her to grow up quickly.

Thinking of those island nobles, Veronica had already made some decisions in her mind.

"Okay, you go back and rest first. You have just become an Earth Knight. You should practice the fighting skills I taught you well. You will need them in the future."

Since she had decided to start training Krober in all aspects, Veronica would naturally not be stingy and taught Krober the fighting skills she had learned during her time as an Earth Knight.

"Yes, sir! "

Krober bowed, slowly stepped out of the throne hall, and returned to his room.

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After leaving the throne hall, Stephen Moonlight Mushroom quickly wrote two letters, one of which was sent to Moonlight City via the ravens in Saint Gold Castle.

The other was personally delivered to the Broken Wheel Tavern at the foot of the mountain by his personal guard captain.

He knew that the Golden Dragon Vivian could monitor the entire Saint Gold Castle, so he was very casual when writing these two letters.

The Broken Wheel Tavern at the foot of the mountain is one of the businesses of the Moonlight Mushroom family, mainly responsible for the collection and transmission of intelligence.

After writing the two letters, Earl Stephen sealed them with fire and handed them to the guard beside him.

"Go. "

The guard nodded expressionlessly and turned to leave the room.

Only Count Stephen was left sitting at the desk with a gloomy expression, wondering what he was thinking.

In other places in Saint Gold Castle, this situation also happened to other nobles. Only a very small number of nobles honestly wrote letters to the family to mobilize troops.

Most of the others wrote two letters, one to their own intelligence personnel, and the other to their respective territories through Saint Gold Castle's ravens.

And Vivian naturally discovered this and told Veronica about it through the mental contract.

"Don't worry about them, just pretend that this matter doesn't exist. Now we still need the power of these guys. "

The national war is imminent, and she needs all the forces that can be organized to accompany her to the battlefield. The group of nobles can't make any waves on their own.

The old guy they secretly contacted didn't dare to put his hand in his pocket at this time.

In a flash, a week has passed.

Krober has left Saint Gold Castle and rode Griffin back to Amethyst Island, and some nobles whose territories are closer have gathered soldiers and set up camp near Saint Gold Castle.

At the foot of the mountain, the Broken Wheel Tavern.

Earl Stephen came to the Broken Wheel Tavern at the foot of the mountain in a moon-colored knight's uniform.

As soon as he entered the door, he was pulled by the tavern maid standing by the bar and taken to a room.

"My Lord Earl, the guests are waiting for you here."

The maid bowed and left the room at the signal of Earl Stephen.

In the room, sat a middle-aged man in simple clothes.

"You are here, Earl Stephen, please sit down! "

The middle-aged man looked very familiar, as if the owner of the tavern was not Count Stephen but him.

And Count Stephen really sat down obediently, without any anger after being offended.

"Oh, how did you get into such a big trouble all of a sudden?

So many nobles wrote to us, so I had to bring a negotiation team with me when I set out. "

The middle-aged man kept talking like a chatterbox, and Count Stephen sat there listening until the middle-aged man asked that question.

"Count Stephen, what do you want to write to us about? You know, we are all people who grew up in the light of emeralds, and we should help each other. "

Hearing the four words of emerald light, Count Stephen clenched his fists, as if he was obsessed with these four words.

"Don't use the emerald light to pressure me, Les! I am no longer a noble of the Emerald Kingdom. I am now the Count of Moonlight Mushroom of the Golden Grand Duchy! "

"Oh, yes, yes, then may I ask, Count Moonlight Mushroom of the Golden Duchy, what kind of help are you looking for by writing to us?"

Rice was not frightened by Count Stephen's anger at all, and still had a smiling face.

"Huh..."

Earl Stephen took a deep breath. It is reasonable to say that with his shrewdness, he would not lose his composure like this, but he was under too much pressure during this period, so he could not control his emotions.

"The purpose of my letter is to ask what Lord Bronze Fury thinks of this war."

After Earl Stephen's words fell, Les's expression changed from laughing to not laughing.

He frowned and shouted in a low voice:

"Damn Stephen! Don't mention the name of that lord here! Are you afraid that the dragon doesn't know?"

Now it was Earl Stephen's turn to look at Les with a smile.

"So what? I didn't intend to hide it from the eyes of the Grand Duke, otherwise how could I come to the Broken Wheel Tavern so swaggeringly."

In the final analysis, the battle between countries is basically a battle between dragon knights.

These earth knights or sky knights are consumables on the battlefield, which are just slightly more durable than formal knights or great knights.

Now that Grand Duke Veronica is determined to go to war with the Mountain Copper Kingdom, the nobles under them naturally want to find out the details of the war.

They don't want to be wiped out by a dragon's breath on the battlefield.

Les stared at Count Stephen's eyes for a long time before he put on his signature smile again.

"The current war situation is not optimistic. Although the Mountain Copper Kingdom lost a dragon knight when it conquered other principalities some time ago, they still have seven dragon knights.

But the kingdom and King Alvis have only four dragon knights in total, and His Majesty the King must stay in the Jade Valley, so there are only three dragon knights that can be mobilized.

If it weren't for our allies helping us to contain part of the enemy's forces, I'm afraid the other side would have formed a dragon knight team and directly killed the capital."

After hearing the specific information about the war, Count Stephen put away his smile and hurriedly asked the questions he wanted to ask.

"How is the war situation under the Dragon Knights? Are you optimistic?"

"It's OK. The knights trained by King Alvis's Knight School are both of high quality and quantity enough to compete with the army of the Mountain Copper Kingdom. So our biggest disadvantage at present is that the number gap between the Dragon Knights is too large."

Next, Les described in detail the distribution of Dragon Knights on the battlefield.

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