Elder Council Hall.
Count Merlin was reviewing a report, submitted by Steel Dragon Knight Lord Kroya regarding the implementation of the Lightning Rod Plan.
Snow Giant Da had been repelled. Although he still lurked near the Shadowflame Grand Duchy and the threat had not been immediately lifted, the Grand Duchy still had work to do. It could not halt everything out of fear of Snow Giant Da.
The Lightning Rod Plan was one such task.
The wyvern knights of Redcastle needed to keep searching the border regions of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy for Lightning Rod Points and setting up Lightning Rod Guns.
They would channel the power within the clouds into the earth through lightning rods.
Only then could the Shadowflame Dragon's power spread more quickly across the vast snowy plains, opening new territory.
"Of the thirteen Lightning Rod Points along the eastern border, Kroya visited nearly every one, yet he still found no trace of the Snow Demon." Reading the report, Count Merlin frowned deeply. The Frost Cigar between his fingers had already burned halfway down.
His silver hair was combed with meticulous care. The Chief Executive, whose hair had turned white overnight, suddenly let out a sigh. "Snow Giant Da is becoming more cunning. No, more precisely... he is becoming more willing to use schemes. Could that legend be true?"
He set down the report.
He took a puff from his Frost Cigar.
Leaning back in his chair, Count Merlin exhaled a deep breath of smoke and sighed inwardly. "How could the entire Shadowflame Grand Duchy possibly be Snow Giant Da's hunting ground... Did he cross the Gate of Another World solely to hunt dragons?"
Everyone knew that Snow Demons had invaded the Dragon Sleep Continent from another world.
Yet no one knew what kind of beings the