Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 135 The Messenger from the Beast Country

"One, two, three, push hard, get up,"

An elven druid shouted loudly, used natural magic to communicate with the ancient war trees, and commanded several ancient war trees to move the boulders in the ruins.

thump, thump, thump

One after another, the ancient war trees were either lifting stones individually or working together to move huge boulders, walking among the ruins, working hard to clean up this huge piece of architectural remains.

There were also many war tree men stretching out their branches, carrying many giant baskets woven from tough and thick vines by the elves. The elven warriors were filling the baskets with the rubble all over the ground, and then these war tree men were carrying them to the forest for disposal.

After incorporating most of the elven tribes in the entire plane, some elven druids who were proficient in natural magic were dispatched by Charon to help the wizard clean up and explore this ancient magical relic.

Among most races in the world, those who gain the loyalty of war tree people will treat them as guests of honor, as a fighting force to protect the territory, and as weapons of war in large-scale wars.

But in front of Karon, these ancient war trees are more suitable as labor.

These tree people are tireless and never get tired. They only need to replenish their magic energy and life breath to work all day long. They are truly rare plant cattle and horses.

In addition, many war tree people and other elves migrated to the dragon territory in the main plane of Ekania.

Those war treemen will also take on the important task of building a huge dragon castle for Charon. Although these treemen are not flexible enough, they are better than any beast race at carrying heavy objects.

The other members of the dragon group personally escorted the treasures and elven tribes looted from this world back to the world of Ekania.

During this journey, the dragons reaped an extremely rich harvest. They harvested more than twenty fruits from the Tree of Life alone. Each fruit of life can increase the dragon's lifespan by no less than two hundred years.

This is the result of countless years of nurturing of the Tree of Life that grew in the Green Forest plane, and the dragons became the winners who enjoyed the fruits.

This is a huge fortune alone. In order to prevent any accidents, Karon even personally led the dragons to escort the fruit of life and put it into the deepest part of the dragon's treasury.

The current young red dragon Caedilos has become the keeper of the dragon treasury. He is locked in front of the treasury door with an iron chain made of divine iron that has been nurtured in the depths of the volcano for tens of millions of years. Except for Charon himself, no one dares to approach the door of the treasury.

In order to protect these important treasures, Charon renovated the dragon's treasure house and set countless traps and warning magics in it.

If the dragons didn't distrust the wizards like Xuser, these wizards would even want to work together to set up a super-large magic barrier for the dragon's treasure house.

Because these mages also received two fruits of life, although the original agreement between the mages and the dragons was that the mages only asked to obtain the property ownership of the ancient magic empire, and the right to develop the plane belonged to the dragons.

But Caron knows very well that the future direction of the cooperative relationship between the two parties still depends on the cooperative attitude of both parties. Those who try to eat alone will never have a good ending.

He was not one of those dragon natives who were blinded by greed, so he generously shared some of the spoils with the mages.

In addition, there are piles of life branches. These are the tender branches growing from the Tree of Life that are richest in natural power and breath of life.

Charon will not leave these branches of life to gather dust in the treasury. Now the Dragon Territory is recruiting magicians who are good at making magical weapons and alchemical weapons to make these branches of life into staffs and some unique magic items.

A portion of it will be sent to the newly opened auction house in the dragon territory to add luster to the auction house’s first auction.

The Dragon Auction House is a very important part of the territory's economic plan and cultural propaganda, and it is also a point that can demonstrate the credibility of the dragon group.

To this end, the territory's governing officer, Fafner, under the guidance of a newly recruited human scholar, has sent invitation letters and gifts to the leaders of major merchant groups active in the northern continent and many nobles who remain neutral or friendly to dragons. Even the nobles of the Orc Kingdom have received this gift.

As for the forces with unclear attitudes, Fafner also sent invitations and gifts after careful consideration.

There were only some forces that clearly expressed ill will towards the dragons. Although Fafnir did not send out invitations, she spread the news through the channels of the Dragon Merchant Group to let them know this information.

Following the advice of scholars, this wise archon is trying to improve relations between the dragons and other forces. After contact, perhaps the stereotypes in their minds will be broken, thus changing the relationship between the two sides.

But no matter what, this is the fact that the Dragon Territory needs to face.

This also means that the Dragon Territory will begin to step onto the world stage as a new political force of order.

The image that the dragon territory presents to the outside world is an open image that is inclusive and where many races coexist, which is different from the image of ordinary dragon monster kingdoms that are self-contained and self-contained.

This is also a kind of publicity to create influence for the dragon to officially establish a kingdom. Although it will take a long time to establish the kingdom, it is necessary to gradually build up this impression and plan for this goal.

Kalon knew that it was necessary to accumulate food before claiming the throne, but many things were not right without a proper name. Even some scholars and talents who were recruited were unwilling to come because they heard that the Dragon Territory was still a small-scale lord's place.

Obviously, some aspects of the dragon territory are not attractive to these people, such as the official system and corresponding powers that have not yet been clearly established.

However, as long as the kingdom is formally established, all these problems will be solved. And the deadline set by Kalon is that after a period of slumber for an age, his territory will still have plenty of time to develop.

However, as long as they follow the orthodox path, Charon and the dragons will be regarded as a part of order, and the worries from the gods will be alleviated.

As long as they are in order, the gods will be gods and the mortals will be mortals. As for wars between countries, or wars between proxies, the dragon is not afraid.

And thanks to the location of the dragon territory, if one wants to attack the dragon territory, one can only use ships to transport troops across the boundless ocean. For a territory with giant dragons, this is nothing to worry about.

For this reason, the Dragon Territory is now even busier. In order to prepare for the display at that time, the resting soldiers have been reorganized into a complete legion.

At that time, they will serve as a display of military power by the Dragon Kingdom, proving that the Dragon Kingdom has the strength and confidence to establish a country.

Naturally, Caron taught the methods of military discipline training to the legion leaders who trained the soldiers, although these fancy methods could not improve combat effectiveness.

But to a certain extent, it can improve discipline and cohesion, making it easier for these soldiers to obey the orders of their superiors on the battlefield.

The most important thing is that the queue trained by this method looks good, which is enough for the dragon.

"Stand at attention, at ease, look to the left," the barbarian leader, Gib, the current leader of the Berserker Regiment, shouted loudly, personally teaching the row of soldiers in front of him who were selected to serve as legion commanders, and these legion commanders then personally trained the soldiers under their command.

Bang, some soldiers in a row looked to the left, some looked to the right, and two unlucky guys had their heads protruding too much and bumped into each other.

"Damn it, you bunch of idiots. You're causing trouble for me all day long. You can't even tell the difference between left and right," Gibb was furious and swore. He kicked the two unlucky guys down.

"Look carefully, this is the right, and this is the left," Gibb stretched out his hand to indicate.

"Captain... Captain," a human soldier blushed and said with a choking voice, "You pointed in the wrong direction."

Gibb was immediately furious again. He yelled at the top of his voice, "I know, I did it on purpose, just to make you more impressed. You all remember this, if you can't even tell the direction so simple, then go back to being an ordinary soldier!"

With monster race warriors making up the majority of the legion's soldiers, Charon chose the simplest and most popular military system.

The soldiers were divided into teams of ten, and the officer of a team could be called a captain or a decapitator.

Ten teams with a total of one hundred soldiers form a company, and the company commander can be called the company commander or the centurion.

Ten companies with a total of one thousand soldiers form a regiment. The commander of the regiment can be called the regiment commander or the thousand-man commander.

Ten battle groups with a total of ten thousand soldiers form a complete legion. The chief officer of the legion can be called the legion commander or the commander of ten thousand men.

However, now the number of legion warriors in the Dragon Territory, apart from the ogre soldiers whose combat effectiveness can be ignored for the time being, is no more than one legion at most.

Among them, the Centaur cavalry led by the dragon-born Centaur warrior Chiron has only expanded to 500 warriors. Although they are all built with heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor, their combat effectiveness is far more than that of a corps of 500 people.

The Gnoll leader Juggu and the Centaur Chiron both serve as chapter masters, but Juggu is the legitimate chapter master, and the position is complete with his Gnoll warriors.

The personnel distribution of the Barbarian Gib's regiment is much more complicated. Not only are there many barbarian warriors, but also some elven warriors and human warriors, as well as some alien warriors such as trolls, ogres, and bear goblins, which make up a whole regiment.

There is also the leader of the Imperial Guards, the dragon-born werewolf Saha. Although he also serves as the captain of a chapter, he has only more than 300 Imperial Guards soldiers under his command. However, they are also the most combat-effective soldiers in the entire dragon territory.

Although these warriors may not seem numerous, they are all elite warriors who have experienced battles. Equipped with sophisticated weapons and armor, these warriors are enough to demonstrate the military strength of the dragon territory.

Moreover, as a professional fighter, he must be completely off-duty.

Although the Dragon Territory is currently self-sufficient in food, it still needs time to develop and cannot support more full-time soldiers.

In addition to these officially retired warriors, the Dragon Territory also has a large number of dependent auxiliary soldiers and guards. These auxiliary soldiers and guards, who are used for daily security and management of the territory, will also undergo rectification and gradually become regularized.

There are also some druids, mages and priests who are good at healing spells and divine arts and are incorporated into the legion as a healing team, but most of them are pharmacists and mortal doctors who are good at potions and conventional treatment methods.

Not only the people in the Dragon Territory are busy, but those who do not belong to the Dragon Territory are also busy.

Although the official auction time of the Dragon Auction is set to be one year later, the letters sent by the giant demon Fafnir have now been placed on the desks of various targets through the channels of the merchant group and the transmission channels of ravens and magic communications.

This is the time given to those who received the invitation letters to respond during the preparations for the auction. Caron has no idea what reactions and choices those people will make.

But considering the many treasures that the Dragon Auction House has thrown out in order to expand its business and gain fame, I believe few people can refuse this invitation.

As for fame, Kalon gradually realized some of the mysteries behind it. Some powerful beings were keen to make a name for themselves in the endless planes and astral realms, and to trick the people under their feet into praising and worshipping them, using this fame to transform into raw power.

Some ancient beings even use this method to enter the realm of gods. Although they do not believe in gods, they are also quasi-godlike beings filled with divine aura. Although Kalon does not know how to use this fame to transform into raw power, he has noticed the existence of this method, which is also a topic he needs to explore and study in the future.

As Caron himself thought, he was a person who had a phobia of insufficient firepower. The more means he had, the safer he felt.

Step, step, step,
The residence of the Holy Coin Merchants Group, hurried footsteps sounded in the magnificent hall. The exterior was similar to most buildings in the Golden City, but the interior was completely different.

Most of the buildings in the Golden City are tall and wide, with various simple murals of insects and birds carved inside, making them look particularly simple and elegant. This is also a characteristic of emerging cities, which abandon useless decorations, seek practicality and simplicity, and use all their efforts on development.

However, the interior buildings of the Holy Coin Merchant Corps' headquarters were covered with the most luxurious decorations everywhere, including the ceiling, walls, floors, and even many columns, which were all painted with golden paint.

The interior decoration is mainly in the Baroque style, which is exquisite and complex with bright colors, and various precious metals and gems are inlaid as much as possible to match the decorative theme.

If a dragon saw such a luxurious scene, it would probably immediately want to snatch it away.

But this merchant group dared to build such a venue in the dragon's territory.

The leader of the Holy Coin Merchant Group was a middle-aged man dressed in gorgeous clothes, but the middle-aged leader who was in charge of the power of the entire merchant group stood respectfully aside at this time, handing an invitation letter and an envelope to the young man sitting on the main seat in the hall.

"Mr. Sartre, I heard that you were here today, so I hurried back to present this good news to you."

The middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes said respectfully.

Sitting in the main seat of the hall was a young man named Sartre, who had a handsome appearance and eyes as blue as the sea, as deep as the ocean. He wore a silk shirt, leather sleeves and short boots, and a gilded crown inlaid with gems on his head.

Sartre stretched out his right hand wearing a white glove, took the invitation and envelope and began to read.

However, the treasures in the envelope marked by the Dragon Auction House to attract customers did not cause him to fluctuate, because the fruit of the tree of life was not marked by the Dragon.

But it also shows that this young man has a high vision. Even other treasures are rare and precious treasures in the world.

"Has the Dragon Territory finally decided to show itself to the outside world?" Sartre was silent for a while, and finally spoke: "Judging from the development of the Dragon Territory, this place will eventually become a prosperous country, and those wealthy people will also attract the attention of the Church of the Gods."

"But I didn't expect these dragons to move towards order ahead of time. This will open a loophole for those churches. So what is the price? Will they have to make all the churches of the gods who want to settle in the dragon territory recognize the legitimacy of their rule?"

"Well, I like these dragons. Order always makes wealth flow easier and creates more wealth!" Sartre whispered with a smile.

The middle-aged leader of the Holy Coin Merchant Group silently wiped the sweat from his forehead. He received the news only because of the many treasures at the auction and did not think about other places at all.

But the person in front of him thought of a deeper level through a simple thing. This ability made the middle-aged man sigh that it was fortunate that he was just a glove of those priests. If he was also a priest, he might have been eaten up long ago.

In fact, Sartre just thought too much. Although Caron planned to introduce one or two relatively harmless churches in the future, it would not be now, but after unifying the ideology in the territory.

By then, Kalon could open one or two doors to allow some churches with good relations with him to settle in the territory, but if they want to harvest the power of faith from the dragon's territory, it depends on the other party's ability.

"Lord Sartre is very far-sighted. I never thought of this," the middle-aged man flattered him diligently and skillfully.

Sartre nodded and accepted the compliment generously. A smile appeared on his lips. "It doesn't matter. We don't have any other purpose anyway. We just want to make these people rich through transactions, bring them happiness, and offer some faith to the goddess."

"Hey, you said, a noble man like me must be able to open up new parishes and preach, and be promoted to a higher level!"

Sartre smiled and clapped his white-gloved hands together.

Snapped,
The thin but tough invitation was thrown against the wall, and the huge force made the entire invitation stick to the wall of the castle.

"These damn dragons actually sent me an invitation. Are they mocking me?" The furious Charal Caesar's originally calm eyes were instantly dyed with a strange green color.

Noticing that his emotions were not right, he immediately stopped and took a deep breath. "However, the Fountain of Life is of some help to me. Haha, we can send someone to take a look at the Golden Land."

Most people who received the dragon's invitation showed some interest. In their opinion, the dragon's territory, which was far away from many civilizations, was not threatening at all. Instead, they could establish a certain degree of mutually beneficial relationship with it if the dragons were really as rumored.

Profits come first, no matter in which world, it is always like this, even among gods.

There were also some well-informed five-colored dragons who were very interested in this news. In the view of these five-colored dragons, it was not enough to stay away from those hateful humans and other races, so why was this group of dragons so keen on establishing connections with these civilizations?

This is a truth that these five-colored dragons will never understand. An isolated civilization will never have a future. A closed-door policy will lead to a dead end.

……

Karon's body was now extremely large, and when he stood up he looked like a red castle. However, compared to the corpse of the adult green dragon lying on the ground, some differences could still be seen.

The body of this adult green dragon is more than 20 meters long, with only two wounds on its body. One is a pierced heart, as if pierced by a concentrated laser, leaving a large hole in the entire heart that is transparent from front to back.

One was on the head. The dragon horns on the adult green dragon's head, which looked like a crown, were broken off by great force, just like when they were fighting, an opponent with powerful strength held down the head, broke the dragon horns, and then easily solved the problem with a fatal attack.

Even after countless years of death, the corpse of this huge green dragon has not yet rotted, but its body has become shriveled, as if all the water and blood have been lost from its body.

The huge green dragon's body was found by the mages in the center of the ruins, in front of the only intact building. Thanks to this discovery, the exploration team has been very careful.

Not until the entire ruins were cleared out did this complete wizard tower, which was mostly sunken in the soil with only two floors exposed, finally fully revealed to everyone.

No danger was found while the War Ancient Tree was clearing the ruins. Judging from the direction of the green dragon's corpse, it was very likely that the green dragon had suffered fatal injuries and was struggling to escape from the Mage Tower, and finally could not hold on and fell to the ground and died.

Then the danger comes from inside the Mage Tower.

This is normal. A mage's mage tower is equivalent to a mage's war fortress. It is not surprising that there are terrifying means inside.

So we can only try and explore gradually.

These elves have already belonged to the dragon group, so it is not easy for Charon to send these elves into the wizard tower for no reason. This is tantamount to killing them without guilt, which is a taboo for a ruler.

He was an authoritarian, but not a tyrant, at least not when it came to his subjects.

Therefore, these wizards could only carefully study the ancient knowledge and use various magical tests in the hope of finding a way to safely explore the ruins.

While the mages were studying the ruins, Karon was trying to figure out what use the corpse of an adult green dragon in front of him could possibly have.

He did not think that this was a blasphemous act just because he was a giant dragon, and this green dragon had nothing to do with him, so he only had the idea of making good use of it.

However, this green dragon has been dead for countless years, and the magic power in its body has dried up. The reason why it has remained intact is partly due to the special nature of the dragon's body, and partly because of the Green Forest plane that is full of life.

Even the scales on its body cannot be used to forge armor, as it has lost the powerful defensive capabilities of dragon scales. And its blood has dried up, so it cannot be moved into the laboratory as a research sample.

And Charon planned to bring the green dragon's body back to the territory and bury it in the mountain where the Dragon Temple stands, which is designated as the Cemetery of Heroes, but he felt that the green dragon was not qualified.

Finally, he decided to drag the green dragon's body into the depths of the forest and bury it, so that the green dragon's bones could rest in peace.

But when Karon buried the green dragon's body, a thick fog filled the forest again, and the strange creature that had appeared in the fog, the creature that looked like a shriveled giraffe, appeared in front of Karon.

This time, this strange creature was not indifferent to Karon's existence as before. This strange creature took the initiative to speak.

To Caron, the sound sounded like a direct communication between the spirit and the soul, rather than the sound produced by the vibration of the flesh throat organs.

"Red Dragon, be careful. The soul is the bottom line that the gods cannot touch. Although the eyes of many gods have been drawn to the edge of the world, one day, those high and mighty gods will get a chance to breathe and turn their attention to you!"

Although this strange life was warning Caron, it was more of a kind reminder.

"I have walked the main plane for countless years, and all the dragons I have seen are the same, greedy, boring and stupid. You are different, Kalon, and I like you very much, so don't make any mistakes."

"Release those imprisoned souls. As for the souls that become your believers, you can keep them. This is a right that even the gods cannot deprive you of."

Karon felt the kindness of the creature in front of him. He nodded politely and said, "Thank you for your kind reminder, mysterious and kind being. Can you tell me your name that is noble because of your character?"

"Katos," the strange creature nodded. Although it was ugly, it was so beautiful in Caron's eyes. It said, "I am a messenger sent by the Beast Country to walk in the material world, Caron. I have noticed you since the moment you restrained the soul of the Titan Python."

"But you are wise and restrained. Even though you have the ability to retain souls, you have never put it into practice. Otherwise, I would have to fight you!"

After hearing this, Caron secretly became more alert. It turned out that it was the right decision not to leave his soul behind rashly. In this world, one still needs to be cautious at all times.

"Thank you for your reminder, Katos. May I ask why the gods are involved? As far as I know, many gods have not responded to their believers and church priests for a long time." Charon's curiosity prompted him to ask his question.

"Many people even speculated that the gods were in some kind of trouble that was difficult to solve. If it weren't for the fact that the magic of the priests was still useful, they would probably think..." Charon stopped talking and didn't finish.

But the strange creature Catos obviously understood what Charon meant. It looked back at the sky of this world and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Finally, Catos hesitated for a long time, and then shook his head. "I don't know either. After all, that is a matter for great beings like gods. But I know that those gods were involved in the chaos created by the ancient magic empire until today."

The fog gradually faded, and the figure of Catos also gradually faded, leaving only its last words: "Be careful, Caron, don't get too close to those crazy wizards, the trouble they cause is greater than you think!"

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