Chapter 254 Award of Honor (1)
Burning Ember Kingdom, Beifeng Castle.
The tall chimneys in the distance emitted bursts of thick smoke, making the sky a little turbid, but people have long been accustomed to this. The renovated roads are busy with traffic and people coming and going. They are either working hard in a factory, processing paperwork for the palace, or are merchants who come here to trade.
In the fast-paced life of Beifeng Castle, everyone has their own things to do.
But something seemed unusual today. Many people stopped and listened.
"Big event! Big event!"
"The investiture ceremony is about to begin!"
"His Majesty Cassius will come to the central square to perform the gift in person! Both humans and dependents can participate!"
The newsboy swung the newspaper in his hand and shouted to the crowd while trotting, shouting extra hard - after all, after completing this mission, he would get the official reward of three silver coins.
On the notice board beside the road, the tiefling guards also tore off the somewhat old bounties and pasted the latest notice leaflets for people to obtain this important information.
Citizens gathered in front of the billboard and talked about it.
"The investiture ceremony?"
"Tsk, I'm afraid it's just another one-man show by those dependents. It has nothing to do with us weak humans."
"I'd like to take a look."
"Yes, I have been here for two years and I have never seen the legendary His Majesty."
"Haha, if you have this time, you might as well earn a few more silver coins."
"Let's at least join in the fun. Maybe His Majesty will be happy and reward us with some gold coins flowing out from the cracks of his claws? It is said that he has millions of gold coins."
In the blink of an eye, the central square was bustling with activity.
After several years of development and population migration and gathering, there are already 60,000 permanent residents in Beifeng Castle. Now nearly one-third of the people have come here. Nearly 20,000 people are crowded in the square, making this originally The spacious square was blocked with water.
Regardless of their profession: traders, workers, or soldiers, regardless of their race: humans, ogres, or tieflings, these residents of Beifong Castle are all gathered here, like a bunch of messy flowers, looking forward to watching. This is a rare event.
The tiefling guards, armed with lances, lined up one behind the other in neat lines, forming a huge open space in the middle of the square.
Here once stood the stone statue of the "Norman Duke", the heroic ancestor of the Luckman family. After the kingdom took over, the original statue was smashed to pieces and replaced with a majestic statue of a red dragon.
Nowadays, the statue of the red dragon has also been transported to the door of the city hall, where a huge altar with dragon wing patterns has been built, and dozens of thick stone pillars have been erected around it.
Surrounding the front are naturally the dragon-veined clans such as ogres and hobgoblins. Those in high positions among them, such as Trump, have been specially assigned seats and can watch this event leisurely, while most humans are blocked. later.
"Don't squeeze in front of me, go ahead!"
"Asshole, do you want to fight?"
"When will the ceremony begin?"
“It’s so boring here.”
Since there were so many people attending the ceremony, pushing and shoving disputes were inevitable, and complaints continued to come. Even the well-trained tiefling guards could only barely maintain order.
Suddenly, someone screamed.
"Look there!"
People quickly looked up and saw the flying dragon on the horizon like raging dark clouds, approaching from a distance, almost blocking the sun. The Chimeras were flying on both sides of the team, like soldiers of greeting. The nearly 30-meter-long huge red dragon slowly flapped its wings in the team. Every time it flapped its wings, people thousands of meters away could feel the scorching wind, and even the air in the city became violent. Heat it up.
A white dragon followed behind the red dragon, flying step by step like the most loyal slave. Its bright colors decorated the group of dragons.
As this spectacular team arrived, those who had been noisy just now couldn't help but hold their breath, and the square with more than 20,000 people fell into silence.
The dragons were approaching, casting shadows for miles around, covering everyone in the square.
"Boom!"
Cassius landed on the top of the altar with a crash, setting off gusts of wind.
Those atavistic flying dragons and chimeras circled and landed, and finally stopped at the top of the stone pillar. The white dragon Tiniya undisputedly occupied the stone pillar closest to the red dragon.
"Roar——"
They all raised their heads and let out a resonant roar.
Cassius didn't say anything, he just took a step forward and slowly stretched out his extremely broad dragon wings. The dragon crystal on his chest pulsed with hot light, as if containing endless power.
Suddenly, with him as the center, a powerful wave spread.
The invisible pressure spread, and all the creatures present instinctively lowered their heads and paid homage to him.
"The King of Embers!"
"King!"
"The Great Red Dragon!"
The Dragon Vein family members raised their weapons high and burst into waves of cheers.
With the crushing victory along the way, Cassius's power has become stronger and stronger, and he has already become a spiritual belief among his followers. Even if they have been sleeping for several years, they can still be passionate about it.
The emotions of human beings are more complex, mostly in awe. After all, they once existed as "conquered subjects" or even "trophies". Although the Red Dragon has brought a better life to some people, they ultimately need more time to adapt to such a change in status.
As for those who resisted in the dark, their feelings were even more indescribable.
According to rumors from the outside world, the red dragon had a fierce fight with the black wizard, and was seriously injured as a result before falling into a deep sleep. However, it seems that this is definitely not the case now. This left them speechless with a glimmer of hope.
——For example, the former Baron, Farlow Trishid, is hidden in the crowd.
"How is it possible? How could he be so powerful?"
"It's only been three years."
Farlow's voice was trembling, and his knees were weak.
As a former member of the Northland nobles, he missed his past life very much and had lived in the North Wind Castle incognito for a long time. He contacted the South privately and acted as an internal support for the Harpers.
If Cassius was only the size of an adult red dragon, in his superficial understanding he was still an enemy that could be "defeated". So Cassius, who is now nearly thirty meters long and has developed a special form, is completely beyond his understanding, and even makes him feel particularly desperate.
"This is simply invincible."
Farlow looked at the red dragon spreading its wings in the distance and couldn't help but mutter to himself.
(End of chapter)