The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Attilan shoved the blueprint in front of the barmaid, squinting his eyes and coldly saying:

"Something's not right, is it? If it's just about mobilizing energy from the Water Elemental Plane to activate a magic farm, isn't the scale of the ritual array marked on the blueprint a bit too much for the energy being mobilized?"

The barmaid calmly stuffed a piece of pumpkin cake into her mouth.

"A little extra energy won't hurt. Just divert the converted water resources directly to the west. Those druids who are good at adjusting terrain have already carved out a waterway."

"The new river extends north and south from the original southwest river, and the winding waterway covers most of the southwest desert. With water, everyone can transform the desert back into an oasis."

"Think about it. After the desert becomes an oasis, we have so few druids. How much land can we occupy to cultivate forests? Wouldn't the extra land be given to you to raise your dependents?"

"In the end, won't your Atlantis kingdom be the one that grows stronger?"

Attilan's mouth twitched. He was usually the one painting pies for others, but he didn't expect the barmaid to paint one for him today.

The barmaid secretly glanced at Attilan. Seeing that he seemed unmoved, she could only take out her last trump card.

A smile appeared on Attilan's lips. Since painting pies didn't work, she was resorting to the 'chicken sauce' method on him, huh?

Okay, he admitted that the 'chicken sauce' method worked a little on him. Just like the barmaid said, he had cultivated in the Emerald Dream for two and a half years, honing his skills through hard work every day. If he didn't use them, wouldn't he have cultivated in vain!

"I can be responsible for guiding and restraining the water element to flow in the planned river, but the amount of water element summoned from the elemental plane needs to be slightly controlled, according to the amount of water you planned."

"It's true that it can flow through most of the desert, but have you forgotten that the last time so much water element flowed in the wasteland, it did turn the wasteland into grassland."

"But my million acres of farmland were also destroyed in the process of the water flow. Now the number of people I need to take care of has doubled. If there's another flood..."

"I think the food provided by the wood elves won't be enough to eat. Most importantly, I still don't know how many people my kingdom actually has."

"Even if there's a disaster, I don't know how much disaster relief food to prepare!"

The barmaid smiled slightly awkwardly.

"Don't worry, I've selected thirty talented fourth-year students to intern in the fifteen towns under your rule, two people in each town. In at most a year, you'll be able to figure out how many people are under your rule."

Attilan looked at the barmaid in surprise.

"Fifteen towns!? When did I have fifteen towns under my rule?"

The barmaid looked at Attilan with a suspicious look. Her eyes seemed to be saying, do you really not know, or are you kidding?

"Desert Oasis, one; Grassland, one; Huangsha Pass, Stonefort Town, Two Great Horn Towns, Water Cellar Town, Rainforest Town, Lakeside Town, the Mountain Town built by the dwarves on the mountain."

"One town extending into the rainforest to recruit rainforest people, one town in the south connecting to the wood elves, one town in the southwest desert connecting to the barbarians."

Attilan counted and asked:

"Isn't that only thirteen?"

"Halfling Town, Greenscale Town, have you forgotten? I even know how many towns your kingdom has, but you, the Dragon Lord, don't know. So... how did you become this king?"

Attilan was speechless for a moment.

"I..."

He really couldn't say it. To him, the Atlantis Kingdom only had two uses: one was to provide strong enough guards to protect his safety when he was weak.

The second was to use the huge population of the Atlantis Kingdom to provide the power of faith to become a god after he became a quasi-god!

According to his efforts to cultivate farmland, improve soil fertility, and optimize grain and livestock breeds so that his dependents could eat their fill, and provide medical security, the population of Atlantis must be large.

Even now, the mortality rate of children born every year is still high due to various diseases, but the number of newborns in the kingdom is still showing a steady upward trend.

The birth and death of newborns are the reason why the kingdom's population has always been difficult to count.

In addition to disease, there are also newborn populations who die in battle.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of young people, the minotaurs and centaurs will let young warriors hunt prairie wolves and prairie leopards active on the wasteland.

It is said that two lion clans have also wandered from the southern barbarian grasslands this year.

Because the wasteland has been greened very well, these ferocious beasts, after hiding in the mountains and forests, are not weak in killing young warriors, because from time to time, some druids with itchy hands will use magic to transform these ferocious beasts.

And choose the strongest individual among them as their temporary combat partner.

Speaking of those semi-magical modified defective magic beasts, Attilan became angry.

"Some children really don't have the talent to become warriors, but they can farm, they can help you green the desert, instead of being experimented on by druids at will, enhancing their strength and brutality, and then being killed by unmanaged beasts."

"Young people rarely remain cautious for a long time. Because of a moment of carelessness, they didn't expect the beasts to have such powerful strength, resulting in some young warriors losing their lives in every beast clearing operation."

The leopard woman sat up angrily.

"Your dependents are life, aren't the beasts living on the grassland also life? Young people can hunt beasts, and beasts can naturally hunt young people."

Attilan nodded.

"If there is no druid's magical experiment factor involved, I wouldn't care about those young warriors who didn't withstand the wind and rain, but the druid's magical experiment made the beasts more cunning and powerful."

"There was even a group of children who were all killed by a wind demon leopard spitting wind blades. With the current magic concentration in the wasteland, do you think wind demon leopards like that would be born naturally?"

"You suddenly jumped out, that wind demon leopard was your doing?"

The leopard woman shook her head.

"No, I don't have any research on the wind element, but since the old rascal said that I have some talent in elemental affinity, I plan to try to cultivate magic beasts with various elemental bloodlines next."

"Maybe I need you to allocate an area for me in the wasteland. I need to build a magic leopard research base. You can rest assured that the magic leopards in the base will definitely not run out at will."

How could he believe this guarantee coming from the leopard woman's mouth? 'Will not run out at will' just meant that the magic leopards had a risk of running out.

"The real guarantee should be 'will absolutely not run out'. With 'at will' added, I always feel that you will deliberately and accidentally let some magic leopards run away."

The bear man suddenly sat up and said in surprise:

"You said there are Wind Devil Leopards active in the wasteland? I was planning to go back to the forest for a break a few days ago, but I was attacked by a Lightning Devil Leopard when I passed through an apple orchard."

"That Lightning Devil Leopard had blood-red eyes. I tried to soothe it with natural magic, but it didn't work at all. After killing it, I dissected and studied its body structure."

"It feels a bit like the descendants of those grassland leopards that you, Attilan, had Sandrine specialize from forest leopards and release, except they've been modified with lightning element."

"Among the druids in the forest who are good at using lightning element to modify beasts, besides the Master, there's..."

The bear-man didn't say it explicitly, but everyone knew who he was talking about.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the rest area became a bit heavy.

"Not caring about the animals' physical condition, modifying them so barbarically, causing damage that even leads to them losing their minds, he couldn't have fallen to this level, right?"

The druids in the forest are generally Lawful Neutral or Neutral Good. There aren't any Neutral Evil ones, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to get along.

"What has the Eagle King been up to lately?"

Attilan looked at the Barmaid, he felt like her expression was a bit off.

"What else could he be doing? While we're here researching the modification of natural energy fields, he's been in his Wind and Thunder Valley cultivating Wind and Thunder Giant Eagles. I don't know how the Wind and Thunder Giant Eagles are progressing."

"Anyway, some cyan Wind Giant Eagles and blue Thunder Giant Eagles fly over the Druid School from time to time. It seems the Eagle King's single-element control level is steadily rising."

Fusing wind and thunder two elements, it can be seen that the Eagle King's ambition is not small. In some mages' element classifications, both wind and thunder are classified as air elements.

Since mages have proposed theories and applications, it's enough to prove that wind and thunder elements can be fused, but such valuable magical knowledge, obviously mages will not share it casually.

If you want to know, you can only study it yourself.

As long as the Eagle King can fuse that higher air element, his Wind and Thunder Giant Eagles can be successfully cultivated, and he can also quickly grow into a level 15 top druid by cultivating this air element.

"I feel like the Eagle King is being a bit too diligent. Many times, a research project can't succeed by working behind closed doors. Going out more might trigger some inspiration."

"The experimental progress is advancing rapidly. Everyone is the Eagle King's good friend and should persuade him to participate in more group activities."

The Barmaid shook her head helplessly.

"Except for transporting water elements to expand the desert oasis through clouds, and activating the vitality of the earth with wind and thunder elements, you'll see the Eagle King's figure. No matter how I try to persuade him for other activities, he won't come out."

Attilan praised and nodded.

"I didn't expect the Eagle King's weather magic to be so skilled. Transferring cloud clusters from the forest to the center of the desert, even if he flies in a straight line, it's at least a five hundred-kilometer distance."

"I think the Eagle King's element control must have increased a lot by doing this job for a long time, right?"

Attilan discovered when he transferred water elements from the wetland that from extracting the water elements from the wetland to forming a cloud cluster, and then stabilizing the cloud cluster and sending it to the wasteland for rain, each step could train the druid's control and mental strength.

During that time, Attilan was really tired but happy. I believe the Eagle King is the same.

"I'll go persuade the Eagle King. He must participate in this magic farm, or I won't let him eat the vegetables grown. I need a druid with excellent magic control to preside over the overall situation for transferring water elements and activating the energy field."

"Originally, I planned to give this task to the Barmaid, but the Eagle King is obviously more suitable."

The Barmaid took the lead in applauding and said domineeringly:

"Okay, if you pull the Eagle King out to participate in group activities, I'll take the third and fourth-grade students to do the population census as an extracurricular practical activity, and I'll get it done for you!"

He was clearly the principal, so why did it feel like the school had nothing to do with him? Looking at the domineering Barmaid, Attilan suddenly felt that he couldn't be a hands-off shopkeeper anymore.

Attilan went straight to Wind and Thunder Valley. The Eagle King was indeed here, carefully observing a pile of eagle eggs mixed with cyan and blue patterns.

"Such big eggs, they must be delicious as fried eggs, right?"

The Eagle King turned his head and said lightly:

"Want to eat some? I'll make you a few."

Attilan quickly waved his hand.

"These are all your hard work, I wouldn't dare to eat them. Just kidding, don't take it seriously."

The Eagle King selected seven or eight from these thirty-odd eagle eggs.

"These seem to still have some weak hope, but even if I try to coordinate the wind and thunder elements to not conflict, they will die from element conflict within a year after hatching."

"So it's better to make them into fried eggs for you to eat, at least it can increase some affinity with wind and thunder elements, so I don't have to be responsible for raining in the desert alone in the future."

Attilan directly stepped forward and put his arm around his shoulder.

"If directly fusing wind and thunder elements doesn't work, can crossbreeding Wind Giant Eagles and Thunder Giant Eagles cultivate wind and thunder elements, or air giant eagles?"

The Eagle King glanced at him lightly.

"You also read the Master's collection of the theory and practice of air elements?"

Attilan shook his head.

"No, I just met a Storm Giant who is good at using air magic. According to his magic theory, I think directly fusing wind and thunder elements may be the wrong method."

"That damn human mage should have hidden the most important factor in fusing air elements, water element! Wind and thunder will directly conflict when fused, but with water as an intermediate medium."

"The power of wind and thunder will be integrated into one by water!"

Attilan raised his eyebrows.

"How about it, want to learn?"

The Eagle King looked at Attilan's hand on his shoulder.

"Aren't you most proud of the dragon's strong dragon body, why did you become a human?"

Attilan said bluntly:

"If I don't become a human, how can I put my arm around your shoulder and show the friendship between us!"

The Eagle King looked at him lightly.

"Just say it, what are you here for."

"I said I'm here to build a relationship!"

"You're always a dragon who only comes to the door when you have something, so stop pretending."

Attilan chuckled.

"Come with me and help me build the magic farm, and I'll take you to meet that Storm Giant, and you can take the opportunity to analyze his storm magic."

"Then, we druids will also have our own air magic."

The Eagle King nodded directly.

"I remember the Barmaid said that the Storm Giant taught you to make a kind of cloud soil, which is based on water element, with thunder element hidden inside, and wind element applied externally."

"Fusing the power of three elements, and finally cultivating strong magic plants. Sure enough, my thinking is not as good as yours. I studied it for so long, but you discovered the essence of air magic in one sentence."

The Eagle King directly packed up the eagle eggs he had just picked out.

"Let's go, let's build your magic farm. When high-quality ingredients grow, we'll have a reason to visit that Master and learn his air magic."