Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 615 - 004: The Situation

Over the years, the Kawa Great Forest has not escaped the impact of climate anomalies sweeping across the Seta Continent.

Droughts, ice disasters, and snowstorms are not uncommon.

But unlike the social structures of the Central Earth World, which are at the level of productivity and civilization akin to Europe in the Middle Ages, Austin's technology of infusing knowledge through dreams essentially mass-produces a group of low-quality pseudo "Transmigrators." While they possess a wealth of modern knowledge, they are subtlely influenced by Austin to remain eternally loyal.

It is precisely by relying on various scientific technologies that over the years of development, the society of the Dragon Nest Tribe has advanced from primitive civilization to an elementary level of industrialization.

The great leap in productivity, when combined with the native magical extraordinary power, has significantly improved the ability to face natural disasters.

As a result, although the Kawa Great Forest has been plagued by continuous disasters over the years, food production has remained stable. Furthermore, with a large influx of refugees heading south and being incorporated into the systems by the Dragon Nest Beastmen, the substantial population increase has led to the areas outside the Kawa Great Forest, previously thinned by wars, becoming prosperous and densely populated.

The massive influx of labor has further enhanced the cultivation fields developed by the Dragon Nest Tribe, with the expansion in planting area even leading to an increase in food production by the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe during disaster years.

In the southernmost part of the Seta Continent, the Kawa Great Forest occupies a vast area of over ten million square kilometers. The core regions are populated with numerous monsters and remain difficult to develop, but on the outskirts, bordering the Great Wall, there lies a plain spanning two to three million square kilometers.

This plain has been the focal point for the Dragon Nest Tribe's development plans in recent years.

However, even with years of progress, the actual development utilization of the entire plain has only reached about one-tenth to one-twelfth of its potential.

Thus, under the lead of the Dragon Nest Tribe at the basic industrialization level, the number of refugees the Kawa Great Forest can accommodate is far from its limit. More refugees heading south are actually very welcome by the Dragon Nest Beastmen.

After all, no one dislikes an increase in the labor population.

It should be noted that before the unification of the Kawa Great Forest by the Dragon Nest Tribe under Austin, several catastrophic upheavals had occurred on this land.

Initially, the core of the forest was controlled by beastmen from the Beastman Royal Court. They somehow found a piece of the Gate of Truth that led to another-dimensional universe, acquiring the Zombie Virus. Upon development in the homeland, it resulted in an apocalyptic zombie disaster akin to an Undead Calamity. Meanwhile, a hidden Beast God leveraged the situation to plunder a large amount of magic power energy through some means.

In this disaster, the beastmen within the Kawa Great Forest suffered heavy losses.

In order to escape the calamity, several super-large beastman tribes, originally penned on the outskirts of the Kawa Great Forest by the Beastman Royal Court, banded together to counterattack. However, their assault on the Beastman Royal Court ended in a disastrous defeat, forcing them to move northward to attack the Border Great Wall, during which hundreds of millions of beastmen perished.

Eventually, in a retaliatory alliance, the beastmen from the Kawa Great Forest were forcibly conscripted, and in a pivotal battle, the beastman army was reduced to mere cannon fodder for depleting the power of the Beastman Royal Court, suffering innumerable casualties.

Until the final core battle of the Kawa Great Forest's Royal Court concluded, nearly none of the beastmen within the forest survived.

Austin was able to easily unify the central areas of the Kawa Great Forest, with the subsequent advance of the Dragon Nest Beastman Legion on the outskirts, due partly to the drastic weakening of the wild beastman forces by the many wars.

In recent years, though the population of the Dragon Nest Beastmen has begun to rise with the tribe's development, it still hasn't recovered to even three or four-tenths of the peak levels of the entire Kawa Great Forest.

Furthermore, the second generation of Dragon Nest Beastmen is just starting to mature, and many are still in the state of young children.

The massive influx of refugee populations has injected new vitality into the Dragon Nest Beastman Kingdom.

By integrating these refugee populations, the pace of development on the plain areas outside of the Kawa Great Forest has accelerated, and in recent years the speed of city-building has noticeably increased.

Moreover, the influx of refugees and migrants is not just an increase in labor.

With a large number of humans and Dragon Nest Beastmen peacefully coexisting in the same urban areas, many Low Tier Adventurers have flocked to these cities established by the Dragon Nest Beastmen to make a living.

These individuals, part of the bottom tier of extraordinary professionals in the Central Earth World, lived only slightly better than common folk.

In a new world, they might find new opportunities.

Furthermore, due to a natural deficiency of the Dragon Nest Beastman Tribe in resources like magic and Fighting Qi, any city built by the tribe offers high prices for these materials.

Consequently, some impoverished adventurers sell off their knowledge systems with gritted teeth.

Some poor mage apprentices, unable to progress to official mages, struggle to earn a living in the Central Earth World as they need to spend lavishly on research to advance properly as mages.

But in the Dragon Nest Beastman Kingdom, they can at least take on jobs like refining certain magic industrial raw materials in some magic factories, attracting many mage apprentices. Even some older apprentices who have lost hope of advancement have taken these as formal jobs to earn money.

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On the other hand, the large influx of refugees into the Dragon Nest Beastman Kingdom has also brought certain cultural elements.

As one of the few stable places on the Seta Continent, the influx of myriad refugee migrants has added various different styles to the Kawa Great Forest.

In this land, refugees integrated by the Dragon Nest Beastmen need solutions for food, drink, and shelter, prompting the development of a commodity economy. Additionally, traveling merchants between the Kawa Great Forest and the southern countries of the Central Earth World require resting places, and given the insecurity of Central Earth, some successful merchants have started buying land and building homes in the cities.

These cities showcase a diversity of architectural styles, mixing native Western fantasy styles with modern detached houses and garden villas with tree shades, creating an unusual aesthetic beauty through their cultural contrasts.

Moreover, with some magical world versions of civilian products like hand-cranked telephones, transportation, newspapers, streetcars, and factories, the cities brim with a sense of magical urbanism.

At the same time, these cities, with their clean and tidy streets and stable life, also attract the addition of some high-level intellectuals.