In the ancient history of Icaria, complex intertwining hatred and conflicts of interest played out, with alliances and betrayals among the great nobility, slave masters, kings, and emperors.
The bygone gods once took the stage in Icaria’s history for the contest of faith, but none of them held a role akin to the Golden Empire.
The Golden Empire, the minion of Ancestral Red Dragon Kalon Gogomola, embodied his will, thus destined to be the ultimate tester and purifier of civilization, similar to the Ancestral Red Dragon.
This stance might seem lofty to outsiders, even those ambassadors who came from the Faen Empire could sense an indefinable aura.
The warriors of the Golden Empire appeared influenced by their rulers; clearly, it was the fires of war ignited by the Golden Empire and the Alliance of Kings, yet it seemed like other nations came forth to challenge them.
It was not an outward arrogance, but a noble aura rising from within.
The ambassador from the Faen Empire sighed inwardly; as the leader of the delegation from the Overlord Empire, he was no ordinary mediocre person.
In his eyes, the Golden Empire and the Alliance of Kings were no longer forces that Faen Empire could annihilate.
Indeed, annihilate rather than defeat! Just like those people on the Gran Islands, a piece of land under Faen Empire’s rule.
Even if Faen Empire wielded power to crush everyone on the Gran Islands into pieces, leaving none alive, those people still resisted Faen Empire’s rule, sparking countless rebellions over several millennia with hundreds of heroes marked in history from the Gran Islands.
Perhaps Faen Empire could defeat the Golden Empire, but the ambassador felt that there was something about the warriors of the Golden Empire that could never be eradicated.
These ambassadors followed their soldier guides forward, passing through numerous posts.
The War Lizardman Corps clad in armor appeared barbaric and bloody, disguised as sentient beings, yet exuded iron-like order in the eyes of Faen Empire’s ambassadors and noble envoy.
Moreover, those Gray Dwarves Clan from the Dark Realm, newly organized by the empire, innately worshipped primal violence.
Yet these explosively dangerous substances obediently stayed within the melting pot of the Golden Empire, ruled by mightier violence and staunch willpower, extremely fearsome.
Gaelia, a Guardian Giant Dragon bound by the protective pact established by several predecessors of the Faen Empire’s King, originated from the Blue Dragon Clan of the Great Desert in the Central Continent.
As a Mature Blue Dragon within the Blue Dragon Clan, it was responsible for serving as the lubricant for maintaining the presence of the Blue Dragon Clan in the Central Continent—one of the reasons for the Blue Dragon Clan being the dominant family in the Great Desert.
Yet in Gaelia’s eyes, those True Dragons and Dragon-men of the Golden Empire were extraordinarily terrifying.
This wasn’t due to the strengths of those True Dragons and Dragon-blood Creatures; most of the True Dragons and Dragon-men’s powers meant nothing in the eyes of this Mature Blue Dragon.
But these True Dragons in the Golden Empire were tantamount to genuine Celestial Dragon People, possessing traits that Blue Dragon Gaelia couldn’t emulate.
As if the nobility of these True Dragons and Dragon-men wasn’t brought by strength and power, but by an inherent ’indescribable’ Dragon Spirit.
Blue Dragon Gaelia had also gained insights into the Golden Empire, with even three young dragons from his clan joining the ranks of the Golden Empire.
This was not surprising; as long as the giant dragon exerted its wisdom, whatever the nobility could accomplish and would accomplish, the giant dragon could achieve all.
But hearing and firsthand experience are entirely different matters.
Blue Dragon Gaelia also heard that disputes arose within the Southern Good Dragon Alliance recently, due to the Adult Silver Dragon Chris Tianna and two Bronze Dragons Gross and Natarili vigorously propagating the Golden Empire’s ideology in the strongholds of the Southern Continent’s Good Dragon.
This sparked some division within the Good Dragon Alliance, as many Silver Dragons and Bronze Dragons gradually defected to Adult Silver Dragon Chris Tianna and the two Bronze Dragons.
Many Golden Dragons and Gem Dragons within the Southern Good Dragon Alliance were dissatisfied with Adult Silver Dragon Chris Tianna’s actions, even wanting to convene a ’Dragon Crowned Council’ targeting this Adult Silver Dragon and the two Bronze Dragons.
Especially since, following the death of one of the Good Dragon Alliance’s leaders, the Legendary Golden Dragon Nasuye, and the captivity of Ancestral Golden Dragon Erikson’s parents by Ancestral Golden Dragon Obilash, those leaders of the Good Dragon Alliance sought a firm stance against the northern Golden Empire.
They even considered awakening the slumbering Ancient Dragon, aiming to reestablish the dominance of Metal Dragons over the realm of Colorful Dragons.
See, such entities exist in every world.
These Metal Dragons did not attempt to reveal their fangs against the humans and other intelligent races occupying the overlord position in Icaria, yet they begrudged witnessing the rise of Colorful Dragons, a major race once suppressed by Metal Dragons.
However, with the awakening of the grandmother of the Adult Silver Dragon Chris Tianna, an Ancient Silver Dragon slumbering in the Fog Concealment Mountain Range within the Silver Dragon Race’s domain, the matter eventually fizzled out.
Golden Dragons, though favored by the Platinum Dragon God among Metal Dragons, inherently possessed bloodline talents superior to all Metal Dragons, thereby usually becoming the united leaders of the Metal Dragon groups.