Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 457 Dragon's Style of Doing Things
"What a wonderful country! No endless natural disasters, no constantly invading alien creatures, and no damned father."

While Rean was busy with his own training, another candidate for Wu's successor was also keeping busy.

Blue Dragonflight Monk Srodehisraro, who called himself the ambassador of the desert kingdoms of Quel'Thalas, had also completed his work. He was somewhat surprised by the arrogance of the dragonborn princess, who didn't even take true dragons seriously.

She actually dared to breathe on me.

A baby dragon is actually breathing on itself, which is an adult dragon?

But thinking back, this was the child of that former continental hero, and indeed had the confidence to look down on ordinary true dragons, so Quill felt it was only natural.

The thinking of true dragons and mortals is not the same. For dragons, the power of mortal kings is just a toy in the face of strength. For the blue dragon, since Dania is a descendant of the strong, it is only natural for her to be a little arrogant, especially since the dragon aura emanating from her even faintly surpasses that of himself.

"Pseudo-dragon path? No. High-purity dragon blood."

He had many thoughts about Dania's identity, but there was one thing that always mattered to him the most.

"How many heroic souls' power does she, the leader of the alumni reunion, actually have at her disposal?"

In the dragon's view, if Dania and Rean were truly one, then the power wielded by this fallen princess would be considerable.

Dragons have a fundamentally different perspective from mortals. Mortals prioritize a princess's status, while true dragons only care about the number of future powerful individuals. Compared to a so-called princess, what they see is a young dragon evolving, and the potential candidates for heroic spirits in the alumni association are the "wealth" they care about most.

A top-tier powerhouse might be more valuable than a future kingdom.

A group of talented individuals who can be mentored by heroic spirits are destined to produce multiple top-tier powerhouses.

"It's such a waste to leave these people on the border of the continent. It's a pity that they won't accept my recruitment."

Quill knew that the failure to recruit was partly due to the greater distance of the desert kingdoms, and partly due to his own race.

Their longevity and innate superior combat abilities make them lack empathy for the suffering of mortals. Would humans worry that a family of rats outside their window wouldn't survive the long winter because they can't find food? They don't care; they just hope that the rats won't die in front of them and be too unsightly.

They will only pay more attention to those who can grow to the same level of strength as them in the future.

Therefore, after obtaining this opportunity, he betrayed his family without hesitation. How could he possibly share such an opportunity with his other Blue Dragon brothers?

He has already planned to develop his business here for more than ten years or even hundreds of years.

"This is a super-powerful force that will soon take shape."

Blue dragons have always been an anomaly among dragons; they are rare dragons that would seize the power of mortals, but only to gain a greater scope and order for their "rule".

They pursue power but disregard the public opinion and popular sentiment that build that power; they respect violence and authority but disregard the rules, morality, and laws that maintain that violence and authority.

They know they can understand the "excessive emotions" of mortals, but they don't care.

Therefore, no matter how powerful an empire or authoritative organization they form, they will eventually collapse. A dragon disguised as an ant is still a powerful force, but since the dragon cannot empathize with the ant, the ant naturally cannot accept the dragon's tyranny.

Severe pleasure will end in the brutality of pleasure.

But the dragon was already satisfied.

"What a delightful game!"

Perhaps their exit lines weren't this, or perhaps they called it a play or a performance, but ultimately it probably meant something similar.

"It seems I need a little more time to build my own organization."

Having left the Blue Dragon Clan, the lone Blue Dragon quickly began his own game.

Like those classic evil dragons, he recruited some mercenaries, bandits and monsters to form his own gang. He also respected the territory of another "dragon". He did not choose the dock area, but chose another school area near the city gate.

Using the power of the dragon, he even tamed some low-level magical beasts in the underground labyrinth and began his own "game of power".

Of course, this was just a side project, a private job he took on as part of the overall strategy for the desert kingdoms.

He Quill arrived in this remote region as an envoy of various nations, but these powerful states sending forces to the world's periphery was clearly not for "friendly diplomacy." "The Storm Nation, one of the strongest nations on the continent. Our basic soldiers are all professionals of at least Tier 1, with over ten thousand different extraordinary bloodlines evolved."

Publicity is the embassy's top priority.

This infuriated many people.

Is it a good thing for another country to issue visas and labor contracts when a country is in crisis? Isn't that blatantly undermining its very foundation?

Those propagandists portrayed the desert kingdoms as a paradise on earth, claiming that people would give away houses, money, and even extraordinary materials when they visited.
"Houses? Of course there are plenty. Too many people have died, the cities are empty, you can just move in with your bags."

"Money? Yes, lots and lots of it. The inflation over there in the desert is outrageous right now, you can just take any paper money you want."

"The extraordinary materials are real. How can we use you as cannon fodder if we don't give you enough basic strength?"

The desert nations are at war, and in the midst of a world war of national annihilation, where the consumption of cannon fodder, money, and resources is endless.

Their recruitment wasn't entirely a trap.

Just like gambling, if you bet and win, you gain everything; if you lose, you lose everything. The key question is whether these tempted people are willing to bet on the desert kingdoms or on the kingdom in the storm.

“I’ve heard of one of your counts who took away thirty cartloads of assets, his new house is a golden mansion, and he has more than two thousand servants.”

Bad news and embarrassing incidents tend to spread the fastest, and the story of that wealthy earl made the small kingdom of Etherin famous.

Of course, it's the opposite. Those fleeing nobles were like fat pigs that had been fattened up by a long period of peace, and it was time for them to be slaughtered.

Underground ruins are a stable source of wealth, and heaven knows how much these kingdom nobles who control fixed assets have amassed.

Nobles can become dairy cows or fat pigs, the difference being whether they are fed long-term or cooked once, while ordinary soldiers can also serve as cannon fodder, and even ordinary people can be used for labor and logistics.

During wartime, even the strongest countries need constant replenishment, and these "ambassadorial delegations" tend to favor countries they haven't even had long-term diplomatic relations with, which naturally indicates they have clear objectives.

They didn't even bother with long-term brainwashing propaganda; they simply spent money to aggressively buy channels and adopted a "believe it or not" approach.

Ironically, in this era, most people don't even know what the situation is like outside the kingdom. They yearn for a superpower. If you stop them from going to be cannon fodder or raw materials for lard, they will think you are stopping them from escaping and getting rich.

Appointing Blue Dragon as this ambassador is clearly an attempt to leverage his power and influence to carry out a scam, even if it fails miserably.

This also presents Dania with a difficult problem: how should she deal with it when "enemies" appear among the Heroic Souls Successors and within the Class Reunion?

"That bastard, he actually recruited other people from the class reunion!"

Dania could barely tolerate the loss of ordinary laborers and nobles, but she simply could not accept the loss of the heirs of heroic spirits, one after another future top powerhouses.

"What are you planning to do? Make me kick him out?"

With a smile, Rean offered a very tempting option.

“No, we can’t set this precedent, but we also can’t lose our neutral stance as supervisors.”

Rean smiled and nodded; Dania was far more mature than he had expected.

Everyone in this world has a stance; there is no such thing as true neutrality. However, by appearing neutral, one can maximize the effectiveness of their role as a "judge."

Compared to the trouble caused by the blue dragon, which made other candidates suspect unfair judging, the losses for Dania's side were actually greater.

When you find any excuse to kick someone out, everyone else naturally feels insecure.
“I will deal with the fact that those who are eyeing us are not just the desert nations.”

Seeing that Dania made a rational choice, Rean stopped probing and directly offered a suggestion that belonged to the dragon race.

"Dragons, especially chromatic dragons, have virtually no loyalty, and their adherence to contracts is far less than that of benevolent dragons. We can bribe him; we don't even need to offer a price ourselves, just make a promise. Dragons are excellent henchmen, but they are also the most short-sighted and selfish diplomats. We can use them to get the ambassadorial team of this desert nation to serve us."

(End of this chapter)