The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 869 - 0866: Everything is Ready (Third Update, Alliance Hierarch Additional Update 2/147)
Chapter 869: Chapter 0866: Everything is Ready (Third Update, Alliance Hierarch Additional Update 2/147)
Fresh Flower Town’s dockside tavern.
Two merchants sat together, the same two as the last transaction, but this time there was new news about the transaction: “I’ve got the information you wanted; it took a lot of effort to bribe a servant from Thorn Castle… That knight always transports supplies to Dodo Island before setting off!”
“Dodo Island?”
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Indeed, that’s an island to the north. I’ve even brought you the nautical charts. How many Gold Coins will you give me?”
“How about ten?”
“Twenty!”
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“Don’t be greedy, fifteen!”
“Heh heh, seventeen. It’s not just for me—I had to pay a high price to bribe that servant from Thorn Castle!”
“Is there a risk of exposure?”
“Don’t worry, the servant is an old hand at the castle; no one will suspect him.”
Only after the other party agreed to pay seventeen Gold Coins did the merchant reveal everything about Dodo Island in detail, including information about a volcanic crater and a Human Skull Tree Forest on the island, and that the knight was training there—if anyone investigated, they’d discover that Dodo Island was indeed undergoing major construction.
But it wasn’t a training facility being built, rather a small town, and they would begin to mine volcanic ash there to produce cement.
This message took only half a month to reach Alonso Xiankelai’s hands.
To convey the message promptly, he had already arranged for Vampires to infiltrate the Duchy of Sapphire again. However, to avoid detection, the Vampires from the Black Knight Family were very careful to hide their Blood Magic fluctuations, because the family had learned that a group of Vampires had revolted and pledged allegiance to Liszt.
“Dodo Island…” Alonso called his trusted knight and gave the order, “Deploy the Falcon Knights to notify Prince Alex, Duke Loyle, and Duke Pierrot. The fire extinction operation officially begins. On April 3rd, we’ll assemble and lie in wait at Sapphire Hot Spring Island!”
The Falcon is an Intermediate Magical Beast with wind attributes, not strong in combat, but incredibly fast.
Mounting a Falcon marked with Alonso’s beacon, the Falcon Knights took off swiftly from Alonso’s castle and flew toward the lands of the Eagle Kingdom.
Watching the knights vanish into the sky, Alonso clenched his fist securely: “Your Majesty still trusts me, putting me in charge of this operation, and I will not fail this trust! Liszt Flame, you must be quite pleased with yourself now, young and successful, and in a hurry to establish your nation, yet not realizing that the old huntsman has already set the perfect trap for you. Heh heh.”
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The layout of the battle against Dragons is often a protracted affair.
After making all the preparations he could, Liszt quickly headed to the coastline of Eagle Kingdom, in search of natural nodes. Unfortunately, the material boundaries here seemed more stable than those in the Flame Islands, and after more than half a month of searching, he had barely found two natural nodes.
One of them was in a place he was familiar with—Trapped Dragon Mountain Iron Mine.
The other was located not far from the coastline, among a group of reefs, also a very familiar place; it was here that he once encountered the elderly Sea Monster Yisi—he thus named the area Siren Reef Cluster. Sadly, Yisi was not here, and he failed to meet this still-charming Sea Serpent again.
“Two natural nodes, I hope they are just on the route of the Dragon Knight’s return; otherwise, I might have to attempt trailing assassination… Bard is still underage. If he were an adult and all his capabilities reached their peak, I could go directly to each Dragon Knight’s station for assassination!”
The Formless Dragon is only eighty years old and its combat strength is not dominant enough; infiltrating behind enemy lines for an assassination carries significant risks.
Who knew these Dragon Knights, with years of legacy behind them, might have countermeasures, such as space-locking magic and combat skills.
Staying steady and not acting rashly was Liszt’s primary strategy at the moment.
Soon, he received news from his Blood Servants—the White Maw Iron Dragon Knight, Alex White Iron, who should have been stationed on the outskirts of the Blast Furnace Fortress Nation, was not at his post and had already returned to the King’s Castle. Ever since the daughter of the Eagle Kingdom’s King married Duke Haisiburgh, the brother of the King of Blast Furnace Fortress Nation, relations between the two nations had become complicated.
Under normal circumstances, kingdoms wouldn’t become one big family just because of marriages. In fact, going back several generations, nearly every kingdom had intermarried, but they would still fight when they needed to.
“Alex, as I had predicted, has been released by the Eagle Kingdom in their collusion with the Blast Furnace Fortress Nation. If a dragon-slaying battle is to occur, he will surely be one of them!”
The White Maw Iron Dragon was formidable in combat, and Alex was known as the first master of the Eagle Kingdom.
The Eagle Kingdom had two White Maw Iron Dragons, one of which had yet to find its Dragon Knight. However, that dragon had previously almost killed the first-generation Sapphire Dragon Knight in a solo fight, which spoke volumes of its fierce combatant prowess. And Alex himself had killed an Ice Dragon, earning the title of Dragon Slayer.
After some thought, Liszt instructed Ach through the Magic Platform to give orders to Mary Dawn Break, “Continue to track down information on Alex. Report directly to me as soon as he makes a move or shuts himself away!”
He had the Magic Platform.
With Mary and the other Blood Servants carrying the Magic Platform and lurking in the Eagle Kingdom, messages were transmitted rapidly.
Unfortunately, Magic Platforms were not easy to produce, and their security measures also had not been perfected. Furthermore, training undercover personnel was challenging and Vampires needed time to develop. Otherwise, he could have directly set up an espionage department to reside permanently in all the major kingdoms. For now, only some Blood Servants had access to Magic Platforms.
As the Blood Servants gradually took their places, more information constantly flowed in—Alonso had left his station Dragon Riding, Purple Copper Duke Loyle of the Purple Copper Duchy had not made any appearances for several days, Duke Pierrot of the Grey Iron Duchy was also refusing visitors, and Prince Alex was doing the same.
There were also claims of a Silver Dragon leaving its Dragon Nest.
Then more news arrived that the Blast Furnace Fortress Nation had once again had a border skirmish with the Steel Ridge Kingdom.
The whole of March seemed quite ordinary, but Liszt was aware of all the actions initiated by the Eagle Kingdom. If not for the early warning from the Smoke Mission, these movements wouldn’t be surprising… However, under Liszt’s close watch, all these actions became anomalies.
“It can be almost confirmed that Alonso, Alex, and Noil, three Dragon Knights, will participate in the Dragon Slaying Battle, along with the Grey Iron Dragon from Grey Iron Duchy and one Silver Dragon. The trails of other Dragon Knights and Dragons are still unclear.”
“Then, where would they choose to ambush me?” Liszt looked at the map of the Duchy of Sapphire, pondering in his mind. The Dragon Knights would surely gather before launching an attack, so somewhere between Dodo Island and Black Horse Island would definitely be the location of the attack.
This was the battlefield Liszt had actively arranged.
With this sea area as the central point, the surrounding islands could all potentially be ambush sites.
“The most likely is Hot Spring Island—the Count of Hot Spring Island is an old-established Earl; it remains to be seen if he will be involved. The Rats I sent to investigate might discover some traces… Then these other islands could also be ambush points. With the Eagle Kingdom having operated for many years, who knows if there are any Noble Landlords that have been turned.”
During the Dragon Slaying Battle at the Sea of Azure Waves, the Light Green Sapphire Dragon Knight Carlo Violet had unexpectedly emerged. The Sapphire Duke had thus speculated that among his followers, there was a traitor.
Someone had provided Carlo with a place to stay.
But the traitor had not been found, as the Sapphire Archipelago had many deserted islands where a Dragon Knight could station. The matter had been left unresolved.
Liszt stroked his chin, his eyes seemed to see the threads of fate trembling incessantly: “Even so, the Sapphire Duke may reach an agreement with the Eagle Kingdom, plotting against me to pave the way for Anthony?” He added the Sapphire Duke into the equation of the Dragon Slaying Battle.
Preparing for the worst.
Once the Sapphire Duke truly betrayed him, he would definitely wipe out the Sapphire Family without hesitation.
