“Roar!”
At this point, Yulin had descended and stopped right over Shien. She saw the knights surrounding Shien and let out an enraged roar.
“Hii…!”
Among the knights, there seemed to be individuals who let out such a shameful sound.
They can’t really be blamed though.
A terrible demonic beast capable of instantly wiping them all out is right above them and is even roaring angrily. Who could withstand such thing?
If not for the fact that all the knights there were warriors who have withstood countless battles, as well as also being of the Stalim territory’s Second Knight Order, who are only surpassed by the First Knight Order who guards the national border, then they may have already begun running away.
A dragon’s fierceness is like hell. Yulin merely released a bit of her aura, and it was already enough to terrify those level 50 or so knights to half death.
Just as Terrance had thought, a dragon like that could easily annihilate a city, never mind a nearly unmatched king of demonic beasts like Yulin.
Thus, Terrance had no choice but to give the following order.
“All of you, lower your weapons!”
Terrance’s voice had a hint of reluctance to it.
Even though his opponent was merely a 20 years old youth, and he only had a child and a maid with him. Yet, the Second Knight Order of the Stalim dukedom was forced to lower their weapons in submission. That really was somewhat humiliating.
At the very least, it’s a humiliation that Terrance had never experienced before.
It can’t be helped though. The other side has such a terrifying dragon as a mount after all.
This means that the other party must either have an enormously powerful faction backing him up that is capable of granting him a mount like that, or that the other party is a taming master with a high leveled [Taming] skill.
No matter which one it is, neither is something that Terrance can afford to provoke. In fact, even the Stalim family who he is vassal to may not be able to afford to provoke him.
Add in the actual threat of that dragon, Terrance must have something wrong with his head if he doesn’t understand and back off.
Only…
(A taming master capable of taming a true dragon, huh?)
Terrance has never heard of a taming master of such level.
No, that’s not right…
(There recently seemed to have been some rumors about a noble capable taming dragons over at the Capital, right?)
Terrance suddenly remembered that matter.
Could it be then…
“Are you Viscount Bayztrot then?”
Terrance hesitated for a moment before he decided to ask that.
“Oh?” Shien smiled then, “So you know of me?”
Know of.
Of course he knows of him.
After all, according to the rumors, although this noble is only a viscount, he’s actually unbelievably amazing. He seemed to even have a superpower from over in the demon world backing him up, and even the royalty favored him quite a bit.
In fact, there were even rumors about how the idol of countless people, the Treasure of the Kingdom, had quite a good personal relationship with him.
Terrance even remembers that back when he first heard of that news, a lot of noble scions let out cries of sorrow and various insults in their refusal to believe it. It had ended up causing quite a bit of commotion on a certain level to the territory.
Even his own son had bugged him for some time in trying to get him to collect more information on this matter and to see if it’s actually true. Thus, Terrance did have some impressions of Shien.
Finally, Terrance understood just why he felt that name Shien sounded so familiar to him.
So he’s that rumored viscount, huh?
“My apologies for our rudeness.” Terrance was thinking furiously, but he made sure to speak with the utmost politeness, “So you’re also a noble of the Kingdom. I had thought that the neighboring marquis family was invading again, so please forgive me for any offense I might have given.”
“Not at all.” Shien replied with a smile, “This is all my fault here. For me to have allowed my mount to cause such a huge commotion and scaring everyone so, I’m truly ashamed.”
“No, not at all.”
“No, it indeed was my bad.”
Shien and Terrance thus went through the their show of mutual contrition. It really did give them a feel of the usual dealings between nobles.
Either way, Airi was looking at it with a disdainful expression.
“Hadn’t that guy always really hated that kind of thing before?”
In the past, just who was it that kept on repeating that he hated the falseness of nobles?
Aren’t you now acting exactly like what you used to hate so much? Ptui!
While Airi was showing such disdainful look, Lasha on the other hand was utterly calm. She simply stood quietly to the side without a word or any opinions, looking very much like just a follower.
Thus, as this continued, Shien and Terrance had enough of their etiquette and finally got into the main point.
“Might I know why Lord Bayztrot has come to Jiltry for? Please let me know if you need any help from me!” Terrance stated.
Shien had also stopped with the polite talk and finally went back to his original attitude.
“The main reason for my coming is due to the Princess’s request. I am here to resolve the matter of the Old Demon Faction within the Stalim Dukedom.”