The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Old Blind Eye's face was ashen as he pointed his spear at the elven ranks.

"Dragon Lord, I am willing to be the vanguard. I will surely skewer that arrogant elven general on my spear. These thousand-odd elves can't possibly sway the overall situation."

"When I spoke with the elven general earlier, I observed her surrounding soldiers. Nearly half were new recruits with little battlefield experience, relying entirely on elite mages and druids to support the battle line."

"As long as we break through their magical blockade, these elves will be sheep waiting to be slaughtered!"

Atlan smiled, pacifying Old Blind Eye.

"Don't be impatient. It's normal that you don't understand why the elves treat you so badly, because the Water Elf Kingdom and your centaurs once had a feud."

Back then, that barbaric Centaur King broke through all the way to the elven capital. Naturally, he couldn't have only harmed the elves of the capital. The elven villages and towns along the way suffered terribly.

Conversely, because of Firmwind Harbor's sturdy walls, the casualties in the capital were the smallest.

The Ranger General happened to be born in the era of the Centaur King's invasion. She still vividly remembers the humiliation of over a hundred years ago, so naturally, she won't have a good attitude towards centaurs.

"I will go personally. I can definitely make the elven general realize that both I and the Dwarf King are peace-loving rulers, and that the southwest region of the continent will, through the efforts of the Dwarf Kingdom, the Elven Kingdom, and the Atlantis Kingdom…"

"Become a harmonious and peaceful sanctuary!"

This elven general is the only land legion leader of the Water Elf Kingdom. Atlan used the halfling heroes he recruited in three halfling towns to form a caravan.

By selling soy sauce and silk to the south through the caravan, he learned a lot about the customs and political situation of the Water Elf Kingdom.

The Ranger General always says that her actions are for peace. Generally, those who say this are either shameless politicians or naive children.

Clearly, the Ranger General, who is only over a hundred years old, has reached her current position through strength, but she is not proficient in political tactics. Otherwise, the number of soldiers in her legion wouldn't be so small.

Shameless politicians would never bring just over a thousand people deep into the dangerous underground city. Their lives are much more valuable than those of a few thousand ordinary soldiers. How could they not bring more cannon fodder?

It's evident that she is indeed working for the safety of the Water Elf Kingdom.

Then, as long as he can make the Ranger General believe that he, Atlan, is also a peace-loving dragon, he can win her over to Atlan's camp. An elf who is over a hundred years old but still so simple.

Could Atlan not deceive her?

"Dwarf King, let's go."

Atlan and the Dwarf King both headed towards the elven camp, so the army would definitely have to partially shift towards the elven direction. Even if the elves didn't agree to form an alliance with them.

Now that the three parties were together, would the Blue Dragon let the elves go?

The Blue Dragon would definitely choose to eliminate all three of them.

Atlan, with his hundred dragon-vein guards, and the Dwarf King, with his three hundred griffon knight guards, marched grandly towards the elven position.

Everything was seen by the Blue Dragon.

"Who did you send? They can't even defeat a few centaurs and dwarves! We can't just watch the Ocean Dragon, dwarves, and elves form an alliance. We must stop the Dwarf King and the Ocean Dragon."

"This…"

Faced with the Blue Dragon's request, the Blue Dragonkin leader was quite embarrassed. The combat power of the Fire Gnomes had indeed declined, but they couldn't be underestimated. He couldn't possibly mobilize enough troops to attack Atlan and the Dwarf King.

Unless the Blue Dragon was willing to take action personally, after a moment of hesitation, the leader still spoke.

"Master, our troops are all resisting the Fire Gnomes' attacks. At most, we can only mobilize four hundred Blue Dragonkin, but with just four hundred people, it probably… might not be a match for the Dwarf King, who is like a god descending to earth, or the Ocean Dragon."

The Blue Dragon's eyes revealed a fierce light as he glared at the Blue Dragonkin leader.

"Are you saying that I should take action personally?"

The Blue Dragonkin leader immediately knelt on the ground.

"Master, even if I take action personally, I wouldn't be a match for that Ocean Dragon who is about to come of age. Moreover, he has the Dwarf King by his side."

"Only the wise, brave, and invincible Master can kill the Ocean Dragon!"

Atlan's size was close to thirteen meters, and the intense dragon aura he emitted made it clear to the Blue Dragon how strong Atlan's body was.

As an adult Blue Dragon, his dragon body was only barely fifteen meters, and this Ocean Dragon, who, based on aura perception, was at most in his youth, was thirteen meters long. How could the Blue Dragon not be wary of Atlan's abilities with such an exceptionally talented dragon?

The Blue Dragon was also very cautious. He didn't want to fight Atlan to a mutual defeat.

On the surface, there were indeed only these four forces vying for the treasure, but in the dark, there were also many who coveted the treasure but wanted to reap the benefits. The Blue Dragon had to ensure his own health.

Otherwise, even if he got the treasure, it would still be snatched away.

Atlan's expression changed.

"Ranger General, I hope that the three of us can temporarily combine our forces. This way, we can reduce casualties when facing the Fire Gnomes. Let's retreat to the oasis outside and discuss it in detail. What do you think?"

The Elven General quickly gave her answer.

"Okay."

After orderly retreating back to the surface, to the oasis occupied by Atlan, the Ranger General sized up the surrounding environment with some surprise.

"I didn't expect that the vegetation and vitality of this oasis would be so much stronger than the one I occupy."

Atlan said with a smile:

"I am, after all, a druid. Naturally, I hope that more green spaces will appear, so that more life can be nurtured."

Atlan didn't expect that the Blue Dragon would retreat so decisively, catching him off guard, but it also gave him a chance to show himself and win the elves over to his camp.

The Ranger General widened her eyes.

"You are a druid?"

"Yes, this oasis was originally similar in environment to the one occupied by the General. It was I who, in the half month since arriving here, responded to the surrounding natural energy and made a small change to the environment."

The elf looked at the lake with a diameter of over one hundred meters in the center of the oasis, and the tall poplar trees growing by the lake. She said with admiration:

"This is not a small change. With this lake, this oasis can at least support a thousand people. Desert lizards and sand rabbits can stably reproduce in an oasis with an area of over thirty square kilometers."

"It's just a temporary residence. Is it necessary for you to spend so much effort to transform it?"

Atlan smiled kindly and said:

"Of course it's necessary. I believe the General should also be clear that this place was once a forest and grassland with abundant water and soil hundreds of years ago, only because the appearance of the treasure caused a shortage of water."

"The forest has turned into the current desert. Now that the treasure has restrained its power, the desert has the possibility of turning back into a forest. As a druid, this is what I should do."

"I hope to place the treasure in a suitable location, ensuring that it does not cause further damage to the continent's natural environment. This is the responsibility of every Druid."

"General, think about it. If the treasure falls into the hands of the Blue Dragon, even more of the natural environment will be destroyed, and some of that will definitely be the territory I worked so hard to manage."

"Also, the territory west of the Water Elf Kingdom, and even the mountains where the dwarves live, will inevitably be affected. Therefore, our three parties must unite!"

"General, what do you think?"

"Huh?"

Attilan rattled off a long string of words, leaving her dazed.

After thinking about it carefully, she felt that what Attilan said seemed to make some sense.

"I am a peace-loving Druid, and my goal is to restore the desert into a forest. This will be a long process. Please rest assured, General, I am not interested in the land of the Water Elf Kingdom."

Grain stores like that can be created in a few years by developing wetlands.

What Attilan coveted from the Water Elf Kingdom was the technology to build a magical fleet.

Although Attilan hoped that the Druids would all stay in the grasslands to oversee the overall situation, Flower Maiden still brought several Druids skilled in healing to become army doctors.

Seeing Attilan trying to persuade the elf, Flower Maiden walked over with a smile.

"We accept the guidance of Master Ge'ergaig, and our goal is to allow the wounded earth to heal again. Once the desert is restored to a forest, even more natural energy will pass through the Water Elf Kingdom."

"I think grain production will increase by 10 to 20 percent because of this, right?"

As a ranger, also known as a woodsman, the elf general naturally did not live in the mage tower in Nyingfeng Port, like those arrogant mages who knew nothing about the power of nature.

Most of the rulers of the Water Elf Kingdom are mages. Rangers and Druids can bring too little benefit to the kingdom, completely inferior to mages, so their say naturally becomes lower and lower.

The ranger general was not completely ignorant. She knew a little about the reputation of Master Ge'ergaig, the legendary Druid who lived in the central forest of the continent.

Since this Ocean Dragonborn was a disciple of Master Ge'ergaig, then he could barely be trusted.

"I am Wen Lei'sha, the ranger general of the Water Elf Kingdom. It's a pleasure to cooperate. I wonder if I will have the opportunity to visit Master Ge'ergaig in the forest?"

She reached out her hand to Flower Maiden.

Flower Maiden smiled and shook her hand, saying:

"The master welcomes everyone to come and ask for guidance. As long as you can pass his test, it is not impossible for the master to impart all his knowledge to you."

"Really!?"

"Of course it's true."

Flower Maiden smiled, even she felt that the elf in front of her seemed a little too naive, actually believing them so easily.

The dwarf king finally had a chance to speak. He also knew that he was not good with words, so he kept silent when Attilan was persuading the elf general.

"Now that we are a three-party allied force, what does Dragon Lord think we should do?"

"If the enemy doesn't move, I don't move. Keep a close eye on the Blue Dragon's movements. As long as he doesn't go down to the underground city, then we won't move either."

The dwarf frowned and said:

"But if we just stalemate like this, it will waste a lot of food, right?"

"We don't lack that little bit of food. Acting rashly will only cause unnecessary damage to the soldiers. Before, we directly went deep into the underground city with the entire army without fully understanding it, just because the Blue Dragon went down."

"If the Blue Dragon moves, we must follow. Now that the Blue Dragon has retreated, we must also retreat."

The elf general nodded and said:

"Although it is more troublesome to transport food from the west, it is better than the soldiers losing their lives. Although my strength has been expanded once, it is still slightly insufficient."

Attilan suddenly thought of a good idea to improve his relationship with the elf general.

"Wen Lei'sha, you have also seen how strong the Blue Dragon's Blue Dragonborn Legion is. Now you should send an envoy back, hoping that your king can send more tribes to deal with the Blue Dragon."

Wen Lei'sha frowned and shook her head.

"That's impossible. The councilors will not agree to increase the strength of the Ranger Corps any further, and I don't think our current strength is incapable of fighting."

"If you don't try, how do you know it's impossible? If you don't ask to increase the number of troops, do you think those councilors will allocate funds for you to increase the number of troops?"

A crying child gets milk. Now that the elf general hasn't cried yet, how does she know she can't get milk?

The general thought about it and realized that the Ranger Corps could add a thousand new soldiers, allowing her to bring people to the desert to participate in the war. It seemed that the council decided to give this task to the Ranger Corps after she proposed that the number of troops was insufficient and must be increased before there would be troops to act.

But her request to increase the number of people by five thousand was rejected. Only one thousand people were agreed to be added, and the Blue Dragon's legion attacked the villages in the west to collect food, forcing her to grit her teeth and agree to the councilors' request to send troops.

"If you don't fight for it, then you will never get what you want. Is it difficult for the wealthy Water Elf Kingdom to support a ranger corps of ten thousand people?"

The general was silent.

"You're right."

She directly called the deputy general over.

"You heard my conversation with Dragon Lord just now. Go back and report to the council that I need to increase the number of troops to fight against the powerful Blue Dragon."

Attilan smiled and said:

"It's not just the Blue Dragon, the power of the Fire Gnomes is also very strong. Just the outer troops of the Fire Gnomes blocked our attack, so the Fire Gnomes are also stronger than we thought."

The elf frowned.

"Just report back according to what Dragon Lord said."

Compared to the ranger general, this deputy general's political mind was slightly stronger.

"I understand. Do you need to bring a few mages to corroborate?"

"Yes, just take back those few who were almost scared to wet their pants. Anyway, it's useless for them to stay here."

The councilors limited the number of the Ranger Corps, but they also sent their confidants, the new recruits of the Mage Corps.

One hundred mages are already a powerful force.

Of course, the barrier supported by the elf troops in the previous battle was actually the masterpiece of the rangers. The ranger troops, who often faced many against few, relied on this barrier to guard the villages and wait for the support of friendly forces.

Why did Attilan kindly help the ranger general fight for more staffing? It's not because she is really too naive, making Attilan unable to help but want to help her.

If one day, Attilan really becomes an enemy of the Water Elf Kingdom, he would rather face her, because compared to the councilors of the council, she is really too easy to deal with.

Moreover, for the Ocean Dragonborn Druid, an elven army composed of rangers and druids is completely worth fighting for.

The elves outside of Nyingfeng Port are all civilians, and they are in a different world from the mages of Nyingfeng Port who are good at magic, and Attilan happens to be in the same world as this group of civilians.

This Wen Lei'sha may become the queen of the Water Elf Kingdom, just like the dwarf Yin Ring, being pushed to the top by Attilan.