The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

It just so happened that Atilan felt that the Minotaur Totem War Dance he had choreographed was not perfect. If he could choreograph a Centaur Totem War Dance with a higher level of civilization, comparing the two Totem War Dances should reveal many flaws that could be improved.

"First, let's look at the excellent qualities that your Centaur tribe already possesses. Also, what qualities do you hope your descendants will pursue and inherit but do not currently have? These can all be inscribed on the totem pole."

"The ritual of constructing a sacrifice to nature to obtain power depends on what you need. For example, the element I chose for the Minotaur was the earth element. The natural power amplification focuses on strength and physique, and finally, nature will instill them with the wisdom of the earth."

Of course, you can choose more, but the ritual of mixing two elements is very difficult. The more you ask for, the greater the difficulty and the lower the cost performance.

"I recommend the Centaurs choose the wind element, with qualities like rapid progress, swiftness like the wind, and unerring accuracy. Should the amplification focus on agility and strength?"

Using natural primal force to enhance one's own strength and the strength of animal companions is a compulsory course for every Druid, and Atilan's topic involves the content of the animal, plant, and elemental schools.

Everyone naturally wanted to express their opinions. The plant school believed that they should start with their daily diet to accumulate natural primal force in their bodies, and then use positive emotional power to summon the blessing of nature's will.

The animal school felt that self-training was more important, aligning daily behavior with nature, and gradually absorbing and transforming natural primal force through breathing techniques.

The elemental school directly communicated with the elements, using rituals to absorb the power of the elements to strengthen everyone in the tribe. Everyone sharing the immense power of the elements, although it could not cause a rapid increase in strength, had the advantage of being safe.

The three schools gathered together and quickly wrote down the training methods they had designed based on their existing experience on bark paper, and handed them to Atilan.

"You tell me, which method do you think we should adopt?!"

Faced with their coercion, Atilan casually blew on his claws.

The Bearman nodded with satisfaction. Although he had not yet taught Atilan many unique spells of the life school, it was obvious that Atilan had grasped the essence of the life school.

As long as it is something related to natural life, the life school Druids must understand, master, and innovate!

The Bearman decided that after the meeting, he would teach Atilan a unique spell of the life school, which would happen to help him tame the Minotaur next.

Brain Activation Technique!

This spell can make an animal's brain run at high speed, increasing its brain computing power by half in the next half hour. After the effect ends, it will feel dizzy and needs to sleep for at least two hours to recover.

Two hours in exchange for half an hour seems like a loss, but the Brain Activation Technique has an important effect: it can slightly increase intelligence!

Half an hour of training under the Brain Activation Technique is more effective than three hours of ordinary training. This spell works better on races with lower intelligence.

Coincidentally, the Minotaur is such an unintelligent race.

Seeing that the crowd was obviously not satisfied with Atilan's answer, the Bearman spoke.

"I have also read your plans. It is indeed more difficult to apply them together, but it is not impossible. When did Druids divide so clearly into faction boundaries?"

"Remember, we Druids have always taken what is useful to learn and improved it with Druidic knowledge. Don't be rigid!"

"Let's use the Centaur tribe as an experiment to see if these plans can be used together."

The old Centaur was about to laugh his teeth off. He didn't expect that this gathering would actually give him such a big advantage for nothing. Usually, to get them to help, he didn't know how much favor he would have to owe.

Now... hiss, the old Centaur suddenly realized that he had caused a big trouble for the tribe. He used Atilan's idea, which meant he owed Atilan a favor.

Based on his superficial understanding of the little dragon during his chat with the Bearman, he was very clear that owing the little dragon a favor was more troublesome than owing all the other Druids favors combined.

For the future of the tribe, he could only ask the chief and warriors to work hard and be free labor for Atilan. He knew that Atilan had always coveted the well-trained warriors in the tribe.

Especially their Centaurs' excellent carrying capacity, which gave them a natural potential to become peddlers and middlemen.

However, he had to control the proportions carefully, and he must not let the tribe be annexed by the little dragon.

He could see that the little dragon was a dragon who wanted to do big things, but precisely because Atilan wanted to do big things, he couldn't let the tribe participate.

He had an older cousin who was also a priest in the Centaur tribe. That tribe was much stronger than theirs, with as many as three hundred warriors, and counting the old, weak, women, and children, it was a large tribe of thousands of Centaurs.

With a large population, the burden was also heavy. He didn't know how they were recruited by the Swamp Wyvern to fight with the people in the east. As a result, the tribe suffered heavy losses and was about to be ruthlessly abandoned by the Swamp Wyvern.

Hiss, why not package his cousin's tribe and sell it to the little dragon? This would repay the little dragon's favor and take care of kinship. The more the old Centaur thought about it, the more he felt it was a good idea.

Atilan's topic directly made everyone lose interest in continuing to discuss their own topics. They simply ended the academic seminar and went directly to the Centaur tribe to conduct practical operations!

In less than a day, this group of Druids, who burst out with several times their enthusiasm, had designed the spiritual core, elemental blessing, sacrificial rituals, and other aspects of the Centaur Totem War Dance.

The Horse King was pushed onto the stage to lead the Centaurs of the entire tribe, forming a large circle around the bonfire platform built of oak.

Night fell, the bonfire was lit, singing the songs that Atilan had just composed praising the Centaurs' beautiful virtues, stepping on the steps designed by several animal Druids, and waving the totem poles, masks, and other symbols in their hands.

The first experimental attempt of the Totem War Dance officially began!

Light wind was summoned, circling around the Horse King for a lap and then approaching another Centaur. An invisible will seemed to be watching everything that happened here. Every Centaur seemed to see the figures of their ancestors in the dancing flames.

The Horse King had an epiphany! His aura was rapidly expanding!

And this grand Totem War Dance also had a special guest invited by Atilan, the Minotaur Chieftain!

At this moment, the Chieftain had been cast with the Brain Activation Technique by Atilan, and was as intelligent as a true wise man, understanding the changes that were happening to the Centaurs with the war dance. He clenched his fist and told himself that the Minotaur must obtain this Totem War Dance that could change their fate.

"Don't envy the Centaurs, try the grilled fish. The Totem War Dance was first designed for you. What they have, you also have, and it will be even better!"

The Chieftain finally lowered his head to Atilan beside the bonfire, kneeling on one knee to accept the grilled fish.

"It is my honor to serve the Dragon Lord!"