Zalar, the imperial hero, shoved Vidia and her escorts.

The guards were stunned, their helmets smashed and their breastplates smashed by the hero's fists.

"WHERE ARE MAXIME AND SACHA!!!" He held the first princess by the collar and lifted her up.

"Zalar. Zalaaar!! release me!! you are hurting me.... I am the crown princess!!! you can't do this to mea!"

She cried as she saw all the guards rolled into the corners of the hallway in the castle..

"They are in the dungeon!!!"

"I want to fight them!!! I've had enough of the minions!"

He let the princess fall back and she began to cry and an army of maids arrived to pick her up and wipe away her tears and put her back "right".

A comedy.

With a kick, he sent the double wooden and gilded bronze door into the throne room.

The hinges had bent and were torn off.

His entrance was shattering and he shouted to the emperor.

"The two heroes!!! I demand an immediate battle!"

Imperial guards threw themselves on him, to receive the cuff of their lives

His head snapped back and he was lifted ten feet off the ground.

"Oh, I'm fine... get off me!"

Meanwhile, I was exploring the corridors and with identification, I could see through walls, see objects and also detect living creatures, including humans.

Pushing even further, I could see the underwear of the maids and know what color their panties were. It was fun.

One of my other powers that came in very handy was an inventory where I could put up to 50 cubic feet of non-living objects. That was in my draconic evolution.

Then I was back and the princess, aware of my investigations, dared not say anything for fear of being accused of collusion, crime or treason. She was on the verge of being executed.

Still, she made sure that the imprisoned heroes had proper food and were able to train with the captain of the guard, a very powerful warrior, even more powerful than Zalar.

In my explorations, I also managed to steal some accounting documents by causing a draft and catching the papers in flight on the roof with my Wind Gust spell, a handy little spell in certain circumstances.

After examining the documents, I concluded that the kingdom was completely ruined because of the antics of the first princess and the queen.

That's why the protection was ridiculous and why the palace was overrun by an army of spies.

A tragedy was about to happen.

In addition, the population was bled dry and the trade routes were ruined. The empire was dying.

They were counting on the fact that they had managed to summon 3 heroes and get a military grant to finance the war. But in reality, it was to continue their way of life and make heroes die one after the other. Even if it required human sacrifices to steal the necessary mana.

The wyverns could also be used as an excuse for the disappearances that would follow. A ready-made culprit.

It was madness and worse than incompetence. It was treason, pure and simple.

I understood why the Enchantress was the "president" of the Western Republic.

The funny thing was that Felicius was just a puppet in the service of the queen, condemning Chlorophyll to become a tragic princess.

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Zalar continued to advance and the swords of the guards were stuck to the ceiling, sometimes up to the guard. Then he came face to face with Maxime and Sacha.

They had recovered their pistol from the student astronaut officers but Zalar did not care and made waltz of the flat of his sword the 2 weapons, making very badly with the 2 humans and he threw to them a spell of wind blade, which was like a kind of half circle of compressed and sharp air.

The captain of the guard arrived too late and expected the decapitation of the two unfortunate men.

But, the magic dissipated on them, having no effect.

It was then that the captain discovered the true heroic potential of the two humans. They cancelled out all forms of magic thrown at them. True anti-mages. That's why the translation spells were ineffective.

But that didn't stop Zalar! He spun around in an attempt to decapitate the captain of the guard, who managed to parry his attack by putting his sword along his arm and protecting his neck.

The blow made sparks fly.

Captain: "Don't you think you went too far, Zalar?"

He twisted his head, looking contemptuous with his natural white hair and tanned, but not swarthy, skin tone.

"Who are you?"

"I am Argos, the captain and commander of the knights of the Eastern Empire."

Quick as a flash, the presumptuous young hero jumped back to avoid a quick attack from the very experienced looking captain.

"You look stronger and more resilient than all those good-for-nothings sleeping behind, but know that if you get in my way, you will end up like them! I will send you exploring the ceiling!"

"Zalar, you see me compelled to offer you our hospitality in the dungeon!"

They jumped up and down, even stepping on the ceiling of the hallway, and Zalar looked happy to have a jousting partner to match his demands.

Argos twirled his sword at a speed the eye could not follow and placed the hero in a defensive posture.

He dodged several blows and stepped back, a cut on his eyebrow.

Zalar rubbed the small trickle of blood from his hand and re-slapped it.

"You're forcing me to use great means!!!" he exclaimed.

His murderous aura increased tenfold and the guard replied: "Then I too will not hold back any longer.

"I WANT MIR!!! There is a powerful wyvern here!!!"

Everyone turned to the first princess.

Vidia approached... "Mir?? who is that"

"DON'T BE A FOOL! You summoned a hero dragon!!!"

Then Vidia thought.

"The second princess' pet?

HAHAHA!"

She clapped her hands and brought Chlorophyll into the throne room.

After a long time, some badly banged up guards led the princess away.

I followed her, cat-sized.

Then she threw herself flat on her stomach in front of the emperor, her father, who did not flinch.

"At least she knows her place!"

Félicius: "Second good for nothing, answer me. "MIR, the wyvern, is that your familiar?"

She hesitated, as if to ask me

Invisible, on her shoulder "Answer... I'm just a little bird..."

But she knew my size and was afraid of potential carnage.

"Yes...your majesty..Mir, is my familiar."

She spoke of me in a detached way, as if it were replaceable. But I knew she was protecting me, that I would not be harmed to touch her..her!

Zalar: "Show me MIR."

Everyone backed away, as if a behemoth was coming.

Then, I came out of his sleeve, like a dove and I said "SQWEEEK!" and I remained perched on his shoulder and made the human greeting to make reverence to the emperor.

The emperor laughed!

"A BAT!" HAHAHA! That's a good one!

"ANOTHER PROOF THAT THE SECOND "PRINCESS" IS JUST A GOOD FOR NOTHING! JUST TO MARRY TO MAKE RINGS..."

This disgusted me, but I had to deal with it.

The sword-wielding maniac with the other crazy girl was a real danger to me and my tribe.

They weren't kidding and Kratos, even with armor could be turned into dragon sushi.

He approached and I was scared, so scared that I felt like I was walking into an egg.

I shook like a scared little dog and he put his hand on my head.

Then I looked him in the eye and made a "HISSSSS!" showing my teeth and the tip of my stinger to protect the princess.

The hero started to laugh insanely.

"MIR, the micro dragon... he is at least brave to defend his mistress but he has the intelligence at least not to provoke me.

"Your pet... it's small, but... I like it!"

Machinally, the princess wanted to take me like a baby to protect me but I went around on her back not to let myself be taken.

Félicius : "Now, that's enough! Send this beast back to where it belongs and leave.

Then he turned to the captain: "Thank you, but I see that the guards are obviously not trained. That will have to change!"

Seeing the carnage, as I passed through the corridors, I could see the swords stuck in.

If this monster doesn't defeat the Enchantress, then here I have a sample of what I have to do... I'm nowhere! And, the more I thought about it, the more the pressure and fear of failure tormented me.

In fact, now my plans were no longer to free my family, but to run away from those crazy swordsmen.

I clutched the princess between my paws and whimpered senselessly to her room.

She undressed and put on her nightgown and hopped on the bed for me to join her.

"MIR, you were brave.. I was terrified! They scare me, and now Father too!

Take me in your paws, just this once! I need to feel you against me!

So I crawled under the covers and she held me close and I could feel her chest pressed against my back and her heart beating.

She leaned her head against my chest, which was covered with very large and articulated scales like an armor, and she could feel my heart beating too.

"Mir... I love you..."

I was in shock and it didn't even make me react.

The sensation of stress in reptiles is special and forms like a stupor and sometimes paralyzes judgment and causes jumps in consciousness, kind of like when you're in the moon, come back to earth, then back again and so on.

"PRincess...I'm scared...... MAmannn. " But I didn't cry, nor did I moan.

Just a little lament.

And so we fell asleep, both of us staring out the window, a symbol of freedom when locked up.