Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 237 Augustus Fifth Generation

"If this kid continues to advance, he might really become the second generation immortal king."

Noah had previously been more of a teasing person about Wayne becoming the Immortal King and did not expect him to really do anything. After all, in the cemetery, according to conservative estimates, the number of legendary undead was over double digits, making it a veritable kingdom-level force.

This is why before the outbreak of the Undead Scourge, all forces in Middle-earth prepared for war at all costs, because the Immortal King in the Necropolis was seriously injured and fell asleep, and his remaining remnants were still powerful.

Although there are problems such as chaotic command, multiple orders, and serious internal factional struggles, such problems do not only exist among the undead forces.

Who doesn’t have similar problems when the force reaches a certain size?
For example, in the face of the current undead plague, the Elf Royal Court, which is the first to bear the brunt, appears to be a monarchy with a queen respected by many elven clans, but in fact, the temple priests, clan elders, the royal council, and the army all enjoy sufficient rights.

The Elf Queen is only higher in status than the leaders of these internal forces. If she actually wants to do something, it is still mainly through consultation. Under such coordination, the internal friction generated is very outrageous.

In comparison, the organization, coordination and unity of the Undead who have temporarily lost their Immortal King are higher than those of the elves. At least every order of a legendary undead can be quickly executed once it reaches the middle level, and there will be no discounts from the middle level to the lower levels, because the lower-level undead have no intelligence.

This advantage in internal organizational structure is difficult to demonstrate in small-scale wars, but it will be perfectly demonstrated in large-scale battles. The undead troops can surround the elven troops in a very short time, and even annihilate them.

After the war is over and all the elven corpses are transformed, the Undead can reorganize their troops and then go to meet the long-awaited reinforcements from the elven side.

It sounds ridiculous, but similar things have happened on the battlefield more than once. The undead are much stronger than the elves in terms of grasping the battle situation, mobilizing troops, and executing orders. As a result, on the battlefield of Middle-earth, the undead keep advancing, while the elves are retreating step by step.

Therefore, from the public's perspective, the undead plague has reached a point where it is too great to be controlled. At the very least, the Elven King's Court, which bears the brunt of it, cannot stop it.

Although the elves care about their reputation, if they really suffer, they will still consider putting it aside and be willing to seek help from outside, such as the Kingdom of Atlas, which has already established an alliance with them on the surface.

This is why Urnos was assassinated by the undead. The undead knew very well what their advantage was. It was not the endless sea of ​​skeletons. This could not pose any threat to the real strong ones.

However, when compared with the Kingdom of Atlas, the advantage of the Undead in command structure not only disappeared, but became a disadvantage.

Urnos is a true king. He does not need to consult with anyone, and his will will not be shaken by anyone. No one dares to go against his decision.

The undead believed that Urnos was the weakness of the Kingdom of Atlas. As long as this monarch was eliminated, the kingdom would become as ridiculous as the Elf King's Court and would perish in the struggles and confrontations between internal factions.

This view cannot be said to be wrong, and Noah agrees with it very much. After all, the Kingdom of Atlas was established too recently, and the major legendary families reached a consensus on establishing a country only after realizing the benefits of uniting.

If the Augustus family is gone, no matter who is elected as the royal family and has more power than them, they will not be willing. The federal state will be a joke. It will be okay to bully small countries, but when facing a real disaster, it will not be able to withstand any pressure and will collapse at any time.

If a country wants to have strong ability to withstand pressure and disasters, it must have an absolute will and coordinate everything. Only in this way can the country unleash most of its potential instead of being in chaos.

Urnos possesses just such abilities. Unfortunately, he is indeed the kingdom's weakness, but he is also the strongest in the kingdom.

He is not a lonely king. His mother and the legends who are willing to follow him are all his right-hand men. If someone wants to kill him, he must have the ability to wipe out half of the high-end combat forces of the Atlas Kingdom in a short period of time.

"Next, Urnos should first integrate the forces at home, and then wield the sword against the undead."

If Urnos previously had enough patience and even interest to watch the offensive and defensive war between the elves and the undead, then now that he has been assassinated, he will definitely join the battlefield.

The temper of this second-generation monarch was not so good that he would remain silent or fight back after being beaten. He would definitely retaliate and get his revenge, and no one had any reason to stop him.

Although this was not the direction of the war that Noah had originally expected, it gave Noah more room to maneuver.

Wayne, the son of hell, who was previously sent by him to infiltrate the undead forces as a lurker, has risen in status and has now joined the core decision-making level.

This means that Noah can directly influence the core decision-making of the undead. Urnos is about to die, which means that Noah is also involved in the battlefield and truly has the ability to influence the war situation.

The Elf King's Court would not listen to a word Noah said. Noah's influence on them was only through some special channels, where he resold intelligence to them and used the intelligence to influence their decision-making.

Of course, Noah now has no way to directly influence Urnos, as this monarch will not accept orders from anyone.

However, it is still the same trick. As long as certain information is sent to Urnos, the same effect can be achieved. The transmission of information does not need to be too troublesome, Noah can directly notify him.

This also means that Noah can use the kingdom of Atlas to gradually eliminate all factors that threaten Wayne, push this great nephew to a high position, and let him control the cemetery.

"Tsk, this kid is so lucky!"

Noah muttered after discovering that the second generation immortal king that he had previously ridiculed was feasible.

He couldn't imagine now how interesting things would become if Wayne became the second generation Immortal King and took control of the kingdom of the dead.

However, although things have changed from a joke to a feasible possibility, it is still very difficult to realize it. At least half of the current Immortal Parliament must be cleared out.

Wayne has to be promoted to become a legend, but this kid is unwilling to be promoted before he has his own child. However, the child he wants must be a pure-blooded human who will not be contaminated by the bloodline of hell.

"It's so troublesome, one by one."

Noah sighed, but calmed down and prepared to solve the problem step by step. Gwen had made good progress in applying the blood stripping technology to newborn babies because Noah opened the Dragon Realm to her.

In this super-large demiplane testing ground, any idea that breaks through morality and ethics can be tried out, because the races that survive and reproduce in it have abandoned these shackles that are an obstacle to survival. Although they have no morals at all, they are all monster groups that have passed the screening.

As a human wizard, Gwen was unwilling to conduct any experiments on babies of the same race. She was too well protected and had an extremely high moral bottom line, at least much better than her brother.

But she had no psychological burden when it came to some races evolved from lower monsters such as goblins, goblins, kobolds, lizardmen, and murlocs, and she was ruthless with the experimental knife in her hand.

While Noah was helping Wayne solve the problem of offspring, Jin Long also took the time to contact Ophelia and inquire about the situation of Chitian Laoden in a roundabout way. He was really curious about the outcome of that battle.

However, it is a pity that even Ophelia, his biological daughter, was completely unaware of the conflict between her father and a high-ranking lord in hell.

Even his own daughter didn't know, so Noah was even less aware of it. As for his adoptive mother, Noah also went to test her opinion, but unfortunately Selena, who was usually not very secretive, kept her mouth shut again and didn't reveal a single piece of information, which made Noah feel extremely uncomfortable.

But even though he felt uncomfortable, Noah had to hold it in, because apart from Ophelia and his adoptive mother, he had no other channels to find out the outcome of the battle. Even the gods might not be able to observe this battle conflict.

Therefore, Noah could only put aside all these complicated thoughts and continue to devote himself to research and perfect this blood stripping technology which seemed to have little practical value at the moment.

Just when Noah was working hard, a piece of news, not too small, came to him.

The fifth generation of the House of Augustus was born
It sounds like explosive news, but considering the identities of both of his parents, this news did not cause much waves in either Elisim or Uther. It only caused some reactions within the Augustus family, and they were negative.

Strictly speaking, the fifth generation Augustus who was born could no longer use the surname Augustus, because his father was not Augustus, but only his mother had this surname.

Evelyn

This was the first person in four generations of the Augustus family to give birth to a child.

Not only because she was a woman who married out, but also because she was the least accomplished direct descendant of the four generations of the Augustus family and was about to lose her presence in the family.

Not only did Urnos not pay much attention to this daughter, even Noah had not paid attention to her for many years, because she had given up her true blood inheritance and chose to live as an ordinary human being.

Evelyn, who lacks the spirit of perseverance and ambition and chooses a peaceful life, cannot be said to have made a wrong choice. It's just that compared with her brothers and sisters, she is indeed unremarkable and does not deserve attention.

However, after all, he had watched the child grow up, and now the other party had his own children, so Noah still paid some attention to him.

"Paladin? Not bad."

Noah, who paid attention to the princess again, learned more information. After giving up the gift of true blood, Evelyn parted ways with her brothers and chose to continue her original life as an adventurer.

Because the princess discovered that after losing the deliberate attention and training of the Holy Dragon, the life of an adventurer was so easy and comfortable.

It was during this process that Evelyn found her love, a young paladin.

If we ignore the acquired factors such as status, position and assets, and only evaluate based on moral character, personal ability and charm, every paladin who is blessed by the Holy Light is an excellent partner.

But considering her status, Evelyn was not a good match for the paladin she chose. But because the princess's presence was too small, no one stopped her from getting married.

This was only noticed and discovered by the Augustus family when their children were born.

No one cared about this child. What really attracted attention was the fact that the princess got married secretly without telling anyone.

Although Urnos did not care about his daughter, or even the choices she made, he cared about his own kingly authority.

A princess of a country actually decided her marriage so hastily. This is not allowed in any country. Although the paladin she chose is very outstanding, his status is not worthy of a princess because he is of no help to the Augustus family.

According to the conventions of human kingdoms, legitimate princesses like Evelyn would become political resources, and her love and marriage would be used as bargaining chips to exchange for the interests needed by the country.

However, she was very willful and chose a holy warrior from a poor family, which made the Augustus family take some coercive measures against her, such as restricting her freedom and expelling her husband.

Things have become very clichéd at this point, and have reached a point that the general public does not want to see or witness. But the next scene is a plot that the public loves to see and hear.

The princess's brother, Alexander, the golden dragon knight who guards the kingdom's wall on the northwest frontier and is hailed as the next most likely heir to the throne, returns to Uther "alone" on a dragon, forcefully breaks into the family confinement area, and takes his sister away.

This scene would only happen in fairy tales made up by bards, but when it actually happened in reality, it undoubtedly ignited the emotions of the grassroots people.

A princess of noble status marries a knight of good character. This is the fantasy that has been dreamed of by countless people, but it has come true today.

However, while the majority of the people in the kingdom could enjoy watching the fairy tale unfold in reality, Noah could not watch a single bit.

"When did this place become a nursery? Am I suitable to be a nanny? Since when did I leave this impression on you? Tell me and I will correct it."

(End of this chapter)