The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

For the Fire Maiden, the Flame Boar was a failed experiment. She didn't pay much attention to them because these accidentally bred boars had a flaw that a girl couldn't tolerate.

Stench!

The fire element reacted subtly with the gases in the boar's stomach, producing a gas with a strong stench, which also gave the Flame Boar the ability to accelerate with nitrogen.

When the Flame Boar got angry, the gas it spewed out, when fully burned by the fire element, would further enhance the power of the stench. Compared to the Flame Boar's charging power, people probably didn't want to have close contact with a boar covered in stinky farts.

It's a stench now, but as long as you carefully dissect the Flame Boar's body structure and understand the principle of how the stench is produced, the stench can be changed into a fragrance.

The Fire Maiden saw the Flame Boar emitting a stench, while Attilan saw the Flame Boar's ability to emit the *taste* of gas!

If the stench were turned into a fragrance, then the fragrance emitted by the Flame Boar when angry would make people want to eat its meat and drink its blood.

Although the Flame Boar had a stench, its meat was still very tender. After removing the odor with cooking wine and stir-frying it over high heat, even the current Flame Boar meat was edible.

The meat was tender, but the stench was too stubborn. Even with Attilan and the Half-goat's combined efforts, they couldn't completely remove it, so they could only start with the Flame Boar piglets.

Castration is an effective breeding method to reduce the boar's odor, and a protein proportion that is too high in the feed can cause the boar to digest it incompletely, accumulating in the intestines and producing bad odors.

Feeding boars with ingredients that have strong stimulating odors will also increase bad odors.

This was also because the Flame Boars didn't have the ability to actively release flames.

Otherwise, if the Flame Boars set the mountain on fire, the Fire Maiden would be sitting in jail.

Planting trees to repair the burned areas was the most basic requirement. Only when the forest was restored to its original state, or preferably even better, would the Fire Maiden be allowed to continue her experiments in the forest.

The Bear-men allowed everyone to freely carry out experimental projects, but they couldn't damage the forest or affect the forest's ecological chain, otherwise he would step in to help regulate.

But at that time, everyone would be in trouble.

A strict investigation was inevitable. There were quite a few druids conducting research that was borderline, and they would all be suspended at that time.

The Fire Maiden had bred a total of two male and three female Flame Boars. After Attilan explored the genes of the two males, he killed one of the males that didn't have genetic value.

Of course, before killing it for meat, he castrated the Flame Boar, allowing the boar to metabolize for two months to remove some of the odor, and then he used water elements to clean the pork.

This is how this plate of stir-fried Flame Boar pork belly came to be!

"Spicy Stir-fried Pork, please enjoy!"

The red protein and golden fat intertwined to form a snowflake pattern, and the aroma made the Fire Maiden stunned. She forked a piece and put it in her mouth, and her eyes widened.

"Is this really the meat of the Flame Boar I bred?"

"It also has some of my efforts."

Castration, restricted activity, and adjusted diet were all used, otherwise this Flame Boar wouldn't be edible.

"It's so delicious! I can't believe that such a stinky pig can be made into such a fragrant dish!"

"As long as you put your heart into it, there's nothing you can't do. Two months ago, I invited you to restart the Flame Boar research, but you refused, thinking that this accidentally cultivated breed had no research value."

"How about now? Do you want to conduct research on the Flame Fragrant Pig with me? I've collected a total of 37 small wild boars from the first generation of wild boars you bred that may have research value."

The Fire Maiden's eyes widened.

"Such a large forest, and you were able to find all the Flame Boars?"

"It's nothing. I'm a dragon after all. It's normal to have a few familiars."

The Leopard-woman stuffed spicy stir-fried pork into her mouth while exposing Attilan's secrets.

"Where are a few? He sent out more than two hundred kobolds to search for the Flame Boars. More than a dozen kobolds were gored to death by the sows before they caught these 37 piglets."

Attilan glared at the Leopard-woman fiercely.

"Eating isn't enough to shut your mouth."

The Leopard-woman wasn't afraid of Attilan's dragon might at all, and stuck out her tongue with a playful smile.

Because similar dangerous work would be assigned to the kobolds later, Attilan loosened the kobolds' breeding restrictions, allowing them to have a second child.

In fact, it wasn't just the Flame Boars that caused kobold casualties. There was also a type of exploding red fruit. The kobolds thought the fruit's bright color looked delicious.

They picked it, and then it exploded. The kobolds weren't killed by the explosion, but were killed by falling after being blown away.

Besides the exploding fruit, this fruit druid was also researching a life fruit whose flesh could restore vitality, but progress was very slow and it would probably take another twenty years to complete.

He saw that there was a spell in druid magic that could restore vitality, Divine Berry, and wanted to cultivate a naturally growing plant similar to this berry.

This was a good practice to implement and increase druid knowledge, but Attilan still chose Divine Berry.

Attilan had always thought that the fruit that the Wine Maiden used to brew wine was cultivated by her and the Flower Maiden together, but now he realized that the fruit druid also contributed.

The Wine Maiden liked to collect basic fruit seeds from the fruit druid and then specially cultivate them according to her needs, or even directly let the fruit druid cultivate the specific fruit seeds she needed.

She only needed to plant them herself, completely outsourcing the breeding work.

Attilan also found the fruit druid and wanted him to help design a berry that was suitable for land with high water content, high yield, and high sugar content, so he could hand it over to the second-generation kobolds to plant in the East River Lands.

The wheat and black beans that Attilan possessed were varieties that had been selected and bred by halflings for many years, and were not suitable for planting in the humid environment of the East River Lands.

Except for the existing 20,000 mu of developed land in the East River, the remaining uncaptured land was humid, and the local tribes generally lived by fishing and hunting.

It was said that Lista had actually found a lizardman tribe that lived by planting.

These lizardmen not only dug ponds to raise and catch small fish, but also planted a unique red berry in the rainforest. Most importantly, the lizardmen planted ramie!

As soon as Lista said this, how could Attilan not understand that these lizardmen were the very ones he was preparing to recruit, but who cleverly escaped from the encirclement of the opposing forces.

According to Lista's report, after leaving the particularly severe rainforest battlefield, the lizardmen's quality of life seems to have improved. Not only are they recruiting lizardmen, but they are also actively recruiting fishmen, snakemen, and other races skilled at operating in aquatic environments.

They are all races with scales and armor on their bodies, so they can barely be considered to have many things in common.

This alone shows that the lizardman tribe's leader has considerable ambition.

Unfortunately, Atlan has already set his sights on this swamp rainforest in the eastern river region, and the lizardmen's kingdom of scales and armor has no chance!

Of course, Atlan has not moved against this tribe of over five hundred lizardmen located in the central part of the eastern river region. Right now, the lizardmen are working for him, and Atlan believes their enthusiasm is at its peak.

Once the Scaled Armor Tribe is incorporated into the Atlantis Kingdom, Atlan believes their work enthusiasm will definitely decline.

For example, his own dependents, after the existing farmland's output can feed them, their enthusiasm for responding to Atlan's instructions to continue expanding the cultivated area has obviously decreased by about thirty percent.

Atlan can only use the performance evaluation as a trump card to address this problem.

He stipulates the daily workload, and if they don't meet the standard, they will only be supplied with eighty percent of their meal portion.

If they fail to meet the standard for three consecutive days, they will only eat half the portion.

As expected, this barely restored their work enthusiasm to its original level.

Increasing the number of kobolds also has another benefit, which is that their small stature can increase the precision of agricultural production and improve grain yield.

Through nearly a year of optimization, the soil fertility of the initial five thousand acres of reclaimed farmland has been significantly improved, coupled with the organic fertilizer that Atlan had his dependents produce.

The yield is no worse than that of the halflings!

The halflings sell grain to Atlan, and Atlan provides organic fertilizer to the halflings because, after one harvest, the halflings discovered that the black bean yield from the black cattle's planting was higher than theirs!

The reason is that the black cattle used a black, smelly mud transported from the forest, and the halflings also wanted to purchase some fertilizer.

After using the fertilizer, the halflings found that their wheat and black beans were growing much better than last year, according to the most experienced farmer in the town.

The best farmland outside the town could yield over three hundred catties of wheat per mu after using organic fertilizer!

Previously, it was at most two hundred and fifty catties, but this time it actually increased by a full fifty catties. Seeing the organic fertilizer in the wooden box, the halflings only had one thought in their minds.

That is, buy it! Buy it!

Atlan never expected that he would actually have a day to sell organic fertilizer.

Organic fertilizer mixed with rotten leaves, river silt, and bone meal is not cheap.

Anyway, increasing the yield by fifty catties per mu means that almost half of it ends up in Atlan's hands. Agricultural planting fertilizer is very important, but it's not just fertilizer that's needed.

After controlling the fertilizer, Atlan's next step is to control the halflings' seeds.

Then, by selling linen clothes, sweaters, fruit wine, leather boots, and other items to the halfling town, the town will basically be completely controlled by Atlan.

Because the snakeman he sent has already successfully become a martial arts instructor, he is just waiting for Atlan to economically control the halfling town.

With both economic and military power in Atlan's hands, the halflings can only accept his protection.

"I'm joining the Flame Fragrant Pig Project!"

After convincing Fire Woman to cooperate with him, Atlan dragged his not-so-tired body back to Greenscale Town and began processing the information coming back from Water Cellar Town, Big Horn Town, Rainforest Town, Earth Fort Town, and Yellow Sand Pass.

You know, even as a dragon, he felt it was not easy to process this information, let alone Mape, a half-goat. In the future, he should give Mape more life refinement and heavenly lightning tempering.

If Mape doesn't have time to cultivate, he'll simply inject energy directly. If the half-goat's body is better, this prime minister can also serve for a longer time.

Just helping him rescue Trina will make Mape work for Atlan for the rest of his life.

And for free.

Finally, on the third day that Atlan impatiently delegated some of the work to the old fishman, the half-goat finally brought back his sweetheart, Trina.

"I'm back!"

A head of beautiful red hair, delicate and fair features and skin, but her eyes are incomparably empty.

"Atlan, this is Trina."

"Trina, this is Atlan, he's the one who helped me rescue you."

Trina just nodded faintly, subconsciously placing herself behind the half-goat, not as a lover, but more like the half-goat's bodyguard.

Such a good girl, but she can't speak.

"What's wrong with her?"

Speaking of this, the half-goat became somewhat indignant.

"The Duke said that Trina's mental imprint cannot be removed. Even if he actively gives up being Trina's overlord, her controlled brain will be difficult to recover."

"Unless we can find an excellent mind mage to help, but where can I find a mind mage?"

The half-goat looked worried.

"You can try asking Ophelia, her psionic talent is not bad. Under my guidance, she is already a level 2 mind mage."

"Even if Ophelia can't solve it, there are Lulu and Lalune. Starlight magic is also good at repairing mental states."

The half-goat directly asked:

"Why don't we just go ask Lady Lalune for help?"

Involving your old flame, your barren brain is finally online?

"Go find Ophelia!"

At this time, Atlan must maintain his face. Going directly to Lalune clearly shows that he looks down on the mind mage he guided.

Faced with Atlan's dragon might, the half-goat had to succumb.

Anyway, it's not a matter of a day or two.

"Alright."

"Hedwig, go call Ophelia over, and say that we need the help of a mind mage."

The snow-white owl flew out, and Ophelia arrived in a few minutes.

What they didn't expect was that when Ophelia saw Trina, she actually seemed very excited.

"You are... Sister!"

"Sister!?"

Atlan and the half-goat stared at each other with wide eyes.

Atlan asked suspiciously:

"You like a snakeman?"

"Impossible! Trina, you are clearly human, right?"

The half-goat also looked at Trina in astonishment.

"Sister, don't you recognize me?"

Faced with Ophelia's call, Trina's eyes seemed to struggle a little.

"Ophelia, what's going on? How are you sure she's your sister?"

"Dragon Lord, this is a special talent of the snakemen to distinguish the aura of their clansmen, and I have also become a mind mage with your help, so I will definitely not recognize the wrong person."

"Sister, I will now transmit the memories of our time together before you were captured to you."

Ophelia faced Trina, and transparent psionic light shone in her eyes. Trina received her memories, and there was finally some light in her eyes.

"O...phe...lia～"