It is said that when Aldus King City was first established, it had to be maintained by external objects every day due to the heat of the forging work of the gray dwarves who were good at building.

So they focused on the red dragon who was good at breathing fire.

The current ‘Dragon Blacksmith’ Argotus’ daily job is to provide heat to the furnaces in each forging workshop on a regular basis.

In exchange for his work, he will receive various treasures, free food, and careful escort.

However, what these adult red dragons don't know is that the previous 'dragon blacksmiths' were slaughtered and replaced by gray dwarves after they grew to adulthood (around challenge level 17).

On the way to the red dragon's lair, Brian recalled the information about the 'Dragon Blacksmith'.

Obviously, this is also the fate that this red dragon, who has grown to adulthood, will face soon.

After all, the dragon family is an extraordinary creature with an ancient lineage and amazing potential.

They are renowned as cunning and greedy predators, and the oldest dragons are truly the most powerful creatures in the material world.

The most important thing is that they can even sleep all the way with enough food to advance to the legendary realm that countless mortals dream of.

Therefore, if the gray dwarves dare to let the 'Dragon Blacksmith' grow from adulthood to the next stage.

These powerful red dragons will definitely break away from their control and turn against their customers.

However, in an accident, the key red dragon egg saved by the Flame Keepers who guarded the red dragon was stolen by thieves from the Gray Ghost organization of the derro dwarves.

This cruel hereditary rule was thus interrupted.

After learning the truth, 'Dragon Blacksmith' Argotus was angered by the gray dwarves, and he began to feel confident that there was no need for him to get entangled in trivial gold and slaves.

Because he himself could make all the gray dwarves in the entire Aldus King City surrender to him through a simple threat of force.

So on the surface, this adult red dragon pretended to be weak and obedient to the guardian of the flames.

Secretly, he took advantage of the opportunity of the abyss demon to corrupt the gray dwarves, and formed a "Fire Guardian" composed of kobolds, preparing to look for opportunities to replace the Royal City of Aldus.

As you can imagine, this adult red dragon, which thought its wings had hardened, was undoubtedly picked up and beaten by the abyss demon.

After understanding the ins and outs of the entire incident, Brian easily found a way to convince the red dragon.

Thinking of this, his pace involuntarily accelerated a bit.

As he walked, Brian suddenly felt something was wrong.

He found that the sword mage Hesaya who had been following him all the way, from leaving the gray dwarf prince's residence until now, had not said a word, and was so quiet that he was not used to it.

As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be a monster.

So, he stopped and turned to look at Hesiah who was following behind him.

The moment he turned around, Hesiah exclaimed and bumped into him.

It was only then that Brian realized that his strength was not as strong as the human girl in front of him, so that he was almost knocked down by the opponent when he was caught off guard.

"Are you OK?"

He stabilized his body and looked helplessly at the sword mage who finally recovered from his distracted state.

"Ah? Am I okay?..." After realizing what she had just done, Hesiah brushed aside a few strands of hair that blocked her sight, took a secret look at him, blushed, and shook her head quickly.

"Let's go then, we'll be there soon." Brian gave her a strange look, without asking too much, turned around and continued towards the red dragon's lair.

Looking at Brian's back, Hesiah looked obviously hesitant.

Finally, she quickened her pace and walked side by side with Brian, ready to ask him about the doubts about why she was distracted just now.

"Bryan." Thinking back on the agreements he had reached with the gray dwarf prince, she called out his name with a slightly nervous expression.

"What's the matter?" Brian looked at her calmly, unable to guess what the other person was thinking at the moment.

"I would like to know......"

Hesiah hesitated for a moment, then plucked up the courage to continue, "Is it true that you said you conquered the land of the ancient Netheril Empire, the Aenook Desert?"

"Why do you ask that?" Brian stopped again and looked at the girl in front of him.

He noticed that there was a bit of embarrassment on the delicate face of this noble lady. The moment her bright silver-gray beautiful eyes were caught by his gaze, he ducked a little embarrassedly.

This made him a little curious.

After all, in his impression, Hesiah was an impeccable girl with a strong appearance.

Even when the two of them didn't know each other, she dared to turn her back to him, bare her upper body, and let him help her heal her injuries, and she could talk and laugh with him freely without blushing or heartbeat.

But now she actually showed a rare little daughter's mentality in front of him, which really surprised him.

"Nothing else, I just want to confirm again." Hesiah stared down at her toes, wrapped a strand of hair hanging on her chest around her fingertips, and shook her head slightly.

"Of course it's true, so you can see that I have been working hard in this direction." Brian vaguely guessed her inner thoughts and said to her with a smile.

In fact, the reason why he is willing to tell the other party about his future plans actually has other meanings.

After all, his current strength is still very weak, and if he wants to conquer the Eno Oak Desert, other small forces aside, the City of Shadows alone is enough for him to drink.

Therefore, he must make careful calculations. In his plan for the future, forming an alliance with the Kingdom of Cormyr and jointly fighting against the City of Shadows is one of his plans.

This is why he was willing to reveal his thoughts to Hesiah.

Regarding the sword mage in front of him, his original plan was to keep her by his side. Maybe one day she would advance to the legendary level, and she could be regarded as the powerful thug and bodyguard he needed most during his growth period.

But as the relationship between the two increased, he gradually discovered that Hesiah's life experience became increasingly unclear to him, and he no longer even believed that she was really the illegitimate daughter of the Raul family.

Although if he insists on asking, the other party might actually tell him some of her little secrets, Brian's subconscious is reminding him that doing so is very inappropriate, it is no different from reopening the other party's scars.

Therefore, during the days he spent with Hesiah, he kept silent from beginning to end about her life experience and origins.

"Brian..."

Hearing Hesiah's soft call, he turned his attention.

He saw that the noble lady had once again regained her familiar confidence and dignity. She looked up at him and said seriously:

"Although no one will believe your goal when I hear it, I not only believe in you, I also firmly believe that with your ability, you can definitely achieve it. When we return to the surface, if you need any help in the future, just ask

That’s it for me, and I will definitely help.”

Listening to the sincerity and concern revealed in every word of the girl's words, Brian was a little moved for a moment, and he seemed to feel a warm current slowly passing through his heart.

He discovered this warm feeling. He had lived alone for more than twenty years and had only experienced it once in the small world where he was born.

He reached out and stroked a strand of hair hanging on Hesiah's pretty face behind her ears, and said to her with a smile, "Although I prefer to believe that you are just being blinded by your self-confidence, I still want to thank you."

"If you don't believe it, then just think of it as a delusion of self-confidence."

Hesiah did not dodge and let his hand float across her cheek.

She shook her flowing reddish-brown hair, smiled leisurely and said, "Let's go, I haven't seen what a red dragon looks like."

The two looked at each other with a tacit understanding and continued walking towards the red dragon's lair.

The lair of 'Dragon Blacksmith' Argotus is located in the southeast corner of the cave where the city is located.

Flame Keepers now guard its entrance.

Although no one would be stupid enough to go to the dragon blacksmith's house to make rations by themselves, the caregivers had to be more vigilant since the red dragon egg used for the successor was stolen.

The so-called 'Flame Keepers' are a formation composed of psychic priests.

Their main responsibility is to meet the various needs of Argotus.

The 'Watcher of Flame' enjoys privileges under the protection of the Deep King, and at the same time helps the Deep King to decipher various conspiracies from the derro dwarves.

"I am Gatoka Hinton, the leader of the 'Keepers of Flame'. Since you two were sent by Prince Erdi to assist me, please come with me."

A gray dwarf priest threw back the badge that Brian handed him and led them towards the red dragon's lair.

Just when they were about to reach a stone-cut room outside the wide entrance of the cave, there was a sudden slight vibration on the ground, and a thunderous voice echoed on the stone wall.

"Gatoka!" A giant reptilian beast appeared and called.

He is clad in lava-colored scales, and his bright yellow eyes glow in the shadows of the cave.

There is no doubt that this big guy is the ‘Dragon Blacksmith’ Agtus.

The dragon slowly walked out of the cave, glanced at Brian and Brian, grinned widely, stared with two funny big eyes, and joked to the gray dwarf priest:

"Dear Gatoka, you didn't tell me that today's dinner is for people on the surface. Aren't you afraid that I might have diarrhea if I can't get used to it?"

"Brian, why is this giant dragon so chubby?"

Seeing the outline of the giant dragon, Hesiah not only was not afraid, but also suppressed a smile, touched his arm, and used magic to vomit at him.

"Probably because I'm afraid of being shoveled..."

Brian looked at the dragon's unusually obese body due to its abnormal eating habits. He suddenly remembered the fat cats in some zoos, so he spoke to the sword mage next to him in words he couldn't understand.

said.

"What is slippery..." Before Hesiah could finish asking, he was interrupted by the gray dwarf priest again.

"Outlanders!" the gray dwarf priest said respectfully to the dragon:
Chapter completed!