Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 614 - 003: Turbulent Times

On this day, an overwhelming pressure spread across the sky, enveloping the entire world.

The wind and clouds changed color, fierce winds roared, and dark clouds rolled.

The phenomenon was like heaven's wrath, covering the skies of the Seta Continent. Everyone felt a heavy and oppressive sensation in their hearts. As wars raged across the continent, the refugees, hungry and thirst-stricken, clothed in rags, knelt on the ground under the gloomy sky.

Only those truly legendary figures on the earth could faintly guess what was happening, but even they wore solemn expressions.

Some ancient beings hidden in darkness had awakened.

A true era of chaos was about to descend!

In the Central Earth World, the chaotic battles began to spread further, even affecting the seven historically long-standing Seven Great Kingdoms as internal strife started to reach those areas.

The dark forces in the shadows were eagerly stirring.

One after another, hidden ambitious individuals welcomed the advent of chaos with delight, accelerating certain plans.

At the Central Earth Border, those races unwilling to accept defeat from the ancient dark ages also took action. Border conflicts were frequent, with the Treemen launching an aggressive war and conquering a small nation at the border, turning the land into a sea of forests.

Yet, in the backdrop of impending chaos, events that would be monumental in ordinary times went unnoticed amid the turmoil.

The Seven Kingdoms were overwhelmed by internal conflicts, and various distant Duchies were at war with each other. Human power remained immense, occupying the most refined areas of the Central Earth Continent, but brutal infighting was rapidly depleting their Primordial Qi.

Simultaneously, in some places, creatures from Hell began to appear.

It was rumored,

that certain remote towns had been slaughtered and turned into nests of demon creatures, readying to open the gates to the Otherworld and summon the Demon Monarch. Had the Vatican not arrived in time to thoroughly cleanse the demon creatures there, the Hell Demon army might have already descended upon this world.

Chaos, chaotic chaos.

Natural disasters were frequent, famine abounded everywhere.

Droughts, floods, snow disasters, ice disasters... A cycle of catastrophes ravaged the Central Earth.

The powerful nations of the Central Earth World relied on the wealth accumulated by their ancestors to barely support themselves, yet were powerless to rescue the vast number of refugees generated by natural disasters and human calamities. Countless peasants and refugees perished in the wasteland amid the chaos, disrupting the order of the earth. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Perhaps Extraordinary individuals like Warrior Mage could still barely maintain a stable life.

But these vast numbers of displaced people could only flee from disaster areas like locusts, stripping away tree roots and bark. Not a hint of green could be seen on the bare hills.

The chaotic land, further disordered by the changing sky that day.

Rumors spread everywhere, with ambitious individuals hiding among the peasants inciting attacks on manors. In numerous kingdoms, greedy nobles, protected by Professionals, plundered refugee property, conscripted able-bodied men, and turned women into slaves for their families for generations.

Looking around,

besides important towns like the Royal Cities of various Duchies, which were barely able to maintain peace due to the protection of mighty Mage and Warriors, there was not a single place that seemed stable.

In this situation, the Dragon Nest Beastmen Kingdom of the southern Kawa Great Forest reaped many benefits.

Especially in several Duchies near the Border Great Wall, due to frequent trade relations, various industrial products organized by the Dragon Nest Beastmen within the Kawa Great Forest—such as salt, textiles, steel tools, weapons, novel commodities—began to flood the Southern Countries at affordable prices.

Various food productions were also continuously imported from the Kawa Great Forest.

In recent years, due to the Dragon Nest Beastmen's unregulated massive production, with mechanized agricultural practices and external stability, the massive grain produced in the Kawa Great Forest piled up in warehouses. According to calculations by the Dragon Nest Beastmen skilled in Divination, even if they stopped farming, it would take the entire Dragon Nest Tribe ten years of non-stop consumption to deplete it.

Thus, the abundant kudzu began to be sold cheaply, continuously transported from the Kawa Great Forest to the Southern Countries by traveling merchants.

Thanks to the substantial grain output of the Kawa Great Forest, the dozen Duchies near the Border Great Wall in the south, though experiencing various disasters, managed to barely maintain stability.

Although many refugees went bankrupt due to harsh climate conditions, the disaster did not spread nationwide.

This situation was far better than the regions in the stormy centers of the Central Earth Continent.

Moreover, numerous traveling merchants, while barely sustaining stability in those southern Duchies through trade, spread information from the Kawa Great Forest during their journeys.

For instance, some refugees found refuge with the Beastmen and were granted large fields to cultivate, becoming wealthy within a few years.

For example, some refugees with certain skills were valued by the Dragon Nest Beastmen, eventually becoming minor officials. Upon the last meeting, he had married a beautiful Beastman, had a lovely child, and lived happily.

Furthermore, it was said everywhere in the Kawa Great Forest one could find edible food, and scattering some seeds could yield a bountiful harvest.

Additionally, some refugees who had fled due to family poverty began to settle on the outskirts of the Kawa Great Forest, began to seek their relatives, intending to bring them to the Kawa Great Forest to live together. The news spread in villages nearby; in some villages that failed to produce due to disasters, entire villages of farmers began migrating.

Against this backdrop,

those penniless peasants and refugees overcame their fear of the Beastmen and began their journey south, intending to enter the Kawa Great Forest under the wing of the Dragon Nest Beastmen.

Over the years, with not a hint of improvement in natural disasters, and chaos showing no sign of abatement, but worsening, according to descriptions from refugees fleeing the central regions of the Central Earth Continent, the Ort Plain had virtually become a battlefield, where originally prosperous granaries were massively destroyed amid the war, further expanding the famine.

Thus, more humans, upon learning the news, started actively migrating.

In this tidal wave of refugees, the Dragon Nest Tribe in the Kawa Great Forest seized numerous benefits.

The influx of refugees revived the slightly desolate Kawa Great Forest after numerous wars, making it prosperous again. Alongside the Otherworld scientific knowledge and technology brought by Austin, the land displayed an entirely different vigor.