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Chapter 328 - 328 327 The Advantage is Mine

Chapter 328: Chapter 327: The Advantage is Mine Chapter 328: Chapter 327: The Advantage is Mine At the end of August, Russell was promoted to a 2nd turn High-ranking Mythical Beast Knight with little fanfare.

In early September, Roland received a letter from Populus Gobi sent by Gwyn Baimaigen.

“Unfolding the letter…”

After reading the content of the letter, Roland felt a complex mix of emotions. The contents were as expected: Gwyn informed him that Drella had visited Fort Poplar and that her father, Baron Gevedas, had agreed to the arranged marriage.

Gwyn insisted on disagreeing but couldn’t influence Baron Gevedas’s attitude, and now she could only delay the wedding date.

“If you truly love me, Roland, please come to Fort Poplar and fight for me with my father. I don’t want to have regrets in my life. I like the witty and humorous you, not some Flying Dragon Knight. To me, being a Flying Dragon Knight is not important…”

At the end of the letter, Gwyn boldly declared her love.

But Roland couldn’t quite discern his own feelings at the moment. He had more than once asked himself, “Do I truly love Gwyn?”

The answer was cruel; he might not truly love Gwyn.

Especially for an heir to nobility like him who had been entangled with several lovers from an early age, his feelings of affection and love had long since grown weak.

The idea of love at first sight with Gwyn was simply impossible.

To him, Gwyn seemed more like the best answer obtained after carefully picking and weighing the pros and cons. Even Roland knew that to Gwyn, he might likewise be her best choice after careful comparison.

What is love?

Even the most passionate love must eventually settle into the trivialities of everyday life; nobody can rely on love alone to last a lifetime, at least Roland had never seen such an example—even his parents, Baron Romand and his wife, who seemed harmoniously in love, had extra-marital affairs.

So it wasn’t because of love or the lack thereof that Roland chose Gwyn; it was a choice made out of mutual fondness and suitable statuses.

“Then, should I give up on Gwyn?” Roland asked himself again.

He and Gwyn were indeed the best answers for each other, but this answer was now faced with too many distractions.

The attitude of Baron Gevedas was the biggest distraction.

After all, when it comes to noble marriages, it’s all about the union of interests. If the union brings conflict, then it’s entirely unnecessary.

The Grand Duchy of Shadowflame might not have many major nobles, but minor nobles were as numerous as hairs on a bull; Roland could easily have his pick for a wife, without having to hang on to a single tree.

But Baron Gevedas’s reneging not only embarrassed him and his younger brother Russell but also Baron Romand and his wife, their parents. Once word got out, their entire family would become a joke.

Nobody would blame Gevedas for breaking a mere verbal agreement.

Instead, they would mock the Fluorescent Fungi Family for being looked down upon, ridiculing Roland for his incompetence, for not being able to keep the woman he wanted to marry.

Thus, Roland quickly dismissed the idea: “No, I don’t want to give up on Gwyn!”

He took a deep breath and gripped the letter in his hand tight: “Whether it is to prove that I am not weak or for the love that Gwyn has for me, I cannot back down to Baron Gevedas. I must go to Populus Gobi again!”

He paused for a moment.

Then, he smoothed out the letter, folded it carefully, and put it away..

All of a sudden, he was filled with a surge of passion: “Besides, my father is a Flying Dragon Knight, and my brother will soon be one too. Two against one, the advantage lies with me. Drella is no match for me, and Baron Gevedas can’t stop me either!”

The wife that Roland wanted to marry, nobody could stop him!

Rising from his room, Roland went straight to Baron Romand, who was drinking tea and reading the newspaper: “Father, I’m going to Fort Poplar.”

“Are you sure?” Baron Romand looked up at Roland.

“It’s settled.”

“To be honest, I’ve never paid much attention to Gwyn, so I don’t know if she’ll be a good daughter-in-law, but since you and your mother both like her, that’s settled then,” Baron Roman put down the newspaper in his hand and stood up indifferently.

The dignity of the Flying Dragon Knight was unmistakable at this moment, “That Gevedas dares to look down upon the Fluorescent Fungi Family, I shall see where his confidence comes from, to bully my family’s low profile over the years!”

“Thank you, Father, for your assistance,” Roland said, biting his lip and choking up.

“Don’t be timid, puff out your chest, sooner or later, this house will be handed over to you. Go on, tell your mother, and then join me in bringing home our future lady of the house,” Baron Roman said loudly.

Roland nodded vehemently, his fighting spirit already high, “Yes, Father!”

As Roland went to find Lady Meryl.

Baron Roman immediately instructed a servant to call the Territory Patrol Knight Captain, Kendall, and ordered, “Go to the Wuyao Snake Manor and inform Russell, Roland and I are heading to the Populus Gobi. If Russell is not in the territory, look for him about fifty kilometers east of Sharp Knife Mountain in the Snowfield.”

“Sir, the Snowfield is vast, could you give a more specific location?” Kendall asked.

“Flying above, when you see a big pit with exposed soil on the ground, that’s where Russell will be,” Baron Roman said with a slight smile, as he had been informed by Russell about the Black Oil Dragon’s planting and had also gone to see it.

Now that the Black Oil Dragon is about to be born, there’s no need to hide it anymore.

“Understood,” Kendall departed to carry out the mission.

Watching Kendall leave, Baron Roman nodded in satisfaction, thinking to himself, “Although I am a Flying Dragon Knight, Gevedas, that buffoon, clearly has chosen his side and might not bow to me. But with Russell by my side, I should be almost certain of success!”

There’s only one Bipedal Flying Dragon in the Populus Gobi.

The advantage was completely in Baron Roman’s hands, two against one.

After Roland had made things clear to Lady Meryl, the father and son set off without delay.

Not riding Ros the Clay Dragon, Baron Roman, like Roland, also rode his own bonded Mythical Beast—the Nightmare Specter Horse. Even Flying Dragon Knights don’t ride dragons every day; they need to foster a relationship with fantasy beasts and pursue progress as well.

On horseback, Baron Roman glanced back at the Fluorescent Castle and muttered to himself, “It’s a pity I won’t be able to see Russell riding the dragon right away… I hope after he rides the dragon, he can come to the Populus Gobi as soon as possible to increase our momentum.”

As if by some sort of telepathy, Roland was also quietly asking, “Father, will Russell… be able to make it in time?”

Father and son, almost simultaneously, pinned their hopes on Russell.

…

Meanwhile, Knight Commander Kendall, not finding Russell at Wuyao Snake Manor, followed Baron Roman’s orders and entered the vast Snowfield.

The heat of midsummer, combined with multiple sweeps by the Glowing Valley Knight Regiment and the nightly sweeps of the Little Dream Dragon.

The Snowfield was spotless, not a single Snow Ghost to be seen.

“Let’s fly a bit higher and see if we can find the big pit Sir mentioned,” Kendall communicated with his own Fantasy Beast—the Aurora Falcon—as he was in a state of Beast Fusion Shadow, with a pair of winged shadows emerging from his back.

The Aurora Falcon was known for its speed, which was also why Kendall was able to serve as the Territory Patrol Knight Captain; no matter where the trouble was, he could be the first on the scene.

Soaring swiftly through the sky, he soon located a large hole in the Snowfield’s ice cap.

After landing,

He saw lava patterns in the pit, and at that moment, he was taken aback, then suddenly thought of something unbelievable.

Before he could fully comprehend it, he saw Russell walk out of a tent in the pit, surprised, he called out, “Knight Kendall?”

In that moment, Kendall, struck by a moment of inspiration, leaped down from above the ice cap and, with his right hand pounding his chest, saluted, “Lord Russell…”