Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire
Chapter 70 Extinction, Massacre

Chapter 70: Chapter 70 Extinction, Massacre

Noah exhausted all his eloquence and tried his best to dissuade his adoptive mother from attempting the summoning of the Ancient Golden Dragon. It’s not about the cost, but rather that it’s simply unfeasible.

Even if it were summoned, Noah didn’t want to even begin to calculate the resulting expenses.

Since there isn’t a clear and specific enemy, until now it’s unknown how many Legendary combatants were behind the explosion of the Dark Territory passage.

Summon the Ancient Golden Dragon, and then? How many times do you expect it to act?

Let alone the Augustus family with shallow resources, even the Aristoria United Kingdom might not be able to bear the burden.

As for favoring their kin by reducing the fee or anything similar, don’t even think about it. The Dragon Clan is very distinct in this regard; even among siblings or parents, they won’t miss a single copper coin of the due payment.

Of course, don’t begrudge it for being expensive, because in most cases, summoning a Dragon Clan member is worth the value, and the expense isn’t the fault of the Dragon Clan.

"Aunt, the combat power displayed by uncle this time will definitely intimidate the Dark Territory, so we can... "

After expending a great deal of rhetoric, Noah waited for the mage to regain her usual calmness before discussing feasible retaliation strategies with her.

"No, it’s not enough, Noah, you’re too merciful to the enemy; this is very unfortunate."

Listening to Noah’s suggestion, Selena couldn’t help but shake her head, her face revealing a cold expression.

"What do you intend to do?"

Noah couldn’t help but show a hint of astonishment and then asked, because he considered his suggestion quite ruthless, yet his adoptive mother still thought he was too merciful. What, then, would be cruel?

The rage-fueled Duchess, due to her husband’s assassination, quickly provided a young dragon with an answer through action.

She took with her half of the twelve Pioneer Knights’ regiments, expanded by the Augustus family. Also, she ordered Noah, under the name of the Golden Dragon, to issue a summons to all affiliated Cloud Giants.

Selena brought this enormous troop to the Valley of Flames, where a massacre began; more precisely, the massacre was just a prelude.

This Extreme Intent Mage, though calmed down yet still enraged, didn’t spare any expense and constructed a group teleportation array on one side of the Valley of Flames.

Then, the gray Dwarves, whose shoulder blades had been pierced by iron chains, were lined up and neatly teleported to Elisium City.

Among these Dwarves, the majority were young men and women, but the ratio of men to women was quite disproportionate, almost one to ten. The rest were made up of young, underaged Dwarves, with not a single older Dwarf among them.

This city, already the brightest jewel on the Kingdom’s Eastern and Southern Territories, was instantly ignited.

The reason was this group of gray Dwarves were slaves. Anyone, from any power, as long as they could afford it, could purchase them freely, without restriction.

The entire city boiled over, a feast opened, and the prosperity of Elisium City thus climbed to a new height. Countless slave traders, like sharks smelling blood, swarmed in from within the Kingdom.

Compared to the fair-skinned, beautiful, and noble Elves, the demand for production-valuable Dwarves was practically endless, making them the most premium and sought-after slaves.

Although the gray Dwarves from underground were more irritable compared to their surface Dwarven kin, it was no concern. Professional slave traders had hundreds of domestication plans, one of which would suit them.

However, compared to the gray Dwarf slaves sent to Elisium City for selection, the number of gray Dwarves slaughtered in the Valley of Flames, due to stubborn resistance or attempts to escape, was multiple times higher.

The Duchess’s fury was entirely unleashed upon these gray Dwarves serving as covers, in what was an exterminating purge.

After nearly fifty thousand gray Dwarves on the surface of the Valley of Flames were swept clean, the Duchess’s fury was still unabated. Using the group teleportation array as a center, she began constructing fortresses.

Thus, less than a month later, new humanoid slaves appeared in Elisium City: Minotaurs and Snake-men.

However, these slaves, barely deserving to be called Wisdom Species, were not particularly popular. Yet, when the last type of humanoid slave appeared, everything changed.

They were tall, slender, with delicate skin, seductive, and alluring white-haired, black-skinned Elves.

Drow!

This caused a sensation, and the slave traders gathering from within the Kingdom were abnormally excited. At that time, not only those from the Kingdom but also slave traders from foreign lands, who hurriedly came upon hearing the news.

In less than two months, the slave trade became the pillar industry on the Augustus family’s territory, bringing vast profits to a family in dire need of funds for development.

One after another, the funds from selling slaves were invested into the fortresses above the Valley of Flames. Continuously, the construction of the fortress gradually completed, and the single teleportation arrays also steadily increased in number.

Finally, at the end of the second entire month of Selena’s construction of the Flame Fortress, the Augustus family opened the teleportation arrays to high-rank adventurers and powerful slave traders.

Numerous forces, long coveting the Augustus family’s slave trade, almost couldn’t wait to send their teams, trying to get a share.

But the Dark Territory has never been a kind place, and the Wisdom Species living there are hardly benevolent. Almost all the teams entering the underground encountered disastrous defeats, with some being completely wiped out.

Despite this, some teams had gains, and their deeds spread widely under the Augustus family’s promotion. As for those who overestimated themselves...

Heh, who would care about the wails of the losers?

Every adventurer heading underground thought only they would succeed in gaining everything they wanted from the Dark Territory.

"...."

Noah silently watched everything, looking down at Elisium below, which was beginning a new round of expansion. In the expanded outer city area, the most conspicuous building was the circular arena.

That was the Duel Arena, where performers came from the Dark Territory, reduced to slaves, yet either had not been sold or were left unsold.

Those who hadn’t earned profits for the Augustus family had to prove their worth to live through life and death.

Slashing, fighting, winning the arena audience’s cheers with the blood of their kind, proving their existence’s value with the skulls of their kin.

Bloody, savage, primitive — the once vibrant and prosperous city took on a new shade.

Though Noah’s proposal for a slave redemption decree was still in effect, it only applied to humans, excluding any other race.