The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Damn it!

Why is life so difficult? Young people want to create their own careers, but they find that all the territory has already been taken by the old guard.

It's either a strong alliance or family power. Come to think of it, among the four dragons surrounding Atlantia, only the black dragon is a true commoner.

You tell me, if Atlantia doesn't attack him, who else would it attack?

The Swamp Dragon is not a descendant of two Swamp Dragons. He is the child of a Mountain Dragon and an Ocean Dragon, and their only child, inheriting his mother's territory.

Or rather, reclaiming his mother's territory!

These are all things Atlantia learned after working hard and the bear people opened up a batch of historical materials treasured by the druids to him, which recorded the origin story of the Swamp Dragon Sesthesis.

Including his mother, an Ocean Dragon killed by a team of brave adventurers composed of Eastern humans and professionals from the Dwarf Kingdom.

The specific details of the event were not recorded in the bark paper, but there was a rough assessment of the strength of the Swamp Dragon's mother, with a challenge rating of at least level 15.

And possessing a certain druid level, considered one of their own in the druid camp. Seeing this, Atlantia understood that the death of the Ocean Dragon was definitely not simple.

Scheming and calculation were indispensable.

Just as the bear people said, this world is not a good place. Although it seems that the druids have established a considerable natural magic network structure on the continent, the gods in the sky and the demons and devils underground will not quietly watch the druids grow stronger.

The God of Nature, Obadai, and the Goddess of the Forest, Ehlonna, are the only two gods in the natural camp, but they don't have a good relationship because of their competition for the power of the natural domain.

The two gods, who should have been on the side of the druids, even stood on the side of the gods because the druids tried to create more gods to divide the cake, ignoring the druids' efforts to make the cake bigger.

The appearance of the Elemental Dragon God and the Emerald Dream proves that there is more than one transmigrator in this universe. It is obvious that the druid system is a plan proposed by a transmigrator predecessor.

Atlantia doesn't know whether this predecessor is lurking behind the scenes, waiting for the day of becoming a god, or has already fallen on the road of struggle, but he has decided to be more cautious.

Lest he fall prematurely before he builds the natural empire in his mind and ascends to the supreme Dragon God position.

He knows that he has been very lucky since birth. Although he didn't get any golden fingers, being reincarnated as a powerful Ocean Dragon is already a golden finger compared to the predecessors who were reincarnated as humans.

An ordinary Ocean Dragon grows to the Ancient Dragon stage, with a challenge rating of about 24 or 25, while Atlantia is the Elemental Dragon King among the Ocean Dragons.

When he grows to the Ancient Dragon stage, his challenge rating should exceed level 30!

Of course, guiding out the potential of the Elemental Dragon King is very difficult, requiring excellent predecessors and masters to guide, and providing a large amount of materials with abundant magic power to supplement the dragon's body's growth needs.

Here, I want to specifically mention the guidance and teaching of the bear person Gai'ogai. If it weren't for Gai'ogai, he might have embarked on the path of a wild dragon without parental guidance.

In two years, he can rely on the wisdom of a transmigrator to pull up a team and establish a kingdom full of miscellaneous soldiers, but it is definitely not comparable to the current Atlantis Kingdom.

The land area of Atlantis exceeds 200,000 square kilometers, although most of it is non-arable desert, wasteland, and wetlands.

But Atlantia now has 30,000 subjects, 1 million mu of farmland, and an annual grain output of 30,000 tons of wheat, 60,000 tons of black beans, 180,000 tons of pasture, 50,000 tons of fruits, and 50,000 tons of nuts.

20,000 tons of mutton, 30,000 tons of fish, 50,000 tons of pork, and 50,000 tons of rabbit meat!

6,000 centaurs, 4,000 minotaurs, 10,000 fishmen, 1,500 snake people, 1,500 lizardmen, 7,000 kobolds, and a small number of beastmen such as wild boar people, rat people, werewolves, tiger people, and bear people have joined the kingdom.

The food consumed by a population of 30,000 people in a year consumes 70% of the kingdom's production capacity. Races such as minotaurs and centaurs are born with strong biological challenge ratings, which also leads to their very large food intake.

Two years ago, Atlantia estimated that 100,000 mu of farmland could be reclaimed through the transformation of the wasteland. Now the maximum potential is 500,000 mu!

The former 100,000 mu of farmland has basically been realized, although 50,000 mu of them are planted with pasture such as alfalfa, they can also be classified as farmland.

The main reason for the improvement of the wasteland is not because of the water of the Southwest River, but because Atlantia dug a ditch from east to west, guiding the water of the three rivers in the rainforest into the Southwest River.

Then dig ditches from the Southwest River, and most of the wasteland has water!

Atlantia will also exercise his water control ability through rainfall. It is expected that in three years, the wasteland will be completely transformed into mountains, forests, and farmland.

It's just that Atlantia doesn't understand why the bear people don't take action to improve the situation in the wasteland. Obviously, as long as he is willing to take action, he can do the same things that Atlantia is doing now.

Atlantia mobilized 30,000 people to transform the wetlands and wastelands, but the bear people only need three people, himself, the vine woman, and the old urchin. Atlantia mobilized tens of thousands of people to dig ditches.

And these things can actually be done by the old urchin alone!

Just as Atlantia can send the water vapor from the wetlands to the wastelands, the old urchin can also control the earth elements to change the terrain and create a ditch from east to west.

But they didn't do this, which actually led to the natural magic network between the Bearman Forest and the rainforest not forming a whole. Compared to the forest, the rainforest seems to have no archdruid presiding over it.

The natural magic network exists, but the path sizes are uneven, and they are crooked, like very clumsy works, even rougher than the natural magic network transformation guided by Atlantia in the Hexi area.

Just as Atlantia calls the wasteland the Hexi area, the wetlands the Hedong area, the newly occupied gnoll grassland has also been renamed, called the Hebei area!

The reason is naturally because the water flow from the three rivers is injected. At the same time, Atlantia arranged for people to dredge the Southwest River channel, plant trees to reinforce the riverbanks, so that the Southwest River can withstand the fire element environment attracted by the Purgatory Dragon Soul.

Officially rushing into the desert!

And the grassland happens to be located north of this section of the Liuli River channel covered with stone slabs, so it is called the Hebei area.

If you want to turn the sand back into soil that can grow plants, you naturally need a lot of the source of life, water. Atlantia cannot let the precious water resources just seep into the ground.

Therefore, he personally took action, using high-temperature lightning breath to melt the sand channels dug out by the dependents into crystals, and then let the dwarf silver ring be responsible for adding a lid to the waterway to prevent water evaporation.

Only specific water intakes are left to facilitate irrigation of plants planted in the desert.

The desert is not completely devoid of plants. Centaurs found a shrub that grows yellow berries similar to sea buckthorn. The taste is very sour, but it is already a very rare food in the desert.

There is also a plant that Atlantia was overjoyed to see.

That is wild watermelon!

This is a water supplement carried by desert races. Wild watermelons certainly don't have the red flesh of watermelons, and even the size is not large. There are also dense watermelon seeds inside.

But Atlantia still regards wild watermelon as a treasure!

Before crossing over, Atlantia's favorite thing was to blow on the fan, eat watermelon just taken out of the refrigerator, and watch TV. Childhood memories and taste.

After being a dragon for two years, Atlantia feels that he is becoming more and more like a dragon, and no longer the human he once was. He can accept himself becoming a dragon.

But he doesn't allow himself to be just a dragon. Maybe the greed of the dragon has penetrated his soul. He wants to maintain his own personality, and not be influenced by this dragon body's thoughts.

The higher his druid level, the longer he spends time with the young druids in the forest, Atlantia feels that his humanity before crossing over is still preserved in his body, so he won't become a cold dragon.

"Are you very proud of building a kingdom with a population of 30,000? If you want me to agree to adjust the training, first the grassland and then the White Wolf King."

"Aren't you just trying to purify the grassland so that you can use the land of the grassland to plant pasture and raise more meat such as sheep, pigs, horses, rabbits, and moose, and then make it easier for you to continue to expand the kingdom's population and combat power."

"Is that so?"

The bear man's sudden truth caught Atlantia off guard.

"This... how is it possible? The drainage project in the wetlands is still ongoing. There are 150,000 square kilometers of land there, nearly half of which is suitable for reclamation into farmland."

"As long as there are enough people, I can even reclaim 100 million mu of farmland on this land!"

Faced with Atlantia's bragging, the bear man didn't want to expose it.

10,000 square kilometers of land is 15 million mu of farmland. In theory, it can indeed reclaim 100 million mu, but in actual operation, the soil environment that needs to be transformed to reach 100 million mu of farmland is very complicated.

Atlantia can reclaim 900,000 mu of farmland in the wetlands, which is basically all the farmland area that can be reclaimed at present, and the yield of wheat and black beans planted is not even as good as that of the Hexi area.

It is because the environment here is too humid, and wheat and black beans cannot adapt to the environment here. It also takes a lot of time to select suitable improved varieties.

Even if Atlantia asked the druids to help with a rough selection, compared with the seeds brought over a year ago, the yield of the currently selected seeds has only increased by two or three catties per mu.

Screening and breeding are very tedious and complex processes, and they also require a little luck.

"You can use the slogan of 100 million mu to deceive your subjects. If you really don't feel the pressure of grain, would you be so eager to develop the gnoll grassland?"

"The natural magic network there is very fragile. If you raise a large number of herbivores on it, it will only cause the grassland to rapidly degenerate into the original desert."

"The current problem should be, after leaving the White Wolf King's energy supply, how long can this grassland last before it degenerates back into a desert?"

"You stay in the forest and honestly purify the soul of the White Wolf King. As for the tasks of maintaining the grassland ecology and purification, I plan to hand them over to the Eagle King and the others to carry out."

Attilan frowned, but it wasn't that he looked down on the Eagle King and the others.

"If this task is handed over to them, can they really do it?"

The bear-man looked at Attilan with a slightly sarcastic smile.

"Did easily defeating the White Wolf King with the restrained Purification Lightning give you the illusion that only you are the chosen one, and that only you have mastered the ability to purify demon pollution?"

Huh?

Attilan raised his eyebrows and looked at the bear-man with a strange expression.

It seemed that the bear-man had always been praising him, dangling him forward with the carrot of a divine position. Why is he starting to suppress him now?

"Your Purification Lightning is a very efficient and convenient purification method, but it doesn't mean that the Purification Faction has researched for so many years without any results."

"Weren't you very puzzled before as to why we clearly could handle the imbalance of water and drought in the desert and wetlands, but we didn't take action?"

Attilan nodded repeatedly and praised:

"That's right, if Master, Jaina, and Old Urchin take action, I think even the Southwestern Great Desert could be transformed back into a lush, green environment with flowing water."

The bear-man looked deeply towards the southwest.

"The natural aura of the forest's operation will conceal the aura of treasures under the desert. This is something that those forces who desire to obtain the treasures will absolutely not allow. If we re-cover the desert, it will only make them think that the druids want to monopolize the treasures."

"So the desert cannot be touched. Your involvement in the grassland has already crossed that line, making them think that the druids want to join the treasure competition. I don't want the treasures, so I don't plan to let you go deep into the desert."

"However, each generation has its own story to experience. After so many years of growth and cultivation, they have also reached the stage where they need to go out and gain experience."

"Governing the grassland is their test. You cannot provide them with help. I want to see if they can build the magic network of the grassland in a decent manner."

Attilan suddenly widened his eyes.

"So, the magic network of the rainforest was actually built by some druids cultivated by you, Jaina, and Old Urchin. Is their graduation project a bit too terrible?"

The bear-man slowly shook his head.

"To be able to operate normally under the impact of the swamp dragon's water veins, don't underestimate the crooked magic network. It's already a very good achievement."

"I know that you plan to sort out the structure of the rainforest's magic network, maintain the rainforest's current ability to resist the impact of the water veins, reduce the area of the rainforest, and expand the kingdom's farmland."

"Your idea is very good, but I advise you not to move the rainforest's magic network casually. Once you break it, I'm afraid you won't be able to restore it."

The corner of Attilan's mouth twitched. Isn't this just like code? No matter how it runs, as long as it can run, don't change it. Maybe after changing it, it won't work?

"If you want to try, you can also regard the transformation of the rainforest's magic network as your graduation project. The magic power contained in the magic network needs to involve the rainforest's earth veins, water veins, plants, and animals."

"Do you have confidence?"

No!

To integrate a set of magic networks involving the above concepts, the druid knowledge of the animal, plant, and elemental schools needs to be raised to the top level. What virtue and ability does Attilan, an 8th-level druid, have?

The knowledge mastered by an 8th-level Life Druid is approximately equivalent to that of a 5th-level Animal and 5th-level Plant Druid. Even if Attilan is given another ten years, he will not be able to do it.

Less than that. A top-level and specialized 16th-level druid needs even more than 50 years. This is already a talent among druids.

Those who become legends in twenty years are not included in the statistics.

Using the correlation of life, Attilan felt that he should be able to complete this exam question within fifty years, after all, it involved a rainforest of nearly 150,000 square kilometers.

In fact, Attilan had already encroached on some of the land on the periphery of the rainforest, but he did not replace the rainforest with farmland, but transformed it into an orchard. Although the natural magic power provided by fruit trees is not as good as that of forest trees.

But compared to farmland, it definitely provides more natural magic power.

Since the grassland was handed over to the druids by the bear-man, the main direction of the kingdom's attack is the rainforest and the Black Dragon Swamp. The fish-man Fischer is right. Similarly, when transforming the environment, everyone will definitely prefer the relatively abundant rainforest and swamp.

Don't look at the White Wolf King creating a grassland, but even insects have not reproduced much in the grassland, let alone form a complete ecological chain.

Moreover, the fragile grass will not grow back for who knows how long after being eaten by horses and sheep, unlike wetlands, where one crop can grow after another.

Why is the desert barren, but Attilan wants to develop towards the desert rather than towards the more humid east?

Because the further east Attilan goes, the further he is from the bear-man and the closer he is to the swamp dragon. Attilan doesn't want to run into this dragon, which is the most popular on the entire continent.

The dragon pearl holder can sense the dragon pearls in other dragons, which is the resonance from the dragon pearls, but the dragon pearls can become the upgrade materials for other dragon pearls, and even dragons are the best upgrade materials for dragon pearls.

Just asking if you're afraid?

If he is caught by the swamp dragon and killed to upgrade his dragon pearl, Attilan will have to die halfway before the emperor's business is halfway done. He believes that if he wants to live long and achieve his established goals, the most important thing is to be cautious.

"Attilan, what are you worried about?"

The bear-man seemed to see through Attilan's inner fear, put the crystal ball filled with shimmering green natural magic power on the table, took out an apple, took a bite, and asked.

"Naturally, it's the swamp dragon. I don't want to be taken by him to upgrade the dragon pearl."

"Have you forgotten that the dragon pearls shaped by this method will carry the resentment and curse of the killed dragon? It may not be affected usually."

"But when you are in crisis, these resentments and curses will become the last apple that crushes you. Sestis is a very wise dragon. Although he is not a druid, he is also influenced by his mother's druid philosophy."

"Without sufficient natural knowledge to support him, his lake could not be shaped so perfectly, helping him raise a large number of dependents and standing on the continent for hundreds of years."

"In fact, in the last hundred years or so, through the changes in the lake water, I can feel that his desire to expand is getting smaller and smaller, except for the resentment against the Eastern Kingdom that killed his mother."

"As a result, the war between them has never stopped. The boundaries in the other three directions have not changed for nearly a hundred years, so you don't have to worry about being killed by him to take the pearl."

"With his strength, he doesn't look down on the dragon pearl you are nurturing at all. Maybe the quality of the water treasure pearls nurtured by the river mussels in his dragon palace is not as good."

"Like the river mussel you cultivated, you seem to call her Mirage. Although the river mussels raised in Sestis's dragon palace do not have the unique hallucinogenic ability, their ability to control water is also very outstanding, and they can even transform into beautiful water spirit forms."

"Those pearls are the materials he uses to upgrade the dragon pearls."

Seeing the bear-man describe it so clearly, Attilan widened his eyes and asked:

"Master, have you been to his dragon palace?"

"I went there once before. We can barely be considered to have some friendship. Sestis is a more domineering and upright dragon king, and has a relatively unique emotion for marine dragons."

"If I hadn't discovered you first, maybe you would have had the opportunity to grow up in his dragon palace and learn from him how to become an excellent elemental master."

Attilan gritted his teeth. The bear-man is like this. He clearly has a lot of good things, but he hides them. It's like a reward program. Only when you meet the requirements can the corresponding reward be conveyed to you.

"So I can safely open up the territory to the east? I don't have to worry about that black dragon?"

The bear-man threw the apple core into the trash can and said with a smile:

"Whether you need to worry about the black dragon specifically, you need to wait until you have purified the soul of the White Wolf King before I think you have the qualifications to understand the news in this regard."

"What do you think?"

After speaking, the bear-man handed the fully charged crystal ball to Attilan.

See, it's really like a reward program!

"Understood, I'll start now."

Looking at the wolf-shaped soul in the crystal ball, baring its teeth and wanting to jump out and bite him, Attilan just smiled and started the White Wolf King's electrotherapy.

"It's time to let you see the power of the Lightning Emperor!"

Attilan felt that the career path he planned for himself was indeed a little similar to that of the Lightning Emperor. If his lightning expanded its use a bit.

In fact, it is possible to integrate vitality into it to achieve the lightning treatment ability similar to that of the bear-man.

The bear-man uses five kinds of lightning to temper his body. This is a process of destruction and creation. This process is achieved through lightning. It can be said that the bear-man's mastery of lightning has risen to a rather terrifying level.

Attilan's lightning breath can prevent the healing of life. Similarly, this lightning energy can also be exercised to achieve the effect of catalyzing treatment.

The Five Thunders that the bear-man cultivates is the secret technique created by the ancestor of the marine dragons. Naturally, it has an inextricable relationship with the lightning breath of the marine dragons.

The bear-man did not teach him the Five Thunders of Control, but asked him to put more effort into the influence of lightning breath on vitality, and after reaching the standard, he would naturally teach him the next step of cultivation.

Therefore, he only gave him a little information about the combination of lightning breath and life control cultivation, and let him ponder it himself. Even if it wastes time, this process of thinking can bring accumulation and growth to Attilan.