Calamity? Is It Mine, or the Dragon Hatchling's?

Saint Blue targeted the nobles and royalty of the Red Maple Kingdom, without harming the common people in the occupied areas. Ticia did not want to destroy Red Maple; she wanted Saint Blue to become stronger in a short time, which meant she could not destroy the Red Maple Kingdom.

If they can persuade the enemy to surrender, they will do so. If they cannot, they will directly ask the Dragon Island Giant Dragon to step in, intimidate the army of the Red Maple Kingdom, and break their fighting will. As for the people in the occupied area, Saint Blue will first investigate the lord of the territory. If the lord of the territory is a capable and talented nobleman...

Saint Blue will continue to let the lord govern the territory. If the lord is incompetent and the territory is in chaos, Saint Blue will directly depose the lord, or even put the lord on trial, and then take over the territory and recruit talents from within the territory.

Then these talents were sent to the Saint Blue King City in batches to study.

After the war ends, Saint Blue will also treat the soldiers of the Red Maple Kingdom. As for the soldiers who died in battle, he will try his best to obtain their names and then conceal them so that their families can easily identify them later.

With differing stances and serving their respective masters, once on the battlefield, one either surrenders or dies in battle.

Those in the Red Maple Kingdom willing to fight to the death are either generals or royal guards loyal to the nobles. These soldiers are well-equipped, well-fed, well-dressed, and extremely skilled.

Even knowing they were outmatched, they were willing to fight to the death for the nobles they served.

The knights of the Holy Blue Moon Legion were also willing to fulfill their loyalty.

However, when Claire led the Saint Blue army to the walls of the Red Maple Kingdom's capital, the war between Saint Blue and the Red Maple Kingdom was considered to be coming to an end.

Especially when the soldiers guarding the city walls saw that the leader of the besieging Saint Blue army was the former royal princess Claire, the soldiers guarding the capital's morale plummeted.

Princess Claire is the true royalty of the Red Maple Kingdom.

Claire, who had surrounded the capital, looked at the capital before her with mixed feelings. Before she swore allegiance to Lance and Saint Lance, she had imagined the scene of leading her army back to victory. But at that time, she knew that it would take her five or six years, or even more than ten years, to do so.

After pledging allegiance to Lance and Saint Blue, she knew that with Saint Blue's resources, even if the Red Maple Kingdom did not want to annex Saint Blue, Saint Blue's territory would gradually expand.

The stupidest thing MacDonald did was spread rumors about Lance, falsely accusing Lance of being Abyss Devil.

His actions thoroughly enraged Saint Blue, especially after Lance died fighting the Abyss Devil, Saint Blue hated him even more.

Before Ticia declared war on the Red Maple Kingdom, there were already calls within Saint Blue Territory to send troops to destroy the Red Maple Kingdom.

In fact, MacDonald's success in becoming the King of the Red Maple Kingdom was thanks to Saint Blue.

Now, it is Saint Blue who has shattered his dream of becoming king.

Saint Blue was both its strength and its weakness.

MacDonald must have been feeling very complicated at this moment. On the second day of the siege of the capital, Claire officially revealed her identity as a princess to the capital's garrison and began to persuade them to surrender.

News of Princess Claire's return quickly spread throughout the capital.

On the third day of the siege of the capital, King MacDonald of the Red Maple Kingdom appeared on the city wall under the protection of heavily armored cavalry, facing Claire across the moat.

"Your Princess Claire, do you intend to personally destroy the kingdom of your ancestors? You should know that the Red Maple Royal Family is not only my Red Maple Kingdom, but also your Red Maple Kingdom. Although I usurped the country, I did not change its name."

You are different. You are not only a member of the royal family of the Red Maple Kingdom, but now you are also the marshal of Saint Blue. After Saint Blue annexes the Red Maple Kingdom, there will be no more Red Maple, only Saint Blue.

Is this what you wanted to see?

Claire, riding on the back of the dragon, laughed. The cunning MacDonald had actually used psychological tactics.

If she hadn't stayed in St. Lan and hadn't witnessed Lance's laissez-faire approach to managing his territory, she might have been swayed by McDonald's words.

"As long as the people of the Red Maple Kingdom can live and work in peace and contentment, adults have land to cultivate, children have access to education, and they can eat and dress warmly, it doesn't matter if the Red Maple Kingdom ends in my hands."

As a former princess of the Red Maple Kingdom, I am not responsible to the people; I am only responsible to the citizens of the Red Maple Kingdom.

MacDonald, surrender. Now Wangdu is an isolated city, and you have no chance of turning the tide.

Surrender to Saint Lan, and you and your family will have a chance to live. If you insist on resisting, after the city falls, you and your family will be completely wiped out.

MacDonald remained silent.

In fact, at this point, he knew that his chances were slim and he no longer had the right to compete with Saint Blue for supremacy.

How long has he been king? Did he rebel just to experience what it's like to be king? If he had known that his rebellion would lead to the destruction of his kingdom, he would have been better off remaining a duke. Who could have imagined that the land that destroyed him and the Red Maple Kingdom would be a barren place that no one would have given a second glance back then?

Stepping on that land felt like bad luck, and just looking at the people there made you afraid of catching a disease.

That place didn't even deserve a name before.

That was a place with no future, one that would eventually disappear from the map of the Red Maple Kingdom.

But in this very place, because of the appearance of a certain person, a path to heaven was forged from a hopeless situation.

He had investigated Saint Blue, and it's no exaggeration to say that without Viscount Saint Blue, there would be no Saint Blue as we know it today!

Without him, there wouldn't be a single living person left in Saint Blue; it would be a mass grave!

The more you understand Saint Blue, the more you realize how important Lance is to Saint Blue.

The night before Claire led her troops to besiege the city, he even woke up from his sleep and cursed the ancestors of all the officials who had accepted bribes from Lance.

It's all that bastard's fault! If he had allocated Lance a more prosperous territory back then, there wouldn't be a Saint Lance today!

That bastard single-handedly destroyed the Red Maple Kingdom!

"Claire, I can surrender to Saint Blue, but you have to help me find that official who accepted bribes from Lance back then, and let me whip him dozens of times! If it weren't for that bastard, there wouldn't be any Saint Blue!!!"

"I'm afraid a few dozen lashes won't do, but I can let you kick him a few dozen times. Hmm, after I find him, I also want to kick him a few dozen times."

"Make a deal!"

On April 28, 3457 of the Black Dragon Calendar, MacDonald, who had seized power in the Red Maple Kingdom, officially announced his unconditional surrender to Saint Blue, and the Red Maple Kingdom officially withdrew from the stage of history.

On April 29th, 3457 of the Black Dragon Calendar, Saint Blue bestowed upon Claire the title of Duke, placing her in charge of the Red Maple Province.

The capital of the Red Maple Kingdom has been officially renamed Red Maple City.

After destroying the Red Maple Kingdom, Saint Blue immediately took over all of the Red Maple Kingdom armies, then reorganized and disbanded some of them.

Saint Blue Military Academy took advantage of the situation to set up offices in various provinces and began recruiting young and middle-aged people who wanted to join the army.

In May of the same year, Saint Blue established the Exorcist Army, Exorcist Army had the best treatment, the highest pay, and the best equipment.

At the same time, the training was the most rigorous, and the core of the Exorcist Army was the Wyvern Knight Legion that Saint Blue had previously led.

After destroying the Red Maple Kingdom, Saint Blue not only implemented certain reforms in military and political affairs, but also made many changes to people's livelihoods. These changes accelerated the integration of the major provinces into Entering Sainthood Blue.

Especially after the establishment of early childhood education academies in various provinces, some people who had previously doubted and rejected Saint Blue began to gradually change their views on Saint Blue.

When the surrounding kingdoms learned that Saint Blue had destroyed the Red Maple Kingdom in less than half a year, they immediately raised the level of danger to the Saint Blue Kingdom.

Some kingdoms also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Saint Blue Kingdom had just been established and had not yet gained a firm foothold, and seize some of the territory that originally belonged to the Red Maple Kingdom.

As soon as a certain kingdom did this, it immediately faced a fierce counterattack from the Saint Blue Kingdom, which pushed the border line forward considerably.

Ticia immediately added this kingdom to her list of targets for attack, encroachment, and annexation.

Lance, who was on Black Dragon Island, was completely unaware of these earth-shattering changes at Saint Blue.

Since you've chosen to break away, you should break away completely.

He entrusted Saint Blue to that group of promising young humans, believing they would manage it well.

For the past few months, Lance has been staying on Black Dragon Island, and his life has returned to its previous routine of taking care of his cubs.

The young dragon has had a slightly tough time these past few months. Since the evil dragon stopped going to Saint Blue, her homework has gradually increased.

In the morning, I practice roaring, breathing Dragon Breath, and listening to the Evil Dragon Roar. After lunch, I bump into a turtle, which turns the dragon scales on its body red. Then I drink a potion concocted by Lance.

Around noon, I went to the sea to practice swordsmanship for an hour.

After lunch, there is a 40-minute lunch break. The afternoon class is chanting the dragon mantra and mastering the dragon mantra.

At 3 PM, she learned pharmacology and potion-making from the dragon. The course was alright because she had previously learned from the underage dragon Lance in the abyss. She could still make potions that weren't too complicated.

At 5 PM, we relax and have fun, playing badminton, tennis, volleyball, billiards, basketball, and soccer with the dragon.

Choose one of these leisure and entertainment options.

No matter which one she chooses, she's the one who ends up with a bruised and battered face.

If she couldn't catch the dragon's shuttlecock while playing badminton, it would land squarely on her body. A shuttlecock that weighs less than an egg in the human world could send her, who is twelve meters tall, flying more than ten meters away the moment it hit her. No one who wasn't a victim would believe it.

When she played badminton with the dragon, she felt that the dragon wasn't making her use her racket to receive the shuttlecock, but rather making her use her dragon body to receive it.

It's no exaggeration to say that she felt every single scale on her dragon body had been hit by a badminton shuttlecock thrown by the evil dragon more than once! She screamed in pain every time she played badminton.

Playing tennis was even more outrageous; she felt like it was an attempt to kill her.

A tennis ball hitting her head could knock her unconscious for several minutes; hitting her dragon body felt like it was going to pierce through her.

The most outrageous thing is the billiard ball; not only does it bounce off the table and attack her, but sometimes it even curves and chases after her to smash her!

I don't even want to talk about football. Lance made her use dragon magic to freeze the sea and build a football field.

Every time she played, the soccer field she had built would crumble. At the start of the game, she would attack first, and then she would become the goalkeeper, unable to dodge the soccer ball kicked by the evil Lance no matter how she tried.

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If it were just that, it wouldn't be so bad. The key issue is that the dragon's orbs are filled with lightning, ice, hurricanes, hail, Heavenly Fire, and various other elemental energy attributes. The young dragons suffer greatly.

She told the dragon that she didn't want to have fun anymore; she wanted to study, write in her diary, draw, and sculpt. The dragon replied that during her leisure time, she shouldn't think about studying and should just play to her heart's content.

She said she wanted to hoe the ground, but the dragon said it wasn't time to hoe yet.

Finally, April arrived, and it was time to hoe the fields. After dinner, the evil dragon called her to relax and have some fun. She didn't want to be a dragon cub anymore; she wanted to be Imperial Daughter! An empress! She wanted to be waited on hand and foot! She wanted to live a life where everything was done for her.

Waaaaah—who will save this poor little dragon?

He wanted to leave Black Dragon Island to set up a stall outside and earn money, but the evil dragon said there was no rush, as he had plenty of money to spend on the island.

Even if you have money, there's nowhere to spend it.

What comforted her was that Er Gouzi hadn't been having a good time lately either; not long after the New Year, Er Gouzi had grown a third dog head.

As soon as the third dog head grew out, it started clamoring to find a female dog and demanding that the other Er Gouzi dog heads call it "boss".

He even tried to provoke the dragon, and then the dragon cut off the head of a three-headed sea monster in front of Er Gouzi's third head, threw it into an iron pot to boil, and then saw Lance, calling him "master" at every turn.

It also strongly demanded a name change, requesting that it be changed to "Dog Bro".

Lance didn't change its name; instead, he called it San Gouzi.

Er Gouzi.

San Gouzi.

What makes the young dragon happy is that her horns haven't grown yet, but her head is itchy more and more often.

Her intuition told her that the dragon horns on her head should be growing out soon.

This is not good news.

She also asked the dragon when he would take her to the Dragon Domain to find Dragon Island.

The dragon would say "almost there" once or twice, and she didn't feel anything, but as the number of times increased, she always felt that the dragon was waiting for something. It was as if some condition had to be met before it would take her to the Dragon Domain to find Dragon Island.

She also noticed that the potions Lance had been concocting for her recently seemed different from those he had been making before.

Sometimes the young dragon wondered if Lance would take her to the Dragon Domain to find Dragon Island once she grew dragon horns.

I want to ask, but I don't dare to.

Ah. Time has entered mid-May of the Black Dragon Calendar 3457.

That day, Youlong was wearing loose work clothes and a straw hat. He was working in the field. When he got thirsty, he went to a shady spot, picked up a purple gourd that was on the ground, opened the lid, and drank some water.

The evil dragon watched the Squid Girl plowing the field from a short distance away.

That's right, Squid Girl can plow the land now. The evil dragon taught her, saying that Squid Girl has so many tentacles, it would be a waste not to use them. So Squid Girl came to the island and plowed the land, and she was incredibly efficient.

Er Gouzi ran and rolled around in the soft soil, catching Field Mouse.

How could there be field Field Mouse where there are dragons?

It's been a long time since I've been to Saint Blue. I want to go there and play, and I want to hear my friends call her Little Dragon Highness.

"Lance, when are we going to Saint Blue? Should we go after we're done with this busy period? Or are we never going to Saint Blue again?"

The young dragon couldn't help but ask Lance a question.

"Let's wait for an auspicious day."

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Waiting for an auspicious day? How long will that take?

The dragon seems to have become a bit eccentric lately. Lance came up to the dragon cub, smiled, and patted the cub's head.

He didn't want the dragon cub to stay on Dragon Island forever, but after the New Year, a faint unease lingered in his heart.

One night, he observed the stars and discovered an ominous sign.

This is outrageous. Being in the deep sea, yet being able to see the aura of calamity.

Intuition told him that either he or the dragon cub would face a calamity. That's why he stayed on Black Dragon Island for a while and slightly increased the intensity of the dragon cub's cultivation.