Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 539 This is just the beginning

"The Impaler of Death, Opes, an Imperial green dragon, is known for his penetrating enemies with his tail in battle, though he is not the most outstanding or powerful of the Imperial's younger generation of dragons,"

"His rise to prominence is still relatively recent, and his status among the younger generation of dragons is not yet as high as that of the green dragon Salera. However, Opes is a unique individual among the green dragons in terms of combat talent. He is also the adopted son personally trained by the Green Scale Queen Antajena of the Empire, and is highly valued."

Phyllis Tiamat sat quietly on the VIP platform, her head held high—a head that even a professor of biological anatomy would consider perfect—looking down at Opus, the green dragon who stood in the center of the arena, wings outstretched, receiving the roars of the Imperial people.

But the female dragon was speaking to the equally quiet ancient silver dragon, Illum Fuller, beside her.

Behind the two giant dragons that had transformed into humanoid forms, sat several other giant dragons that had also transformed into humanoid forms, clearly separated from each other, much like the relationship between the Golden Empire and the Southern Benevolent Dragon Alliance.

"Antajena was determined to create a powerful battle dragon among the green dragons because she was not good at fighting. Opes grew up carrying the hopes of the green dragons."

Phyllis looked at Illum Fuller, who was sitting opposite her, with her naturally shimmering eyes. This male ancient silver dragon was a tall, elegant old man in humanoid form, and naturally possessed the 'seemingly' holy aura of a silver dragon.

"What do you think of Opus's performance, Mr. Fuller?"

Illum Fuller nodded slightly. His long silver hair made him look like a hermit elf, and it would be impossible to tell from his appearance that this seemingly elegant and otherworldly old man was actually a hard-hearted and ruthless man.

Since the ancient golden dragon and the ancient silver dragon, which had been sleeping in the alien space deep within the headquarters of the Southern Good Dragon Alliance, were awakened by the first generation of giant dragons in the mortal material world, almost all the power of the Southern Good Dragon Alliance has been regained by the two ancient giant dragons.

After a period of understanding and sorting out, the two ancient metal dragons, awakened from their slumber, realized that the Southern Good Dragons were now in an extremely awkward situation.

If the influence and ideological spread of the Golden Empire are not resisted and prohibited, the dragons in the Golden Empire would not need to pay too high a price to divide the benevolent dragons in the south, and then, over a long period of time, subtly shape the north of Ekania into a holy land and center of civilization for dragons.

By then, perhaps the Gorgmora dragon herd will only need to raise its arms and call, and many of the younger generation of dragons in the Southern Good Dragons will likely follow suit.

If the spread of ideas and cultural intrusion of the Northern Empire's dragon race were strictly prohibited, it would not only seem to violate the rules of the metal dragons, but it would also easily incite the rebellious mentality of the younger generation of dragons.

Especially with the successful rise of the ancestral golden dragon Obirash, the adult golden dragon Naloya, and the adult silver dragon Flo in the Golden Empire, these metal dragons, once outstanding among the younger generation, now have a high level of appeal and influence among the new generation of benevolent dragons in the South.

After the Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire launched a war against Chris Tiana, the silver dragon lost in the world of Lyphonos, many silver dragons in the Southern Good Dragons developed a favorable first impression of the red dragons in the North.

Even if the Dragon Emperor's reasons for launching the war were not as those wishful-thinking silver dragons perceived.

Stories of heroes and beauties have a wide appeal across all races, because many beings cannot achieve what they do, and therefore admire them greatly.

In particular, among the Southern Good Dragons, there is also an elder of the Bronze Dragon Alina.

Alina, the Bronze Dragon, was born to the parents of the Bronze Dragon High Overlords of the Phosphorescent Sea, located on the southern side of the continent.

Although the two bronze dragon high lords did not hold any powerful positions in the Good Dragon Alliance, they still wielded some influence.

If the spread of the ideas and culture of the Northern Empire and the Dragon Clan is truly to be banned, and the Northern Dragon Clan Empire is to be confronted with absolute authority, then the influence of these guys will need to be eliminated one by one.

There is no other way to eliminate them except through killing and imprisonment.

These influences, more or less, made it difficult for the two ancient dragons, despite their powerful authority, to achieve their goal.

Not to mention, there are many 'parasites' like the brass dragon Hollister in the Southern Good Dragon Alliance. Even the two ancient dragons have never figured out who is betraying the Southern Dragons to the Northern Dragons.

As for directly confronting the Dragon Empire in the far north, that's now just wishful thinking.

Separated by an entire central continent and numerous civilized forces, even the two ancient dragons dared not say they would directly mobilize all the dragons in the south to construct a super-large teleportation portal, immediately sending all the dragons to the Golden Empire's homeland to launch a war to eliminate heretics.

The two ancient dragons neither knew nor wanted to know how dangerous the homeland of the Golden Empire was.

When the Golden Empire dispatched a large-scale legion to conquer the stars, many legendary warriors were brought down by the empire's floating mage towers and ground-to-air anti-magic defense system. Among them, the one in charge was the white-haired mage Laper, who had successfully ascended to the legendary status.

If an ancient dragon were to face the white-haired mage Laperth alone, both the ancient silver dragon and the ancient gold dragon would be absolutely confident that they could kill him.

However, facing a legendary mage who was stationed in a cluster of mage towers, rather than a single mage tower, even the two ancient dragons did not want to easily test whether their power could crush the living forces of the Golden Empire's homeland.

As for trekking along the coast all the way to the homeland of the Golden Empire, that's just a ridiculous fantasy.

All the key land passes and sea routes in the Northern Lands have been completely controlled by the legions and navy of the Northern Land Kings and the Golden Empire. Even the pirates who still roam the endless ocean and island clusters have become the mouthpieces and eyes of the Northern Land Kings.

The Pan-Aikania Northern Continent Fate Alliance is not a joke. It is the first time in recorded history that the kings of the Northern Continent, from different races and nations, have set aside their long-standing grudges and hatreds and formed a powerful alliance through the power and ideals of the Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire.

This is completely different from the loose, almost purely trade-connecting platform alliance of the Lipnos Grand Alliance.

In the world of Aikania, being hostile to the Golden Empire means directly confronting the eight kings of the entire northern continent.

This is also why the dominant empires of Middle-earth, King Kane Modra of the Farn Empire and Prince Hayden, leader of the Luman Empire, had to write secret letters to contact the emperor of the Northern Empire.

These powerful empires, with their formidable foundations, now need to forge friendly relations with the dominant civilizations of the Northern Continent. This is to prevent the political and military alliance of the Northern Continent kings from becoming too deeply entrenched in geopolitical influence and gradually controlling the entire Central Continent.

The idea of ​​the Southern Benevolent Dragon confronting the military power of the entire Northern Continent was something neither of the two ancient dragons dared to imagine.

Unless the Southern Dragons can also possess a powerful legion like the Golden Empire, capable of opening up thousands of mountains and shifting seas with a single command.

Unfortunately, the metal dragons do not govern order through morality or civilization; their order is simply based on a consensus akin to tribal ties. This is the fundamental reason why these metal dragons were suppressed by the combined forces of the major civilizations in the south.

But the Golden Empire was different. Although the Southern Dragons were extremely far from the Northern Lands, as the two ancient dragons delved deeper into the area, they couldn't help but feel a sudden darkness before their eyes.

When the Golden Empire was founded, it did not intervene; when the Golden Empire forged the Eight Kings Alliance, it still did not successfully intervene; when the Golden Empire, carrying the power of the Eight Kings, easily swept away all the noble kingdoms of the Northern Continent, the Southern Benevolent Dragons still did not successfully intervene or exert influence.

But by the time that spaceport successfully rose and stood outside the barrier of the world of Ekania, it was already too late.

The ancient silver dragon Illum Fuller and the ancient gold dragon Gallo Ramsey had long shared a unified consciousness. When the Golden Empire would prepare to unify the dragon civilization and order of the entire Ekania depended only on the Gogmora dragons' assessment of their own development and a favorable opportunity.

Even though the space port currently floating outside the barrier of the Ekania world can only be fixed and cannot travel along the orbit outside the Ekania world to explore the starry sky.

However, once the magical civilization within the Golden Empire makes another breakthrough and achieves greater progress, enough to make the space port a Damocles' sword hanging over the heads of all the nations and factions of the Ekania civilization, that will be the time when the Golden Empire easily unifies the order of all dragons in the Ekania world.

The reason it is described as easy is that the ancient silver dragon, Illusion Fuller, was not optimistic about the situation of the benevolent dragons of the south.

Dragons roam the skies, thus gaining control over the earth.

When the hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers of the Golden Empire and the kings of the Northern Lands could also roam the skies like giant dragons, the terrifying power of that army was something that no dragon would dare to easily confront.

If the dragons in the Golden Empire were to gain wings, the other dragons would lose all their advantages.

In contrast, the starships of the Golden Empire were not as worrying to the ancient silver dragons as those floating, mobile fortresses.

The ancient silver dragons and ancient gold dragons once thought of following the example of the Golden Empire, just like the elders who once held power in the Good Dragon Alliance.

Before the Golden Empire has unified all the dragons in the world of Ekania, we should also develop the Southern Good Dragons to be even stronger, so that we can gain the power to counter the Northern Empire in the future.

However, the most crucial reason for the rise of the Northern Dragonflight is not only the dragonflight's philosophy and ideology of rule, but also the talent of the great red dragon, Kalon Gogmora.

The Dragon Tokens held by the core members of the Gorgmora Dragonflight are a clear example of this.

While the effects of the metallic dragon bloodline are not as terrible as the poison in the five-colored dragon bloodline, the excessively powerful bloodline also gives these metallic dragons an innately strong desire and various interferences.

That's why we see those fanatical metal dragons pursuing justice as if it were an obsession.

To progress and evolve like the dragons of the northern Gogmora dragonflight, one must be able to discard the interfering factors in one's bloodline.

Eren Fuller had personally selected three of his most trusted young dragons to infiltrate the Golden Empire. His plan was for these three young dragons to showcase their talents in the Golden Empire's homeland while the many dragon kings of the empire were away in space, so that they could quickly rise in rank, gain the approval of the dragon kings stationed in the empire's homeland, and thus quickly master the core methods of the Gogmora dragonflight.

Unfortunately, while it was fine at first when Eren Fuller used magical communication to secretly contact the three young dragons, as time went by, the contact time between the three dragons and the ancient silver dragon became shorter and shorter.

Moreover, the three-headed dragon always gave the same excuse, and even his tone of voice seemed to be exhausted and listless.

All Illum Fuller could do was sigh, "Busy, everyone's busy, it's good to be busy!"

Upon arriving in the Empire, the silver dragon discovered that the three young metal dragons were truly busy, so busy that they couldn't even spare a moment to see it after arriving.

As a result, he had to face the envoy of the Golden Empire, the enigmatic female dragon Phyllis, without any prior intelligence preparation.

"This kid Opes has equally outstanding magical and combat talents. Even among all the younger generation of the Southern Metal Dragons, there are no more than three who can consistently defeat him,"

"Among us metal dragons, only those with exceptional talent can master complex magic in their youth, but judging from this little guy Opes, the dragon blood flowing through his veins is not particularly outstanding."

Illusion Fuller understood what Phyllis, the female dragon, meant; she was demonstrating the superiority of the Golden Empire civilization to him.

Some say that an aged metal dragon gives the impression of a human wearing a dragon skin to other races.

But Ehren Fuller would tell these people that it wasn't some person in dragon skin, but a dragon with a brain.

Most brainless dragons will die like wild dogs in some corner of the world. A beast is a beast, and a beast should die like a beast.

"I hope to see a young dragon defeat this arrogant guy,"

Phyllis's eyes flickered as she said, "Let your young dragons try their best to defeat him; ten more of the same dragons followed behind where he fell."

"These ten identical dragons are followed by a hundred identical young dragons. He is just the beginning. Challenge him!"

"There are hundreds of dragons as young as him in the Golden Empire, and even hundreds more among the next generation of fledglings,"

Phyllis stared at Illusion Fuller, vaguely sensing that something was wrong with her, because she was actually feeling a little proud of the Golden Empire.

Eren Fuller's Adam's apple twitched slightly, and his hands, which were resting quietly on his knees, twitched slightly as well.

He looked up and met Phyllis's gaze, then whispered, "Is this just the beginning?"

(End of this chapter)