Chapter 567: Sleep (2)
The empire of the black dragon swallowed the entire central region, due to the timely surrender, there were many local nobles who saved their lives, but they all lost their property, titles, territories and troops without exception, fortunately, the black wing army was "disciplined", although the monsters were quite cruel in war, but after the victory, there was no plunder, slaughter and other angry things happened, the orc chief Gar, as the representative of the royal lord, received the surrender from the holy city of Prosius.
It is worth mentioning that the former head of the Federation, Tashanmu, with the assistance of the temple people and the high-ranking guards of the Immortal Empire, fled south from Prosius before the Black Wing occupied Aaron, taking with him many magic books from the Great Library of Prosius, the crown as a symbol of federal power, swords and scepters, and many magical items.
But this guy ran away, the empire didn't have the heart to hunt down a fugitive and down-and-out head of state, swallowing such a large piece of land, civil administration alone was a very troublesome matter, the royal lords were busy sorting out the newly acquired territory, smashing local traditions, and moving the kingship and laws of Black Wing to the center.
At the same time, at the bottom of the northern continent of Elradia, the sleeping Caesar's body burst out with golden light, and the overflowing energy was expelled from under the scales, filling the dry and hot air, it had been three years since he fell into a deep sleep, but only then did he complete the readjustment of his own power, and began to absorb the divine fire of Alexisis and the crystallization of Marat's divine personality.
Things went smoothly at the beginning, but soon, Marat's godhead began to fight back spontaneously, and things involving gods are not easy to solve, even if it is just an unconscious godhead crystal, it also has a power that is difficult for mortals to understand, and ordinary legends have only a dead end if they want to touch this kind of thing, and they will be eaten into Marat's beast hunting puppets.
The surface of the black dragon's body bloomed with a high-temperature incandescent light, and the ground under his feet melted and decomposed, and in his heart, black divine power rose up...... Caesar's chest cracked, at least on the surface, the crack in his chest burst into a crimson light, then turned golden, and on the other side, a black sphere appeared in front of him, and violent and bloody energy gathered into the black sphere.
A painful look appeared on the black dragon's face, he bared his teeth, and there were light and discharge phenomena formed by the overflow of energy all over his body, especially his cracked chest, which had already become the source of cracking and glowing, as if it was another mouth bigger than his mouth, and finally, his entire body was shrouded in wave-like golden particles, the black ball grew steadily, and the golden light burst overflowing, and the two sides competed against the game, and the light was chaotic and the space was distorted.
As Caesar's power continued to rise unlimitedly, something terrible happened, the local mountains began to erupt in a row, the top of the mountain cracked huge holes, and then erupted hundreds of meters high red magma, and then formed a huge column of smoke several times the height of the magma, huge volcanic clouds obscured the daylight, the area was dark, the only light was from the erupting crater, the thunderous explosions continued.
Fortunately, it was surrounded by a military-controlled no-man's land, and the magma thrown by the volcano did not fall into the settlement, but it also ignited the surrounding forests, and some huge rocks that burned red like meteorites fell from the sky, smashing deep craters in the ground, earthquakes, fires, sulfur gases, and deadly radiation have even reached the level of disaster, forcing the royal court to take emergency measures and send a large number of spellcasters to the local area to control the situation.
The eruption lasted only a few hours, but the huge pillars of smoke and clouds could linger for a long time, by which time the sleeping Caesar had increased his strength to the maximum, and the fusion reaction had proliferated to its highest limit, and his body would erode and cause an explosion that would spread across half the continent.
Marat's godhead was suppressed, and the black dragon's chest was gradually healing, in the end, it was just a godhead, not a complete god with godhood and divine fire, this level of wind and waves was already the limit of what it could reach, as the devouring of the godhead gradually increased, Caesar also gradually felt the resonance from the astral source sea, the source sea is the collection of astral rules, and it is also the source of all energy, experiencing the call of the source sea, indicating that Caesar's power has overflowed the critical category of the material plane.
Caesar breathed deeply, trying to fuse the divine fire and the godhead together, and then digest it, the whole process will last for a long time, and during this time, the black dragon continues to feel the power of the Astral Origin Sea, it is obvious that the outer realm is tempting and summoning him, once Caesar is tempted to respond to the Source Sea and resonate with it, his power will immediately go up to a higher level, but then he will be expelled and rejected by the material plane.
These things are unattractive to the black dragon, "This is completely out of my mind. The sleeping Caesar muttered as he tried to shield out the effects of the Source Sea.
Caesar's empire is quiet again, kobolds and diggers are recruiting peasants and digging canals, goblins and dwarves are busy researching weapons, only the central part is not quiet, there are many rebellions here with the support of external forces, dragons and orc soldiers are constantly arresting people, those who have been powerful in the past have been purged and swept away, and a large number of unstable elements are hanging on the gallows in the central square.
The countries of the south were quite dissatisfied with this, and they invariably began to absorb immigrants from the center, and at the same time loudly declared that the Black Wing was an extremely cruel and cold-blooded country, and with the support of the Empire, they launched a series of offensive operations against the central colonies of the Black Wing Empire in the name of "rescuing the people of the Trade Federation" and "crusading against evil".
Time passed, and Caesar didn't know how long it took him to devour and digest the divine fire of the godhead, which didn't sound like much time, but in fact, nearly twenty years had passed outside. In the past twenty years, due to its stable life and sufficient food, the population of the Black Wing Empire has more than doubled, and the royal city where the northern royal court is located alone has a population of more than 100,000.
This is already the standard of the largest city in Eladia, but in the empire of the Black Dragon, it is not the most prosperous, the queen city of Garanord, the orc city of Victor, the adventurer capital of Blackstone Mountain and the West Coast port, all have a population larger than the royal capital, thanks to the Great Voyage, the development of the New World and the Industrial Revolution, the economy of the entire empire has entered a golden age of rapid development.
However, due to the continuous expansion of power, the friction between the Northern Empire and the Immortal Empire has also become more and more serious, and to this day, the two huge kingdoms have broken out dozens of wars in their respective colonies, large and small.
Caesar didn't know this, because he had just completed his first stage of sleep and ingested the trophy of the Black Dream.
【Cataclysm】
You have swallowed a god!
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