Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

Chapter 209: The Stigma of the Country, Word Spirit·God’s Punishment

“It’s getting bigger and bigger!”

Noah admired the huge golden tree in front of him, whose trunk was the same length as his dragon body. It thrived with his growth.

In terms of the current scale, with Noah’s current size, it is more than enough to build a dragon’s nest in this increasingly prosperous tree canopy.

However, compared with the huge root system that took root and spread in the nebula, the growth of the golden tree is completely insignificant.

Noah lowered his head and looked down at the root system of the golden tree that spread for who knows how many miles. He could see that there was a small world that was miniaturized dozens of times, with mountains, rivers, cities, towns, and everything, all clearly visible.

Among them are the Eldis Mountains, the city of Elishim, Ironforge, and the Valley of Fire... These are all the lands ruled by Noah and his subjects.

To this day, I don’t know how many creatures have been actively or passively affected by his fate, providing nutrients for the growth of the golden tree.

Just by becoming a dragon, hundreds of thousands of creatures were affected by him, and this number is growing day by day. All of these people had their fate disturbed by him. From then on, every move was closely related to him and manifested on the golden tree.

Respect, worship, gratitude, these emotions can become nutrients for the birth of purple spiritual fruit, production, construction, population reproduction, can provide Noah with a steady stream of wisdom fruit.

For monsters that meet the definition of evil in the concept of the golden dragon, all hunting and slaughtering behaviors related to them can breed blood source fruit.

Of course, forces and races hostile to the golden dragon can also be classified in this category.

At this time, it has nothing to do with race and bloodline. Even if they are humans or elves, their death will turn into a wisp of blood and form blood source fruit.

However, as the price of collecting so many magical fruits, Noah also needs to bear everything related to it. The suffering and troubles of hundreds of thousands of dragonized people and more people, and the resentment generated by them, will turn into dark fruits that make the golden tree dim.

Especially the dragonized people who died due to injustice and injustice, everything they experienced at the moment of death will make Noah feel it again.

This forced Noah to repeatedly ask the goblins to promulgate stricter and more complete laws and regulations, and strictly enforce them.

Because even if Noah is powerful, it is impossible to pay attention to everyone, not to mention that the number of dragonized people is still spreading. He is not an omniscient and omnipotent god, and he can't take care of everyone.

He can only establish a relatively perfect social order that can continuously iterate and update itself, and strive to allow all dragonized people to pursue their ideals, realize their self-worth, and get spiritual and material satisfaction.

It is for this reason that Noah spent ten years to establish the order he wanted, which is much more perfect and strict than the reign of Augustus.

But even so, the dark fruit matures the fastest and matures the fastest among all the fruits on the golden treetops.

Noah had to enter the nebula regularly to pick the fruit, which was also the most painful moment for the Golden Dragon.

However, every time the Golden Dragon tasted the pain, when he left here and returned to reality, he would let another group of people feel the pain.

This is the correction process of the Golden Dragon order.

Any attempt to deceive him is useless, and Noah does not need to whitewash the false data of prosperity, because the real bitter fruit will be swallowed by him personally, and no one can replace him.

Therefore, Noah can only tolerate the administrative officials under his command to a limited extent.

Within the scope of his authority, without infringing on the interests of anyone, he can seek some benefits for himself. This can be regarded as his ability, and the Golden Dragon can turn a blind eye.

If he uses his authority to encroach on others and even seize the interests of the people, or even their lives, the Golden Dragon will not tolerate it at all, and it is him who is in pain.

Although his will and concentration can be trained, and his dragon soul can be tempered to a certain extent, there are other more comfortable training methods.

If he could choose, Noah certainly didn't want to torture himself, but unfortunately, he had no choice. As long as he touched the dark fruit, it would become a maggot attached to his bones, drilling into his body, and then let him personally experience the bitterness and injustice of the bottom.

"Let me see how many scumbags hurt me this time!"

Noah looked at the golden treetops, the source of darkness that dimmed the branches and trunks carved like gems, stretched out his dragon claws, and gently touched it.

A deep and terrifying nightmare suddenly attacked the golden dragon.

"No, this is the inheritance my parents left me. Why can she take half of it?"

"Because she is your wife and she is pregnant with your child. According to the Golden Code, not only does half of your property belong to her, but you also have to fulfill your responsibility as a father to support her. You need to pay 28 gold dragon coins as child support every month!"

"Wife? She cheated on my feelings. We have been married for less than three months, but the child in her arms is already six months old!"

The man's cheeks are dotted with fine dragon scales. He is a holy dragon who is envied by everyone in the outside world. But at this moment, the man's face is full of anger. In the trial court, he shouted angrily,

"Besides, my monthly salary is less than 40 gold dragon coins, but I need to pay such a high amount of child support for a bastard who cheated on my daughter and does not belong to me. Why? And I still have debts, why are the debts not divided?"

"This is your personal debt before marriage."

"My property is also left to me by my parents, and it is also my personal property."

"No, your property is where you and your wife lived together, and it is the common property of the couple."

"This is unfair!"

...

"Why is the food getting worse? There is more and more sand mixed in the food. I ate it today. "What on earth did the Palu production group feed us?"

"Don't you call yourselves the Dragon People? Dragons need to eat more wood and sand so that they can grow hard scales. This is for your sake."

"How can we have dragon scales? We are just ordinary people."

"Who said that? You are noble dragon masters! Sooner or later, you will grow dragon scales. Eat more sand."

"Bullshit, you Palu profiteers who should be hanged!"

"The people of the Palu family should be cut into pieces!"

...

As long as the brains of the Holy Dragon People are fine and their thinking ability is normal, there is basically no problem in solving the problem of food and clothing.

But this is the general situation. When faced with special situations, the Holy Dragon People who are targeted will find it difficult to deal with.

Many Holy Dragon People were just ordinary people before they had inhuman dragon characteristics. If you trace the source of their bloodline, many ancestors of the Holy Dragon People were slaves who gained freedom through the self-redemption law.

These people are all descendants of slaves. Without inheritance, they suddenly became rich and had wealth that did not match their own power and knowledge, which naturally led to many problems.

Because the housing prices in the city of Elishim are too high, so high that some small and medium-sized nobles can hardly afford it, but they want to obtain dragon veins in this way. In the end, they will try to achieve their goals through methods other than purchase.

Let me ask, a single man who was just an ordinary person a few years ago, in just a few years, not only has his net worth skyrocketed, but he has also obtained dragon veins without paying anything. To what extent will his mentality swell?

With such a mentality, how can he resist the temptation of some well-prepared noble women?

Of course, these people have wealth that does not match their own abilities, and because they did not resist the temptation of the outside world, they made irrational choices and lost this part of wealth. It is normal for them to have resentment.

But this also shows that the Golden Code formulated by the goblins is still imperfect and cannot protect these people, and further modifications are needed.

There are not a few people of the Dragon who have experienced this. Similar cases are so common that Noah has personally experienced several of them.

Because some people have really been cheated of all their property, and have nothing except dragon scales growing on their bodies. They are expelled from the city of Elishim, and even if they rebel, they are suppressed.

In the land of the Holy Dragon, the violent armed forces that maintain order are not something that a mere dragon person can resist, let alone the steel golems driven by the fairies. Even the garrison composed of human professionals can suppress these insignificant voices.

This is a group that is easily overlooked, but the golden tree made Noah feel their existence and experience their pain.

In addition to them, the golden tree also made Noah experience more, that is, ordinary people who also live in Elishim City but have not been dragonized.

In this city, not growing dragon scales means being inferior, and going out to find a job will also be unreasonably discriminated against and suppressed because of the identity of Elishim City residents. It is even more common to be deducted from wages and treated unfairly.

To be honest, Noah had never tasted what it felt like to eat sand and chew wood since he was born, but the golden tree made him experience it countless times.

"Why is it the Palu family again? There are merchants from the Palu family every time!"

Noah, who finally broke free from the sea of ​​pain brought by the dark fruit, cursed and recalled the merchant group that was constantly mentioned when he experienced the suffering of civilians.

Palu Family

If you want to investigate this family, the founder of the Palu family was a slave who gained freedom through the self-redemption law. This slave named Palu, after becoming a freeman, quickly owned his own property through hard work.

Compared to other freemen, Palu chose to invest more money in learning after obtaining a certain amount of assets, because compared to mastering extraordinary powers, the threshold for acquiring knowledge is lower.

But mastering enough knowledge and acquiring extraordinary powers becomes much easier.

In just twenty years, when Palu's grandson was born, this diligent and studious freeman with a keen sense of smell had already established a merchant group and named it after himself.

As Palu's descendants grew, some of them finally had extraordinary talents, and the Palu family came into being.

In just half a century, the Palu family gradually expanded into various industries in the city of Elishim as their business territory expanded.

Today, the Palu family has become one of the best merchant families in the city.

The first generation of Palu, as an ordinary person, had no extraordinary power and had passed away long ago, but his descendants remembered the teachings of this first generation ancestor. Everyone loves to learn knowledge, so that the new generation of Palu are very good at exploiting loopholes in the rules.

Because Noah's Golden Code does not advocate criminal law systems such as collective punishment, the Palu family made full use of this point to divide the family legally and break it into pieces.

Therefore, even if Noah had previously ordered the goblins to sanction the Palu family based on the feedback from the golden tree, this family can still bring surprises to Noah today.

Noah's first taste of sand was thanks to this family.

Of course, this time it is not necessarily the Palu family's fault, because this family has been much more honest after suffering many sanctions.

It's just that the Palu family used all means to hoard capital and did too much, which led to many citizens of Elishim City remembering the Palu family's profiteers.

As a result, the surname Palu has many meanings such as greed, stinginess, cruelty, and loss of humanity. When ordinary low-level workers abuse profiteers, they will bring the word Palu.

The word Palu, which originally had little meaning, has a new meaning because of the reckless behavior of the Palu family before being sanctioned. Most businessmen will look very ugly when they hear someone call them Palu.

Of course, there are also some black-hearted businessmen who regard being described as Palu as a compliment. They regard Palu as their spiritual idol, the ultimate goal of imitation and pursuit.

Born as a slave, but in the end he established a business family famous in Elishim by his own efforts.

This is so inspiring!

"Eat a fruit and take it easy!"

Noah, who had recovered from the suffering of thousands of people, stretched out his claws to the golden tree again, picked a round and plump fruit emitting purple light, and threw it into his mouth to relieve the pain that seemed to be continuing.

This is a fruit that has been bred for nearly ten years. Today, it has matured. The sweet taste of this fruit makes Noah taste it with some comfort.

Except for the dark fruit, tasting any kind of fruit is a kind of enjoyment for Noah.

Because he will not only taste the intoxicating taste, but also gain a new power.

When the flesh of the purple spirit fruit was swallowed by Noah, the vast purple air rose up, turned into a torrent, swept the dragon soul, and a new power was engraved.

Word Spirit·Heavenly Punishment

When Noah felt the purpose of this word spirit, he looked up at the golden tree with swaying branches in front of him, stared for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking,

"Give me such a word spirit, what do you want me to do? Isn't what I have done enough?"