"Hmm..." Roland opened his eyes in confusion. His sleepy eyes seemed to be blurred by something. After a long time, Roland reluctantly opened his eyes.
"Where... am I?" Roland looked at the animal skins covering his body and the low, wide wooden bed beneath him, feeling a little confused. He was suddenly bewildered.
Oh well! Roland, that silly kid, had completely blacked out from drinking. After sitting on the bed for a while, he suddenly realized something...
"I think I drank with them all night yesterday..." Roland's mouth twitched. Drinking really messed things up!
"Oh right! System sign-in!" Roland said hurriedly, slapping his head.
"Ouch! It hurts!" Roland grimaced as the aftereffects of drinking slowly emerged. Roland, who used to be a good young man, never drank a drop of alcohol, but he was suddenly forced to drink so much last night that he passed out. Today, Roland felt the pain of a hangover.
"Sign-in successful! Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Wind Dragon Bloodline Dragon Crystal!"
"Huh? Dragon crystal!" Roland scratched his head, still a little confused. He vaguely remembered that dragon crystal seemed to have some special uses, but because of his headache, he couldn't remember it for a while.
"Creaky!" Roland reached out and pushed open the door.
"Hmm? Is there any water?" Roland looked weakly at the team of knights standing guard outside the door.
"Your Highness, are you awake?" The leading knight asked in surprise when he saw Roland come out.
"Of course! Your Highness, this is water soaked with moon honey produced by the elves. It is very good for sobering up!" The knight quickly took out a golden kettle from his arms, unscrewed it, and handed it over respectfully with both hands.
"Gudong gudong~" Roland raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.
"Not bad! Quite sweet!" Roland said with satisfaction, and casually returned the kettle to the knight in front of him.
"By the way, where are Caslo and the others?" Roland looked around and found that several familiar figures were missing.
"Your Highness, please follow us." A centaur waiting on the side said softly.
"Okay!" Roland raised his leg and followed him.
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"Your Highness, how was your sleep last night?" Balder asked Roland with a smile.
"What a rip-off! Damn it! Who of you forced me to drink?" Roland glared at the people sitting at the table with dissatisfaction. If he hadn't been so drunk last night that he didn't remember what happened, he would have slapped the person who urged him to drink.
In an instant, several people turned their heads at the same time. It seemed that several of them had participated in the tragedy last night. They tacitly avoided looking at Roland.
"Your Highness, you really can't drink! You got drunk last night and vomited all over me." Caslo came up and brought up all sorts of things.
"...Are you serious?" Roland's eyes widened. Could it be that he had embarrassed himself in front of the Centaurs last night? He had vomited right in front of his own little brother?
"Uh...it's nothing, just pretend I didn't say anything!" Caslo changed his words instantly.
"..." Roland held his forehead with one hand. Damn it! His fame was gone!
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"Thank you for your hospitality! Baron Balder, I hope you can fulfill your duties as a lord and don't let me down! I hope you can follow me to expand the territory and secure more resources for you and your people!" Roland smiled as he looked at the Centaur Lord in front of him. This was his first vassal who was not summoned by the system. Although the process was rather tortuous, he managed to bring him back in the end by bluffing and tricking him.
"Your Highness..." Balder suddenly said a little embarrassedly.
"What's wrong?" Roland asked curiously as he looked at Balder, who was like a young lady getting into a sedan chair.
"My people and I need some iron tools and armor... After all, our current equipment is too..." Balder said embarrassedly.
"Well... of course it's no problem! Send someone to my River Rapids in a few days to order or purchase standard weapons and equipment." Roland agreed after a little thought. Even if these centaurs were fully armed, they would not pose much threat to Roland. After all, Roland's army of thousands was not really afraid of a mere 300 centaurs. There might be some losses in a field battle, but if they defended the city, 50 El Nino Rangers could kill these centaurs at will. Ordinary armor was like paper in front of them. Their life-matching skills were useless in the eyes of El Nino Rangers. After all, a round of accurate shooting could completely break their single-unit endurance limit. It was no problem to shoot and kill a centaur in one round. After all, there was still some gap between the life-matching of the centaur and the glory of the knight.
"Let's go! No need to see me off! Take control of your territory as soon as possible! The defense here is left to you! I hope this place won't become a loophole in the defense of Stormwind!" Roland said solemnly. This meant that part of the eastern defense line was now taken over by Balder and his men. Roland would reduce the defense strength here. Once the Centaurs became as unreliable as the Woodland Elves... that scene would be too beautiful to be true!
"Don't worry, Your Highness! As long as our men are alive, no enemy can cross our territory!" Balder said in a muffled voice.
"I believe you!" Roland had no doubt about Balder's words. The Centaurs had a very strong sense of territory, which could be seen from this conflict.
"By the way, I found a dragon crystal with the bloodline of a wind dragon. I wonder if it's useful?" Roland played with the fist-sized green dragon crystal in his hand. The dragon crystal looked extremely gorgeous in the sunlight, and the mysterious dragon magic patterns were entwined in the void around the dragon crystal.
"What? Wind Dragon Bloodline Dragon Crystal? Are you sure it's Bloodline Dragon Crystal?" Caslo was stunned, then exclaimed in ecstasy.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Roland said casually, not knowing that Caslo was trembling with excitement at the moment.
"Sir, can I take a look?" asked Caslo in a trembling voice.
"Here! Here!" Roland threw it back casually.
Kaslo quickly rushed over to catch it, fearing that it would fall to the ground. Although dragon crystal was indestructible, Kaslo still felt that letting it fall to the ground was a blasphemy!
"Sir, do you know what this dragon crystal means?" Kaslo held the dragon crystal in his handkerchief and wiped it gently with a complicated expression.
"What?" Roland said nonchalantly, not realizing what was going on.
"Huh!" Kaslo took a deep breath and said slowly: "This dragon crystal can allow a 5th-level wind-attribute professional to become a 6th-level professional! More importantly, this dragon crystal can allow the wind element flying dragon to revert to its ancestral form and evolve into a wind-attribute dragon!" Kaslo swallowed his saliva and said.
"Is it so powerful? Then it's a treasure!" Roland said in shock. He never expected that this dragon crystal was so powerful.
"Yes, sir, although the evolution process will last from several years to several decades, it is certain that a flying dragon can evolve into a giant dragon. I didn't expect that you would obtain such a treasure. There were not many pieces in the treasury during the heyday of the empire (and those that did were basically all used up). You should know that this kind of bloodline dragon crystal can only be produced after the natural death of the leader of a dragon clan." Caslo sighed, and reluctantly returned the dragon crystal in his hand respectfully.
"Take it." Roland said calmly. He did not turn around to take it. After all, he was the only wind-attributed dragon knight under his command. If he didn't give it to him, no one else would be able to use it. Instead of keeping it as a treasure chest, it would be better to transform it into combat power.
"Sir..." Caslo said with a choked voice.
"It's okay, it's just dragon crystal, don't mind it." Roland said calmly, but he didn't know that if Caslo behind him had shown loyalty, the number would definitely soar to over 200%.
Kaslo clutched the precious dragon crystal in his hand with a complicated expression, and secretly made up his mind...