Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 983 - 539:
Communication between epics did not curb the wars in the material world; instead, it expanded the scale of the wars, with hundreds of worlds burning in the flames of conflict.
In the face of the Heavenly Demon Dragon's rampage, the Sitra Snake-man Empire, though unable to find any specific method to restrain it, had developed coping strategies.
This is a rather simple and brutal method: it's about speed.
The Heavenly Demon Dragon is undetectable during its latent phase, at least through conventional methods.
Once it enters the outbreak phase, it will exhibit extremely obvious symptoms, showing a strong aggressive desire towards its own kind, displaying extremely bloodthirsty behavior, and eventually devouring its own kind.
This mutual consumption process is the best time to intervene. The Snake-man Empire no longer engages in the simple and brutal interventions as it did initially.
Simple slaughter only kills the rioting snake-men, not the Heavenly Demon Dragon, so now, once an anomaly is detected among the snake-men, they choose to imprison and seal them to suppress the birth of a Dragon King.
No matter the identity or status, compared to sealing off an entire world, this is the least costly method, and it is also a solution accepted by all parties.
Although there are many misjudgments and mistakes, becoming a reason and excuse for some factions to attack their adversaries, it is unavoidable, for even if they didn't have this, those who never forget internal strife would find other excuses.
With such cost-unconscious intervention and suppression, the initial outbreaks of the Heavenly Demon calamity have somewhat subsided, but this is the limit.
Because the Heavenly Demon can transfer, and the Heavenly Demon Dragon does not only exist within a single living individual; theoretically, a Heavenly Demon Dragon can spread to any living individual in the world.
It's impossible to conduct a genocide against an entire world's wisdom species just because a Heavenly Demon Dragon is detected. If it were done, the Empire's governance would collapse directly, and even the Great Snake's maintenance could do nothing.
Of course, the reason the Heavenly Demon calamity slightly eased was mainly because the Heavenly Demon Dragon was a wisdom species personally created by the Dragon King; its antecedents were seasoned, and had completed the life journey of Dragon-man spirits.
Initially, using the advantage of information asymmetry, the Heavenly Demon Dragon caught the Sitra Snake-man Empire off guard, causing massive casualties, but after multiple contacts and paying a heavy price, the Snake-man Empire gained some understanding of the Heavenly Demon Dragon.
Although they had no method to restrain it directly, they managed to obstruct the Heavenly Demon Dragon's activities somewhat. Thus, the Heavenly Demon Dragon concealed itself using its own properties, choosing to wait for the opportune moment.
Simultaneously, as a counterattack against the Heavenly Demon Dragon's rampage, the internal conflicts within the Snake-man Empire eased considerably, many factions united, launching a counterattack or revenge against Noah's dominion.
Right and wrong ceased to matter at this point; whether the snake-men initially violated Noah's Golden Order or the Dragon-men occupied the snake-men's remaining territories, no one tangled over it anymore.
Whether it be the Snake-man Empire or the Dragon-man Holy Court, they now only wish to crush the other, dismantle their order, destroy their productivity, rendering them incapable of organizing any counterattack.
The Abyssal Expedition led by Noah had already been halted, or rather, temporarily halted. The Dragon Lion's Tooth Battle Group was ambushed by the snake-men, suffering heavy losses, their Floating City shot down, and even the battle group's organization struggled to be maintained, with the possibility of having their battle number revoked, battle group leaders in the grand expedition unanimously submitted requests for battle to Noah.
When the Floating City was shot down, it was no longer just a matter of the Dragon Lion's Tooth battle group; those snake-man alien races, their provocation was not just against the Dragon Lion's Tooth, they provoked the dignity of the Holy Dragon Emperor.
The Dragon Lion's Tooth no longer had the strength to uphold the Emperor's dignity, so every battle group that learned of this news reacted as soon as they had the slightest resources to spare.
"These damned heretics actually ruined the miracle of perfectly combining magic-guide and mechanics like this, it's unforgivable."
Looking at the remnants of the Floating City supported in the air by the giant mechanical arm, Claude, a goblin-blooded mechanic, who came for repairs, could not help but curse,
"They should go to Hell, tortured by devils for ten thousand years."
No engineer loyal to mechanics could remain calm seeing the core of a Floating City being destroyed, as that was their supreme pursuit and faith.
"It is said that an existence comparable to a god damaged the Floating City of the Dragon Lion's Tooth Battle Group to this extent. If such an existence falls into Hell, it should be such an existence to torment devils."
Another engineer, also of goblin descent, interjected, his thinking was rather rigorous.
Though they were all of goblin descent, the only thing on their appearance to prove goblin bloodline was their faintly greenish skin color, but this was already the most dominant manifestation of the goblin bloodline in the present day.
Pureblood goblins disappeared over three hundred years ago, not extinct, because the most outstanding pureblood goblin engineers of that year all completed dragonification, becoming Dragon Vein Goblins, suppressing the original racial traits to the extreme under intense dragonification.
Of course, these most excellent goblin engineers had another evolution route: the path to the Titan by mechanizing and remodeling their bodies.
However, at the end of this path, it also had nothing to do with goblins because they could no longer be called creatures.
