“Please, if I don’t get to see the loli dragon girl, I’m gonna…!”
Anke grabbed the hand of Vera, who had already transformed back into the red-haired, mature knight lady, pleading with her.
“No, you can’t. Let go of me, Your Highness. No matter how much you beg me, I won’t transform into the dragon girl for you to see again.
You need to get up and go to work. There are still many things you haven’t finished.
And I also have to go inform Mustafa and Kano that you have regained consciousness.”
Vera helplessly explained to Anke, who was acting like a spoiled child.
“Ah, alright. You’re right, Vera.”
Anke reluctantly let go of Vera’s hand, looking like a child who had just lost his favorite toy.
“However, if both Your Highness and I have no other matters to attend to, it’s not impossible to secretly satisfy your request.”
Vera gave Anke a resigned smile.
“Hooray!”
Anke raised his hands and cheered.
“Ah, this isn’t something to be so excited about.”
Vera muttered softly, then left the room to inform Mustafa and the others that Anke had awakened.
“Lady Vera.”
When Vera stepped out of the room, the maids waiting outside instinctively straightened their postures upon meeting her gaze, trying to appear more alert.
“His Highness is awake. Choose one of you to inform Lord Mustafa. The rest of you, go attend to His Highness and help him change into his attire.”
Vera gave orders to the maids.
“Yes, Lady Vera.”
The maids bowed and nodded. They quickly selected a young, nimble-footed maid who lifted her skirts and hurried off in small steps to deliver the message to Mustafa.
The remaining maids, under Vera’s watchful eye, entered Anke’s bedroom to help him change into his travel attire.
Vera tilted her head to look at Anke inside the room.
Under the maids’ practiced hands, he was dressed in the noble attire befitting his status as both lord and prince, like a porcelain doll in the hands of a noble lady.
Anke’s discarded nightclothes were taken away by the maids, to be sent to the laundry for washing and drying.
After Anke finished changing, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, Mustafa jogged into Anke’s room.
Seeing that Anke had awakened without any abnormalities allowed Mustafa’s perpetually anxious heart to settle down steadily.
Through Mustafa, Anke also obtained firsthand information on the current situation in the Border City.
And judging from the expression on Anke’s face after listening to Mustafa’s report, Vera was certain that in Anke’s eyes, the current state of the Border City was still quite optimistic.
“Mustafa, you said the dragon’s corpse was salvaged and dragged back, and has been lying in the square untouched ever since?”
Anke asked Mustafa.
“Yes, because this is your achievement, Your Highness, we did not dare to handle it without authorization.”
Mustafa replied.
“Then hurry up and start butchering it! With a dragon this big, every moment we delay means more meat rotting, which is a loss of gold coins!”
Anke said loudly.
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Border City, central square.
This was the execution ground used by successive lords to carry out death sentences.
Whenever a condemned criminal was pushed onto the gallows, it would always be crowded with citizens coming to watch the spectacle.
At this moment, the square was once again filled with onlookers, not because the lord was executing a criminal, but because of the massive monster corpse that had been dragged back.
“Caw~ Caw~ Caw~”
A flock of black crows circled above the monster’s corpse.
The crows’ orange eyes gleamed with cunning and greed, occasionally swooping down in an attempt to peck at the remains of this monster.
But often, before they could even land on the corpse, the guarding soldiers would forcibly drive them away with their spears.
The watching citizens whispered among themselves, exchanging the fragments of information they had each heard.
“Is that a dragon?”
“It’s a dragon, a dragon slain by the lord himself!”
“A dragon slain by the lord?”
“Yes, it’s said this dragon initially tried to play dead to ambush the lord. But the lord killed it with a magic scroll! That head was blown off by a magic scroll!”
“Nonsense, Lord did not use a magic scroll. It must have been the Holy Sword, the Slayer of Dragons’ Holy Sword. With just one swing, it could chop off this beast’s head.”
The citizen who believed Anke used a Holy Sword to slay the Blue Water Dragon mimed gripping an invisible sword and made a slashing motion.
“Magic scroll, Holy Sword… you’ve listened to too many stories. This dragon was hunted by the lord leading the army. Look at those wounds on the dragon’s body; they must have been made by spears.”
An older citizen stroked his beard with one hand while pointing at the numerous large wounds covering the dragon’s body with the other.
“Make way, make way! The lord is coming!”
Just then, a path was forcibly opened through the crowd by soldiers.
The crowd’s attention quickly shifted to Anke’s side.
“That’s the lord who slew the dragon!”
“He is our Slayer of Dragons!”
“Slayer of Dragons!”
“Slayer of Dragons!”
The citizens didn’t know exactly what slaying a dragon would change in their lives, but Anke had genuinely brought hope and light to their lives. Therefore, they were willing to praise Anke with the title of Slayer of Dragons.
“Vera, um, sorry. I seem to have stolen your credit.”
Inside the path cleared by the soldiers, listening to the cheers from both sides, Anke whispered an apology to Vera, who was guarding him.
“It’s fine, Your Highness. It’s just an empty title. I don’t need those things.”
Vera shook her head.
“Alright then. Vera, what would you like to eat? I’ll have the kitchen prepare a special meal for you tonight?”
Anke thought for a moment and asked Vera.
“Your Highness plans to reward me with food?”
Vera asked Anke in return.
“It’s not like you have much use for ordinary things, right?”
“Well then… could Your Highness reward me with some honey-roasted meat and sweet wine?”
“I can definitely fulfill that!”
Anke nodded at Vera, then ordered the butchers and hunters he had summoned to begin butchering and processing the Blue Water Dragon’s corpse.
The butchers and hunters immediately took out their most handy tools and began trying to process the giant beast’s corpse.
But since this was everyone’s first time, they could only proceed based on experience and trial and error, so the dismantling speed was not fast.
“I’m just curious if the dragon meat is still edible… Vera, you said this dragon had already been refined into a Zombie Puppet by a Lich using Necromancy. After becoming a puppet, can its meat still be eaten?
If it’s inedible, it would be such a waste. This dragon is over forty meters… ahem, I mean over one hundred and twenty feet long. There must be at least several hundred thousand pounds of meat.”
Anke looked at the Blue Water Dragon corpse piled up like a small mountain.
“No, it cannot. Meat refined by Necromancy will harm the body if eaten, and can even poison people to death. Your Highness, you’d better not try it.”
Vera shook her head.
“That really is a great pity.”
Anke said regretfully.
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