If one was not from this world, it would be difficult to understand the Knight's attitude towards dragons. It was an emotion that had been brainwashed from childhood to adulthood.
Even if Liszt himself was obsessed with dragons and liked the beauty of power, it still could not compare to the reverence the indigenous people had for dragons. It was a mixture of many emotions, reaching a distorted and morbid degree. There was reverence like worshiping a god, but there was also a possessiveness like wanting to destroy it if it could not be obtained.
A few decades ago, Marquis Merlin communicated with the Sapphire Dragon and expressed that if it was not contracted, the Dragon Lord would kill it.
That might have been a joke, or he only dared to say it while the Sapphire Dragon was asleep.
But now, the aged Marquis Merlin could no longer say those frivolous words of his youth. He just looked at the little fire dragon Leo and constantly praised him: "So beautiful!"
Leo had always despised humans, so he was very dissatisfied that he was repeatedly called out by Liszt like a monkey being looked at as if he was a rare monkey. He turned his head and coldly glanced at Thorn Castle before flapping his wings and flying into the sky, quickly disappearing without a trace in the heavy snow.
"Ah, the fire dragon, the fire dragon flew away!" Meopal exclaimed from the side.
Liszt explained: "Leo is just flying around in the sky, it will come back soon." He and Leo could communicate with each other through the Dragonheart Code, which was an ultra-long-distance communication technology.
Little Princess Angela supported Marquis Merlin. She had seen the Sapphire Dragon since childhood and grew up with dragons, so she was no stranger to dragons. She had the most complicated feelings towards Liszt's fire dragon. The fire dragon had saved Sapphire, but because of the fire dragon, Sapphire was about to lose its hegemony.
Moreover …
She looked up and thought of the petite mage she had seen in the living room. She suddenly felt a mountain of pressure. In this strange looking castle without battlements or arrow towers, which seriously lacked a sense of security, lived a Dragon Knight and an Archwizard.
It was really hard to imagine.
The Taro family, which she had once looked down upon, had become a great aristocrat that could not be ignored because of the relationship between the Dragon Knight and the Archwizard. She had to restrain her thoughts and earnestly play the role of the future mistress of the Taro family. Now that she was pregnant, she was completely related to the Taro family.
Sigh.
Angela sighed in her heart. Women couldn't escape the shackles of their families after all. Their unrestrained and wanton lives had come to an end.
"Grandpa, the temperature on the balcony is low. Let's go back to the room," Liszt said.
Some of the rooms in the Thorn Fort had already been installed with Calming Divine Beads, making them warm in winter and cool in summer. Marquis Merlin refused. "When the fire dragon comes back, I'll take another look."
Seeing this, Liszt immediately used the Dragonheart Code to call Leo, telling him to come back quickly and not to wander around in the snow. After a while, Leo landed on an open space near the castle. The open space had been tamped down, and a 100-meter-high stone platform would be built here next spring.
The rocks produced by the Blizzard Beast are piled up nearby, ready for construction at any time.
After Marquis Merlin carefully admired it for a moment, Liszt waved his hand, and Leo flew into the sky in an instant, turning into a ball of flames and rushing into his body.
"An Elemental Dragon is truly amazing," Marquis Merlin exclaimed.
…
In the afternoon of the next day, the family from Tulip Castle arrived at Thorn Fort.
Lady Penélope, Leewilliam, Lady Marie, Levis, Rolia, Lvera, Lytton, and Little Richard all followed the team.
After some pleasantries, they settled down at Thorn Fort.
Lady Penélope and Lvera planned to stay at Thorn Fort until the end of the New Year, and Liszt naturally would not refuse. Thorn Fort was big enough. It was just that there was a shortage of servants in the castle. The dozens of child servants that had been trained were obviously not competent for their own work.
They could only select serfs who had been servants in the Eagle Kingdom from the new serfs in the territory and continue to serve Thorn Fort.
The Serpentines of these servants were very poor, so they did some manual work.
The former servants of the castle, such as Thomas, Little Lily, and the others, began to do the work of receiving guests. Perhaps their background and self-restraint were still lacking compared to the servants of great nobles, but this was only the beginning. With the rise of Liszt, their background could naturally be slowly accumulated.
After the banquet, the female guests gathered together and gossiped.
The men went to Liszt's study, which could be called a library. Rows of bookshelves were filled with all kinds of books. Of course, most of the books Liszt had not even read. He only used them to decorate his appearance and let people know that he was a well-read and cultured person.
The servants served tea.
The topic mainly revolved around how Liszt would establish a kingdom in the future.
Whether it was the Tulip family or the Taro family, they were not old nobles. They had not experienced the founding of the Grand Duchy of Sapphire, so they had no idea how to establish a kingdom. But even if they had not eaten pork, they had seen pigs run. The Sapphire Family's operation method was the best reference.
"Has the family thought of a new surname?" Leewilliam asked.
Splitting the family was inevitable. After all, Liszt was only the second son of the Tulip family. He did not legally have the right to inherit the family. The greater his achievements, the more inevitable the result of splitting the family would be.
"Tentatively, it will be Flame," Liszt replied.
He had more than one dragon, but the family name could only be named after the exposed Fire Dragon.
He really could not think of a better surname. Raging Flame was too vulgar, Burning Flame was too light, Burning Sky was too chuunibyou, Fury Flame was too extreme, and Dragon Flame was too common. No matter which one he chose, he would regret it. After thinking about it, he simply used the straightforward "Flame" as the new surname, just like the Sapphire Family used Sapphire as their surname.
Sometimes, straightforwardness was the foundation.
The royal family of the Eagle Kingdom had the surname White Iron, and the surname Moonlight Silver. They were equally straightforward, using the name of the dragon as their surname.
Leo was the Fire Dragon, and the Fire Dragon was the incarnation of the flame. Flame was the purest name.
Perhaps it did not sound as pretentious as Raging Flame, Burning Sky, Red Lotus of Fire, Eternal Flame, and Prairie Fire. But if one carefully tasted it, the flame had a kind of natural charm. In any case, the surnames of nobles were not fixed. When there were more dragonriders, at worst, they would just change it to some domineering surname like "Lord of Dragons" or "Dragon Shepherd".
Marquis Merlin chewed on the word "flame" and unconsciously nodded. "Liszt Flame, I think it's not bad. It suits your temperament as a Fire Dragon Knight."
"So, when are you going to separate?" Levis followed up with a question.
"After the New Year." Liszt himself did not care. Regardless of whether he separated or not, there would not be too many changes. The Tulip family would also not become estranged because of the separation.
For example, the Golden Wheat Family that Luo Liya came from maintained a very close relationship with the Golden Wheat Family. They did not have the idea that they would be strangers after the separation. When the Small Kerchief Island Lord was destroyed, the Big Kerchief Island Lord had worked hard for the Small Kerchief Island Lord.
Separation meant the prosperity of the family.
In the Blueblood Alliance, there were many small families that had been separated from the Sapphire Family, surrounding and protecting the Sapphire Family.
As such.
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