Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 407 Everything is arranged by the uncle
"you?"

There was a playful look in Noah's eyes.

"I remember that you are not the main god of the elves, right? Can you make such a decision on behalf of other elves?"

"Since I am able to appear here, I can naturally replace them. Besides, they are just some scattered small tribes. It's nothing."

The understated words of the goddess of nature Selena reveal the attitude of the gods towards the secular world. They do pay attention to faith in the secular world.

But when it comes to a single believer or individual believer, even a devout believer is insignificant and can hardly attract their attention. Only the chosen saints can attract their attention.

The gods will only exert their power when their believers are massacred. In normal times, the gods' intervention in the secular world is to convey their will in a way that consumes the least amount of energy.

"It's really cruel, but you are willing to give it to me, but I don't want it."

Although the elves are a good race, to Noah, who has now developed dragon people, they are not even as good as chicken ribs. What's the use of him having elves? What's more, all the elf gods are there, which is just laying a mine for himself.

"With your current strength, do you still need to worry about the threats these elves may bring to you?"

"Of course I'm not worried about them, but I am worried about you. You actually want to unite with me. This is the funniest joke I have heard in a hundred years."

The expression of the Dragon King revealed a mocking look. This Golden Dragon King, who carried the true blood of the ancestral golden dragon and began to transform from a human to a dragon, was now dominated by Noah's will, and his body and strength were climbing to an unprecedented peak.

The potential of the dragon blood that had been hidden in this body and had not yet been stimulated suddenly burst out, making the body of this dragon monarch appear even taller and more majestic. At first glance, his figure looked like a golden dragon standing up.

"Noah, you have a misunderstanding about our relationship. Is there some unsolvable hatred between us? Where did your hostility towards us originate from?

Parvati's birth? But what did we do to her? We blessed her, giving her unparalleled rights and honor among the purebloods.

We also allowed her to communicate with you privately, passing on to you the inside information of the elven race. We condoned all this, but did not stop it.

Doesn't this prove our goodwill? We have no intention of being hostile to the metal dragons, we can move towards unity."

"No intention of hostility? Alliance?"

Noah used great willpower to keep himself from laughing out loud.

Putting aside the question of whether the elven gods back then coveted the Augus family whose Titan bloodline had been awakened one after another, even now, when he had already experienced a broken treaty, they still proposed an alliance to him. How naive were they? Or did you think he was naive?
Noah has already seen what kind of beings the gods are. Regardless of whether they are good or evil, they will not treat all living beings in the material world equally. If they suddenly lower their stance and are willing to form an alliance, it is only because they have other intentions and want to take advantage of them.

"It seems you don't trust us."

"Of course, what do you have that I can trust?"

Noah said bluntly.

"I can swear to the Green Sea of ​​Senluo."

Senluo Green Sea is one of the upper planes. Just like Mount Heaven to the holy warriors, Senluo Green Sea is the supreme holy land in the hearts of professionals such as druids and tree herders.

"has no meaning?"

Although swearing an oath to the upper planes or asking conceptual things like the Styx to witness the contract has a certain binding force, because the witnesses of the contract are not beings with independent will, when one party, especially the gods, wants to violate the contract, there will be no destructive force to intervene and punish. It will only have a slight impact on related aspects, but it is not a big problem.

"I don't believe these contracts are no different from waste paper to you. Tell me the purpose of your union. What do you elves and gods want to do? What is your plan?"

Noah was not opposed to contacting and cooperating with the gods, but if they had to sign a contract and promise him something, then forget it.

"You have misunderstood us too deeply. We have no ulterior motives. We just want to establish a good relationship with you, the future Dragon God. Perhaps we will have many opportunities to cooperate in the future and fight against and suppress evil gods and demons together."

Selena was doing useless work, and Noah's eyes were still cold.

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. I have no intention of becoming a dragon god."

It was a claim that no one would believe, but Noah said it anyway.

"No intention to become a god?"

Even the goddess of nature, who was pretending to be sincere and trying to gain Noah's trust, couldn't help but smile when she saw the words of the ancestral dragon who descended into the body of her follower in an almost divine manner.

The dragon in front of her had too many powers that were close to those of gods, or even powers that only gods could possess. Yet, such a fellow actually said in front of her that he didn't want to become a god.

"So what do you want to be?"

"Apart from the Dragon God, I only have the Dragon King to pursue. Why are you asking when you already know the answer?"

"You really have great ambitions, but it is much more difficult to directly become a Dragon King than a Dragon God. Most of the Dragon Kings of your dragon clan choose to become gods first and then get rid of the position of gods."

The eyes of the goddess of nature, Selena, showed a strange look, and the smile on her face became sincere.

"In this case, I think we have the premise for cooperation. There is no conflict of interest between us."

"Oh, you're finally willing to tell me?"

"Of course, but not now."

After saying this, the girl took a step forward in Noah's slightly surprised eyes, allowing Noah's sword to pierce her neck. The next moment, the divine light in the girl's eyes faded, returning to its original green color, but as the divine light faded, her vitality also faded away.

"What's wrong?"

Noah frowned, and dragon flame ignited on the edge of the sword, instantly burning the remains of the girl in front of him. Then he looked around and found no rival.

"Humph!"

Noah was extremely dissatisfied with the elf goddess's behavior, but he had no way to defeat her divine kingdom, so he could only remember this incident for now and fight back in the future. Without a corresponding opponent, Noah withdrew his will, defeated the ravaged Alexander, and took back control of his own body. The high confidence on the face of the dragon monarch suddenly turned into a look of desolation and sighing.

He knew that there was a certain gap in strength between him and his great-uncle Noah, but he did not expect the gap to be so great.

The uncle only needed to send down a will to control his body and fight with the incarnation of the god, although the incarnation of the god seemed to have reached some agreement with the uncle in the end and voluntarily gave away his blood.

But this is enough to show how powerful my uncle is. At least the incarnation of the god would not show such weakness in front of him. He just looked down on him and did not take him seriously.

However, Alexander did not complain about himself. He quickly controlled his emotions and once again led his dragon riders to retreat away from the battlefield and pursue the defeated elves.

He did not forget that the war was not over yet. He wanted to bring the South under the rule of the Kingdom of Atlas. The southern countries had to either submit to him and become his vassal, or be destroyed. There was no third option.

However, Alexander soon discovered something was wrong because he found that as he was chasing them, many elven tribes actually chose to surrender to him.

Initially, Alexander ignored these surrendered elves and let his soldiers deal with them. But when more and more elven tribes surrendered and even claimed that they were following the orders of gods, Alexander had to pay attention.

"Uncle, the elves are beginning to surrender to me in large numbers. How should I deal with them?"

Faced with such anomaly, Alexander did not dare to take any action, because he remembered that the elf goddess who descended to earth had reached an agreement with her great-uncle, and eventually committed suicide by the sword in her uncle's hand.

"According to the laws of the kingdom, what should be done with prisoners of war who surrender?"

"For enemy soldiers who lay down their arms, treat them leniently, do not kill them, do not humiliate them, do not infringe on their property, provide active medical treatment to the wounded, and properly handle the bodies and belongings of dead prisoners of war!"

Alexander frowned and recited the relevant articles. Although this was the basic principle written into the law, its actual implementation in reality was another matter, because this was the content of the Golden Dragon Code that his father copied and pasted.

"Since there are relevant provisions, then follow them. Why ask me what to do!"

"I understand."

Alexander was startled, then he understood.

Seeing his nephew who thought he knew everything, Noah's mouth twitched slightly, but he was too lazy to correct it.

Since the elves began to surrender on a large scale under the influence of the gods, there was no need to launch a massacre at will. Appropriate appeasement would also help to undermine the enemy's fighting will, as well as the subsequent assimilation and domination.

The Huiyue Lingmeng began to collapse, but only partially, because they only failed in the offensive operations in the south, while their operations in the west were very successful and destroyed countless countries.

They conquered cities and plundered territories all the way without encountering any decent resistance. Wherever the Elf Legion went, countries surrendered one after another. They had no backbone at all, let alone any resistance spirit.

However, even so, it gave the Silvermoon Court room to maneuver. The failure of the Alliance in the south caused many small and medium-sized elven tribes that had originally joined the Alliance to have great concerns about the future of the Alliance.

Even though the Alliance was triumphantly advancing on the Western battlefield and continuously winning various seemingly exciting victories, it was difficult to appease their restlessness and uneasiness.

They saw the weakness and vulnerability of the Alliance beneath its outwardly strong appearance. In comparison, the Silvermoon Court, with its unified politics and religion and highly centralized power, was a better candidate to follow.

After the defeat in a war, the internal political structure of the behemoth entrenched in Middle-earth changed again. The Silvermoon Court, which had originally shrunk and restrained, seemingly without doing anything, reaped some of the fruits and gained the allegiance of many terrified elven tribes. The middle and lower levels of the court began to be enriched again.

However, compared to the orthodox Silvermoon Royal Court, the Kingdom of Atlas, as the victor of the southern anti-elf invasion war, gained the most.

Not only did they rob the elves of all the war results in the south of the continent in one fell swoop, they naturally invested the power of the legion into it, and also gained countless vassal states, establishing the dragon people's ruling position in the south.

Of course, the Atlas Kingdom’s gains on the battlefield also included tens of thousands of elven prisoners of war. If a less scrupulous force had done so, they would have sold these prisoners as trophies by now. However, the Atlas Kingdom, which had abolished slavery, could not do such a thing.

Therefore, Alexander first contacted his sister and asked the Silver Moon Royal Court to pay to redeem the prisoners of war. However, the dragon monarch overlooked one thing, because the standard for resettling prisoners of war was based on the copied legal provisions.
"What? You don't want to leave?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, many elves have expressed their desire to join us. They want to stay..."

The Dragon Rider Corps Commander who came to report had a strange look on his face.

Although he had seen prisoners of war who wanted to surrender and show their loyalty before, this was the first time he saw the once proud elves showing such a humble attitude and asking to join. It must be said that this felt really good.

"How could this be?"

Alexander couldn't understand it either, because he had already contacted his sister and was ready to release the prisoners of war in batches.

"You don't even want them to go back? Are you addicted to being a prisoner of war?"

"Maybe it is."

Alexander also quickly realized the problem. The elves captured on the southern battlefield were not the pampered young masters and princesses of the Silvermoon Royal Court, but wandering elves who had truly suffered.

Although these guys were guided by the gods and entered the material world, enjoying a period of affluent life, their past sufferings did not change much, because they soon returned to the battlefield and enjoyed almost nothing.

But the result was unexpected. After their defeat, they enjoyed generous treatment in the prisoner-of-war camp in Alexandria, which they had not received for a long time.

This made many wandering elves reluctant to leave and they wanted to join Alexander's army and fight for him.

The treatment of prisoners of war is so good, I can’t imagine how generous the treatment of regular soldiers would be. If that’s the case, why not stay?

As for the pride of the elves and the glory of their race, what does that have to do with them? They are already wandering, so why should they be so particular? They can go wherever they feel comfortable and wherever the salary is high.

"Your Majesty, how do you think we should deal with this?"

"Is there any need to ask? Recruit all the elves who volunteered to stay, reorganize them, and form a legion."

At this time Alexander no longer hesitated. He understood everything that was happening now as arranged by his great uncle. In that case, there was no need to think about it and he could just go with the flow.

(End of this chapter)