Investigating the matter of the Hell Tree is not something that Ryuichi can help for the time being, it needs to use the power of the spy lurking in the Black Dragon Empire, but one thing is certain, this time, the spy will definitely have to work a little hard.

Everyone left, but Long Yi kept frowning, not knowing what to think. As he walked this way, Long Yi suddenly stopped and said to Nim and Dandy233, "I still have a question to confirm with the Emperor, you guys go first." ”

The dragon is gone, and Crane is puzzled.

"I have a question, can you sue me?" Ryuichi asked.

"What's the problem? There's nothing in the Black Dragon Empire that's secret to you. Crane asked with a smile.

"Do you know about the spy lurking in the Black Dragon Empire?" asked Ryuichi.

"He's ......," Crane shook his head with a wry smile, "If I hadn't found out that my father had told me about it two days before he died, I wouldn't even know about his existence." Only my father knew everything about him, who he was, whether he was male or female, old or young, and what position he held in the Black Dragon Empire, no one knew at all, and I couldn't contact him directly. I can only pass the message on to some other spies, and I don't know how they got in touch. ”

The dragon nodded slightly, which was very much in line with the old emperor's style of doing things.

"I estimate that this spy is definitely not low, and the messages delivered to us in the previous few times are impeccable in terms of speed and accuracy. And this time, even as soon as there was an action over there, news came from there. He must have held an important position in the army. Long Yi said.

"I don't know, I can't guess who it is. ”

Crane shook his head and said, but then. He took a closer look at Ryuichi's face.

"Ryuichi, you didn't come back to ask me a question, but more like you came to confirm the answer to the question, do you know something?" Crane asked.

"No, I don't know anything, I just have a guess in my mind. This speculation makes me a little uncomfortable, but I don't have an answer yet. Long Yi said.

"Can I know?"

"I'll check it out, and I'll tell you. Now, if I sue you, your smart mind will definitely think too much useless stuff. ”

"Okay. ”

The appearance of the Hell Tree cast a shadow over the border, and the fluctuation of the power of Hell made the White Dragon Empire's side feel an inexplicable threat. On that day, the White Dragons carried out three rounds of bombardment of the Hell Tree. But the dragon's breath bombarded the Underworld Tree. Not only did it not cause any damage. Instead, it makes the Hell Tree even more leafy!

Then, the intercontinental beetle missile arrived immediately, and the unprecedented explosion blew a gap in the canopy of the Hell Tree, but after the impact, the scattered dragon power was immediately absorbed by the Hell Tree, not only did the damaged part quickly recover, but even made the Hell Tree grow in a circle!

In fact, this result has been expected for a long time. But there are some gestures that have to be done sufficiently.

Seeing that the Tree of Hell had been put to the test, Jacques knew. This time the bet was right, and Rongka really brought good things to himself. Jacques then ordered the Helltree to begin to spread steadily along the border, and more Helltree sprung up. On the border of the Black Dragon Empire, there were wails.

In the beginning, Jacques tries to make the army of the undead inhabit under the Hell Tree, as the power of Hell beneath the Hell Tree is a natural nourishment for the undead. However, when the army of the undead came to the Hell Tree, the Hell Tree suddenly went berserk, and the infinite root system dragged the undead directly into the ground!

It turns out that the Tree of Hell actually uses the lifeless undead as food!

As a result, Jacques decisively replaced the garrison of the Helltree with the Black Dragon.

However, under the influence of the power of hell, the temperament of the black dragons began to slowly become irritable, and some of the black dragons rushed in the direction of the White Dragon Empire uncontrollably, and then were beaten into a sieve. When the corpses of those black dragons fall to the ground, they will be immediately dragged into the ground by the roots of the Hell Tree.

In the seven days since the first Hell Tree took root, there have been nearly 100 Hell Trees on the border. And the black dragons that have been lost in the past few days are in the thousands.

These black dragons were all under the influence of the power of hell and could not control their desire to kill and rushed to the enemy, and were finally killed. And their fate is no different, they all become the nutrients of the Hell Tree.

The succession of events had to alert Tyrion, who reported it to Jacques. At first, Jacques didn't care.

But a few more days have passed, and the Hell Tree has exceeded 300, and the Black Dragon has lost 6,000! Jacques finally realizes that this Hell Tree is not a cool tree! It is going to eat meat through and through!

For this reason, Jacques issued a special order to the Hell Tree, asking it not to affect the spirit of the black dragon. But this order is useless, it is as impractical as you order a warrior not to breathe.

"I know that this old bastard of Rongka is not kind to me!Tyrian, go and see if there is any way to control this Hell Tree. It's better for this thing to be completely at my command!"

Jacques secretly gave instructions to Tyrian.

Upon Tijak's orders, Tyrien immediately began researching the Infernal Tree. Obviously, the Hell Tree, despite its strong abilities, is not a highly intelligent being in itself, and can only act according to instinct. In the face of it, it must have obeyed Jacques's orders. But this has a premise, that is, it must ensure its own nutrients.

The Infernal Tree confuses creatures and fights for their certificates, which is a means for it to obtain nutrients.

Tyrion carefully studied the structure and command composition of the Hell Tree, conducted large-scale experiments, and eventually developed an elixir that modifies the Hell Tree for a certain amount of dù, reducing the Hell Power released by the Hell Tree.

"However, there is a side effect to this. Tyrien said.

"What side effects?" Jacques asked.

"The Hell Tree's resistance to energy will decrease to a certain extent. Tyrien said.

"How much has it dropped?"

"About thirty percent. ”

"Use it!"

"Your Majesty, please think about it carefully. If it falls. This will give the White Dragon Empire a chance. "Tyrion doesn't seem to want to use the potion.

"Tyrian, you're not thinking long enough! If you don't use this potion, it won't last long. The black dragons on our side are all going to be crazy! How do you want me to win when such a group of crazy people who don't obey orders to fight?" said Jacques.

"Okay!"

Tyriam immediately poured the potion into the Hell Tree, and sure enough, the Hell Power cast by the Hell Tree was much lower. However, since the White Dragon Empire no longer attacks the Hell Tree, it is not known how much the Hell Tree's defense has dropped.

In the blink of an eye, a harsh winter has come.

In the past three months, with the spread of the Hell Tree's root system, the Black Dragon Empire has successfully advanced nearly a hundred kilometers towards the White Dragon Empire. However, it was already a harsh winter. The ground is frozen, which makes the Hell Tree grow in warm regions very uncomfortable. Its root system went dormant and could not continue to spread.

And the White Dragon Empire also noticed this. Counterattacks began.

And at the beginning of the counterattack, both the White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire noticed that the defense power of the Hell Tree seemed to have dropped a lot! In the past, it was basically difficult for the White Dragon's breath to cause any damage when it hit the Hell Tree, but now it will blow up the canopy of the Hell Tree!

What does this mean!

It means victory!

The White Dragon Empire immediately began a counteroffensive. With its ultra-long range, the White Dragon began to saturate the borders of the Black Dragon Empire. The White Dragon Empire performs intensive surgeries on each white dragon almost day and night. Almost every white dragon has a terrifying range of more than five kilometers. With this extreme range, any target exposed outside of the Underworld's range will be destroyed in an instant. At this time, the defense of the Hell Tree has been reduced a lot, and even the Hell Tree is difficult to resist this kind of Cheng Dù's attack!

However, the Hell Tree is extremely self-healing, and as long as its root system is not damaged, it can recover no matter how badly it hurts. However, the speed at which the fù is restored is directly proportional to the rate at which the Hell Tree itself acquires nutrients.

The roots of the Hell Tree are already in the land as if they were almost plundering for nutrients. This means that wherever it takes root. Basically, there is no more nutrition left. And the reduced defense makes it extremely difficult to obtain nutrients by absorbing dragon breath!

Eventually, a hell tree went berserk, and countless roots rose into the sky, directly attacking all living beings within its range, whether it was a black dragon or an undead, and anyone who was pierced by its roots would quickly wither its body!

This is a huge change that Jacques did not expect!

It turns out that this is the true face of the Hell Tree!

However, for Jacques now, this kind of thing is no longer his primary concern.

An unprecedented crisis has erupted around him.

Because of the bloody attack launched at home before, the population of the Black Dragon Empire has almost plummeted by seventy percent, and the most of these seventy percent are agricultural producers. Without their support, all the autumn grain was spoiled in the fields, and the livestock had returned to the mountains.

At this time, the food shortage in the Black Dragon Empire has reached an unprecedented level.

In particular, the Black Dragon Empire has to bear the rations of 300,000 Black Dragons!

In the beginning, the black dragons could still go to the mountains to find food on their own, and the amount of food required by a huge black dragon with a body length of twenty or thirty meters was staggering. And the entire 300,000 black dragons quickly exhausted all the food in the nearby mountains and forests. In search of food, the black dragons had to fly farther, but the harvest was pitiful.

If the black dragons are still like this, it will be even more difficult to guarantee food for ordinary humans. There was a lot of food stored in the Imperial City, and Jacques had never been worried about food, so he never thought that the problem of food would become his biggest problem.

In fact, the food shortage had begun to manifest itself half a year earlier, but by that time Jacques had not gone mad enough to attack his own people. And now, all the crises have erupted in a concentrated manner.

At this time, the Black Dragon Empire was breaking out with a very severe scurvy. The fighters were scrawny and sluggish. And this directly led to the second wave of exodus.

This time, it was the warriors who had been loyal to the Black Dragon Empire who fled.

People always have to eat their stomachs first before they can talk about loyalty.

At this time. Among the combat troops of the Black Dragon Empire, except for the Black Dragon Knights, there is almost no human anymore.

Jacques is an excellent fighter. Ever since he was a normal human being, no one could deny it. But an excellent warrior does not mean that he is also an excellent emperor, let alone that he is an excellent strategist.

He didn't even know how important food was in a war!

At this time, in the imperial city, the only remaining super-rich people spent their days in trembling. In order to prevent anyone from sharing their food, they fired almost everyone in the family. But it doesn't really matter anymore. Because at this time there are no vegetables here, there is no meat. The only grain that was there was also insect damage and even mold.

There were also countless gold and silver treasures hidden in their homes, which they had secretly hidden during the Emperor's search. But at this time. They couldn't get any fresh food, because the markets in the entire Imperial City were no longer open.

"Why is this so? Isn't there always a small country that imports grain from us?" Jacques roared angrily.

"Because before we sent the black dragons to attack those countries, they have all shrunk and the fields are barren. They are no longer capable of exporting. Tyrien said.

"Where! where is the food!" Jacques shouted with red eyes. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time. A few days ago, he even personally ran to the mountains outside the city and found a rabbit to eat. But as a black dragon, where is a rabbit enough for him to eat!

"I'm afraid, there's only the Fertile Wilderness Federation. Tyrien said.

"Let's go grab ...... No, you can't rob it, attacking the Fertile Wild Federation will leave them with no more food for me, use my gold coins to buy food! Buy meat! Buy vegetables! I want to eat meat! Eat meat!"

Jacques was like a beast at this point, repeating mechanical phrases in his mouth.

Spending money on something sounds like an easy one. But economic trade is not that simple.

At this time, the economy of the Black Dragon Empire had collapsed, and the unprecedented inflation had made the gold coins of the Black Dragon Empire completely worthless. The same grain. At this time, even 10,000 times the Black Dragon Coin may not be able to buy the same amount of grain as before.

When Jacques heard the horrible offer, he was furious.

"Bastards who take advantage of people's danger! Attack the Fertile Wilderness Federation for me!

However, before that, the army of the White Dragon Empire had already been stationed on the periphery of the Fertile Wild Federation.

Protecting food is protecting one's own lifeline, Jacques doesn't understand, but Crane does.

At this time, the members of the Fertile Federal Assembly were almost frightened crazy. Although they had long guessed that there would be such a day, when it actually came, it still terrified them.

If surrender could have brought peace, I'm afraid they would have surrendered long ago. But these councillors are not fools, they know very well that the Black Dragon Empire is a bottomless pit, and they simply do not have any credibility to speak of.

The White Dragon Empire, which was waiting for work, faced a group of Black Dragon Empires who couldn't eat at all, and the outcome of this battle would not surprise anyone at all. Tens of thousands of shattered black dragon corpses were left on the border, and the Black Dragon Empire was once again defeated.

This time the battle for food was even more tragic than the previous battle, and those black dragons didn't want to be shocked. For the black dragon, death is a big deal and rebirth, but the torture of hunger is more painful than anything.

But even with such a desperate impact, the Black Dragon Empire still failed to gain any advantage.

And just like that, the hungry black dragons had to leave.

At this time, the white dragons are happy. The White Dragon Empire is extremely rich in grain, and the mechanized cultivation of the Fertile Wild Federation has harvested unprecedented grain, most of which is given to the White Dragon Empire, and some of it is sold to those small countries at a low price. Another result of the bumper harvest of grain is that animal husbandry is developed, and all kinds of meat are also sent to the White Dragon Empire.

On the other hand, the supply of aquatic products from the sea tribe is still far from continuous, and it is still changing in various ways. These white dragons didn't even feel that the food supply was so abundant even when they were on Dragon Island.

Seeing the comparison between the current White Dragon Empire and the Black Dragon Empire, Long Yi had to admit that it was an extremely correct choice for Crane to agree to hand over the machinery and equipment to the Fertile Wild Federation, and only there could the advantages of mechanized farming be brought into play in a short period of time.

Successive victories in the Great War made the War Council realize that at this time, it was time for a counteroffensive.

The Hell Tree can't exert its strength in winter, and the black dragons are so hungry that they lose their combat effectiveness, if they don't counterattack at this time, when will they counterattack!

We!

Counterattack!(To be continued......