Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 239 The Prosperous Golden Tree
"Alas, each generation of Augustus is getting worse than the previous one!"

After carefully reading the five generations of the Augustus family, Noah couldn't help but sigh.

However, this is the norm for short-lived families. Geniuses are rare, and it is even rarer for a genius to break through and become a legend in every generation.

The Augustus family, starting from Cassius, has had three consecutive generations of people who became legends, which is an extremely rare case worthy of being recorded in history.

Currently, no one in the fourth generation of the Augustus family has broken through to the legendary level, but it is foreseeable that among the four generations, except Evelyn who gave up voluntarily, the others all have the opportunity to become legends, and two of them are certain to become legends, which can be regarded as destined.

Of course, even if Evelyn gave up the dragon blood inheritance, she was not without the opportunity to become a legend. She only gave up the dragon blood, not her practice. It’s just that her achievements would seem dull compared to those of her brothers and sisters.

Compared to the unprecedented four generations of glory when everyone could become a legend, the performance of the fifth generation is really another extreme.

Mediocre is just a tolerable way of saying it. To put it bluntly, each of the five generations of the Augustus family is worse than the last and cannot be compared with their fathers at all. It is only when they are placed among ordinary people that they stand out.

But it doesn't matter. With the current strength of the Augustus family, even if five generations are useless and cannot break through to become legends, they can still wait for the sixth and seventh generations. This is the advantage of short-lived families.

A family with a legendary guardian does not have to focus on one generation, but can look at ten or twenty generations. As long as they can wait for a descendant with legendary qualifications and train him, they will be considered a winner.

The family also prospered as a result and took a big step forward. This is the mainstream way of development for traditional legendary families.

As for the Augustus family, it developed in just one or two generations, established a country, and became a royal family. Not to mention looking back a thousand years, there is no similar case in the thousands of years before that.

Unfortunately, even though the Augustus family is so special, the potential of its descendants seems to have been exhausted. After the ultimate glory, it will eventually come to an end.

It seems to be the case, and this is encouraging news for those forces that are hostile to and disgusted with the Augustus family.

But the biggest problem now is that the Augustus family has not yet reached its true peak. The fourth generation is still in development. Although the fifth generation has been born, mediocrity is only the current evaluation. No one can predict its future development.

Even mortals in the slums have a chance to become a legend or even a god. No one can deny this, even though the probability is so small that it can basically be ignored.

But in the past history, people have done similar things, so this kind of thing has gone from being absolutely impossible to being possible. Even the gods will not veto it, and they will ensure that the same thing will not happen a second time.

Having said that, the fifth generation of the Augustus family does not need Noah's attention. These fifth generations are different from their fathers, and they all receive love from their father.

Therefore, Noah also focused on the major event that deserved his attention, namely the catastrophe of the undead that was moving southward from the northern ice field towards Middle-earth, especially the land of the Elf King's Court.

After being assassinated by the Undead, Urnos pretended to be seriously injured. Especially after being offended by his eldest son, he looked weak and decadent, which made certain forces very excited.

Unfortunately, Urnos has done too many similar operations, and the legendary families with a little political sense did not participate in it.

In the eyes of these families, the monarch's credibility has almost fallen below zero, and they do not believe what he has disclosed about his own status.

Therefore, Urnos, who had been lying on the sickbed for two and a half years, could only clean up a few small fish very unhappily, and then, in the name of the King of Atlas, he declared war on the Northern Undead and officially intervened in this major event.

In name, the Kingdom of Atlas joined the war to avenge its monarch, but in fact, its strategic intention was very clear, which was to occupy more land and obtain resources, not just to retaliate against the assassination of the undead.

Although the north is a bitter and cold place, the living conditions in the north are just difficult, which does not mean that the resources are barren. In fact, it is precisely because the living environment is so poor that its resources are much higher than other parts of the mainland, because the amount of mining is much less.

After Urnos joined the game, Noah's controllable space increased many times. Jin Long did not hide anything from his nephew, but only revealed to him that he had a spy on the side of the Undead who could obtain key intelligence, but he needed his cooperation.

Therefore, after a round of attempts, Urnos started more cooperation with Noah, including but not limited to killing off the manpower of his allies, causing them to continuously lose their original land and shrink to the south.

Therefore, after the Kingdom of Atlas joined the war, the development of this war that almost ignited half of the continent suddenly became strange.

On the battlefield, the army of the Atlas Kingdom won victory after victory, with more victories than defeats. In every major battle, there would be gains. They even captured two undead cities located in the frozen land of the north, encroaching on a lot of undead land.

Compared with the army commanded by Urnos himself, the performance of the army of the Elven King's Court was like a joke. They suffered defeat after defeat, lost more than they won, and any victories they won were insignificant and had little impact.

The performances of the two countries' armies are at two extremes, completely opposite, at least in the eyes of outsiders who don't know the inside story.

The elves who are obsessed with the glory and honor of the past are so corrupt at the moment. The army is lax, slow to respond, and has low morale. The commanders are short-sighted and extremely stupid.

The highest decision-making class attacked each other for their own interests, and had no sense of the overall situation at all, so that the Elf King's Court continued to lose cities and territories, and the Undead Army was about to reach the capital, Salemfein.

Although the Elf Royal Court did have many problems, including chaos within the ancient forces and lack of unified command, the foundation of the elven race was there and the fight should not have been so ugly.

However, no matter how much the elves plan, it is difficult for them to predict whether their enemies and allies can cooperate with each other.

Even if Noah did not lose his bottom line and sold the intelligence of the elves to the undead, Urnos, who almost controlled the overall situation, could basically use the power of the elves to consume the undead army as long as he wanted to. It would be strange if the elves were not deceived and cried for their parents.

As for whether this would cause psychological pressure or moral burden, Urnos, as the monarch, said that there would be no such pressure at all. Someone has to kill the undead. If the elves don't go up to fight, should my knights go up and die?
Urnos did not need to think about the choice between letting his knights die in battle or letting the elves wail everywhere. Any qualified ruler could make such a choice because it was not a multiple-choice question.

How stupid a ruler must be to suppress and exploit his subjects, benefiting the so-called allies. If he doesn't even know what his base is, how can he be a king? On this point, Noah thought he taught him well. Although Urnos liked to scheme, he mainly targeted the nobles who were secretly plotting some bad intentions.

Urnos was very generous to the nobles and knights who followed him wholeheartedly, and he continued the tradition of the Augustus family after its rise to power as far as the lower-class common people were concerned.

Therefore, his rule was extremely stable. When the people at the bottom talked about this second-generation king, they mostly just made good-natured jokes and hoped that this king could reign longer than his father.

Urnos doesn't care about the opinions of the lower-class civilians, because he prefers to exploit and oppress those internal forces that are less obedient to him.

When it comes to gaining benefits and plundering resources from outside the kingdom, he was the first to take the lead and never shirked his responsibilities. Even his eldest son Alexander could not compete with him.

"What happened to you? Why do you have that expression? Has another undead spirit impeached you? Which undead spirit is it? Tell me its name and I will make sure it disappears within a month."

Seeing his good nephew in the cemetery, Noah couldn't hide the smile on his face.

He did not send a single soldier to the northern battlefield, and stayed in his territory without moving an inch. However, since Wayne squeezed into the core decision-making level of the Undead, after his eldest nephew was killed, he repeatedly approached him to discuss the strategy of advancement, and his golden tree received huge feedback.

It is no exaggeration to say that two-thirds of the battles in the northern battlefield were related to him. This unknown holy dragon hovered over the northern ice fields and the sky of Middle-earth, manipulating the life and death of billions of lives.

Of course, this is just self-boasting and exaggerated rhetoric to raise one's status. In fact, Noah only indirectly influenced such a large number of creatures. This is the feedback and conclusion obtained from the golden tree.

Noah was able to get a small amount of feedback from most of the battles between living creatures and undead that took place in the north. Even if there were gaps between the causes and effects and they were weakened layer by layer, as the small amounts accumulated, Noah's gains were extremely astonishing.

Not to mention other things, just the complete blood-source fruits, there were as many as seventeen on Noah's golden tree. This was mainly because one of the parties involved in the war was undead, otherwise there would be more, maybe even ten times as many.

Of course, the nutrients of these blood-source fruits are not provided by the undead. There is no blood in this thing. The main source is the indigenous barbarians in the north. The credit should be attributed to Urnos.

After the King of Atlas led his legions out of the country and headed north, his war strategy was to sweep away all the enemies, regardless of whether they were dead or alive, and bring them within the attack range.

Living creatures were treated slightly better; females and cubs were mostly thrown to merchants accompanying the army, transported back to the country, and sold as slaves.

Noah's main harvest was the sky fruits and natural fruits he obtained after annihilating the undead. There were five emerald green fruits and two blue fruits.

This made Noah look forward to entering the slumber of adolescence. For him now, the resources for evolution were no longer the focus. This was not something he should consider. What he really needed to think about was the direction to move forward.

This is the most important thing. Although there are many ancestral dragons, each ancestral dragon is unique and the paths they choose are also different. Noah cannot copy them.

Noah didn't know what was good and what was bad, so he needed more real cases to refer to. However, the current reality was that it was extremely difficult for him to find a second ancestral dragon, so where could he find a reference?

But the golden tree solved this difficulty for him. Whether it was the natural fruit or the sky fruit, while giving him certain special powers, it also allowed him to see the powerful creatures that once roamed this world in the most ancient times.

"A third undead city was captured. Although it was quickly recaptured, the skeletons and mummies sensed the danger. They are considering awakening the Immortal King through a sacrificial ceremony."

Seeing Noah who was in a cheerful mood, Wayne reported coldly a piece of news that sounded very bad.

"Awaken the Immortal King? Not really. Are they willing to give up the power in their hands? And is it that easy to wake up the big skeleton?"

Noah was quite confused. Although Wayne, the traitor, kept transmitting intelligence, causing the Kingdom of the Dead to suffer defeat after defeat when facing the counterattack of the Kingdom of Atlas, whenever the Undead lost ground at the hands of Urnos, they could basically get it back from the elves and even replenish a lot.

Therefore, the kingdom of the dead is still quite decent, and the situation is by no means to the point where it is necessary to awaken the Immortal King.

If the cemetery had a unified voice, it would mean that the power of these legendary undead would be greatly reduced.

They will be reduced from being high and mighty rulers to being obedient subjects, and the rule of the higher-level undead over the lower-level undead is absolute.

Noah didn't believe that the undead were willing to give up their power. Although the undead had lost many of the desires of earthly flesh and blood, the emptiness of their souls would make them more persistent and greedy in some aspects.

"This is just a proposal. Although it was quickly rejected, it can be confirmed that the Undead do have a way to shorten the Immortal King's sleep period."

"The cost should be quite high."

Noah already knew what the big skeleton was.

The divine bones become spirits!
Although Chitian Laodeng chopped it to pieces with one sword, that was just relying on his realm to bully the beast. Under the restrictions of the rules of the material world, if this thing wakes up and recovers its full strength, it can basically walk sideways.

"It is said that the souls of millions of intelligent species are needed as sacrifices."

Wayne frowned. Although the legendary undead were not willing to let the immortal king wake up now, there was no guarantee of how things would develop in the future.

(End of this chapter)