Ultraman: The Dark Shadow Mage, Creating a Magic Empire

Chapter 12 The Long March, the Hollow Earth

"Your Majesty, everything is well in the country. Of the refugees who were originally taken in, half have awakened their bloodlines. Because their strength has increased after awakening their bloodlines, the country's construction is progressing rapidly..."

Inside the Golden Sunflower Castle, Norman sat on his newly renovated throne, listening to Edward's report from afar.

"That's right. You should take joint responsibility for domestic affairs and prioritize ensuring the livelihood of the people. We don't need to rely on food, but the collection of food cannot stop. We should also collect some seeds of various plants."

"Also, you know about the Nightmare Beasts, right? Go back and try absorbing some of our livestock and war beasts as well, see if we can continue to do so."

"Yes, ma'am."

Edward nodded, then turned and took his leave to attend to his business.

Norman is now acting as the king's expeditionary general, fighting on the front lines while Edward leads the organized kingdom officials to take over.

His mission was to help Norman reorganize his troops, replenish his fighting strength, absorb the population, build city after city, and ensure Norman's logistical support.

It has to be said that Edward has gotten used to it over the past ten years and has been "tortured" by Norman into a super logistics master who can rival famous ministers in Chinese history!

Once Norman entered Long March mode, no one else could keep up with his speed!

Only Edward, only he could arrive with supplies and reserves as soon as the Normans conquered a castle or a country!

As Edward began making arrangements, Norman also got up and went out to inspect the situation.

After the monster's flesh was tested, it was broken down and categorized. Part of it was used to appease the surviving citizens of the city, while the rest was processed and stored away.

The monster's blood became the soldiers' power, and they absorbed it completely.

The city is now in ruins and needs to be rebuilt. Officials from the Black Kingdom are directing the people to rebuild the city walls, repair houses, and create areas suitable for their habitation.

Outside the city, there was a makeshift military camp and a giant dragon that was submerged in the river and secretly looked up when it sensed Norman's arrival.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

"Get up, everyone get ready, the Long March ahead will not be easy."

"Yes, sir!"

When the soldiers saw Norman, they couldn't hide the fanaticism in their eyes.

They were all Norman's die-hard fans, worshipping and admiring him immensely. Even before the system existed, they were willing to fight to the death for Norman. After the system was introduced, they were even more willing to go through fire and water for Norman, even if it meant their own deaths!

Norman nodded in satisfaction.

This unit is the Black Knights' reserve force; they will be the first to replace the Black Knights if they suffer losses.

For this Long March, Norman not only needed cavalry, but also an infantry force capable of clearing mountains and building bridges to help him make his way.

Edward sent this special infantry unit.

After inspecting the army, Norman walked to the riverbank.

When the dragon saw Norman approaching, it obediently rested its head on the shore, awaiting Norman's instructions.

"Not bad. So, are you willing to completely submit?" Norman said, condensing another drop of ancestral blood and displaying it before the dragon.

The dragon looked at the drop of bright red blood, and a human-like fear appeared in its eyes.

Because the ancestral blood that Norman condensed was not the kind of ancestral blood that could stimulate the bloodlines of Caitlin and the others.

Rather, it is the bloodline of the Children of the Night, originating from the vampire's ability to create vassal blood slaves!

Consuming this drop of blood is like being embraced by a vampire; you will become a vampire's blood slave.

Unless vampires provide them with higher-level blood, they will never be able to escape the suppression of bloodline levels and will become the lowest-level slaves!

Although the dragon was unaware of these things, its biological instincts made it fear the thing before it.

But more than that, it feared Norman himself!

Norman's murderous intent was far more obvious than anything it didn't know!

The dragon obediently opened its mouth, and Norman laughed as he poured blood into it.

As the ancestral blood entered its body, the dragon's body began to change. The low-level bloodline of the Son of Night was implanted into the dragon, turning it into Norman's blood slave.

As it offered its loyalty, the system beeped again.

[Ding! New subordinate species absorbed! Reward: Fantasy Species Bloodline: Dragon, Five-Colored Dragon, Blue Dragon Bloodline!]

With the bloodline implanted, the dragon, which was still being transformed, suddenly paused. Norman's blood, along with the newly emerged bloodline, fused together and transformed into the dragon, or rather, the special bloodline of the blue dragon.

The five-colored dragons are a type of evil dragon in the fantasy genre, and are the offspring and creations of Tiamat, the mother of the five-colored dragons.

They are powerful dragons, but because they are chaotic and evil, their intelligence is generally low, and most of them are even quite low.

However, its low intelligence doesn't matter; the main thing is the power it provides to Norman!

The power provided by this blue dragon is enough to rival the combined power of ten million evolved people!

Norman's power was originally considered to be at the surface level, meaning he was basically invincible within a planet.

And now, his power has almost reached the planetary level!

For example, the current Norman could easily kill the previous Blue Dragon, to the point of being able to easily defeat it with one hand.

That's equivalent to having four blue dragons attacking at full power!

In other words, he didn't have enough superhuman power, otherwise Norman could have flown off the planet and gone into outer space to see what was going on!

"Very well, now tell me, where did you come from? Why couldn't we see you on the surface before?"

Norman patted the blue dragon's face. The blue dragon blinked, then understood what Norman meant and gestured for him to sit on its head.

Norman jumped on it, and the blue dragon then withdrew its head and submerged into the river.

Norman gripped the blue dragon's horns and watched it swim deeper into the river.

Swimming all the way to the bottom of the river, Norman saw a blue curtain.

Blue Dragon led Norman through the curtain, and in an instant, it felt like the environment inside Earth in Godzilla's MonsterVerse.

In an instant, the top and bottom were reversed, and the person plunged into the seabed before landing above a space.

"Whoosh!"

"roar!"

The blue dragon spread its wings and glided through the sky, roaring excitedly downwards to announce its return.

Norman's guess was correct; there was indeed a hollow underground, and the monsters of this planet originally lived in the hollow.

This blue dragon is one of the kings of the hollow inside this planet!

As the blue dragon roared, some of the monsters that were flying in the sky fell down and hid motionless among the tree branches.

The monsters on land also bowed their heads, showing their submission.

"Not bad, looks like you're still useful. Gather them all together and make them eat this."

Nono produced a bunch of ancestral blood and controlled it to float next to the blue dragon's head.

Blue Dragon did as instructed, roaring to summon all the monsters present, and then roaring again to signal them to consume the ancestral blood.

As each monster consumed the ancestral blood, system notifications popped up.

Shortly after, three notifications popped up...

(End of this chapter)