The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Attilan nodded, quite pleased with the Ocean Scale's performance.

"If my initial hypothesis holds true, then they should be able to defeat the Bone Overlord and the Beast Spirit."

Attilan tossed a healing potion towards the Serpent Strategist.

"Drink the potion if you're not dead, then get up there and command the army for me. Remember, you're a strategist, you should be standing where you're supposed to be."

The army brought by the Serpent Strategist was composed of three professions: Dragon Vein Soldiers, Sea Dragon Shamans, and Dragon Priests.

Among them, the Dragon Vein Soldiers were the most numerous, totaling three hundred, followed by the Sea Dragon Shamans, forty in number, and only four Dragon Priests.

The others were not ordinary sub-humans either; they also possessed warrior class levels.

From the similar profession name of Dragon Vein Soldier and Dragon Vein Guard, one could see Attilan's purpose in creating this profession.

The Dragon Vein Guard was not simply a profession; it represented the sublimation of sub-humans influenced by the power of the Ocean Wyrm, their bloodline, and their profession level.

The power of each Dragon Vein Guard, when converted to profession level, was at least level 15.

And this was just the beginning; Dragon Vein Guards could further enhance their combat power to legendary levels through cultivation.

Dragon Vein Guards were proficient in both magic and martial arts, using a mixture of energy and physical attacks.

They generally carried some draconic features, and it was said that the exceptional among them even possessed the ability to briefly transform into a flying dragon for combat.

After becoming Dragon Vein Guards, Sestus guided them to research a relatively mature method for enhancing their strength.

Making the Dragon Vein Guard a truly reliable profession.

However, Sestus did not conduct research on how to become a Dragon Vein Guard.

The arrogance of the dragon still existed in Sestus.

Only sub-humans who had sublimated into Dragon Vein Guards could barely enter his sight.

Attilan guessed that, in Sestus's eyes, only Dragon Vein Guards had the potential to transform into dragons.

But Attilan simply refused to believe this!

Dragon Vein Soldiers, Sea Dragon Shamans, and Dragon Priests were the specialized professions proposed by Attilan to enhance the strength and draconic bloodline concentration in sub-humans from three different perspectives.

Even if cultivating these professions could not complete the transformation into Dragon Vein Guards, it could at least prevent these relatively weak Dragon Vein sub-humans from becoming remnants of a degraded bloodline.

First, the Dragon Vein Soldiers. The "soldier" referred to their possession of a magical weapon that could absorb the bloodline of Ocean Wyrms.

After they killed other magical beasts with the bloodline of Ocean Wyrms, they could use this weapon to absorb a portion of the ocean dragon vein into their bodies.

On the contrary, the ocean dragon vein absorbed by the magical weapon might even be more than that absorbed by the Dragon Vein Soldier.

This type of transformation was the most difficult, but it had the lowest requirements for the sub-human.

Even the most foolish warrior could absorb the ocean dragon vein with a special weapon.

Coupled with a set of dragon vein absorption exercises developed by Attilan and Audreyes.

Dragon Vein Soldiers were warriors who used special weapons to absorb ocean dragon veins to strengthen their bodies.

Strictly speaking, they were still warriors; Dragon Vein Soldier could not be considered a qualified advanced profession.

The requirements for transferring to Sea Dragon Shaman were slightly higher.

Their method of increasing the dragon vein in their bodies was to cultivate a sea beast that also possessed the bloodline of an Ocean Wyrm.

Then, through the method of dragon vein interaction, they could grow and promote each other, as well as the most important secret technique, flesh and blood fusion.

It was the druid secret technique that the Bearmen had developed for the Halfling Fang Brothers.

Attilan made a simplified version and integrated it into the Elemental Shaman profession.

Shamans themselves were very similar professions to druids.

After adding an animal companion, the so-called Sea Dragon Shaman was the youthful version of the Nature Druid.

The final Dragon Priest was the simplest, but also had the highest requirements for practitioners.

Dragon Priests directly carried the pure magical power of the Ocean Wyrm, using the magic power transmitted by Attilan or Audreyes to activate the dragon vein in their bodies.

Thereby achieving Ocean Wyrm transformation.

This was a considerably difficult secret technique, so the Dragon Priests mainly enhanced their soul strength.

They improved their spiritual power through hard cultivation, tempering their souls in painful transformations again and again.

Attilan attempted to improve the dragon vein strength in the bodies of Dragon Vein sub-humans through various interactions and resonances, gradually reaching the height of Dragon Vein Guards.

Instead of taking the path of suddenly sublimating by erupting potential at the critical moment of life and death.

Eliminate inferior bloodlines, and then strengthen the bloodline generation after generation through the reproduction of Dragon Vein Guards.

This showed that Sestus did not regard them as human beings at all.

It was as if he was cultivating a new magical food, chicken.

Perhaps in the eyes of the human and dwarf coalition forces who fought with them all year round, they were monsters.

But Attilan had led them for five years, how could he not be clear?

They were simply stupid, not illuminated by the light of civilization.

After Attilan's five years of civilization education, these sub-humans under Sestus also became much more civilized.

At the same time, they also became intelligent, vaguely feeling that the current treatment was not right.

Although Sestus gave good treatment to the victors.

But for those who died on the road to victory, the price was a bit too high.

In the past, they didn't think much about it, thinking that death was death.

Now that Attilan had helped them improve their living standards, they suddenly felt that they should enjoy such a good life for another two years.

They became unwilling to die.

Sestus may have also realized this, hence the current situation.

At the same time, he was also teaching Attilan that so-called civilization was bullshit in the face of truly powerful force!

The enemy faced by the Elemental Dragon was a god.

Creating an excellent civilization takes hundreds of years, but destroying this civilization only requires the gods to move their fingers.

The risks and rewards are disproportionate.

It seems that Sestus is wasting manpower and resources in doing so.

In fact, he chose to secure the profits.

Attilan took out another magic array blueprint written with secondary dragon runes from the dimensional bag and threw it beside the Serpent Strategist as well.

"The three professions working together can unleash a power that I envision to be no less than that of the Dragon Vein Guard."

But before, Attilan had not found a way to connect their powers.

Now that Attilan had mastered secondary dragon runes, he immediately had a solution.

"Serpent Strategist, learn the magic array on the blueprint and let the other side see how powerful the Dragon Vein Guard is."

The Serpent Strategist drank the healing potion and barely climbed up.

Opening the blueprint, he discovered that it was engraved with some magical runes.

"General, these runes actually contain the power of the Ocean Wyrm!"

Coupled with the thoughtful annotations written by Attilan, the Serpent Strategist quickly understood the effect of this magic array.

"Dragon Vein Soldiers provide the body, Dragon Priests provide the soul, and Sea Dragon Shamans are responsible for coordination. The three become one, and the power of the Dragon Vein Guard can be unleashed!"

"But General, there are only four Dragon Priests on the battlefield. Even if they transform into Dragon Vein Guards, can they really withstand the power of the Bone Overlord and the Beast Spirit?"

Attilan directly hit him on the head.

“Why do you care so much? What you need to be thinking about now is how to create a Dragon Vein Guardian!”

As for whether it can hold them off, that's a problem for later.

In Atlan's vision, the Dragon Vein Guardian fused from three Dragon Vein demi-humans and one Dragon Vein sea beast would be stronger than an ordinary Dragon Vein Guardian.

Perhaps it could directly fuse into a Sea Wyvern-level guardian.

Especially since he also provided sub-Dragon Marks to coordinate the Dragon Veins and souls, allowing their fusion to produce some minor sublimation effects.

“Hurry and find the four strongest soldiers, shamans, and priests, and have them cooperate with you to try the Dragon Mark magic array.”

The Snake Strategist took the blueprints and ran out excitedly.

At this moment, in a small puddle of water beside Atlan, the water suddenly surged up, forming the dragon head of a Sea Wyvern.

“Atlan, my good son, didn't I tell you that you can't interfere?”

Atlan shrugged innocently.

“Godfather, the sub-Dragon Marks are something I was going to teach them anyway. I thought giving them now wouldn't violate your rules.”

“Besides, isn't this a very good experimental opportunity? If my idea really succeeds, then the speed at which Dragon Vein Guardians are born will be much faster than it is now.”

“And it also proves that your idea, Godfather, is correct. Only the pressure of war and death can effectively drive them to progress.”

The dragon head took a deep look at Atlan.

“Atlan, you always have endless clever ideas. Instead of wasting time researching some fusion Dragon Vein magic array.”

“You might as well study how to enhance your Dragon Pearl with Dragon Marks. Remember, for Elemental Dragons, the Dragon Pearl is the foundation.”

Atlan respectfully lowered his head.

“Godfather is right. I'm researching sub-Dragon Marks to temper the Dragon Pearl.”

The dragon head nodded in satisfaction.

Who knew Atlan would say again.

“But this fusion magic array was indeed a work I casually created while researching sub-Dragon Marks and didn't waste any time.”

“Really?”

Atlan said with a smile:

“Godfather, in terms of Dragon Marks, I should be a genius among the current Elemental Dragons, and even going back ten thousand years, I'm one of the few!”

Looking at Atlan's confident face, the dragon head narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Since that's the case, after this war is over, you will come to my palace, and I will show you the Ocean Dragon Soul.”

“I want to see how many Dragon Marks you can research from the Ocean Dragon Soul, how many Dragon Mark structures you can create!”

Atlan immediately shouted excitedly:

“Thank you, Godfather! Your child will certainly live up to your expectations.”

Looking at Atlan's appearance, Cerastes couldn't help but feel a surge of annoyance in his heart.

Cerastes was quite satisfied with Atlan.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had the inclination to marry Audreys to Atlan.

Since he intended to have this son-in-law, Cerastes naturally had to knock him down a peg.

To prevent Atlan from being too arrogant.

As for Cerastes, he was not at all aware.

The truly arrogant one was actually him.

Arrogance requires capital, and Cerastes just happened to have it.

Mobilizing the backbone of twelve battlefields did not have as much impact on the battlefield as imagined.

Because the Leopard Woman and Audreys, one each, barely held off the Bone Overlord and the Beast Spirit.

Looking at Audreys skillfully using elven magic to fight, Cerastes felt very emotional.

“My daughter, because her mother passed away early, I spoiled her quite a bit. She's almost an adult and still can't be independent.”

“I didn't expect that after following you for only five years, she has become so diligent. Sure enough, there must be a role model around.”

Whether it was imitation and learning or the desire to surpass out of jealousy, it would become Audreys' motivation to improve.

But Cerastes endowed Audreys with excellent bloodlines, causing other Elemental Dragons to appear extremely ordinary in front of Audreys.

They simply couldn't inspire her motivation.

Only Atlan could stimulate Audreys through various means.

Making her want to work hard to improve her strength and then beat Atlan up once.

Although they didn't use their full strength, Audreys had been at a disadvantage in their several sparring sessions.

Looking back at Atlan, who was leisurely chatting with someone, Audreys was furious.

The main reason was that fighting the Beast Spirit was too easy to make people angry.

This evil spirit not only referred to the Beast Spirit's cruel methods of frantically absorbing vitality.

It also referred to its being evil and not easy to kill.

Because it absorbed too much vitality, compared to ordinary undead, the Beast Spirit had a certain amount of life activity.

Purification spells did not have a significant effect on it.

Ordinary undead would be restrained by a healing spell.

But using a healing spell on the Beast Spirit would charge it up.

Runes have one advantage: even if you don't understand the meaning of the rune, you can still achieve the same effect by drawing it with the same energy fluctuations and shape.

With the help of eight priests and shamans, the Snake Strategist finally created a fusion magic array and tried to run it once.

Everything was normal with the magic array.

The Snake Strategist finally breathed a sigh of relief.

A Dragon Vein soldier said excitedly:

“Now that it's done, let's start quickly. The brothers can't hold on anymore!”

The Snake Strategist looked at the people present seriously and said:

“I want to declare something. This is a magic array that the Great General has not yet verified. I don't guarantee what will happen next. Once it fails, you may very well die.”

“Are you still willing to go up?”

The Dragon Vein soldier directly proved it with action, and he was the first to stand up.

The three-meter-tall cyan minotaur waved his scaly right hand, looking at the door-sized axe.

“If I die, remember to give my axe to my son, let him become a Dragon Vein Guardian, and avenge me when he grows up.”

The Sea Dragon Shaman led his sea snake, and the Giant Dragon Priest held the totem symbolizing Atlan in his hand, and also stood in the magic array.

The Snake Strategist took an excited breath, calming his body and mind.

“Then let's begin!”

As the magic array lit up, the demi-human and the sea beast's bodies were also glowing, and cyan ocean Dragon Veins extended from their bodies, connecting together.

The magic array formed a sea dragon shield of cyan dragon scales, wrapping them inside.

The dazzling light and surging magic enveloped their bodies.

The intense magic fluctuations lasted for a full five minutes, followed by a loud dragon roar.

The sea dragon shield gradually dissipated, and a wyvern with a unicorn, a sea snake body, and four dragon claws appeared in front of the Snake Strategist.

The wyvern's eyes were blood red, full of madness and violence, and it opened its mouth towards the Snake Strategist, but in the end, it froze inexplicably in mid-air.

It seemed to be affected by some kind of power.

Twisting its body, it crookedly rushed towards the Bone Overlord.

Atlan suppressed his excitement.

“They still have reason. My magic array succeeded!”

“Godfather, we succeeded!”