Learn About the Situation...and a Surprise?

Draco Conquistador spent his time recomposing himself, his aids turning into sexy figures that make all the top models he was aware of look like amateur beauty pageant entries wasn't helping much. Before he knew it, Cruze had returned and gave him the bow of respect that was customary for dragons within the game's setting. She then presented him with a scroll, without lifting her head or arms, using her impressively prehensile tail (a feature of dragons Draco had stumbled upon in is study of dragon tail types) to present him with the scroll she had filled out during her mission.

Draco shifted to chosen humanoid draconic form, a towering eight-foot tall man with a toned and muscular physique, but was still quite naked and his groin was on full display (he would have to rectify that in the foreseeable future), and took the scroll from her and opened it to see what it said. The scroll had the equivalent of 3 point font in order to cover the dense collection of data Cruze had put together, but he could make everything out as if it were several times that size thanks to his incredible dragon eyesight. Looking over the information he paused about a third of the way down the scroll, "So, there seems to be a dwarf community of seemingly little significance nearby, see about replicating all the pertinent data and get it to Xiomara, I want to hear her suggestions on how to approach this potential opportunity. Also, once we've managed to take control of the immediate area, I would like for you to have Imposter Dragons taking the place of that same community to keep an eye on things and get a read on their supply schedules, we can figure out what resources they have immediate access to with a bit more scouting. See to it that your four best Chameleon Scouts thoroughly investigate the community before our ****, I want to know as much about the history of that community itself as every single creature living there, leave no stone unturned in this endeavor. Chances are, what we learn with this first encounter will decide the fate and direction of the phase of our expansion plans."

"Of course, my lord," responds Cruze, "how should the initial scouts go in?"

"Two posing as figures visiting the community and two camouflaged to observe when most think they aren't looking, it will also give us a read on which members of the community might present the most immediate threat to our operations before the campaign has begun. Prioritize those with seemingly greater perceptive skills than others, in that regard, and see what you can do about acquiring samples of those that are most perceptive or naturally combat ready, this especially includes the crafters, I intend to use those samples for the ritual that will create new units with those same aspects so we can have even more highly capable dragons."

"At your command, my master," said Cruze before slipping out of the chamber silently. Draco hadn't been lying, it's just that the ritual required both his Military tree and Dragon's Presence tree to be at certain levels; thanks to one of the cards he had gotten before all this, his Military tree was at an appropriate level to unlock the ritual, but his Dragon's Presence tree still needed some work. He also needed his Academic advisor to be at a certain point in her development, which the card that upgraded all the advisors took care of already.

That reminded him, he hadn't checked on his ability to advance his trees yet. The moment he thought about advancing his Build trees the menu for which tree to select appeared before him. He chuckled to himself and chose the Dragon's Presence tree before taking not of the advancement points he had, the top right confirmed there was just barely enough to build out his chosen tree for this endeavor to the point he required for the ritual, so he began building his advancement in the tree in that direction. Once he was done and hit the confirm changes, the screen disappeared and he suddenly felt the effects of the changes he implemented in a tree specifically tied to his character. This was going to be fun.