Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 254 Troll Empire's Movements, Invitation to the Star God's Celebration

"It's finally done! The great emperor of the empire has finally broken through to the level of ruler and star god!"

"Star God, this is indeed a great joyous occasion."

"But now it just looks so-so."

In the world of Calter, the trolls who were still ascending to godhood in this astral realm, hoping to fill the quota of deities, suddenly received news from the troll Tobien Empire earlier today.

Their emperor has successfully ascended to the position of sovereign.

Well, how should I put this news?

In the past, these trolls would indeed have been very excited and happy.

However, in the present moment, while the troll demigods would still be happy, their happiness would be reduced by at least half.

Without him.

As an envoy who ascended to godhood in the world of Carthus.

They have been watching everything in the world of Calter, especially the development of the Star Empire over the years.

I won't go into detail about the situation of mortals in the Star Empire.

Just thinking about the current state of the gods in the Star Empire made these trolls feel ashamed of themselves.

How many gods are there in the Stellar Empires at present?
According to the information about the Pantheon released by the Star Empire itself, there are currently as many as nine God-level beings in the entire Star Empire.

Meanwhile, the deities with higher divine power have already broken through the twenty major barriers.

And what about intermediate divine power? It's already past fifty!
The combined power of the weaker gods already exceeds one hundred.

It seems that all these deities combined are less than two hundred.

But do two hundred gods know what this means?

Even at its peak, the Troll Empire of Tobirn had no more than this many gods.

Even more so, in terms of quality, the Star Empire has far surpassed the Torbjörn Empire.

The Tobien Empire has only three beings at the level of chief gods or above, including even the emperor.

As for deities with higher divine power, the Tobien Empire currently only has six.

There are slightly more medium and weak divine powers.

However, in terms of sheer numbers, it is already inferior to the Star Empire.

How many years has it been?
All in all, the Stellar Empire has existed for less than three hundred years since its founding.

The demigods who ascended to godhood in the world of Calth have witnessed firsthand the rapid progress of this civilization.

I won't go into the nine main gods.

The Star Empire now has two ancient gods above the nine main gods.

As for how powerful these two ancient deities, especially the dragon god, are now, they have no idea.

However, according to information revealed by some of the gods of the Star Empire, the Dragon God's level has long surpassed that of the Dominator Star God.

Think back, what was that dragon god like three hundred years ago?
Look at now?
Not only are the gods of the Star Empire numb, but even the trolls have collectively fallen into self-doubt.

Three hundred years?
In just three hundred years, he went from the extraordinary stage to a level of strength exceeding that of a star god.

This terrifying growth potential far exceeds conventional understanding.

At least, Lin Ke's growth rate is already on a completely different level from that of ordinary deities.

"The growth rate of this Star Empire is truly frightening."

"Leaving aside that Dragon God, the development of the mortal empire is also changing rapidly."

"Not to mention, this civilization launches civilization wars far more frequently than our Tobien Empire."

"Under such circumstances, the number of gods and the prosperity of mortal civilization are not difficult to understand."

Above the star realm, a troll demigod gazed at the sight of colossal ships occasionally emerging from the mortal world from the star sea and exclaimed in awe.

"I have to say, this civilization is really lucky!"

"After all, they have an ancient god behind them who is abnormally powerful."

"If our Tobien Empire had such a being, perhaps this world would already be ours back then."

"However, speaking of which, how many civilizations has this Stellar Empire actually conquered so far?"

At this moment, the nearly fifty troll demigods gathered together were discussing the matter.

"Hmm, if I remember correctly, since the founding of this empire, their publicly available information indicates that they have already conquered three civilizations, right?"

"Machine civilization, vampire civilization, and most recently, an adventurer civilization."

"A troll demigod pondered."

"The intelligent machine civilization, as you see now, consists of these steel creations that can help mortals travel through the stars."

"As for the vampire civilization, we have never come into contact with it, so we don't know much about it. However, according to the information released by the Star Empire, the main body of this civilization should still be concentrated on its native planet."

"At the same time, this civilization has publicly announced only thirteen gods, but five of them are chief gods and eight are high-level gods."

"Clearly, this civilization was completely swallowed up by the Star Empire, and all their gods submitted to the Dragon God."

"In addition, there is one point that must be mentioned. According to the information released by the Star Empire, there are about fifty more slots available for gods in this civilized world. In other words, the number of gods in the Star Empire will become even larger in the future."

"As for the adventurer civilization that was recently captured by the Star Empire, its power system seems to be similar to that of the Calter world in the Star Empire's announcement, but it has two main gods."

"As for the other deities, there should only be about thirty in total."

"This civilization was suddenly swallowed up by the Star Empire without any warning. None of us even noticed any interaction between the gods and the mortals of the Star Empire. It's truly bizarre."

"But thinking about it, it's very likely that this civilization was also subdued by that dragon god."

This troll demigod was clearly most concerned about the development of the Star Empire, so he was able to state everything in one breath.

This guy is clearly not enthusiastic about ascending to godhood; instead, he's more concerned about the situation in the Star Empire.

"See? This is the true value of an ancient deity!"

"Why don't we have that in our Tobien Empire? It's truly something to be envied."

"How not?"

A troll retorted.

"The Imperial Research Institute has two fossils of ancient species."

"Fossils? You're talking nonsense. To become a fossil, someone has been dead for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of years."

"Let alone any remaining mysterious factors, it would crumble into dust with the slightest touch."

Another troll said irritably.

However, when the topic turned to the fossils of the ancient gods, these troll demigods also recalled the research data on the ancient era that the Tobien Empire had made public.

According to research conducted long ago by the Tobien Imperial Research Institute.

The homeworld of the Torbjörn Empire must have experienced an extremely horrific mass extinction event in ancient times.

Because, apart from the ancient giant fossils that the Tobien Empire dug out from the planet's underground.

In fact, a large number of giant fossils have been discovered in the Tobien Empire.

These giants were all at least five meters tall, more than half the average height of trolls.

Furthermore, according to research by the Tobien Empire, the troll race may very well be descendants of these giant races!
After all, these giants are almost 95 percent similar to trolls in appearance.

But how exactly did they perish?

Even how their gods, those two possible ancient deities, died, remains unknown.

It could be due to mutual warfare, or it could be due to being besieged by many weaker races.

But the most likely explanation is that the trolls' planet experienced a brutal war of civilizations in ancient times, which led to a break in the planet's civilization.

However, the Troll Tobirn Empire still has a solid foundation.

The fact that it has achieved such strength despite the interruption of its civilization is already beyond the reach of many civilizations.

Just as these troll demigods were chattering about the Star Empire, and even the news that the emperor of the empire had ascended to the rank of Star God.

Suddenly, the 'diplomatic envoy' leading among these trolls paused, his expression momentarily blank.

He then hurriedly raised his hand, and a mysterious scroll appeared in his hand.

The surrounding trolls and demigods fell silent when they saw the troll envoy suddenly produce a scroll.

Thus, just after the troll envoy seemed to have read the message and showed a solemn expression.

A troll demigod then asked in confusion.

"Lord Valentine, has there been any more news from the Empire?"

Upon hearing this, the troll envoy glanced at all the trolls present who were casting glances at him, then nodded and said solemnly:
"His Majesty has successfully broken through to the Star God rank, therefore, the Empire is preparing to hold a grand celebration."

"Therefore, the Imperial Divine Council has sent word that they have already decided on the members of the ambassadorial delegation to come here, and intend to extend a grand invitation to the Star Empire to participate in the event."

A grand celebration?

"Isn't this a good thing? It can deepen the friendship between the two civilizations, but why do you look like that?" a troll asked, puzzled.

"Good thing?"

"Of course it's a good thing, but the key thing is that those big shots in the Divine Council want me to sound out the Star Empire's intentions!"

"In other words, if possible, the Empire would like to invite that Dragon God to attend the grand ceremony."

"As for the deeper reason, it's not that the Empire intends to break the five-thousand-year-old alliance, but rather that His Majesty seems to intend to unite with the Star Empire to launch a civilization war against a newly discovered civilization!"

???

WTF?

The troll demigods were all dumbfounded.

Is His Majesty planning to cause trouble again now that he has just broken through to a higher level?
How long has it been since the Tobien Empire conquered that world with its strange and powerful mortal forces?
Didn't we agree that the empire planned to recuperate for at least two hundred years?
How long has it been since now?
It's only been a little over a hundred years, half a year? And they're already planning to start another war of civilizations?

Is this a result of being spurred on by the momentum of the Star Empire?

Or was it because His Majesty made a breakthrough that the joint military expedition was initiated in order to deepen the alliance between the two civilizations?
But will the Star Empire agree?
Whether the Dragon God went or not is another matter.

But it seems that the Star Empire has been away from conquering that adventurer civilization for less than twenty years.

For over a decade, the Star Empire has been fully focused on building up that civilization's home planet. Are they really interested in participating in this joint operation?

The troll demigods had their doubts about this.

"As you probably guessed, I'm currently having a headache about how to negotiate with the Star Empire before the ambassadorial delegation arrives."

"This order is supposed to be for me to sound out their intentions, ha, but you know what happens if things don't go well."

None of the troll demigods were fools; they naturally understood the subtext.

"Those old guys in the Divine Council are really good at ordering people around!"

"They take all the benefits, while we little people have to do the risky work!"

"Ambassadorial delegation? I bet they're all the younger generation of those old guys! They're just here to get their resumes 'gilded'."

"A troll demigod said in a sarcastic tone."

"It's no use saying hurtful things now."

"It's my fault that this happened. It's been almost three hundred years, and I still haven't gone through the ascension ceremony. The old guys in the Divine Council are clearly eyeing my qualifications for ascension."

"Of course, we cannot rule out some of you."

As soon as the troll envoy finished speaking, several of the seasoned troll veterans were immediately enraged.

"Ascend to godhood? Is it that easy?"

"Going to climb without being fully prepared, are you trying to send us to our deaths?"

"We're a few old folks, and our physical condition isn't the best to begin with. Can we manage without taking a more cautious approach?"

"Little do they know how many people have died in the past three hundred years who have come here to try to become gods?"

"It's not two hundred, it's at least one hundred and eighty!"

"How many of them succeeded? Less than twenty!"

"Those old fogies in the Divine Council really don't give those of us with slightly inferior family backgrounds and talents a chance to survive!"

"Look at the Star Empire. The demigods who ascend to godhood in other empires are under the watchful eye and protection of the Pantheon throughout their entire journey!"

"Even if we fail, even if we're seriously injured, we shouldn't die! But what about us?"

"The difference in quality is truly obvious!"

Several troll demigods looked furious.

They are all criticizing the outdated system of the Tobien Empire's Divine Council.

"Alright, everyone, there's no point in saying all this now."

"As for this matter, there's not much we can actually do! It all depends on luck!"

"In that case, I'll first send the Empire's invitation to the Pantheon of the Star Empire and see what their reply is."

"Furthermore, just in case, I'll also take some gifts to visit the elders of the Cloud Court Dragon Clan on Dragon Island. That way, I might be able to get a more direct response from the Dragon God."

The troll envoy said, preparing for both possibilities.

The other troll demigods could only nod in agreement.

"Your Highness Valentine's two preparations are very necessary. Well then, I'll go with you!"

"By the way, if any of you have any good things that you've accumulated over the years, feel free to bring them out as well."

"We can't appear too shabby when we visit the Dragon Clan, can we?"

"Even if the final result isn't great, just considering our good relationship with the dragons, it's not a bad thing for our future."

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Thus, after a brief discussion, the troll demigods finally reached an agreement.

Ultimately, five demigods accompanied the troll envoy to visit Dragon Island!
Of course, prior to this, in accordance with the administrative model of the Star Empire, the troll envoy had also sent a demigod to the Council of Gods to convey the invitation.

While the troll demigods were busy with the invitations...

In the Grid World, the giant serpent god Kukudar is miserably traveling the mortal world in human form, following the seven elemental gods.

The purpose of the seven gods accompanying them on their travels was quite simple.

That is to establish new values ​​and social awareness for the giant serpent god Kukudar.

As for whether the Seven Gods can keep an eye on Kukudar.

There's absolutely no need to worry about this, because Lin Ke personally instructed us to do so.

Kukudar may disregard the attitudes of the other weaker individuals, but he takes the matters entrusted to him by his newly acquainted friend, 'Big Brother' Linko, quite seriously.

In this way, the Seven Gods indirectly became Kukudar's serpentine mentors in reshaping his cognition.

Today, the Seven Gods have purchased a manor in the Grid World and are running a vineyard together like ordinary people.

As for Kukudar, he has now grown up like an ordinary person, transforming from a little boy into a grown man.

Meanwhile, on this very day, Kukudar also successfully gained admission to a 'university' built by the Empire in this world!

(End of this chapter)