"You charlatans are simply shameless!!!!" the red dragon roared. "Decades ago, you arbitrarily released some new myths, claiming that Abeir's changes were an invasion of Toril. You also arbitrarily restarted the blood sacrifice and created the Thunder Flower and the Sky River. We actually thought you were doing this for Abeir! But you're so cruel and ruthless that you actually restarted the blood sacrifice in full force!"

Opposite him stood a golden dragon with unusually thick armor, as if metal were truly embedded within its scales. She raised her head, her voice equally furious. "This is absurd! You have restarted the blood sacrifice without authorization, and with nothing more than empty words, you intend to frame the Holy Church?! Not a single one of the millions of soldiers and civilians of the Holy Church would agree! I tell you, if the blood sacrifice is restarted, Abel will flow like a river of blood, and every dragon will be devoured by its voraciousness!"

"Didn't you discover this atrocious ritual while torturing the corpses of our soldiers?"

"You traitorous creature, you deserve to die!"

"Slaves of the Wild Spirit, you fucking——"

Such quarrels have been going on for several days, and even small-scale conflicts have broken out.

There is absolutely no way the two sides can reach an agreement through negotiation.

The Blood Sacrifice War, or the Second Abel War.

This was an extremely tragic and bloody war in the history of Abel, and it can be regarded as one of the catastrophes with the most casualties in the entire history of Abel.

In short - the wild spirits discovered that by piling up corpses using a special ritual, they could extract elemental amber from them, thereby stimulating the power of the elements.

This elemental amber can be used to create various items with magical powers. From then on, dragons were no longer reckless men who could only rely on their own strength, but could use magical items like the followers of the gods in legends.

This discovery was a catastrophe for the creatures on Abel.

Because they eventually discovered that the more powerful the creature sacrificed, the more powerful the elemental amber produced.

Initially, these sacrifices involved the use of dragon slaves. Soon, this spread to the use of dragon prisoners of war. Eventually, dragon kings began to be assassinated, and rebels, relying on the elemental amber obtained through sacrifice, repelled the king's forces.

This is simply outrageous - the power in the dead body may be stronger than when it was alive!

In the end, this world war that was discovered by the Wild Spirit and was about to break out was also stopped by the Wild Spirit.

Because the wild spirits realized a problem: in Abel, the most powerful individual creature is the wild spirit himself.

The kings among the traitors have begun to be assassinated, so what about the wild spirits?

The dragons betrayed the Wild Spirits before, so won’t their current followers betray them a second time?

In the end, both sides suffered heavy losses in this war that swept across Abel, and they stopped fighting and negotiated peace. At the same time, blood sacrifice became the most serious taboo in the land of Abel.

However, this taboo was first broken by the wild spirit.

Silver-blue flames erupted across Abel at some point, causing considerable damage.

Shit.

Several continents on Abel disappeared out of thin air and were replaced by other worlds!

The dragons living near the disaster thought they were crazy!

Yesterday, my neighbor was my brother-in-law, and the next day, he woke up and became a shaman of the Holy Elemental Church. Who could withstand such a shock?!

The only good news was that the citizens of the new land were equally at a loss. So after a great battle, these new residents who came to Abel became new slaves, and some dragon lords made a fortune.

But before the godslayers of Fritia could be happy for long, they found that the priests of the Holy Church of Elements had contacted them, claiming that the Wild Spirit had mercifully bestowed great power and sealed the blue fires that were causing such great destruction.

But any discerning dragon could see that the Holy Church of Elements had used forbidden power to create a feat of that level. In other words, it was a blood sacrifice.

Therefore, they were not grateful at all, and instead many conflicts broke out again.

However, today is destined to be different.

While they were arguing with each other, an extremely eye-catching elemental storm attracted their attention.

After realizing that the other party might launch another blood sacrifice, the elemental amber that had been sealed was used again as a tool to detect blood sacrifice.

And now, all the dragons in the venue took out the amber from their bodies in some surprise, and found that they were all pointing in the same direction.

That's an elemental riot.

These visions are almost only caused when the power of elemental amber is stimulated in the crudest and most primitive way.

Therefore, even amber with a lower energy intensity can still cause earth-shaking crowding - which represents a massive waste of energy.

The source of the storm seemed to be the most desolate part of the border between the two forces - it was too poor to live in, too good an environment to be used as a place to exile prisoners, and too far away and sensitive to be used to house slaves.

It was very far away from them, at least a thousand kilometers away. But because of its crude use, they were able to sense its existence from such a long distance.

Then, all the dragons present raised their heads and breathed towards each other at the same time, and a battle was about to break out.

"—How dare you, a bunch of charlatans, hold a blood sacrifice during negotiations? This is simply outrageous!!!"

"You traitors are shameless and you're still blaming others for your crimes!!"

After a conflict, both parties retreated to their temporary residences with gnashing teeth, and then shouted angrily: "We need to investigate!"

"Whose fool is this, doing things so crudely? A blood sacrifice could cause such a shocking change!"

Thirty Dragon Servants

The talks between the Alliance and the Holy Church ended or were interrupted again.

In fact, the negotiations between the two sides have almost never formally reached any results - the two sides are enemies that are opposed in all aspects of history, political system, and ideology, not to mention that the alliance is actually extremely loose. Even if the envoys brought back the results, there would be no Dragon Association to supervise the implementation.

They were more like messengers than emissaries - they sorted out the answers and intentions of the Holy Church and informed them of what they had discussed.

The end of most conflicts is simply that all the dragons are tired or even scared, and both sides glare at each other and take a breath.

Only the Second War of Abeir was a bloody battle that terrified all the dragons of Abeir. At the war's end, a ban was passed, theoretically applicable to all dragons, prohibiting all creatures on Abeir from using blood sacrifices and creating elemental amber.

This rare agreement lasted for nearly ten thousand years, so that several generations of dragons had never witnessed the process of making elemental amber with their own eyes.

The shaking of this agreement began more than eighty years ago.

A silver-blue flame named the Breath of Change erupted in various regions of Abel, bringing earth-shaking changes.

The most notable thing is that several of Abel's original continents disappeared out of thin air, and were replaced by strange worlds and civilizations from another world.

These strange civilizations cannot be said to be weak, nor can they be said to be barbaric.

—But there’s just one problem.

The population of Abel may not be that large.

However, the main body of Toril civilization is human, dwarf and other humanoid civilizations.

The main body of Abel's civilization is the real dragon.

In each settlement, more than 50% of the population are real dragons, and the rest are slaves.

Therefore, the tentative attacks encountered by the Toril people who came from afar were all dozens or even hundreds of giant dragons of various shapes streaking across the sky.

If the first wave is repelled, the number of the second wave of attackers will be increased by zero.

Without divine arts and magic, this is no enemy that the humanoid race can resist!

At this moment, the Frost Red Dragon, Ashe Fram, who had just finished a negotiation, quarrel, or even a conflict, hurried back to his territory.

He would be the main representative of the Fritia League in this negotiation for two reasons.

Firstly, he was about to enter the age of the Ancient Dragon, and in this area, his strength was the strongest.

Second, his territory is very close to the border.

He hurried back to his territory to confirm two things.

First, whether his territory was attacked by his unruly fellow tribesmen during the time he was away.

Secondly, he wanted to find out whether the discovered blood sacrifice had leaked out from his territory.

In Abel's dragon kingdom, whether it is the Fritia Alliance or the Elemental Holy Church, the underlying political system is very clear: slavery.

Only true dragons are true citizens of the political system, and other races, regardless of their intelligence or talents, can only be servants of the dragons.

Slaves also have a very special status on the dragon's side.

It is a valuable possession, so it cannot be given away easily.

It is a valuable asset, so when necessary, it can be squandered to demonstrate strength.

The so-called squandering, to be more specific, is eating.

When they decided to splurge on a meal, there would be extra slave meat on their plates.

The people of Toril discovered in despair that things that only evil dragons would do in Faerun were common in Abeir.

However, Ashe Frame's slaves were lucky - the old dragon was more greedy for money than for his mouth.

More importantly, he suffered heavy losses in conquering the current slaves. If he did not squeeze out the surplus value of these new slaves who had just been conquered decades ago, the conquest would have been a complete loss.

In a sense, his slaves from decades ago also partially conquered their new masters through their own struggles - so, Ashe Frame allowed them to continue their original lifestyle, except that they had an additional master.

The so-called way of life is something very new to the dragons of Abel.

Gears, machinery, cars that move on their own...

Of course, there is also the loud and powerful elemental explosion iron pipe.

Yes, Ashe Frame's new slaves, commonly known in Toril as Lantan, one of the main branches of the Gond Church.

Unfortunately, these novelties were too small for Ashe Frame to use himself. So, despite having a new master, the Lantan people in Abel were still able to get by. The biggest difficulty they encountered was the language barrier in the early stages.

Today, Ashe Frame flew all the way from the venue and returned to his territory. He immediately headed straight to Lantan Island.

And his broad figure was discovered early by the Lantan people.

There are many races in Lantan, but humans and dwarves are the absolute majority. However, the height difference between these two races is really nothing to an ancient dragon.

Today, Ashe did not have the complacency she had during her previous inspections, but was extremely serious, even murderous.

He landed in a large open space in the central city of Lantan Island, specially built for dragons, and said hurriedly, "Where is your craftsman? Tell her to come to me immediately!"

The Lantan people's original organizational structure had practically collapsed in the devastation brought on by the Arcane Blight, and the Gond Church, with its exceptionally high regard from Ashe, had now become almost entirely a theocracy. Therefore, the person who ultimately answered Ashe's question was also a craftsman from the Gond Church.

However, the people of Gond have now succumbed to the rule of the dragon - although in theory, the people of Gond would not be affected as much without the magic network. Unfortunately, the gunpowder of the people of Gond is dependent on the magic network.

Having lost the magic network, the people of Gond, who were extremely dependent on gunpowder for their military force, had no way to resist the dragon and had long since chosen to give up resistance.

Following the dragon's deafening roar, a female dwarf dressed as a Gondite hurried out of her laboratory and said, "My Lord, you are looking for me?"

"I don't care what you were doing before. Now, you have two things to do." The Frost Red Dragon raised its slightly chilling claws and extended its two forefingers. "First, tomorrow... no, right now, I will bring you a very dangerous shipment. You must immediately begin researching how to use it. Don't you consider yourself craftsmen and think everything in Fritia is crude and backward? Prove it to me now."

The female dwarf was stunned for a moment, then asked cautiously, "It's such dangerous stuff, but we're still researching it... Is it useful?"

"You should come up with the answer to this question. This matter takes priority over everything else." The Frost Red Dragon looked at the sky uneasily.

Dark clouds had covered the turquoise sky of Abel, and the thunder flowers that were still spewing lightning were particularly eye-catching in this weather.

"The atmosphere is very wrong right now. A war that could engulf the entire planet might be imminent. If you don't want to be wiped out in the aftermath of the dragon's breath, do it now!"

"World War?!" This term was a little too unfamiliar to the people of Toril, so they didn't even react at first and just nodded mechanically.

Ashe was clearly anxious and immediately brought up the second point: "Secondly, are you sailing nearby? All eastbound routes are halted. There may be countless battles and frictions in the east in the near future. Countless adventurers who haven't yet formed their own factions will venture to the border between the Holy Elemental Church and Fritia. If anyone discovers anything, there's a high probability that thousands of dragons will engage in a violent clash there. Don't die in vain!"

Lan Tanren was stunned for a moment, tried hard to recall, then couldn't help laughing out loud, and then sighed.

"What are you laughing at?" Ash blinked. "And why are you sighing?"

The female dwarf replied, "...because we remembered that the power with which we have the worst relations, a country called Halua, happens to be located roughly at the border. Sigh, because they may not have come to Abel, so we are very sorry."

"..." However, when Frost Red Dragon heard these words, he was concerned about other things.

He bent down, but even though his head had touched the ground, he was still several meters taller than the female dwarf.

The frost on her face made the female dwarf shiver just by getting close.

"Miss Gundsmith, I must warn you." His voice was filled with frost, and his scaly claws were frosted. "Currently, the regions discovered to have been teleported to Abel's world of Toril include the continent of Maztica and the Kingdom of Unther. The former was divided up by Fritia, while the latter succumbed to the Holy Elemental Church. You, do not harbor unrealistic fantasies."

Be my slaves obediently, no one can save you.

"It seems you don't understand what a world war would look like," Ashe warned. "Oceans would boil into canyons, mountains would be shaved into plains, volcanoes would freeze into glaciers, and the spiral of ice and fire would become the sun that rises every morning—don't take any chances!"

31 Abel's Dragon

[Zraqi? Are you awake?] Tachi of the Mustafa family was extremely shocked at this moment. [Haligad is plagued by an elemental outbreak, and we need you to take charge of the situation. Why did you go to Mount Taras at this time?]

Even the Mage Tower hadn't been cleared out. Many valuable but difficult-to-carry experimental devices were left inside.

However, Zlaj had no intention of answering.

He did receive the short message technique, but it was not explained in detail at all.

Today, Haligad is in a state of disrepair.

Emiya and his group blocked the effect of the elemental amber, but it only stopped the expansion of the disaster. The gushing boiling springs and thunder did not disappear immediately.

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