The Black Dragon Knight obviously could not settle for this!

In his mind, as the Dragon Knight of the mighty Black Dragon Empire, he should be respected by everyone from the commoners to the Emperor. Indeed, the old Emperor of the Black Dragon Empire, Kaniel, placed a great emphasis on the Black Dragon Knight. However, in Yake’s era, the Black Dragon Knight seemed to be less important. Although Yake continued to enhance the strength of the Black Dragon Knight, his disappointment gradually increased as the Black Dragon Knight was repeatedly defeated by Long Yi. In particular, the experiments conducted by Tilian resulted in many dragon knights and their black dragons vanishing without a trace. Even though Tilian claimed they were only dispatched for other tasks, some people still believe that Tilian used the dragon knights as guinea pigs.

He was loyal to the Emperor, yet this was the treatment he received, something he never anticipated. But sticking to his loyal mindset, he persisted. He initially thought that death would put an end to everything. Unexpectedly, he was saved by Long Yi. Though he was still obstinate, a hint of dissatisfaction with Yake and Tilian began to emerge in his heart.

"I have a good proposition. You can tell me everything you know and in return, I will give you some money. You can leave and live the rest of your life in a neutral small country, distancing yourself from the war. What do you think?"

Long Yi timely threw out his temptation.

Years of brainwashing education made the Black Dragon Knight instinctively want to refuse. But he also knew that if he refused now, even if Long Yi kindly let him go and return to the Black Dragon Empire, there would be no place for him there any longer. Failing a mission, being captured by Long Yi, and returning to the Black Dragon Empire unscathed - such a thing was unbelievable even to him.

The Black Dragon Emperor himself is a madman, and Tilian even more so. These two people have plunged the entire Black Dragon Empire into chaos. How could he, a man full of suspicion, possibly escape unscathed?

After thinking for a long time, the Black Dragon Knight raised his head.

"First, get me out of here."

The device trapping the Black Dragon Knight was complex, and its design didn’t consider the possibility of letting the person inside out, so its entire outer metal framework is completely sealed. As Long Yi was not sure about the principles behind it, he didn’t dare to dismantle it forcibly. He entrusted the White Dragon Knight, who arrived later, to take the man back to the Imperial Research Institute in the Imperial City for in-depth study of this device. This was a piece of Black Dragon Empire technology brought right to his doorstep. How could he not take advantage of the opportunity to study it thoroughly?

After sending the Black Dragon Knight away, Long Yi finally had the time to study the device before him calmly.

When Long Yi was examining the device just now, the Black Dragon Knight sporadically mentioned that this thing is called the "Tianzai Bomb". It’s loaded with both Dragon Power and energy from the Undead. While the explosive force may not be as much as that of the Beetle Missile, the energy from the Undead would spread over a vast area, causing more people to be affected. Thus, in terms of pure destructive power, it’s stronger than the Beetle Missile.

However, the Black Dragon Knight wasn’t too familiar with how this thing was made. After all, he was just a driver. Just like many people can fly planes, but very few can make them.

After analyzing the condition of the Tianzai Bomb, Long Yi figured that this thing was created from scratch, utilizing the flesh and blood of the Dragon Clan as the main body and integrating parts of the abilities of the Undead.

If we disregard ethics and morality and just talk about technology, the inventor of this Tianzai Bomb is simply a genius!

This was a method even Long Yi himself had not thought of.

This Tilian, he underestimated him. If it weren’t for him, wouldn’t the Black Dragon Empire have been obliterated by the White Dragon Empire? Such a pity that this bastard, who is clearly the crown prince of the White Dragon Empire, sided with the Black Dragon Empire instead, obviously not knowing the weight of his actions. It seems he was too soft-hearted back then. Wouldn’t it have saved a lot of trouble if he had just honestly punched him to death?

Of course, while the idea of the Tianzai Bomb was good, it was still limited and could not reach the level of Long Yi, who could enter the stratosphere and return. But at least it looked very promising.

At least through this Tianzai Bomb, he had obtained a research direction for the science of the Undead.

Having the Tianzai Bomb sent to the biological research institute, Long Yi began to ponder. Indeed, his appearance had greatly changed the rhythm of warfare in this world. Especially the Black Dragon Empire, which had previously valued Dragon Knights so much, was now even discarding Dragon Knights as Kamikaze Death Squads. It was ludicrous.

It was stupid.

The position of Dragon Knights in the war was still stable. It’s just that the Black Dragon Empire didn’t understand that in the current situation, Dragon Knights, as high-mobility, high-damage combat units, couldn’t be used as frontline main forces.

Recently, Long Yi had been researching how to further enhance the combat power of Dragon Knights. Just like improving a pilot’s combat capability does not mean turning the pilot into a muscle man, enhancing the performance of the aircraft was the crucial link. Same for Dragon Knights, if the Flying Dragon could meet all the combat requirements of the Dragon Knight, achieving unity between man and dragon, that would be key.

The Dragon Clan might be ferocious, but they weren’t smart. This was something Long Yi knew all too well. Battles with the Dragon Clan on Dragon Island made him realize that despite countless civilizations, the Dragon Clan’s battle methods were still full of unskilled brutality. Cunning human Dragon Knights could just make up for this deficiency.

To enhance the power of the Dragon Clan, according to Long Yi, the best way was to fully unleash their power.

However, considering the aggressive situation at Dragon Island, Long Yi was rather peeved. It was clear that Dragon Island wanted to pressure Long Yi into enhancing the power of the Dragon Clan immediately. Yet, Long Yi was a rather obstinate individual. If they had approached him more amicably to discuss the matter, it could have been easily resolved. After all, Long Yi didn’t see any significant conflicts between himself and the Dragon Clan, and he’d heard that the Giants didn’t seem to care much about the Dragon Clan either.

But with them not uttering a single word before dispatching one hundred thousand Black Dragons to the Black Dragon Empire, this could only be considered an act of bad faith.

So, Long Yi decided to temporarily halt his efforts to restore the Dragon Clan and instead pursue another direction.

Boosting the combat capabilities of the White Dragon.

Compared to the Black Dragon, the White Dragon’s abilities are not superior. The White Dragon has relatively weak defenses, decent acceleration capability, but lacks the explosive power of the Black Dragon, and its close combat skills are also somewhat inferior to the Black Dragon. The White Dragon’s most significant advantage, however, lies in its Dragon Breath. Unlike the Black Dragon’s breath, which it spews from its lungs, the White Dragon’s Dragon Breath is not expelled from the lungs, but rather, it is an energy beam that is stimulated from within its lungs.

Each of the White Dragon’s breath attacks lasts only about a second and isn’t very powerful, but it more than makes up for it in range. In that case, why can’t I further enhance the White Dragon’s advantage?

Long Yi has been studying the structure of the White Dragon’s lungs, from which the Dragon Breath originates. If he wants to do anything, naturally, he must start from there.

Extending the range and duration of the breath attack requires a more potent Dragon Breath. But how can he achieve that?

Long Yi and Lady Nor have already discussed some potential solutions. While it’s still unclear whether these solutions are feasible, Long Yi feels that his line of thinking should be correct.

He took his time returning to the Imperial City. However, before reaching the city, he came upon a group of dejected White Dragon Knights approaching him.

They were the Dragon Knights stationed outside the city who courageously took to the skies to intercept the Cataclysm Bomb in the midst of the chaos that had just ensued. However, since the White Dragons couldn’t ascend to high altitudes, the knights could only carry out a perfunctory Dragon Breath attack then watch helplessly as the Cataclysm Bomb headed towards the Imperial Palace. Fortunately, the bomb was stopped in the nick of time, otherwise, they would never have forgiven themselves.

From afar, the sight of Long Yi brightened the Dragon Knights’ eyes, but then they quickly became downcast again. Instinctively, they wanted to seek help from Long Yi, but he had already done so much for them. This time, they felt that they had simply not performed well enough.

Seeing the look on their faces, Long Yi laughed and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, might you stop shouldering responsibilities that aren’t yours?"

One Dragon Knight shook his head and said,

"Protecting the Imperial City is the duty of every Dragon Knight stationed on the outskirts. How can you say it isn’t our responsibility? Our lack of ability is our responsibility, and nobody else’s."

Long Yi looked into the eyes of each knight. There was a fire of defiance in their eyes.

"You all believe that this is your responsibility?"

"Yes, of course," they replied.

"Then I must say, you are being somewhat conceited," Long Yi retorted with a jest.

"Conceited?"

The Dragon Knights were baffled. If it had been a few years ago, being a Dragon Knight was in fact a high and mighty profession. But now, after experiencing several wars, which Dragon Knight would still dare to claim such arrogance?

"Yes, conceited. As I said, this responsibility was never yours to begin with. As the forces stationed outside the city, your duty is to resist living threats and quell internal disturbances. This time, the enemy utilized long-range bombing, which is a matter for the city’s air defense forces. The fact that you were able to carry out an attack in the hasty situation was already a remarkable achievement. If your initial attack hadn’t damaged the enemy’s defense and slowed them down, I wouldn’t have been able to stop them in time. You indeed contributed to this, but with the current capabilities of the White Dragon, stopping such attacks is still a bit challenging."

Long Yi stated earnestly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote and send monthly tickets on qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)