Soul of Burning Steel

Because of Ying's report, Joshua soon learned of the news of Munster's arrival.

"Weird, I have something to ask? But isn't there a transmission network in the Northland now? He can use spells to notify me in the imperial capital, so there's no need to ask for an interview on the spot."

Somewhat puzzled, he murmured to himself that the soldier didn't care about such trivial matters. He stopped what he was doing and went to the living room downstairs to meet this old acquaintance.

And after a while of pleasantries, he welcomed the good news that Munster had brought from the imperial capital all the way.

It was a commendation order from the royal family.

"This is?"

Frowning, Joshua curiously picked up the medal with the sun emblem, representing the imperial family, and looked sideways at the middle-aged inspector who was drinking tea with a vicissitudes of life, waiting for the other party's explanation.

"Because some confidential matters are involved, we cannot make a big fanfare, so the royal family did not send a special mission to grant you this honor."

But it was obvious that Munster was wrong about what Joshua meant. He put down his teacup and began to explain other things in detail: "The Northern Land is too far away from the imperial capital, and there are not many people who know you. My respect to the Earl Your Excellency, you are quite familiar with it, so His Majesty asked me to send these to you while giving me the task of inspecting the northern and northern lands of the empire."

Speaking of this, he looked at the warrior with admiration: "This is the first time I saw that group of high-ranking mages in the Royal Mage Association showing such an expression, it feels like a traveler who has been short of water in the desert for a week The expression when you saw the oasis, my lord, what did you send them?"

"I said, why didn't you send it here? It turned out that you stopped by during the inspection... What did you send? I didn't ask about this, I asked about what medal this is."

After repeating his own words and thinking for a while, Joshua guessed the reason. He stroked his chin and said with some hesitation: "Could it be the mad dragon mist sent over last time? Speaking of which, I haven't heard about the follow-up of Haiyuan Derivatives, but looking at it now, all the rewards were combined and sent over."

The bottled black mist he found in the dragon's nest last time was confirmed to be a high-purity mad dragon virus after system inspection, and it has a clear tendency to chaos. The creatures infected by it-any creature, not just dragons- —All of them will go berserk and gradually transform into Chaos Familiars.

Although the conversion success rate is very low, even less than one in a thousand, it is dangerous enough even if it goes mad. Joshua knew that he did not have the ability to deal with this thing, so he simply borrowed Brandon's relationship and sent him to Join the Royal Wizards Association, and let the group of wizards who are almost always in the laboratory try to find a way to crack it.

Joshua didn't report any expectations at first, after all, he had never heard of such a thing as the mad dragon vaccine in his previous life, but now judging from the rewards he got, he might not have successfully developed it.

"The original body of mad dragon disease? So that's the case, so the explanation makes sense."

On the side, Munster suddenly realized, and then he began to explain to Joshua the origin of the badge in his hand.

"The royal family of the empire uses the sun as its coat of arms, and the medal in your hand is called the Dawn Emblem. It is the highest standard of honor that nobility can receive. It represents that you have made an indelible contribution to the entire empire."

Speaking of this, Munster even saluted the emblem, and said to Joshua with a full face of emotion: "Perhaps you don't know, Master Joshua, the items you sent were brought to the Royal Wizards Association. It was a great inspiration. As far as I know, they have already developed a finished medicine through this, which can make various types of ground dragons commonly used by dragon caravans immune to mad dragon disease. If it is a relatively mild madness , and can even be lifted directly.”

Sure enough, a countermeasure was developed. The soldier nodded slightly. This is indeed good news. With this kind of potion that can suppress the kuanglong The airship has not been successfully developed yet, and the dragon cart caravan is the main artery of the empire's trade. If the caravan is paralyzed, among other things, where can the Northland import fruits, grains and some other specialties?

"Now, the empire is fully prepared to prevent dragon disasters. It will never lose most of the important port cities along the coast like the Far South Kingdom that was raided."

Munster is still going on, he looks very excited: "And a few days ago, the elves and the envoys of the Far South royal family were received in the Morlaix Palace, and they seem to be in urgent need of our medicine..."

When he arrived here, the middle-aged inspector suddenly kept silent. He shrugged and indicated that this was a confidential matter, but Joshua could guess without Munster saying that the empire must be ruthless in this matter. A large sum of money was knocked hard, otherwise, the emperor of the empire would not be happy to even get a medal for himself.

No wonder, I just did a little bit of work, how did I get the Dawn Emblem, which is known as the highest glory? The reasons are all here.

Next, there was nothing to say. Munster said that he would go to inspect the other three of the four Northern Territories, and Joshua also sent him out of the Lord's Mansion, watching him disappear at the corner of the street.

Before leaving, the inspector did not forget to remind the soldiers to remember to attend the celebration banquet in the imperial capital at the beginning of April as a day to celebrate the complete extermination of the orcs. It might become a festival that happens every year, even if it is a festival between East and West. The two dukes of the land will go to celebrate that day. In fact, basically the high-level officials of the entire empire will go to the imperial capital. If you don't want to become a weird freak, it's better to go.

Of course, Joshua will not forget this matter. He will definitely go to the imperial capital. Recently, the territory has been peaceful, and the old dwarf has returned to Heigang Town for the time being. The design of the improved version of the magic armor has been finalized. He plans to produce a hundred sets for the dwarves who dig tunnels to use first, and see the effect.

The paladin Lolanda also devoted himself to exploring the Great Ajax Volcano, completely becoming a person out of vulgar interests, and it was impossible for Joshua to call him back.

Without paladins to compete with him, and no old dwarves to study magic technology with him, Joshua can only do nothing and spend his days at leisure. As for the dragon disaster, those who want to spread to the dragon's nest from other places have been wiped out. Northland, at least half a year will be needed, so there is no need to think about it at all. Now, in addition to participating in the celebration banquet, he also plans to go to the famous Warcraft Auction in the imperial capital, buy a few gold-level monsters, and finish the extreme battle by the way. Intentional trial task.

As for the Emblem of Dawn... Joshua is not a real nobleman in his heart, he doesn't care much about these so-called honors, and even from a systematic point of view, this emblem only adds to insignificant aspects such as prestige and charm. Cheng, for a warrior, because no matter what, it is impossible to turn his negative twenty charm back into a positive number, so it is quite tasteless. After thinking about it, Joshua put it in his collection room, making it a companion with the Flaming Twin Snake Ring and that strange [Shard of Burning Steel].

Back in the study, Joshua continued to deal with official duties. He was watching the information on the Dragon Disaster in the Far South Kingdom before, and now he is naturally continuing.

Because of Clare's comrade-in-arms in the previous life, Joshua paid close attention to the intelligence of the Far South. Although in the previous life, the elves did not suffer too much loss in the Dragon Calamity relying on the defense of their forest fortress, but this It doesn't mean that they are really safe. In fact, the warriors know that many small and medium-sized elf villages and towns have been breached by mad dragons and slaughtered. In front of crazy dragons, there is no difference between humans and elves.

After confirming that the Windsong clan where the elf druid belonged to was a large group of elves, the warrior was relieved a lot, and he began to pay attention to the information of the Far South Kingdom. perspective.

——Starfall 833, on March 12th, Ruhr City, the last coastal city in the Far South Kingdom, was turned into fly ash by a raging fire. Wherever the dragons passed by, there was no grass left, and countless beasts were driven away by Longwei , and even formed a small wave of beasts galloping north.

Fortunately, most of the people in the occupied areas have been evacuated in an emergency and their lives have been saved. However, millions of people have left their homes. The Far South Kingdom is also unbearable. In the cities where refugees gather around Nanling, local riots have already occurred due to lack of food. Under the deliberate instigation of some rioters, this riot is gradually spreading.

For a country, a turbulent heart is more terrifying than a terrible dragon disaster.

And Joshua knew that this was just the beginning.

The dragon disaster in the previous life brought not only war, but also completely shattered the trust of some people at the bottom of the Far South Kingdom. With countless people displaced from their homes, most of the people who lacked food and clothing would not Seriously thinking about the cause of the disaster and understanding the difficulties of the kingdom, they will only blindly blame the inaction of the high-level, which also paved the way for the subsequent split.

The news of the fall of the city of Ruhr spread to the capital of the Far South Kingdom on the same day. Fortunately, the army of the Far South Kingdom has also been reorganized. The coalition forces formed by the local nobles and the central government have set out from the Boddington Fortress and took the initiative to wipe out several groups. The flying dragons swarmed towards the Nanling refugee gathering place, but this could not reverse the bad situation, it could only try to maintain the line of defense.

On the thirteenth, traces of several iron-scaled dragons were found in the Forest of Silence. This was originally a very docile omnivorous primitive dragon, known for its hard scales, but after becoming violent, they completely disappeared. It turned into a killing machine, and there was no living thing left in the land it passed, even the trees were devoured. Although they were wiped out by the elves the next day, they also caused great losses.

On the 15th, the commercial alliance in the south was also attacked by dragons. They did not expect that the scale of the dragon disaster was so large that they suffered a lot of losses in the early stage. Several coastal trading cities were attacked by sea sword dragons. , Hundreds of merchant ships sank on the route they traveled thousands of times, and the envoys of the royal family in the far south also returned from the north.

On the 19th, the first large-scale battle between the kingdom's coalition forces and the dragons took place on the Granmar Plain. Because of the Kuroshio, the human army has rich experience in dealing with such large beasts. The ground dragon of the dragon resistance agent was used as a diversion, and the coalition forces wiped out tens of thousands of flying dragons at a very small cost.

On the 22nd, based on several large cities in the central region, the Far South Kingdom established an iron barrel-like line of defense to completely separate the occupied area from the safe area. The war temporarily fell into a stable stage. All efforts are being made to eliminate the incitement to riots hidden among the refugees.

But those rioters, who were obviously followers of Chaos, hid themselves well, and the removal failed this time. Seeing this, Joshua couldn't help frowning.

The entire dragon catastrophe can be said to be a conspiracy of Chaos believers. They just want to meet the conditions for the evil god to descend, so they have spent hundreds of years preparing for it. They even intend to incite refugees to destroy the stability of the rear. In the eyes of the soldiers, The cleaning efforts of the Far South Kingdom were really not enough. They paid too much attention to the giant dragons and didn't pay much attention to those refugees.

It is now 833, on March 27th, a new round of battle reports has not yet been sent, but history is still advancing, and now not only in the Far South, but also in all parts of the mainland, dragon disasters of varying intensity have broken out, even if it is This is the case in the northern empire on the other side of the world, and only the northern land where the dragon's nest has been wiped out is still peaceful. Although there are occasional frenzied beast dragons, they are not in groups.

But right now, it's just the calm before the storm.

Joshua turned his head, looked at the huge world map behind him, and focused his gaze on the south.

The war has come as promised.