At the end of 1330 in the early fifth era of the Nolan continent, it passed by a chaos.

Many major events have happened this year, such as:

Outside the mainland, the deep-sea country controlled by the storm ocean fish, man and mermaids attacked the pig country in the southern part of the mainland. After more than ten days of fighting, it was immediately driven back to the bottom of the sea.

In the hilly land bordering the war beast jungle in the central and southern continent, two legendary items among the Grey Castle dwarves were released, attracting powerful realm-level mercenaries from adventurers from all over the world to flock to scramble to grab them.

Now in the middle, the "Queen" Asule, the adult elemental fire dragon that has been traversed for three hundred years, was jointly attacked and killed by several human empires in the middle. It was eventually killed in the middle and turned into a volcano with extremely active fire elements all year round.

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With more or less major events happening across the continent of Nolan and the fifth era of human rule still stable, in the distant and remote northern corner, the Red Dragon Renault's capture of the Iron Principality seemed to be a small matter and not so noticeable.

But for the people of the northern countries, this is indeed a huge event, and it has had all the impact on their own lives.

The first is that the Iron Principality, as a pass fortress to the central and southern wildernesses of the mainland, is now completely unable to go. The place has completely become the rule of the Kingdom of Flame. Some weak adventurers and mercenaries can only give up the shortcut to the central wilderness, turn to the long way, or cross the sea from the east or west.

Going to the south or central trade is one of the pillar industries of the northern countries. Almost all travelers who arrive in the northern countries hope to go to the wider central or around the world to take a look. As a result, the northern countries gradually began to lose a large number of migrant population.

Many merchants rely on these stupid adventurers to make a living. The establishment of the Flame Kingdom directly strangled the throats of the northern countries, indirectly causing a sharp decline in the economy of the northern countries.

Fortunately, under the Black Iron Duchy, which was opposite the original Steel Principality, under the call of the Black Iron Duchy, some spellcasters have begun to use spells to open up and transform the steep cliffs near the central border of the Black Iron Duchy, trying to create a second channel to the central part of the continent...

The sight came to the Kingdom of Flame again.

At present, the consuls sent by the Fire King City have restored a certain order in the public. Under the constraints of Renault, the warriors of various clans tried their best to restrain their wildness and did not grimacate at those who obeyed. William even re-planned their land for those who surrendered nobles and gave certain resources to the civilians and homeless serfs to help with post-war reconstruction.

"The Iron Principality still has humans to survive and has not been enslaved or abused" - this is a rumor spreading in the countries of the North, but at present, this is just a unilateral remark from the Iron Principal after surrendering, and has not been officially confirmed by any other country, and people dare not believe it.

While the people of the adjacent major priests were waiting anxiously, time came to the beginning of the fifth era 1331.

Fortunately, people finally realized that this powerful flame master did not seem to be keen on ruling mankind violently. At the beginning of 1331, the monarch of the flame master's flame kingdom issued a statement to the countries in the north, saying:

If other countries in the northern countries are willing to surrender to the Kingdom of Fire, be loyal to the great Lord of Fire, and become a subordinate state of the Kingdom of Fire. The Kingdom of Fire can save it from war and ensure that the rights and interests of the vast majority of people in the vassal state remain unchanged, but only a little power over the territory of the country is required.

But there are two requirements.

First, the northern countries that choose to surrender must completely obey the orders of the Lord of Fire.

The second is to pay taxes.

"Paying tax" is a saying that was passed down from the Kingdom of Flame. After studying the details, people from the northern countries found that in their words, "paying tax" actually means tribute.

This is not surprising. Humans have already existed. In the northern countries, many civilians need to pay some food to their lords, and the lords need to pay some financial tribute to their great lords and nobles. In the end, the great lords have to pay equally expensive financial tribute to their kings in order to seek protection; however! According to the Fire Lord's intention, from becoming a subordinate state of the Fire Kingdom, every industry, every karma, and even every person must "pay tax" to the treasury of the Fire Kingdom!

God knows how an elemental fire dragon figured out such a way. These giant dragons who are extremely greedy for money are simply completely exploited! Oppression! Enslavement!

Of course, the empires and kingdoms among the northern countries did not take it seriously at all. There are three empires, eight kingdoms, and nearly twenty-eight principalities in the north. Although the establishment of the Flame Kingdom attracted the attention of all the rulers of the north in an instant.

But soon those kingdoms and even empires no longer care. Apart from the neighboring thorn kingdoms, no one at the level of the human kingdom would care about such things. At most, they were just surprised at the power of this elemental dragon.

As for the others, there is nothing else. After all, no matter how it is, if this giant dragon is extremely arrogant, it will be killed by the empire's big brothers. If they honestly bully some principalities, they would not pay attention to it.

As for the major priests near the Flame Kingdom, the rulers led by the Black Iron Principality felt that if they only became vassal states in the name of the Flame Kingdom and could still retain the power of ruling, the rulers thought about it and seemed that it would not be so difficult to accept.

However, the subsequent "tax payment" clauses and regulations completely hurt their sensitive hearts. Although the tax draw ratio is only one percent, this is completely snatching their power in disguise.

During this period, these major priests headed by the Black Iron Principality have not thought of uniting to form a fire kingdom that resists the rule of the dragon, trying to achieve offensive and defensive alliances, and at the same time, they can not be destroyed instantly under the attack of the flame kingdom, and give them time to ask for help from their respective sect leaders.

However, the sect leader countries behind the major priests are completely different, and they have their own plans. Although they have discussed several meetings together, they are useless at all. It would be a ghost to unite with each other.

Moreover, these priests may not be jealous of the current flame kingdom, especially the four fortresses of the former Iron and Steel Capital, which connects the throats of the central and southern regions, are the passes to the central wilderness. The strategic significance and economic value are self-evident, and there is no doubt.

But after calmly thinking, they found that they could not do it.

Now facing the powerful Kingdom of Flame, their small principalities cannot afford to have an army that can match the domain-level powerhouses. To be honest, as long as they grit their teeth and piece together, they can gather a larger number of coalition forces.

But this makes no sense.

Unless they have several domain-level powerhouses to support the formation, the army of their several principalities will be useless in terms of military strength. During this period, they have not been without spies in the Iron Principality. They have long seen the power of the giant dragon and the group of monsters under the dragon, such as orcs, taurens, centaurs, and werewolves...

And it is also reported that the orc chief under the lord of flame is about to enter the realm level...

In other words, in the Principality near the Flame Kingdom, the Fire Lord can subvert it one by one by one as long as he sends orc chiefs to lead their tribes.

Even if they are united, they are no match for others. Since that's the case, then just pretend to be timid.

However, sometimes pretending to be cowardly does not mean a certain degree of safety. Adventurers and merchants from the Kingdom of Fire, carrying many stories about the Kingdom of Fire, began to publicize what they saw and heard about the Kingdom of Fire.

It records the living conditions of the people in the current Flame Kingdom after obedience and surrender. Although they are surrounded by monsters, it seems that those people are living a good life, and even have scenes of clan monsters helping them.

The people gradually became noisy.

With huge differences in strength, some ordinary people with normal mental health will not hope for war, which will be of no benefit to them. It also means that everything they have been doing for a long time will be disrupted, and they will face the situation of losing relatives, chaotic wars and rampant bandits.

The lessons of the Iron Principality told them the end of resistance, and voices of seeking peace and surrender began to appear.

Of course, there are also completely opposite arguments. In the submissive voice, a large number of people who advocated tenacious resistance and died until death surged out, claiming to defend the glory of their respective principalities to the death, firmly expressing their positions, and harshly denounced the surrendered factions and demoted them to the synonyms of "rebellion, dragon slave".

Objectively speaking, there is nothing wrong with both concepts, but the polarization of arguments is causing internal conflicts in several principalities to become increasingly serious, and there have been cases where two factions of people attack each other.

However, the final decision-making power is ultimately in the hands of the ruling classes of various countries.

It can be seen that they still did not give up and were unwilling to give up their original positions as great dukes and nobles, and turned to the dragon. At the same time, they did not dare to stand up directly and declared war with the powerful kingdom of flames.

Therefore, several principalities now pursue a cold and unintentional attitude, pretending to be inauspicious about the demands and threats raised by the Kingdom of Flame, neither oppose nor agree with it, and maintain their previous state as if nothing else.
Chapter completed!