This Giant Dragon is So Powerful!

Chapter 257 - 53: The Burden of the Three Adventurous Mother Dragons (Part 3)

Another team was the Celestial Dog People, with only ten members, but two of them had reached Advanced level, and the other eight were all at the Mid-Level Peak. Such an experienced group of thieves would make even an ordinary Master Level person be a little cautious, fearing an unintended mishap.

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Time flowed quietly like water.

In such a relatively peaceful environment, the Black Wing Nest quietly developed for half a year.

Counting the previous two years, the Black Wing Nest had ruled the Dark Forest for two and a half years.

Two and a half years ago, the Dark Forest was still home to a large number of wild demons, intelligent races, and wild monster races, but today, two and a half years later, the changes could be described as earth-shattering.

The monster villages that had migrated out from the Black Wing Nest and dispersed across various parts of the Dark Forest have now, after generations of breeding, transformed from small monster villages to medium-sized ones, from medium-sized to large, and large ones into monster towns. Any surplus population would split off to establish new monster settlements.

Currently, there are more than fifteen thousand monster villages, with populations ranging from dozens to thousands.

There are also more than fifty monster towns with resident populations exceeding five thousand.

Moreover, in the east, near the entrance of the Dark Forest, a second Monster City has been established through the joint efforts of numerous monsters.

Of course, compared to the Monster City of the Black Wing Nest, in terms of scale, quality, and population, it falls short by one or two levels.

However, as time passes, this Monster City will certainly develop and become prosperous as well.

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"Master, last month’s development information has been compiled." A dragon-blooded human presented a book to Shiji.

Shiji took it and opened it.

Magic texts appeared, quickly infusing the book’s knowledge into Shiji’s mind.

A few years ago, the Black Dragon Lord spent two-thirds of the wealth accumulated over more than a decade to purchase hundreds of magics. Although these magics were of low Ring Number, they laid a solid foundation for the Dragon Vein Mages of the Black Wing Nest.

As time went by, this accumulation became the underpinning, with the result that now the low-level Dragon Vein Mages of the Black Wing Nest were no longer lacking in methods, and a small group of Intermediate Dragon Vein Mages had emerged, greatly accelerating the construction plans centered on the Black Wing Nest as the heart of an entire nation with the Dark Forest.

The power of magic is great.

Weeds, trees, brambles, and shrubs that needed to be removed were all cleared away or relocated. Roads crisscrossing the Dark Forest were established, enabling quick support and material exchange between monster settlements, allowing monster settlements to converge on monster towns, and ensuring that the majority of monsters could move from settlements to Monster City with ease.

To become wealthy, first build roads; this saying holds true even in the Otherworld.

When transportation becomes efficient and danger from traveling diminishes significantly, trade and commerce will naturally develop without needing special promotion.

This is because all intelligent beings seek to improve their quality of life, and every intelligent being inherently pursues more wealth, status, and power.

"The total monster population in the Dark Forest is approximately 8.65 million, of which about 8 million consist of ordinary low-level monsters without Void Bloodline, primarily goblins, kobolds, and goblins, with bear goblins, war lizardmen, jackal wolfmen, and humans as supplements.

Monsters possessing the Void Bloodline number around 620,000, with more than 500,000 being second or even third-generation inheritors of the Void Bloodline, and nearly 100,000 first-generation Void Bloodline monster warriors."

At this point, Shiji fell into contemplation.

A so-called first-generation Void Bloodline monster warrior refers to those monsters that received the master’s Dragon Blood or came into contact with the master’s aura, forming a Dragon Vein. These monsters, aside from the core monsters that signed the Servant Contract, have the best talent.

The second, third, and even fourth and fifth generation Void Bloodline inheritors are actually the offspring and descendants of the first-generation monsters.

Through bloodline propagation, these offspring also acquired Dragon Vein power, but because bloodline propagation typically weakens, the majority of the offspring of Void monsters have very diluted Dragon Veins, with severely limited growth potential, making it difficult for them even to reach the level of a Mid-Level Monster.

However, a very small number of monsters experienced bloodline mutations, inheriting not just their ancestors’ Dragon Vein power but also developing some unique abilities.

These include quick reflexes, agility, immense power, exceptional Spiritual Power, solid scale armor, Iron Bone, and more resilient Life Force, among others...

The Black Wing Nest specifically gathers and nurtures such talented monster offspring into Black-winged Warriors.

The Black-winged Warriors nurtured this way have, at minimum, middle-level strength, commonly being on the stronger side of that spectrum, with many reaching advanced strength.

After all, the advanced threshold is challenging but not as difficult as breaking through to Master Level or Legendary. With a vast base of over 100,000 mid-level monsters, dozens to hundreds of high-level monsters emerge every year.

"This is still data from last month... this month’s population numbers will certainly be higher." Shiji felt a bit of a headache.

If it were not because the monsters being born are all ordinary low-level monsters with small appetites, and if they couldn’t at worst gnaw on grass or eat leaves, since they are monsters with stronger digestion and adaptability than humans...

If the eight to nine million monsters were all Void monsters, the Dark Forest would be consumed in just a few days.

Currently, more than 15,000 monster villages and towns cultivate large quantities of high-yield food. The taste doesn’t matter; the Black Wing Nest only pursues yield and nutrition.

The livestock industry is the same, aiming for more meat and faster growth.

Yet despite the massive production of food and meat from ordinary monsters supporting the elite warriors of the Black Wing Nest, Shiji’s pressure has been mounting.

Because in the Black Castle, there are over 300 super gluttons!

The food consumption of the Void Dragon is much larger than that of the Void Monster Warriors; their gigantic Dragon Bodies are telling.

Their appetite being tenfold or dozens of times greater is quite normal; for some robust Void Dragons, even hundreds of times is not an exaggeration.

Over the years, at first, it was okay because the Void Bloodline was newly acquired, so their appetite hadn’t expanded yet.

It’s different now; now, any Giant Dragon can easily exhaust the resources of ten to dozens of monster villages.

The Black Wing Nest has held on for so long also because of the mass emergence of Dragon Vein Mages who possess Monster Summoning techniques. They have access to low-level and intermediate Monster Summoning techniques.

Monster Summoning Technique: Consume magic power to summon monsters from the Otherworld to fight for you.

Although somewhat ruthless and unfeeling, practically every Dragon Vein Mage at the Black Wing Nest has learned the low-level Monster Summoning Technique at least at the Beginner level, and every day they use this magic to summon low-level monsters from the Otherworld. These monsters are then dispatched, and their flesh is used to feed the three hundred or so Void Dragons...

"This can’t go on; if this continues, the Dragon Nest will be consumed into collapse by those Giant Dragons." Shiji’s eyes sharpened as he made a decision.

Report it!

There’s no choice; the Dragon Masters care a lot. Without the master’s approval, Shiji wouldn’t dare take any actions.

Despite being frustrated by those Giant Dragons’ terrifying appetite, Shiji, as the Dragon Nest Grand Steward, fully supports enhancing the strength of those Giant Dragons.