Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

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Her Highness becoming a knight to a count was a humiliation to us knights who serve her.

Already having gravely failed to help Her Highness reclaim her rightful throne, we now had to watch her becoming a knight to a count...

This humiliation... only we knights could appreciate it.

Galaway simply couldn't accept it. He had thought he could easily defeat the count before him, but the count had hidden his true capabilities well, being both a pharmacist and a beastmaster.

Moreover, he was a powerful beastmaster, and with just the Two-Headed Hellhound and the Giant Tortoise, he could easily overpower them.

We couldn't beat him.

We truly couldn't beat him.

Demanding to fight the count would only make him look more pathetic and bereft of knightly spirit.

As per the agreement, his remaining days belonged to Saint Blue, to fight for Saint Blue.

Looking up with a bitter smile, Galaway composed himself and stepped into the courtyard. Just as he was about to kneel on one knee and swear his loyalty to the count before him, a figure stepped past him and knelt first.

It was Her Highness!!!

"By the gods above, witness my oath, I, Klaya Dia, hereby swear that from this day forth, I will forsake my former status and serve Count Lance and Saint Blue as a knight.

I swear that I will use the sword in my hand to protect Count Lance and Saint Blue until my life comes to an end.

I swear that I will always remain humble and cautious, not to defile your honor and authority. I will respect your decisions and commands, always maintaining loyalty and obedience.

I swear that I will dedicate everything to you and Saint Blue. With the honor and dignity of a knight, I will forever protect you and Saint Blue.

I will be true to my oath, never to break it."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

To allay Lance's doubts, Klaya Dia took her oath on the spot, swearing by the gods, for breaking such an oath would have grave consequences.

Fortunately, she had no intention of breaking her oath.

Swearing by the gods... had she resigned to her fate?

"Saint Blue accepts your allegiance."

Lance stood up and patted Klaya Dia's shoulder three times.

"I will not betray Count Lance's trust."

Klaya rose to her feet, hand on her chest, and seriously responded as she looked into Lance's golden-red eyes.

There was one point she was particularly concerned about.

Lance had said "Saint Blue accepts her allegiance," not "I accept your allegiance."

When Galaway had challenged him, the condition he set was to 'serve Saint Blue in defeat.'

Serving Saint Blue and serving him personally... there was a difference.

Seeing their own mistress make her choice, Galaway and the knights outside the courtyard who followed Klaya, while feeling pained, knelt one by one and swore their loyalty to Lance and Saint Blue.

"Saint Blue accepts your allegiance."

Standing behind Lance, Tixia let go of her prejudices against Klaya and those knights, knowing that in the name of the gods, they would never betray the viscount or Saint Blue in their lifetimes.

Was the viscount planning to have them join the Blue Moon Knight Order?

Or was he going to create a new Knight Order with Klaya at its head?

"Tixia, I'm entrusting them to you. Discuss how to settle them, or make the decision yourself,"

"Viscount...you..."

"Don't overthink it, I have absolute trust in you."

Lance said with a smile as he patted Tixia's shoulder. Did she really think he would establish another knight order to dilute her authority?

Under normal circumstances, as a competent lord, he indeed would have done that.

He wasn't a competent lord, so... he could act on a whim and didn't consider those concerns.

Become undermined by his subordinates?

He couldn't care less about such things.

Hearing Lance's words, Klaya became even more convinced of what she had suspected: Lance had no intention of intervening in any of Saint Blue's political affairs.

He had absolute trust in his Saint Blue subjects who were loyal to him.

He had no fear of Saint Blue's subjects betraying him.

"Lord Count, may I become Lady Tixia's deputy? Or the vice-captain of the Blue Moon Knight Order? You know with my abilities, I can assist Tixia well and make up for her shortcomings," Klaya said.

"Tixia, what do you think?"

"As the viscount wishes, I'm not familiar with Klaya's capabilities, so I can't tell if she is fit to be the vice-captain of the Blue Moon Knight Order."

"Her abilities are not a problem; let her be the vice-captain of your knight order then."

"Yes."

"Thank you, Lord Count, for your trust."

Lance didn't say a word as he stared at Klaya's face for a while. Internally he exclaimed, 'Eh?' Her life-death ordeal... why was it twisting and vanishing?

Her luck had also improved a lot.

Could it be that her decision to serve Saint Blue had changed her destiny?

"Viscount, there's another matter that requires your decision."

"What matter?"

"About the construction of the Dragon God Temple, we have already chosen the location, and all the initial preparations are complete. After you look it over and confirm that we can build there, can we start working tomorrow?"

"???"

Is this for real?

How much does it cost to build a temple? Does Saint Blue have that kind of money?

Oh, there's a little money, but to spend it like this... isn't that a bit wasteful?"

"We have money?"

"It won't cost much. The vassals from the fief learned that we're building the Dragon God Temple and they all signed up to help without asking for any compensation, after all, the dragonkind have been good to us."

"Where's the location chosen?"

"That spot outside of Saint Blue City, by the mountain and next to the water, directly facing Saint Blue City."

"That's a good location, if you guys want to build it, then go ahead."

"Understood."

Klaya's eyes lit up, the Dragon God Temple?

If she remembered correctly, there wasn't a Dragon God Temple within the Red Maple Kingdom.

If Saint Blue decided to build it, it would become the first place in the Red Maple Kingdom to worship the Dragon God.

There are benefits.

Well, Saint Blue had already received quite a few benefits from the dragons. Once the Dragon God Temple was built, if a Giant Dragon happened to pass by here, or if that young dragon prince went back and told his mother that the Human World had built a Dragon God Temple...

That young dragon prince's mother would have a much higher opinion of Lance.

If the young dragon prince's mother mentioned this news while visiting her dragon friends...

The Giant Dragons might come over to take a look.

Then... Saint Blue might gain the favor of the Giant Dragons.

Thinking this way, Klaya suddenly felt that she had underestimated Saint Blue's potential before.

Indeed, she should support Tixia in developing Saint Blue properly, starting with a small goal like changing the name of the province to Saint Blue.

"Viscount, if you don't have any other orders, I'll take them to get their uniforms and pick out mounts."

"You've worked hard."

"Not at all, serving the Viscount is my honor."

Tixia took Klaya and the group of knights out.

That's it?

I was all set for a big undertaking, and it's just this?

Er Gouzi exchanged a glance between his two dog heads, finding it uninteresting, and decided he might as well go later and be the big brother for the dogs in the city.

For now... I might as well play some frisbee with the Young Dragon, and honestly, it seemed to find it quite fun earlier.

Turtle shrunk down to about two meters in size and continued to meander leisurely on the lawn, scared out of its wits; it thought the human knights were going to poke it with toothpicks...

"Ingrid, are there any letters for me in the mailbox?"

"Viscount, I checked this morning, and it seemed there weren't any letters for you. I'll check again this afternoon."

"Okay."

Lance started to feel a bit anxious, could his manuscript have been rejected?

His youth romance novel was written so well... he hoped it would meet someone with discernment...

........

Fantasy Dimension Publishing House.

At this moment, an editor reading the manuscript under the pen name "Viscount" was getting goosebumps all over.

Down and up, drama unfolding.

Several times he had thrown the manuscript away, only to pick it back up again and continue reading.

Strange.

Truly strange.

This youth romance novel was incredibly awkward to read, yet he couldn't help wanting to see more.

Especially the flirty lines from the male lead... they were truly eye-opening.

This manuscript... maybe we should publish a thousand copies first to see how it goes?

"Stanley, what are you reading?"

"Reading... 'Thou devilish woman, thou art so sweet'..."

"???!!!"