Chapter 536: 423
Yake’s fist was raised high, but it fell slowly, Tilian in front of him remained motionless.
"This time, I was wrong. Perhaps next time I should listen more to your suggestions...Tilian." Yake breathed out, saying.
"No, Your Majesty, it’s my fault. After all, I was the one who suggested to test the waters of war." Tilian said immediately, but then he continued: "However, this could be our opportunity. If we could steal a bit of this potion and combine it with our necromancy, wouldn’t we be able to create the ultimate Dragon Knight? Powerful, fearless, and full of wisdom in battle!"
A smile appeared on Yake’s face, "Yes, I was thinking the same!"
That day, a secret order was sent through unknown channels to all spies hidden in the White Dragon Empire. They were to employ all means to obtain the potion in Long Yi’s hands. Anyone who could bring the potion back to the Emperor would immediately end their undercover work. The Emperor would purchase a piece of land far from the war for them, allowing them to live carefree for the rest of their lives.
That very day, three men who had been frozen solid from body to soul were expelled from the villa.
At this time, large quantities of the JIA currency had already entered the Black Dragon Empire’s market.
At that time, there was war at the frontlines, but behind them, the production of JIA currency had never ceased. For authenticity, they would even mix in some genuine currency. These perfectly replicated JIA currencies were batch after batch entering the Black Dragon Empire’s market. Without effective supervision, the Black Dragon Empire was unaware of this. However, prices were gradually rising.
When one country is making great effort to undermine another country, it’s something far beyond the petty dealings of ordinary JIA currency traders. The large amounts of JIA currency entering circulation directly affect the entire economic system. The most direct effect of currency oversupply is inflation. The second effect is a lower credit rating. Since the JIA currency contains no gold, it signifies its worthlessness. Out of caution, the merchants dare not accept it, so the traders don’t want to use it. When it’s used less, its value drops even more, accelerating inflation.
All in all, it’s a vicious cycle.
And this, of course, is something Long Yi is delighted to witness.
However, at the same time, Long Yi warned Kirei. Once the Black Dragon Empire discovers this, they will definitely take counter measures. The most direct way would be to produce JIA currency to counter impact the economic system of the White Dragon Empire.
This possibility cannot be ignored.
Lately, it isn’t just Long Yi who’s been busy, the whole R&D Department has been as well. And today was the time for them to check on the results of their hard work.
Looking at the completely modified suit of Battle Armor, even the always critical Long Yi gave thumbs up to Angidd’s choice.
Because he turned what was originally planned to be a single Light Cannon into two!
"Two cannons working together! This will shorten the intermission between firing to half a minute!" said Angidd excitedly to Long Yi.
"What about the mounting hook?"
"It’s been re-positioned in the middle, one in the waist and one in the back." Angidd said.
"Excellent! Continue in this fashion for the modification! Also, submit new orders to the Dwarves. We’ll modify the units already produced ourselves, and for those not yet produced, have the Dwarves adjust the blueprints!" Long Yi immediately gave his decision.
While Long Yi is hard at work, the camp has its own minor events. One day, Ai Lin was preparing to go to sleep.
"Ai Lin! Ai Lin!" Suolin, looking panicked, arrived at Ai Lin’s room, stationed at the door.
"What’s wrong?" Ai Lin asked.
"I think I’ve been poisoned!" Suolin said.
"What?!" Ai Lin was greatly alarmed, poisoned? Here? In this camp? Could there be a spy?
"My...my stomach hurts so much! Brother Long is not around, so I could only come to you..."
"Where?"
"Here... here..."
Ai Lin, after hearing Suolin’s symptoms, can’t help but smirk.
"My silly little sister, you’re not poisoned at all!"
It seems compulsory to review her knowledge in this area.
In Ai Lin’s room, girl talk ensued. At first, Solin was shocked, but then her face turned to sheer delight.
"So you mean...I can also..."
"Yes, this means, that you’re now ready!" Ai Lin said, overjoyed.
"Hmm!" There was a faint look of happiness on Suolin’s face.
"So...do you want to put on some clothes? You can’t catch a cold during this period." Ai Lin said.
"Hmm...no need, I feel my scales are already quite thick."
"Oh, alright."
At that moment, a large-scale rebellion drew everyone’s attention.
Out of the five legions, apart from the third legion, the other four all had Dragon Knights participating in the rebellion, with the number of Dragon Knights exceeding a full thirty. This included seven spies, along with twenty-three Dragon Knights who had been turned against their own.
The main cause of this rebellion, of course, was due to Long Yi’s potion.
The number of suitable candidates for the potion was increasing, with many newcomers joining everyday.
Throughout today, Long Yi found everything rather strange. Although Little Zi detected that these rebels were truly relying on each other, it felt as if there was a lack of understanding between them. Of course, it could also be Long Yi’s own illusion. He trusted Little Zi’s judgement; if Little Zi felt it was right, then it must indeed be so.
Not long after that one Dragon Knight had got the injection, word came that he had left on his own. According to other Dragon Knights, he was heading straight for the frontier!
The Legion immediately sent people after him, but those who went after him, too, never returned!
Not only that, reports of unauthorized leave started coming from all the legions, and all these who left grouped together and headed straight for the frontier!
They included six who had undergone a Giant Dragon transformation and one who had been given the Dragon Knight potion. The rest, for the most part, were those who refused to take the potion - whether they already had ulterior motives or simply didn’t agree with Long Yi. In any case, they had committed treason.
The potion needs a week to fully take effect, while a flight at top speed to the Black Dragon Empire’s frontier would only take half a day. If they’re lucky, the scientists of the Black Dragon Empire may still be able to extract part of the potion from his blood.
"I guess, that’s what those fools must be thinking." Long Yi analyzed.
"So what do we do? By the time we could go after them it would be too late. If they flee full speed, the Dragon Knights at the frontier would hardly be able to stop them effectively. Does your potion not have any safety measures? Like being able to detonate it remotely..." Suolin asked, having formerly been the leader of an assassin organization, controlling lives at his whim was both a common and effective method.
"Even if there were such measures, I wouldn’t dare use them. If I were to detonate even one, it would immediately cause panic among all Dragon Knights. Such a thought, I dare not even contemplate," Long Yi said laughing.
Suolin immediately understood, he had taken things for granted. After all, if Long Yi became a person with the power to decide the fate of all Dragon Knights, he would immediately transform from savior of the White Dragon Empire to a feared villain. Those who once followed him willingly because of his strength would be replaced by those who fight out of fear.
Such a change would be a devastating blow to morale.
Long Yi absolutely couldn’t do that.
"Both Suolin and I are fast, we can have Xiaoyou take us into the Black Dragon Empire’s border and stop him," Ai Lin said.
"Forget about it, it doesn’t matter anymore." Long Yi shook his head, not wanting Suolin and Ai Lin to take the risk.
"Why? Don’t you care?" Ai Lin asked, puzzled.
"Because even if we let him return to the Black Dragon Empire, it wouldn’t have much of an impact on us." Long Yi said, "This potion is based on the premise of the bond between the Dragon Knight and his Mount Dragon. The contract dragon must sincerely want to share its power with its knight to achieve the maximum effect. If this bastard got the potion through some form of deception, then the moment the truth comes out, will also be when he reaps what he sowed. We can wait and see."
"But what if the Dragon Knight and his dragon were truthful, and he just straightforwardly committed treason?" Suolin asked in response.
"Then, there is only one outcome waiting for that fool - getting thoroughly examined as an experimental subject by Yake. Yake and Tilian must be curious about these sudden Dragon Knights, and now they got delivered right to their doorstep. Therefore, there won’t be a good ending for any of these traitors," Long Yi said.
As a matter of fact, everything was just as Long Yi had stated. The Dragon Knight who was given the potion had indeed obtained the potion through deceit.
He was a Mage, and also a Black Dragon Knight. To infiltrate the White Dragon Empire, he let his Black Dragon go dormant and pretended that his Dragon had gone missing during training, fate unknown. Forced to obtain a new dragon, he got a new Dragon Egg from a remote temple in the White Dragon Empire, successfully registering as a Dragon Knight of the White Dragon Empire. This happened just three years back. As he had formidable strength to begin with, his new dragon matured quickly.
Nevertheless, because his contract with the previous dragon was still in effect, his relationship with the new dragon wasn’t close. Moreover, always living in fear that his secret would be discovered and keeping his dragon in the dark about many things led to increased mistrust from his contract dragon. That’s why he and his contract dragon didn’t pass the first selection.
However, he had his ways. As a Dragon Mage, he specialized in mental magic and also had various drugs for assassination at his disposal.
With his close relationship with his contract dragon, he started drugging it, causing all of its mental defenses to completely break down under the effect of the drug. At that point, not much strong mental magic was needed to plant a deeply intimate contract mental suggestion in the contract dragon. Afterward, he self-planted a mental suggestion that could automatically untie itself. Then, he waited for a few days for the traces of the mental suggestion to fade away.
Meanwhile, he tried to avoid Little Zi’s detection test and turned to go to Little Zi’s Female Demon avatar instead.
Thus, he smoothly passed the test. (To be continued. If you like this novel, please vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read on m.qidian.com.)
