CHAPTER 449: CHAPTER 004: ONE YEAR

Time flew by, and soon a year had passed since the end of the war in the Kawa Great Forest.

In this year, the Dragon Nest Tribe steadily fortified its position, while digesting the scientific systems Austin brought back from the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane. It also began combining them with native Alchemy Magic, exploring deeper step by step.

The invention of the steam engine was merely the first step in the world-specific science.

There lay an even further journey ahead.

Although no war had broken out again, the Dragon Nest Legion did not relax.

The standardized martial techniques that Austin simplified and created were not something these beastmen could master quickly without a year or more of practice.

Training, actual combat outings, and then more training — this was the current state of the Dragon Nest Legion.

With the knowledge Austin brought back from the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane, this batch of beastmen, equipped with modern knowledge, experienced hardly any problems in managing the entire Beastman Tribe. Everything was orderly and well-managed.

The tribe’s affairs practically no longer required Austin’s personal management.

Now, his presence in the tribe was lofty, like a deified symbol.

In fact, due to the Dragon Nest Tribe founded by Austin providing a better life for the beastmen while tirelessly promoting itself day and night, Austin’s status among all Dragon Nest Beastmen was more revered than even that of the Divine.

However, not having to manage affairs didn’t mean Austin had become a lazy dragon indulging in endless sleep.

Trivial matters were left to the beastmen under him, while Austin digested the gains from the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane.

In the Spiritual Energy Awakening Plane, the Qi and Blood Dao was mainstream, and in that world, he eventually became a hegemon. His understanding of the Qi and Blood Dao was naturally profound.

From the outset of his return, Austin had already sensed.

Although different world laws prevented the complete replication of pure Qi and Blood Martial Dao in this world, since Qi and Blood is a cultivation method extended from blood, as long as there’s blood, it could be transformed and adapted to the local world’s power system, forming a new power system.

At the time, due to battlefield dangers, Austin didn’t delve deeply but merely pondered slightly before sneaking off the battlefield.

After returning to the Dragon Nest Tribe, he naturally began research and digestion.

Now Austin had achieved results.

Using the reformed Qi and Blood cultivation system, he cultivated immense Blood Qi. Especially since the Giant Dragon Bloodline itself was top-tier, the resulting Blood Qi exceeded that of ordinary humans by hundreds or thousands of times. Cultivating the Qi and Blood System went smoothly, greatly enhancing Austin’s strength and breaking through the bottleneck that had always stood before him, entering the Legendary Realm!

Indeed, in the first year after the Kawa Great Forest war,

Austin truly stepped through the gates of legend!

It was a new world, where in an age when the Divine was hidden and epic figures did not appear, legendary was already the pinnacle of power in this world.

Crossing this boundary greatly increased Austin’s strength, and his understanding of various laws like thunder, wind, water, fire, frost, power, and indestructibility advanced to a deeper level.

Austin had fully comprehended the Law of Thunder and the Law of Wind,

Initially, he only fully understood the Law of Thunder, but because of the Qi and Blood cultivation system, his understanding of blood deepened, and during cultivation, he also released the Law of Wind hidden in the Giant Dragon Bloodline and fully integrated it into his own power system.

This allowed him to enter the legendary realm having fully comprehended two laws, catapulting his strength to the top tier of the legendary realm.

Even without considering the Multi-attribute Rasengan, Four Spirits Sword Array, or Qi and Blood cultivation system’s power, in the current legendary realm, legendary beings capable of withstanding Austin were scarce.

In less than a decade, he stepped into the legendary realm.

Not to mention among the Giant Dragon Race, it was simply incredible, even before humans, it was unbelievably astonishing.

However, regardless of how unbelievable others found it, the fact was as it was.

Reaching the world’s summit, reflecting on the struggling survival days in the Kawa Great Forest, Austin the dragon couldn’t help but feel sentimental.

Truly stepping into the legendary realm felt like the shackles weighing Austin down were lifted, and nothing in the entire Kawa Great Forest was worth his trepidation anymore.

If not for the recent end of the warfare in the Kawa Great Forest, fearing stirred-up activities might attract the Divine’s attention, Austin might have already launched a grand march, sweeping across the entire Kawa Great Forest to establish his Blue Dragon Empire.

However, things weren’t bad now.

Mostly, just a few years of waiting would suffice, giving the Dragon Nest Tribe time to digest that knowledge and himself to adapt to his surging power.

In this regard, Austin was in no hurry.

Upon entering the legendary realm, the pressure from behind had naturally dissipated, with no need to overly pressure himself anymore.

However,

Whether it was an illusion or not, a sense of urging amidst the mysterious seemed to persist...

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Regardless, the first year after the Kawa Great Forest war, the Dragon Nest Tribe’s harvests were indeed plentiful.

The successful development of the Magic Crystal Steam Engine, the construction of railways, attempts at gun and artillery weapons, market development, medical and sanitation improvements, agricultural planting... these various feats couldn’t be narrated in detail one by one.

During the digestion of modern scientific knowledge, the civilization of the Dragon Nest Tribe rapidly advanced, from the earliest primitive social civilization to later feudal civilization level, and further to now, advancing toward the level of the Industrial Revolution.

The developing tribe not only improved the living standards of the Dragon Nest Beastmen significantly but also vastly enhanced the military strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe itself.

Against this backdrop,

The Dragon Nest Tribe continued to gather wandering beastmen from outside while internally experiencing natural growth.

A year has passed, and the tribe’s population reached 300,000 strong.

This number, in the entire Kawa Great Forest, was undoubtedly the largest force, comparable to the population of some small duchies in the Central Earth World.

Moreover, in terms of war potential, it was even more formidable.

With the military system as its core, the military strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe was in no way inferior to some kingdoms.

If Austin were willing, even without participating, the Dragon Nest Legion sweeping through the entire Kawa Great Forest wouldn’t be an issue.

However, such matters couldn’t be rushed.

The railway transportation line hadn’t been completed, and relying on it for territorial expansion to lay solid groundwork still required considerable time.

Yet, this didn’t mean the Dragon Nest Tribe was entirely inactive.

For the sake of facilitating future expansion, secret agents established by Austin began exploring the terrain within the Kawa Great Forest, and gathering information on the distribution of beastman forces.

Simultaneously, the strongholds at the border began gradually encroaching and annexing the surrounding territories, step by step, steadily expanding outward...