The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 840 - 0837: Value the Past Over the Present (Second Update)

Chapter 840: Chapter 0837: Value the Past Over the Present (Second Update)

“I think for dealing with the Moon Slayer Tribe, we should primarily use enticement,” Durt said.

Li Si Te (Liszt) couldn’t deny it, “Explain your thoughts in detail.”

“Your Highness, our Knight Order has already swept through many Moon Slayer Tribes in the Whirlpool Great River Basin, capturing nearly thirty thousand Moon Slayer serfs. However, as the number of serfs keeps increasing, we need to allocate a large number of knights for supervision and guard duties, which severely weakens the combat strength of the Knight Order.”

The Knight Order primarily uses Knight Squads to handle small tribes of one or two hundred people, and one squad can carry out the capture tasks proficiently.

In small tribes, three or four half-baked Ancient Mages are not a match for our knights.

But for tribes with over a thousand people, one Knight Squad is insufficient. It often requires four or five Knight Squads to work together to complete the capture operations. For even larger tribes with several thousand people, a fully staffed Knight Order must go to capture them while also guarding against any counterattacks by Ancient Mages.

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As the operation to capture Moon Slayer Tribes deepened, larger Moon Slayer Tribes began to emerge, a large tribe could have tens of thousands of people.

In such tribes, many Ancient Mages have reached the level of a Grand Magician; even a magic barrage from them would force the Knight Order to strategically retreat. If all the Knight Order from Flame Territory were involved in the slave-capturing efforts, no matter how large, the Moon Slayer Native Tribe would not be a challenge, but alas, the number of available Knight Order on Flame Island is inadequate.

Here, the number of Earth Knights is less than sixteen hundred, and the number of Apprentice Knights barely exceeds two thousand, having to maintain the safety of the camp and capture natives is indeed an overwhelming task.

“Thus, I am thinking of using the quality of life in our territory to attract the Moon Slayer Tribes to voluntarily pledge allegiance to us—providing them with certain protection and food should entice many Moon Slayers. Moreover, we can specifically target the Ancient Mages of the Moon Slayers for enticement.”

“Targeting the Ancient Mages for enticement?” Liszt raised an eyebrow, signaling Durt to continue.

“The magicians of the Magic Guild are currently analyzing the magic heritage of the Ancient Mages. Transferring magic first requires the transfer of knowledge, hence, the knowledge transmission of the Moon Slayers nearly all occurs among the Ancient Mages, who are a group of natives in high positions easily manipulated and corrupted by interests.”

The Moon Slayers have lost the prosperous civilization of the Moon Empire era, living in the forests subsisting on hunting and gathering, under very harsh conditions.

Even for the Ancient Mage class, life is tough, especially during the autumn and winter seasons when they suffer from a lack of clothes and food.

Durt expounded, “It’s already October, the weather is getting colder, and the forest output is decreasing, the Moon Slayer’s days of hardship are approaching. It is an excellent opportunity for us to change our plan, replacing captures with enticement to acquire Moon Slayer serfs. Once the Ancient Mage class is corrupted, many Moon Slayers are destined to be serfs.”

“Your proposal sounds good. In that case, call a meeting with the leaders of each Knight Order and the administrators of Flame Town to discuss this enticement plan.”

The meeting was scheduled for the evening.

It was held in the newly completed administration hall of Flame Town.

Before the meeting, he first invited Kenley Truth, the president of Flame Town Magic Sub-Council, to come over and asked about the information concerning the Ancient Mages and Holy Mountain. Kenley had originally presided over research in Whirlpool Town of Whirlpool Archipelago, but with the discovery of Moon Slayer Natives, she had been transferred to oversee the Moon Slayer research.

“Your Highness,” Kenley bowed slightly; she was a magician enthralled by magic, with almost no interests beyond magic; her life revolved entirely around it.

“You have already studied several Moon Slayer Ancient Mages, how is the summary of the Moon Language coming along?”

“The Moon Language is very complex; although the Moon Slayer Ancient Mages possess the Moon Language heritage, many texts have still gradually been lost, especially the records concerning the Ancient Moon Empire, which are almost a blank slate. Based on our research, we have basically mastered the Moon Language used in daily communication.”

“Magic inherited by the Moon Slayers, what’s your view on that?”

Kenley pondered for a moment, “There is some instructional value, with several types of magic that belong to discontinued inheritances. With some improvements, they could shine somewhat… However, the magic passed down from the Moon Empire by the Moon Slayers is mostly too backward, consuming too much magic for weak effects.”

She then added, filled with emotion, “I once so admired the era of magicians in the Moon Empire, thinking current magicians can’t compare to those from that time. But looking purely at the casting methods, magicians from the Moon Empire’s era can’t hold a candle to those today.”

“Times are advancing, and although magicians have declined, they’ve also become better adapted to the current era, so we shouldn’t long for the past, but look forward to the future,” Liszt smiled, noting that everyone has this habit of overvaluing the past and undervaluing the present. The more ancient something is, the more blurry its details, yet the more impressive it seems.

Partly it’s sentimentality and partly it’s the appeal of distance.

The Moon Empire is a typical example of distance appeal and sentimental augmentation. Of course, one can’t deny that the era of magician rule created a brilliant magical civilization. Energetic, curious magicians could research magic, souls, large-scale engineering, and even the essence of the world.

These are what magicians aspire to; in today’s world, knights rule everything, and interests are paramount.

Essence of the world, who cares—does researching the essence of the world bring profit? If not, then why engage in it? Better to spend that time drinking more wine, dancing more dances, and having a closer encounter!

Liszt was a Knight as well.

Although he more appreciated the researching spirit of magicians, in terms of class hierarchy, he still had to denigrate the beautiful legacy of the Moon Empire and be wary of a restoration by magicians.

After a while, he turned the conversation to the main topic, “Kenley, did the Ancient Mage disclose the exact location of the Holy Mountain?”

“No Ancient Mage who visited the Holy Mountain did so. The Holy Mountain is just a legend to the Moon Slayers; they don’t roam far and usually just travel between a few major tribes.”

“Alright.”

Liszt frowned.

He had assumed the Smoke Mission “find the Holy Mountain, investigate the Ancient Mage” would be easy to complete, just needing to question an Ancient Mage to find the Holy Mountain, but it turned out nobody knew of the Holy Mountain.

However, although the Holy Mountain wasn’t found, a lead was attained from the previous Smoke Mission’s reward, “Native’s Treasure”—having figured out where the guarding Horn Tribe was located.

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After holding a meeting and deciding to primarily use persuasion to exchange and acquire Moon Slayer Natives as serfs,

The next morning, Liszt tirelessly headed towards the Horn Tribe’s location, and after some searching, successfully reached the tribe that now had a population over ten thousand. The Horn Tribe was not far from the Flame Mountain Range, where Liszt was about to build his capital—a smaller mountain range that was a branch of the main one.

Near the living area of the Horn Tribe, atop a low hill, he successfully found that “Broken Tower” which housed the treasures.

Unguarded, this tower—which had collapsed by two-thirds—was simply surrounded by a circle of stones, with traces of a bonfire burned on the nearby platform.

It seems the Moon Slayers held their bonfire gatherings there.

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