Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 764 - 005 King of Calamity

In the western part of the Central Earth Continent, the Red Dragon King of Calamity, who rose to power a century ago, led his monster armies through decades of brutal wars and ultimately established a terrifying Red Dragon Realm in the west, calling it the Red Dragon Empire.

It was a legend that could shock the entire Central Earth Continent.

A century ago, the Central Earth World wasn't the chaotic world it is now.

At that time, humans were the undisputed masters on the Seta Continent, enjoying what could be described as the final glory before their downfall.

The King of Calamity managed to lead his monster armies to carve out such a vast realm in the west, naturally not without significant challenges, as he withstood many righteous organizations before finally establishing a foothold in the west. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The Red Dragon Empire, established by the King of Calamity, although it learned to an extent from human governance,

did not completely lose its inherent wild nature.

Every year during the harvest season, the monster armies of the Red Dragon Empire would launch attacks on human defenses, plundering food to sustain themselves while expending some of their monster numbers.

This was entirely different from the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Since the rise of the Blue Dragon Palace, a large amount of grain from the southern Blue Dragon Kingdom has been transported northward, entering various countries of the Central Earth World through commercial transactions and other means.

The Red Dragon Empire lacked food, thus launching aggressive invasions of human countries in the Central Earth World.

In contrast, the advanced production technology of the Blue Dragon Kingdom led to a substantial development in productivity, such that even during years of calamity, the annual grain output was abundant, creating substantial surpluses.

The Blue Dragon Kingdom Government officially waged war because it valued the opponent's population and land.

Let's not discuss the differences in detail for now.

The existence of the Red Dragon Empire was like a massive cancer within the Central Earth World, constantly draining the resources of countries in the Central Earth World, causing severe losses to several nearby countries over the years of wars.

Among them,

those duchies on the outskirts of Central Earth, neighboring the Red Dragon Empire, located in the southwestern region of the Central Earth Continent, were particularly affected.

The new southern frontier regions were mountainous and extremely difficult to traverse, with barbarians, beasts, and monsters rampant in the forests, far from the core of the Central Earth Continent, making it hard to reach out to countries in the Central Earth region for aid when facing the Red Dragon Empire's invasion.

With the rise of the Red Dragon Empire, those remote frontier areas in the southwestern border of the Central Earth Continent, those countries bordering it, almost fell to being the Red Dragon Empire's RBQ, suffering each time the Red Dragon Empire was low on grain as it came to sweep the area, plunging the entire nation into misery.

Amidst this backdrop,

when the Blue Dragon Kingdom surged forth, advancing from the frontier to the southwestern region of the Central Earth Continent, the surrounding countries of the Red Dragon Empire, engulfed in deep turmoil, offered little resistance and surrendered to the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

No matter what,

at least the Blue Dragon Kingdom was wealthy, and even losing the status and power of the nobility was better than surrendering to the bloodthirsty and savage Red Dragon Empire.

The war dragged on for years, and these borderline countries barely hanging on knew the brutality of the Red Dragon Empire even more intimately than the King of Calamity.

It was precisely the surrender of those border countries,

that allowed the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom to expand rapidly, eventually spreading to the borders of the Red Dragon Empire, sharing a boundary with the infamous Red Dragon Empire on the Central Earth road.

The surrender of these nations enabled the Blue Dragon Kingdom to expand at an incredible speed,

to the extent that although a large portion of the territory nominally belonged to the Blue Dragon Kingdom, in reality, no Blue Dragon Kingdom officials had been deployed to control those regions.

However,

this expansion was not necessarily a good thing.

Because,

these defected countries were also facing a terrifying enemy: the Red Dragon Empire!

For the Red Dragon Empire, during the conflicts and battles with neighboring countries,

the wars that spanned nearly a century were exhausting,

and the countries that it had ravaged and weakened suddenly became the spoils of others, an outcome impossible to accept.

It's like when you're playing a game, and your mid-lane mage spends time and effort to nearly defeat the blue buff monster, only for a jungler to suddenly appear from nowhere and smite your blue buff away...

How could one accept this!

Seizing the chaos as those southern countries defected and surrendered, the monster armies of the Red Dragon Empire frequently launched attacks, raiding the borders, massacring several small towns, and then setting them ablaze until they were reduced to ashes.

Because of these countries' surrender,

nominally,

these border lands already belonged to the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

This led to Smith reading reports of border conflicts in the newspapers, as well as the Blue Dragon Kingdom's official and righteous declarations.

In reality,

simultaneously with the newspaper declarations, the Dragon's Nest army had already set out, gathering elite forces and proceeding to the northwest frontier, preparing to take over border affairs.

Even though large-scale alchemy ammunition weapons were difficult to transport due to inconvenient roads, the Dragon's Nest army's capacity to overwhelm all disobedient forces was not merely reliant on high-tech weaponry.

Years ago, Austin had hunted certain legendary and half-legendary creatures within the Kawa Great Forest, mass-producing an incredibly powerful half-legendary army.

Moreover, led by Austin, the extraordinary cultivation system, which incorporated the wisdom of several worlds, exceeded by far the makeshift cultivation practices of this world, and after more than a decade of accumulation, its overall strength had become incredibly terrifying.

The elite Blue Dragon army, besides possessing high-tech weapons, was also truly formidable in strength.

But the details of such intricate matters,

were beyond the knowledge of common Blue Dragon Kingdom citizens like Smith.

For years, border conflicts had never ceased.

Regarding troop movements and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' strong statements, the broad public of the Blue Dragon Kingdom had become accustomed to them. In the eyes of the invincible kingdom's army, all old feudal forces were mere paper tigers, just awaiting the triumphant return from final victory with full confidence.

Smith, as well as the other vast Blue Dragon Kingdom citizens shared this belief.

Years of consecutive wars, victories that were almost crushing, had forged the myth of the invincible, indomitable Blue Dragon Kingdom army, making its citizens deeply proud of their military.

Yet,

what no one knew was,

that the seemingly simple interests and conflicts on that distant frontier hid more surging undercurrents of intrigue, not as straightforward as it appeared!

In the Red Dragon Empire,

The King of Calamity, Hebrew, slowly emerged from the volcano's flowing dark red magma, with his ferocious head bathed in the scorching lava.

His blood-red pupils,

gazed towards the southern sky, as the wings on his back that blotted out the sun gradually spread open!