Under the Red Dragon

The sun rose, and the figures of dragons began to appear above the sea's sky. Even in the wilderness outside the town, one or two wild dragons could occasionally be seen hurrying about.

Two or three dragons flew to the deep-sea area, ignoring the curses of the many fishermen, and plunged into the fish-dense waters, starting their hunt.

The scaled fish, gathered by the fishermen on the sea surface, scattered in panic.

These wild dragons, living around the Golden Empire, no longer attracted the attention of the passing crowds.

To some extent, the territories of these wild dragons were slowly annexed and integrated by the Golden Empire.

Because the Empire allowed these wandering dragons to nest and inhabit the surrounding areas, and the adult silver dragon Flo, the young red dragon Cadiros, and several blue and white dragons still undergoing transformation planned the territory range for these wandering dragons.

This work was previously completed by the adult silver dragon Chris Tiana and the two bronze dragons Gross and Natarelli.

With the experience of the previous examples, these dragons have also become accustomed to the Golden Empire's indirect hegemonic strategy.

But the wild dragons did not consider that it was precisely because the Golden Empire's manpower was temporarily unable to develop more wilderness and forests that these dragons were allowed to treat the wild areas as nests.

When these wild dragons establish order around their territory nests and gradually become influenced by the Golden Empire, it is equivalent to these wild dragons indirectly helping the Empire open up territory.

So the Empire's policies, although they brought some chaotic troubles and problems in many aspects, ultimately occupied the most important achievements.

Since the time agreed upon with the lord in the dark nest had not yet arrived, Caron and Gemott, two exceptionally large dragons, transformed into humanoid dragonkin forms, intending to take a stroll in this small town on the West Hammer Coast.

Since the establishment of his territory, Caron had never set foot in the Empire's market in the form of an ordinary dragonkin, and he felt a novel sensation.

Especially since the Empire's architectural style was almost the same, from the perspective of an ordinary dragonkin, the small town that was beginning to become busy seemed particularly wide.

The guarding legion soldiers were scattered outside the town, reduced to zero, and only some dragonkin were hidden in the town's crowd.

The roads of the entire town were paved with neat stone slabs processed from the rocks on the seaside cliffs and mountains. The stone slabs were tightly seamed together, and the white ground could even reflect the shadows of pedestrians.

This would only be seen in the core family territories of those noble lords in any other place, but it was standard for every town in the Golden Empire. The Empire's development prioritizes transportation.

And under this town, kobold and goblin craftsmen have dug through tall and wide underground aqueduct passages to ensure the town's drainage, so that this rainy West Hammer town is protected from water and rain disasters.

Caron and the white dragon Gemott, transformed into dragon people, were about one meter nine in height, and walking on the streets of the town was not considered very tall.

However, in this town named 'Raging Sea' harbor, most of the races that appeared were dwarves, vampires, elves, and humans. Many races in the Empire's hinterland, such as ogres, trolls, gnolls, etc., were not common here.

Caron even saw many halflings in the crowd. These halflings were very small, thinner than dwarves, and were also immigrants or tourists from the Western Continent.

However, the figures of naga have also begun to become more numerous in the Empire's border towns.

Especially many female naga, although they have four arms and a somewhat frightening snake tail, their graceful body curves and a different kind of beauty made many pirates stationed in the town whistle.

However, although these pirates had bad intentions, they did not dare to cause trouble within the Empire's borders.

The strength of these naga would not be weaker than ordinary pirates, only stronger.

And offending the naga may just result in a beating, but if you violate the laws of the Golden Empire, you will suffer.

The light ones will be fined gold coins, so that the pirates' hard-earned wealth will be plundered, and they will have to sell their homes to redeem their freedom. The heavy ones will be directly taken down by those watchful patrol guards on the spot, and then their crimes will be publicized and they will be hanged directly on the dock.

Pirates in the Golden Empire can have their freedom and safety protected, but once they violate the law, the punishment they receive will be heavier than ordinary people. This is a reasonable adjustment made by the Empire to warn those lawbreakers.

The voices of thousands of laborers running and shouting on the distant docks faintly came, making the town particularly noisy.

"It seems that the town's mayor has governed this place very well," the white dragon Gemott said with some ease.

Putting down his worries, Gemott was no longer as quiet as before, and his aura became more active.

"It seems that the Empire's administrative system is already self-consistent and mature enough to stabilize this place in such a short period of time,"

Caron also nodded and strode forward.

"It's a pity that those southern noble forces have not yet contacted this place, otherwise, with the ambition and wealth of those nobles, this port could have developed faster,"

Gemott looked at the taverns, magic weapon shops, material wholesale markets, etc. on both sides of the road, and said with some regret.

Thanks to the diffusion and clustering effect, the dragon group in his youth carried out transactions with many nobles in the Northern Territory, as tentacles of the dragon group's territory connecting the North-South trade network.

The ensuing slave trade also opened the door to trade between the two sides. Although the vast majority of nobles who cooperated with the dragon group in the past have fallen and been annexed and expelled by the Hobbes Empire, Caron is still very grateful to those greedy nobles.

If it weren't for the cooperation between the dragon group and those nobles in the first place, it would have been difficult for the Golden Empire to rely on itself to open up the sea trade route to the South.

Especially the dragon's empire, which is deeply feared and resisted by other civilizations.

Fortunately, with the deepening of trade, many southern nobles have formed economic ties with the Golden Empire that cannot be separated in a short period of time.

Therefore, the current situation is that the Golden Empire and the southern countries have overt cooperation and covert confrontation, mutually tripping each other up.

"Those nobles have been rooted in their territories for thousands of years," Caron laughed, "Don't look at the Empire's opening up of several world planes, and the wealth and resources it has obtained can be described as abundant, but if it comes to the gold and treasures in the treasury, even I, as the Emperor of the Empire, may not be able to compare with those old-fashioned great nobles."

Gemott shook his head and said, "Those nobles are more worthy of being called vampires than the vampires of the Western Continent. Besides, Caron, although you are the Emperor of the Empire, I have never seen any ruler or dragon like you who can push a sea of ​​treasures outwards, just to build a country."

In fact, not to mention the Akaniia world, it is difficult to find an emperor and dragon like Caron in any world.

It is not only contrary to the nature of the dragon, but also to some extent contrary to the universally existing human nature.

Caron smiled slightly: "Gemott, when did you start learning the flattery of those humans? It's not that I'm not greedy for money, and I regard money as dung, I just know what's more important."

The white dragon Gemott smiled slightly, revealing the dragonman's fierce teeth, and stopped talking.

Caron inspected his territory, but it was not purely for relaxation and leisure.

In his opinion, the framework that needs to be built for the rise of a city does not need to be too precise, but a mature country must have three things.

The first is a sound administrative system. This point is already complete enough in the town. The Empire's tax system has already established the Empire's tax office under the instructions of the ancestral golden dragon Obirash, and it has not wasted Caron's patriotic iron fist education for this golden dragon in the past few years.

The second is the education system. In the Empire's diversified ethnic civilization, it is necessary to pay attention to the foundation of uniting and unifying common cultural will.

The Empire's national academy's popular education office is already being built in the town, which makes Caron feel very gratified.

But there is one more thing, that is, the medical system that most nobles ignore, although it has not been developed quickly under the Empire's attention.

The reason is that in the Akaniia world, most of those with healing abilities are priests. Some spellcasters only specialize in the development of healing spells when they cannot find other ways.

And although priests do not necessarily have to believe in the gods in order to obtain the divine power of healing under the gods' gift, those priests who independently master divine power often need particularly firm beliefs and take their own respected ideas as the grantor of divine power.

This also leads to the threshold of the priest profession being too high. Compared with the base number of those national civilizations, the number of priests who believe in the gods can almost be ignored.

And most of the physicians walking among mortals are some mortals without spellcasting abilities. Being able to master simple spell abilities is already considered an outstanding talent.

Although the Empire is willing to vigorously cultivate spellcasters in the physician system and has invited many talents who master healing spells to come to the Empire to teach knowledge, few people are willing to develop in this direction.

It was not until he walked out of the town that Caron told his concerns, because Gemott had not noticed this.

It's not that Caron is so considerate of the Empire's people, but a sound and complete medical system is an indispensable part of a mature civilized country.

The peaceful era may not be able to highlight its importance, but when facing war, those medical professionals are one of the Empire's backbones, and many soldiers who should not have died will regard those doctors as angels of salvation.

"It seems that the Empire's policies need to be tilted in this direction," the white dragon Gemott said: "I will communicate with Doss when I go back. Anyway, you told me about this, and you probably want me to be the errand runner."

Caron smiled so hard that his big white teeth were exposed. In fact, he was not completely trying to be lazy, but when shirking responsibility, he would always get some wicked pleasure, so that his will could not restrain this behavior.

The sky was still early, and Caron and Gemott did not intend to stay in this town for long. After all, having seen prosperous places like the Capital of Kings and the Golden City, the Raging Sea harbor town by the sea looked like a dilapidated countryside in comparison.

Moreover, other large cities' entertainment venues, such as the gladiatorial arena, dragon opera house, dragon library, dragon card hall, etc., have not yet begun to be built in this town.

So Caron had to pull the white dragon Gemott to a platform under the cliff by the sea, picked up his childhood hobby, and became a fishing man who fished for sea fish, while quietly waiting for the arrival of that legendary dark lord.

In fact, Caron's habit of fishing in his childhood, in addition to honing his red dragon's impetuous character, was also forced by helplessness. After all, there were no entertainment projects in the wild.

However, as he gained more fishing experience, Caron fell in love with this quiet activity.

Although the dragons in the dragon group all took Caron's behavior as a certain model, few dragons liked such a boring project in fishing.

Dragons are all impatient guys. If the black dragon Rosani was also here, it is estimated that this black dragon would only jump into the sea excitedly, and then catch a few big fish and hang them on Caron's hook, and then let Caron finish work as soon as possible.

Now in the high Gormora dragon group, only the blue dragon Doss and the white dragon Gemott and the white dragon Camid can calm down and accompany Caron to fish.

The blue dragon Doss and the white dragon Gemott are because their restraint on the nature of the dragon has reached the strongest level in the dragon group except for Caron.

As for the white dragon Camid, this white dragon will probably just sleep while accompanying Caron to fish.

However, Caron and Gemott stayed on the seaside platform for a whole afternoon, and without using any extraordinary power, relying solely on skills, they gained nothing.

Of course, if you count the deep-sea giant crab that crawled into the fish basket by itself and regarded Caron's fish basket as a nest on the shore, the ancestral red dragon probably does not count as a member of the air force.

It can be seen that if two dragons intend to become fishermen and anglers, they may not even be able to eat enough.

Bang,

The white dragon Gemott's calm character could no longer be tolerated. He kicked over the fish basket next to him and said indignantly: "Caron, we were deceived by that fishing man who claims to be a fishing master. There are no fish in this place at all. When we go back, we should introduce policies to punish these guys who like to deceive."

"Um," Caron glanced at the schools of sea fish under the sea, shimmering and swimming, and nodded solemnly, "You're right, Gemott, I support your idea with all four limbs!"

Li,

The sound of an eagle sounded, but it was the signal of the Empire's Legion reconnaissance guard.

Caron raised his head and looked at the ships appearing on the sea horizon. Groups of crows were flying over the ships, and the flag of the dark nest was flying. It was a dark eye bound on a spider web.

The lord of the dark nest, the venomous queen Salis has arrived.

It's cold and people are tired, thank you for voting and go to sleep!