Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 493 - 047: Cultural Shock

These past few days, the experiences of Princess Sarah and others in the Dragon Nest Tribe City have almost overturned their understanding.

Merely a logistical construction corps can match the elite armies of a kingdom in terms of capabilities. Considering the current population size of the Dragon Nest Tribe, one can imagine how terrifying its military power is!

As a princess of the Ireland Kingdom, Sarah Plantis was not the kind of princess raised delicately in the depths of the royal palace.

Due to her background and some secret relationships, Sarah lived in a civilian family from a young age and was only brought back to the royal palace at twelve to receive royal education.

Perhaps because of her growth environment, having witnessed the hardships of the lower classes, Sarah Plantis preferred to mingle with common people rather than attend aristocratic banquets, finding more enjoyment mingling with common soldiers at the martial practice field.

As such, compared to other royal members of the Plantis lineage, Princess Sarah had a broader perspective.

In her eyes,

whether politically, economically, or culturally, the long-standing Ireland Kingdom could not be compared to the emerging realm of the Dragon Nest Tribe before her.

In the entire Ireland Kingdom, seventy percent of its members were still peasants.

More than half of the population struggled daily at the subsistence level, and whenever disasters struck, refugees would appear in large numbers, impacting the nation’s order.

But in the Dragon Nest Tribe, where she now resides,

a tribe hidden in the depths of the Kawa Great Forest, founded by the continent’s most notorious greedy Dragon Race, is actually wealthier than any kingdom in the Central Earth World.

This wealth is reflected on the dining tables of every beastman.

Even the poorest beastman families in the tribe’s main city have meat on their tables every week.

Once,

some beastman tribes living in the wild lived collectively, and due to their backward lifestyle, some beastmen struggled at the subsistence level and had no notion of family.

Rather than having no family, it was better to say the entire tribe was one big family.

Human social ethics held no significance for the beastman groups in such a barbaric land where they could only huddle together for warmth with empty bellies.

Aside from a few races, the beastman groups in the wild were hardly different from wild beast clans.

But with the expansion of the Dragon Nest Tribe, many wild beastmen were recruited by Austin, and with military training, large-scale resource enrichment through reclamation and farming, along with Austin’s strong leadership, beastman families began to emerge step by step.

Currently, the beastmen of the Dragon Nest Tribe have formed a culture somewhat similar to human society while retaining the flavor of primitive beastman life.

Independent beastman families exist.

Yet they are not entirely isolated, forming collectives with groups that eventually combine into the entire Dragon Nest Tribe.

These past few days of walking the streets, Princess Sarah has shown some interest in the city built by this alien culture but hasn’t delved deeply, focusing more on the executive management of the Dragon Nest Tribe’s government and the dining tables of beastman families.

Even the poorest among them can occasionally eat meat.

The contrast with Ireland’s lower-class populace is evident.

This disparity isn’t about money; similar to the Ireland Kingdom’s peasants, no copper or silver coins are seen in beastman homes within the Dragon Nest Tribe.

The real difference lies in the abundance of resources.

And the force behind all this, apart from the great His Highness Blue Dragon sitting atop the mountain who created everything within the Dragon Nest Tribe, is the various advanced management systems evident in all aspects of its civilization.

After several days exploring the city, Princess Sarah feels she has seen and learned a lot.

However, the more she sees, the more she perceives her own ignorance.

She truly doesn’t understand how this political system can produce such results.

Within this tribe, there might be beastman administrators akin to officials, but there’s no nobility, no system of lords ranked as dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, barons, or knights.

From her upbringing, wasn’t she taught that aristocrats are naturally superior by noble blood?

Only aristocrats could help manage state affairs and assist the monarch in ruling the populace.

Citizens ruled by nobles could bask in the glory of the Divine, becoming true people.

Look at those field-dwelling wildfolk who have lost noble protection; don’t they ultimately become like animals, silently perishing in the wilderness?

During her childhood, Princess Sarah grew up among the populace.

She also witnessed the gradual rot of displaced wildfolk with no land dying in the wilderness.

But why is it, in this Dragon Nest Tribe before her?

Clearly, there isn’t any nobility, yet it can lead its people to live a life above subsistence without noble governance, encountering no issues at all.

Even a Red Dragon Kingdom rising on the fringes of Central Earth Continent, ruled by the legendary Red Dragon, isn’t devoid of nobility.

The Dragon Race has natural authority in governance and can endow its clan members with powerful bloodline strength.

However, historically, many Dragon Races attempted to rally Clan members and establish national forces, but ultimately fragmented, unable to maintain control over vast populations under their rule.

Teachers said it was because those lofty giant dragons were unwilling to ally with nobles.

Citizens without noble management would ultimately destroy everything amid greedy fools.

Now, the Red Dragon Empire on Central Earth’s border has abandoned dragon arrogance and accepted human nobles. Although the kingdom experienced a period of turmoil, it eventually maintained structural stability.

This indirectly supports the necessity of aristocracy within a kingdom.

But now, witnessing this Dragon Nest Tribe hidden in the Kawa Great Forest, Princess Sarah feels strongly disrupted regarding what she learned about aristocracy since childhood.

Seeing more also makes it increasingly unbelievable.

Originally, she found it incredible that Dragon Nest beastmen could master powerful steel steam, making heavy iron beasts move.

However, delving into the tribe’s main city reveals even more astonishing things hidden among the people.

A journey of several days has almost reshaped Princess Sarah’s worldview.