ess immediately went down to the dragonic stables and was struck by the cries and clamors of the wyverns... they spoke in the common language! and in English. The language of heroes!

It was impossible and senseless.

Obviously, something was wrong.

Usually the captured dragons would grumble for a few moments and then curl up in a ball in silence waiting for food to be delivered and after a few days of being shown who was the master, they were ready for the training and the collar of submission, which helped them to understand the orders that a well-trained knight would give them.

But this was a community, a tribe.

As soon as she entered the sight of the dragons, she had to throw a shield.

Then a flood of fire, ice and acid came at her.

"Free us! WITCH! "my daddy shouted.

She stepped back for a moment.

They were wyvern soldiers, mercenaries and she cast an identification spell.

"Ah... They are not monsters but races... The wyvern race.. never heard of and..

intelligence!!! 12 to 18!! monsters, wyverns and young dragons only had 3 or 4 at most!...

She then tapped with her scepter on the ground.

"THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. I THOUGHT I HAD MOUNTS BUT I SEE MERCENARIES OF THE EMPIRE AND WYVERN SOLDIERS!!!!

It is not in a dragoonry that you should be in but in barracks and barracks or in the dungeon... "

She saw that some of them had a pourpoint and draperies arranged in a loincloth with the colors of Fortd'hiver.

Dragons hunting dragons! never seen before!... and she laughed.

The guards were impassive under their helmets colored in dark red, in blood color.

The Enchantress:

"Poor wyverns... Well, I don't know how loyal you are to the Empire or not. But you have been captured to bind you to dragon knights. I hope you understand!"

Dad answered "yes", all the wyverns having fallen silent so he could speak.

"Good. At least you have the wisdom to listen before you speak...I guess you are their tribal leader.."

Father replied "Yes...and no..."

"Oh, well everyone listens to you... I mean the wyverns... But you don't know how much it excites me to talk with a dragon... They are so simple and boring, animals."

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"When my son comes, I don't give a damn about you..."

"Hoohooo... threats... You must know that I am the witch of the west..."

"Mir.. he knows, he'll find out and set us free."

"So you don't care about the empire and what you care about is being free? "

"Right."

"And where is he, 'Mir'... I guess he's your son."

Mom interrupted, "Leave our son alone! We didn't do anything to you! No wyvern did anything!!!"

Enchantress "I doubt it.... one of your tribe slaughtered a score of my men."

Father: "It is not Mir.... ... It was bandits attacking our friend, the human stuff seller.."

"Yes, Yes... a mess... they were my men under the guise of bandits. They were to intercept the merchants in order to weaken the border villages and towns.. You came at the wrong time and the wrong place... It's war and I can understand you didn't know...

And by leaving the animal stage, you have thrown yourselves into the complex politics of humans...

Poor creatures...

I don't blame you.

But which of you slaughtered my men.

"Me" said a wyvern, then "me", followed by all the others.

They were protecting each other. Unheard of!

"I see... she's not here.."

And she looked at the smile that was coming from Dad's face.

She probed his mind.

"Krator... she said"

Dad: "Witch!"

"When the war is over, you can go home... Don't worry, it will be soon. I hope for you that Mir and the others will not be involved in what is going to happen.

Please," shouted mom. Not Mir. Not our mir... Blanche's mom also begged.."

"You're too smart to make a mount but if you want to get out of the dungeon, you'll have to work You'll get slave collars instead of submission. It's less humiliating for a dragon but it's either the collar or stay in the dungeon."

She returned to her quarters, leaving the wyverns to their fate.

There was silence cut by the sliding of the chains. They had to hold each other tight.

The enchantress saw in her creatures a still-innocent humanity that would be tainted by war.

"No," she thought, I want a draconic kingdom in this world and not yet another human kingdom...I have to do something for them. Then she clenched her fists. Why isn't Mir here? We could have reasoned and done something together. Why are you on the other side!!! Why???"

Meanwhile, at the imperial castle, in the back cabin,

Vidia arrived and all the maids were lined up in front of the road and the passage to the main entrance.

In large numbers like this, they were forcing some kind of inspection on the part of the first princess, an excuse to find and perhaps humiliate a future whipping boy or head.

But in fact, it was a strategy to allow the carnage to be washed away and to erase all traces.

In the meantime, I was hidden behind a large white stone basin carved with hydrangeas that were beginning to bud, a sign of the arrival of spring.

I took the opportunity to cast my evaluation spell and... I got a shock.

So many negative notifications...

All the maids:

-Disloyal

-Traitor to the crown

-Spies in the pay of the Republic

-Cruelty

But for the first princess:

-Loyalty to the empire

-sadism

-murderer

-killer!!!

-empoisonous

-Poisonous charm

and many other unsavory notifications

I was not a fan of the system but I asked for an explanation.

"Poisoned Charm: Allows you to charm those around you and provoke admiration, envy and the simple pleasure of serving the princess, at the cost of damaging the reputation of a target or head. "In fact, she was taking everything from Princess Chlorophyll, but that didn't explain everything.

The system added, as if after further analysis:"

The second princess is fully affected and the second phase will be elimination to allow the power to manifest itself no longer unconsciously but by making Vidia the true heir to the powers of the Witch of the East. This power is controlled by her mother, the Empress.

I understood at that moment that Chlorophylle was a sacrifice and that the empire was threatened to implode by the spies and assassins who swarmed there, or that the emperor and his faction were going to catch all the plotters at once and purge the empire, then put the Enchantress' ambitions in her place. Then exterminate her with the arrival of "Heroes" normally destined to eliminate the demon lord. Who was no longer alive for a long time, at least that's what we knew. A new one could always emerge or be born or proclaim himself.