"Of course! I read it through, operated it once, and learned it!" Laisa couldn’t help but puff out her ’small’ flower bud-like chest at hearing Raine’s praise, and said proudly.
"By the way, Raine, how’s your task going?"
"It’s going pretty smoothly. Tomorrow, I’ll head to the Iron Ring Excavation Site... Blue Dragonman..." Raine briefly recounted the situation.
"I’ll go too, I want to go!" Laisa hastily said.
"Well... a battle at quasi-army level is a bit too dangerous for you."
"Don’t worry!" As Laisa spoke, she raised her calf to show the Floating Boots on her feet.
"I’m not going to foolishly rush into the middle of the battlefield. I’ll hide far away! With the Floating Boots, even a Dragonman might not discover in Stealth mode."
"Alright, then you should prepare yourself as well." Raine nodded helplessly.
"However... this ans there might not be space on the Griffin that the ntor arranged. Laisa, contact the Association and have them arrange Griffin rides; I’ll cover the cost."
"No problem, I’ll contact them imdiately!" The excited Laisa used Gale Step, and her agile, slender figure vanished in an instant.
Seeing her almost instantaneous disappearance, Raine couldn’t help but smile and shake his head.
"Truly loves a bustle."
In less than half an hour, Laisa returned successfully, bringing with her two pieces of news.
"Raine, Elise wrote to , saying everything in Dorne City is fine, and order is being restored. Moreover, Baron Olsen has proactively offered his family castle as our war group’s base in Dorne City."
"And that Aaron also wrote to us. Sothing happened in Dawgen Town, and he ntioned his father values it greatly. He also said his father, Earl York, very much hopes we could visit Warwick City, wanting to thank us personally."
Raine took the two letters Laisa handed over, opened them, and read quickly.
Since Communication Crystal Stones generally have distance limitations, and ultra-long-distance ones are extrely expensive, unless for Transcendent Level casters, most distant communication is still conducted via letters.
Everything in Dorne City is fine.
Raine felt a bit relieved, as he ca to the Iron Hills slightly worried about the Talin Association or the Black Fist Army coming back.
He discussed this with Henry.
As for Aaron’s side...
If everything goes smoothly after the Iron Hills business, Raine thought, they could visit on their way back.
...
anwhile.
At Salt Mist Canyon near Dawgen Town.
As a sharp screech pierced the quiet night sky, a gale erupted at the tree canopy, accompanied by the sound of branches snapping. An adult bipedal wyvern, seven or eight ters long, its body covered in dark gray scales, landed in a clearing in the forest.
"Clang!"
A knight, wearing dark plate armor and carrying a two-handed greatsword, leapt off the wyvern’s back.
He raised his helt’s visor, revealing eyes sharp like an eagle’s. His gaze swiftly scanned the entire battlefield, soon fixing on a headless corpse clothed in a black robe.
Normally, the beasts or demons of the wilderness would devour the bodies of creatures that died for various reasons, but that’s just the usual scenario.
When a Red Dragon Mage of Level 10 dies, his body won’t be quickly dragged away by low-level demons like goblins.
The tiger’s dead body still exudes a mystique.
What’s more, the site is pervaded by the aura of elite Flom demons summoned from the Bottomless Abyss, further excluding ’forest scavengers’ like goblins from the area.
Of course, as the deterrent aura from the body fades away over ti, those goblins will swarm like flies.
"Even the head is gone? To prevent Dead Talk from being perford?" muttered the Dragon Rider in a voice only audible to himself.
Yejiya had such speculation, not out of paranoia.
For the necessary prerequisite of casting the Third Level Spell "Dead Talk" is: the corpse must have a mouth, even if it’s incomplete.
But Davenport’s head here is entirely missing.
However, he quickly affird his previous speculation as correct, for as he glanced around again, he confird that all of his Black Fist Army elite soldiers lying around also had their heads blown off.
"Eh? Why is this one intact?"
Dragon Rider Yejiya quickly approached a deceased figure not clothed in Black Fist Army’s standard attire and imdiately cast Dead Talk.
The deceased, Victor, was Aaron’s squad’s traitor, who was ultimately killed by Aaron, not Raine. Hence, his head remained intact.
As Yejiya’s low curse resounded, Victor’s corpse began to emanate a dense green light.
Amidst the flow of the halo, as the green light suddenly burst forth from Victor’s corpse’s mouth and nose! His previously stiff lips slightly moved.
Yejiya imdiately asked, "Who killed you all?"
A sound akin to the friction of iron sheets emanated from the body: "Raine... Aaron..."
"Who is Raine?" Yejiya pondered briefly and asked again.
He knew Aaron, the son of Earl York, a young genius, albeit not very strong due to his youth.
So, who is this Raine?
"Stranger..."
These three words caused Yejiya’s mouth to twitch slightly.
Several minutes later.
A wyvern beat its fleshy wings, soared into the sky, soon vanishing into the vast, dark night.
...
At dawn the next morning.
The light was faint.
Above the Iron Hills, several Griffins were lined up, flying from the Iron Hills towards the northeast.
It was Raine and his group.
Centurion Krom and two adjutants led the way in the front, while Laisa rode the rearmost Griffin; Raine and Humbert were in the middle.
About an hour of flight later, Humbert pointed towards a towering, massive stone pillar ahead and said, "Raine, that’s the Thunder Pillar."
Raine looked ahead, seeing a particularly towering stone pillar among the rolling mountains in the distance, its top cloaked in clouds and mist, occasionally, the bright blue lightning could be vaguely seen striking down from the clouds.
The Thunder Pillar truly lived up to its na.
Recalling the environnt preferred by Blue Dragons, Raine imdiately understood why the migrating Blue Dragon group chose this place as their landing site.
"That’s the Iron Ring Excavation Site." At this mont, Humbert pointed downward, indicating a location roughly between the Thunder Pillar and their current position.
Following Humbert’s indication, Raine’s eyes fell upon a massive excavation site similar to the Azure Mine in Mill Town.
Even from high above, its spiraling, winding downward mine cart roads extending downward along the pit walls remained clearly visible, along with the stock yards, lateral excavation operation platforms, and others, all discernible.
Furthermore, Raine, with his exceptional eyesight, noted the excavation site sporadically reflected small blue dots of light.
anwhile, inside a cave near the Iron Ring Excavation Site, a conversation was underway.
"The Mountain Dwarf regular army is about to arrive, Ellion. This ti, you distract them from the front."
"Velsas, you flank them from the side rear."
Speaking was a tall Dragonman over four ters tall, his body covered with fist-sized blue dragon scales, with occasional tiny electric sparks flashing across the scale gaps.
"General Dasakis, do the leaders intend to expand the scale of the war?"
Upon hearing the Dragonman General’s words, Velsas, the Dragon Mage Lord beside him, revealed a quite anthropomorphic expression of doubt on his large dragon head and asked.
As the sage among the Blue Dragonn, he understood very well the intentions of their leaders—without tangible benefits, they wouldn’t choose to expand the war swiftly but would opt for encroachnt, slowly expanding the territory over a decade or even decades.
After all, they were aware that the Mountain Dwarf Kingdom isn’t a soft persimmon; the opposing side has legendary powerhouses capable of contending with their own leaders.
"This is naturally at the Grand Leader’s behest."
"Alright, both of you, prepare yourselves. Try to annihilate all the dwarf kingdom’s dispatched troops."
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