Chapter 607, Royal Zoo

Hearing Surya's inquiry, Emperor Karl Franz couldn't help but hesitate and feel a little embarrassed.

There is indeed a dragon in the underground of the Royal Zoo of the Empire, but this matter is classified as top secret, how did Ryan know?

"Is there really a dragon?" The Duchess "Suria", who was holding Ryan's arm, then asked.

The emperor always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the "Suria" in front of him. In his impression, Suria was the kind of duchess who was particularly aristocratic, civilized and elegant, and very lady-like and ladylike. But today But she seemed very lively, and she also liked to speak actively, and her tone also changed. Her tone towards Ryan changed from mutual respect to a slightly commanding tone. If it wasn't for the respect for Ryan in her tone, Karl Ver Lanz suspected that Suria had been swapped.

"Suria!" Ryan said to Suria with some blame: "This is His Majesty Karl's secret, don't ask like this."

"It doesn't matter." Seeing this, the emperor stretched out his hand to indicate that he didn't mind. Karl Franz thought for a while and said, "There is indeed a dragon in the ground of the zoo. This dragon is called the Imperial Dragon. It is Brun Rick's patron saint, but this dragon is in a state of deep sleep all year round, almost never waking up, and I have only ridden it once, so I am not very familiar with it. Tucker is here, and he can show you this dragon."

The implication is that we can't visit now, Ryan thought.

The amber mages of the Amber Academy are essentially the same as the druids. After binding the amber wind, their body hair grows wildly, their behavior is extremely wild, their nails and teeth are as sharp as the claws of animals, and they like to wear animal skins , shirtless, holding a staff made of wood, bone and amber, and moving in the wilderness, the most powerful amber mage can also turn into an animal to fight or travel.

So what is the difference between amber mages and those druids?

The difference is that the amber mages accept the leadership of the imperial court and believe that nature must also unite with mankind to defend against foreign enemies. These amber mages love the empire and its land deeply, and their oath of loyalty to the empire is more important than any The oath he had sworn was stronger and stronger.

Of course, even so, these amber mages still have constant conflicts with the nobles and the city's citizens, and they don't trust each other.

"Thirty percent of new people are guests, half of them are friends, and seventy percent of new people are brothers."

——A proverb describing the newness of the clothes worn by amber mages and the relationship with visitors

At this time, in Surya's heart, the female knight was talking to the fairy in the lake.

"Ma'am, don't be so rude!" Surya was a little embarrassed: "You will embarrass Ryan like this."

"I'm going to make it difficult for him." The fairy in the lake said plausibly: "Sulia, don't you think that you are too accommodating to her? Sometimes you have to have a little bit of your own thoughts and requirements, so that Ryan can I will value you and love you."

"Ma'am, I don't think this is good..." Surya instinctively felt that the fairy in the lake wanted to cause trouble, and the female knight was a little worried: "We are now in the empire, in front of His Majesty Karl, as a wife, We still have to give him face..."

"Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion." The fairy in the lake shook her hand, and Su Liya couldn't say anything more when she saw this, so she could only agree.

On the other side, Ryan was still chatting with Emperor Karl-Franz: "I saw Mattak last time...but the strange smell on him is really not very pleasing, and he invited me and Teclis To visit his beast mansion, we really dare not go in."

"Matak people are not bad." The emperor smiled and shook his head again and again: "He is just like all the amber wizards. He likes to stay in the wilderness and sleep in the forest covered in mud. It is said that he can make good black tea. This black tea not only has a strong taste, but also has a sleep-promoting effect, and you will feel drowsy after drinking it."

"yes,

So I didn't drink it. " Ryan sneered.

"Me neither." The emperor was taken aback for a moment, and then said tacitly.

The two men looked at each other and smiled.

The Royal Zoo is divided into several areas, namely "Mackenson Coach Area", "North Area", "Hoke Area", "Aust Area", "Griffon Area", "South Area", "West Area" and the Griffin in the center Area, where almost all the rare and exotic beasts from the old world are housed, even including trolls and chaotic eggs. Many imperial colleges, wizards, and sects conduct research on various strange creatures here.

Meanwhile, as an added feature, the Royal Menagerie provided the emperor's army with steeds, flying horses, half-griffins, and mighty griffins.

The crowd first visited the stables, where sturdy war horses were raised. These horses came from Aiweiling, a major horse-producing province. battlefield.

But for the imperial horses, neither Ryan, Suria, nor Emilia seemed to be interested, and the emperor was a little embarrassed, including the horse breeders and grooms who came forward to receive them.

Because no matter how good the imperial war horses are, they are far inferior to the Britannian war horses. Most of the Britannian war horses are descendants of elf war horses and Bretanian forest horses. There are some bloodlines of elf warhorses, which are specifically reflected in their much stronger physical fitness, sprinting power, speed, weight-bearing ability, and jumping ability.

Not to mention the pure blood elf war horse, the pure blood elf war horse can carry the fully armed World Eater Primarch Angron and sprint back and forth on the plains. It doesn't take a few minutes for the imperial war horse to be exhausted die.

The best warhorses in the hands of the emperor were still a few half-breed elf warhorses imported from Ryan by all means. Because they were confused about how to breed half-breed elf warhorses, and the method was wrong, the Royal Zoo was still unable to complete the breeding of half-breed elf warhorses. .

For this, Ryan neither intends nor can provide guidance, because the national policy tree of the Knight Kingdom is like this.

And then there's Pegasus.

The Empire, like Britannia, also has Pegasus, because Pegasus is a species that lives in the Gray Mountains in large numbers. In the Empire, Pegasus is usually called the Imperial Pegasus. Its fur is as white as flying snow, and its intelligence is far beyond Ordinary war horses, if you want Pegasus to become a mount, you must capture it when it is still a foal. It takes many years of training to gain trust in Pegasus, but once this trust is established, they become loyal mounts and will obey any order of their masters.

Similarly, Ryan, Suria and others still lack interest in the imperial Pegasus, because Britannia also owns it, and the Pegasus under Ryan's father-in-law Francois is the most powerful in the old world The pure-blood elf Pegasus, this Pegasus named Prague not only has a very high command, but also has magical powers. When surrounded by enemies, the old man's Pegasus can turn the magical energy contained in its body into a strong light and release it. Get out of combat and burn enemies.

Compared with Britannia who likes to gather Pegasus knights to form a flying army, the Empire is more inclined to use Pegasus as a mount for generals. There are more than a dozen pure white and flawless Pegasus in the Royal Zoo. The emperor is gentle He walked up quickly, took a carrot from the groom, and brought it to Tianma's mouth. Watching it eat the carrot, the emperor happily combed Tianma's mane with a brush: "These are all my treasures, but these The Pegasus is not the best, the best one is called Swift Silver, and it is Gelt's mount now."

"Where is Gelt now?" Ryan was quite interested in this matter: "It's less than two weeks before the game, why hasn't he shown up yet?"

"Come back soon." The emperor nodded: "Gelt led an army to Kislev to prevent a group of northern barbarians from releasing the ancient dragon demon. He completed the task very well, and now he and his army have Arrived in Talabheim, it will arrive in a week at most."

After finishing speaking, the emperor didn't seem to intend to say any more. He then led Ryan and others to see a special creature.

That is the famous half-griffin in the empire.

Half-griffins are very ferocious and dangerous creatures. They have sharp beaks, powerful claws, and a strong body. Many knights will try to capture this semi-griffin as their own mount. Many people fail and lose their lives, but as long as they succeed, the loyal mount will follow the master for life.

Half-griffins generally only exist in the Black Forest of the Empire. Because of its shape and the body structure of the eagle head and tiger body, it is named "half-griffin". Unlike the griffin, the overall size of the half-griffin is smaller A large circle, and then no wings, unable to fly. Many scholars believe that the half-griffin is a new species produced after the griffin hybridized with other creatures in the Black Forest, but some scholars believe that the half-griffin is from head to tail. It has nothing to do with griffins.

At present, the largest half-griffin troop in the old world is the Griffin Knights, whose godfather, Duke Ivan, is the head of the regiment. At present, there are more than one hundred half-griffin knights in this knight order in Brunswick, obeying the dispatch of the emperor. This unit is known as the Brunswick Royal Demi-Gryphons.

At present, there are not many half-griffins kept in the zoo, because most of them have found their owners and are serving in the army. Ryan thought about it and knew that the military strength of the empire would always be tense.

"Nur's champion, Judge Nur, the sanctuary-level powerhouse, Theodore Bruckner is riding the largest and most ferocious half-griffin in the entire empire—the Reaper." The emperor signaled that everyone should not approach the half-lion Eagle, avoid being hurt: "Am I right? Emmanuel?"

Emilia glanced at the emperor angrily: "You are very clear about Theodore, Karl Franz, maybe I should clean up my court after I go back?"

Ryan's little maid stomped her little leather shoes on the ground. Since reuniting with Ryan, Emilia seemed to be taking it for granted that she replaced her high heels with her favorite little leather shoes.

"You've only become more aggressive since you had Frederick, Emmanuel." The emperor said something meaningful, and then he gave up entanglement with Emilia: "Next, is My collection, war griffins, Ryan, you have a griffin too, right?"

"That's right, I might have eaten it." Ryan nodded. His Griffon Impris would have to eat hundreds of gold crowns a year. If it wasn't for his family's great business, he really couldn't afford it.

Emperor Karl Franz kept several war griffins in the Royal Zoo. Their shoulder height is twice as high as that of an adult man, and their flesh-ripping beaks are like sharp scissors. In front of them, the ferocious griffins slammed against the guardrail, roaring and hissing at everyone. Griffins are full of hostility to everything, and many of them are cubs and minors. Captured here from the Roof of the World mountains.

Taming a griffin is a bigger project than taming a half-griffin, and it requires extremely strong strength, perseverance and patience to do it.

Even the electors of the empire are proud of having a griffin in their stables. Unfortunately, just like the hippogryph knights in Brittania, there are not many griffin knights in the empire, except for the griffin knights. Except for some real "Griffin Knights" in the regiment, only the "Wrath of Tarr" Knights in Talabheim have established Griffin Knights.

But other than that, some legendary amber wizards in the empire have their own griffin mounts, because these wizards whose bodies are bound with the amber wind have the magic to tame wild beasts, and they can communicate with wild beasts. Some griffins will willingly become the mounts of amber wizards.

"Where's your death claw?" Ryan didn't see the emperor's mount in the animal pen.

"It won't stay in the animal pen during the day. It usually prefers to soar in the sky, but at night, no matter where it goes, it will come back." The emperor grinned, his tone seemed to be telling something. One thing he's very proud of: "It always comes back and sleeps peacefully in the pen."

"Imperus is the same, but my griffin always prefers to go to the forest to hunt small animals." Ryan also smiled.

"Spit out lightning? How did you do it?" the emperor suddenly asked, this question has troubled him for a long time.

"Madam's gift." Ryan blinked.

"Okay." The emperor shrugged: "Let's change the subject. You see, this is a double-headed griffin, a variant of the war griffin. It is also very powerful, but it is also very difficult to control, especially the two-headed griffin. Vultures often quarrel among themselves."

As if responding to the emperor's words, this huge double-headed griffin ferociously fiddled with the straw under its body. He stared coldly at the emperor and breeder who were chattering and introducing them with a contemptuous expression, as if they were about to tear them apart in the next second.

After visiting the Griffin, the Royal Zoo is almost all visited.

Finally, the emperor led the crowd to a closed gate, and everyone could feel the strong smell of sulfur coming out of the gap in the gate.

"Dragon, it's just behind this door, but you have seen the situation. Even I dare not approach it now. If I have a chance next time, I will take you to see it." Karl Franz nodded: "You They are all guests of the empire, and I cannot let you be in danger."

"Does Your Majesty have any research on dragons?" Just as everyone was leaving, Duchess Suria suddenly spoke, and the female knight had a playful look on her face: "Behind the door is a silver moon dragon, not very old."

"Oh?!" Karl Franz was very interested: "Mrs. Suria, how much do you know about dragons?"

"A little research." The fairy in the lake controlled Suria's body, and the goddess held Ryan's arm: "Is your majesty interested in listening?"

"Appreciate further details."