Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'-Chapter 1232 - 239: Empire Line (34)

"Based on the intelligence we have gathered, the 'Renouncer of Surnames' Leoz, due to being born without talent, was unable to adhere to any pathway, and had no connection to the path to divinity. As a result, he proactively established good relations with Dragon Island, claiming that he obtained the Dragon Transformation Technique from the Dragon Race on Dragon Island. Then..."

Percival said cautiously:

"He made this secret technique public to his nationals."

"Now, the Oxiulia Empire is also considered the most dragon-friendly civilization. Every year, nearly a hundred giant dragons choose to migrate to the Oxiulia Empire, surpassing the three high-welfare narrative civilizations of the Layer Abyss in popularity, second only to Dragon Island."

"Even within your Excellency's group, there are Dragonborn capitalists fleeing to Oxiulia..."

"Your Excellency Redd Gold, was this also part of your plan?"

Redd stood in place, lost in thought.

Exactly one billion years before the fall of Haines.

At that time, the leader of the Dragon Civilisation: [Radiant Dragon Emperor] Reynardial, the last Radiant Dragon, ruled over thousands of Dragons.

Back then, it witnessed the heavy blow dealt by the [Secret Society] to the Pantheon, and immediately, under the guise of Leviathandal's call, gathered the forces and resources it had, particularly primordial soil reserves, and prepared to elevate the Dragon Race civilization to transform the society.

Although the Titan Giants and Technico Holy Clan both challenged the authority of the Pantheon, initially, the Pantheon's attitude was relatively mild.

Most deities believed that battling with Titans would accelerate the growth of deities and sharpen their martial skills, which was beneficial. Moreover, the craftsmanship and technology of the Technico Holy Clan made the Divine Clan realize the necessity of establishing Divine Countries. Leoz, who originally did not focus on constructing Divine Countries (as there was none), began emphasizing Samurai managing their own Divine Countries.

In other words, the more both challenged the deity's dignity, the more they fueled the Pantheon's power.

But Dragon Race civilization was different.

As a civilization, the Dragon Race rapidly branched out through methods like Dragon Island, Dragon Star Cluster, and Dragon Nebula, sowing the seeds of life and civilization to millions of light-years away.

For a time, cosmic civilizations rose one after another, with many civilizations stimulated to accelerate their evolution, resulting in a total of 14 large and small societies emerging.

This was the 'Dragon Calamity'.

Although most of these societies eventually met their end at the hands of the Secret Society 'Gaia,' the secondary harm they caused was immense, leading the Pantheon to dispatch quasi-agents to eliminate these societies, consuming them completely.

At that time, Leoz appeared to sit back in Haines, firmly controlling the situation.

In reality, it was more accurate to say that the [Society] defeated Haines all the way; after the Dragon Calamity, the Pantheon had no available soldiers.

Undoubtedly, the Dragon Race is the most cunning species; they are powerful but do not act themselves, instead encouraging other civilizations to transform into [Societies], collectively resisting the dominion of Leoz and the Pantheon.

It can be said that the Dragon Race civilization nearly reignited the apocalyptic role of the [Gem Dragon King] Leviathandal.

The [Societies] could not resist this temptation, and among many civilizations, they could not forget the cold and noble demeanor of the Spiritual Warriors: the benevolent deities that once granted them the origins of life were slaughtered and massacred by Leoz's Spiritual Warriors.

For predator societies like Gaia, ordinary civilizations could no longer satisfy them; only the dreams of the creators, or even the creators themselves, matched their scale.

Hatred, desire, arrogance.

Multiple reasons intertwined, with the Dragon Race civilization's encouragement, triggering a symphony of complete evolution across the cosmos.

And just as the Dragon Race civilization marched head high into the cosmos, ready to transform into the [Dragon Clan Society] on the land of Haines, they encountered an enemy they had never anticipated.

—Leoz personally stepped in.

No documentation records how Leoz destroyed the Dragon Race civilization. But later, on the land of Haines, the only remaining Dragon bloodline was a few bird-like poultry, snakes, and lizards.

Since then, the closest effort to reviving the Dragon Race civilization was orchestrated single-handedly by her, Redd Gold, to steal Leoz's primordial soil, attempting to elevate to [Dragon Clan Society] to stand against Gaia and Leoz.

And the extremely long life span of [Society] and their high physical strength were sufficient to retrieve Leviathandal's body from Gaia. Then just the final reforging was needed—Redd Gold would become the eternal [Gem Dragon King].

This was her eternal dream.

For this dream, she endured for thousands of years, betrayed her family, first betraying the Secret Society, then Leoz, fought and battled against the Speaker of the Secret, unhesitatingly launched the Celestial Dragon Falling Moon, exterminated life on Haines, and was scorned by millions.

But this dream, accompanied by Gaia's ascension to the rule of Haines, with a light remark, 'I don't like you, Redd,' was shattered.

Gaia even threatened her that if she dared to elevate to [Society], she would be the first to be consumed as a traitor.

Since then, Redd forgot her plan for the Dragon Race civilization to transform into society, as it was no longer possible.

The Dragon Race was of no use to her anymore.

Glina would not understand; her repeated attempts to use kinship and identity to reform herself, expecting her to aid the Dragon Race while she sat by idly, was not because she didn't care about the Dragon Race's survival.

But is there any significance left in the existence of the Dragon Race?

They were just tools to achieve her goals, discarded once used; her goals have always been clear, Leviathandal, becoming an eternal existence.

But now... what did she see?

"In the 37 years since Leoz's rise to power, he has been making the nation more universal. He proposed the concept of a nation to achieve the unification of Oxiulia, followed by a pan-national culture, incorporating neighboring territories into the map, followed by partners, distant relatives with the same belief, different races, non-narrative civilizations without any connection but strong, he would find various reasons to persuade or conquer them. This included the Dragon Race."

Percival cautiously said:

"Leoz continually enacted laws to let each race abandon their identities, overlook their origins, regardless of gender, wealth, being a farmer or knight, human or dragon, people were first Imperial Natizens, then came various identity roles."

"And to unite those unfortunate ones, trapped at the bottom of society, unable to traverse even the path of [Destruction], His Majesty Leoz decided to introduce the Dragon Transformation Technique of the Dragon Race. Henceforth, it was stipulated: Dragon Race would no longer be a species, but an identity, a hierarchy anyone could achieve."

"[Illusionary Dragon Master] will be a profession, a pathway, the last chance for ordinary people without any lineage, talent, or nobility; their last gamble."

"Your Excellency Redd Gold, are you... sure this was also part of your plan? I feel it seems like the definition of the Dragon Race has been deconstructed, hasn't it?"