Modo Peak Forest, Oka City.

The warm morning light shines on the imperial capital, covering the scattered buildings with a light golden color, beautiful and peaceful.

Behind this auspiciousness is the protection of countless people.

On the stairs leading to Red Fort, a dog-headed man quickly walked up the steps. The guards along the way only took a look, without even having a routine inquiries.

The dog-headed man walked through the flat ground in front of the Red Fort, like an ant, he came to the ten-story Red Fort gate.

Crunch ~.

The gate of Red Fort opened automatically, revealing a gap. The sunlight shot into the hall first, reflecting a brilliant golden road on the ground.

After looking at the interior of the hall with stone pillars, Ergou sorted out the wrinkled clothes on his body due to speed. After confirming that there was no problem with the instrument, he then raised his foot and walked towards the interior of the Throne Hall.

Tata Tower ~.

Walking in the stone pillar forest, the hall was so quiet that only the sound of the dog-headed man could be heard.

At some point, a majestic red dragon figure appeared on the throne at the end of the hall. He sat upright and looked ahead, as if he had been sitting there and never left.

Ergou walked to the nine-level steps and bent down and bowed: "Your Majesty."

"explain."

"The secret letter came from the south, and the trade city-states found a way to convince the countries," said Ergou, taking out a piece of paper from the dimensional bag and holding the white paper covered with handwriting high above his head.

The invisible mental power lifted the white paper and flew to the red dragon on the throne.

Jose glanced at it and [Data Vision] took the content recorded on white paper into his eyes and never remembered it.

"Hmph! What a big deal!" The red dragon thought in his heart, and then the white paper ignited without fire, turning into ashes and dissipated into the air.

"It's a big deal indeed."

Ergou agreed respectfully: "The longevity prolonging potion is a rare good thing even for the trading city-state. If I were those kings, I would not be able to withstand the temptation of longevity."

There are many types of medicines in the world, and there are 3,565 types recorded in TEDANOR alone. These 3,565 kinds of medicines have strange effects, and prolonging life is definitely one of the most attractive types of medicines.

"The longevity prolonging potions are at least legendary pharmacists. There are not many pharmacists who can make them. Even if they are made, they are often loose to people close to them. There are very few that have been spread to the market. It is indeed an undeniable temptation for the kingdoms of the kingdoms, but..."

With a wave of Jose's dragon claws, a TEDANOR map condensed with magic appeared out of thin air.

The entire map can be divided into two parts. The red one above represents a country that receives the fusai Empire's potions flow into its own market. The blue land below represents an order to prohibit the fusai Empire's potions from flowing into its own market, that is, a country that was persuaded by the trading city-state with the longevity agent.

"Egou, most of the potions that the empire can mass-produce are concentrated in the middle and low-end potions, and there are only three high-end potions. For the kings of various countries, it is not as tempting as long as the longevity potions."

"You said, they refused the temptation of life-extending potions and accepted the inflow of the Fuse Empire potions, why is that?"

Ergou's thoughts changed and he immediately replied: "Because they were afraid, this part of the country was too close to the empire. If the king received the longevity potion, the empire would make them unlucky to survive."

"I've answered correctly, but it's a bit inaccurate. Even if it's a long distance, the empire can make them lose their blessings."

Jose turned his sight to the red and blue junction of the map, and the coastal areas of the Black Sea, there were two countries one, one, one, the red country above was called the Kingdom of Taylor, and the blue country below was much smaller in land area, called the Duchy of Leon.

"If I remember correctly, the king of Taylor's Kingdom has always wanted to annex the Principality of Leon, right?"

"Yes, your Majesty."

Ergou then replied: "The incident originated from the previous generation of King Taylor and King Lean. They were brothers. King Lean failed in the battle for the throne, but he escaped and led his followers to strip Lean from the Kingdom of Taylor and established the Principality of Lean. Over the years, King Taylor has always wanted to take back his homeland."

Jose thought for a while: "Send someone to send a message to King Taylor, and the opportunity to take back his homeland has come."

"Does your Majesty want to support King Taylor and annex the Principality of Leon?"

Ergou continued: "But your Majesty, will the empire sending troops arouse fear of the countries and have a chain reaction?"

"Who said the Empire will send troops!"

Jose changed into a more comfortable position and spoke lightly: "The old version of the explosion buckets that are piled up in the warehouse, the alchemy bombs that are about to expire, and these weapons should be updated."

Ergou suddenly realized and couldn't help clapping his hands: "In seconds!"

"Exporting advanced weapons to the Taylor Empire will not only help them defeat their opponents, but also make a big profit by the way. It is worthy of being His Majesty."

"You go down and prepare."

"Abide by the order!"

Ergou left, leaving Jose and his dragon alone in the hall of the throne, falling into deep thought.

The Taylor Kingdom was already stronger than the Duchy of Lian and obtained weapons from the Forse Empire. If there was no external forces intervening, the possibility of destroying the Duchy of Lian was extremely high.

If the plan is reached, then the king who rejects the potion of the Forsey Empire must consider whether his family will become the next Lean Principality.

Jose did not waste too much energy on this matter. After thinking for a while, he teleported back to the magic tower and continued his magic research. He always remembered that only his own strength was the foundation of everything.

The direct purpose of selling potions is to increase the empire's fiscal revenue and make the empire more prosperous.

The purpose of the empire's stronger prosperity is to better serve the Red Dragon and absorb more resources, pave the way for Yusé's magic research, so that he does not have to look for magic materials everywhere, and has enough money to go to the Star Realm to buy... In the final analysis, it is to be stronger.

On the fifth day after the imperial ceremony, the Githyanki people offered their farewell and left the Tedanor plane.

Jose has a strong sense of crisis.

……………………

The next day, Jose was conducting magic research, however...

"Um?"

Jose frowned, put down the gem that was dim due to the experiment, and turned his eyes to the west. He felt that a giant dragon's breath was approaching far away from the west.

After the construction of the magic tower defense system was completed, his control over the empire was greatly improved. Not only could he sense the breath of a dragon outside the end of his sight, but he could also distinguish the type and strength of a dragon from its breath.

"A adult red dragon, this is not trying to rob the empire, right?" Jose raised his brow, and was a little excited to think about it.

If this strange dragon robs the empire, then just catch him and let him work to pay off his debts, just like the blood clan mad lion, Gaulki, without paying his salary.

Then there is no such good thing in the world.

In his senses, the strange red dragon flew straight towards Oka City.

"It seems that I came to surrender to me," Jose murmured to himself.

Since the Empire Ceremony, the name of Francisco Trinida Jose, the Lord of Ashes, has once again been widely spread, and its reputation has become more and more powerful, and it has faintly surpassed the momentum of becoming Tedanor's first dragon.

Fame will bring benefits and attract other dragon clans to surrender.

The dragon sleeps for more than ten days, and the concept of time is relatively slow and the news is relatively closed. Therefore, it takes a certain amount of time to spread to the dragon's ears.

Now it's almost done to calculate the time.

Sure enough, the next day, Jose sensed a strange red dragon appearing in the sky outside the city.

Seeing the magnificent Red Fort on the top of the mountain from afar, the red dragon - Brooke was shocked, his eyes full of envy and greed: "This is the palace where the great red dragon should live!"

Although he wanted to take the palace as his own immediately, Brooke quickly gave up this idea and suppressed the greed in his heart, because he knew clearly that the owner of the palace was very powerful, so powerful that he could defeat dozens of himself.

Exiting the distracting thoughts in my mind out of my mind, Brooke yelled at the Red Castle from afar: "Great Lord of Ashes! His Majesty the Emperor of the Forse Empire! I am the Red Dragon-Brook. I admire your reputation and come from overseas to surrender to Your Majesty!"

"Come in."

The voice appeared directly into Brook's ears, and he couldn't help but shivered, and his heart became more and more awe.

At this moment, he was nearly 10,000 meters away from Red Castle. At such a long distance, the owner of the sound could accurately transmit the sound into his ears. He did not notice any magic fluctuations until he heard the sound, which showed that the gap between the two was extremely large, and even the other party could not detect it.

In fact, Brooke was within the scope of the magic tower. Suddenly, even if he killed him directly, he didn't know how he died.

Brooke calmed down and flew towards the Red Castle gate that was open with the same voice.

Falling in the square in front of Red Fort, the newly-adult Red Dragon who had never seen the world was once again shocked by the magnificence of Red Fort and was stunned for a while before entering the Throne Hall.

Seeing the majestic and sarcastic person on the nine-stage throne at the end of the throne hall, he lowered his head and walked to the throne.

"The great Lord of Ashes, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire, I am Brooke. Because I admire your reputation, I came to you specially."

"The empire is inclusive and can accommodate any dragon that is in the heart."

Jose first agreed, then felt a little hesitant.

Accepting adult dragons is not as simple as accepting young dragons.

To accept the young dragon who comes to surrender, you only need to provide a safe shelter, and food and accommodation can be left to the young dragon to solve it themselves.

The adult dragon already has strong strength, and when you come to surrender, you naturally need to pay equal rewards to your strength.

Jose asked, "What do you want from me? Money? Guidance on practice? Or other promises?"

Brooke did not hesitate: "Territory!"

The territorial requirements are not excessive. In fact, the mistress of the Red Nest often gives his subordinates a dragon-like territory, that is, divides several hills, and lets his subordinates stay alone.

Jose was thinking about which land to divide it to Brooke.

Brooke continued, "Your Majesty, I'm not greedy either. Give me some cities, and the territory is a little larger than that of the white dragon."

As he said that, Brooke looked at Jose with a confident look.

Jose had a wonderful face. He didn't know where this dragon got the mysterious confidence.

Just a little bigger than the White Dragon?!

Cassie's fiefdom is the largest in the Forse Empire, the only prince of the empire and the only family recognized by Jose, which is not even comparable to the Green Dragon.
To be continued...