Ace Dragon Rider
Chapter 701 - 560: The Dragon Clan’s Conspiracy
However, Gulelie had no time to care about them at the moment, the Black Dragon Alliance suffered horrendous losses in this war. Even if they could resurrect, it was absolutely impossible to resurrect so many giant dragons all at once, right? The machine capable of resurrecting the Dragon Clan was now operating at full capacity, but to resurrect a dragon still took at least half an hour. By this calculation, a maximum of forty-eight dragons could be resurrected in a day!
This time, they had lost hundreds of thousands of giant dragons, a number that would take nearly a decade to fully resurrect! And these resurrected giant dragons start out as mere Dragon Eggs. Although they could be accelerated to grow rapidly by using the device, it would again occupy the machine’s resurrection time!
Damn it!
Gulelie was almost driven mad with frustration.
A million-strong army attacked a mere three hundred thousand, yet they were severely beaten!
That bastard, Long Yi!
But Gulelie knew that it was extremely unwise to pester Long Yi on the Gentle Wind Plain at this time. Long Yi understood the behavior patterns of the Dragon Clan very well and had the help of Asus by his side.
But if they don’t fight, the alliance will become a laughing stock, right?
"Let’s attack the human kingdoms! Let’s see what Long Yi is going to do!" A councillor suggested.
"What’s the point of that?!" Gulelie asked, frowning.
"The whole human world is now assisting Long Yi. We attack the human kingdoms, on one hand, it can be a warning to the humans not to get too close to Long Yi. On the other hand, if Long Yi comes to their aid, he certainly can’t deploy all his forces and that will disperse his military strength. His and Chairman Asus’s armies are originally smaller in number than ours. If they disperse, they can be divided and conquered by us."
"But what if he doesn’t come to the rescue?"
"If he doesn’t, those human emperors will certainly hold a grudge against Long Yi! And those human empires helping Long Yi will be annihilated by us! Wouldn’t that be even better?" said the councillor.
Gulelie looked at the councillor in surprise, his face filled with disbelief.
"I didn’t expect that among us dragons, there would be a strategist like you!"
The councilor blushed, "Actually, this plan was specifically designed by the previous emperor of the Black Dragon Empire for the White Dragon Empire. But then the White Dragon Empire’s strength was already enough to compete with the Black Dragon Empire, so the plan was ultimately not carried out."
"I see." Gulelie nodded.
The biggest problem with the Dragon Clan was that they’re not smart enough, a fact even the Dragon Emperor himself admitted. Not being smart enough also poses a significant problem for the Dragon Clan. Even though the dragons have now turned into humans, they are still dragons at heart.
This plan seemed flawless, Gulelie at least couldn’t find anything wrong with it. Moreover, since it was originally used by the Black Dragon Empire to deal with the White Dragon Empire, it should have some effect.
Thus, the Black Dragon Alliance on Dragon Island decided to make a move on the human kingdoms.
But, what the Dragon Clan didn’t know was that Long Yi’s eyes were not just on the ground.
Under the sea, countless eyes were watching every move of the Dragon Clan. As soon as the Dragon Clan left, Long Yi received the news immediately. Actually, if it were up to the mermaid Mina, she really wanted to lead the Sea Clan elites to directly destroy Dragon Island. But fortunately, Boris considers the big picture; this kind of action wouldn’t bring substantial damage to the Dragon Clan, but it would directly agitate the Flying Dragons.
Although unable to directly participate in the war, this kind of indirect assistance was naturally indispensable.
The eyes in the ocean reported all the flying routes of the Dragon Clan to Long Yi, and with a little computation, Long Yi basically knew where the Dragon Clan planned to fly to.
Absolutely! You all don’t even bother to go inland anymore!
Please do me the favor of dying honestly on the shoreline!
Long Yi stationed his troops to block the Black Dragon Alliance directly on the coastline, constantly adjusting their position according to the news coming in from the front.
In the end, when the Black Dragon Alliance, which had flown close to a quarter of the distance in the Human Realm, finally saw the coastline, they were warmly welcomed by Dragon Breath!
The first legion was like this, the second one was like this, and even the third and fourth ones that followed were the same!
Even though it seemed easy to think of, the councillor who suggested the idea had not considered what dangers and obstacles would be encountered during the execution. This was precisely the Dragon Clan’s shortcoming. They really weren’t good at thinking about such complex things.
While the plan was theoretically successful with Long Yi’s forces indeed being split up, but what was the result? Since their every move was under Long Yi’s surveillance, the so-called strategy of dispatching troops separately to directly attack Long Yi and the Gentle Wind Plain just turned into a joke.
In the kingdoms of humans, no one would make such a mistake, but the Dragon Clan would.
As a result, the plan was bound to fail.
"Is this your plan?"
Gulelie’s eyes trembled as he stared at the statistical report that was handed to him. Although the losses this time were not significant, he could hardly tolerate any losses at this point.
The councilman in front of Gulelie bowed his head deeply. He knew that he had overreached himself. If his opponent had been Asus, he might have been successful, but his opponent was Long Yi! The man who single-handedly toyed with the entire Black Dragon Empire!
At this councilman’s side, another councilman seemed to have made a decision.
"Chairman Gulelie, I have a method... but this method..."
"Speak!" Gulelie only wanted to win now, he didn’t care about the method at all.
The councilman nodded vigorously.
"After Long Yi successfully lifted part of the Dragon Clan’s curse, the Black Dragon Empire also conducted similar experiments and eventually achieved some success. About thirty Black Dragons had been able to use some of their power. After the fall of the Black Dragon Empire, three of these Black Dragons escaped. Because they feared Long Yi, they did not participate in the war."
"What are you suggesting?" Gulelie stared at the councilman.
"We can find those three dragons and persuade them to give up their bodies." The councilman said.
"You’re suggesting using the revival equipment to replicate their bodies?"
"Yes! Our fallen soldiers will have new bodies, these bodies will be significantly stronger than before! Moreover, replication is much faster than revival, if all goes well, maybe over three hundred giant dragons can be resurrected each day! And these are dragons with powers!"
Gulelie’s eyes widened in an instant.
Yes, if they could really do this, it would be fantastic!
"Go ahead and do it! Everything is for the glorious victory of the Dragon Clan!"
Commanded Gulelie.
Recently, the Dragon Clan does not easily leave Dragon Island. Of course, this has given Long Yi and his team ample time. These new Dragon Knights need training, they need to blend in. This time, Long Yi focuses on training the Dragon Knights’ airborne combat skills as well as their ability to handle unexpected situations.
At this level of battle, individual Fighting Aura techniques used by the Dragon Knights were not very useful, those were more for dealing with humans. In a battle against the Dragon Clan, what is needed is the power of the Dragon Clan.
While the Dragon Knights were constantly training, Long Yi did not give up his research on the Dragon Clan.
In fact, if possible, Long Yi really wanted to lift the curse off the entire three hundred thousand Dragon Clan members in one go.
But there are a whopping three hundred thousand giant dragons here. If he were to lift the curse one by one, who knows how long it would take to succeed.
So, Long Yi decided to think of a method.
Initially, when Long Yi arrived at the Gentle Wind Plain, he conducted experiments with Crystal Beasts. Ordinary animals gained intelligence and strength by implanting Crystal Cores into their bodies. In order to equip these animals with bodies that matched their new abilities, Long Yi also performed a certain degree of Dragon Transformation on their bodies.
Now they had three hundred thousand giant dragons, all of whose bodies were definitely strong enough. With this condition, could they use Crystal Cores directly to grant the Dragon Clan the ability to freely control energy?
They are of the animal kingdom, Long Yi believed this shouldn’t be a problem.
The basic principle of gaining power through the Crystal Core is that the Crystal Core releases Crystal Poison, which does not have the ability to infect, into various parts of the body, transforming it into usable Fighting Aura, Mana or even Demon Power. The energy was then collected, and through body fluid circulation, the energy-carrying Crystal Poison was delivered to the needed location.
Long Yi had considered this more than once before, and this time it seemed quite feasible.
For this, Long Yi particularly visited Belle.
The spatial rift in the Gentle Wind Plain had been stabilized by Belle through energy and was located within a special room in Long Yi’s fortress. The room was filled with a large array of crystals, mainly injecting energy to open the spatial channel. In the past year, Long Yi had made multiple trips through here.
This time was no exception.
By this time, Belle had begun to undertake many affairs of the Crystal Demons, which was the old Crystal Demon Emperor’s plan to cultivate Belle as his successor. Whether it was the old emperor or Belle, Long Yi’s affairs were always given the highest priority. So when he appeared, Belle rushed over immediately.
Long Yi discussed his plan and thoughts with Belle. Belle also thought it was feasible, but the Crystal Cores prepared for ordinary animals were not exactly suitable considering the unique power characteristics of the Dragon Clan.
"We need to create some large Crystal Cores specifically for these Dragon Clan members." Belle said, "I will work on this with our scientists. Actually, even if you hadn’t come this time, I was planning on contacting you. Recently, we discovered something on a remote planet, I think you should take a look."
"Something? What is it?"
"That’s the problem, I don’t know what it is." (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)