Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 338: The Kings' Meeting: Pan-Northern Community of Shared Destiny
"People always say that dragons are the most arrogant creatures in the world of Ekania, or even the most arrogant of all creatures in the universe. That's why those chromatic dragons are prone to violent death before they fully grow up."

A military nobleman who was a descendant of the ancient orcs laughed loudly and said, "The dragons of the Golden Empire did not die halfway like those stupid colored dragons. It seems that they have a cautious character."

"Are those human nobles in the Northern Continent worthy of the Golden Empire inviting the kings to a meeting with great fanfare?"

“Hahaha, if it weren’t for the fact that the Orc Kingdom couldn’t contend against all the human kingdoms on its own and couldn’t easily set foot on the main continent, those orcs could easily wipe out those hypocritical and cowardly nobles for the Emperor of the Golden Empire.”

The words of this orc noble were not praising the dragons of the Golden Empire, but secretly belittling these dragons for their cowardly nature.

The Golden Empire's diplomatic ambassador, Luo Ya, who once said, "The people of a superior country do not bow to the ruler of an inferior country," cast a cold glance, stepped forward, and rebuked him mercilessly without changing his expression, "How can a meeting between kings allow you to bark at the sidelines? You are truly an ignorant barbarian with no manners."

"Even a dog in an ordinary citizen's home in the empire knows that it cannot bark when its master is talking to others, otherwise it will be beaten to death by the master and put into the pot to serve guests!"

"You?" The orc noble was so angry at Roya's words that his brown face turned red and he gasped for breath, but no orc around responded to him.

The impression orcs give to other races is that they are reckless, furious, and impulsive, but rarely stupid.

Orcs are not stupid, but very smart. Otherwise, they would not have been able to establish a dominant empire that ruled the world.

The reason why the orcs acted recklessly and impulsively was simply because those smart orcs couldn't wait to implement their ideas.

And some orcs act stupid, that is, maybe he is really stupid.

Even the high and mighty orc monarch, Poseidon Lion, was watching coldly.

The monarch of the Orc Kingdom has the rough face and short, protruding fangs of ancient orcs, as well as the white mane of a lion on the grassland. He looks like a living lion sitting on the throne.

Pousel Lane looks like a lion, and his actions are also like a lion that has been gathering strength on the grassland.

Hunters who often hunt on the grasslands know that in a strong lion group, there is always a strongest and smartest lion king.

This lion king is usually lazy and looks listless. Even when hunting, he needs the lionesses to catch the food first, and then he slowly takes over the lionesses' prey and enjoys the most abundant food.

But only enemies who have faced the lion know how terrifying the claws and power of this lion king are.

Porsel, in the common language of the Ekania continent, has the meaning of tolerance, and also refers to knowledge and culture, symbolizing power and dignity.

And Ryan is the caste of the orc king.

Caste is not like the caste system in some strange country, but comes from the beliefs and origins of the orcs in the post-empire period.

When the empire that ruled the world as orcs collapsed, the gods of the orc pantheon also retreated in the war against other gods, and eventually moved away from the world of Ekania.

After the remaining descendants of the Orc Empire retreated to the remote islands in the North Sea, some ancient orcs chose to abandon their belief in the orc gods and embrace the nature spirits and wilderness demigods that were still visible in the world at that time.

Some of these nature spirits and wilderness demigods who were once active in the world of Ekania were born high-level beings, such as nature spirits.

Some can also grow up naturally, such as the demigods in the wilderness.

The ancestors of the werewolf clans and the vampires in the world of Ekania are two natural demigods.

The ancient orcs of the Orc Kingdom received the favor and blessing of the Demigod of the Wilderness, or combined with some of the Demigod of the Wilderness who were promoted later in life, thus giving birth to many different orc bloodlines.

For example, the Biao warriors who are most popular among the merchants in the Orc Kingdom are alien orcs who inherited ancient blood.

The ancestral bloodline of the orc king, Porcel Ryan, comes from a wild lion demigod.

In the Orc Kingdom, there are now two factions: the Ancient Orcs who believe in Orc gods and the other factions who believe in nature spirits and demigods of the wilderness.

Judging from the orc king Boser Lion, it is not difficult to see that in the orc kingdom, the faction that believes in the spirits of nature and the gods of the wilderness now has the upper hand.

Porsel Ryan lowered his head and frowned as he watched the Golden Empire's diplomatic ambassador Roya scold the orc nobles and then tactfully retreat behind the Golden Empire's Dragon King, Clenaya, who was squatting proudly.

Although Clenaya is a bad-tempered female red dragon, she does not seem to be stupid.

The female red dragon Clenaya still maintains her true dragon form in the palace of the Orc Kingdom, with the same posture as hers, carrying a strong sense of oppression.

Because of the attitude towards orcs, one needs to be particularly strong.

But the long tail was wrapped around its front paws like a big cat, encircling the entire lower body and making it look somewhat well-behaved.

This is a natural habit of most female dragons. Although those female colored dragons do not have any ideas about chastity, their weak points and private parts are covered and protected by a thick layer of scales, just like the armor and clothes worn by those humanoid races.

Except for some scholars and dragon hunters who are particularly familiar with the structure of the dragon's body, only dragons are familiar with the weaknesses and private parts of their own kind, but these dragons still do not like to expose their weaknesses to outsiders.

However, the big cat looks very cute when stepping in this posture, and it looks particularly ferocious when it is done by a terrifying and huge creature like the red dragon. Its stepping claws seem to be unable to tolerate the stupidity of the orc noble.

"In the empire, facing such an important occasion, the emperor of the empire did not speak. Even those naturally arrogant and rebellious color dragons and naturally proud metal dragons would not speak first."

The voice of the female red dragon Clenaya echoed heavily in the Orc Palace, and her cold red eyes looked at the Orc King sitting on the throne.

"In fact, I came here only to invite you. Whether I go or not depends on what you, the orc king, think."

Clenaya said proudly: "But dragons are particularly vengeful. The Orc Kingdom once invaded the Golden Empire, and the hatred cannot be easily eliminated."

"If the orc king is willing to attend the meeting, the Golden Empire is willing to put aside past grudges and not pursue the past."

"Besides, the Orc Kingdom also wants to set foot on the vast and rich main continent and get away from this remote, desolate, barren and restricted archipelago. You should think about the considerations carefully."

"Such an opportunity will not come again in thousands of years! Moreover, the dark elves who have signed an alliance with the Golden Empire need a place to live on the surface of Ekania."

The female red dragon actually left after she finished speaking, ignoring the discussions of the many orcs in the palace behind her.

The orc king, Porcel Ryan, was silent, his eyes sweeping over the orc nobles and elders of the council like a lion king on the grassland observing his prey.

He also glanced at the orc noble who had previously mocked the Golden Empire, and even took into account every subtle expression on the orc noble's face.

There are many stupid people in the world, and there are also many stupid orcs, but there are no stupid orc nobles who can stand in the palace.

Even if the other person behaves stupidly.

Just like politics, in any world, any race, any civilization, and any country, politics is only darker, more vulgar, and more cruel, but not stupider.

The other party's behavior only expressed the intention of another faction of the orcs to compete for the right to speak. He was a "stupid" test card pushed by the other faction and a possible victim of humiliation.

The orcs who were not smart enough had died long ago. Even in the Orc Kingdom, he, the Orc King, did not ascend to the throne by strength alone.

Just like the orc prince once led his army to invade the dragon territory which had not yet established a kingdom.

The war between the colorful dragons and the orcs was nothing more than a dog-eat-dog fight for other humanoid civilized races at the time.

What's more, the battle is over the remote and desolate land of the northern continent. As long as the scale of the war is limited to a certain extent and the entire Orc Kingdom is not mobilized, it will be difficult to arouse the vigilance of those human kingdoms.

Even if the human kingdoms were alert, they could find a good excuse in the division and confrontation within the orc kingdom.

This was a test, secretly controlled by Poseidon Ryan under the circumstances of confrontation between the Orc Kingdom forces.

The Orc King Porcel Lion had a total of nineteen sons, six of whom sided with the faction that believed in the Orc gods. The orc prince who led the army to invade the Golden Empire was one of the six princes who sided with the Orc pantheon.

It is also because of the performance of this prince that the faction of the Orc God faith who holds the Hammer of Bagg will firmly follow his steps.

If it fails, it will not shake the foundation of the Orc Kingdom. If it succeeds, it is the credit of the faction that believes in the God of Orcs, but the leader of them is none other than the eldest prince of the Orc King, Poseidon Ryan.

It’s not that there are no foolish and stupid kings in the world, but those kings often die quickly and miserably.

The orc king, Porcel Ryan, has ruled the orc kingdom for twenty years.

Porsel Ryan just silently pondered the real intention of the red dragon. In his opinion, the controller behind the Golden Empire was not simply trying to get rid of the situation of being trapped on all sides and crushing those nobles who were listed as enemies, but had a deeper purpose.

"Shut up!" The silent orc king let out a low roar like a lion, suppressing the orcs who were talking. The orc palace immediately returned to peace.

"What does that red dragon want to do?" He fell silent again.

The king of the Elf Kingdom far away in the Western Continent also asked the same question.

After the Golden Empire's Dragon King, Bronze Dragon Alina, came to visit and said that the dispute between the Elf Kingdom and the Dark Lair and Dark Elves could be resolved, the High Elf Council, which was overwhelmed by being attacked from both sides, directly made the decision for the Elf King.

The King of Elves also had doubts, because he and everyone else in the world of Ekania found it difficult to guess what the red dragon was thinking.

It’s not that Kalon Gogmora’s wisdom is unmatched. Even the proud red dragon himself would not admit such a thing.

It’s not that Kalon Gogmora is so humble, but he always believes that a person’s failure is not due to weakness and ignorance, but more likely to be due to arrogance.

And Caron’s arrogance is completely different from arrogant arrogance.

The races of Ekania could not understand it, but the perspective from which Kalon Gogmora stood was beyond the constraints of the current era and environment.

An undefined empire and an undefined ruler should do undefined things.

Well, the undefined Kalon Gogmora was frozen in his own lair.

If it weren't for its raised head and sparkling blood-red eyes, others might have thought that this ancestral red dragon was dead.

The huge body was lying in the huge dried-up magma lake, as if the entire body was completely frozen.

The bright scales on Karon's body that were exposed on the frozen magma mud and were as crystal clear as if dyed by blood also appeared particularly dim, as if an old dragon had lost its vitality.

The originally muscular body became extremely skinny, just like those adult black dragons, with only a skeleton covered by scales. Only when the elemental magic energy flowed out of the cracks on the wall of this quiet dragon's nest like a tide, this skinny body would suddenly swell up for a few seconds like an inflatable, and then return to the state of a skeleton.

But even the elemental planes connected by cracks in the solid stone walls of the nest, the surging energy within them began to calm down.

As a result, the body that used to swell up and return to its original shape every half hour gradually extended to one hour, one and a half hours, and was still getting longer.

Although the divine punishment brought down by Tiamat after the night of fighting against the immortals damaged some of Charon Gogmora's essence and consumed a large amount of evil dragon's true blood, for creatures like the ancestral dragons, such damage was not that serious.

The bloodline of the ancestral dragon is already at the top in the mortal world, just like the children of those gods, with unimaginable potential.

Kalon Gogmora only needs time to recuperate, and with the endless supply of materials plundered from the entire Golden Empire, he will soon be able to recover to his original state.

Kalon Gogmora didn't even need to go through a deep sleep.

The real culprit behind all this was the Heart of Nagamat, the heart of the ancient dragon king that was swallowed by the ancestral red dragon.

Not only does Charon need to constantly use his own willpower to fight against the power of the Dragon Madness Spell that suppresses the Heart of Nagamat, he also needs the assistance of the entire empire's power domain to completely suppress this heart of the dragon king.

The body of the ancestral red dragon can carry the heart of the ancient dragon king, but in order to digest this heart of the dragon king protected by quasi-divine power, it requires tremendous effort to slowly consume the higher level of energy - quasi-divine power.

Perhaps after other ancestral dragons obtain the heart of the ancient dragon king, they will choose to keep this heart as their own second heart, allowing the dragon's true body to obtain a more powerful source of power and energy and ability.

However, in Kalon's opinion, this ancient dragon king's heart has only two greatest uses.

The first point is to supplement his blood source code after swallowing and digesting it, and advance his goal a little bit. And Kalon needs to be very careful, because he will not completely absorb the blood source rules contained in it, but purposefully absorb and construct it according to himself.

This is the only way to avoid following the same path as the Dragon King, where some powerful people who are exploring the origins of dragon bloodlines would find an opportunity to manipulate them.

The second point is about the god-like power in the heart of the god-like Dragon King.

Although Charon would not try to absorb this kind of external force with unknown intentions and origins, he could supplement his knowledge about high-energy of this nature.

The god-like power is nothing more than an extremely high-level energy in the rules of the universe, and naturally it has its specific structure and mode of operation.

Once Charon analyzes the structure and operation of the god-like power by himself, he will be able to use this knowledge as a reference in the future.

The evolution of his body can also evolve purposefully in response to such energy.

That is what is commonly known as a kind of divine immunity.

Of course, complete immunity may not be possible, just like the high-frequency energy shield in the Dune world, which can only withstand attacks of a certain fixed frequency. Once it exceeds the range of the fixed frequency, it will be powerless.

And although the god-like powers are attributed to the same name, just as each legend has different laws that shape his own destiny, the god-like powers of each god-like being are also different.

But if one law is mastered, all laws are mastered. Just like the spiritual authority of Pride and Gluttony, for Caron it is just the key to open the treasure house, not his reliance.

Even if this spiritual authority has not been fully integrated by him now, but has been forcibly extracted by the enemy, he can still replicate it according to the knowledge he has explored.

Ultimately, Kalon Gogmora will always have only himself to rely on.

However, Charon can also find ways to weaken and resist these high-level energies based on such research, so advanced magicians are actually similar to scientists, there is not much difference between them.

Knowledge is power, wisdom is power.

But there are also areas where Caron's wisdom cannot be reached, just like at this moment.

Under the Dragon's Nest Mountains, the energy deep in the earth's core has been almost dried up after more than a decade of extraction.

If this red dragon continues to extract without restraint as before, the temperature of the entire vast area surrounding the Dragon's Nest Mountains may drop significantly.

The energy from deeper inside was blocked by the thick crust and rock layers. Although Charon could continue to break through the crust and rock layers, compared with the energy extracted, the effort consumed seemed not worth it.

Therefore, Caron could only use his own sophisticated operations, and even everything around him that could be called energy was absorbed by him.

It's like the static electricity field that is everywhere in the material rules of the universe.

As long as there is a form of matter, there will be energy, including momentum, etc.

The four types of energies in the electrostatic field, electric potential energy, interaction energy, self-energy, and electrostatic energy, are also absorbed by the red dragon's powerful mental power and subtle tentacles.

This also caused the area around the ancestral red dragon's lair to be like a static force field, a dead zone for elements and all energy.

"Hmm." Charon kept his head held high, his gaze not in a daze, but fixed on the fireball rising high above the world of Ekania - the sun.

"If I can build a nest in the sun, I won't have to worry about my energy being consumed too quickly. This thing will allow me to use my abilities as I please."

There was a greedy look in Karon's dark golden pupils, which was very rare.

"Unfortunately, the sun is a bit far away from Ekania. I don't know if it is occupied by some strange things. Otherwise, I can build my own nest on the sun."

The red dragon thought so.

Although other red dragons are almost completely immune to fire, the sun, whether it is a material sun or some strange sun, is not just filled with fire.

Therefore, almost no red dragon would have such an idea, and only Charon would have such a strange idea.

However, according to Charon's current abilities, the most he can do is live near the surface of the sun for a long time.

The uproar in the outside world and the undercurrents caused by him can no longer cause any fluctuations in his heart.

Those nobles like to kill people and destroy their hearts, and Kalon is just making those nobles feel fear in the same way.

War is not about the weak defeating the strong; the correct way to start a war is to crush the enemy with a fair and just momentum.

Even if the Golden Empire could destroy the Southern Noble Alliance on its own, Kallon would not allow the country he and the dragons created to suffer unnecessary losses.

Moreover, ever since the visit of Isabelle Adjani, the princess of the Elf Kingdom, and the delivery of that gift, Caron has vaguely sensed the truth behind the problems that have troubled many gods.

The so-called invasion of alien gods may be just a prelude to future twists and turns, and more turbulent waves are still accumulating beneath the undercurrent.

Just as Caron now fixed his gaze on the sun in the sky, he had never limited his gaze to the world of Ekania.

That's why he would take this opportunity to complete his original plan ahead of time. Since plans cannot keep up with changes, he would let the whole world dance according to his will.

"I wonder how the southern noble alliance compares to the Pan-Northern Community of Shared Destiny led by the Golden Empire?" Karon looked at the sun in the sky and showed his gleaming fangs.

The evolution of civilization does not require super-large-scale, homogeneous development and productivity, but requires more individual and differentiated growth.

Charon's original plan was never to allow the Golden Empire to dominate the entire North, or even the entire Ekania world.

Boring conquest cannot arouse his will and desire. Conquest is only his means, not his end.

However, it would be extremely difficult for him to achieve his goal relying solely on the Golden Empire and his power.

The rules, principles and truths he wants to pursue in the endless world also require endless tentacles.

But he can make other civilized kingdoms, under his whip and bait, embark on the path he envisions.

This would not only prevent the Golden Empire from conquering other forces and causing talent losses to many forces in Ekania, but would also create benefits for this ambitious red dragon.

"As for those southern nobles, they are the chicken to scare the monkeys!" Karon slowly lowered his head and lay on the dried and solidified magma, thinking about another problem.

But the silence of the red dragon was broken by the calling of the Pixie Riven.

The Pixie elf flapped her wings and flew over angrily. She was not afraid of the terrifying appearance of the red dragon at all.

"Karon, how about it? Are you bored? I'm here to play cards with you!" After flying in front of the red dragon, a smile appeared on the fair and almost transparent face of the elf Pik, and he asked with his hands on his waist.

A smile appeared in Kalon's blood-red eyes, and he asked, "Raven, have you been bullied by those elves from the Feywild again?"

"No way," the elf flew around the huge leader of Kalon, patting his chest and saying, "How can they be my opponent? I can knock them all down with one hand."

"But I'm a kind person, so I didn't beat them up."

"Well, okay," Karon nodded. What the Pokémon said was not wrong. It was hard to say how powerful the Pokémon that had undergone dormant evolution was. After all, Karon had never seen Riven fight.

But the legendary ivory chain on Riven's wrist was enough to give the elves a hard time, not to mention the two lush 'dragon horns' on the elf's head.

That was a powerful weapon that almost everyone in the Golden Empire wanted to get.

"Come on, Kalon, don't lose to me on purpose to make me happy," Raven shouted loudly in Kalon's ear, "You are the greatest, most powerful, and smartest emperor of the Golden Empire. How can you lose to others so easily?"

"Okay, okay," Caron responded.

The breeze blows, and the years are peaceful.

After an unknown amount of time, the arrogant giggles of the elf were heard from the red dragon's lair.

"Yohoo, Charon, you lost to me again! Riven is the smartest elf in the Golden Empire!"

"Yes, it is."

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