Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 29: Lava Demon
"Even if he had a child with a female adventurer without your consent?"

Noah was mainly filled with surprise. After all, in today's era, not to mention aristocratic families, even ordinary poor people did not have the final say in marriage.

Freedom and love are very strange and distant words for most people, let alone combined together, which is a phrase beyond the cognition and understanding of the current era.

"What's the problem?"

Hearing the Lord's wife's question, Noah was a little confused.
"You are not picky about the woman's identity?"

"It's fine as long as Taidel likes her. Besides, why should we be picky? He is looking for more than one person."

"More than one?!"

Noah was immediately stunned. No wonder the mother in front of him didn't care. With such behavior, it was really hard to believe that the guy would really fall in love with those female adventurers of commoner origin.

He was a little confused just now. How could Teddel, who had already revealed his playboy nature, perform such a vulgar and old-fashioned drama on the road of training - the heir of a noble family who hid his identity fell in love with a commoner adventurer.

He misunderstood the whole relationship. That guy was not playing the innocent role at all. Instead, he started a harem of commoners. It is difficult to judge how much of it is true and how much is just a momentary impulse.

"Don't talk about that spoilsport guy. Although he suffered a lot during his training, most of the time, he lived more comfortably than you think. That's why I said that even if he breaks through, he may not be willing to come back."

"I see."

The topic about Taidel was naturally brought to an end, and the focus of the topic naturally shifted to his adoptive father Cassius, who had become a legend more than half a year ago.

Noah was very curious about what huge changes had taken place in his adoptive father's life and in the Augustus family after his promotion. Although he could partially anticipate some of the changes, it was nothing compared to hearing the person himself experience it.

"The kingdom didn't give any benefits. It just followed the usual practice to expand the territory and promote it to a dukedom. But there are some differences..."

Because Cassius was a newly-crowned legend, someone that all countries would compete to win over, so it was naturally impossible for him to assign some uninhabited and wild lands where no one could be seen to the Augustus family as he had done before to fool the border nobles.

The kingdom's previous actions could be understood as a disrespect for the border-developing nobles, but if they did the same to a legend, it would be contempt and insult, and if not handled properly, it could lead to serious consequences.

Therefore, this time, what was allocated to the Augustus family were many lands within the kingdom.

However, although there were people building cities and living and multiplying on these lands, they were still somewhat desolate and sparsely populated because they were close to the border. Therefore, the territory ruled by Cassius, who was promoted to Duke, was two or three times larger than a normal dukedom.

Not only that, because the territories allocated to the Augustus family at one time were too large and too vast, they naturally included the territories of many border nobles.

The royal family was too lazy to transfer these nobles, so they just threw all of them to the Augustus family, forcing these border nobles to pledge allegiance to Cassius and become vassals of the Augustus family.

This order seemed to indicate that the royal family was unwilling to put in the effort, or that they looked down on the nobles who were pioneering the borders. However, if one thought about it a little, one would find that this was simply a last resort.

If the royal family still wanted to retain nominal jurisdiction over these border nobles, it would either have to transfer territories to them or allocate more land within the kingdom to the Augustus family.

The former is naturally impossible, as there are too many interests involved, and any king's head would explode. But if it is not moved away, it can be guessed even with the soles of the feet.

Faced with a legend so close at hand and a royal family thousands of miles away, which noble could remain loyal to the royal family? What's more, they didn't have much loyalty to begin with. It would be better to just go with the flow and throw everything to the new legend as a favor.

"The royal family is really generous!" Although a little thought would reveal that this was the best decision made by the royal family after weighing the pros and cons, Noah couldn't help but sigh at the royal family's generosity.

Because to some extent, this is equivalent to helping the Augustus family establish a grand duchy, but it has not been officially declared.

"What do you mean by generous? It's just that the old king is not senile. He needs Cassius to guard here. In comparison, these additional territories are nothing."

Selena did not agree with the royal family's award. In her opinion, this level of reward was justified.

"Is there anything extremely dangerous in the wilderness?"

Noah heard the resentment and dissatisfaction hidden in the lord's wife's tone and asked immediately.

"Of course there are, and there is more than one kind. Otherwise, why do you think there are no decent nobles sealed here? It's because the environment here is too bad!"

"Danger? Legendary monster?"

After his adoptive father was promoted to a legendary being, he could still be considered dangerous by his adoptive mother. Noah couldn't think of anything else except legendary creatures.

The adoptive father and his knights had hunted countless extreme level monsters.

Thinking of this, Noah's expression couldn't help but become serious. If something happened to the Augustus family, it would definitely affect him, and he had no choice but to take it seriously.

"We have already discovered a swarm of destructive insects, a large passage leading to the Underdark, and traces of a lava demon."

"Lava demon?"

Noah's eyes twitched slightly. This was a very famous legendary undead creature. Its counterpart was the Frost Corpse, also known as the Winter Ghost.

"Thanks to that evil ghost, we haven't seen many monsters from the Underdark in recent years. However, after that evil ghost is killed by Cassius, we will probably have to deal with intrusions from the underground in the future."

"Are you sure that you can kill the lava demon?"

Noah was a little surprised.

"Soon. He promised me that he would be able to bring me the evil ghost's head and soul crystal before the end of the year."

"My adoptive father is so strong!"

The Golden Dragon couldn't help but sigh, the Lava Demon is not some legendary gatekeeper monster.

This thing is terribly powerful, because it has the characteristics of an undead creature, as well as elemental creatures, and also possesses legendary spell-like abilities. The most outrageous thing is that this thing can cast a dimensional door at will.

Simply put, the Lava Demon is a mobile active volcano that can teleport short distances. It is simply unstoppable.

(End of this chapter)