Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 320 Deception
As the sun rose higher, giant dragons began to appear in the sky above the sea. Even in the wilderness outside the town, one could occasionally see one or two wild dragons rushing about.

Two or three giant dragons flew to the deep sea area, ignoring the shouts of many fishermen, and dived into the sea where there were dense schools of fish and began their hunting.

The scaled fish that were gathered by the fishermen on the sea surface scattered in panic.

These wild dragons living around the Golden Empire no longer attract the attention of the people passing by.

To a certain extent, the territories of these wild dragons were slowly absorbed and integrated into the Golden Empire.

Because the Empire allowed these wandering dragons to build nests and live in the surrounding areas, and the adult silver dragon Flo, the young red dragon Caedilos, and several blue dragons and white dragons that were still undergoing transformation planned the territories for these wandering dragons.

This work was previously done by the adult silver dragon Chrissy Tiana and two bronze dragons Gross and Natarelli.

Based on previous experience, these dragons have also become accustomed to the Golden Empire's indirect control strategy.

However, the giant dragons in the wild did not take into account that it was precisely because the Golden Empire’s manpower was temporarily unable to open up more wilderness and forests that these giant dragons were allowed to use the wild areas as their nests.

When these wild dragons establish order around their territories and nests and are gradually influenced by the Golden Empire, it means that these wild dragons are indirectly helping the empire to open up its territory.

So the empire's policy, although it brought some confusion, trouble and trouble in many aspects, ultimately accounted for the most important results.

Since the time agreed with the lord in the Dark Nest has not yet arrived, the two extremely large dragons, Charon and Gmot, transformed into human-like dragon forms and planned to stroll around the small town on the West Hammer Coast.

Since the establishment of his territory, Kalon has never set foot in the streets of the empire as an ordinary dragon, so he felt a sense of novelty.

In particular, the architectural style of the empire is almost the same. From the perspective of an ordinary dragon, the small town that is beginning to get busy seems particularly spacious.

The guarding legion soldiers all dispersed outside the town, breaking up into small groups, and only a few dragonborn disappeared among the crowd in the town.

The roads in the entire town are paved with neatly processed stone slabs made from rocks from the seaside cliffs and mountains. The stone slabs are tightly stitched together, and the white ground can even reflect the shadows of passers-by.

This can only be seen in the core family territories of noble lords in other places, but it is standard in every town in the Golden Empire. Transportation is the most important factor in the development of the empire.

Under the town, the gnolls and goblin craftsmen dug tall and wide underground water channels to ensure the drainage of the town and protect this rainy Westhammer town from floods and rain disasters.

The dragon men transformed by Karon and the white dragon Gemot were about 1.9 meters tall. They were not very tall when walking on the streets of the town.

However, in this small town named "Raging Sea" Harbor, most of the races that appear are dwarves, vampires, elves and humans. Many races in the heart of the empire, such as ogres, trolls, and gnolls, are not common here.

Kalon even saw many halflings in the crowd. These halflings were very short and thinner than dwarves. They were also immigrants or tourists from the Western Continent.

However, the presence of Nagas began to increase in the border towns of the empire.

Especially the many female Nagas. Although they have four arms and a somewhat creepy snake tail, their graceful body curves and an alternative beauty made many pirates stationed in the town whistle.

However, although these pirates had evil intentions, they did not dare to cause trouble within the territory of the empire.

The power of these Nagas is not weaker than that of ordinary pirates, but stronger.

Moreover, if you offend the Nagas, you might just be beaten up, but if you violate the laws of the Golden Empire, you will suffer.

At the lightest, they would be fined gold coins, and the wealth earned by the pirates at the risk of their lives would be plundered, and they would have to go bankrupt to redeem their freedom. At the worst, they would be caught on the spot by the patrolling guards who were watching them closely, and then their crimes would be made public and they would be hanged on the dock.

The freedom and safety of pirates in the Golden Empire are protected, but once they break the law, the punishment they receive will be heavier than that of ordinary people. This is a reasonable adjustment made by the Empire to warn those lawless elements.

In the distance, the sounds of thousands of workers running and shouting on the dock could be faintly heard, making the town seem particularly bustling.

"It seems that the mayor of the town has managed this place very well," said Bailong Gemot with some ease.

Having let go of his worries, Gmot was no longer as quiet as before, and his aura became more active.

"It seems that the empire's administrative system is already sufficiently self-consistent and mature, and it was able to stabilize this place in such a short period of time."

Caron also nodded and strolled forward.

"It's a pity that the noble forces in the south have not yet come into contact with this place. Otherwise, with the ambition and wealth of those nobles, they can make this port develop faster."

Gmot looked at the taverns, magic weapon shops, material wholesale markets, etc. on both sides of the road and said with some regret.

Benefiting from the effect of diffusion and clustering, the former dragon herd conducted trade with many nobles in the north when they were young, serving as the tentacle of the dragon herd's territory connecting the north and south trade networks.

The subsequent slave trade also opened the door to trade between the two sides. Although most of the nobles who had cooperated with the Dragon Group in the past had fallen and were annexed and expelled by the Hobis Empire, Kalon was still very grateful to those greedy nobles.

If it weren't for the cooperation between the Dragon Group and those nobles, it would have been very difficult for the Golden Empire to open up a sea trade route to the south on its own.

The dragon's empire, in particular, is deeply feared and resisted by other civilizations.

Fortunately, with the deepening of trade, many southern nobles have formed inseparable economic relations with the Golden Empire in a short period of time.

Therefore, the current situation is that the Golden Empire and the southern countries cooperate openly on the surface, but confront and trip each other up in secret.

"Those nobles have been rooted in their territories for thousands of years," Caron said with a smile, "Although the empire has opened up several world planes and has obtained abundant wealth and resources, when it comes to the gold and treasures in the treasury, even I, as the emperor of the empire, may not be able to compare with those old nobles."

Gmot shook his head and said, "Those nobles are more worthy of the name of vampires than the blood-sucking species in the Western Continent. Moreover, although you are the emperor of the empire, I have never seen any ruler or dragon like you who can push out the sea of treasures just to build a country." In fact, let alone the world of Ekania, it is difficult to find emperors and dragons like Charon in any world.

Not only does it go against the nature of dragons, it also goes against universal human nature to a certain extent.

Caron smiled and said, "Germot, when did you start to learn those human boasting tricks? It's not that I don't covet money or regard money as dirt. I just know what is more important."

The white dragon Gmot smiled slightly, revealing his ferocious dragon teeth, and said no more.

Kalon inspected his territory, but it was not just for leisure.

In his opinion, the structure needed for a city to rise does not need to be very sophisticated, but a mature country must have three things.

The first is a sound administrative system, which is already well established in the town. The empire's tax system has established an imperial tax office under the instructions of the ancestral golden dragon Obirash, and it has not been in vain that Kalon has been educating the golden dragon in patriotic iron fistism for several years.

The second is the education system. In the empire's diverse ethnic civilization, the foundation that must be paid attention to is to build a unified and common cultural will.

The town was also already building a general education office for the Imperial National University, something that made Caron feel very gratified.

However, there is another point, which is the medical system that is ignored by most nobles. Although it has received attention from the empire, it has not developed rapidly.

The reason is that in the world of Ekania, most of those with healing abilities are priests, and some spellcasters will only specialize in developing the ability to cast healing spells when they cannot take other paths.

Although priests do not necessarily have to believe in gods in order to obtain healing magic from the gods, those priests who master divine magic independently often need extremely firm beliefs and are the granters of divine power based on the ideals they uphold.

This also leads to the threshold of the priest profession being too high, and the number of priests who believe in gods is almost negligible compared to the base number of those kingdoms and civilizations.

Most of the doctors walking among mortals are mortals who do not have the ability to cast spells. Those who can master rudimentary spells are already considered outstanding talents.

Although the Empire is willing to vigorously cultivate spellcasters in the medical system and has invited many talents who master healing spells to come to the Empire to impart knowledge, few people are willing to develop in this direction.

It was not until they left the town that Caron expressed his concerns in this regard, because Gmot had not yet noticed it.

This is not because Charon cares so much about the people of the empire, but a sound and complete medical system is an indispensable part of a mature and civilized country.

Their importance may not be highlighted in times of peace, but in times of war, medical professionals are one of the backings of the empire. Many soldiers who should not have died will regard those doctors as angels of salvation.

"It seems that the empire's policy needs to be tilted in this direction," said the white dragon Gemot. "I will communicate with Doss after I return. Anyway, you told me this matter, and I guess you want me to run errands for you."

Caron smiled so hard that his big white teeth were exposed. He was not doing this completely to be lazy, but when he passed the buck, he always got some kind of evil pleasure, which made it impossible for him to restrain this behavior.

It was still early, and Karon and Gmot had no intention of staying in this small town for long. After all, they were used to bustling places like the Royal Capital and the Golden City. In comparison, the seaside harbor town seemed like a dilapidated countryside.

Moreover, entertainment venues in other big cities, such as the gladiatorial arena, the Dragon Opera House, the Dragon Library, the Dragon Card Hall, etc., have not yet begun to be built in this small town.

So Kalon had to drag the white dragon Gmot to a platform under the steep cliff by the sea, and picked up his childhood hobby of fishing, while quietly waiting for the arrival of the legendary dark lord.

In fact, Kalon's love of fishing in his childhood was not only to temper his impatient character as a red dragon, but also out of helplessness, after all, there were no entertainment activities in the wild.

However, as he gained more fishing experience, Caron came to like this quiet activity.

Although all the dragons in the dragon group take the behavior of their brother, Kalon, as a certain model standard, when it comes to fishing, not many dragons like such a boring activity.

Dragons are impatient creatures. If the black dragon Rossani were here, it would probably just jump into the sea excitedly, catch a few big fish and hang them on Karon's hook, and then let Karon finish his work as soon as possible.

Among the current group of Gogmora dragons, only the blue dragon Dos, the white dragon Gemot and the white dragon Kamide can calm down and accompany Kalon in fishing.

The blue dragon Dos and the white dragon Gmot have restrained their dragon natures to the point where they are the strongest among the dragons except for Charon.

As for the white dragon Kamide, this white dragon would probably only accompany Kalon fishing and sleeping at the same time.

However, Caron and Gmot spent a whole afternoon on the platform by the sea, but without using any extraordinary powers and relying solely on skills, they gained nothing.

Of course, if we count the giant deep-sea crabs that crawled into the fish basket on their own and used the fish basket next to Karon as their den on the shore, the ancestral red dragon probably wouldn't be considered a member of the air force.

From this we can see that if the two dragons planned to become fishermen and anglers, they might not even be able to get enough food.

boom,
The calm Bailong Gemot could no longer endure it. He kicked over the fish basket beside him and said indignantly, "Karon, we were deceived by that fisherman who claimed to be a fishing expert. There are no fish in this place. When we go back, we should formulate a good policy to punish these guys who like to cheat people."

"Well," Karon glanced at the schools of fish swimming under the sea, and nodded solemnly, "You are right, Gmot, I fully agree with your idea!"

唳，
The sound of an eagle was heard, but it was the signal of the Imperial Legion's scouting guards.

Charon raised his head and looked at the ship appearing on the sea horizon. Flocks of ravens were flying over the ship, and the flag of the Dark Nest was fluttering. It was an eye of darkness tied to a spider web.

The Lord of the Dark Nest, the Poison Queen Sallys has arrived.

　It’s cold and I’m tired, so thanks for the votes and go to sleep!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)