Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire

"Ten years, it's still an underestimation."

Noah looked down at the dragon egg in front of him. It was a standard oval-shaped golden dragon egg, with golden scales dotted on the surface of the eggshell, and red-gold flames burning from time to time. What was a little unusual was that this dragon egg was a little big.

The dragon egg, which was nearly four meters high, stood on a pedestal made of gems and elemental crystals. Compared with the ordinary golden dragon eggs, which were only a little over one meter long, it was a super giant alien dragon egg, but considering the identity of its father, it seemed quite normal.

"The hatching time is estimated to be no less than ten years."

The hatching time of ordinary dragon eggs is about two to three years, but as the offspring of the ancestral dragon, its hatching time is naturally unusual.

However, even if it takes twenty years to hatch, it is still fast compared to its elder brother.

Because Eliade went through a total of twenty-four years from pregnancy to final birth, this pure-blooded dragon heir is expected to be born in twenty years, which is also fast.

But being fast at this time is not a good thing, which means that this dragon heir is weaker than his brother in terms of innate origin.

Of course, this does not matter much. Being weak innately does not mean that he will always be inferior in the future. He can still surpass and catch up.

If we really talk about the starting point, Noah, who was born as an ordinary golden dragon, could not even compare with any of his descendants, and now he is about to become the first generation.

"Twenty years!"

For the short-lived races in Noah's territory, it is enough for them to grow up from birth to adulthood, to establish their own families, to have a good job, and to move faster, they will have their own children.

For Noah, who was still young at the time, this was an extremely long time, but for the ancestral dragon who had entered adolescence, ten years passed in a flash, and waiting for another ten years was not unbearable.

Ten years is nothing to the ancestral dragon, but for the mortals who settled in the special economic zone personally designated by the holy dragon, in just ten years, they witnessed the changes of the times with their own eyes.

On the primitive coastline without any trace of civilization, a seaport has expanded from a simple outpost used to determine territorial sovereignty to a seaport city with extremely prosperous marine trade.

In just ten years, the number of settlers has climbed to as many as 500,000, and with the voyager coast port city as the core, it has continuously expanded and extended to both sides of the coast, building new ports one after another, bringing the light of civilization and order to the East Coast.

The most important reason why the East Coast has been able to develop to such a level in ten years is the temptation of cross-sea ocean trade.

Merchants have continuously injected funds into this barren land without any commercial foundation to explore safe routes to the Alvis continent.

Of course, there is also the policy temptation of the special economic zone, where merchants can get lower labor costs and more hardworking workers.

However, due to the long transportation costs and the rising labor costs year by year, the policy temptation of the special zone is only a secondary factor in the prosperity of the port city.

The main reason is the opening of the route to the Alvis continent, a cross-sea route that can travel between the two continents and has a low risk, which has created the current Voyager Port.

The current Voyager Port, except for the Governor of the Port and his subordinate civil servants and guards, its residents are basically composed of overseas immigrants.

Among these overseas immigrants, believers of the Lord of Glory account for the vast majority, but this proportion is declining year by year.

At the beginning of the Voyager Port, more than 99% of the settlers were believers of Glory, but when the cross-sea ocean route was opened, more refugees from the Alvis continent also fled to this city with the returning cargo ships.

No, it is not just refugees fleeing war, but also dreamers who heard from the merchants that there are stories about civilians on the opposite continent who can also work hard with their own hands to get a better life, so they took the initiative to buy tickets and come here.

Today, due to the special zone policy, the average income of the Voyager Port is still not on par with the average income of ordinary civilians in the Holy Dragon Land.

But there is a minimum income guaranteed by the rulers here, which is still very tempting for overseas immigrants. The minimum monthly income of the lower-class civilians can be written into the law, which is unimaginable under the rule of feudal aristocrats.

But in this land, it is not unbelievable, but a very common thing. What surprises the new immigrants most is that people who enjoy such generous treatment are still complaining.

They are not satisfied with their current life. They want to enter the golden land that is truly ruled and managed by the Holy Dragon, because there is a paradise like the kingdom of God on earth.

An adult with strong limbs only needs to work eight hours a day to support a family of five with his own income.

The support here is not just to obtain the rations necessary for survival, but to have clothes to wear, a house to live in, and to enjoy a decent life in a food house or restaurant every now and then.

Maybe you can't have meat every meal, but every weekend or major festival, it's okay to invite neighbors to hold a decent banquet.

This is the life that ordinary people can reach out and touch. How can it not be fascinating? Of course, what is more amazing is that even lonely elderly people with low survival ability and disabled people with impaired labor ability can be well taken care of. They may not have a very good life, but they can just meet the basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The Land of Gold, the Kingdom of God on Earth

This is the immigrants of the Alvis continent. For the other side, there is a rumor that a golden holy dragon rules the land. Even if it is not a human of the same race, but a giant dragon, many people are willing to give it a try in view of the positive image of the golden dragon in the legend.

As the exchanges between the two continents become more and more intensive, more and more news about the land ruled by the golden holy dragon has been disclosed to the Alvis continent.

This also led to more immigrants pouring into the port of voyagers when the number of merchant ships shuttling on this route gradually increased.

Therefore, the prosperity of the seaport has not reached its peak. On the contrary, there is still a lot of potential that has not been tapped, and there is still huge room for development.

In the future, the Navigator Seaport will have the opportunity to develop into a super port city with a population of millions or even tens of millions, and become the most shining pearl on the eastern coast.

The main reason why the port city can develop to this point is the development of the route. The main credit for the smooth development of the route in ten years is not the businessmen who spend money, but the two unknown ocean overlords in the deep sea. They have killed countless deep-sea disasters that can threaten the route in the bud, making the sea calm and peaceful.

This is naturally what Noah asked for. After receiving two such powerful and capable generals, he naturally has to use them. He is not satisfied with the nominal monarch-vassal relationship.

However, Noah is not a dragon lord who only orders others to work and is reluctant to pay for benefits. If you want the horse to run but don’t give it grass, even the most loyal vassal will stab you in the back one day.

Therefore, Noah promised the Sea Emperor Dragon and the Ancient Tyrannosaurus that for every ocean-going ship that could safely arrive at the port, 30% of the navigation tax paid would be their reward and reward.

The Ancient Tyrannosaurus did not care much about worldly property, and it had no interest in these things, but the Sea Emperor Dragon, who was still a dragon in nature, was different.

Although he wanted to be tough, he could not resist the tax dividends that would be settled regularly every month and gradually increase with the number of ocean-going ships.

Not all dragons could treat money as dirt like Noah. Most dragons, even ancient dragons, were extremely obsessed with worldly things such as gold and silver.

What's more, the tax dividends settled by the port for the Sea Emperor Dragon every month were too much, so much that they could be piled up into a small mountain. As a dragon, Pakiril's nature did not allow him to refuse.

As a result, the ocean routes explored by merchants became safer. What many merchants and ignorant believers who believed that the gods were protecting them did not know was that two deep-sea overlords would patrol back and forth alternately under the routes to ensure the safety of the routes.

In the eyes of one of the overlords, part of the cargo carried by each ship belonged to him, and no dragon could tolerate other creatures infringing on his property.

Ocean trade made the Eastern Coast change with each passing day. New buildings rose from the ground every day, new seaports were built every month, and all ports expanded a circle every year, with a completely different urban appearance compared to the previous year.

Compared with such drastic changes on the Eastern Coast, the lives of civilians in the land ruled by Noah seemed much more stable, prosperous, and glorious. There have been no drastic changes in the past ten years.

If I have to mention it, it is the judicial system filled with many holy warriors and their followers, which brought unprecedented stability and harmony to the order of the Holy Dragon Land.

The holy warriors who have obtained the power of law enforcement, with the Golden Dragon Code that is revised every year, have contributed to the peace and justice of this land, creating an ideal and dreamland that even they themselves find unbelievable.

This is the golden age created by the holy dragon. Many people firmly believe that such a beautiful era will continue with the nearly immortal holy dragon. Not to mention ten years, even after a hundred years or even a thousand years, the glory will remain, sacred and eternal.

In terms of the time perception of short-lived species, the holy dragon is like the sun that never falls in the sky. It was like this ten years ago, and it has not changed ten years later.

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However, for dragons, although ten years is short, it is enough to brew changes, such as the arrival of a new little creature.

Kacha~

The young dragon with a broken eggshell on its head is peeking at the strange world in front of it with curious eyes.

Compared with his elder brother, the birth of this dragon was much more reserved. When Eliade was born, the dragon egg exploded.

But this dragon heir only used his head to break the eggshell, and the dragon egg remained intact without even a single extra crack.

"As a male dragon, how can you be so quiet and reserved?"

Noah lowered his head and looked at his heir who broke the shell in a very elegant way.

He just thought that his second heir was a daughter, but after a closer look, he found that it was a little male dragon.

"Not bad, it's also good."

Noah comforted himself in this way. After all, he already had a lively enough son. It would be nice to have a quieter one, although a daughter would be better.

"Teramus Noah Helios La Beatrice."

Under the gaze of the ancestor dragon, the young dragon with only two pairs of four dragon horns on its forehead also uttered its real name.

This is a young golden dragon with particularly shining scales. Except for the fact that it has one less pair of dragon horns on its head than Noah, the rest is roughly the same as Noah. Of course, the proportions of its body are still a little out of balance, but this is also because it is a young dragon and its body has not grown.

"Dad~"

Seeing the golden dragon in front of him with its head down and so big that it could swallow him whole in one bite, the young dragon who had just broken out of the shell and said his real name timidly shouted, looking very elegant, and Noah even heard a bit of shyness.

However, this can't be blamed on him. When Iliad was born, there were only Noah and his adoptive mother Selina and Gwen.

The birth of this second son was not only for Noah, but also for his mother and a group of maternal relatives.

That's right, most of the old dragons called by Ophelia settled in Noah's territory. The atmosphere of this land is indeed very attractive to these old guys.

After learning that their descendants, the dragon eggs produced by the combination of the ancestral dragons, had been successfully hatched, all the old golden dragons ran over.

"Mom~"

Depending on the blood relationship, Tyramus naturally looked at Agnes, whose eyes were full of joy and pride.

However, the adult female dragon just responded and was pushed aside.

"My dear grandson, come and see your grandfather!"

"... Grandfather."

"I am your great-grandfather. Do you remember me? I left a lot of knowledge in my inheritance."

The young dragon, who was just born and was surrounded by onlookers, had to go hungry and was forced to recognize many elders one by one. In his inheritance and cognition, this is the etiquette that must be followed as a golden dragon.

"That's enough. He's just a newly born dragon. He needs to eat now."

Finally, Agnes, who had been persuaded several times but failed to save her child, exploded.

She couldn't bear to see her son being teased by the dragons. Although being hungry for a dragon was nothing, this was a newly born dragon. Every dragon knew how hungry he was.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of chewing was heard. Tyramus, who had been hungry for a long time and couldn't even chew his own eggshell, finally ate the feast that his mother had carefully prepared for him.