Red dragon: in charge of natural disasters

Outskirts of North Wind Castle, Iron Dragon Wing Palace.

Olivia stood outside the gate, looking quite excited, like a praised child.

"Casius, I have convinced the elders of the tribe, and they agreed to send people to us."

"Sorry, ma'am, His Majesty will not accept an audience now."

Captain Ekmon of the Tiefling Guards held out his spear and stopped the familiar lady.

Ekmon had experienced the sleep of a red dragon and knew how dangerous the situation inside was.

The "morning mood" of His Majesty alone was enough to bring disastrous consequences to mortals.

"But."

Olivia's brows frowned slightly, revealing an unconcealable loss.

In order to persuade the silver dragon elders in the tribe to help this former enemy, she spent a lot of time and effort to argue.

Until the end, the great elder Osedro, who was still recovering from his injuries, spoke in person, and they accepted Olivia's request and decided to send forces to assist the Burning Empire.

"As long as I can defeat the demon, I am willing to form an alliance with the evil dragon."

These are his original words.

For this ancient silver dragon who respects order, the abyss demon, a creature of pure chaos, will always be their enemy.

Just as Olivia was thinking, a familiar voice came from behind her.

"Ms. Olivia, His Majesty has fallen asleep."

Olivia turned her head and looked at the huge figure with a surprised expression.

"Sir Rump?"

The Ogre Archmage bowed slightly and said politely: "But His Majesty told me in advance that he thanks you for everything you have done for the Empire."

Rump stretched out his staff, and a portal leading to the Imperial Council Hall appeared in front of Olivia.

"His Majesty thinks that your contribution is enough. He hopes that you can enter the Imperial Senate and discuss cooperation matters in detail with the ministers.

In addition, His Majesty has browsed your latest plan and expressed his approval, but some changes need to be made in the specific implementation."

"Thank you."

Olivia showed a hint of joy on her face.

The Imperial Senate is the real power organ, with the right to draft various policies and bills.

Entering the Senate is equivalent to entering the upper echelons of the Burning Empire.

Olivia believes that she has brought a better future to this country with her persistence - and also brought changes to Cassius that tend to order and kindness.

But in fact, this is not only Cassius's "reward" to Olivia, but also his attempt to check and balance the evil forces at the top of the empire.

"Ms. Olivia, please follow me."

Rump bowed slightly and made a standard "please" gesture - but such etiquette appeared on an ogre, which seemed a bit absurd.

"Okay."

But before stepping into the portal, Olivia turned her head and stared at the familiar palace.

After hesitating for a moment, she whispered: "His Majesty Cassius, will he sleep for a long time?"

Olivia's worry is not unreasonable. For ordinary things, a dragon's sleep may be their lifetime.

As for a "special" dragon like Cassius, even the Silver Dragon didn't know how long he would sleep.

Ten years?

Thirty years?

Or fifty years?

She didn't know why she cared about how long an "enemy" would sleep, but this was undoubtedly an important question for the Silver Dragon.

Rumple said in a deep voice: "Ms. Olivia, please don't worry. His Majesty said that he will wake up in a year."

"So soon?"

Olivia breathed a sigh of relief, and the expression on her face became a little more relaxed.

Everything seemed to be developing in accordance with her expectations.

The Silver Dragon was about to enter the decision-making level of the empire and try its best to bring order and kindness to this empire.

She looked at the palace again, brushed her long silver hair behind her ears, and for some reason, her blue-gray eyes showed a hint of expectation.

"Cassius, wish you a good dream."

Olivia said in a barely perceptible voice, and then stepped into the portal leading to the Imperial Council Hall.

The cold wind blew over the Anzeta wilderness, and the snow in the north gradually melted. A few months passed quickly, and it was already close to March.

In fact, in the first period after the Starfallers left, the empire lost a lot of vitality for development.

Without those tireless and crazy guys, many factories were short of manpower, and many goods were unsalable, and the development of science and technology slowed down.

However, soon, the Chief Minister of the Empire introduced many policies such as the "Imperial Guarantee Act", "Economic Boosting Strategy", and "Foreign Trade Regulations" to improve the treatment of workers, expand channels for foreign exports, and find a wider market for the empire.

The Burning Empire is a country that is still growing. The departure of the players has only caused limited impact, and the war in the south is still going on, and orders for arms are continuous.

Without the help of players, although the speed of the empire's development has slowed down slightly compared to before, the scale of industry is still gradually expanding, and the people of the empire are becoming more and more prosperous visibly.

More and more Anzeta people come to the city from the countryside to pursue the so-called "imperial dream", hoping to become the rich people and dragon blood nobles in the propaganda.

For the vast majority of workers in the empire, the departure of the Starfallers actually made their lives better - at least those employers could not arbitrarily offer low prices.

In terms of external expansion, the Burning Empire also achieved considerable results.

Earl Jesse Swan led the South Continent Vanguard to gain a firm foothold in the Katpa region, built an indestructible fortress, and firmly controlled this land in the hands of the Empire.

Not only that, Tahan City also became a post station for the Empire's Southern Continent Group, with caravans constantly stationed there for trade, and the city became quite prosperous.

They even extended their tentacles to Thrace in the south, built a fortress at the border between the Empire and the Kingdom of Thrace, and often sent scouts to explore.

But Thrace suffered from the war in the south and dared not speak out against the Empire's probing.

And the Empire's conquest of the Fire Elemental Plane was also progressing smoothly.

The Fire Elemental Plane Empire Legion led by Earl Serkan also controlled the two former fire giant cities of Pig Iron and Black Iron, and had tens of thousands of fire elemental creatures under his command: Salamanders, Fire Dwarves, Lava Dragons and even Fire Giants became the people of the Empire.

Not only that, he also achieved indirect colonization of the Brass Fortress.

Although the Brass Fortress is still the territory of the Fire Dwarves in name, it has actually become the Empire's outpost in the Fire Elemental Plane.

Most of the diligent Fire Dwarves work for the Dragonblood nobles and big businessmen from the Empire, but this is all so-called "free employment".

Later, the war between the Giant Spirit Empire and the Holy Flame Legion intensified, and the Empire took the opportunity to sell arms on both sides and made a lot of money.

They also sent troops to occupy a Fire Giant City that was captured and abandoned by the Holy Flame Legion, and named it "New North Wind Fort" - Earl Serkan is a pure North Wind Fort person.

In the Underdark, the war of the Burning Empire has made the natives of the underground world, such as the drow elves, gray dwarves, marsh bears, and underground gnomes, tremble.

The city occupied by the Shadow Dragonborn Drow, the Black Wing, was ruthlessly destroyed by Earl Hart and his skeleton army, and all the Half Shadow Dragonborn Drow in the city were massacred.

The empire's army of skeletons and green-footed dragons and snakes swept like a torrent, causing the underground world to tremble.

Coupled with the rumors of the "Dragon of the Burning World", the destruction of Dragon Shadow City, and the death of Mortifil, the Burning Empire naturally became an existence that must not be provoked in the eyes of the underground residents.

Another imperial earl, Zaiko, signed a loose treaty with the gray dwarves who took the initiative to surrender, gave them very generous treatment, and spread these news to all parts of the Underdark.

The Upper Underdark was originally close to the surface and had large-scale contact with the surface races, not limited to trade, attacks and conquests.

Soon, several surrounding city-states expressed nominal submission to the empire, including the underground gnomes of Seko Rock City, the gray dwarves of Hoanso, and the ratmen of the underground kingdom.

Even the drow elves of Mosorlea City sent envoys, hoping to reach a temporary peace with the empire.

Even these evil and ambitious drow elves did not want to rashly provoke an empire with an undead army and red dragons.

In this way, with both kindness and force, the Empire's Underdark Expeditionary Corps occupied a large area of ​​land and became an emerging force that continued to expand in the Upper Underdark.

Gradually, not only in the Fianso continent, not only in the material plane, but also in the entire Erezegai world, the name of the Burning Empire gradually spread.

However, in the eyes of residents in different regions, the image of the Burning Empire is different.

It is a country of guns and cannons, a remote place where the north wind howls, an empire full of monsters, and the hometown of some annoying prime material guys.

Of course, there is one thing in common - it is an empire ruled by a powerful dragon. (End of this chapter)