Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 500 - 054 Seventh Stronghold City

Dolan Glacier Plateau, at the foot of the mountain, Seventh Stronghold City.

Years ago, the Dragon Nest Tribe established the seventh stronghold Pioneer City here, pioneering in the surrounding areas and collecting various Magic resources to support Austin in leveling up his cultivation.

At that time, a Frost Giant tribe living on the Glacier Plateau even launched a surprise attack on this stronghold city, causing significant casualties.

If Austin hadn’t arrived in time, the Seventh Stronghold might have already been broken by those Frost Giants.

After defeating the attacking Frost Giants, Austin personally led a team into the outskirts of the Glacier Plateau, thoroughly cleansing the Frost Giants’ lair, capturing some Frost Giant prisoners, and also a few young White Dragons that were trained, their intelligence erased, and underdeveloped.

Later, these young White Dragons were enlightened by Austin’s Dream-Entering Secret Technique, and through basic logical operation principles, they became patrolling guards of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

While the growth of these young White Dragons is mostly measured in centuries.

Also, due to poor Magic absorption, they are weaker compared to normal White Dragons, and it will take a good amount of time for them to recover.

However, despite this, the presence of this pure-blooded White Dragon squad patrolling the skies greatly strengthened the cohesion among the Dragon Nest Beastmen and also deterred many potential surrounding monster groups.

Furthermore, whenever a stronghold was attacked by monsters, this White Dragon squad could rapidly provide support.

Soon after that, a forest fire broke out.

At that time, the White Dragon squad significantly contributed to the firefighting efforts using Frost Talent Magic.

However,

over the years, with the rapid development of subway routes, when facing monster attacks on the Dragon Nest Tribe’s external strongholds, the transport capabilities of the railway were sufficient for rapid support, thus diminishing the role of the White Dragon squad’s aerial support over time.

Although the support speed of the White Dragon squad is much faster compared to that of the steam trains.

In the current Dragon Nest Tribe, this time lag doesn’t really make much difference.

Moreover, as Kawa Great Forest remains in a tropical rainforest climate for half the year, it’s really not very friendly to the White Dragons, and under such various factors, in the end, the White Dragon squad and the captured Frost Giant prisoners were assigned to the Seventh Stronghold to work in an environment suitable for them, while using their abilities to reduce exploration on Dolan Glacier Plateau.

The Frost Giants captured years ago, and those few White Dragon squads, are mostly gathered within this stronghold city.

Speaking of which, these Frost Giant prisoners have a vendetta against Austin as he destroyed their tribe.

Therefore, Austin has imposed some restraint measures in their minds, so there’s no need to fear any rebellion from these Frost Giants.

This isn’t only due to the confidence in the restraint measures, but also due to the strong economic backing of the Dragon Nest Tribe.

After all, in the past when they roamed the Glacier Plateau, being the plateau overlords, but in reality, due to the impoverished production of the Glacier Plateau, it was hard to sustain their huge consumption; hunger was not an impossible situation.

During the cold winter, when it became even colder, it wasn’t unheard of for some elderly and frail individuals to be thrown into the depths of the glacier by the strong labor forces of the tribe due to a lack of food, leaving them to fend for themselves in the icy environment.

The Frost Giants captured by Austin happened to be part of those remaining elderly and frail.

The adult strong laborers were completely annihilated by Austin during the attack.

Compared to fleeing to the barren Glacier Plateau to eat ice and chew on grass, it’s evident that the Dragon Nest Tribe, being able to provide enough food, is much more appealing to these Frost Giants. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Frost Giants inherently have a fiery temper and are bloodthirsty and cold-blooded, not valuing familial blood relations much, otherwise, they wouldn’t throw newborn Frost Giant infants outside their homes to endure a whole night, letting the harsh natural selection decide which Frost Giant infants survive.

Within the Dragon Nest Tribe, though as captured Beastmen of the Dragon Nest, these Frost Giants live far better lives than they did trying to survive on the Glacier Plateau.

Considering various factors, these Frost Giants, although not showing the same fervent faith as the Dragon Nest Beastmen towards Austin, at least have a desire to maintain their current life in the Dragon Nest Tribe, hence preventing frequent acts of betrayal.

Of course, betrayal is futile.

Austin left an unseen "key" among them, which is held by the City Lord of the Seventh Stronghold, ensuring that any deviation from these Frost Giants would only harm themselves.

Austin, along with Princess Sarah and their entourage, traveled by steam train exclusive to reach the Seventh Stronghold City, already the terminal of the railway network.

After years of development, although the Dragon Nest Tribe’s support from the rear wasn’t significant, the pioneering work of the Seventh Stronghold City hadn’t been neglected.

The construction of the stronghold city, the scope of land reclamation, and the exploration of Dolan Glacier Plateau... all these tasks continued smoothly after Gory was transferred from Seventh Stronghold City.

After all, those qualified to serve as city lords and to lead the pioneering work of the Seventh Stronghold City were elite Dragon Nest Beastmen who had been "guided" by Austin’s Dream-Entering Secret Technique and infused with a significant amount of modern development knowledge.

Passing through the Seventh Stronghold City, the group didn’t linger for long; after obtaining the maps surveyed by the Dragon Nest Tribe over the years and preparing some tools and food, they set out on their journey to the Dolan Glacier Plateau.

Everything they needed was already prepared before leaving the Dragon Nest Tribe Main City.

For example, the latest magic communication device developed by Goblin scientists, resembling an early mobile phone, yet entirely different from Austin’s past life’s mobile phone, combining magic dynamics, the alchemy system, and some techniques from the previously discovered Arcane Furnace.

Compared to real mobile phones, the communication device Austin carried, the pinnacle of communication technology of the Dragon Nest Tribe today, completely disregarded issues like signal, distance, or environmental interference, making it unspeakably secure and reliable.

Unfortunately, due to the expensive manufacturing process and materials, only a handful were made.

Such items were naturally all prepared before Austin left the Dragon Nest Tribe Main City.

The supplies at the Seventh Stronghold City were merely new-material cloaks, food, and snow field tools.

Not long after, the group left the Seventh Stronghold City,

while also incorporating a 300-strong Dragon Nest Beastmen elite corps, several Frost Giants, the entire White Dragon Guard, and a few indigenous intelligent beings gathered during the exploration of the Dolan Glacier Plateau.

They moved forward together.

They also had another mission.