Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 538 A Corner

In the fifty-fifth year of the Dragon Calendar, in the northern continent of the world of Ekania, in a kingdom known as where the sun and moon never set.

In this land bathed in the sun by day and imbued with the moonlight by night, the city of Capito, a symbol of imperial power and wealth, was repeatedly expanded, and the buildings within the capital city grew accordingly.

But the only building that could overshadow all the buildings in the city was neither the increasingly powerful Governor's Office, nor the Imperial Tribunal, which was shining brightly and about to pronounce judgment on even the powerful demigods.

It is the Imperial Glory Arena in the capital city of the king.

It's not just because the gladiatorial arena has long been a popular entertainment venue in the martial Golden Empire and even the entire Northern Continent. The gladiatorial competitions held annually by the kings of the Northern Continent and the Golden Empire have become increasingly grand and magnificent, making all parties very wealthy.

In the kingdoms of several kings in the Northern Lands, although the flames of war have subsided, they are still quietly refining and reorganizing their armor and troops.

In times of peace, the gladiatorial arenas in various countries became the best outlet for powerful warriors and fearless heroes to vent their frustrations.

This is also because the grand ceremony of the Judgment Day of the Golden Empire is approaching, and dragons from various continents of Ekania, as well as dragons from the material planes surrounding the world of Ekania, have come one after another.

Many dragons from outside the country still harbor doubts about the Golden Empire and thus come alone.

Ekania and the dragons of the surrounding material planes would more or less bring along many young dragons from their families and tribes.

For example, the Heleka Blue Dragon Clan in the Saraca Desert of the central continent has become a core member of the dragon herd because many of its young members have become close to the Gogmora Dragon Group.

Therefore, Gaia, the middle-aged blue dragon who once served as the guardian dragon of the Farn Empire, as the leader of his family, also led six young blue dragons to the empire to await the arrival of the day of judgment.

Although six young blue dragons are considered a small number for the blue dragon family that rules the entire desert, even though the desert is resource-scarce and sparsely populated, making it difficult to support a large and powerful race.

But for dragons, the fearsome environment and difficulties are not the reason why this race is so rare. The more important reason is that other scaled dragons in the Great Desert of Middle-earth had more or less dealings with the Heleka Blue Dragon family.

Several of the female dragons were long-term partners of the mature male blue dragons of the Heleka family, laying many dragon eggs and raising many offspring for the Heleka family.

However, as the Golden Empire rose to prominence and now has the momentum to share the Northern Lands with other kings and dominate the entire world of Ekania, many of the five-colored dragons that once hid in the Great Desert of Middle-earth began to leave the resource-scarce desert one after another.

Especially in the last two years, after the last female red dragon who did not belong to the Heleka family left her nest deep in the desert, the mature male dragons in the Heleka family have been unable to find any female dragons to marry, mate with, and have offspring with.

This also means that the Herleka Blue Dragon family must reproduce within the family, although dragons outside the Golden Empire do not care about such things, nor do they care about the morality and ethics of inbreeding.

But for the ancient blue dragon that ruled the blue dragon family, such a thing was not only dangerous, but also extremely deadly.

It has been said that in any civilization or race in the world, those in high positions subconsciously use sex and reproduction as one of the means to control those below them.

For those at the bottom, sex and reproduction are an extremely expensive price to pay, but for those in high positions, they are merely an extremely cheap means.

The ancient blue dragon could already smell that terrifying odor.

The Dragon Emperor, who had been living in seclusion in the Dragon Court since returning to the world of Ekania, never showed his face. Yet, a single decree emanating from the depths of the court made the ancient blue dragon, who possessed political wisdom that the other five dragon species lacked, restless and uneasy.

That decree was insignificant to other races and dragons, far less grand than the trial held on the founding day of the Golden Empire, and even less so than the vast and insignificant laws of the Golden Empire.

To other races and dragons, it might simply be that Dragon Emperor Charon Goggmora was looking for mates and spouses for the mature dragons in his growing Goggmora dragon herd.

For example, one of the decrees issued after being explained and elaborated upon by the officials in the Golden Empire was: anyone who becomes the legal partner and spouse of any dragon in the Gogmora Dragonflight will rightfully obtain the right to legal residence and protection in the Golden Empire without paying any price.

Furthermore, under this detailed decree, there are no fewer than several more detailed explanations, such as how, after obtaining the legal right to reside and protect the Golden Empire, one can receive the rewards of housing and wealth allocated to dragons by the Empire according to the rewards stipulated in the decree, and so on.

For the purpose of breeding the dragons in the Goggmora dragonflight, one can earn a reward of thousands of Imperial gold coins, which alone is enough to make many wild dragons who are still unwilling to accept the rule of the Golden Empire eagerly yearn for it.

The regulations and procedures for how to rise from an ordinary member of the dragonflight to a lord of the Golgrimora dragonflight are also outlined.

The female red dragon in the late stages of adulthood in the Great Desert of Middle-earth was originally betrothed to the Heleka Blue Dragon family. After hatching and raising her own dragon eggs, she would always leave behind the most outstanding child, hoping to establish her own red dragon matriarchal family.

However, due to the influence of the Golden Empire's laws and propaganda in recent years, he abandoned his 'great achievements' in the Great Desert of Middle-earth and embarked on a journey to the Golden Empire with three of his most outstanding hybrid dragons.

Even the young female dragons in the Herleka family have considered leaving the family to obtain permanent residency in the Golden Empire.

The male blue dragons in the family are even more ambitious, wanting to pursue the female dragons in the Gogmora dragon pack. This is because, regardless of their strength, the female dragons are supported by the Empire, making their appearance a level above that of dragons from other places.

Moreover, the laws of the Golden Empire do not stipulate whether male or female dragons can receive preferential treatment, so these male dragons don't care whether they are being kept by a woman.

Doing the right thing at the right stage may not be important for an ordinary person, but it is very important for a country.

Such a simple policy is neither one that should be implemented when a country is newly established, nor one that should be implemented when a country is at its peak.

Rather, it is a policy that should only be implemented in a country that believes it is about to enter its golden age.

Having spent many years in the political arena of the Farn Empire, the young blue dragon Gaia was well aware of the anxieties of the most powerful ancient blue dragon in his family.

Who wouldn't like power—the power to decide life and death, the power to be high above others?

Throughout the thousands of years of history of the mortal world, there has been no shortage of rulers who, even on the verge of death, clung to their power and perished alongside their corrupt nations.

Although the ancient blue dragons of the Heleka family believed they could not contend with the dragon emperor of the Northern Empire, the members of the Heleka family were also unable to contend with the dragon hordes and the empire of the north.

But this ancient blue dragon still wouldn't willingly submit, so the middle-aged blue dragon Gaia felt an immense pressure on his shoulders.

Especially when Gaelia sat in the Imperial Glory Arena, facing the pair of gleaming, sparkling eyes hidden among the noisy, cheering crowd in this super-large arena that was said to be able to hold more than 300,000 people, he felt as if even the soft cushion under his buttocks was burning hot like a volcano about to erupt.

The most distinctive feature of the dragons in the Golden Empire was never the horns and scales of the male dragons when they transformed into humanoid races, or the pupils and hair of the female dragons, but rather their special gaze—a gaze that Gaeria, who had once personally seen the younger version of the true dragon emperor, could never forget.

Now, those dragons standing in the arena of glory, competing as the dragons of the Golden Empire, facing challenges from all other young dragons of the same age who are outsiders;

The gazes of the dragons hidden among the hundreds of thousands of various carnival races were exactly the same as those of the great dragons in the Gorgmora dragon horde, giving the young blue dragon Gaia a feeling of resisting the flood.

"But clearly, it was the Golden Empire and the Gogmora Dragonflight that were the ones resisting the flood,"

Gaelia looked up at the vast magic crystals hanging beneath the dome of the enormous arena and murmured to himself. The long, wide magic crystal screens were capturing and projecting every detail of the gladiatorial combat between the two young dragons on the stage.

Even though the war in the stars had spread throughout the world of Ekania, the young blue dragon was still unable to change his deeply ingrained beliefs.

The task the Golden Empire was undertaking was far too difficult, so difficult that even though Gaelia had long held the Golden Empire and the Gogmora dragons in high esteem, he did not believe they could accomplish it.

Gaelia withdrew his gaze from the projection of the magic crystal, glanced at the several young blue dragons beside him who were clenching their claws and intently watching the battle on the arena, and then looked towards the VIP platform opposite. There sat several powerful dragons there, making no attempt to conceal their presence; Gaelia had learned of this from Sabrina, a female blue dragon who had just recovered from her injuries and become active again.

The dragon-man with a fierce expression, covered in deep red scales, and with menacing horns was not a dragon from the world of Ekania, but a powerful ancient red dragon, Poirot, comparable to the ancient blue dragon, the leader of the Heleka family.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the VIP platform, a blue dragon with fine blue scales covering its face, watching the young dragons fight with great interest, sat majestically. This was the legendary blue dragon, Watson.

Initially, the young blue dragon Gaia wanted to use his status as a fellow blue dragon to forge a friendship with the powerful legendary blue dragon Watson, and in order to probe the other's true stance.

But to everyone's surprise, when the young blue dragon said that he was not from the Gogmora Dragon Clan, nor was he a member of the Golden Empire, he was kicked out of the meeting room by the legendary blue dragon Watson.

Gaelia hadn't expected that Sabrina, the female blue dragon from his former clan, had indeed told him the truth. Unfortunately, this female blue dragon was also proficient in some of the methods used by the Gogmora dragon herd.

Sabrina did not tell the whole truth, and the order of events was also reversed.

Gaelia later learned that the legendary blue dragon Watson and the ancient red dragon Poirot were the dragon blood allies of the Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire, and naturally possessed the duty and power to uphold the imperial authority and the will of the royal court.

It's just that the Blue Dragon Watson and the Red Dragon Poirot exercise their duties and powers in a territory other than the world of Ekania.

In other words, if it weren't for the legendary blue dragon Watson's consideration that Gaia was a member of the blue dragon race, he might have been able to arrest Gaia and hand him over to the Imperial Inquisition.

Although Gaia will not be punished for this minor flaw, it will greatly lose face among dragons.

Gaia continued to shift his gaze, taking in the powerful dragons that had traveled from afar one by one. When his eyes swept over the humanoid form of the ancient silver dragon from the Southern Good Dragon Alliance, his pupils contracted slightly.

Phyllis Tiamat, who was accompanying the dragon, was not taken seriously by the blue dragon.

Phyllis knew that this little-known female dragon probably didn't hold any important position or power in the Goggmora dragon herd, and was only responsible for receiving dragons who set foot on the Empire's homeland for the first time.

When Gaia first came to the Empire, it was also Phyllis, the female dragon, who received him.

The reason he was so impressed by Phyllis's name was simply because of the beauty of this female dragon, who, along with the Fairy Dragon Monica, was known as one of the Empire's two most beautiful women.

However, the former is eerie, while the latter is holy.

The former never accepts any advances from male dragons, while the fairy dragon Monica is the future spouse and legal partner of the young lord of the Empire, the red dragon Nero.

However, just as Gaeria was analyzing the positions of the dragons who had come from afar, a thunderous roar suddenly erupted throughout the arena.

"Opes! Opes!"

"The Impaler of Death, Opes, the Green Dragon of the Empire!"

The roar of hundreds of thousands of people almost lifted the entire dome off, making Gaia's scalp tingle. He turned his gaze back to the arena.

Just then, the young green dragon stepped out from the slowly dissipating green smoke, and several phantoms of thick fog, similar to Opes's main green dragon form, also slowly dissipated.

Meanwhile, the young silver dragon from the Southern Good Dragon Alliance was flipped to the ground, its wings and shoulder blade joints pierced by the long tail of Opes, the young green dragon.

This also means that as long as the young green dragon harbors murderous intent, its tail will pierce the young silver dragon's heart.

"You cheated, you cheated!"

The roar of the crowd nearly ignited the reason of the defeated young silver dragon, but the tail of the young green dragon was rich in a toxin that paralyzed dragon blood, preventing the young silver dragon from getting up under the suppression of the green dragon Opes.

Then the silver dragon slammed its wings against the arena and roared, "How could a green dragon in its youth possibly master so many spells and such profound techniques? You must be calling yourselves perfect dragon cubs and using some powerful magical artifacts to save face!"

Upon hearing this, the green dragon Opes bared its fangs and revealed a ferocious smile.

"What profound magic? There's only the magic most suitable for oneself, not the most powerful magic. The magic I've mastered is all low-level magic."

Opes slowly lowered his head, his green pupils close to the face of the frantically roaring silver dragon, and said slowly, "Dragons are born to be masters of spellcasting. This is our talent, and we are simply using our talent!"

"If you can't do it, that's your problem."

"As for cheating?"

"ridiculous,"

The green dragon Opes slowly raised its head and uttered a harsh dragon phrase from its fangs.

"You should know that, in order to meet the challenges from you guys, the younger generation of dragons in our empire have been fighting like a complete mess,"

"Of course, we are not choosing the strongest to face your challenge,"

Opes lowered his head again and smiled, saying slowly, "Instead, the defeated have to deal with the challenges of you boring people. Unfortunately, today my opponents are damn Nero and Caesar, who have returned from the world of Lyponos."

"You should be glad you've met your opponent, young Silver Dragon!"

"If you were to encounter one of the strongest young dragons, you wouldn't even have the courage to fight back!"

At this moment, the young silver dragon was completely unaware of such a smile. The silver dragon only felt that in the green dragon's eyes, there was the frivolity and arrogance of the overlord.

His impeccable smile made the whole world a backdrop for the Green Dragon Opéra.

Then the silver dragon bared its fangs, about to unleash its furious roar.

But a chilling killing intent instantly froze the young Silver Dragon's mind.

"Oh, look, on such a grand day, we should maintain a friendly exchange; friendship comes first."

"Look, with so many friends who have come from afar, let's not allow our young dragons' duel to escalate into a disastrous situation,"

"That would be bad for both sides and could easily lead to an overreaction."

The green dragon Opes leaned close to the silver dragon's cheek, gently fluttering its wings as it whispered, "Of course, if you don't understand dragon language, I can translate for you."

That means, don't make me slap you!

(End of this chapter)