Dragon God, immortal

In this experimental base.

Amon, Senior Earth Dragon, and the swarm of insects.

Based on the information he collected, Shushan sorted out the history of this place, and their story... is a long story.

Legend has it that when chaos first began, Pangu created the world... No, it ran away. This is Shushan’s memory, not the history of this place.

Legend has it that in the First Era, the Titans, Dragons, and Goblins were still fighting each other, and there were not many native species on this planet, and the Insect Swarm was one of them.

After the four-way melee ended, the Titans and the Fairies signed a peace agreement. The two races, whose interests did not conflict much, took the lead in stopping the fight and entered a period of self-development.

Well, the dragon didn't sign any peace treaty.

The individual combat power of the dragon clan is extremely strong.

Don't be afraid of anyone when fighting!

But later, even without the so-called contract, the dragon no longer launched attacks on the two tribes separately.

The reason is very simple. The number of the tribe has increased, and there is not enough food. If the logistics can't keep up, how can you fight? There are still dragon cubs crying for food in the rear. It is more important to go home and take care of the babies!

Thus, the dragon clan officially entered the Second Era. The dragons, led by the Chaos Dragon, lived in peace with the Titans and the Fairies.

At this time, the expected suffering occurred. In order to prepare for war in the First Age, dragons gave birth to many children. However, the nutrients required for the growth of dragon cubs were ridiculously high, and even magical birth could not satisfy their appetite during their growth period.

At this critical moment, an earth dragon stood up...

He resolutely left the tribe.

Find food to feed your people.

“Well, no matter in which era, food is a topic that cannot be avoided. After all, the most primitive instinct of living things is to survive and reproduce.” Shushan summarized this and nodded. Food crisis will always exist.

The name of that earth dragon is no longer recognizable, and his name can only be confirmed through the description of outsiders - [Insect Dragon Master].

That's right, the dragon messenger who controls the insects discovered that the original insect swarm has an extremely high meat-to-feed ratio. Only ten kilograms of feed can produce eleven kilograms of meat. With a little cultivation, it can be used as the best food source!

It’s just… just like Shushan now, most dragons are somewhat uneasy about these small crawling creatures. They can’t be said to be afraid, but it’s a bit difficult to eat them…

Then, the Insect Manipulator tried to crush and compress the larvae of these insects, and added some magic potion ingredients to remove the poison and season them, successfully turning the insect swarm into...

Baby food supplement.

Well, it's just supplementary food.

This thing really can't be used as a staple food.

If you eat too much, you will have diarrhea. It can only serve as a nutritional supplement. Adult dragons don’t even like to look at it.

Later, after the dragons' first hunger crisis ended, the Insect Master exterminated the insect swarms, retaining only the magic that could create the Insect Queen.

It's not that the dragon is getting rid of it, but these insect swarms are too dangerous. Ten kilograms of feed can produce eleven kilograms of meat, which is obviously not in line with common sense. If the insect swarms are allowed to expand, it will inevitably affect the dragon's ecology.

No one knows how much time had passed after that, whether it was ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, or a million years, but the Insect Dragon Master, an elder of earth dragons, died of soul exhaustion, which was equivalent to inevitable aging, at the end of the Second Era.

Before he died, he did not pass on the technology of [Magic of Creating Insect Swarms] to Houlong, because as someone who studied this kind of insect swarm, he knew very well how dangerous this creature was.

He simply placed a sleeping insect queen in his own cemetery. The insect queen will only wake up, be reborn, and reproduce under the set magic reaction.

After the death of the Insect Dragon Master.

The Third Age soon arrived.

"Although you are very respectable, you bastard, the insect swarm is out of control, didn't you know that?" Shushan loves and hates this senior.

Love is gratitude to this old senior for feeding the ancestors of the dragons, and hatred is disgust for the out-of-control swarm of insects... Of course, there is nothing that can be done about it, the senior is already dead, and there is no way to control the swarm of insects after death...

After all, the job of cleaning up the mess was handed over to Shushan, who was also an earth dragon, so it was normal for Shushan to complain.

And the story that follows.

The record is in the hands of the Titans' logistics angels.

The soul box has magical calculation capabilities similar to those of a computer. The data recorded is not reliable and some information is a little vague.

Shushan could only analyze the history of the Titans from the still clear information...

The Titans developed very rapidly in the Second Era, but by the end, they reached a bottleneck.

They are running out of energy.

The energy is choking me.

The Titans value technology and strength. Unlike dragons that rely on biomass magic, the Titans are very weak in their childhood.

During the long struggle, the Titans mastered the soul projection technology of the will of nature, which is the projection colossus technology that Shushan now instinctively uses. They rely on this ability to "replace" their bodies.

No, it cannot be said to be a replacement. They just wear a bigger body, and the main body and soul are hidden in the dimension inside the body. While consuming more food and energy, they gain single combat ability that is no less than that of a dragon!

And the substance that drives their huge bodies...

And the energy that provides them with computing power...

It's the soul.

Between the beginning and the end of the Second Era, the Titans created a creature very similar to their original state - humans.

Human souls are very compatible with Titans and were the most important "cash crop" for the Titans back then.

The human soul, which has settled over a period of about fifty years, is called "one dollar" by the Titans.

"Hey, that's what I knew... If the Titans had a need for souls, how could they not invest in mass production? I guess the humans alive now are all descendants of the Titan Happy Ranch?" Shushan expressed his thoughts when he interpreted this.

There is real joy in the Happy Ranch. People don’t have to work and don’t have to worry about food and clothing. They just need to live peacefully until they are fifty and die naturally of old age.

According to Titan's records, if a human's age exceeds the limit of fifty years, every ten years of soul growth thereafter is equivalent to 'fifty cents'.

In other words, the longer humans live, the better it is for the Titans, so the Titans give humans special treatment.

Just like humans treat their pets well.

Love from top to bottom.

No human knows the truth that God loves the world, but this does not affect humans' gratitude to God, and they spontaneously believe in and worship the Titans who feed them.

Well, Shushan doesn’t understand what the people in this world think.

In short, he cannot make arbitrary comments on the good or bad of the Titans.

The definition of a 'one dollar' human soul is that a human being can survive for fifty years without any disease or disaster and in a good mood.

The Titans at that time discovered that if the density of the human population increased, the value of human souls of the same age would drop to around 'nine cents'.

Therefore, it is difficult to breed humans in larger quantities. The Titans tried every means to improve the efficiency of soul output, and finally obtained a human species with a higher breeding density, where one dollar can be obtained every sixty years.

Just like white-feathered chickens, the higher the breeding density, the more costs will be incurred. It no longer makes sense to increase the upper age limit and breeding density of humans.

Therefore, a small team led by Amon started another research.

During their communication with the dragon, they learned about the existence of the Zerg.

The livestock that produced more than it spent obviously went against common sense, and the Titans, who were well versed in the study of souls, began to study the primitive insect swarm after receiving the dragon's reply of "What? You love this thing? I'll give it to you if you want it."

God 'Mor', obviously also realized the harm of the Zerg, he believed that studying the Zerg was very dangerous, so he did not support Amon's research... that is, he did not allocate funds to him.

Therefore, Amon had to tighten his belt and live a frugal life, raising a group of humans to harvest their souls. At the same time, he set up an experimental base next to the tomb of the Insect Dragon Master to interpret the information left by this alien predecessor.

That group of humans was the predecessor of the Kingdom of Amon.

It is different from God’s breeding method.

Amon prefers free-range farming.

"No, why is your team all engaged in preliminary preparations? I want to know about your research on the Zerg..." Shushan quickly skimmed through the unofficial history of the Titans.

Although he was also very gossipy about the past of the Titans, the more important thing right now was to deal with the miasma disaster, that is, to deal with the hordes of insects that made the dragons' hair stand on end!

After searching for a long time, Shushan finally found Amon's research report on the Zerg.

Out of respect for the elders of other races.

Amon did not open the tomb of the Insect Dragon Master.

Only through the Titans' holy light scan, the records in the soul of the Insect Dragon Master and the insect mother hidden in the body of the Insect Dragon Master were read, and finally a conclusion was drawn:

"The life of the dragon race is just eating, drinking, sleeping, playing and laying eggs... We actually lost to such a fellow..."

"No! What do you care about our ecology? Where is your research?"

Well, generally speaking, this kind of behavior of gathering intelligence on alien forces is not conducive to the friendship between the two races, but the dragon race really does not have any special secrets, and the magic of dragons comes from their blood and inheritance.

The dragon clan's heritage is extremely encrypted to other races. No one except the dragon clan can extract the method of synthesizing dragon breath from information like "Ah, today's grass is delicious, so let's eat meat tomorrow."

Worthy of Amon's attention.

There was only that insect queen.

That population filled with unknown powers had the potential to improve the Titans' energy difficulties at the time.

Then, as expected, Amon copied a Zerg Queen and began to study the Zerg under strong control, and came to the conclusion:

"This thing can't be eaten. Why can the dragons digest this creature..."

"Wait? Why aren't you exploring your soul and studying our recipes?"

Shushan was too tired to complain. Nearly 30% of Amon's research report contained such comments. It seemed that Amon's way of thinking was a bit like that of a pure university graduate student.

Amon's research is multifaceted and multi-threaded, which seems to be the general way of thinking of the Titans.

Their huge bodies not only have fighting power.

The computing power is also ridiculously strong.

No wonder they have so many magical techniques.

"The reproduction of insect swarms is a typical super-individual structure," Amon's voice and video were presented in front of Shushan beyond time, "that is, each insect is not an independent life, but when multiple insects are connected into a primitive social group, they can be regarded as a complete whole."

A single worker insect has no reproductive ability, only the instinct to find food and raise children, which is equivalent to an ordinary cell.

Soldier bugs are responsible for defending against foreign enemies and are also responsible for breaking down food, which is equivalent to immune cells.

Intelligent insects are slightly larger in size, and have a special way of communication that can quickly convey information, which is equivalent to nerve cells.

The queen insect is only responsible for reproduction. She gives birth to different insects according to environmental changes, and the worker insects choose to expand new queen insects based on the ecological community.

Well, the queen insect is only responsible for eating and laying eggs.

So the Zerg Queen is the core of the Zerg swarm.

"As predicted, the Zerg possesses souls that are beyond the Titans' current knowledge. This discrete and huge soul structure is very suitable for breeding!" Amon made such a judgment.

The soul of the Zerg is like a piece of Tai Sui that keeps growing. Even if a piece is cut off, it can still grow continuously, so the Zerg may become a substitute for humans.

But Amon's paper was rejected by God... The reason was that if they wanted to swarm Zerg souls on a large scale, they would need a fairly large breeding area, and the efficiency of producing souls was too low, no better than that of humans... Also, Zerg swarms did not conform to the aesthetics of the Titans, so forget about large-scale breeding.

Amon was helpless. He had been researching for such a long time, but failed to bring any benefits to Titan society. He felt a little ashamed, so he made a decision:

"Why not turn the insect swarm into delicious food?"

"Don't eat it!!"

Shushan complained bitterly. He remembered the food residue in the kitchen of Amon's dormitory. Could it be...

Well, Titans are not that easy to poison. Amon’s insect cuisine is actually very successful. Although the soul content of the insect larvae is low, the nutrients they contain are very suitable for the development of Titan cubs and can be used as baby food...

As a logistics angel, Amon successfully laid the foundation for the Titan babies to grow up quickly. Isn't that a contribution?

But isn’t this the same approach as that of the dragon clan?

It's such a big circle.

From this perspective, the dragons of the Second Era seemed to be wise but foolish, which was not the same as the wisdom of the Titans.

Shushan finished reading Amon's experimental records and scratched his dragon horn. It was too tiring to receive this information... Fortunately, he found the most important information.

[Insect Killing] and [Cleaning] are the two magics that Amon uses to control the insect swarm. Shushan can remove most of the miasma effects by simply copying them directly.

Before falling asleep, Amon had carefully killed the insect swarms used in the experiment, so the miasma disaster that broke out now has nothing to do with him. It must be that there was some abnormality in the corpse of Senior Earth Dragon.

"Huh, we have finally taken an important step. I will make some preparations in advance so that we won't need such a powerful nuclear explosion when the time comes... and after the cleaning is completed, we have to move out the remains of our predecessors and Amon's holy remains... Oh my, I have to get busy." Shushan shook his head and smiled.

He acquired the soul processing technology of the Titans and the [Magic of Creation Swarm] of the Insect Dragon Master.

Shushan was quite happy to have acquired these lost techniques... Compared to these gains, what was wrong with being a cleaner for a while?

Taking benefits without doing any work is not Shushan's style.

What's more, this miasma valley was caused by the light and heat.