Chapter 377: Sweeping Across the Continent, The Dragon Clan Reigns (Part 2)
The complete manufacturing technology for the Floating City
This is the knowledge that his foster mother Selena dreams of acquiring; even before his foster father was corrupted by the will of Hell, this foster mother was already collecting it.
After Noah took control of the Mage City, he gained full access to the database, where he found incomplete manufacturing technology, but it was not enough to make a city soar into the sky.
This level of knowledge is elusive to a Legendary Mage, but to Divine beings, it is not.
However, when Noah made his request, the Divine being decisively refused him.
Because the existence of the Floating City poses a threat to Divine beings, and in history, a crazed Legendary Mage once piloted a Floating City to attack the Divine Realm, causing significant damage.
Of course, the Floating City's achievements ended there; in the years since, not only have no similar events surpassed it, but even the manufacturing technology of Floating City has started to disappear.
Divine beings are very cautious about such technology because no Divine being can be sure that if Floating City continues to develop, it might generate destructive power capable of breaking into the Divine Realm.
The creativity of the Wisdom Race is evident to the gods, and mortals use their wisdom to challenge the gods; no god can deny this.
Noah wasn't disappointed with the Divine's response; being rejected was only normal. It would be strange if they agreed. Noah asked for the sky; the fact that these Divine beings agreed to even a part was beyond his expectations.
The complete eradication of the Flame Sun Sect Country, followed by the implementation of the faith eradication policy on this land by Noah, shocked the Alviss Continent and also drew the attention of many forces on the Xilantia Continent.
All warfare-related news spread like wildfire through the plane where Noah resided. The name Holy Dragon Noah was nearly known by everyone; on the sky, on the earth, or in the ocean, wherever there were intelligent creatures, Noah's name was circulating.
Even the inherently sacred High-level Dragon Clan could respond with such a fierce stance to the malicious and hostile actions of True Gods. To many forces, it seemed too insane.
Of course, what amazed many forces hearing about this for the first time was that this Dragon actually broke through the True God's Church Country.
Despite multiple attempts by the True God to stop it, they failed. Such an achievement, even if temporary, was awe-inspiring and destined to be recorded in history as a legendary achievement.
God Desecrating Dragon! God Slayer! The conqueror trampling the Church Country... many titles were added to Noah's Holy Dragon epithet.
Whether knowledgeable or not, whether with goodwill toward Noah or not, most people marveled at this event, followed by various reactions.
Nations and forces surrounding the Flame Sun Sect Country began to extend goodwill to Noah and cooperated with the faith eradication policy, declaring the Flame Sun Church as an Evil God Sect, using state power for suppression and expulsion. Distant forces remained silent, neither speaking nor acting.
Of course, some clueless forces leaped out, announcing the severance of ties with Noah, pledging never to interact; some even sought attention by declaring Noah a God Desecrating Evil Dragon and listing him among hostile forces.
To these forces seeking to curry favor with the True God, Noah had no tolerance; he wasn't magnanimous enough to let those attempting to trample over him as they pleased.
Punishing the guilty and rescuing the oppressed masses
Noah publicly judged the heads of forces openly hostile to him as guilty Monarchs and then launched a sweeping war for less than two years under the pretext of punishing injustice and saving oppressed and enslaved masses.
Already demonstrating formidable suppressive power in the war against the Church Country, the Dragon-man Army once again showcased overwhelming might in the conquest of disobedient factions for Noah.
There wasn't a single worthy opponent against them. The Church Army, composed of devout believers, could at least fight to the death due to faith, but an army of ordinary Transcendents would collapse with casualties reaching one to two percent, offering little resistance.
During the entire war, the nine Dragon-man Battle Groups suffered no significant casualties, with the number of wounded less than the leftovers after a battlefield cleanup following a single Church Country battle.
In every battle, Dragon-men wearing Magic Armor only needed to walk through the battlefield, and the war would be over. As for higher-ranked professionals who could threaten the Dragon-men or Legendaries, there were naturally corresponding Dragon Species to deal with them.
At this time, the citizens of the Alviss Continent realized that it wasn't the Flame Sun Sect Country that was weak—being conquered in less than a year; it was simply the Holy Dragon itself that was terrifying.
Under such circumstances, with him personally on the front lines, the fact they could hold out for so long already proved the unusual strength of Divine faith.
This powerful Dragon Species managed to allow its vassals to sweep the entire Alviss Continent without personally taking the field, achieving all this within such a short period.
This was mainly because the Dragon-man Army needed time to march; otherwise, the war would have ended even sooner.
Such a bloody result showcased the terrifying power of the Dragon-man Army, prompting people to exclaim, what a formidable Dragon Clan force!
Since the era when the Dragon Clan dominated the sky ended, there hadn't been such a terrifying Dragon Realm for a long time.
Yet now, the people of Alviss Continent again recalled the sky covered by Dragon Wings, which existed only in ancient texts from the bygone ages. Now such a Sky Dome reappeared, letting Giants Dragon soar freely beneath the azure heavens.
"What kind of territorial distribution is this? Scattered like stars in the sky?"
After the sweeping war ended, the nine battle groups sent Noah the maps of the forces they had conquered; however, when Noah merged the maps, he could only smile wryly at the result.
Nothing else, simply because the nations conquered by the Dragon-man Army were so scattered, with few being connected.
The foolish ones were few and far in between; the nations attempting to express goodwill to a fallen True God at the height of Noah's power were rare; most nations and forces remained silent, opting to watch the situation.
Thus, when these discordant nations were conquered and submitted, the map presented to Noah was extremely dispersed, mostly enclaves occupying less than one or two percent of the continent's total area.
Yet despite this, the Dragon Army led by Noah had become the dominant power on Alviss Continent. Nearby, any force capable of contact was either showing submission or the King fled, leaving directly. At least they expressed goodwill, striving to align with the Dragon Clan.
Noah's decision was to evaluate, then accept them. Why not gather vassals who must pay tribute yearly?
Of course, as the suzerain country, it had obligations to its vassals, such as ensuring the legitimacy and continuity of their governmental systems and guaranteeing their national security against external threats.
For Noah, this was naturally not a problem. Were there any forces on the continent capable of challenging him? The answer was no.
Initially, on this continent, no matter how powerful a nation was, even those surviving for thousands of years, like the ancient Silver Moon Royal Court, under Noah's spread Dragon Wings, had to lie dormant, expressing nominal compliance.
After establishing and solidifying the Dragon Army's status on the Alviss Continent, Noah once again announced the continuation of warfare against the Flame Sun Sovereign, fulfilling the agreement with Divine beings and commencing the construction of Cross-border Teleportation Gates on a military scale.
In such an immense spectacle-level project, Noah wasn't constructing merely one; three gates were simultaneously being built at different locations across the Alviss Continent, utilizing local resources.