Warm Dragon

Once the war mobilization order is issued, all knights with titles must unconditionally obey the Red Castle's dispatch to the battlefield.

What you gain, you must lose. This is an eternal truth.

The title is the highest pursuit of knights. With a title, you have wealth, status, power, and everything else. But at the same time, the title is also the biggest constraint for knights. If you want to keep your wealth, status, and power, you must do your best to maintain this system.

The Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame is in trouble, and all nobles have an obligation to do so.

Russell did not complain to anyone, not to Grand Duke Kunstan who issued the war mobilization order, nor to Baron Roman who summoned him to the battlefield, because he had gained too many benefits from the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame and the Valley of the Dark Light.

Of course.

The more important reason is that he has prepared a retreat for himself.

"Polly, my Dou Qi chain is about to succeed. No, to be precise, it has succeeded several times. After I practice hard for a few more days and master the Dou Qi chain, we will start the contract!" Russell fed the unicorn Polly in the small yard.

"Contract, Russell, are we going to merge? This progress seems a bit fast, but... I am willing."

A strange murmur sounded in Russell's ears.

There is no doubt that this is the Unicorn Polly's fantasy beast whisper.

A drop of sweat slid down his forehead. Russell wanted to blame Unicorn Polly and be careful with his words so as not to cause misunderstanding.

But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it and smiled: "Just wait for me!"

In this way, Russell practiced hard until the dinner began. After the dinner, he found Baron Roman again and owed a batch of magic potions on credit.

"No need to pay it back, this is my compensation to you." Baron Roman simply gave all the magic potions stored in the small yard to Russell, "Don't rush to refuse, as a father, I only have one request for you."

"Father, please tell me."

"Practice to become a fantasy beast knight as soon as possible, and then don't take risks. I will arrange for you to continue in the support formation... The only requirement is to survive well." Baron Roman said, seeming to feel a little too sensational.

So he shrugged his shoulders and changed to a relaxed tone: "If you lose your arms and legs, your mother will fight with me."

Russell thought for a while and replied: "Mother has been worried about us in Fluorescent Castle."

"I know." Baron Roman seemed to understand what Russell wanted to say, "Don't worry, the three of us will deal with everything outside. After returning to the family, the family can continue to live happily."

"I don't need to deal with anything." Russell smiled.

"Don't be too sure, only men can understand men. When you become a man one day, you will understand your father and brother." Baron Roman snorted, and was a little displeased with his second son's pretending to be pure.

There is no cat in the world that doesn't steal fish.

...

After completing the rest and supply, the Knights of the Valley of the Dark Light, led by Baron Roman and guarded by the clay dragon Ross, continued to set off northward.

After passing through the Province of the Raging Wind, they entered the Province of the Thousand Lakes.

Running along the road built by the Grand Duchy, you can see beautiful lakes dotted on both sides of the road.

Moreover, there are special post stations along the route for the knights to stay, so the journey is not too hard. Occasionally, it snows, but in a blink of an eye, the trees are green and the scenery is really dazzling.

It took two days to cross the Thousand Lakes Province and enter the Mountain Province.

Unlike the neighboring Thousand Lakes Province, which is full of lakes, there are mountains here, and large areas are wasteland-no knight likes to cultivate here.

"The volcanic oasis is vast, and many places are uncultivated. The most important thing is that the conditions here are not as rich as those in other provinces." Baron Roman explained to Russell while riding the fantasy beast-Nightmare Ghost Horse.

Nightmare Ghost Horse is very cool, all black, and there are flame patterns.

But compared with the unicorn Polly, it seems to be more domineering but less elegant, and even feels a level lower.

"Father, I heard that our family, the generation before our great-grandfather, lived in the Mountain Province?" Russell asked.

"Yes." Baron Roman pointed to the west, "Our ancestors' manor is near the edge of the volcanic oasis... The more than 300 lords and lords of the entire Grand Duchy are basically distributed on the edge of the volcanic oasis."

It's not that the Grand Duke is reluctant to give away the good places, but the lords and lords must guard the border.

Otherwise, the territories of the earls and barons can also be given away in the volcanic oasis, without having to go to the warm enclave with harsh conditions.

"Has it been given away to someone else now?"

"No, it's a manor under the jurisdiction of the provincial governor."

The marching speed of the Knights was much slower than in the Thousand Lakes Province. It took four days to travel the same distance here.

Then they entered the new province, Yunze Province.

According to the "Geography of the Prehistoric Era of the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame" that Russell had read before, the author Franken inferred that in prehistoric times, Yunze Province, together with the Fire Ant Swamp in the northwest, were part of the ancient swamp.

The swamp is full of dangers, but the land is very fertile.

Therefore, the population here is much larger than that of the mountainous provinces, and villages and farms can often be seen on both sides of the road.

The smoke from cooking is very textured.

That night, the Knights entered the post station to rest, but Russell rode the unicorn Polly into a nearby grove.

Knight Commander Eric brought Kevin, the golden and silver wolfhound, as an escort.

"My lord!" Eric's eyes were firm, "Kevin and I will stay here, and no one will come to disturb you!"

"Yes."

Russell nodded.

He gently stroked the soft mane of the unicorn Polly: "I hardly dared to relax for a moment these days, and I practiced the fighting spirit chain hard. Finally, I was able to master it before entering the fire ant swamp... Polly, we are going to start!"

"Hmph!" Polly snorted and nodded gently.

"Then it's time to be promoted to a fantasy beast knight!" Russell muttered softly, and then reached out to touch Polly's back.

In an instant, the fighting spirit was released and injected into Polly's body along his palm. This fighting spirit condensed and did not disperse, like a chain, and instantly came into contact with the Yuanli in Polly's body, and then a mysterious change occurred.

Fighting spirit and Yuanli are firmly combined.

But the combination is just a beginning.

While maintaining the Dou Qi chain, Russell gently comforted: "Baoli, combine your thoughts with Yuanli, and then feel my thoughts. Also, open your mouth and bite my arm, let the blood be the medium to carry your and my thoughts!"

Baoli felt the changes in her body. She had been prepared for a long time, and she turned her head gently and bit Russell's arm.

It didn't have the sharp teeth of cats and canines. Its teeth were almost all buck teeth, but this didn't prevent it from rubbing its teeth gently, and then it cut Russell's arm, and blood immediately flowed into its mouth.

Blood dripped.

It seemed to inject a new power into the Dou Qi chain that was connected as one. Baoli's thoughts carried in Yuanli and Russell's thoughts carried in Dou Qi began to collide and run with the intervention of blood as a medium.

Buzz!

As if it was tinnitus, then a strange mind was imprinted in Russell's mind.

"Russell!" This strange mind began to call.

At the same time, Russell's thoughts seemed to follow the Dou Qi chain, along with the Yuanli, and under the blessing of the blood medium, he entered another pure ocean of thoughts. He saw that the image of the unicorn Polly was outlined in this ocean of thoughts.

So he gently called out: "Poly!"

Boom!

It sounds complicated, but it was actually just a moment.

The thoughts of the man and the beast were perfectly synchronized at this moment. At the same time, the Yuanli and Dou Qi also changed rapidly and violently through the Dou Qi chain.

Like a bridge connecting the two forces, the power in the bodies of the man and the beast changed through the communication of this bridge in an instant, and transformed into a new, indistinguishable, new surging power.

Yuanxi!

"Ah!" Russell shouted, and his limbs and all the meridians were no longer running Dou Qi, but Yuanxi.

"Angchi Angchi!" The unicorn Polly also raised her head and roared, and she also felt this new power.

The roar dissipated.

Russell, who had just been promoted to a phantom beast knight, was already riding on the back of the unicorn Polly. He nodded gently to Eric who was protecting his safety and said, "I'll be back soon."