Chapter 127 Mainland Situation (Part 2)
The race that has never participated in the dispute between the human race and the anti-human alliance is the dragon race. In order to strengthen their own strength, the increasingly arrogant human race thought of the profession of dragon knight. In the ancient times, when fighting against the demon creatures that invaded the Eslaze continent, all races worked together, and even the always arrogant dragon race lowered their status. Some dragons were paired with strong men from other races to form the powerful profession of dragon knight.
Of course, in the ancient times, it was not only humans who had dragon knights, but also elves, dwarves, orcs and even some small races. But after the Demon Sealing War, all dragons returned to the overseas Dragon Island - or the Dragon Continent. Only some dragons that had developed a deep relationship with the knights stayed on the main continent of Eslaze.
However, when the Holy Empire invaded other races, there were no dragon knights on the main continent of Eslaze. It has been a long time since the Demon Sealing War, and the dragons with extremely long lifespans have been dead for many years. Newborn dragons are usually taken to Dragon Island by the dragon clan, so the profession of dragon knight has become a legend.
The emperor of the Holy Empire saw that he had temporarily reached a stalemate with the Anti-Human Alliance, so he thought of finding another way to open the situation. At this time, because of the extremely strong national strength, the Holy Empire had a kind of idea that the world was not as big as us, and they forgot the strength of the dragon clan. Some officials suggested to the emperor of the Holy Empire, why not establish a team of dragon knights to sweep the Anti-Human Alliance?
The emperor of the Holy Empire was naturally very tempted, but he was not stupid enough to capture the dragon directly. Instead, he sent some masters to the Dragon Continent to secretly capture some young dragons. The magician of the Holy Empire has developed a ripening potion that can make the dragon clan grow very quickly and quickly become an adult dragon, so that they have the ability to be trained as dragon knights.
Of course, this potion also has disadvantages. Its disadvantage is that this ripening runs through the life of the dragon being born, that is, after growing into an adult dragon, the dragon will age and die at a very fast rate. However, the life span of the dragon race in the adult stage is very long. Even with the effect of ripening potions, they can still survive for more than ten years or even decades. And this is enough for the Holy Empire. After the dragon knights unify the continent, they will be of no use. Let them die.
At the beginning, the human plan to capture the young dragons was very successful. The dragon race, which has been at peace with the world for many years, did not expect that humans would extend their black hands to them. In just one year, dozens of young dragons were captured by masters sent by humans and sent back to the Holy Empire for ripening.
But soon, human behavior was discovered. After all, the number of dragons is not large. Dozens of young dragons are already one-fifth of the number of young dragons in the entire dragon race, which will naturally make the dragon race alert. The Dragon Continent is originally the territory of the dragon race. Even the strong dragons can't suppress the local snakes, let alone the local dragons? Those human masters were naturally discovered by the dragon race.
The human masters who were discovered were immediately in a tragedy. Hundreds of adult dragons chased them! Did the Dragon Emperor lead the team personally! The enraged dragons used forbidden spells when they saw human masters! Those human masters who entered the Dragon Continent to capture young dragons were killed by the dragons, and only a few human masters escaped back to the Holy Empire.
But these escaped human masters brought a disaster to the Holy Empire. Some dragons chased the escaped humans to a base used by the Holy Empire to ripen young dragons and discovered the human behavior. At this time, the dozens of young dragons had been injected with ripening potions. After the angry dragons destroyed the base and returned, these young dragons grew up quickly - this strange situation naturally attracted the attention of the dragons.
After the powerful Dragon Emperor scanned these young dragons with magic power, he found that the vitality of these young dragons was lost very quickly - the effect of the ripening potion was to consume this vitality to make the young dragons grow very quickly. This discovery naturally made the Dragon Emperor furious. The dragons, who originally had a lifespan of a thousand years, had their lifespan shortened to twenty years under the effect of this potion. For the dragons, it was really a matter of anger with a hint of fear.
You know, the dragon race's fertility is not strong, and the pregnancy period of a female dragon is generally as long as fifty years. This kind of ripening potion is simply a thing that will cut off the dragon race's offspring! In the name of revenge for the dozens of young dragons, the dragon race, who felt threatened, participated in the war between the human race and the anti-human alliance.
At the beginning, the dragon race only launched an attack on humans alone, often a team of more than a dozen dragons, destroying a city in the Holy Empire. After suffering losses in several cities, the Holy Empire also reacted. Under the unified mobilization of the Holy Empire through the teleportation array, there will be many great wizards in every city where dragons appear to open the magic tower to fight against the dragons.
Under the defense and counterattack of the powerful magic tower, many dragons died in the Holy Empire for a while. The dragon race soon realized that the power of the dragon race alone could cause great losses to humans, but the dragon race itself would also suffer great casualties. So, under the order of the Dragon Emperor, the dragon race also participated in the anti-human alliance.
Now the Holy Empire can be said to be the enemy of the whole world. All races except humans have united as one and launched an offensive against the Holy Empire. The Holy Empire and the Anti-Human Alliance were originally in a relatively balanced situation in terms of strength. After the powerful force of the Dragon Clan joined, the Anti-Human Alliance's strength suddenly surpassed that of the Holy Empire by a lot.
In fact, the Dragon Clan alone has the ability to compete with the Holy Empire. With the Anti-Human Alliance's own strength, the Holy Empire is naturally no match. However, after a part of the territory was seized by the counterattack, the Holy Empire's original territory was still tightly defended by relying on years of operation. With all the national strength, it still managed to defend the original territory of the Holy Empire with difficulty.
In theory, if this continues, the Anti-Human Alliance will have no choice but to waste time like before, but problems have arisen within the Holy Empire.
Under the vast territory, there must be countless local forces. When the royal family of the Holy Empire was strong and had the upper hand in the war against foreign races, these forces would naturally not say anything, and expansion would bring them more territory. But now the Holy Empire is at a disadvantage in foreign wars, and even part of the territory that was previously seized and allocated to local forces has been lost. These local forces naturally have other ideas.
Of course, the leaders of these local forces are not fools. They all knew that if they started a rebellion directly, it would be difficult to say whether it would succeed. Even if it succeeded, everyone would become kings, which would cause great internal friction in the Holy Empire, and thus be broken by foreign races. At that time, they would probably be destroyed by the Anti-Human Alliance.
Then after a series of alliances, collusion with the Anti-Human Alliance, and bribery of senior generals in the royal army, these local forces evolved peacefully. Anyway, the result was that the royal family of the Holy Empire was handed over to appease the anger of the dragon clan and the three major races, and the Holy Empire was divided into many parts. At the same time, some of the territory occupied by humans was also divided and ceded to other races. The territory occupied by humans on the Eslaze continent only accounted for about 20%.
Among the human forces that split off, the strongest was the kingdom established by the former Grand Duke of Bozana. In the subsequent development, the Kingdom of Bozana gradually became stronger by annexing smaller human forces. At the same time, the Anti-Human Alliance also fell apart after the disappearance of the Holy Empire. After all, there were conflicts between the various races.
This gave the Pozana Kingdom an opportunity. By attacking the territories of some small races, the Pozana Kingdom gradually established a great reputation. After a thousand years of development, the Pozana Kingdom successfully became the Pozana Empire and has continued to this day.
When the royal family of the Holy Empire was handed over, a small branch of the royal family outside did not attract everyone's attention and barely continued. Later, after more than two thousand years of evolution, this branch gradually became stronger and eventually established the Holy Lion Empire, which was regarded as inheriting the glory of the Holy Empire.
Nearly three thousand years have passed, and the alien races have no hatred for the Holy Lion Empire, and the Holy Lion Empire has existed to this day. However, because the Pozana Empire was one of the biggest culprits who overthrew the Holy Empire, the Holy Lion Empire and the Pozana Empire have always been hostile.
As for the Canaan Empire, it was originally an alliance of some small countries along the coast. After a long period of evolution, it was unified by a great emperor born in a small country, thus forming the third human empire-this is also the shortest empire established, it only existed for three hundred years. Canaan I, who founded the Canaan Empire, is known as a model of starting from scratch.
During the four thousand years of erosion, human forces have occupied and developed a lot of territory, so the total territory occupied by humans is almost the same as the area during the Holy Empire period.
In addition to the three major empires, there are some kingdoms among humans whose strength should not be underestimated. Some of them have even continued since the division of the Holy Empire. The next thing to pay attention to is a very special human force, its name is the Kandra Business Kingdom Alliance.
The territory of this Kandra Business Kingdom Alliance is not very large, it is about the same as a kingdom, and it is a force formed by the union of many principalities and even small states. However, although the territory is not large, the member states of the Kandra Business Kingdom Alliance are all countries with extremely developed commerce. As for the entire Kandra Business Kingdom Alliance, it can even be said that it controls the economic trend of the Eslaze continent.
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Alas, I still couldn't help posting this chapter after typing it. There is no encouragement for breaking through 300,000 words, which is sad. These chapters are relatively bland, in order to pave the way for the future, which is considered a turning point. Please wait patiently, we will soon be able to contact the outside world.