Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

Why is it so dark and why does my head hurt so much?Silas thought dazedly.

Then he was woken up by a bucket of cold water.

He shivered, felt a splitting headache, and immediately realized that he was in big trouble.

He was lying on the wooden floor of a large empty house, which looked like an abandoned warehouse, and was empty except for a few temporary utensils. A thin man in a black mage robe was using a special The powdery paint concentrates on drawing a large magic circle on the wooden floor.

He looks to be less than 40 years old, but his hair is almost all white, his eyes are sunken, and he is so dark that people can feel [-]% defensive from the bottom of his heart at the first sight.

There was also a strong man carrying a bucket, looking warily at the immobile Silas, even though the young dragon knight was tightly bound by hemp rope, as helpless as a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, he also There was no letting down our guard.

Silas tried to struggle, the rope thicker than his fingers was so strong that he couldn't break it with manpower, he could only try to recall everything that happened before he lost consciousness.

Today Salanar went out early in the morning. As the leader of the dragon clan, he was always busier than other dragons. It is said that he went to the city of Sekas on the northern border of Andorcia, where he met with the neighboring country, Tesdarra faction. Messenger of explanation and intercession.

Under normal circumstances, if the black dragon does not take him with him when he goes out, Silas will read a book and chat in the lair area, or pack up and spend the day, but the butcher Saka gave him a day off, let He could go back to Silverbrook to see his family.

Silas didn't think much about it, and immediately packed up and hung himself from the cable car beside the cliff. It would take him more than an hour to walk to Silver Creek City. If he was lucky enough to meet a carriage to buy military supplies, it would be faster. Then come back before dark at night, and then take this crane that can only hold one person in each gondola back to the top of the dragon.

But just before he reached Silver Brook City, a woman dressed as a peasant woman suddenly ran by the side of the road, grabbed his clothes, pointed to a mill not far away, and begged him that her husband was knocked down while repairing the millstone. The falling pillar weighed her down, and she couldn't lift it, so she begged Silas to help.

Silas ran to the mill with the peasant woman without saying a word, but he didn't see any fallen pillars at all when he entered the door. He just felt that something was wrong, and a heavy blow hit him on the back of the head. When he woke up again, he was already here.

The black-robed mage had finished drawing the magic circle. He walked out of the magic circle cautiously, patted the paint powder on his hands, and said to the strong man, "Put him in."

"Who are you and what are you going to do to me?" Silas was in a hurry, but now the only thing he could do was verbally threaten, "I am a dragon knight from the top of the dragon, if you kidnap me like this, the whole Andorcia will want you all!"

"Of course I know who you are." The black-robed mage looked at him calmly and said, "Not only do I recognize the clothes, but I also recognize your face, Silas Haslan, or you should be called Kelson, the Dragon Clan Knights of the chief Thalanaar."

Silas was silent, he realized that this was not a random kidnapping, the other party was coming at him with a clear goal, and most likely not at himself, but at his master Saranna you.

The strong man threw Silas, who was still dripping water, in the center of the huge magic circle, and the mage nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, you go out first."

"Obey, my master, I will guard the door and let no one disturb you." The strong man looked at the mage with almost fanatical reverence, and he left the room respectfully.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Silas asked, staring nervously at the black-robed mage.

"Please allow me to introduce myself." The mage smiled sinisterly, "My name is Mershachino, you probably haven't heard of this name, because he has been removed from the mage association by those cowards who refused to recognize my power. It has been deleted from the history, but I believe it will not be long before this name will become the nightmare of the entire continent."

"...you madman!" Silas cursed.

"I would take that as a compliment." Mershachino stood in front of a shelf carved into the shape of a dragon's claw, staring at the crystal ball on the shelf. The supreme leader of the Dragon Clan."

Silas wriggled angrily, but the knot wouldn't budge. "Thalanar is so powerful that a clown like you can't get his way! He'll grind your guts out like a bedbug, Then strangle you with your intestines!"

"Yes, he is so powerful and charismatic, a powerful dragon like him should not be ridden by an ordinary person like you, but should be the mount of the strongest!" Mershashino chattered to the dragon knight He turned a deaf ear to the cursing, and kept his eyes on the changing light and shadow in the crystal ball without blinking. He still needed a little time.

"You're crazy! He's not a mount, and he doesn't belong to anyone!" Silas, who was tied up and couldn't move, struggled and twisted his only movable waist, trying to crawl out of the magic circle through difficult wriggling.

"How can someone like you, who has been brainwashed to become a dragon slave, understand?" The black-robed mage had finished the preparations at hand, and he said in a smug tone, "But it doesn't matter, soon, you will obey me unconditionally will, like the savage outside the door."

"Don't even think about it!" Silas shouted sternly, he was very scared, just like all people who don't understand magic are afraid of magic, he couldn't imagine what kind of unimaginable means this malicious wizard would use to come Make him as submissive as the brainwashed slave outside the door.

"Give up unnecessary struggle and resistance. This will only increase your pain, but it is meaningless." Mershachino continued to use words to oppress the nervousness of the Dragon Knight. He needs this kind of fear, and the more psychologically the opponent is The more afraid of his magic, the better the effect of this magic will be.

He activated the magic circle, and watched with satisfaction that the dragon knight who was tied up like rice dumplings let out a hoarse scream, twisting his body desperately, struggling in vain.

Mershachino waited patiently until Silas's voice grew weaker and weaker, and finally the dragon rider stopped moving, his eyes wide open and out of focus, his mouth open like a stranded cat. Panting like a fish.

The black-robed mage knew that he had succeeded. He had already broken the will of the dragon knight. Now the young man's mind was in front of him like a defenseless baby. He only needed to use the guidance and hints of words to provoke Silas' suspicion and hostility towards everyone finally convinced the young man that the mage in front of him was his only support in the whole world.

To put it bluntly, this is a kind of deep hypnosis, which not only requires expensive spell materials, but also requires the caster to have a sufficient understanding of how to confuse people's hearts, but once successful, this magic can completely change a person's will without a trace.Mershachino felt that as long as he experimented a few more times on these simple-minded subjects, he would be sure enough to lure the actual power holders of those countries into becoming his loyal slaves. Compared with the generous rewards, What is this investment worth?

However, Silas is not a simple experiment. Mershashino took the risk of kidnapping a dragon knight, mainly because he was not arrogant enough to face the leader of the dragon clan. It can also capture the opponent, but he always prefers to use a more secure method.

He wanted to control the young man to unknowingly mix the magic-suppressing drug into the dragon leader's food, and then trick the black dragon into the trap he had prepared in advance, and finally capture it without fail. his style.

"Silas..." Mershachino read out the original name of the Dragon Knight in as gentle a voice as possible. He had already done a full investigation of the young man's background before he attacked, so it was easy for him to find him. Find out the weakness in the opponent's character.

"You have let your mother down...you have shamed the Haslan family." Mershachino tried his best to sound gentle and kind, so as not to arouse the vigilance and resistance of the hypnotized person.

Silas's body twitched, and he closed his eyes unconsciously. Some chaotic scenes gradually appeared in the crystal ball in front of Mershachino, which was the projection of Silas's inner thoughts, but it was obvious that Silas Si's consciousness is still in a state of being unable to concentrate.

The mage said in a gentle voice, "Look, your mother is mad at you, do you know what you did wrong?"

Some images gradually appeared in the crystal ball, and with Mershachino's intentional reminder, Silas began to recall some old things.

"You must use honorifics when you speak, and you are not allowed to make any noise when eating! How can your behavior be so uneducated? Etiquette is the only difference between us and those inferior people. Are you going to throw away even this bottom line? His mother Yehelena yelled at him hysterically, "You only memorized half of the books you were asked to memorize, and you got four out of [-] arithmetic problems wrong! You are so unbelievable, let alone become a lawyer in the future. Not even a housekeeper! Without a decent job, what do you use to revitalize your family?! You are never allowed to go to your aunt’s house to wield knives and sticks. You are my only son, and I will never allow you to go to the battlefield. Absolutely! Even going to the palace as a court guard!"

In the memory, the young Silas said weakly: "I don't want to revitalize the family, I want to do something I like..."

"Oh my God, how could I have raised a son like you!" Yehelena squatted on the ground and burst into tears, "I worked so hard to do the work of inferior people, but it was all for you, how could you do this? Disappointing?!"

Mershachino's voice guided him in a timely manner: "Your mother is very dissatisfied with the current life, but she has no ability to change the status quo. She can only force you to save her from the sea of ​​suffering. It's your usefulness, the full value of your existence. That's why she doesn't care whether you live well or not, whether you live happily or not, everything she does is for herself."

"Well...you're lying!" Silas struggled with his remaining rationality, not wanting to fall into the enemy's trap.