Red Dragon Emperor

"Back to your pocket again?" Xingge's eyes widened in disbelief.

You know, the halfling in front of you is a high-level thief, and judging from the mission record on the adventurer's certificate, he is also an experienced high-level thief.

Stealing a personal item from a high-level thief, and then returning it back without anyone noticing, how strong is the thief!

At least a master thief, maybe even a legendary thief!

Xingge felt that something was wrong. If there was a legendary thief in Vic Town, the town's armed forces alone would not be able to control the situation.

At this time, the harpies hurried in from the outside.

She shouted: "Xingge, Sergeant Cook also found it. They found that the lost property of the residents has returned and put it in the original position."

Xingge's eyes were bright and dark, and he analyzed the process of this strange case in his heart.

Obviously, the theft by the mysterious existence was not due to greed, but more like a prank.

"Speaking of strange things, I also encountered one yesterday."

On the side, the owner of the wild boar tavern interjected: "Yesterday, I found that the animal tooth necklace left by my deceased wife was missing. I kept it on the table, but it disappeared at night."

"At that time, I thought I was drunk and didn't know where I put the necklace. But this morning, I saw my necklace again."

The tavern owner's words stirred up shallow waves for a while, and people around him started to talk about it, all the items in the house disappeared, but they reappeared automatically the next day.

The three police officers looked at each other, and they all saw horror in each other's eyes.

The three walked out of the tavern door quickly.

Xingge said in a deep voice: "The matter is serious. We have to contact Sheriff Cook immediately and report the matter to Oka City. So many incidents happened at the same time, this is definitely the work of legendary power."

It wasn't long before three officers contacted Sergeant Cook.

After listening to Xingxing's analysis, Sergeant Cook took out magic props without hesitation and reported the strange things that happened in Vic Town to Oka City.

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In the Red Castle, in the throne hall, Jose sat on a high throne, listening to the prime minister of the kingdom, Ergo, report on the progress of the preparations for the imperial grand ceremony.

at this time,

A guard in red standard armor walked in quickly.

Even when the guards walked down the nine steps, he didn't dare to disturb the conversation between the king and the prime minister, so he just stood there quietly.

"What is it?" Jose turned to the guard.

He knew that the guards would not come in at this time if there was no urgent matter.

The guard moved neatly and gave a military salute: "Your Majesty, there seems to be a legendary bandit rioting in Vic Town, a satellite city of Oka City."

As he spoke, the guard raised his hands above his head, holding a piece of paper in his hand.

With a thought in Jose's mind, the paper in the guard's hand was picked up by invisible spiritual power, and moved to the front of the red dragon. His eyes swept over the paper, and he checked the contents recorded on the paper.

"Huh?" Jose was surprised, the legendary thief's rebellion was a bit different from what he had imagined.

"Stole something and returned it?"

The red dragon's eyes were uncertain, and he was thinking about the strange case of Vic Town in his mind. There is a high probability that the mysterious existence did not come to destroy the imperial ceremony, but he had to guard against it.

The Imperial Ceremony is really too important, and he will never allow any accidents in the Ceremony.

"The unstable factors must be wiped out in the cradle in advance!" Jose stood up from the throne and walked towards the entrance of the throne hall.

In the process of walking, his body became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a dragon man with two wings on his back and a dragon horn on his head.

Vic Town was very close to Oka City, and it happened that there was nothing to do at this time. He wanted to go and see for himself, and by the way, see how the preparations for the Imperial Ceremony on the street were going.

Jose came to the square in the garden of the Red Castle. A luxury carriage powered by eight horses had already been prepared, and he went straight into the carriage.

The wild boar heavy cavalry cleared the way, accompanied by ogre magicians, followed by royal cavalry composed of various races, and a group of more than 20 people set out on the road in a mighty manner.

Although everyone knows that sitting in the car is the king of the Fossey Kingdom, the king is the strongest in the entire kingdom, a true dragon with rare opponents in the entire world, and does not need the protection of himself and others, but they are still meticulously vigilant about their surroundings, To prevent those who don't have long-sightedness from jumping out and bumping into His Majesty the King.

Follow the winding mountain road all the way down, exit the gate of the Red Fort, pass through the aristocratic area halfway up the mountain to the Red Fort, and the carriage arrives at the trade area at the foot of the mountain.

Along the way, people looked at the luxurious carriage curiously, and the royal cavalry cleared the way. The curtain of the carriage was also printed with the red dragon ring symbolizing the kingdom of Fossey. The people sitting in the carriage must be high-ranking officials of the kingdom, or at least the descendants of dragons.

Compared with ordinary people, the officials and professionals of the Forsy Kingdom knew the rules and regulations of the Forsy Kingdom better, so they roughly guessed who was in the carriage, and bowed to salute from a distance.

Jose's car is naturally not an ordinary carriage. A lot of magical wisdom has been assembled during the manufacturing process of the carriage. Shock absorption, acceleration, protection, etc. are just basic functions. There are also some special functions, such as the curtains on both sides of the carriage. The curtains are enchanted curtains. The outside cannot see the inside, but the inside can see the outside.

Behind the curtain, Jose did not pay too much attention to all the living beings in the royal city, but observed the decorations along the way through the enchanted curtain.

In order to welcome the upcoming imperial ceremony, the Kingdom officials spent a lot of money and used a lot of manpower and material resources to decorate Orka City, and the central avenue of Orka City is the focus of decoration.

On the green belts on both sides of the street, there are red jubilee flowers representing festivals. The red jujube flowers are bright and eye-catching, and the flowers are dense.

Not only that, the street trees are decorated with lights and festoons, which makes people feel the joy of the festival at a glance.

The carriage passed by the square at the end of Central Avenue, and Jose saw a huge object on the square, but the object was covered with a red cloth, and the things inside the red cloth could not be seen.

Although he couldn't see the inside of the red cloth, Jose knew that inside the red cloth was a statue, the statue of himself, the founder of the Forsyth Kingdom.

But it's not just his statues either.

White dragons, green dragons, and many dependents are also tattooed on the base of the statue. They are all heroes and founding fathers of the Forsey Kingdom.

Nothing happened along the way, the carriage passed through the straight and wide central avenue, and arrived at the gate of Oka City.

In the salute of the soldiers defending the city, the carriage passed through the specially built aristocratic passage at the city gate, and drove up the stone bridge across the moat. Both sides of the stone bridge were also decorated with festive atmosphere.

Even when driving on the stone road leading to Vic Town, at intervals along the way, you can still see the flags celebrating the Imperial Ceremony.

It took the carriage an hour to arrive at Vic Town, one of the satellite towns of Oka City, along the broad stone road that crossed the countryside.

Among the many satellite towns of Oka City, Vic Town is the bottom of the list. It is only a large town close to a small town. Even if it is at the bottom, Vic Town is a satellite city of the capital after all. The buildings are well-proportioned and well-planned at first glance.

Not only urban buildings, sewers, town guard facilities, etc., Vic Town also far exceeds the average level of the kingdom.

Under the curious onlookers of the townspeople, the carriage that the Red Dragon rode came to the center of Vic Town and entered the Vic Town Sheriff's Office.

In an office of the public security station, José in the form of a dragon man sat on a chair without hesitation, and the sheriff of the jackals—Cook and the Kobold—stands in front of the table. The two respectfully respect the dragon man almost humblely, Although the red dragon didn't introduce himself, they already guessed the real identity of the dragon man.

"Who will tell me what's going on?" Jose glanced back and forth between the two.

Even though the reported information has already described what happened, but after all, it is not as detailed as the person who experienced it personally, so he wants to hear the person concerned tell it again.

The jackal police officer lowered his head to organize his words, then raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, my lord, this is how it happened!"

"Three days ago, we received a report of a theft. Recently, the number of people in Vic Town has increased significantly, and the number of difficult thefts has also increased. In addition, the amount of property lost in this theft is not large, so at first we did not Pay attention to this case, just remember that the thief left a grimace pattern."

"I didn't know that in the next two days, residents' homes were stolen one after another, and the thieves left a grimace pattern. Only then did we realize that the problem was serious and launched an investigation."

Kobold police officer Xingge followed the officer's words and said: "As a result of the investigation, it was found that three halfling thieves named Harris entered the city of Oka through the front door and the back door at the same time three days ago. Their registration information is exactly the same."

"No, not exactly the same, they are the same person."

"Later, our public security station launched a city-wide search, but failed to find the second halfling thief. Instead, we found more strange things, all of which were lost and recovered. The halfling's adventurer certificate is also the same."

"By the way, we took Harris himself to the toll collector at the back door to verify that he is the same person as the halfling thief who walked in through the back door."

Jose raised his finger lightly, then lowered it lightly, his nails hitting the table, making a rhythmic crisp sound: "You mean, someone stole the halfling thief's adventurer certificate, forged one, and used it to Entered Vic Town as a halfling, and then launched a series of theft cases, and returned the things after he succeeded?"

"That's right, the evidence collected so far proves this speculation."

Gnoll Sheriff——Cook shrugged his head and looked ashamed: "My lord, please forgive us for being powerless and unable to provide more information."

"It's not your fault, this matter is beyond your capabilities."

Jose waved his hand: "Go down."

"Yes!" The jackal and the kobold left, closing the door behind them.

Jose sat alone on a chair in the office, pinching his chin and thinking about the question: "Stolen his adventurer certificate from a master thief without knowing it, and then returned it back silently, even if this guy is not a legend , and will definitely not be an ordinary master thief."

"Disguised as a halfling, emmm... No matter how clever the disguise technique of a legendary thief of an ordinary race is, he can't compress his height to the level of a halfling, unless he is a halfling thief himself."

"This mysterious existence returned things after stealing them, and left behind a mocking grimace. Judging from various behaviors, he is in the chaotic good camp, while most halflings are in the lawful camp. Of course, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. Halflings Chaotic individuals are born in humans occasionally."

In the continent of Tidanore, the number of legendary halfling thieves is only a few.

Jose recalled that the only chaotic halfling rogue was chaotic evil.

"So, there is a high probability that the existence is not a halfling, but a strange race, or with the help of magic props?"

With the help of magic props or strange races, the situation is much more complicated.

With a thought in Jose's mind, a tyrannical mental power erupted, sweeping across the entire town of Vic.

A moment later, a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes. Just like when he first came to Vic Town, he failed to find any legendary aura in Vic Town.

"The high probability is that it hides its own aura with the help of magic props, and the small probability is that some strange races with extraordinary talents. No matter what, go to the street first and see if you can try your luck."

Jose stood up from his chair, without disturbing anyone, and teleported to a remote corner of the street in Vic Town.

In order to avoid drawing extra attention to his identity as a Dragon Man, he disguised himself as an ordinary Jackal and wandered the streets, observing everything along the way.

I have to say that Vic Town is a very good town, with clean streets and neat houses on both sides. Although it is not as prosperous as Orka City, it still has a special flavor.

Along the way, Jose saw the atmosphere of fireworks in the world, men chatting on the street, men chatting about fighting skills, imperial ceremonies and other topics, women sitting on chairs and gossiping, women prefer to talk about their parents’ families rather than fighting Short and fashion topics like clothes.

Of course, even the Kingdom of Fossey wasn't all rosy.

Jose also encountered gnolls who urinated on the spot in the alleys, alcoholic boars who staggered when they drank, and goblin swindlers who sold fake medicines.

Directly send the enthusiastically promoted counterfeit drug dealers to the security station, and Jose continues to search.

The disguised red dragon was walking on the street, and a group of children passed by him, leaving behind a whole lot of laughter. The corner of his mouth curled up into a smile, and he searched for it.

"Mom, can I go and play with my friends?" The wolf man's child's voice was full of expectation.

The sound came from a small courtyard next to the street.

"No, Lisa."

The mother of the jackal's voice was gentle, but it was not negotiable: "You haven't finished your homework yet. After you finish your homework, you can go and play happily."

The little wolf man reluctantly obeyed the order.

"Hmph! Ha..." The sound of the little wolf man exercising came from the yard.

Jose sensed a weak qi, and he was very relieved that this little wolf man was a trainee warrior who had just awakened qi.

Listening to the voice, the wolf man child is only ten years old, and he has awakened the sense of aura at a young age. The education and promotion work of the Forsey Kingdom has not been done in vain.

When passing by the gate of the yard, Jose took a look into the yard, and the smile froze on his face.

The Gnoll children who were exercising in the yard were among the children who ran past him just now.