Under the Red Dragon

The young red dragon, Kedi Luosi, arrived at the Governor-General's mansion with a comatose silver dragon hanging from his tail, feeling somewhat guilty as he peered curiously at the mansion.

However, he was informed by the Kobold guards, who were not even as tall as the sphinx-griffin statues in front of the mansion gate, that the bronze dragon lord currently governing the empire, known to the outside world as the Bronze Dragon Queen of Wisdom, Alina, had already gone to inspect the planar base of the Magic Research Department.

Accompanying her were the steel dragon Midier, the Emperor's maid Charlize, and the Minister of Agriculture, the great fairy Pixie, Ruiwen.

The great fairy Ruiwen was a core member of the empire, one of the earliest veterans who followed the dragons in establishing the empire. Because of her naturally lively and cheerful personality, she was a friend to all the dragons, giving her such a unique position.

As for Charlize, although she was only the Emperor's maid, her noble birth and education had endowed her with a wealth of knowledge.

While serving by the Emperor's side, she was able to comprehend some of the ancestral red dragon's political ideas, and now she was also a capable assistant to the bronze dragon Alina.

However, Kedi Luosi did not expect that the steel dragon Midier would not be staying in the Winter避寒 City but had returned here.

"It seems Midier has come up with another evil plan. But these guys are all more wicked than I am. I'm just superficially bad. Their hearts are black," thought the young red dragon Kedi Luosi as he dragged the unconscious silver dragon towards the planar base of the Magic Integration Research Department.

The Magic Integration Department was located in the northwest corner of the King's Capital, in a secluded area. By the construction standards of the Dragon Kingdom, this row of buildings, covering tens of thousands of acres, seemed rather small.

The soldiers who once stood guard at the entrance had been replaced by two ordinary Kobold guards from the Imperial Guard. To outsiders, the level of security here did not seem high.

It seemed that any assassin or thief proficient in shadow magic could sneak into this place, which was considered mysterious even by the empire's citizens.

But those seemingly silent, lifeless stone and steel golems, the log-like giant tree golems, and the war treants, like the green plants and trees in a plaza garden, had their limbs completely rooted into the earth, listening to every pulse.

These beings were constantly scanning every corner of this area, and in the magical defense nodes of the King's Capital, these golems and treants could also search for the slightest fluctuations of any force through this vast defense network.

Even the ravens and mockingbirds nesting in the trees disguised as war treants poked their heads out of their nests, their clever eyes scanning in all directions.

The combat power of these golems was not strong, because all the power output had been set and adjusted by the mages to search and scan mode.

But in the King's Capital, the capital of this dragon kingdom, it was enough to discover the enemy's tracks.

Moreover, perhaps the most dangerous thing in this city was this seemingly peaceful area.

The young red dragon Kedi Luosi swaggered into the gate of the Magic Integration Department without causing any unusual fluctuations. Although Kedi Luosi's status was not prominent among the dragons, he was still one of the few high-ranking existences within the empire's vast system.

The tall buildings built entirely of steel-gray and white fine steel rock pillars were not his target. These institutions with signs hanging on them had now become places for clerical staff to relax, chat, and hold meetings. No important research would exist in these buildings.

Kedi Luosi could also see many scholars and mages wearing magic chip glasses sitting at desks reading notes and research documents through the open windows of these buildings.

Of course, the female servants carrying tea and showing off their plump, rounded thighs were where the red dragon's gaze lingered.

Following the flowerbed path that surrounded the entire area to the end, two gargoyle sculptures guarded either side of a garden gate passage. The garden gate was inscribed with four common words—Magic Paradise.

The two gargoyle sculptures were golems and also real gargoyles.

It was just that the mages had restrained the captured gargoyle souls from their bodies and replaced them with elemental spirits controlled by the mages, using this kind of creature golem that was always sleeping but always able to be awake as guards of the garden gate.

The young red dragon grinned, revealing his fangs, raised the silver dragon hanging from his tail high, and then stepped into the garden gate.

It was as if the lights in a brightly lit room at night were suddenly turned off, and the field of vision fell into eternal darkness.

An indescribable smell, accompanied by the unique fishy smell of snakes, permeated the entire space. A powerful and oppressive lurking aura, faintly discernible, caused a trace of coolness to rise on the tailbone of the silver dragon who was pretending to be asleep.

In the dark space, a stream of lights suddenly lit up the passage.

But that was not the light of lanterns, but pairs of huge pupils, radiating dazzling light in the darkness, scanning the identity and aura of the visitor.

The golden heads of the nine-headed snake Hydra were raised high, and the golden lantern-like pupils scanned the silver dragon hanging on the red dragon's tail. The other heads stretched out, sniffing around the silver dragon's suddenly stiff body.

Fuu, fuu, the huge exhalations and hisses echoed in the darkness, making one's hair stand on end.

It was not until the strong snake stench filled the silver dragon's nostrils that Hydra's nine heads slowly retracted, plunging back into the darkness.

The light also disappeared instantly, leaving only the meaningful laughter of the nine-headed snake Hydra.

The young red dragon Kedi Luosi also let out a chuckle, and then stepped out of the darkness, welcoming true light.

Stepping out of this was another world, a series of sub-planes that were already facing death.

The elemental spirits of these sub-planes were captured by the empire's legions to arm the golem legions.

The world's minerals and resources were mined by the empire to develop the empire's military and stockpile the means of production.

The plane's energy was extracted by the empire and sent into the energy furnaces of the empire's military factories and major production departments.

The final residual value, the sub-plane itself, was also cut off by the empire's spellcasters and transformed into an exclusive demi-plane for the Magic Research Department's experiments.

Above these demi-planes, the existing general monitoring room was also incredibly vast, like a domed crystal glass room hanging in the dark of the void, connecting the various semi-planes currently being mined by the Golden Empire.

Dense passages were like teleportation gates existing in the monitoring room, in front of the screens carved from magical crystal.

From the projection of the magic crystal, the images of everything happening in those demi-planes could be clearly observed. Even the magic laboratories in the demi-planes were transparent, which made it convenient for the imperial legions stationed in the monitoring room to dispatch forces at any time to resolve and support any situations that occurred.

"Lord Kedi Luosi,"

"Honorable dragon,"

"Lord Kedi Luosi!"

The stationed legion warriors saluted one after another. The commander in charge was a dragon hybrid bear, four meters tall, wearing magic-powered heavy armor, with small eyes in his exposed head that revealed a glimmer of wisdom.

The young red dragon nodded, wagging his thick tail, and walked straight to the magic screen to watch the movements in the demi-plane.

Projected on the screen was the Magic Research Department's research on the origin of bloodlines. The project leader was the alchemy madman, Diqi.

Bound to the experimental platform was a high-level devil, with two wings, four claws, and the head of a goat. A long, chain-like tail drooped weakly on the ground, still trembling slightly.

The devil's usually cunning and insidious pupils were also occupied by fear and panic, but he could not speak. Even though his whole body was sedated and anesthetized with magical potions, he was still trembling.

At this moment, the mages and scholars who were holding magic instruments, preparing to dissect his body and study his bloodline, were the real devils, as well as the alchemy madman, Diqi, who was aiming at his lower body. He was the devil among devils.

In addition to this devil, there were many demon and monster test subjects waiting for the mages' favor in other laboratories.

Some apprentice scholars loaded some failed and broken products onto trolleys and sent them to another demi-plane.

That was the empire's prison for capturing demons, devils, and other monsters. Occasionally, when the empire opened up its territory and encountered monsters that were not discerning and did not surrender, they would also be thrown into this demi-plane prison.

When the apprentices poured the valueless materials, which even necromancers and liches did not want, into the prison plane, a group of hellhounds and scavenging canine monsters on the earth rushed up excitedly, clearing the trash for the empire.

The young red dragon Kedi Luosi could even see apprentice scholars and mage apprentices pulling out demons and devils anesthetized and sedated with magic potions in this demi-plane prison, loading them onto trolleys, and sending them to the laboratories of various mages.

The remaining unselected monsters, demons, and devils would sigh softly in the prison built with tens of meters thick mountain steel alloy and shrouded by a huge imperial magic array, rejoicing that they had survived another day, and then began to pray to the demon lords or devil dukes they were loyal to.

Praying that these powerful lords and dukes could fortunately favor them and rescue them.

But all this was in vain, because the entire semi-plane where the prison was located was under the suppression of the Golden Empire's King's Fortress Palace. The huge magic array was connected to the Dragon's King's Fortress, possessing an endless stream of energy.

Let alone demon lords, even gods, under the suppression of the ancient magic empire's shielding field, the magic dragon god's tranquil emblem, and the power of the ancestral red dragon, could not discover this place.

Legendary mages proficient in prophecy spells could not find this dark place through prophecy.

"Tsk, these mages are really cruel,"

The young red dragon exclaimed loudly. Of course, the red dragon Kedi Luosi really thought so. Once humans set their crooked minds in motion, even devils and demons would have to admit defeat, let alone dragons.

However, the young red dragon also belonged to the vested interests.

These studies on bloodlines were only for the better evolution and potential exploitation of dragon bloodlines. The noble dragons could not become experimental subjects, because they were few in number, so other races could only be wronged.

Searching for commonalities in the bloodline research of these creatures, and then using the stones of other mountains to overcome the difficulties of dragons.

The Golden Empire's Secret Method of Dragon Proof was therefore gradually maturing.

Although the current young red dragon could not learn the essence of this secret method, he could often abandon the interference of toxins in the dragon blood and would no longer let magma burn his brain at will.

He could also turn the violent and chaotic toxins in his blood into his own flames, which were not only more terrifying in power, but also accompanied by mental confusion when burned by dragon flames, greatly increasing their power.

It was a pity that the young red dragon did not give birth to the seeds of heart energy because of being affected by Kalong. He did not have this talent. Otherwise, the power of this red dragon's dragon breath would have been improved again.

As for the higher-level fields, they were not areas that this red dragon's talent could involve. In Kedi Luosi's impression, only the empire's dragon emperor could fully absorb the results of these mages' research and walk out of his own path.

Speaking of which, this young red dragon was even inferior to some of the newborn hatchlings in the empire in terms of talent in this area.

The two most outstanding hatchlings cultivated by the empire were already catching up with Kedi Luosi's pace on the road to cultivating the Dragon Proof.

Kedi Luosi shook his head, not thinking about these bad things, and then walked towards the next screen hundreds of meters away.

When the mages and scholars were integrating the empire's system, they accidentally made new discoveries through the barbarian's totem cultivation system and the magic construct technology left by the magic empire.

Through the combination of the two, with the convergence of the magic array and the totem's growability and adaptability constructed on the golem's body, they actually created a magic tattoo construct technology that could be carried on living beings.

This magic tattoo construct could imprint precise and complex magic array patterns on strong materials, obtaining various abilities and powers that one wanted to bless on living beings.

However, there were restrictions on the material requirements and the talent requirements of the living beings carrying the magic tattoo construct. The more talented a person was, the more magic tattoo constructs they could carry, and the more abilities they could acquire, and the more powerful they would naturally be.

With the blessing of the magic tattoo construct on the human body, coupled with the empire's magic-powered armor, the empire's military combat power would leap forward.

However, this technology was still in its infancy. Warriors carrying magic tattoo constructs with blessing power were experimenting in the demi-plane square. The sound of weapons clashing and shouts resounded.

The young red dragon Kedi Luosi shook his head. It might take a long time for this technology to develop, but in the future, it might be able to create magic tattoo constructs that could greatly enhance the abilities of dragons, allowing him to look forward to the day of harvesting the results.

Screens flashed in front of the young red dragon and the unconscious silver dragon, and the figures of goblins, the dragon blood goblins who accepted dragon blood potions to prolong their lives, also appeared on the magic projection screen.

This diamond goblin, famous among the goblin clan, was very popular, but no female goblin could form a partner with him.

In the words of this goblin, females would only affect the speed at which he developed artillery.

After seeing a magic light penetrating heavy cannon ten times thicker than him, this goblin personally launched this magic cannon, which was aimed at penetrating powerful magic barriers and would be loaded on the empire's floating cities in the future.

Whoosh,

With a soft whistle, a beam of intensely condensed magical light, as thick as an arm, shot out from the long cannon barrel, instantly piercing a low cliff thousands of meters away, creating a deep, clear hole melted through by the magical light cannon.

"Impressive power, impressive,"

The goblin jumped up and down from the ground, waving his hands in delight.

A single shot from such a heavy cannon was enough to evaporate all the magic power from a magic crystal the size of a heart, but in return, it delivered immense power. Even an adult dragon could not withstand two shots from this heavy cannon.

"Yes, this kind of magic light cannon, when mounted on a floating city, can also be connected to the energy reserves of the floating city. When it needs to be moved, it must use magic crystal stones as the energy core source, so that the power can be maximized."

The goblin frowned, looked at the somewhat melted cannon barrel, and said to the ogre assistant beside him, "However, the instantaneous power of this magic light cannon is too great, and the forging materials required are also very precious. Make a note of it and remember to ask the Magic Integration Department to allocate another 20,000 gold coins."

The young red dragon leisurely strolled along, until he was about to reach the corner of the monitoring room when he discovered the figures of the bronze dragon Alaina and the great fairy Raven's party.

Cadillac laughed and stepped into the passage in front of him, and the next moment appeared in an extremely wide greenhouse.

Here, the same kind of plant grew everywhere, with slender, needle-shaped leaves like split pieces, the whole resembling a palm, with a green epidermis, and fluffy white hairs on the young leaves behind, while the mature leaves were clean and hairless, but the edges were like serrations.

This was a wondrous plant discovered by the scholars in the territory when exploring the uses of each crop and resource.

Simply put, it was a type of tobacco plant in the world of Acania.

The taste was similar to the tobacco on the planet of the legalized brothels, but even more refreshing.

In the scholars' experiments, the finished product made from this plant could refresh the mind, invigorate the spirit, and even benefit mages in their meditation practice.

However, it had a certain toxicity and addictive nature, but under the scholars' improvements, these negative effects were weakened, and even the average adult's quality and willpower could quit dozens of times a day without any problem.

Moreover, this plant product could not only become an entertainment product, but also become a spellcasting material for illusions and mental aspects, just like the blue magic powder brought by some wandering merchants, but the effect was weaker, but the cost was lower.

The pixie sprite, Raven, revered as a great fairy in the outside world, fluttered her wings and flew around the bronze dragon Alaina, chirping, "A novice elven druid can easily plant a large area of this plant, and if we pixie sprites plant it, the harvest is completely guaranteed."

The bronze dragon Alaina shook her huge head, the dragon's unique tone sounding extremely majestic, "This may also cause some harm and impact on the empire's lower-class citizens. Although the benefits are great, it may not be a good thing for the empire."

On the path of the Dragon's Proof secret method, this bronze dragon had gone extremely far, and had already begun to be able to abandon the temptation brought by wealth and gold coins, and objectively view the two sides of the problem from another perspective.

The steel dragon Midir's thin body looked like a weak young dragon in front of the bronze dragon. A metallic voice came from her mouth, but in the red dragon Cadillac's ears, he could already imagine the black, oily bad water bubbling from this steel dragon's mouth.

"It doesn't matter, we can make two versions of the product, one with an increased dose, sold to those people outside the empire and those former nobles who have fled to the empire, which can increase the price and squeeze the gold coins out of their hands,"

"The products in the empire can have the dosage and toxicity reduced and made into entertainment products," the steel dragon Midir's vertical pupils narrowed slightly, and the dragon's double standards instantly came up with an idea.

Charlize stood aside, silent.

The bronze dragon Alaina remained noncommittal, turned her head, and her vertical pupils did not look at the young red dragon who had stepped into the greenhouse, but at the silver dragon who was still in a coma.

"Flo, have you seen enough? Wake up if you've seen enough."