CHAPTER 445: CHAPTER 115 DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

"I always feel something is amiss."

Within the Dragon’s Nest, gazing towards the core area as the sunlight rising into the night sky gradually dims, Austin felt a trace of hesitation.

The Beast God in the depths of the Kawa Great Forest’s core should have fallen during the great battle with the Arcane Mages, marking the demise of Divine, with the fall of the Divine Kingdom.

However, after that brutal battle, the Beast God somehow survived.

Moreover, at least a millennium ago, after the Beastman Empire’s collapse, its residual power drifted to the core of the Kawa Great Forest, and he had already awakened by then.

The Pure-blooded Beastmen’s betrayal of the alliance and fallout with the Elves likely were driven by him.

But in the millennium of planning, controlling the Pure-blooded Beastmen, establishing the Beastman Royal Court, how could there be no contingencies left?

"Would such a level of celestial phenomena really indicate the Beast God’s demise?"

In this regard, Austin was rather skeptical.

Not to mention that they, relying on the fragments of the Gate of Truth, mastered a teleportation array leading to the Otherworld, and acquired a large amount of resources from Otherworld via this array.

When the allied army was attacking and the situation was critical, why didn’t they directly escape to Otherworld through the teleportation array created by the fragments of the Gate of Truth, to plot a comeback?

Too many doubts remain, fundamentally unanswered.

As the last mastermind, to just perish like that, nobody believes it.

Only, that level of celestial phenomena isn’t a lie.

This left Austin extremely perplexed.

"Forget it, the matters of the Beastman Royal Court were already riddled with mysteries, but now that the Core Royal Court has been eliminated, the aftermath caused by the Beastman Empire back then has completely dissipated!"

"More schemes, more calculations, what does it have to do with me?"

"What needs to be done now is to focus on development, cultivate Inner Power, wait for the allied forces to disband, and the Divine beings’ gaze to move away, then it will be time for the Dragon Nest Tribe to flourish!"

After considering it, a decision was made.

And this time won’t be long.

...

Just as Austin expected, after the core battle, the allied forces began to disband.

Legendary figures from various regions also left this remote Barbaric Land, and the remaining troops began to retreat.

At the same time, due to the large-scale mobilization, some major forces suffered heavy losses, and the Tribe Alliance formed on the outskirts of the Bloody Border was also annihilated in the final brutal battle.

The entire Kawa Great Forest is left without a force capable of intimidating the land.

Chaos, conflict, war, began to sweep through the Kawa Great Forest.

With the departure of the prominent figures, the forest’s order collapsed due to the successive summons, and the fires of war spread to every corner of the forest.

This is a time of turmoil.

Before the war at the core area, although the various small Beastman Tribes within the Kawa Great Forest were constantly in conflict, war and slaughter were basic eternal themes, the presence of powerful forces maintained some degree of order in some places.

But now, with those large tribes heavily damaged in the Beastman Royal Court’s war, many major forces disappearing from the battlefield, the shackles of order within the Kawa Great Forest were completely broken.

Grain, territory, population... nearly anything could become a reason for war and slaughter.

At the same time, due to the heavy damage to the Beastmen within the Kawa Great Forest, the Tribe Alliance at the border outskirts no longer exists.

Humans began to cross the border walls and expand towards the Kawa Great Forest.

Landless farmers from various places, bankrupt merchants, and declining nobles, various mercenaries, started to explore and open fields within the Kawa Great Forest continuously.

Although the vast tall trees and harsh natural environment within the Kawa Great Forest made it difficult for humans to achieve significant results in the short term, it was enough.

Unless something unexpected happens, in roughly ten years, the outskirts of the Kawa Great Forest will be completely occupied by humans, becoming the territory of a Duchy.

However, all this has nothing to do with Austin and the Dragon’s Nest Tribe.

The entire Kawa Forest is so vast, spanning over ten million square kilometers, comparable to the size of Russia’s land in the previous life.

In such a massive area, Austin and his Dragon’s Nest Tribe are situated in the remote area of the middle towards the west, the entire Dragon’s Nest Tribe’s influence covers only about one to two percent of the Kawa Great Forest, humans expanding into the forest won’t come into contact with the Dragon’s Nest Tribe for hundreds of years.

Moreover, because of Austin’s strategy of lying low and farming, during the war that swept across the Great Forest for several years, the Dragon’s Nest Tribe not only did not suffer losses but grew rapidly.

If compared to today’s chaotic Forest Land, the Dragon’s Nest Tribe is undoubtedly the strongest force!

If Austin were willing, commanding the Dragon’s Nest Tribe to enter wartime status, gather armies, dispatch several forces to conquer surrounding lands, it wouldn’t be impossible to conquer the entire Kawa Great Forest.

The Forest Land has already become a possession of Austin and the Dragon’s Nest Tribe.

"Starting big movements right after a great war would be too conspicuous; one must let those eyes move away, focus on cultivating Inner Power for four to five years, wait for all the aftershocks to dissipate, that’s when the Dragon’s Nest Tribe can thrive best."

Just as well, this time crossing into the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane yielded many benefits.

Not only has he reached the pinnacle in the path of Qi and Blood Dao, the accumulation of years in that world is enough for Austin to digest in a few years of Kung Fu, and since it was a modern world, Austin also spent money to have someone help gather a simplified system of modern social science.

No need for too much detail, just summarizing the overall scientific system of human modern civilization is already enough.

When returning, Austin had already memorized that scientific system summary, upon returning to the Main World, using Secret Technique of dreaming, injecting these scientific systems into the minds of his Beastman followers, enough for his Dragon’s Nest Tribe to quickly establish its own scientific system of this world.

"With these systematic knowledge systems, plus previous accumulation, my tribe only needs to work steadily for a few years, then our strength will be enough to control the entire Kawa Great Forest, establishing an empire of my own!"

The development strategy for the Dragon’s Nest Tribe was roughly established in this contemplation.

As outside attention gradually dissipated, with the Kawa Great Forest raging in flames of war, Austin, deeply mastering the strategy of developing quietly, began the journey of the Dragon’s Nest Tribe to cultivate Inner Power and farm quietly.