Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 252 You Should Serve
A huge steel machine made entirely of steel moves slowly on the sand like a box, with tracks providing the ability to crawl across the desert, slowly mining spices in the territory of sandworms.

The steel body on the tracks has sixteen steel segments, each five meters thick and twelve meters long, inserted under the sand surface, drawing sand mixed with spices in the desert into the pipe openings at the top of the segments.

The spices mixed with sand are then filtered out through the spice filter in the limbs and transported to a storage tank on the back of a steel machine, which is like a spider's sac but hundreds of times larger.

Countless filtered sand and dust were thrown out of the pipe by the spice-collecting mine cart, raising dust wherever it passed.

There were also several flapping-wing aircraft, piloted by Harkonnen family warriors, soaring in the sky, observing the movements of the sandworms so as to give early warning to the spice mining vehicles at any time.

Once the sandworms, which are powerful enough to devour any organic matter, discover that there are thieves in their territory, these high-tech Harkonnens can use transport planes to evacuate the spice mining vehicles in time.

Other soldiers of the Harkonnen Family Legion were wearing combat uniforms, carrying guns and long swords, and patrolling the ground to prevent sneak attacks by the Fremen and to prevent the Harkonnen's mining operations from being disrupted.

The combat suit has a huge hood like an aviation suit, but it is not bulky.

These combat uniforms integrate defense, life-sustaining and other functions, and are also equipped with suspension devices that allow these soldiers to temporarily float in the air.

However, he did not wear a Holtzmann shield because the vibration frequency when the Holtzmann shield was turned on would attract attacks from sandworms.

But these warriors of the Harkonnen family did not notice that a huge shadow in the sky was slowly drifting across the sky, like an island of a small city, but shrouded in magical shadows, like overlapping phantoms in the clouds.

The number of Golden Empire warriors and mages on the island was slightly less than before, but the island was still as lively as ever.

The two white dragons and the blue dragon Doss, who were unwilling to move too much due to the climate, stayed on the floating island, patrolling the sky of this world.

"What a wonderful civilization, completely different from the magic civilization. There is no magic power here, but it seems to be much more convenient than the magic civilization."

The white dragon Gmot squatted on the edge of the island. The giant dragon's eyesight allowed these dragons to see things on the ground very clearly even in the clouds thousands of meters above the sky.

After stealing spices continuously and conducting experiments, this spice has become a resource that the empire is determined to obtain. Originally, these spellcaster legions and dragons wanted to conquer this planet by force with the empire's military force.

But the prudent approach avoided the losses suffered by the Imperial Legion. As spellcasters used stealth spells to penetrate the Harkonnen Family Legion's base, the knowledge they gained, as well as the information passed on by the ancestral red dragons, allowed the Empire to gradually master a lot of information in this universe.

This universe seemed to be filled with humanoid creatures, and even all of them were ruled by various branches of the human race. There were absolutely no traces of activities or signs of the existence of other intelligent alien species.

No alien intelligent biological civilization has been discovered. Most creatures are magical but non-intelligent creatures like sandworms.

Therefore, the sudden appearance of a group of dragons is not a good thing. Moreover, they are creatures that do not belong to this universe. Once they openly embark on the road of conquest, they may face resistance from the entire universe civilization.

Although the elites of the Golden Empire are powerful enough, they are too few in number to fight against the power of the entire universe.

There are millions of the natives of this planet, the Fremen. The numerous main stars inhabited by humans number more than hundreds of millions, billions or even tens of billions, and this is the population that can be found on just a few planets.

What's more, in this interstellar universe, there are too many weapons that can pose a threat to dragons and wizards.

"Yes, this is a civilization of another direction. Naturally, it has its greatness. This is the memory of civilization. Maybe it will become a legacy in my bloodline in the future and help future generations broaden their horizons."

The blue dragon Doss's originally blue vertical pupils were sparkling with a bright luster.

After consuming the spices, the giant dragons in the group all got the opportunity to evolve and grow. The brain potential of each dragon was developed, and the physical potential was tapped.

Not only do they have a brighter future, but their intelligence also improves a lot. Not only do they express their emotions more abundantly, but they also become more fond of thinking.

Of course, an increase in intelligence does not necessarily mean being smarter. This statement seems so puzzling when applied to other people or other dragons.

But in the case of the white dragon Kamide, it would not surprise the dragon at all.

The eyes of the white dragon Kamide were still filled with clear stupidity as always. He rested his two heads lazily on his front paws and yawned, interrupting the exclamations of the two more intelligent dragon lords.

"I don't know what Caron is doing now. I feel like he has become smarter. This is good. I don't have to use my brain anymore!"

Hearing the muttering of the white dragon Kamide, the two giant dragons that had grown a little bit bigger couldn't help but open their mouths and reveal their fangs.

Before this, perhaps the two smart dragon lords could not understand what the ancestral red dragon did, but after getting the opportunity to evolve their brains, combined with the information that Charon told them, the two dragons already had some guesses in their hearts.

White Dragon Gmot's mind flashed through the huge interstellar spaceships parked in the Harkonnen Family Legion base. They were ellipsoidal, spherical, toroidal, or pyramidal and stone-like irregular spaceships.

Those interstellar spaceships, which were made entirely of various hard alloys and were tens to hundreds of meters long, might have simply represented the powerful military force and creative ability of this civilization in the eyes of the previous dragons.

But in the eyes of the dragon now, he can already understand the meaning of some of the things behind it.

These humans possessed mature technology. According to the knowledge known to the dragons, for countless years before this, humans had relied on "superluminal engines" for interstellar travel, and the highest speed they could reach was nearly 1,500 times the speed of light.

Such speed is unmatched by these giant dragons. Only in front of the legends who have mastered the rules can such incredible actions be performed, because these humans also master the basic physical laws of the universe.

But now the Leo Empire has invented the Holtzman engine, which has the ability to jump through space like folding space. As long as there is a safe route, it can reach another planet almost instantly.

This also means that once a head-on conflict breaks out between the Golden Empire and the Leo Empire, the Leo Empire's infinite interstellar fleet will be able to arrive quickly.

There are very few soldiers and high-tech creations in the Harkonnen Family Legion at the moment, simply because the Harkonnen Family lacks intelligence.

There are few Fremen, the native inhabitants of this planet, and many high-tech devices are not suitable for use on the Dune planet, so as not to damage the magic of producing spices, which has a unique and unrepeatable ecological environment.

Once a direct war breaks out, the high-level mages of the Golden Empire, who are around level 14, have carefully crafted high-level scrolls that are enough to block the power of low-level atomic weapons such as nuclear bombs. However, when facing more advanced weapons, there is no guarantee that they will not suffer heavy losses.

What's more, there are many legion soldiers and low- and mid-level mages among them. Not only the ancestral red dragons, but other dragons are also unwilling to have their strength seriously damaged here.

Therefore, the blue dragon Doss and the white dragon Gmot could understand Charon's cautious actions. Although they did not have the ability to calculate the future direction through the infinite past and present information like the ancestor red dragon, the development of the dragon's brain made them more intelligent.

The white dragon Gemot swung its tail, sweeping it across the ground lazily like a big cat.

"Karon wants to use Paul Atreides, the bloodline heir of the great nobles and dukes of the human empire, to carry out top-down governance changes and gentle reorganization from within the human empire."

"These human civilizations can unite to fight against the civilization of outsiders, but they have no excuse to fight against the emperor of a human empire, especially when that emperor has the support of another civilization and possesses the power of dragons."

"By then, we will not only have these precious spice resources, but also the human beings in this universe, which have nearly infinite times more creatures than the Ekania world, and they will also be our stepping stones and providers."

The blue dragon Doss's pupils sparkled with wisdom, and he laughed with his fangs showing: "It seems that Karon wants to conquer this nobleman and become the king who rules human civilization, just like he conquered the wolf leader Yugu and controlled the wolf tribe."

"But Charon's own brilliance is too dazzling. Once he appears, the Fremen will no longer obey the orders of this great noble. How can he maintain the majesty of a dragon and be lifted up by the Fremen, while at the same time making the Fremen truly obey the great noble as their king?"

"That's a problem,"

The white dragon Gmot fell into thought like a human, "In the absence of absolute force, wisdom is as important as strength. I should think about how Kalon would do this."

The white dragon Kamide didn't think there was anything to discuss about this matter. He just thought the two dragons were too noisy, so he shook his two heads and shouted, "I just need to make sure I have enough force. Kalon is my brain. Hey, he is countless times stronger than you two!"

The blue dragon Dos and the white dragon Gemot looked at each other, speechless.

"Forget it. Karon has his own things to do, and we have our own things to do. We need to find a suitable place to build a time and space beacon as soon as possible so that we can travel smoothly to the empire."

The huge body of the ancestral red dragon stepped on the sand, and the wild geese flew by without leaving any trace. Only his maid followed him.

After inspecting many locations along the way from the north of the Dune planet to the south, Charon stopped at this place.

What lies before us is an endless desert plain. Although it is called a plain, it is actually just a series of sand dunes with relatively small undulations.

This is the place that the Fremen must pass through when traveling from north to south. It is also the most likely passage for millions of Fremen in the south who want to set foot on the battlefield in the north.

Because there is abundant groundwater beneath this vast desert plain, and creatures like sandworms will not stay in places with groundwater.

Although these sandworms are magical, after many experiments by the spellcasters of the Golden Empire, they discovered that for these magical creatures, a large amount of water is actually a deadly poison to them.

The caster only needs to use a large amount of water to destroy these huge creatures that are hidden at least hundreds of meters underground.

But the larvae of sandworms, sand trout, need to consume huge amounts of water to grow, which is also the reason for the desertification of the planet.

This miraculous transformation surprised Caron.

There was a light flickering in the dark golden pupils of the ancestral red dragon. Through the information carried by the sky and the earth, he could feel the Fremen on this land's reverence and faith in the desert. The belief brought by the magical creature called sandworms was the proof of the Fremen's fear of nature and its power.

He also felt the Fremen's desire and pursuit for water and forests, in the deification rhetoric spread by the Sisterhood among the Fremen.

The final savior, the Messiah, will descend from outer space, bring these Fremen abundant water, bring them green plants, and transform this planet full of desert into a paradise where the Fremen can set foot and live.

The Leo Empire naturally had the ability to transform such a planet, but for the sake of spices, they gave up the idea.

However, even if the civilization of the Leo Empire wants to transform this planet, it will take a long time.

The ancestral red dragon, however, can quickly display this miracle, but he is not trying to be the savior of the Fremen. What he wants to be is the god of the Fremen's savior.

"It's here, right here," Kallon stopped, looked around, and then his steel-like claws began to pound the sand.

The soft sand surface under the feet of the ancestral red dragon is like a drum of the earth, vibrating with strong frequency and fluctuations under the hammer of the red dragon.

This kind of fluctuation is similar to a provocation to the sandworm, and also similar to the sandworm's courtship. It spreads in all directions along the veins of the earth, hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Then Caron stopped and stood there waiting.

Maybe a quarter of an hour later, maybe half an hour later, beneath the yellow sand, the friction and whistling sounds of moving gravel could be heard from all directions.

They were huge sandworms that gathered from all directions, carrying with them the magnetic field of lightning and the storm of sand, splitting the golden sand waves of the desert and rolling in.

One after another, huge sandworms came to the source of the sound frequency vibrations, opened their valves, revealing their huge mouthparts and hideous, sharp fangs, and made a hollow, echoing gurgling sound.

Six huge sandworms, like giant pillars supporting the sky, shot out of the air. The smallest one among them was already a hundred meters long above the sand surface. From what Karon perceived, the body hidden under the sand was nearly eighty meters long.

The largest sandworm was so huge that its orange-red scales looked like ancient rock formations. It was a total of 480 meters long.

The dark and deep esophagus is like the entrance to an endless abyss, which is terrifying.

The ancestral red dragon, which seemed extremely strong among dragons of the same age, was so small in front of these creatures. Its huge mouthparts could easily swallow the entire ancestral red dragon in one gulp.

But these huge creatures held their upper bodies in the air, because the spiritual fluctuations of the ancestral red dragon had the same frequency as those of the sandworms, allowing these creatures without intelligence to understand the words of the ancestral red dragon.

"The paradise I want to build still lacks caretakers and workers."

The ancestral red dragon raised its head, and the dragon language contained vibrations of the same frequency, teaching these foolish people the power of language.

"If you obey me, I can teach you to get rid of the unwise beasts; if you obey me, I can teach you to gain the light of wisdom."

"You are their eternal father, the Holy Shai-Hulud, and you should also be my eternal servants and messengers of glory."

The huge sandworms tilted their heads as if they were thinking, and slowly closed their mouthparts. Their heads turned into cones, and the closed point at the front looked like a small eye.

"Gululu,"

A sandworm seemed to reject the will of the ancestral red dragon and opened its mouth again, making a strange, hollow gurgling sound.

But before the sandworm could launch an attack on the ancestral red dragon, the largest sandworm, which was 480 meters long, suddenly jumped out of the ground, opened its huge mouthparts, and bit the rejecting sandworm.

At this time, the other sandworms also attacked the sandworm that refused the red dragon's will. Its ferocious teeth, like a cutter and crusher, instantly cut the opposing sandworm into countless pieces, which were then swallowed by the other five sandworms.

"Gululu,"

The largest sandworm closed its valves with a muffled sound, pressed its huge head against the sand, and arched in front of the ancestral red dragon.

The rest of the sandworms also lowered their heads to the sand one by one, making gurgling sounds.

"Since you are my eternal servants, you can naturally be free from the fate of water poisoning," the ancestral red dragon opened its claws, and hundreds of magic runes were engraved on the huge heads of these sandworms one by one like flowing light bands.

Although it is difficult to give these sandworms other powers such as magic, giving them the ability to avoid water is a simple task in the eyes of the current red dragon.

Hundreds of magic runes engraved a huge magic circle on the sandworm's head, but this magic circle did not use magic power. Instead, it was driven by the energy produced by these sandworms when they survived and moved, which was calculated and analyzed by Charon in an instant.

"Go, the paradise I'm building still needs your help." Karon engraved the last magic circle, patted the head of the largest sandworm, and said in a calm voice.

Rumble,
Huge sandworms drilled back into the desert and used their natural abilities to shake the sand and gravel. In the center of the plain, they stirred and drilled, opening up a huge channel that went straight to the water-storing rock layers hundreds of kilometers underground.

The earth is rolling and the sand is flying, but the huge passage will not be refilled with quicksand because this is the will of the master of the earth at this moment.

About two hours later, a torrent of water suddenly burst out from the huge channel drilled by the sandworm, and fell like a fountain in this boring desert.

Farrna walked forward, scattered seeds and planted plants in the gradually moistened sand.

These are plants such as the giant column cactus, white thorn ragweed, sand verbena, fragrant shrubs, and shepherd's trees. These are the few plants that the Fremen planted in the desert that can survive.

Water flows, plants take root, magic fills the air, and green sprouts.

"The paradise of heaven has arrived, so when will my Messiah warrior come here?"

Karon stood on the barren hill and said lightly.

(End of this chapter)