Though I may die, my sons will remain; my sons will have grandsons, and those grandsons will have sons; sons will have more sons, and grandsons more grandsons; generation after generation, their descendants will be endless...
Grand Duke Sapphire's resolute answer moved Liszt deeply.
He intended to use the lives of every male in his family to safeguard the Sapphire Dragon's life, thereby preserving the dragon-raising family's status. Perhaps any noble would make the same choice. Under the knightly system, dragon-raising families were the players who controlled the game, not the pieces on the board.
However.
Liszt looked at the wrinkles on the Grand Duke's face and asked thoughtfully, "The lich Andy is imprisoned in the dungeon, correct?"
A flash of hatred passed through the Grand Duke's eyes. "That's right. I didn't kill him."
"How much research have you done into matters of the soul, especially those involving liches and Dragon Domain Lords? How many valuable results have you obtained?"
"Countless studies, but we found no leads at all. Even lich conversion is irreversible... Andy only completed his final transformation with an ancient divine artifact passed down from antiquity. As for Dragon Domain Lords, they have always been nothing but a legend. There is no method to achieve one."
"I recall that more than a hundred years ago, an archmage named Curtis Truth seemed to have wanted to help a member of the Sapphire Family become a Dragon Domain Lord."
"That story isn't a secret, though it differs slightly from the version spread outside. That madwoman Curtis never possessed Dragon Domain Lord technology. From the very beginning, she intended to turn Anute into a lich. All three kingdoms knew of this; otherwise, they would have moved long ago to seize it... It was precisely because Andy mastered her lich research