Chapter 45 Forced Collaborator

The dragon's gaze is still very oppressive.

Baron Todd looked up, his scarlet pupils filled with fear, and his expression no longer had the previous aggressiveness.

But he still tried his best to remain reserved, with his hands behind his back, trying hard to keep his voice from trembling too much:

"You are the 'Fei Yan', right?"

"Excuse me, you are visiting my territory... is there something important?"

Cassius keenly sensed the fluctuations of the magic network and knew that the baron was constructing a spell model. His expression darkened slightly:
"Baron Todd, is this how you treat guests who come from afar?"

"Use rude magic."

"Instead of the etiquette and hospitality of the nobility."

When Baron Todd saw that he had been exposed, his face suddenly changed.

But he still hurriedly took out the bottles and jars from his dress, took out a few bat hairs that he had prepared long ago, and quickly cast a spell.

"Darkness!"

As the bat's hair turned to ashes, a thick black fog quickly spread with Baron Todd as the center. The dark magical power enveloped the entire spherical area with a radius of five meters, wrapping him completely in it.

Not even creatures with darkvision can see through this darkness, and non-magical light cannot illuminate it, not even low-level spells below the second level.

Cassius just watched all this silently, and exclaimed slowly:

"Very good spell, Lord Baron."

"If they were ordinary humans, they would be so frightened by you that they would not dare to move. They would just let you quietly suck their blood in fear in the dark."

His tone suddenly turned cold.

"But do you remember that you are facing a giant dragon?"

Cassius turned suddenly and swept across with his thick and long tail with great force.

The black fog balls were suddenly opened and rolled out. They could block the light but could not block physical attacks.

Baron Todd, who was preparing his next spell in the dark, was also hit suddenly.

"boom!"

He flew several meters away.

Fortunately, Baron Todd possessed some kind of regenerative ability. Although this blow broke all his bones and flesh, they were recovering rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Baron Todd lay on the ground spitting blood, and struggled to feel out the viper's shriveled stomach.

"Ma Youfu's acid arrow!"

A flashing green arrow quickly flew towards the red dragon.

"Shield."

The red dragon sneered, and an invisible shield appeared in front of him, blocking the arrows that were rushing towards him. The strong acid arrows suddenly exploded into strong acid mist, but still did not hurt Cassius at all.

"A spellcaster?"

Baron Todd's face was horrified. A dragon wizard, it couldn't be worse than this.

Thinking of this, he began to construct a spell model.

"Phantom Steps!"

Only a cloud of silver-white smoke was left where the Baron had originally been, and he had reappeared at the wall of the manor dozens of meters away, dragging his wounded body with twisted and hanging vines on it.

Cassius flapped his wings and followed, saying calmly: "My Lord Baron, please don't struggle in vain."

"These little tricks of yours"

"It's not worth mentioning at all."

Flames ignited in the red dragon's pupils. Baron Todd saw the red dragon chasing him and quickly used his exhausted brain to construct the spell model again.

He pulled down a vine suddenly, and the other end of the vine rose rapidly until the entire vine was perpendicular to the ground, hanging in the air.

At the last moment when the red dragon was about to catch him.

Todd climbed up the vine and disappeared, and the vine disappeared with him.

"Magic rope technique?"

Cassius said to himself with great interest.

This spell is a famous escape spell exclusive to mages. It can use an item with the "rope" property to travel to a small different-dimensional space that exists for the duration of the spell.

Neither attacks nor spells can be used to enter or exit the entrance to the extra-dimensional space, but creatures within the space can see the outside scene through the entrance, as if there is a window at the location of the rope.

But as soon as the spell ends, everything in the other dimension will fall out.

At this time, Baron Todd was in a different dimension. His pale face looked extremely nervous, for fear that the red dragon would notice something was wrong.

If he didn't need to breathe, he would probably be gasping for breath by now.

Cassius just said to himself:
"Very interesting spell."

“It’s just that I already said
"Your tricks are nothing to me!"

As his words fell, a faint light barrier quickly emerged with the red dragon as the center, covering the entire area.

"Spell nullification barrier!"

The other-dimensional space suddenly shattered like a broken glass cup, causing Baron Todd, who was hiding in it, to appear out of thin air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

Facing the red dragon's open bloody mouth, Baron Todd finally couldn't help himself and collapsed to the ground, kneeling down and begging for mercy:
"No, no, don't kill me!"

"I am the son of Duke Brad, the Baron of the Rackman family of the Northern Wind Eagle."

"If you spare my life, my family will give you a lot of gold, far more than you can get by killing me!"

"Lord Dragon, I, I am willing to submit to you..."

As a wizard, Todd naturally has some experience and understands the greedy nature of the red dragon.

The red dragon looked down at him, his eyes narrowed slightly: "I just need you to agree to my three conditions for cooperation."

"I promise, I promise everything!"

Before he finished speaking, Baron Todd agreed eagerly, fearing that the capricious and cruel red dragon would turn him into ashes.

Although the red dragon in front of him seemed relatively rational.

But who can tell?
Cassius nodded slightly and said:

"First, I need all of your spell scrolls. Remember, all of them. I will use them to pay for your invasion of the Burning Embers' Nest territory. This is the premise of our cooperation."

"Second, I welcome trade and can even provide you with gold, but I need to exchange all goods with you, including weapons and armor. Hart will be the leader of this 'friendly trade' caravan."

"Third, I will send some followers to protect the caravan. We will also station troops in Sige Town to protect the safety of you, my partner."

"Aren't you afraid that I will betray our cooperation?"

Baron Todd asked tentatively.

At least for now, the red dragon's conditions are relatively relaxed, and he needs to take the opportunity to gain the red dragon's trust.

Cassius sneered and said, "My Lord Baron, I have said it before, we are here to cooperate, this is a win-win process."

"Think about it. Without trade with us, the Burning Embers, without gold and powerful troops, you and your barony are nothing but a grain-producing land that can be abandoned at any time. An invasion from the north is enough to destroy you."

"I think... you know what I mean."

The red dragon's pupils flickered, as if a raging fire was burning in them.

(End of this chapter)