Under the Red Dragon

Afternoon, the sunlight was intense.

But on the summit of the Dragon's Nest, theoretically the territory of the Evil Dragons and supposed to be a dark and terrifying place,

the Azurebolt Fortress standing on the summit was like a divine temple where gods resided.

The entire Azurebolt Fortress was constructed from sea-forged stone from the ocean. The gray-blue sea-forged stone was smooth and delicate, like the scales of an aged blue dragon, naturally exuding the scent of the sea.

The gray-blue fortress reflected speckles of light under the sunlight, landing on the rough sandy ground that had been leveled but gradually weathered and desertified by the long-term blue dragon nest effect.

The reflection of the sand itself and the light of the castle adorned this vast sandy area like a desert glittering in the midday sun, with shattered gold scattered across the ground.

But as the two blue dragons in Azurebolt began to enter a period of slumber, gradually losing control of their subjective consciousness as they transitioned to the next stage, the magic from the blue dragons began to permeate the surrounding environment through the field radiation of the nest effect.

A cloud as heavy as lead quietly gathered above Azurebolt Fortress, rotating with the slow and deep breathing frequency of the two blue dragons.

Within the cloud, there began to be muffled rumbling thunder and flashes of electric light streaking through the air.

The blue dragon Kalit and her mate, the blue dragon Akziel, the two oldest dragons in the original dragon group, were welcoming the end of their adolescence and beginning to cross into adulthood through slumber.

The adolescence, youth, and adulthood of dragons are known as the golden age of the dragon race, and it is also their crucial period of transformation.

Unlike other races, such as humans, who must cross the legendary stage to achieve a fundamental leap in growth,

each sleep stage that dragons experience from infancy can bring them this leap-like growth.

The cumulative growth accumulated through repeated sleep transformations is sufficient at a certain age to acquire changes comparable to the destiny choices that other races must experience in the legendary stage.

The blue dragon race, for the most part, is sufficient to be comparable to legends when transforming from an extremely old dragon into an ancient dragon.

And other races who have experienced the destiny choices of legends, those legendary beings, can acquire unimaginable power from the mortal world.

Of course, the destiny choice of a legend is not necessarily a powerful force, perhaps just a talent.

The world comprehensively examines everything a living being has learned, thought, mastered, and possessed, and grants the talent brought about by the essential change when a living being leaps into legend.

Like the legendary demon Sacreless, after analysis by the ancestral red dragon, it was learned that this guy's talent acquired through the choice of destiny was the ability to carry hundreds or thousands of abyssal source powers.

And the legendary law of destiny is a further step, a power that only the best among legends can acquire. That is the fate that the legends create for themselves by choosing.

The most outstanding among them can even break through the barriers of fate and imprint their unique mark in the roots of the world.

The dragon race only needs to continue to pass through sleep to acquire the power that those legends can only obtain through hard work.

And above the ancient dragon, there are clear paths such as demigod dragons and god-sealing dragons.

And the blue dragon Akziel and the blue dragon Kalit have already taken a solid step towards the great goal.

The summit was silent, with only the occasional bursts of thunder and lightning from the storm clouds.

The golden kobold guards in the Golden Empire, clad in special standard armor, firmly guarded the surroundings of this mountaintop castle, watching over every corner, to prevent some lucky, bold, but foolish fellows from disturbing the slumber of the Azure King and his mate.

These golden kobolds have now iterated for several generations in the special environment of the Golden Empire, and the group's benign mutations that once occurred have tended to stabilize and develop slowly.

The height of adult golden kobolds is already comparable to that of formerly ordinary, malnourished farmers, roughly around 1.7 meters.

However, golden kobolds are far stronger and smarter than those malnourished farmers in other noble territories.

Even more terrifying is that these golden kobolds, once in contact with dragons for a long time and affected by dragons, are more likely to undergo infectious mutations than the original kobolds, becoming dragon-blooded kobolds.

And the dragon-blooded warlocks that can be born among the dragon-blooded kobolds have increased in leaping proportions in the statistics of the imperial bureaucracy.

This benefits from the increasing strength of the dragon group in the Golden Empire, the influence of dragon blood, and the nourishment of the Tree of Life, which has taken root in the major cities of the empire and is regaining its vitality and beginning to move towards the growth stage, as well as abundant resources.

Except for races with relatively long lifespans and slow iterations such as humans and elves, whose changes are more subtle, only manifesting as newborns being generally stronger, having higher survival rates, and being easier to enlighten.

Other races with shorter lifespans, such as goblins and gnolls, have begun to undergo sudden benign mutations like kobolds compared to their original races.

Just like ordinary goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears belonging to the same goblin species.

Hobgoblins are the larger cousins of goblins, taller and fiercer than ordinary goblins. Bugbears are the most powerful leaders and ruling-class warriors among all goblin-like creatures.

However, the golden goblins, after being influenced by the empire and undergoing long-term benign evolution and iteration, have become as strong and tall as their wild cousins, the hobgoblins, and far smarter than these wild cousins.

The chaotic attributes of the goblin race have also gradually been assimilated by the order of the empire. The new generation of goblins are completely mutated variants.

This has become a relatively noteworthy important topic in the Golden Empire's research project on civilization influence and order assimilation. Even the ancestral red dragon is quite concerned about this research and the academic discussions it has sparked.

Because this means that perhaps most biological races in the world can be guided to collective evolution and benign mutation, and this only requires time and a stable environment as costs.

And with the step-by-step rise of the Golden Empire, especially in the months since the Green Algae River Alliance, it has attracted countless eyes from the surrounding area.

In addition to the influx of humans, which has been controlled by other civilized forces in the North, the proportion of other intelligent races has begun to increase in the Golden Empire.

Goblins, trolls, ogres, and other creatures in the wild, undeveloped wilderness are pouring into the Golden Empire at an unprecedented rate, litter after litter.

Even races from the frost plains, some yetis and frost giants, have begun to set foot in the Golden Empire.

In the increasingly complex and diversified empire, conflicts have begun to increase, consuming the energy of many dragon lords.

For example, the golden kobolds and golden goblins in the empire have begun to deny that those wild members of their species are the same race as them.

Not only do the races of the Golden Empire have a high opinion of themselves and reject outsiders of the same bloodline.

Some officials from goblin and kobold races have even begun to try to propose to the Imperial Central Council that those foreign goblins and kobolds should be demoted to slaves and only be able to be on par with the native races of the empire after undergoing transformation and evolution.

Fortunately, the Golden Empire never convicts based on speech. These officials were only reprimanded by their superiors, saying that it affected the empire's cultural cohesion and racial unity, and fined several hundred copper coins as punishment.

Recently, the copper dragon lord Alfred has been troubled by this, wanting to research a better propaganda idea to help reconcile this contradiction.

So the second Golden Empire population census plan was incorporated into the procedure at the suggestion of the copper dragon Alfred.

Karon Kogmora, the emperor of the empire, quietly watched the changes in his empire without giving any opinions, only allowing the dragon lords and the officials of the empire to handle it.

Whether it was the natural evolution of social forms and consciousness, or the influence of dark hands brought about by the empire's growing influence, in the emperor's eyes, it seemed less interesting than discussing with the pixie Raven how to print new cards.

Although the tentacles extended by other forces and most of the empire's officials did not know, these dragon lords at the top of every creature and class in the empire knew the reason.

Not only was the ancestral red dragon digesting what it had gained, but the empire was also secretly digesting the results it had obtained from managing the planes.

The rhythm of the outside world could not affect the internal development rhythm of the Golden Empire at all, because the pace of the empire was the will of the dragon.

After the two blue dragons and the adolescent white dragon Lonnie successively entered into slumber, the dragons in the dragon group ushered in a rather dark moment.

Unlike the stable state when Karon left with the dragon group, the current Golden Empire is digesting and developing at the same time.

Mist Dragon Deniro, the dragon in charge of national defense, had not even laid down in his newly built nest a few times. He was always busy traveling through the teleportation arrays of various provinces and cities, so that this mist dragon actually contracted teleportation array motion sickness recently.

Of course, when this mist dragon rarely asked the ancestral red dragon for leave, he was rejected.

The ancestral red dragon did not want to suffer himself, so he had to make this mist dragon, who had always had lofty ambitions, suffer.

When the Mist Dragon Deniro had just stepped out of the Dragon King Fortress, the ancestral red dragon summoned the empire's history compilation officials. He ordered these officials to quickly write down the Mist Dragon Deniro's contributions to the empire and then tout them greatly.

Then the ancestral red dragon ordered his maid Charlene to give this manuscript to the mist dragon Deniro, and a magical thing happened.

Mist Dragon Deniro's motion sickness was actually cured.

So the ancestral red dragon, in the respectful gaze of his administrative assistant (scapegoat) Charlene, gained the title of Imperial Divine Doctor.

The pixie Raven also clamored and ridiculed to print a Divine Doctor · Karon on the newly released card, but was ruthlessly suppressed by the ancestral red dragon's claw and fell into endless flattery.

Together with the pixie, the little Achilles, who was protesting with a pout, was also suppressed.

Achilles was easily suppressed by Karon's tail. In fact, Karon's weight is now calculated in thousands of tons. If Karon did not deliberately control it, only half of his tail would be able to crush the empire's future behemoth into meat pie.

Little Achilles's protest to the ancestral red dragon came from a kind of betrayal and deception.

This little guy asked the ancestral red dragon to take the small bell that hung on the door of the study as a wind chime.

But the ancestral red dragon, who saw through Achilles's intentions, did not allow it, not because of the greed and possessiveness in the dragon's bones.

But this bell was cast based on powerful group transformation magic, and its power was too strong. For Achilles, it was like a child wielding a sharp sword, parading through the streets.

Although it was not cast by the red dragon himself, and lacked a lot of power. But under the ancestral red dragon's group transformation magic, even the dragon lords without relevant preparations may not be able to escape.

If such a magical secret treasure is lost in Achilles's hands, the consequences are unimaginable.

But the ancestral red dragon blessed little Achilles with a magic spell, and vowed to Achilles that with his magic blessing, he could beat up those dragon whelps at will.

So Achilles came back with a bruised nose and swollen face.

When Achilles did not take the initiative to initiate a battle, those evil dragon cubs would still take into account Achilles's status as the emperor's adopted son and only dare to mock him with words.

Once Achilles took the initiative to initiate a battle, those dragon whelps would not be polite, because that is how the order of the dragon group is established.

Achilles did not expect that the ancestral red dragon had blessed him with a version of the foreknowledge spell improved by the ancestral red dragon himself, which had the effect of foreknowledge and could provide real-time feedback and summarize combat skills, but that was all.

So Achilles, who boasted that he would fight ten at a time, was beaten up by a crowd of dragon whelps.

In a fit of anger, little Achilles went to the ancestral red dragon to protest, but was fooled by the red dragon with a few words, so Achilles continued to challenge those dragon whelps with the second magic spell blessed by the red dragon, full of arrogance.

This time Achilles became smarter. He only challenged one dragon whelp at a time.

The result was not unexpected. Achilles, who had no inheritance, was beaten up again. Fortunately, this time the magic spell that the ancestral red dragon blessed this little guy with was a continuous healing magic spell, so that Achilles would not be covered in bumps.

When Achilles once again went to the ancestral red dragon to protest, the ancestral red dragon patted his chest and guaranteed that there would be no more than three times. This time, he would definitely bless little Achilles with a very 'powerful' magic spell, guaranteed in the name of the emperor of the empire.

So Achilles once again believed the red dragon's words, but Achilles became smarter. He already knew that he should practice the magic effect of the red dragon's blessing in advance.

When Achilles transformed into a little giant, twice as tall as his original self and eight times heavier, he felt full of strength and confidence.

So Achilles was predictably beaten up again.

The enlarge spell can indeed allow Achilles to compete with those dragon whelps. But the magic power and energy that the ancestral red dragon blessed this little guy with needed to be provided by Achilles himself.

Achilles was only majestic for thirty seconds, and before he could even finish his revengeful words, he ran out of energy. After these lessons, Achilles deeply understood a truth.

In the future, before fighting, you can't talk too much. Also, you can't believe other people's words casually.

When the ancestral red dragon was nestling in his castle digesting what he had gained and providing a good education for the next generation of the empire, the other dragon lords were as busy as the ancestral red dragon. However, these lords were caught up in busy affairs.

While the Thunder Lord Dos, who had been gloriously promoted to Deputy Chief of the Imperial Government, was gritting his teeth and burying himself in the mountain of official documents, he also had to take time to supervise and educate the newly arrived Blue Dragonspawn.

With the help of the Thunder Lord Dos, the Bronze Dragon Alina should have been much more relaxed.

However, the Progenitor Red Dragon placed another crown of power on the Bronze Dragon Alina's head. The ever-expanding empire needed to establish an independent tax inspection department.

The Bronze Dragon, who was familiar with this type of work, became the first choice. What else could Alina say? She was already used to it.

Occasionally, Alina would also open her mind in rare moments of leisure, thinking that perhaps the Progenitor Red Dragon should use Greater Polymorph to turn herself into a beast of burden; that would be more appropriate.

However, what no one expected was that the head of the tax inspection department, in addition to the White Dragon Gemott as the chief official, was actually the Progenitor Gold Dragon Obiraj as the deputy.

As the envoy sent by the Southern Good Dragon Alliance, the adult Silver Dragon Fro, reached a compromise with the empire, the Golden Empire and the Southern Good Dragon Alliance jointly issued a statement.

The Progenitor Gold Dragon Obiraj was only here to study in the Golden Empire, and because he admired the imperial culture created by the dragons, he voluntarily stayed in the empire.

As for the Black Dragon Lord Rosani, this dragon who had just taken office as the chief official of the Imperial Inquisition, was busy catching mice everywhere in the empire.

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The Ocean Dragon Naxon, who was in charge of the law, had recently begun to collude with the Steel Dragon Midir.

But it was not a collusion between dragons, but a collusion akin to being in cahoots.

The cause was the vampire species from the Forest Kingdom.

As the Golden Empire's trade and exchanges with the Forest Kingdom increased, these vampires gradually became active within the empire.

Perhaps the bloodlines of the various races within the empire attracted these vampires, so these vampires, not daring to violate the laws of the empire, sent servants every day to purchase a lot of fresh blood from the gray areas of various cities.

This led to many races in various cities voluntarily selling their blood every day in exchange for some shiny things.

The Steel Dragon Midir occasionally saw this situation and was immediately shocked.

How could this be allowed? This practice of vampires was simply no different from tax evasion and illegal activities.

So the Steel Dragon Midir found the Ocean Dragon Naxon. The two dragons hit it off immediately. Originally, when the Steel Dragon, who was in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, needed to formulate policies and related laws, he would contact the Ocean Dragon Naxon.

In this way, within the major cities of the Golden Empire, shrouded in the dark claws of the Steel Dragon Midir and the Ocean Dragon Naxon, inspired by the vampires, some clauses were added to the empire's tax laws.

As for the White Dragon Camide, this dragon lord, who was usually idle, also managed the work of the Directorate of Construction because of his serious attitude.

The Directorate of Construction was located in a tall mountain outside the newly built city of the empire—Ginkgo City.

This place was full of ginkgo trees, and whenever they ripened, they would attract many birds and beasts to eat.

But this place was also the most stable area detected by the empire for connecting to the earth's core energy and magma.

So the Infrastructure Construction Department of the empire dispatched craftsmen to blast a pit in this huge mountain with high-energy explosives, and then excavated along the pit, hollowing out the entire mountain to build it into the forging workshop of the Imperial Directorate of Construction.

In the empire, where technology had developed for nearly ten years, there was no need to rely on the power of dragons. These ordinary craftsmen could complete this project with tools.

The dwarven artisan officer Kragon and the rest of the dwarven blacksmiths gathered here, because the work of the Directorate of Construction, although seemingly simple, required extremely skilled forging techniques.

Most importantly, this project needed to be kept extremely confidential. Only high-level artisans whose status had reached a certain level could receive this work.

The scorching magma from the ground, mobilized and confined by the spellcasters, became the fuel for the workshop's furnace.

If more firepower was needed, not only did the furnaces built by the dwarves have switches to increase the temperature, but they could also draw more earth's core magma as a supplement at any time.

If even higher temperatures were needed, fire elemental energy bricks drawn from the empire's small secondary plane exploration corps were the prepared high-grade energy source.

These dwarves wore soft gloves woven from asbestos, their bare, muscular upper bodies covered with spots of scars, their dark faces flushed red in front of the heat-emitting furnaces.

Heavy hammers were wielded in their hands, smashing out sparks, hammering, quenching, and shaping the special metal materials on the anvil.

The dwarves shouted loudly, and occasionally other races of high-level artisans roared, echoing throughout the space with clanging sounds.

There were also the sounds of quenching hissing with steam, and the roar of magic-powered engines, like a chaotic and passionate major key.

The White Dragon Camide shook his heads and followed the workshop supervisor, listening to the explanation of this fire dwarf sage who had moved his entire clan into the empire's territory because of the empire's development of the fire elemental plane.

Of course, with the strength of an entire clan, there were only a dozen of these fire dwarves. These usually unfriendly fire dwarves were dwarf-like creatures born in the fire elemental plane, and they were also a race accustomed to order.

In front of the empire's 'Crimson Roar' Cadiros, these fire dwarves wisely chose another pile of gems as moving compensation.

After arriving in the empire, these fire dwarves saw the Progenitor Red Dragon—Karon Kogmora, so they worshiped the Progenitor Red Dragon as the incarnation of flame, and were therefore incorporated into the Golden Empire's diverse civilization.

It is worth mentioning that this group of fire dwarves, because they are good at managing, are now entrusted by the Progenitor Red Dragon to manage their Fire Peak lair.

Some rare metal minerals born under the influence of the Progenitor Red Dragon are also being mined and exploited by these fire dwarves, filling the empire's inventory and the Progenitor Red Dragon's treasure trove.

"Stos, how many artisans are there here?" the White Dragon Camide asked curiously.

Looking around, even a dragon could not see the end of the forging unit at first glance. Scorching heat rushed towards him, but it could not cause any impact on this white dragon.

On the frost-like scales, a layer of flowing white mist, like an attached energy armor, isolated these high temperatures that the white dragon disliked.

The fire dwarf named Stos was also a master of forging, and was also a butler loyal to the Progenitor Red Dragon, so he was appointed as the chief official of the Directorate of Construction's forging workshop.

"There are a total of three thousand registered senior artisans here, but in fact there are many artisan officers who have obtained intermediate artisan assessment certificates. Because of the shift system, there are probably three thousand five hundred artisans in the forging workshop now."

Stos shouted loudly, although he was only a dwarf-like creature, he had a naturally loud voice like a dwarf.

"Well, very good. The empire's situation is really, really," the White Dragon Camide shook his head and squeezed out a sentence: "Full of vitality, everything is competing to grow."

Although the fire dwarf Stos felt that the words in the White Dragon Lord's mouth were good words, a strange feeling emerged in his heart, causing this fire dwarf to just 'uh' once.

The White Dragon Camide did not care about these details. He paced through the wide aisle, watching these artisans repeatedly forge, quench, and shape pieces of metal materials, and frames of semi-finished products accumulated around the artisans' feet, and was not surprised.

Because the Golden Empire's assembly line production had already expanded to every industry field that could be mass-produced. Even in terms of magic, the assembly line production system had long been applied to magic-guided machinery and magical items.

Only in the last few unit workshop forging tables did they begin to distinguish types and carry out different types of assembly and branding.

What the White Dragon Camide was looking at were the special magical metals hammered and forged by the artisans, specifically used to carry the empire's power domain magic arrays, requiring extremely high magic affinity and spiritual capacity.

In the forging process, the properties of the material could not be greatly damaged, so these experienced senior artisans were needed to complete this tedious work.

However, the White Dragon Camide's four eyes were dazzled, and he could not see any clues.

However, as the person in charge of presiding over the Directorate of Construction, he could not just simply come and take a look, otherwise he might lose dragon.

So the White Dragon Camide's mind turned and he had an idea.

"I have to think about what Karon would do here. Well, simulating Karon's behavior instantly gave me a clever idea. In the future, I will name this clever state Karon State!"

Camide coughed twice, turned his head and asked, "Stos, I am very relieved to leave the forging workshop to you, and the empire is also very relieved. You have done a very good job."

"So if the forging workshop has any difficulties, you can tell me at any time, and I can solve it with a wave of my claw."

The White Dragon Camide looked at the fire dwarf Stos's instantly serious expression and could not help but silently pray in his heart: "Please don't have any problems, Karon can handle it, I don't know if I can handle it."

But the fire dwarf's words shattered the white dragon's fantasy, "Your Majesty Camide, the workshop's work has indeed encountered difficulties."

"The empire's low-level officials and low-level generals are fine. Their employment tokens, whether they are seals, badges, or waist tags, can carry the power based on their positions."

The fire dwarf's thick eyebrows twisted up, like two worms dancing. He said, "But for those senior generals and senior officials, these small things cannot carry more magic arrays at the prescribed power scale, which also means that they cannot obtain stronger power."

"Based on the experiments of the Inquisition knights, seals and waist tags of ordinary size can only carry the power scale up to the centurion level at most."

"Even if the magic array is reduced by magic construct golems and magic纹构装 technology, it only reaches the lower limit of the power scale of the chiliarch level at most." The fire dwarf looked at the white dragon lord, sincerely waiting for his opinion.

"Phew, so it's this, you scared me,"

The White Dragon Camide's heart flashed with rejoicing, and he blurted out without thinking, "Then make their employment certificates as big as possible. If they are the size of a door panel, any magic array should be able to be engraved on it."

The fire dwarf Stos understood the dragon's aesthetics. Big is beautiful, and big is powerful.

But he still bit the bullet and asked, "Your Majesty Camide, are you going to let those senior officials carry a door panel to work, or let those senior generals carry a door panel to the battlefield?"

The White Dragon Camide raised his sharp claws and scratched his head with some embarrassment. "Yes, not all creatures are as powerful as dragons. Even if dragons carry a door panel to fight, it will be very inconvenient."

The White Dragon Camide's gaze wandered over those artisan officers, watching those artisan officers polish the surface of regular metal pieces, and then carefully engrave the scale magic arrays that mobilize the power of the power domain on both sides of the metal pieces.

Depending on the rank of the official position, the complexity of these scale magic arrays also increased.

Then, using some shells that fit the core of this magic array with different decorative grades, the core of the magic array was wrapped up. In this way, the empire's employment token had been simply manufactured halfway successfully.

A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in the White Dragon Camide's eyes, and his originally unconsciously swinging tail swept up quickly.

"Stos, I know how to solve this problem."

The fire dwarf Stos showed a surprised expression and asked, "Your Majesty Camide?"

"Look, those artisan officers are just using these materials on a plane," the White Dragon Camide gestured with his dragon claws, muttering in his mouth, "Since you can't increase the area of these materials, you can thicken the area of these materials."

"That is, add a few more layers, just like this, like that," the White Dragon Camide put a few metal pieces together.

Under the White Dragon's messy gestures, the fire dwarf quickly understood the White Dragon's meaning, "Your Majesty means to use the available area of three-dimensional stacking, right?"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes," the White Dragon Camide nodded quickly, "You are very smart, you guessed my meaning."

The fire dwarf's eyes lit up, but soon he fell into contemplation again, muttering in his mouth, "This approach is indeed possible. Before, I was limited by the limitations of thinking and always used the approach of planar extension of the magic array."

"However, in this way, the extensibility and connectivity of the magic array is a technical problem that requires high skills."

After thinking for a moment, the fire dwarf Stos finally nodded, "Your Majesty Camide's idea is very reasonable."

"Hahaha," the White Dragon Camide put his two claws on his waist, supporting the dragon's body with his hind limbs, and stood up halfway, "What other problems are there, tell me together, I feel that I am very smart today!"

Thank you for your votes, everyone. Well, write a little bit of general narrative, I don't know if you think it's OK. Although there are many things I want to write, I always feel that writing too detailed is a bit of a water splash.