Chapter 328: The Strongest General
Gruwen was one of the most powerful Generals in the army, mainly because of how strict she was with her training. Gruwen believed that only by training vigorously and mastering every technique until they beca second nature could you beco as strong as possible, so when it ca down to Radagan battle techniques, there was literally no one in the army who could perform them at a higher level than her.
But right now, Gruwen was having a dilemma. She walked over the bridge and reached a large garden where a man was feeding large chunks of at to a dragon with dark red skin. The man was also wearing the black military outfit of the Royal Army, and he had a calm smile on his face as multiple dragons surrounded him. This man was nad Talum, and he was the strongest General in the Royal Army as well as the first dragonborn to have a bond with more than one dragon. Talum had two dragons and a wyvern that had bonded with him when he was only a child, and the elders of the dragonborn said that they had never seen anyone with a higher aptitude for dragon taming. Talum had a peaceful aura of power around him that made it almost impossible for any dragon to resist his presence! He had dark blond hair with dark red scales running up his neck and cheeks. His figure was lean, but every move he made was asured and powerful, and anyone who watched him could tell just how strong he really was!
Talum chuckled roughly as his wyvern ca to push him with its nose while asking for more at, and he threw a large slab of at into the air! The wyvern quickly lashed out and snapped the at out of the air and Talum laughed as he continued to pet another dragon at his side.
"General Talum, do you mind if I have a word?"
Gruwen spoke up sternly when she walked into the large garden, and she frowned when she saw one of the dragons giving her a dirty look. When Talum stopped petting it to look at her. Gruwen didn’t have the sa affinity for dragons that Talum did, so she could only get along with the dragon that she was bonded with. Gruwen ignored the stink eye from the dragon and she focused on the General as he smiled at her while getting up.
"Gruwen, you’re as stern as ever, aren’t you? You’re not going to ever get married if you keep frowning so much."
Gruwen felt her eye twitch in annoyance from Talum’s words, and she watched as Talum dusted off his military attire. Gruwen couldn’t stop herself from staring at his face for a little too long. No matter how many tis she saw it, she still couldn’t get used to how young this man was. Unlike all the other Generals in the Royal Army that were already in their late seventies, Talum was still only fourty years old! He was not only the youngest General, but also the most powerful of them all!
’There are even rumors that he is the one that’ll take over from the Sovereign in the future. I wouldn’t be surprised if he surpasses the Sovereign very soon with how fast he is growing. The only thing I hate about him is how he always speaks without any filters. It’s irritating.’
"Hey, Gruwen, can you hear ? You’re not even ninety yet, y’know. If you keep zoning out like that, you’ll never find a husband. He’ll say sothing to you and you wouldn’t even catch a word!"
Gruwen’s eye twitched again, and Talum smiled as he fed the dragon another slab of at. Gruwen took in a breath, and she decided that she wasn’t going to let Talum’s words get to her. Instead, she spoke with a serious expression on her face.
"I’m worried about Jaraht. He left last night with the rest of his regint to carry out the Sovereign’s orders, but we haven’t heard any news from him since."
Talum humd, and he scratched his hair while looking up at the sky.
"Well, is that really sothing we need to worry about? I an, isn’t that what Jaraht tends to do during missions? He and his n get plastered, and they end up making trouble for so poor tavern before they co back. Haha, rember that ti Jaraht fed Fire rum to the dragons in his regint? He almost burnt down the whole city!"
Talum chuckled softly while petting another one of his dragons and Gruwen frowned slightly. Gruwen knew that Talum was right about Jaraht always running off after missions and doing things outside of his orders, but for so reason, she just felt like things were different this ti. Normally, they would at least get a ssage from Jaraht’s right-hand woman, Runa, that he had completed the mission. Runa was the most professional person in that entire regint, so Gruwen knew that Runa wouldn’t fail to send the ssage of completion once they were done!
"If you keep frowning like that, your face is gonna get all wrinkly before you find yourself a husband."
Talum spoke up when he noticed the deep frown on Gruwen’s face, and Gruwen unconsciously reached up to touch her cheek when she heard it! Wrinkles!? There was no way she had wrinkles! Talum smiled knowingly when he saw the expression on Gruwen’s face, and Gruwen’s cheeks heated up in anger as she glared at him! She hated how easily it was for Talum to get under her skin, but she had promised herself that she wouldn’t get swept up in his nonsense, so she took in another calming breath and schooled her expression back to her normal impassive look! Talum pouted slightly when he saw how easily she got her composure back and he finally decided to take her seriously as he folded his hands and said.
"Why are you so worried about this? Even if they ran into so problems, Jaraht is one of the strongest mbers of the army. There isn’t anything on that useless Rank II world that can harm a General."
Talum’s words were the truth, and Gruwen couldn’t co up with anything to counter that. They all knew that Jaraht’s regint was sent to Earth to recover the princess, so even if they had t resistance from the people of Earth, there was no way they would lose to a world that had only discovered magic a few years ago! Gruwen sighed as she realized that she was only being paranoid at that mont, and Talum spoke up again.
"If you’re so worried about him, then maybe you can send a few n to see how things are going. The Gate is just a few hundred miles away from the city, so they can reach it in a few minutes on dragonback. This might also be good for us since we don’t want Jaraht going off on another drunken bender like last ti. Things are already tense enough in the castle, and the Sovereign might actually kill him this ti if he does anything stupid."
Gruwen seed to finally crack a smile when she heard Talum’s words, and Talum blushed slightly when he saw the smile on her face.
"You should smile more often, Gruwen. You look beautiful."
"Stop saying nonsense."
Gruwen shot down Talum’s words with imdiate brutality, and Talum frowned as one of his dragons snickered roughly from behind him. Talum pet the dragon with a wistful look on his face before he spoke.
"Gruwen, what do you think the future is going to be like now that the dragons refuse to let us into the forest? Do you think we will ever form another contract with a creature from the Ashen Valley?"
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