Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 977 - 536: Border Rebellion, Floating City Falls
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The gauntlet, shimmering with alchemy secret patterns, clenched, and the skull that had just been pulled from the body, still attached to a segment of the spine, was crushed instantly, scattering like shattered fruit all over the ground.
Strands of crimson rose and gathered into a blood mist in mid-air, untouched by the wind—this was a battlefield littered with corpses, or rather, a slaughterhouse, filled with bodies crushed by absolute force, flesh and bone debris covering the ground.
"These barbarians are becoming more active lately."
A tall figure clad in magic-guided kinetic energy armor walked across the now silent battlefield, inspecting corpses for any survivors. The Dragon-men Battle Group moved like living metal mountains, exuding an aura of inviolable intimidation.
It seemed like there was no power on earth that could halt their advance; any creature foolish enough to try was mercilessly crushed. Such was indeed the case.
"Because our flagship, Dragon Lion's Tooth, was deployed elsewhere, these presumptuous barbarians think they can challenge us."
The magma heavy sword fell, piercing through an alien race member hiding under the soil, along with all their cover.
"They're testing us!"
"Just kill them all."
"We've been too lenient with these barbarians."
Just three Dragon-men from the battle group quickly decimated an indigenous resistance gathering point; in fact, those outposts popped up only recently.
Since Dragon Lion's Tooth Floating City complied with the Holy Dragon Emperor's decree to leave, the once subdued natives became active, continuously harassing cities guarded by Dragon-men, testing their defenses, attempting to reclaim their dominance over the world.
Faced with such probing, the Dragon-man Battle Group Dragon Lion's Tooth left behind showed no mercy, massacring everything with the most iron-blooded brutality.
Regardless of gender or age, they needed no solid evidence, only suspicion, a relevant clue, and the Dragon-men would bring the sword down on any creature in that region that posed a threat to the Golden Order.
Such cruelty was justified because before the legion arrived, the world was dominated by the snake-men, whose life form was only half-human.
According to the Metallic Dragon Race's definition of a wisdom race, these snake-men could be classified as monsters, even if they had developed civilization with their own language, customs, and writing.
However, none of this mattered; the Dragon-men did not accept these native snake-men and were wary of them. According to visiting scholars accompanying the army, based on investigations of ancient local ruins,
it was confirmed that this world was once ruled by the Sitra Snake-man Empire long ago. For some unknown reason, they abandoned their rule, and the remaining snake-men still held dominance and formed their own order.
Because of such a background, the Dragon-man Battle Group Dragon Lion's Tooth, tasked with conquering the land, took a strategy of massacre and suppression, allowing only the most exceptional snake-men to enter Dragon Transformation City and receive blessings from the Holy Dragon Emperor.
The Dragon Transformation Tower was the main method for the battle group to conquer worlds, especially worlds without special racial bloodlines. The Dragon King's bloodline legacy was akin to a massacre.
Once the Dragon Transformation Tower was established, it could fully integrate the Dragon-men Battle Group without local roots into rule and power centered on bloodlines, making rebellion virtually impossible.
However, this was just one method of conquest, not mainstream; some worlds were unsuitable, such as the lost territory of the Snake-man Empire before them.
No one knew whether those seemingly ordinary snake-men harbored bloodlines from the Great Snake, and accepting such snake-men might yield risks and rewards out of proportion.
The blessings bestowed by the Dragon Transformation Tower could not possibly cover the legacies from the Great Snake; the Dragon-men might be fervent but not foolish.
But it was precisely because the Dragon-men were reluctant to offer the local snake-men too many avenues for advancement, coupled with such a brutal and oppressive governing style, that rebellions became frequent.
Especially after the Floating City affiliated with Dragon Lion's Tooth Battle Group left, the rebellion frequency in this world surged exponentially. The Dragon-men left had great individual combat capabilities, but pacifying a world was indeed exhausting, leaving them constantly on the move, unable to rest.
"What do you mean missing!?"
An unmistakably angry voice rang out.
"We've lost the life signals of three elite warriors!"
A particularly calm voice, devoid of any emotion, resonated in the Governor Mansion,
"According to the information sent back before they disappeared, they had completed their mission and were preparing to return."
"How many warriors remain to undertake missions?"
"Including those on leave who can be recalled at any time, we currently have 318 warriors ready to respond to your commands."
"Only three hundred? That's too few."
Listening to the alchemy matrix spiritual body's report, the governor, who oversaw all colonial world affairs, frowned deeply.
With the Holy Dragon Emperor's current domain in the Void, the world under his jurisdiction now was undoubtedly a frontier world.
