novelraw Chapter 769 - 769 758 The Trace of the Legendary Dragon
Chapter 769 - 769 758 The Trace of the Legendary Dragon
Chapter 769: Chapter 758: The Trace of the Legendary Dragon Chapter 769: Chapter 758: The Trace of the Legendary Dragon Within the Roghagen Subcontinent, the conflict between the Beastman and Humans continues unabated. Both high-ranking officials from the Beastman and Human factions are focused on how to resist and annihilate each other’s forces, attempting to seize each other’s resources, strengthen themselves, they fail to notice some quiet changes happening within their own continent.
For instance, dragons have disappeared from many places, a fact discovered by many powerful adventurers who enjoy venturing into forests and wildernesses. Being outside of political control, their findings didn’t appeal much to human rulers, because such changes were not necessarily bad news for humans.
However, gradually, through the collective organization of the Adventurers’ Guild, information from various places was gathered and the human higher-ups realized that giant dragons were disappearing across the whole continent at a rapid rate.
Upon investigating the discovered dragon nests, they realized that the disappearance of these dragons was organized. Their treasures were all scrupulously gathered, with not a single copper coin left behind. One might conclude that these dragons faced no threats and relocated under completely safe conditions.
Such circumstances led some darker, or more cunning humans, to stir up theories of a dragon threat. The idea that the wide-scale disappearance of dragons was due to some high-level dragon conspiracy against humans echoed among them.
However, these theories drew little serious attention. In the eyes of the truly far-sighted rulers, the Era of Giant Beasts had long since passed. Even if the Dragon Race could suppress humans in specific regions with its high-level power, they were absolutely vulnerable at the grassroots level. In terms of sheer numbers, the Dragon Race couldn’t compare to humans. They simply lacked a basis for ruling once more.
And on the continent where the number of dragons is dwindling, it hasn’t significantly impacted the overall situation. It hasn’t stirred up much disturbance, because after dragons reach the Ancient Dragon stage, they typically remain low profile. Thus, their disappearance doesn’t really affect the continent’s primary wars.
The slight impact is perceptible only among the lower-level adventurers. Dragons have become legendary creatures to them. Several decades after the disappearance of dragons, some ignorant scholars even began to speculate that dragons were illusory and didn’t exist in the world at all.
However, dragons have not gone extinct on the Roghagen Subcontinent. On a vast peninsula, blocked by the Transverse Mountain Range and completely isolated from the mainland, dragons still exist, even growing in numbers. Among them are the mainstream Giant Dragons such as the Five-Colored Dragons, and Metallic Dragons. Every known type of dragon can be found here.
On this peninsula, there’s even a country with a scarce population, but highly advanced magic technology. This country consists of multi-races including humans, beastmen, dwarves, elves, giants, and even nagas and mermaids in the sea. It’s a diverse nation.
The human inhabitants of this country are increasing every moment, as its ruler is constantly snatching populations from the mainland, according to the orders of a certain influential figure.
In reality, amid a war-ridden continent, acquiring populations is not difficult as long as you can ensure that the lower-class commoners have food to eat, houses to live in, and clothes to wear, most impoverished civilians are willing to follow you.
Hence, a certain Dragon Knight named Bernard, the current Grand Duke of the Red Dragon Duchy, could get tens of thousands of people every month through several high-ranking officials in the Guishuang Kingdom. As a result, the Duchy is able to cultivate tens of thousands of acres of fertile land each month.
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“Your Majesty, we have pretty much recruited all the dragons on this continent. Except for those that may still exist in remote places, we’ve recruited all those we could find,” reported Mia, who was tall and leggy, to Muria.
“Alright, let’s stop looking for the remaining dragons, activate Xena Pus, we should move on to the next subcontinent. We’ve been here for six years, it’s time to set off.”
When the cost doesn’t match the reward, one should give up. Muria won’t exhaust Xena Pus’s manpower limitlessly for the few dragons that have yet to be found.
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“Submit or be sealed by me, choose!”
In the sandstorm-stricken desert, a huge dragon was ruthlessly trampled to the ground by a towering Titan, who held a massive battle halberd in his hand, its blade threateningly against the Ancient Blue Dragon’s throat, its dazzling gold edge pulsating menacingly on the blade.
“I choose to submit,” said the Ancient Blue Dragon who had been sleeping comfortably under the yellow sand before suddenly being dragged out and beaten. He felt if he dared to say no, the battle halberd on his neck would be immediately cut down. He could feel the undisguised hostility from the Titan standing on him.
“Swear allegiance to the nine-faced Dragon God, Aeo!” Muria coldly looked at the ancient blue dragon, which had grown up into a Five-Colored Dragon, every single one of which had blood on their hands.
Sympathize with such a maliciously grown dragon? Are you out of your mind? Muria spared it because it was a dragon too, so instead of killing it, he made it swear allegiance to him. But even so, Muria still regarded them as tools.
The growth process of a giant dragon requires resource consumption. Even the so-called sleeping to get stronger involves choosing a sleep location rich in elements, which in itself is a kind of resource, one that needs to be competed and fought for.
“Great Aeo Majesty might not respond to me, can I swear to the Mother of Dragons instead?”
“Stop it with the tricks,” Muria kicked this blue dragon fiercely. This dragon had not been in the Ancient Dragon stage for very long and once it entered the Ancient Dragon stage, all Five-colored dragons would be summoned by the Dragon Empress, and have the chance to enter Divine Kingdom. Swearing to the Five Colored Dragon Mother had no binding power.
In the end, under the threat of the weapon, the ancient dragon made a solemn vow.
“Let a dragon come and take this guy back, educate him on the rules that should be observed in Xena Pus.”
Seeing the dragon make a solemn vow, Muria shouted behind him. With his voice, a black space rift opened behind him, after which a graceful silver dragon emerged. She looked at the ancient blue dragon laying on the ground covered in wounds without any response. However, seeing Muria completely unharmed and enveloped by thunder, she had a worried look in her eyes.
“Prince Mureya, this is already the third ancient dragon, don’t you want to take a break?”
“It’s alright, my battle power is still abundant, I can fight seven more battles.” Muria cheerfully rejected the good intention of the silver dragon. He felt that through these battles, his strength was improving. Even though the pace was slow, he could feel it and he was eager to be promoted to Legendary 4th rank ahead of time.
After speaking, Muria didn’t bother looking at the helpless Silver Dragon. He tore the space and went to another part of the continent. Once an ancient dragon appeared here, there would definitely not be a second one.
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The clear water is so pure because it has a source.
When he arrived at the seventh continent, Muria, who had left Xena Pus and started to search for ancient dragons to fight all over the continent, also ordered his adult dragons and ancient dragons to search for wild dragons locally.
Muria was not satisfied with the current scale of the Dragon Clan Academy, which has fewer than two thousand students. He wanted to expand the number of teachers and students. His demand for them was unlimited, as the dragon’s greed is endless.
The dragons that started from Xena Pus and went to various places on the continent to find wild counterparts, no matter what kind of dragon they found, they solved it if they could and reported it if they couldn’t. If an ancient dragon was found, it was reported directly to Muria.
The so-called solution was only to defeat and seal it, and bring all of them back to Xena Pus, especially those young dragons and dragon eggs, and all were brought back.
For these young dragons, baby dragons, and dragon eggs, Muria even made a detailed merit-system for his dragonkin. Bringing back six chicks under the age of fifteen would be equivalent to capturing an adult dragon, and of course, the rewards would be divided according to the different types of dragons.
If a legendary dragon egg could be brought back, the merit obtained would naturally be different from that of a regular dragon egg. However, no dragon has achieved this merit so far, after all, legendary dragons are extraordinarily rare. Muria has only seen his father capture one when he was young.
“Your Highness, we have found traces of a legendary dragon.”
Just as Muria was madly looking for the Five-colored dragons that had been promoted to the ancient dragon stage all over the continent, a very surprising message came into his ear. Hearing the news, Muria took it very seriously and hurried back to Xena Pus.
“Tell me, where is this legendary dragon?” Muria, who had just returned to Xena Pus, asked impatiently. “By the way, what kind of legendary dragon is it? A Power-ability dragon or a Rainbow dragon?”
Although according to legend there are three kinds of legendary dragon species, Muria didn’t believe in the existence of the third kind of legendary dragon at all. In his opinion, the existence of a Time Dragon was more like a figment of some people’s imagination. How could there be a dragon that controls time? Time is absolute and irreversible, a fact that Muria has always firmly believed in.
“Your Majesty, it’s a Rainbow dragon. We didn’t find the exact whereabouts of this legendary dragon; a young one came across a fable about this dragon in a city. He was then desperate for merit and reported it as soon as possible.”