Am I not worthy of being her Alpha?

In Long Ling and her mother’s planned route, they would go to Gris Harbor with Grandma, and Grandma would take a boat back to the Arnold family.

They would also take the sea route to the Livor Continent.

While passing through Gris Harbor, they received bad news.

Duchess Violet announced a decree prohibiting all elves from entering the territory.

Gris Harbor was an extremely important transportation hub, the only waterway that the entire Ord Continent must pass through.

Water transport was many times faster than land transport.

Because of this decree, some elves returning to the elven homeland to participate in the Mother Tree Festival were destined to take some detours.

The increase in travel would lead to a reduction in the goods they carried, and their business would also be affected to some extent.

Long Ling was a little worried:

“Why did Violet ban elves from entering?

I’ve never heard her say that elves have offended her.

Will it affect Mom’s business?”

Modai patted Long Ling’s hand and comforted her:

“Mom surrounded her manor with the elves in order to pick you up back then.

She should hold a grudge, but don’t worry too much.

Mom didn’t invest in industries in the Dragon Clan royal territory, and had long expected the royal family’s fickleness.”

Modai still had lingering fears when she thought of Violet.

The duchess’s aura was too strong.

Fortunately, her daughter did not continue to be with Violet, otherwise she would be bullied so much.

Long Ling frowned slightly: “Now that elves can’t pass through the harbor, how should we detour?”

Modai had prepared a backup plan: “We’ll go to the Livor Continent from the Gilva River.

The pre-ordered decorative lanterns, magical fireworks, and prayer magic stones are all there.

We won’t take sea transport, although it will take a detour, it will still be in time.

On the way back, we can also buy a batch of craft beer.

The beastmen who live near the Gilva River love life and brew relatively cheap alcohol.”

Long Ling was a little puzzled: “Our ship already has some alcohol brewed by elves and utensils made by elves, right?”

Modai smiled slightly: “Different commodities are sold to different regions to obtain higher profits.

Mom also wants to let you see different customs and cultures.”

The ship stopped at a ferry on a small town on the Gilva River.

Modai took her to find the local beastman merchant in a familiar way.

According to past cooperation, after signing the order for goods, the beastmen began to load the goods onto their cargo ship.

Beastmen were also a relatively peace-loving race.

They were naturally unwilling to cause trouble.

The land on both sides of the river here was flat and fertile, and was full of banana trees and coconut trees.

In the evening, there was also a bonfire party locally.

Long Ling and her mother leaned together and ate mango ice cream.

A wandering poet picked up an accordion, and many beastmen gathered together to sing.

The moving melody and warm firelight made people a little drowsy.

Her mother rubbed her head, allowing her to rest in her arms for a while.

Long Ling was worried about the entire ship of goods and stubbornly shook her head.

Modai couldn’t help but laugh: “Silly child, we are dragons.

The beastmen here are timid and dare not steal dragons’ things.

Go to sleep if you want to.”

Long Ling nestled in her mother’s arms and couldn’t help but squint.

When she woke up the next day, she had already boarded a cargo ship bound for the Livor Continent.

Modai stood on the bow, leaning on the railing and looking at the azure sea, with the wandering poet she met last night standing beside her.

The other party took off her hat and respectfully bowed to her.

Modai introduced to Long Ling: “This poet wants to see the world on the Livor Continent and has boarded our cargo ship.

Mom saw that you fell asleep listening to the accordion yesterday, so she can sing to you every day.”

The wandering poet smiled and said: “Miss Long Ling, I can sing many love songs. I can sing anything you want to hear.”

Long Ling looked at the accordion in her hand: “Can you teach me to play?”

The wandering poet bowed deeply: “I would be honored.”

Long Ling looked away and glanced at the distant port.

Even from such a distance, she could still see the flags hanging high on the distant watchtowers.

Intertwined gold and violet flowers, with the blade symbolizing royal rule in the middle, shone brightly in the sun.

She had seen it on Violet’s military coat, dazzling and eye-catching.

Violet was also very similar to the violet, proud to the point of being unparalleled.

Long Ling had originally planned to find an elf to deliver medicine to Violet, but it seemed that it was impossible.

She had to think of other ways.

On the cargo ship to the Livor Continent, Long Ling and the wandering poet learned to play the accordion.

After learning two simple nocturnes, Long Ling saw that the wandering poet was thinly clothed and had only been eating dry bread along the way, so she sent some gold coins to sponsor the other party’s travel expenses.

The wandering poet happily held the gold coins and thanked her and Modai repeatedly.

There had always been many grudges between dragons and dwarves.

Wearing cloaks made by elves made Long Ling and her mother look like they had the aura of elves.

In addition, there were elves who came out to work with them, so the dwarves did not suspect too much.

They sold the cheap alcohol purchased from the cargo ship to the local dwarves at a high price.

After the cargo ship was emptied, they could pick up new goods and then return to the elven homeland.

Modai placed their luggage in the purchased manor and took the elves to buy the magic stones and lanterns needed for prayer.

Magical fireworks were left for Long Ling to purchase.

Modai gave Long Ling the address she had used for procurement in previous years and told her that she could report her name if anything happened.

Long Ling took the note given by her mother, with several bags of heavy gold coins in her backpack.

The Livor Continent was said to have many flying thieves.

These flying thieves were agile and could steal gold coins without anyone knowing.

There were also wandering mobs who would rob people when there was a chance.

These things had not happened since she came to this world.

Even in the town of Lipa, which was under Violet’s jurisdiction, she had not heard of such things.

Even if those flying thieves were caught, they would be sentenced to have their hands cut off or be sentenced to many years of hard labor, completely eradicating the hidden danger of rampant flying thieves.

It was not necessary to worry about safety when walking on the street.

This was also why Gris Harbor had far surpassed other cities in terms of commercial development.

In a sense, a governor like Violet, who was born into the royal family and was able to carefully manage the local area, was very rare on any continent.

Long Ling sighed silently in her heart, holding the bag of gold coins tightly with both hands.

This was her first time doing business, so she had to be careful, paying attention to the passing street signs and following the instructions on the note.

There were many blacksmith shops on the roadside, all run by dwarves.

They were small and stout and could directly take out the burning red iron blocks from the iron furnace with their bare hands and start forging.

The sparks that splashed out landed on their skin, as if they had landed on hard slate, and they would not be injured at all.

Many foreign merchants came here to purchase weapons, but Long Ling was not here to buy things from the dwarves, but to buy magical fireworks from the witch who opened a shop here.

The dwarves were bold and unrestrained, and the house rent was relatively cheaper than in other cities.

There were also no taxes.

It was said that it was because they were not good at arithmetic, so many witches were willing to open shops here.

Long Ling knocked on the door of the magic fireworks shop.

A witch wearing a large black cloak greeted her.

She had a thin face, sharp and cold eyes, and a slender and straight figure.

She looked very powerful, not at all like a weak mage.

There was a hole in the pointed hood, and the ends of her long, smooth black hair were scorched and exploded.

It was unknown what dangerous thing she had just been doing.

The witch casually patted the dust off her hood and looked at her with some doubt in her black eyes: “An elf?”

Long Ling thought of the elven cloak she was wearing:

“I am Ms. Modai’s daughter.

Are you Ms. Carter?

I’m here to pick up the custom-made magical fireworks.”

The witch looked at her expressionlessly.

It was rare to see such a polite little dragon.

She put the hood back on her head: “Come in with me.”

Long Ling followed behind her and walked in.

The shop was filled with black smoke and had just experienced a disaster.

The cauldron was overturned and had a hole in it.

The reagent bottles had exploded.

The surrounding walls were splattered with various unknown reagents.

She saw half a bat’s wing, the remaining scorched snake skin of a poisonous snake, and a small half of a lizard’s tail in the remains.

It smelled pungent and spicy.

Long Ling’s heart couldn’t help but become tense.

She hugged her backpack tightly.

Was this really a legitimate shop selling fireworks?

“Don’t mind those, they’re just some experimental waste.”

The witch bent down and opened the side door.

The magical fireworks were actually neatly classified and carefully labeled with pictures.

The witch pointed to Long Ling with her staff: “This year’s magical fireworks ordered by the elves are ready.
You come to check the goods and pay the balance to me.”

Long Ling had no experience coming here for the first time: “How do I check the goods?”

The witch casually picked up two types of fireworks and closed the door to the warehouse: “Follow me, we’ll go to the magic extension space.”

The witch’s pace was neither fast nor slow.

After walking to a special room, she used the staff to tap the magic rune stone next to her.

When the magic array was activated, the surroundings suddenly turned black.

The door behind her clicked shut, and Long Ling suddenly became nervous, her palms sweating.

Thinking of the animal remains she had just seen, her face suddenly turned pale.

With a crackling sound, a match was suddenly lit.

The witch’s fair and slender fingers gathered around the flame, and her dark eyes looked at her: “What are you afraid of?

I won’t eat you.

Dragon heart slices are a bit dry when fried.

I just want to make money now.”

She lit two magical fireworks one by one.

The fireworks were fleeting, and a bang, bang, bang sound appeared.

One firework continuously released ribbons of different colors, while the other firework released light points of different colors, showing various elven totems.

Long Ling breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the other party might be deliberately scaring her.

These specially made magical fireworks did not have any sparks, only some light, and would not cause harm to the forest.

They did seem to be prepared for the elves.

Long Ling counted silently in her heart.

There were one hundred ribbons, and two hundred light points.

There were no duds in the middle, just like what her mother said.

Long Ling nodded: “I’ve checked the goods.”

The witch led Long Ling out of the room: “Give me the balance.

There are a total of one hundred boxes of magical fireworks.

I’ll find someone to help you move them to Modai’s warehouse.”

Long Ling handed her the bag of gold coins.

The witch weighed it in her hand and put it into the counter to collect it.

The witch looked at Long Ling and thought she was a novice: “You wait for me in the store.
I’ll find someone to move the goods.”

Long Ling sat on a chair, waiting for the witch to return.

She saw that there were many candles of various shapes on the counter in this store.

She didn’t know what they were for, so she was holding one in her hand and admiring it.

Long Ling’s peripheral vision suddenly saw that the witch had arranged for someone to come over.

She turned around, thinking that she would also come over to check the quantity, but suddenly found that the witch was talking to someone else.

Long Ling saw the other woman’s side face was a bit familiar, so she couldn’t help but feel a little curious.

She looked at it for a while and found that they didn’t say a few words before hugging each other.

The black robe on the witch was tightened by slender fingers, and fair fingers drilled into the wide robe like swimming fish, and cherry red lips leaned over to the witch’s lips.

Long Ling’s eyes couldn’t help but widen.

In the next second, the woman in a magenta dress was knocked away and slammed to the ground with a thud.

Long Ling suddenly saw the woman’s face clearly—Lorraine, Violet’s cousin.

She thought she was seeing things and couldn’t help but stand up and walk to the door to look again.

It really was Lorraine.

How embarrassing, maybe she should pretend she didn’t see it.

Long Ling saw Lorraine struggling a few times but couldn’t get up from the ground.

She didn’t know if the witch’s strength was too great.

Thinking that the other party was Violet’s cousin, and she just happened to want to send Violet the medicine to treat her leg injury, Long Ling quickly walked over and helped Lorraine up from the ground:

“Lorraine, are you okay?”

Lorraine was suddenly helped up by someone.

Feeling the strawberry pheromones of the Alpha, she turned her head and saw Long Ling:

“I’m okay, it doesn’t hurt at all.

Long Ling, why are you here?

Isn’t Violet with you?”

Lorraine felt that she had lost face and covered her face embarrassedly, for fear that Violet would see her embarrassing side.

The witch glanced at Lorraine and turned away.

Long Ling curved her lips:

“I came here with my mother to do some business.
Why are you with the witch?”

Lorraine laughed awkwardly:

“What a coincidence, Her Majesty asked me to visit the State of Niharayaxi and just happened to pass by here.

Carter is an old friend of mine, so I came to say hello.”

Long Ling was suddenly silent.

Your way of saying hello is really special.

Lorraine’s eyes glanced around several times, not seeing Violet, and couldn’t help but ask again: “Where’s Violet?”

Violet treated her little Alpha dragon as if she were the apple of her eye, treasuring her so much in the manor that she wouldn’t let anyone touch her.

Why did she suddenly appear here?

A trace of sadness flashed in Long Ling’s eyes: “Violet and I broke up.”

Broke up?

Could it be that Violet had angered her little fiancee and run away?

That arrogant ghost was really tight-lipped, not even telling her.

Lorraine had been in politics for many years and had developed the ability to remain calm and understanding.

She said considerately: “Then I’ll help you talk to her.

How could she be willing to be fierce to such a good little dragon?

Don’t be sad, Aunt Lorraine will definitely stand up for you.”

Long Ling shook her head slightly:

“Violet and I terminated our engagement.

We may not see each other again, so I wanted to ask you to help me send her a medicine to treat her leg injury.

It was made by the high priest of the elves and will definitely cure Violet’s leg injury.”

Lorraine’s mind was racing.

She narrowed her eyes and said apologetically:

“Long Ling, I may not be able to help you now.
I haven’t completed my mission yet and can’t leave here until three days later.”

Long Ling hesitated for a moment:

“Can I leave it with you first and have you send it to Violet when you go back?”

Lorraine declined: “The people around me are too complicated.

What if someone accidentally steals such a precious medicine?

Why don’t you put it away first?

When I’m about to leave, I’ll go to your place to find you, and then you can give it to me, okay?”

Long Ling looked at Lorraine and felt that what she said made some sense.

The potion in this bottle was something her two mothers had worked so hard to get, and the elven high priest had painstakingly refined it for her for a month.

It was too precious and could not be lost.

She agreed: “Then I’ll wait for you for three days.”

An elegant smile appeared on Lorraine’s face:

“Okay, but there are too many people here and it’s not convenient.
Where are you staying now?”

Long Ling nodded and hummed softly:

“I’m staying at my mother’s manor in the suburbs.
You can come here to find me.”

She picked up a portable feather pen and wrote her current address on a piece of paper and handed it to Lorraine.

Lorraine put away the address and eagerly returned to the embassy after watching Long Ling leave.

She picked up the magic communication crystal and immediately contacted Violet.

Lorraine deliberately exchanged pleasantries and said: “Violet, why did you quarrel with your fiancee?
Did she run away?”

Violet looked at her with cold eyes: “It’s none of your business.”

“You are a duchess.

As long as you send out the guards, won’t it be easy to catch your fiancee back?”

Lorraine crossed her legs, enjoying the show, and chuckled:

“I can lend you some manpower.

How about considering it as returning the favor of lending me your troops last time?”

She was smoking in front of Violet today, but Violet didn’t care.

It seemed that she was really grieving for her fiancee.

Violet frowned slightly: “Stop causing trouble for me.”

Lorraine curled her lips:

“I just want to say to be more gentle.

Alpha creatures still need to be coaxed.

If you don’t listen to me, look, you’re not trying to catch her now.

What if your fiancee gets together with someone else?”

Violet said stubbornly: “Am I short of an Alpha?”

It was as if she wasn’t the one who angrily issued a decree to kill the elves.

Lorraine said with a smile: “I originally had a surprise for you today.
If you really don’t care, then I won’t send it.”

Violet clenched her fingers and immediately asked: “Where is she?”

Lorraine couldn’t help but laugh out loud:

“You can consider it a returned favor.

Don’t lose her next time.

I worked so hard to stabilize her.”

Lorraine wanted to make fun of her a few more times, but Violet had already hung up the call.