Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 989 - 542: Odin’s Fear
The war between the Dragon-man Holy Court and the Sitra Empire continues unabated, the Void is aflame, the world is plummeting, and the intensity of the war keeps escalating.
In theory, the war should never have reached this point, for the Snake-man Empire is a decaying Void power in decline, its internal conflicts and vast internal consumption almost exhausting half of its war potential.
However, with the intervention of an epic force, everything changed. The Snake-man Empire had no choice but to unite against external threats, punishing anyone who dared to hold back during the war with the wrath of the Great Snake.
Thus, this decaying, depraved empire, which should have gradually descended into the Abyss and eventually collapsed, displayed the prosperity and grandeur reminiscent of the empire's founding period during the war.
It is for this reason that the Dragon-man Battle Group, once invincible during Void territorial expansion wars, has now faced unprecedented challenges.
They have faith, and so does the opponent. Even an ordinary warrior has undergone nineteen modifications and enhancements, and is equipped with magic-guided mechanical energy arms that are the crystallized wisdom of many systems.
In terms of individual combat power, deploying an armed Dragon-man from the battle group to a primitive, undeveloped world, with his equipment and his post-modification physique, is enough to kill a hundred transcendent life forms at the same level.
However, when such soldiers are formed into a battle group and deployed in the Void War encompassing numerous planes, even a ripple cannot be stirred.
Although the individual average strength of the Snake-men is not as great as that of the Dragon-men, they similarly excel in magic-guided or alchemy-like technologies in some respects.
The Snake-men also possess technologies akin to the Floating City, strategic-level War Fortresses, hence in terms of equipment, the Dragon-men cannot pull ahead, and in fact, face slight disadvantages, while their only individual advantage is offset by the Snake-men's numbers.
When this war, involving hundreds or thousands of planes, escalates in intensity, and its timeline extends indefinitely, showing no end, a flaw in the Dragon-men, existing since their creation, begins to reveal itself.
Numbers.
Even if Noah incarnated as multiple Suns, bathing all things in light, the number of Dragon-men born under the Sun's radiance cannot keep pace with battlefield consumption.
This is an unprecedented problem for the Dragon-men; their wars were always crushing offensives, even when troops were lost, they could be quickly replenished.
From the broader perspective, the overall number of Dragon-men was annually increasing, but after confronting the Sitra Empire, the short founding period of the Dragon-man Holy Court, and its shallow roots, became glaring deficiencies, evolving into fatal weaknesses as the war dragged on.
"Focus on developing the Steel Starfall Legion!"
Reading the solutions submitted by his many Dragon Lords and legion leaders after extensive discussions, Noah couldn't help but laugh quietly.
According to their suggestions, the Steel Starfall Legion, originally an auxiliary army, will become the main force, while the battle groups, greatly depleted in many wars and facing supplemental manpower difficulties, will withdraw from the vanguard and instead undertake the most critical special tasks.
Such an arrangement cannot be said to be flawed, rather it is an adaptation to the situation, even Noah cannot ignore reality.
Even the Dragon King cannot grant blessings on a large scale to create legion after legion fit for plane warfare.
Not to mention whether he can withstand such consumption, even if he forcibly blessed and promoted Dragon-men, what then?
Without the right combat skills and firm resolve, entering the harshest battlefield would only lead to psychological breakdown and collapse, which would be laughable.
Noah did not laugh at the auxiliary army becoming the main force in plane wars, but because he foresaw the future.
Compared to the major Dragon-man battle groups, the entry threshold for the Steel Starfall Legion is very low; as long as one is a Dragon-man with normal intelligence, they can apply to join.
Passing the training, without elimination, qualifies them as official members, which poses no challenge for Dragon-men.
Although it is not apparent now, once the Steel Starfall Legion takes the lead, casualty rates among ordinary Dragon-men will surely skyrocket to exaggerated levels.
By then, the recruitment threshold for the legion will certainly be lowered, perhaps even humans who have just reached transcendence could join.
At that time, the Favored ethnic groups painstakingly developed and created by him may suffer unprecedented blows, the number and overall power of these groups he rooted himself in may regress immensely.
"Thank you for your hard work!"
Though the Heroic Spirit Hall attracts the souls of warriors, not all Dragon-men can enter, and with the growing number of Dragon-men dying, it remains uncertain whether those entering the Heroic Spirit Hall can obtain bodies and move freely,
because every Dragon-man's body and movements consume Power of Faith supplied by the mundane world.
The original heroic Dragon-men could move freely, even indirectly creating weapons of desire through Power of Faith.
