The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

Attilan's Druid training was smoother than he imagined. He became a formal Druid after his first attempt and mastered several spells at once.

Thanks to his spell slots, he can now use four 1st-level spells.

As a newly initiated 1st-level Druid, he should only have two 1st-level spell slots, but he has four. Could it be because he is a True Dragon?

Let's put that question aside for now. With four spell slots, he can use the Water of Life to plant four more oak seeds. The power and frequency of spells a Druid can use are greatly related to their contribution to nature.

Free spell slots are indeed much better than using magic power and materials to cast spells himself.

For example, planting oak trees. But a Druid's contribution refers to maintaining the balance of nature, so trees cannot be planted randomly. They must benefit the natural balance.

Selecting suitable planting locations requires excellent judgment.

From the sky, Attilan clearly saw the boundary of the eight-hundred-mile lake. Planting oak trees here, once they grow, will gather earth and wind elements to resist the water elements encroaching from the lake.

After selecting suitable locations and planting the remaining four oak seeds, Attilan shook the mud off his claws. He felt the soil was already somewhat moist.

He must speed up the process!

Attilan turned his head to look at the lake. If a tree line was established along the shore to effectively resist the lake's encroachment, how high could his Druid level rise?

Since planting the five oak seeds, he could faintly feel the natural energy of the forest extending a weak lifeline through the oak seeds towards the vast wilderness in the south.

Old Bear only gave him a dozen oak seeds, and Attilan planted all of them directly. Using the Water of Life to irrigate them tomorrow wouldn't delay the oak seeds' growth.

Today, he would irrigate them with lake water first. His first training was considered complete, and he could go back to his master to report and learn the Druid's meditation methods.

The Bear-man wasn't surprised that Attilan returned so quickly. Druids who had just begun learning couldn't sense the rhythm of life yet.

They either finished planting quickly like Attilan or spent a long time beside the seeds, trying to find the aura of life's budding.

"Master, all the seeds have been planted. When are you going to teach me meditation?"

For ordinary Druid apprentices, impatience is not an advantage. But for Attilan, this Dragon Druid, an impatient personality can help him learn the Druid way.

Druids are walkers of nature, so when practicing the path, they naturally need to move, maintaining the balance of animals and plants, and the balance of matter and elements.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Archdruids often sleep for hundreds or thousands of years like dragons. They are still exploring the mysteries of life in the Emerald Dream of life.

The Emerald Dream, which appeared at some point, made cultivation easier for Archdruids.

The most important thing for a Druid is to move, but dragons are lazy by nature and sleep at the drop of a hat. Younger ones sleep for a few days at a time, and adults sleep for several years.

Attilan's impatience can help him diligently practice the Druid way.

"Come with me."

Following the Bear-man's instructions, Attilan sat on the roots of the Tree of Life and began his first meditation.

With a guide of green light, he vaguely felt as if he had come to a unique realm full of vibrant life.

Warm sunshine, gentle wind, lush towering trees, elves playing and frolicking in the forest, deer bowing their heads to graze on the grass, and panthers lurking in the shadows, eyeing the deer.

The harmonious and vibrant scene made Attilan feel a strange energy flowing back and forth in his body with his breathing, urging him to express himself.

However, with a dragon roar, what spewed out of his mouth was not lightning or acid mist, but a stream of green, life-filled wind.

The Bear-man, who had been observing Attilan's meditation, also noticed his extraordinary nature at this moment. With Attilan's breathing, the wind of life quietly flowed through the forest.

The Bear-man heard the Tree of Life swaying its arms and smiling, and heard the vigorous vitality of the grass and fungi breaking through the soil.

Seeing the changes in the forest after Attilan's meditation connected him to the power of nature, he finally understood why his master's master firmly believed that Ocean Wyrms were most suitable to become Druids.

Attilan's power was not yet obvious, but when he grew up and became an Archdruid, he would have the terrifying ability to change the environment of an area, playing a crucial role in reversing areas of natural imbalance.

After Attilan finished meditating, the Bear-man didn't directly tell him the impact he had just brought.

"Being able to connect to the Emerald Dream on your first meditation means you have the talent of an Archdruid, but if you want to become a Druid, you still need to undergo rigorous training."

Attilan nodded. Achieving success in anything is not easy. Even for dragons, there are many tests to overcome if they want to live to the Ancient Dragon stage.

"By the way, Master, I remember that newly initiated Druids should only have two 1st-level spell slots. Why do I have four? Does this mean I am a peerless genius, one in a million?"

"This… I'll ask your grandmaster later and see if he knows. After all, he's the one who taught Druidism to an Ocean Wyrm."

With the physique of a dragon, it's normal to have more spell slots than ordinary Druids, the Bear-man thought. In any case, he couldn't let Attilan become arrogant, fall asleep, and waste his Druid training.

"It's just 1st-level spells. Are they really that useful to you?"

The Bear-man's indifferent words left Attilan speechless. If used in battle, his breath, claws, and fangs were indeed more useful, after all, casting spells required preparation.

And his breath could be cast instantly!

"Continue planting trees tomorrow. This time, you have to choose the seeds of the trees in the forest yourself, sense the seeds' vitality, and sense where these trees are suitable to be planted."

"When you turn the wilderness into a forest, which animals are suitable to guide to live in the forest, and how to maintain the natural balance of the forest, you still need to learn these things."

Druids don't need to learn these things. As long as your perception is strong enough, nature will naturally tell you how to arrange it.

"Yes, Master."

After a week of cultivation, Attilan finally couldn't hold back and found the Bear-man, asking with a twisty demeanor:

"Master, if I find some people to assist me in the work of natural balance, it shouldn't be considered a violation of the Druid way, right?"

The Bear-man frowned. Had he become impatient to be lazy after only a week? Sure enough, he had overestimated the dragon. He would have Tyr stimulate him again tomorrow.

"Tell me about it first."

"I believe that as Druids, we should not only focus on planting on land. We can also plant aquatic plants on the riverbeds under the lakes!"

"Through aquatic plants, we can gradually turn the lakes back into land. There is a Fishman tribe near my previous dragon's nest. If I subdue them, there will be more than a hundred people to help spread the seeds of aquatic plants into the lakes."

"And let them take care of them. It's better than the Druid having to do everything personally. It's a waste of talent for a Druid to plant trees."

"Druids only need to be responsible for planning."

The Bear-man understood. This guy wasn't trying to be lazy at all, he clearly wanted to recruit vassals, thugs, and servants.

The Bear-man looked at him with a slightly surprised expression.

"Is this your Druid way? I think your dragon nature has awakened. You're starting to collect vassals just ten days after birth. Are you planning to build a vast empire to rule in the future?"

Attilan chuckled.

"Master, what's wrong with that? Building an empire that belongs to the Druids, that belongs to nature, won't we be able to better maintain the balance of nature?"

"When an order is issued, the disharmony of nature can be quickly dealt with. I want to see how many heads they have if they want to cheat and deceive the Archdruids."

Old-school Druids like the Bear-man adhere to intervening in nature only when necessary, but Attilan wants to try his own Druid way, even though he has only been initiated for seven days.

The Bear-man also adheres to intervening only when necessary, because Attilan is also a part of nature. Druids should not interfere excessively before he loses control.