The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Atilan practiced plant animation in Vine Woman's garden for half a day, and finally managed to animate a vine with basic intelligence, with stable consumption during action.

After the animation is released, the vine can recover by absorbing nutrients from the earth, and gain slight benefits from the actions after animation, proving that Atilan's plant animation technique can basically be applied to practical operations.

"Auntie, I'll leave first. I'll bring you more magic dishes when I make new ones."

"Wait a minute, you also need materials to try magic dishes. I just looked around and found that I have some good ingredients here. Take them all back with you."

As she spoke, Vine Woman hung a package woven from vines and leaves around Atilan's neck.

"Alright, go now."

Back in Green Scale Town, the remaining magic dishes had already been distributed as rewards by the half-goat people and the fish priest, based on everyone's contributions during this period.

This bit of magic dish is nothing to Atilan, but for the fish people, fish laborers may become fish warriors, and warriors have the opportunity to become squad leaders.

If the squad leader can't beat the fish barbarian, then don't even think about snatching the position of warrior leader.

In fact, the fish people tribe is a burden to the barbarians. In the past, they were the main force in hunting. The prey hunted with great effort had to be distributed to the old and weak in the tribe who had nothing to eat, which affected his growth.

It is precisely because this is a united tribe that they were not driven away from the edge of the Bear People's territory. Whether going north or south, neither is a good choice.

The rainforests in the south are full of tribes abandoned by the Swamp Dragons. They kill each other to compete for survival resources, and the elite warriors trained will be favored by the dragons and recruited back.

Again and again, a muddy life. I don't know how many tribes have quietly disappeared in this process.

Green Scale Town is short of manpower and needs to recruit people, otherwise, the project of farming in the southwestern wilderness will not be able to start. Atilan plans to let the half-goat people take apprentices to scout first.

If there are suitable tribes, recruit them directly, let them build a new town at the junction of the forest and the wilderness, responsible for providing flour and ale, and rely on food and supplies to recruit wilderness tribes, and finally try to occupy the entire wilderness as a territory.

The southwestern wilderness is not a suitable place to build a hegemonic foundation. Although Atilan has not gone too deep into the wilderness to check the situation, his sensitivity to water elements as an Ocean Dragon makes him discover a big problem.

The rate at which water is lost in the wilderness is a bit too fast.

The lake actually extends a river to the southwestern wilderness. The rate at which the water flow decreases is like there is a fire burning underground, burning all the water in the pot of the wilderness.

The temperature of the wilderness is normal, but the drought is more serious. The inability to retain water is a big problem, so Atilan plans to open up farmland on the periphery of the wilderness where the invisible forces have little influence.

He can't help but sigh, this continent is really strange. The Swamp Dragons created an inland sea of eight hundred miles from north to south and a thousand miles from east to west in the center of the continent.

In the southwest, there is another area where water cannot be retained. The people living on this continent are really suffering.

According to Atilan's calculations, even if he builds ditches to divert water from the lake to irrigate the farmland, the suitable area for cultivation should not exceed 100,000 mu, even if there are fruits, nuts, and meat from the forest.

Atilan decided that he could support a maximum of 50,000 people.

In some areas of the desert, grass and trees have disappeared and started to desertify. The center must have already been a desert. Atilan's first reaction was whether there were blue dragons or bronze dragons living in the desert.

The idea of occupying the entire wilderness was abandoned by him.

Last time he explored the area suitable for cultivation, he relied on the water element vision of the Ocean Dragon and flew very high, so he didn't know how many tribes lived in this area.

There will be no tribes living near the river extending to the southwest.

Because everyone will come here to drink water, living nearby is easy to become a hunting target, it is better to find a barren hill.

When the half-goat people heard Atilan say that he would let him take two apprentices to explore the tribes living in the southwest, an area of nearly 500 square kilometers presented a rectangle, which meant that they had to go deep into the wilderness for dozens of kilometers to the end of the river.

"Running so far, do you want the three of us to die outside? We won't have enough manpower to develop such a large area of land in five years, will we?"

"Although you are a dragon, can your plan not be so big?"

It seems to be the same principle. Atilan always likes to look at problems with a long-term perspective, ignoring the difficulties that will be needed in the practical operation process.

"How big do you plan to open up the farmland for the first time? I will re-plan a suitable reconnaissance range according to your plan."

"It's still necessary to investigate. The surrounding tribe situation needs to be understood. Those poor ghosts have no value in looting, but I don't want them to spoil my wheat fields."

"Got it."

Atilan also found the old fish people to ask:

"How many people can you transfer to open up farmland?"

The old fish people were very embarrassed. To be honest, the number of fish people is really not enough. He even arranged heavy physical labor for pregnant fish people. That belly is the hope of their whole village.

Seeing his embarrassed look, Atilan was a little annoyed.

"At least transfer one person, let him take the farm tools to level the farmland, and he will live there for a long time in the future, acting as a wheat field watchman."

"Yes."

The old fish people also breathed a sigh of relief, and decided to go back to add meals to the pregnant fish people and increase the number of small fish people as soon as possible. Now that there is enough food, the small fish people can become a labor force in two or three years.

Early the next morning, the half-goat people set off with their apprentices. Daytime is a good time for reconnaissance. Not only is the light and vision good, but the important thing is that the vigilance of creatures is not as high as at night, and it is not easy to be discovered.

And Atilan also started his practice. He plans to circle a field of at least 1,000 mu with trees. Ten to twenty trees a day will be completed in less than half a year.

At that time, the average resource of the forest trees should also return to the safety line again.

He just animated five trees in a row, barely blocking the road between the two hills leading to the lake, and saw the half-goat people running back in a panic.

"It's not good, something happened!"

Atilan hurried to meet him and asked:

"What happened?"

"We haven't been out for long. There used to be no tribal activity nearby. My vigilance was insufficient, which caused the two apprentices to be caught. I was the only one who escaped."

"Who did it!"

"It's a group of minotaurs. Their chief said that this area will be their territory in the future. If you want to save the small fish people, you should exchange them for twice the weight of fresh fish."

Atilan was so angry that he laughed:

"Fresh fish, he is quite a foodie!"