Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 686 - 074 Royal City

Frandy Kingdom,

Inside the Royal City.

As the army besieged the city, the hearts of the people were in turmoil.

The Royal City being attacked to the city gates by enemy forces is an unprecedented event in the hundreds of years since the founding of the Frandi Duchy.

Because,

If a duchy's Royal City is invaded to the city gates by enemy forces, it means the crisis of the nation's destruction!

Since the founding of Frandi Duchy, even having experienced civil strife, threats of invasion from the Empire, and other wars midway, it had never faced such a dangerous situation. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Yet until the moment the imposing army lined up outside the Royal City,

The nobles who used to mock the "wild rumors" spreading among the common folk as madness, turning a blind eye to the discussions of the lower classes, instantly became the butt of the joke.

It turned out that a few days ago, the rumors circulating within the Royal City were true!

But now it's all too late!

The army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom has truly swept through more than half of the southern regions of the Frandi Duchy, and the entire nation is facing the peril of destruction!

"Damn it! How is this possible! Why wasn't such critical information relayed by any order officer, could they all have perished on the battlefield? How was I to know that the news brought by that forever lowly commoner was actually true!"

This was the bellow of a corpulent noble from the Upper East District.

At this moment, he had almost become the joke of the entire city and was vaguely becoming a scapegoat.

Because a few days ago, a scarred and exhausted Adventurer ran up to him, telling him of the Blue Dragon Kingdom's invasion from the south, the complete collapse of the border defense, and that General Nonica Bro, who led the defense, had already perished in battle. The southern resistance had been utterly wiped out, and those great southern nobles and influential families had all been obliterated under the advance of the Dragon's Nest army, with the Royal City facing unprecedented threats...

The scarred Adventurer, seemingly having experienced a brutal fight, relayed the information urgently to the affluent noble.

Before the Adventurer had even finished speaking, he burst into laughter, mocking the Adventurer with the harshest sarcasm, ridiculing that the Adventurer must have lost his mind to concoct a flawed lie, thinking he could gain the attention of the nobles.

His sharp and bitter words caused the face of the marred Adventurer to flush with anger, and without letting the other speak, the corpulent noble kicked him away.

Perhaps it was the end of his endurance, or perhaps out of rage, but as the corpulent noble kicked him away like a dead dog, it became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the Adventurer expired.

Yet the corpulent noble felt no remorse about it, instead spreading it around as a joke among others.

Then,

In this entertainment-deprived world, the news of an Adventurer foolishly trying to gain the attention of the Upper East District nobles by spouting nonsense about the impending destruction of the Frandy Duchy was disseminated throughout the Imperial Capital.

Everyone ridiculed that Adventurer gone mad, thinking that such alarming words would truly garner the favor of the nobles?

And then,

The Blue Dragon Kingdom reached the gates of the Royal City, and the army completely besieged the Imperial Capital.

The entire Imperial Capital fell into a dead silence immediately.

Who would have thought that the nonsensical words of a beggar on the street could be true?

Due to the swift advance of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, sweeping through everything in their path, and the Frandi Duchy's army and major noble forces being completely annihilated, no order officer reported the news.

Relying on their semi-mechanized corps' blitzkrieg tactics, they moved faster than the news could travel, and so the people within the Imperial Capital of the Frandy Duchy knew nothing of the Blue Dragon Kingdom's invasion.

When the Dragon's Nest army appeared outside the Imperial Capital Royal City, it was a loud slap in the face of everyone there.

At this moment,

Inside the Imperial Capital Royal City, people's hearts were in turmoil, chaos everywhere.

"Damn Blue Dragon, forever lowly Beastman Tribe! Nonica that worthless Duke couldn't even hold out for half a month! Truly brought shame to the Bro Clan!"

The once elegant and gentlemanly corpulent noble, looking at the Dragon's Nest army stirring up a murderous aura outside, was terrified and cursed shamelessly.

Because due to his rashness, having kicked the message-bearing, severely injured Adventurer to death, at this moment, he not only became a laughingstock within the Imperial Capital Royal City but was also subtly indicated by others as a scapegoat.

This made the corpulent noble exceedingly furious.

These backstabbing bastards, a bunch of forever lowly commoners, listen, now they are calling him "Foolish Delos" outside, all because he botched this matter.

One has to know that such a nickname can follow a person for a lifetime,

Possibly even tainting his entire family with stigma, so how could corpulent Delos not be angry?

Outside, he was pointed at by a bunch of commoners, and at Upper East District noble gatherings, he was faintly suggested as the main culprit, as if the Blue Dragon Kingdom's army outside was brought by him.

These damned bastards, why don't they go to hell!

Back then, it was true that he killed the only messenger, but then the news spread wildly, everyone living in the Royal City was spreading it as a joke, wasn't it?

As if things wouldn't have gone wrong if he had taken it seriously from the start.

The more corpulent noble Delos thought, the angrier he got, violently smashing the treasured beautiful porcelain he had bought at a high price from the southern Blue Dragon Kingdom onto the ground,

With a crisp crash.

But the moment he smashed it, he regretted it, as what was once a dearly loved precious porcelain had already turned into a pile of shards, his heart felt like it was being cut by knives, a rage surged up, and he spat out a mouthful of blood with a 'wa' sound, fainting to the ground.

Outside, the trembling servants, hearing the commotion, hurriedly rushed in,

Shouting in panic.

"Foolish Delos" fainted at home from vomiting blood due to anger, and if this news spread in normal times, it would surely spread all over the Imperial Capital Royal City.

But now it's different,

With the enemy at the gates, the market in panic, rumors flying inside the Imperial Capital Royal City, food prices soaring, not many idle people would bother about the joke of "Foolish Delos".

Facing the formidable and unfamiliar army gathered at the gates of the Royal City, capable of sweeping everything in the Frandy Duchy's south in just half a month, reaching the gates of the Royal City.

Even though yesterday the King appeared to boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the square, many people remained deeply worried at heart.

The situation was like the ground collapsing and the sky falling,

In the blink of an eye, facing the crisis of national ruin, this sudden change left almost all the civilians unable to respond.