Chapter 336

Leon spoke with reason and evidence, "As for being stubborn... I suddenly realized that there was a very interesting 'argument' in what you just said."

"What's your explanation?"

"You said Noa's concern for us can't be faked."

"Uh-huh."

"Then... you can't fake how much you care about me either?" Leon asked with a smile.

Losweiser snorted and swept her tail across his face.

"I don't need to pretend, Leon, because I don't care about you at all, I never have—"

"Ouch, your tail hurt!"

"Oh, I didn't mean to! Are you alright?"

Leon:????????

Losweiser:????

More than a month later, Leon and Losweiser went to the border between the human and dragon territories to hand over information to their master and Rebecca.

Unlike the previous times, this time Leon brought some paper and pens, and even an Imprint Stone, to record his conversation with his master.

Because he was certain that this intelligence exchange would involve a large amount of information.

After all, it involved the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale and the fact that the old man had been brought back to life; the trouble the Empire had created was far too great.

Leon's counterattack was also quite forceful, enough to teach the Empire a lesson.

After such a fierce clash between the two sides, Leon believed that the Empire would definitely make an even bigger splash next.

Since the empire has taken action, some rumors will inevitably leak out.

Leon needs to figure out the Empire's next plan or general direction of action in advance so that he can respond accordingly.

Constantine's surprise attack on the Red Dragon Sanctuary was completely unexpected by Leon.

If he and Losweiser hadn't visited Ischa back then, they might have succeeded by now, regardless of the Empire's motives for attacking the Red Dragon Sanctuary.

Therefore, he had to slightly change his future strategy; he couldn't always lag behind the empire.

Otherwise, they will make a big mistake sooner or later.

Several hours later, Leon and Losweiser arrived at the mountain cave.

As we walked through the waterfall and ventured further in, we heard a familiar voice before we had even taken a few steps.

"Hey Captain, you're still alive! I thought you'd been sucked into some spatial rift again!"

The twin-tailed girl sat on an old wooden table, raised one of her fleshy legs and placed it on the edge of the table, with a pistol strapped to the outside of her thigh.

However, Leon did not respond to Rebecca's greeting.

He strode forward, reached out, grabbed Rebecca by the collar, and lifted her up like a puppy.

"Captain, what are you doing! Let's talk this out!" Rebecca struggled a couple of times, but unfortunately, with her hands and feet off the ground, she was powerless to do anything.

Leon held Rebecca in one hand and put the other on his hip, but he didn't say a word, just stared at her.

Rebecca glanced at the captain.

Judging from this straight man's expression, I must have done something to offend him, so he will never let me off easily.

Something's not right!

We only see each other once every three months.

Everything was fine when we met last time, so why did it start this time like it was going to kill me?

I didn't do anything wrong, did I?

Rebecca swallowed hard, turned to look at Tiger, and intended to seek help from the sidelines.

"Dad, your apprentice is going to beat me up, are you going to do anything about it?"

Tiger sat there wiping his katana, saying without looking up, "You can beat her up, but don't scare her to death. We'll need her to drive the carriage back."

"Is my only value to you, old man, just driving your carriage?!"

Tiger paused, feigning thought, then nodded seriously. "Yes."

"Aaaaaah!!"

Rebecca then turned to the silver-haired beauty behind Leon.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, save me! Your husband is going to use violence against me! That look in his eyes is the same look he gave me when he slew the dragon!"

"Baby, you're not a dragon, don't worry, he won't kill you."

Rebecca:?

Okay, off-field help is all for naught.

In the end, you still have to rely on yourself.

Rebecca looked at Leon one last time, hesitated for a moment, and then said in a rather heroic tone,

"Before you deal with me, I want to know why, okay, Captain?"

"You're the one who told Losweiser about my dark past, aren't you?"

"..." Rebecca belatedly realized, "Sister-in-law, you betrayed me!!"

Losweiser blinked, about to explain, but Leon beat her to it.

"It has nothing to do with her, she didn't say anything."

After a pause, Leon muttered resentfully, "She's been nagging me about the prom for a whole week..."

Rebecca blinked her beautiful big eyes. "What?"

"It's nothing. Only you and Martin know about what happened when I was in school, and Martin has never met Losweiser. Coincidentally, you were alone with her for a long time when you last met her, so... it's just a simple sorting out of relationships."

"Captain, do you believe me when I say all this is so that you and your sister-in-law can understand each other better?"

I don't believe it.

"You have to believe me, Captain! Why don't you believe me?"

Seeing that he had scared her enough, Leon glanced at Losweiser beside him. Seeing that she didn't react, he leaned close to Rebecca's ear and whispered,

What else did you say to her last time?

Rebecca's little mind raced as she searched for her previous memories.

Finally, she shook her head. "And she also said you can't swim."

I can't swim.

Oh... it's fine, as long as it's not something that the Dragon Queen could use to get jealous.

Is there anything else?

"No, Captain, I swear." The girl held up three fingers, her face full of piety.

I'll trust you this once.

After saying that, Leon put Rebecca down.

After her feet left the ground, the crazy girl immediately ran to Losweiser's side, stomped her feet twice, and looked up at her as if complaining about something.

Losweiser, on the other hand, wore a maternal smile and looked at Rebecca with the same affectionate gaze one would give a baby.

Leon shook his head and smiled, then walked over and sat down in front of Tiger.

Tiger finished wiping the knife and sheathed it.

"Kid, it seems you've really angered the Empire."

The master got straight to the point.

"How?"

Leon could roughly guess what his master was referring to.

It was during Constantine's attack on the Red Dragon Sanctuary that he detonated the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale belonging to Bryant that was sewn onto this super zombie dragon.

Of course, Leon's detonation magic wasn't very sophisticated, and he couldn't detonate whichever he wanted.

Once the detonation magic is activated, the whole family will perish.

This story tells us that connecting light bulbs in parallel is much more difficult than connecting them in series (not really).

"About two months ago, one night, an explosion suddenly occurred somewhere in the Empire's Royal Family. Rebecca and I rushed over as soon as we heard the sound."

"According to those guys from the Royal Sorcerer Group, the laboratory that was storing the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale was blown up, and all the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale inside were destroyed; not a single one was left."

"I thought it was some martial arts master who couldn't stand the corruption and darkness of the empire, so he blew up the laboratory as a form of protest."

"But afterwards I found out that the Empire had not issued any arrest warrants for anyone, which means that they knew who had blown up the dragon scales, and that person was not even in the Empire."

After saying that, the master looked at his apprentice sitting opposite him and said, "So, the one who dares to mess with the Grand Duke Jupiter is you, right?"

Leon scratched his head. "Actually... I was forced into it."

Upon hearing this, the master frowned. "Why have you been forced into everything since you turned twenty?"

"Huh?"

"Forced to get married, forced to have children, forced to have a second child, and now even blowing up the Empire's treasure was forced." The master counted on his fingers, recounting General Leon's glorious yet abstract twenty-four years of life.

Leon smiled and then briefly explained to his master the matter of Constantine's resurrection and how he destroyed the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale.

After listening, the master nodded thoughtfully.

"A blend of recklessness and meticulousness, that's definitely your style."

Leon's smile froze, and he immediately retorted, "W-what do you mean by 'reckless yet meticulous'? I've always been meticulous, okay!"

Does your wife know about this?

"My wife is of course also—wait, we're talking about combat style, not anything else, right?"

The master waved his hand with a smile, then became serious, "In short, your explosion caused considerable damage to the empire. All the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale you've accumulated over the years are now ruined. You really brought this upon yourself."

Leon listened to his master's words and discovered something very interesting.

"Master, you said 'the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale that the empire has accumulated over the years'? Does that mean they started collecting dragon scales a long time ago?"

Leon only learned about the Empire's retrieval of the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale when he traveled to the future twenty years later through a spatial rift.

But my master said that the empire had already started doing this years ago.

How did the master know that?

The old man was taken aback upon hearing this. After a moment of thought, he nodded. "Yes, it was probably about thirty years ago when I discovered that the empire had begun to take something from the Dragon Race. At that time, I didn't know that it was actually the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale."

"After that, some things happened that forced me to leave the Dragon Slayer Army. Since then, I have paid little attention to the Empire's movements."

Leon asked, "What... happened?"

"Those things are irrelevant to what we're talking about now, Leon."

The master's answer was brief.

The implication was that Leon should stop asking questions.

Leon understood his master's meaning and didn't press the matter further.

Actually, he had realized a long time ago that the old man hadn't told him many things.

Judging from the master's reaction, it seems that he did not intend to tell Leon, but the time was not right.

Leon didn't know when the time would come, but until then, he chose to trust his master.

"So, what new plans does the Empire have now that it has lost the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale?" Leon asked.

"Yes. Shortly after the explosion at the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale Laboratory, large caravans frequently entered and left the Empire."

The master said, "Rebecca and I have observed them up close. Those carriage teams are pulling enchanted iron cages, and inside the cages are high-risk dangerous species."

"A dangerous species?"

"Yes. The Empire also occasionally hunts down dangerous species that are harmful to humans, but the frequency and efficiency have never been as high as they have been recently."