Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 100 The Beautiful Queen

The convoy arrived at the royal capital a week later.

After Green Town, Nemesis passed through a total of four small towns. He searched in depth for traces of vampires in each town and was surprised to discover a fact.

Among the four towns, there are traces of vampire descendants in three.

I have to admit, these vampires are indeed showing signs of becoming a disaster.

But people are used to it. After all, the Kingdom of Inbutu is located in this country. It is adjacent to the country with the most rampant use of undead creatures in the entire continent - Sel. These things that crawled out of the graves are already household names among the people of the Kingdom of Inbutu.

Even ordinary people with good eyesight on the border can see the zombies summoned by the Sel mages in Cesk working hard on the farm.

After the convoy entered the royal capital, the mercenaries were dismissed by Losrien. In fact, the biggest role of these mercenaries on the road was to serve as a deterrent, to prevent some unscrupulous thieves from causing trouble.

Colette drove the carriage, holding the royal letter in her hand, and had an unimpeded journey all the way to the center of the royal capital - [Palace of Santa Caserta].

This ancient and exquisite building with a thousand-year heritage was built by Saint Caserta Imputu, the second king of ancient Imputu. At the beginning, many of its design concepts were borrowed from the buildings drawn by travelers who drifted from the distant eastern continent at that time.

It is said that that is the bedroom of their emperor, the ruler of the Dragon Empire - [Li Palace], a magnificent palace where gods and humans practice together.

Unfortunately, hundreds of years ago, the king who turned into the Balrog, Dashandi Imbutu, set the entire palace on fire, burning down two-thirds of the Palace of Santa Caserta.

Later kings who succeeded him did not follow the exquisite oriental design style, but built a new Palace of Santa Caserta on the original site according to tradition.

This also caused the ancient building to disappear in the long river of history.

Nemesis walked out of the carriage and stood in front of the palace. Soon, a middle-aged man dressed in exquisite clothes and well-mannered came hurriedly. He was the palace butler.

The palace steward bowed gracefully to the silver-haired boy and his companions, and said in a rhythmic tone: "Distinguished guests, the royal family welcomes you. Please follow me. His Highness Leorel has been waiting for you for a long time."

Nemesis nodded and followed the palace steward into the inner court, passed through the wide archway, and then stepped onto the spiral stairs to arrive at a spacious hall.

On both sides of the hall are huge vertical stained glass. The warm afternoon sunlight shines through the large glass blocks divided by black iron frames and enters the hall, turning into a colorful background tone.

Nemesis walked to the window on the second floor and looked out. Outside was a garden with large patches of bright red roses planted on the ground, growing proudly in the sun.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

A low man's voice came from behind him. Nemesis looked back and saw a middle-aged man wearing a loose black waist robe and a black and red cloak on his back standing in front of him.

He looked extremely thin, with pale skin, and beneath his brown pupils was an aquiline nose as sharp as a knife. The tip of his nose that went straight down outlined a seriousness that should not be underestimated, as well as a hint of gloom.

"What did you say?" the silver-haired boy asked expressionlessly.

"Rose," the man smiled.

"As bright red as blood, with such a strong vitality, don't you think it's beautiful?"

Nemesis shook his head. The Volume Dragon Clan never liked overly bright colors. Pure black and white were the most in line with their aesthetics.

The man was silent, as if he felt sorry for the other person's taste, and then he stretched out his hand with distinct joints but long slender hair.

"Leorel, the regent judge of the Kingdom of Imbutu."

Nemesis raised his eyebrows, a little surprised. The man's clothes were plain and simple, and he didn't look like a ruler who was in a high position and above everyone else.

There wasn't a trace of magic energy emanating from his body, and he didn't look like a level 17 enchanting master.

"Nemesis," he responded, a skilled mage who deserved his respect.

Leorel walked to a sofa and sat down, staring at the young man in front of him, and asked with interest: "What are you pursuing, Lord Nemesis?"

"What?" Nemesis frowned. Didn't you ask me to come here? What am I after? Of course, it's the reward the royal family promised me.

"The mysterious dragon that saved Degen City, the priest favored by the god of knowledge, has a magical talent that is "extremely terrifying even to a scroll dragon." "

"Why did you get involved in this war and all this?"

Nemesis had a blank expression on his face, and his dim yellow pupils had turned vertical at some point, a sign that the dragon was becoming impatient.

"You asked a most useless question. Knowledge and treasure are what dragons pursue forever."

"No, maybe for other dragons." Leorel remained calm and looked directly into the vertical pupils full of pressure without any fear.

"But I always feel that you are different. Your smell, your actions, and the energy emanating from your body all make me feel that you are different."

"Ambition. You are not like those aimless fools of your kind. You have insatiable ambition, just like a human being."

The silver-haired boy pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and smiled. This human was very interesting. His enchantment spell had no effect on him, but he had the accurate intuition of a wild animal. "I have been keeping an eye on you since you entered the city. The Countess named Colette, the half-elf wizard, and the four drow should have been controlled by you, right? A mere oath to God cannot achieve that level of loyalty. It is truly a beautiful work of art."

"I am so unconscious and naturally submit to you. If I were not sure that you are not a legendary enchanter, I would have become your apprentice by now."

"Such a powerful character is staying in a remote place. Of course I am curious about your purpose."

"My goal is to fulfill the reward that the royal family promised to give me." Nemesis said with a smile.

Leorel shook his head, somewhat disappointed with Nemesis's response. He was about to say something else when a loud voice came from outside the door.

"The Queen has arrived!"

Leorel stood up and smiled, "Ah, here she comes."

A woman in a gorgeous red court dress walked in, and even Nemesis was stunned when he saw her.

Because the woman was so beautiful.

The black curly hair cascaded down like a waterfall, and under the thick eyelashes were a pair of dark brown pupils, sparkling like a deep lake, as if to suck the soul of the viewer dry, the milky white skin was as white as cream, and the lips were as bright as roses.

She raised the corners of her lips and smiled charmingly at the boy, holding the feather fan in her hand against the surging waves.
"You must be the hero who saved Degen Castle. You are as handsome as the rumors say."

The woman opened the fan with a "snap" and used it to cover the lower half of her face, leaving only her seductive eyes and smooth, straight nose.

Leorel looked at the woman, his eyes darkened, then he smiled and said, "Elizabeth."

The woman's eyes suddenly became sharp as she looked at Leorel. Knowing that she had made a mistake, the Chief Justice immediately changed her address.

"Your Majesty, this is Lord Nemesis."

The queen slowly walked in front of the young man, stretched out her soft and white left hand, and the scent of roses filled his face.

Nemesis frowned. He hated the pungent fragrance, and he always felt that there was a faint strange smell in the sweet taste.

"Will you be a gentleman, Mr. Juancelong?" the woman smiled playfully.

Juan Celong didn't want to, but looking at Leorel's anxious eyes, he raised his hand helplessly and gave a kiss.

A captivating smile spread across the queen's lips, and she whispered, "See you next time, Nemesis."

Then he walked out slowly.

Leorel's eyes followed the queen until she walked out of the room. Nemesis curled his lips when he saw this scene. He remembered what the devil said. He was another bootlicker like Cologne.

A certain scroll dragon who had no love for women was not attracted by the queen's breathtaking beauty at all. Instead, he was puzzled by Leorel's infatuation with a 17th-level enchanter.

"Queen Elizabeth's grace is undoubtedly countless times better than that of the previous queen, don't you think?" Leorel said with emotion.

Saint Therese married two queens in his life. The first queen died of illness 150 years ago. Five years later, Saint Therese, who was over years old, met the current queen, Elizabeth. He was so old and frail that he didn't know what had happened to him, but he insisted on marrying this queen of unknown origin but stunning beauty despite the opposition of all the nobles.

"It's okay." Nemesis replied indifferently.

Leorel returned to the topic and talked about other things with Nemesis.

"The king is very old," Leorel sighed.

"I'm so old that I haven't appeared in front of people for a long time."

"The princes and nobles are all eager to make a move because the king still has no children."

"Your Majesty the Queen cannot handle the situation alone. I have been assisting the King and Queen wholeheartedly to stabilize the situation."

"The deal with Searle was a helpless one, but now they are using it as capital to attack me."

"But you know what," Leorel pointed to the ground.

"Without Sazastan's help, we will not be able to stop Nie Rong from summoning that tyrant. No, we won't even know when he will summon him. The entire Inbutu Kingdom will be doomed! As for those churches, haha, they may seek revenge on that demon for the sake of a piece of ruins, or even punish Sel, but will that be of any use?"

Nemesis did not refute. In fact, he also thought that this was the best solution. Even though it was too cruel to the residents of Gobenland and Degen City, as a small country, the Kingdom of Butu had the weakness of ancient demons, so it was not difficult to understand that it would make concessions for survival.

Sacrificing a few to save the majority is a gray moral issue. No one has been able to completely decide whether it is right or wrong from ancient times to the present. Nemesis has no interest in solving this problem. After all, he is just a selfish pragmatist.

　I will be attending a wedding tomorrow so I won't have time to write. So I can only update 4,000 words tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)