This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!

Chapter 228 - 43: Subdued Ups and Downs; Legendary Dragon Race_2

"A reward for you."

The Cyan Dragon, excited by the reward, charged forward, biting and tearing at the corpse of the Abyssal Creature with its bloodthirsty jaws.

Every time he went hunting in the Abyss, Udi would hunt a bit more to avoid not meeting the Banquet’s requirements, so there would always be leftover food each time.

Udi couldn’t be bothered to take these leftovers, so he always let the Cyan Dragon deal with them.

Watching the Cyan Dragon happily eating, he did not linger long; an Any Gate appeared, and Udi stepped into it.

With a shift of perspective, he had already returned to the Black Castle Dragon Pool.

Back at the Dragon Pool, Udi had not yet settled down to practice Magic for a few days when war broke out again on the side of the Yalbit Kingdom.

After more than five years of silence, the Sha Hua Fishman swept in once more.

While this was not the worst for the Yalbit Kingdom, the worst was that the Sha Hua Fishman convinced the Centaur Clan, and the two clans launched a devastating invasion against the Kingdom.

Faced with this, the Yalbit Kingdom made a painful choice; if you attack, we will retreat, and during the retreat, try to take the Kingdom’s citizens away, giving up large areas of territory to the Centaur and Sha Hua Fishman.

This move by the Kingdom was undoubtedly drinking poison to quench thirst.

Yet at least in the short term, its effect was favorable.

Restricted by population, the Centaur Clan could not wage a war of too great a depth. Even after more than five years of breeding, the Centaur Clan’s population was barely over a hundred thousand, only restoring to the scale of ten years ago.

For the Centaur, who already occupied the Northern Wasteland and half the southern territory of the Kingdom, they actually had no need for more land. Even with the lands they now occupied, a hundred thousand Centaurs couldn’t control them.

Thus, after some rampage, the extended battle line of the Centaur Clan ultimately returned to their own territory.

The Sha Hua Fishman, on the other hand, did not retreat but lacked the strength to continue advancing deeply.

Because Low Level Sha Hua Fishman couldn’t leave the water for long, and since the Sha Hua Fishman Army was mainly composed of Low Level Fishman, this grand invasion, which seemed it would destroy the nation, was actually all show with little impact.

However, any observant person could see the terror of the Sha Hua Fishman.

The Sha Hua Fishman began to use Magic to transform the lands relinquished by the Kingdom, creating lakes and directing underground waters to spout, altering the flow of the Laputa River, using every method to create water bodies.

Tribes of Sha Hua Fishman would then migrate to these newly created lakes, tributaries, and waters, where they would reproduce, plunder, and grow.

This was thoroughly eroding the Kingdom’s foundation.

Unlike the Centaur, no matter how strong, the Centaur’s limited population size couldn’t quickly expand, making it difficult to truly shake the Kingdom’s foundation.

But it was different for the Sha Hua Fishman; their actions made everyone in the Kingdom, from King Ivan to Low Level nobles and commoners, feel a choking sense of doom.

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"Damn it."

Seventh King Ivan, with a somewhat grim expression, looked at the magical dispatches one after another.

The information on them made his face even grimmer.

Things were gradually slipping from Ivan’s control.

According to Ivan’s plan, neither the Sha Hua Fishman nor the Centaur were anything more than sharp blades to cut the rot from the Kingdom.

But he hadn’t expected the Sha Hua Fishman’s invasion resolve to be so unwavering. Even more unexpected was the vast amount of Power they had accumulated.

Seven or eight years ago, the Sha Hua Fishman had invaded the Kingdom with only about a million in scale; now, seven or eight years later, the second invasion has reached millions.

Ivan understood that a considerable portion of these Sha Hua Fishman had been nurtured and grown from the Kingdom’s water bodies.

"It can’t go on like this, constantly retreating isn’t a solution," Ivan thought calmly.

He could accept losing a group of nobles; after all, uncontrolled Power is neither here nor there if it’s gone.

But losing too many commoners was unacceptable for Ivan.

The population was the Kingdom’s cornerstone.

Losing a few million commoners previously didn’t concern Ivan; recuperating for a few years would restore most of it, but this continued retreat, with casualties reaching ten or twenty million, would truly shake the Kingdom’s foundation.

"Should we invite a Legendary Powerhouse?" Ivan pondered.

With the Kingdom’s centuries of heritage, inviting one Legendary Powerhouse was doable, even if it would come at a great cost.

If a Legendary Powerhouse could kill the Sha Hua Fishman Duke and take down some Fishman Nobles, then the threat of the Sha Hua Fishman would be at least halved.

As for the missing Legendary of the Yalbit Kingdom?

Ivan had lost hope in them; they weren’t a Legendary Powerhouse cultivated by the royal family, merely a Legendary who rose from among the common folk, and the Kingdom’s ability to restrain them was virtually nonexistent.

There weren’t even means to contact that Legendary.

"Perhaps they’re dead after all," Ivan shook his head.

The Yalbit Kingdom had been in turmoil for so long, yet that Legendary Powerhouse never appeared, and given their absence for over two hundred years, they might have died in some corner of the Tal Plane.

They might also have ventured to other planes to roam; many ambitious Legendary Powerhouses, aiming for further advancement, would leave their small hometowns to battle on wider stages, seeking more resources.

"Wait a bit longer. If I still can’t break through the Legendary threshold, then I’ll invite a Legendary Powerhouse with ties to the Kingdom," Ivan made up his mind.