"It''s the black dragon. It''s back."

    Unlike the immortal species such as real dragons and goblins, mortals can''t resist the washing of time. Therefore, seven years later, the young aristocrats who were green and astringent at the beginning are now close to 30. Roy''s long and narrow eyebrows and neatly trimmed beard make him a few thick and mature colors, and his body is no longer thin.

    Now, dressed in civilian clothes and wearing a ribbon on the button, he entered the count''s study with a solemn look and said.

    "Father."

    The no longer young aristocrat bowed slightly: "in addition to the great victory, I think we should first focus on its problem and guard against the attack of a real dragon."

    The Brando family swept away the three territories adjacent to kaki and hanged the three supporters of Archduke Ryan. However, they did not intend to expand the war immediately. Instead, they slowed down and chose to digest their vested interests before making the next plan.

    "It''s your intuition again this time?"

    Count Brando held his pipe in his right hand and raised his head through the smoke. His fierce eyes, thick eyebrows and gray hair cut into a military style crew cut formed a strange contrast.

    "It''s a valid intuition, father."

    Roy sat down in an armchair facing the window and said, "I investigated. It''s not a rumor, but a premeditated poisonous sword. No one will turn over that old story unless it''s our enemy."

    "The Brando family has many enemies."

    "But there are not many thin cards."

    Roy took a sip of tea. "Brian Chloe is my man. Yes, but he died seven years ago and disappeared into the battle of mangno. As a result, only now has a letter been written in his tone. It must be forged."

    "There is only one possibility that our enemy at that time has returned," Roy concluded.

    "Sylvia is really disappointing."

    The old count showed an ironic smile: "powerful poisonous mother? I didn''t expect that even a black dragon could not be completely solved, and even gave it a chance to make a comeback."

    "Father, the pressure from the Rhine is not great, and the Northern Alliance has not responded yet," Roy continued

    The machine of the northern alliance is too large and has many parts, which leads to slow transmission and slow response. Therefore, so far, the war has been a civil strife in Rhine, and the northern countries have not started to intervene.

    Under this premise, Roy proposed: "please allow me to lead half of the soldiers back to the kaki border and garrison the rear for you in case of sudden enemies."

    To tell the truth, Roy was very afraid of the black dragon and still remembered it. The battle of mangye gave the count''s second son a taste of failure.

    In that confrontation, he had an absolute advantage, but the other party caught the pain point again and again and turned the situation around. Even if he opened the last card - Green Dragon Sylvia appeared, the other party escaped smoothly.

    That black dragon is very different from those lazy, stupid five-color dragons who only use brute force.

    And when it makes a comeback, it will bring a storm.

    Roy had to admit that he was afraid and worried. This time, they were in the light and the other was in the dark. He didn''t even know how strong the black dragon was and how much power he had.

    But those eyes in the dark stared at them and ate at the opportunity.

    Now the other party just played a small trick and did not spend much time spreading a rumor, which made the Brando family in a mess, and even had to launch a rebel war in advance.

    God knows what kind of storm the black dragon will bring if it really attacks.

    There was no way, Roy had to prepare in advance, carefully and urgently wanted to return to the kaki border in case of possible attacks by the black dragon at any time.

    I don''t know the depth of the enemy, where he is, and defense is the only thing he can do so far.

    "Do you know why you failed that time? My child."

    The old count sighed gently and put down his pipe: "you are very smart and used to take everything into account step by step. That''s good, but you are too young and have too little eyesight to see the essence of things."

    "The reason why you want to go back to defend kaki is because the black dragon may attack, but you haven''t thought about why it attacks and whether it will attack?"

    "You personally told me that it was a unique dragon, not a reckless fool like the red dragon."

    The old count looked at him and said, "do you think it has any reason to attack us? At this time."

    "Why?"

    Roy was puzzled and hesitated for a while before he said tentatively, "because we are weak now, the army is thrown into the battlefield against the Principality of Rhine, and it is weak to turn around. It can easily defeat us and complete revenge."

    It was obvious that Roy didn''t know why his father asked himself.

    "It seems that you still don''t understand."

    The old count shook his head and explained, "in order to satisfy the insignificant feeling of revenge? It''s too childish. What good will it do to attack us at this time? For a dragon, we are its enemies like other humans in the northern countries."

    "Isn''t it what the enemy likes to see when he is caught in internal strife? If the black dragon attacks and destroys the Brando family, what can he do if he is not to be driven out of the northern countries by others?"

    "The behavior of any intelligent creature is driven by its underlying purpose, and most of this purpose is interest."

    The old count came to the conclusion: "in ayladia, the so-called justice and evil, glory and revenge are ridiculous lies used to fool the lower class. We only talk about interests."

    "In the second period of the past, the proud female martial god of the sun never sets empire was willing to be worked by those ugly giant leaders for four days and four nights in order to win the help of the giant family. What can make a legend yield, not for the interests of the sun never sets Empire?"

    The old count sneered and said, "let human internal friction scuffle and use other people to suppress our power; or now jump out, turn yourself into an external contradiction and let human beings unite to fight it. What do you think the black dragon will choose?"

    "So, father."

    Roy Brando''s face flushed slightly. He had not been taught this for a long time: "what do you think we should do now?"

    "Just let the green dragon know."

    The old count stood up: "we don''t need to manage the defense of the border, maintain the status quo and swallow the Rhine as soon as possible."

    In the old count''s guess, the black dragon didn''t take revenge such as assassination, but just spread rumors. It seems that it just wants to make the Brando family mired in the mire, unable to pull away and unable to respond to external changes.

    So, the first goal of the other party is green city.

    In fact, the old count has been disappointed with the green dragon. Of course, he can''t be so kind to remind Sylvia. He just wants the other party to fight with the black dragon. If it''s best to kill the black dragon, even if he can''t stop it, he can delay it for a period of time as much as possible.

    With this period of time, the Brando family can defeat Archduke Ryan, master the power of Rhine, and then try to win over other countries to stabilize the situation.