Chapter 88
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Chapter 88: It’s Her, It’s Really Her
“We are indeed dragons.”
Iris looked at the group of soldiers standing at the ready, with a crooked Dragon King’s contemptuous smile.
“If you hope that we came to Gerris City with ill intentions, we don’t mind becoming what you imagine us to be.”
“Dragons! Your threats are useless against us! We swear to defend Gerris City to the death, even if it costs us our lives! When we accepted this mission, we were already prepared to spill our blood. We are the shield of Gerris, we are the walls of Gerris!”
The leading officer was still shouting with fiery passion.
“Sigh, you really leave me no choice. You don’t want me to harm the nearby citizens, do you? Take me to see your city lord, let me have a good talk with him.”
“This… You… Are you sure you’re willing to talk with us properly?”
Although the officer was full of passion, he wasn’t a fool.
If it wasn’t absolutely necessary, he didn’t really want to engage in battle with the dragons.
After all, dragons were beings that could destroy an entire city with just one of them, let alone five of them here.
If they really angered these dragons, their Gerris City would probably be razed to the ground in less than half an hour.
“Mmm.”
Iris nudged Naya and Illya beside her,
“Naya, Illya, you two go to the bathroom to change clothes first.”
As soon as Naya and Illya moved their legs to get off the bed, the group of soldiers retreated in panic.
“You’re not going to stop us from even putting on clothes, are you?”
“Please, please change quickly.”
The officer led the soldiers to clear a path to the bathroom for Naya and Illya. Naya grabbed the clothes and took Illya to the bathroom.
They hurriedly changed and came out.
Then it was Iris’s turn.
To ensure they had “hostages” in front of the human soldiers who wouldn’t escape, they took turns changing clothes. After that, Iris said:
“Take me to see your city lord now.”
“You, you’re sure you won’t harm the nearby citizens?”
“If I wanted to harm you, would you still be safe now?”
The officer lowered his head and clenched his teeth.
Although the feeling of being looked down upon was very unpleasant, it was indeed true for dragons.
He was just a cannon fodder sent to test the strength of these dragons, so why should he desperately provoke their anger?
So, at Iris’s request, the officer led Iris, Naya, Illya, and the two maids to the front of the City Lord’s Council Hall.
This was in the inner city area, not far from the City Lord’s Council Hall in the city center. It only took about ten minutes to walk there, but an intelligence officer had already ridden ahead at full speed to report this matter to the city lord.
In the courtyard in front of the Council Hall.
The city lord was already waiting with a group of guards for Iris and her group to arrive.
The city lord was a middle-aged man with blond hair, standing in the shadow of the eaves, looking at the dragon guests who had come from afar.
He bowed with a knight’s salute.
“Esteemed dragon guests, I’m very sorry to meet you in this manner. However, protecting the citizens and maintaining the peace of Gerris City is our overarching duty. You have come to this city without prior notice and sneaked into Gerris City in secret. We find it difficult not to suspect that you have ill intentions.”
When facing the dragons, it was necessary to be cautious, even though he had sent soldiers to confront them head-on.
Moreover, someone who had risen to the position of city lord couldn’t possibly be unaware that not all dragons were savage creatures. He wouldn’t easily be misled by national trends or racial hatred to become a fool who wanted to fight as soon as he saw dragons.
“We’re just out traveling, happened to pass by, and were originally planning to leave this morning. But who knew that early this morning your soldiers would burst into our room, insisting on keeping me here.”
Iris glanced at the sun hanging high in the sky. It was actually not early anymore.
But who made a succubus suddenly intruded last night, affecting their sleep.
Naturally, they had to sleep in a bit to make up for the sleep time lost last night.
The city lord stared at the red-haired female dragon leader, and suddenly burst into laughter.
“I didn’t know dragons had the refined taste of coming to human cities for tourism.”
Dragons have always been a proud species that looks down on humans.
Humans are to dragons what commoners are to nobles. Would anyone believe it if a noble said they were going to tour a poor district?
“Since you’re unwilling to believe, then let’s have a fight. Call up the strongest warrior in your city to fight with my maid. If you can win, you can do whatever you want with us. To avoid you thinking we’re taking advantage in a one-on-one duel, all of you can come at once, while I will only send out one maid to fight.”
“……”
The city lord looked at this red dragon with an expression full of arrogance, without saying a word.
This seemed to be a battle that was bound to lose.
In their Gerris City, at most they only had high-level heroes. The super-level heroes had all gone to the neighboring Lex City.
“What? Compared to challenging one dragon, are you more willing to challenge five dragons?”
“Alright!”
Since Iris had given him a way out, the city lord couldn’t be unappreciative.
The battle location was set in this courtyard.
The city lord summoned the ten strongest heroes and warriors in the city to challenge the dragons.
In the end, Iris chose Flanna to go out.
She took Naya and Ilya to stand with the city lord under the eaves of the Council Hall, but they were about ten meters apart.
Mages set up magical barriers around the courtyard.
To prevent the battle from affecting the buildings of the Council Hall.
Iris stroked Illya’s head.
“Illya, watch carefully how Flanna fights.”
“Mmm!”
Illya’s eyes were fixed on Flanna, who was surrounded by ten humans holding various weapons.
With the city lord’s command, the battle began.
All the high-level heroes rushed towards Flanna.
However, in a flash, Flanna had knocked down all ten heroes. Illya felt she had learned nothing.
Whether in terms of physical skills or magic, these ten heroes were completely outmatched by Flanna. After all, she was once the strongest warrior of the dragon race.
Although her magic talent didn’t reach the imperial level, her strength had already touched the imperial level.
It was simply not something high-level heroes could compete with.
Seeing these ten high-level heroes being toyed with in front of this purple dragon, the city lord’s face instantly turned ashen.
Even children fighting would look better than this!
“Well? City Lord, do you still think we came to Gerris City with ill intentions?”
The city lord turned to look at Iris, then walked in front of Iris and bowed 90 degrees to apologize.
“I’m, I’m very sorry! Esteemed dragon guests, yes, we misjudged you. You indeed came to Gerris City for tourism.”
“Then since we are guests, shouldn’t you treat us well?”
“Yes, esteemed dragon guests, this way please.”
Realizing that these dragons had extraordinary strength, the city lord was also sensible enough to bring Iris and the other dragons into the Council Hall, serving them good tea and refreshments.
Naya had thought it would be another bloody battle.
She didn’t expect that their conflict with Gerris City would be resolved so easily.
Humans are indeed weak but love to play.
However, if they had encountered just a few ordinary silver or gold-level dragons, it would have been fine. If emperor level or above appeared, they would have been completely helpless.
Naya was well entertained by the city lord in the reception hall of the Council Hall, served pastries and drinks.
He called for a band, preparing to perform.
They planned to please these dragons and send them away as soon as possible.
“No! Don’t like to listen!”
When Illya saw those humans coming over with violins, cellos, saxophones, and flutes, she shook her head frantically in refusal.
Iris glanced at the city lord.
“City Lord, my daughter doesn’t like listening to the sound of your human instruments.”
“Ah, then, then go away,” the city lord waved to the band with an embarrassed face.
Great, no need to listen to this noisy music.
Illya really couldn’t understand why humans would think the sound of violins was elegant. She only felt it was harsh and noisy.
“Hehe…”
Time to eat!
Illya grabbed the osmanthus cake on the table, just about to stuff it into her mouth, when she was stopped by Naya.
“Wait.”
[System, help analyze this.]
[In this situation, you still think it’s poisoned!]
[It’s better to be safe than sorry, and Illya is still young. If it’s really poisoned, I don’t know if she’ll have poison resistance like Iris.]
[No poison!]
[Thank you, system.]
Oh right, she hadn’t asked the system about the situation with that side quest completed yesterday.
Too many things happened yesterday, first Iris getting jealous, then the little fox and succubus disturbing them. She didn’t have time to think about the system quest.
But now doesn’t seem to be a good time to think about it either.
Illya was looking at Naya with pitiful big eyes.
Naya raised the corners of her mouth.
“Come, let Mama feed you. Ah….”
“Ah nom nom!”
Illya swallowed the osmanthus cake in one bite, “Wow! It’s so delicious! So sweet, I like this! And it has such a nice fragrant smell!”
“They’re all yours, no need to rush.”
To prevent her daughter from wolfing down the food in excitement and losing her ladylike composure, Naya chose to feed Illya one piece at a time.
Looking at the harmonious and loving dragon mother and daughter, the city lord’s forehead dripped with nonexistent sweat.
He beckoned to the guard beside him, instructing the maids to go to the kitchen and bring out all the remaining pastries.
“City Lord, I have a question.”
“Please speak.”
“Who reported that we were dragons?”
“It was…”
The city lord hesitated for a long time, but still decided to tell the truth,
“It was the Saintess.”
“What?!”
The Osmanthus cake that was about to be fed into Illya’s mouth was instantly crushed into two pieces by Naya and fell to the ground, but Naya’s attention had already shifted to the city lord, neglecting to feed Illya.
“Uuu…”
Illya looked at the Osmanthus cake that had fallen to the ground with a heartbroken expression.
“The Saintess? Linnevia?”
Naya questioned loudly.
The city lord didn’t know why this silver-haired dragon was so agitated.
He slowly nodded.
“It was her.”
“It… It was actually her…”
But Naya remembered that the succubus Illya met in her dream had black hair.
“What’s the matter? Do you have some connection with the Saintess?”
“No, nothing…”
Naya lowered her head.
It’s also possible that Linnevia just has some connection with that succubus, but isn’t the succubus herself.
Or maybe Linnevia was being used by the succubus.
These and many other reasonable and beautiful guesses.
“City Lord, how much are these Osmanthus cakes of yours?”
“Ah? No, no need for money, you can eat as much as you want.”
“Flanna, wallet.”
Flanna walked to Iris’s side and took out the money bag from her bosom to give to Iris.
“Ten gold coins for a box, is that okay?”
Iris scattered the gold coins on the dining table.
The city lord pushed the gold coins back with a fawning smile.
“No, dragon guests, you’re too kind. You can have as many boxes as you want, free of charge. Come, bring ten boxes of Osmanthus cakes for our esteemed dragon guests!”
“Thank you, City Lord, but I still hope you won’t see us dragons as bandits coming down from the mountains. Taking your kindness and paying the appropriate compensation is what we should do.”
Iris still hoped to change one more human’s view of dragons through these details.
“Flanna, Bella, you stay here and wait for the osmanthus cakes to be brought out. Illya, we’ll come back to eat later, okay?”
Seeing Naya’s eagerness, Iris didn’t want to linger here any longer.
“Mmm…”
Holding Illya’s hand, they temporarily said goodbye to Flanna and Bella.
The family of three walked out of the City Lord’s Council Hall.
The reason for bringing Illya to see Linnevia was firstly because Illya had seen Linnevia in her dream, and secondly because it would be safer to stay by Iris’s side.
They hurried to the church without stopping.
Naya hurriedly walked up the steps in front of the church’s main door and said to the nun guarding the door:
“Hello, I’d like to have an audience with the Saintess.”
The nun guarding the door yesterday was still this one, she should still recognize her, which would make communication easier.
The nun clasped her hands in front of her and bowed.
“I’m sorry, the Saintess left early this morning and we don’t know when she’ll be back.”
“Ah?”
“Is there not even a rough time when she might return?”
“Yes, the Saintess said she had urgent business to attend to today and left the church affairs for us to handle. She doesn’t know when she’ll be back.”
“I see…”
Naya felt a bit disheartened, her eyes dimming.
Is it a coincidence?
Or did Linnevia know in advance that they would come looking for her?
“Is there a portrait of the Saintess in the church?” Iris behind her asked.
“There is.”
“Then can you take us to see it? We’d like to see the Saintess’ radiant face.”
“Alright.”
The nun didn’t make any objections, but led Naya’s family of three into the church.
In the confessional, there was a portrait of Linnevia hanging.
“Illya, look at this Saintess”
Illya looked up and confirmed that the appearance in the portrait was indeed the succubus she had seen in her dream.
“Mother, it’s her.”
Naya covered Illya’s mouth, afraid that Illya would say something like “she’s the succubus I met in my dream”.
She forced a smile and thanked the nun.
“Thank you. Since the Saintess isn’t here, we’ll take our leave then.”
The wizard Of SILVER
Ah… It’s messed up…