Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 616 - 006 Newspaper

In the Kawa Great Forest at the southern end of the Seta Continent, far from the Central Earth World, the previous waves of unrest affecting the entire southern region have subsided with Austin's rise.

As one of the few remaining peaceful lands on the continent, it wasn't just refugees crossing the Border Great Wall's defense lines to seek a livelihood in that region.

Some highly educated individuals, scholars, and even aristocrats impacted by the successive upheavals have decided to migrate south, moving into the cities established by the Dragon Nest Beastmen Royal Court in the Kawa Great Forest to survive.

In any case, at least the area beyond the Border Great Wall maintains a general sense of stability.

So that you don't wake up one day to find a group of refugees gathered outside your castle gate, besieging it, worried about when they might break through.

On the rural roads connecting villages and towns, due to the chaotic situation, the paths have become somewhat unsafe.

Some places are rampant with bandits, and without hiring a powerful mercenary corps, some merchants wouldn't dare to pass through those remote and treacherous road sections.

In such chaotic circumstances, migrating to a more stable place isn't an impossible task.

Although humans occupy the prime lands of the Seta Continent, ruling as the entire continent's overlords.

In reality, racism hasn't emerged in this world.

For the vast majority of peasants living at the bottom, who their rulers are—whether beastmen or humans—doesn't concern them too much, as long as they can have land to stand on. They don't mind changing their allegiance. After all, in human noble estates, the high-ranking nobles never treat the peasants in the manors as people, always seeing them as livestock slaves.

Unless there's some irreconcilable deep-seated hatred with other races, for many peasants who spend their whole lives within a thirty-kilometer radius of their villages, toiling away in a daze, being a peasant for whom doesn't really matter.

It's like this at the lower levels, and pretty much the same in the middle and upper human social tiers.

In the Central Earth Continent, there's no unified empire, with many countries contending against each other, making the movement of talent not uncommon. Sometimes, after committing offenses in one duchy, someone might flee to another duchy and continue to work as an official.

In most people's minds, living under a human kingdom or a beastman kingdom doesn't differ much.

The only reason is that beastmen and other races, upon conquering humans, aren't as merciful, often resulting in massacres. This led to a relentless pursuit by human nations' alliances against the Beastman Empire after the human rise, and very few dare to work under beastman rule due to their violent and murderous nature.

However, just because it didn't happen in the past doesn't mean it won't happen now.

Especially with the expansion of the Dragon Nest Tribe, which has taken root in the Kawa Great Forest. Many traveling merchants have acquired a large amount of agricultural and industrial products in Dragon Nest Tribe City and become wealthy through trade. Consequently, news of the Dragon Nest Tribe Kingdom began to spread bit by bit to the outside world.

This emerging force, implementing a policy of equality among all races within its city-controlled areas, curbing the beastmen under its rule from slaughter, and possessing a strong tribal kingdom power, has piqued the interest of many, especially when some exquisite industrial products like magic crystal lamps, crystal mirrors, and polished tiles appeared among the aristocratic circles.

It's said that a Duke of a southern duchy, owner of a gold mine, specially ordered eight hundred and eighty-eight crystal lamps from the Kawa Great Forest for his wedding ceremony, adorning the palace to be brilliantly magnificent. The lights shining at night made the entire Imperial Palace appear as a rare gem beneath the starlit sky, like a mythical castle, stunning all the envoys attending the wedding, and sparking a wave of luxurious lighting among the human aristocracy.

Not only did the women at the meeting go crazy over it, but even the courteous gentlemen couldn't help but exclaim this is the way nobles should truly enjoy life.

Magic crystal lamps are merely one of the many luxury industrial products produced by the Dragon Nest Tribe Kingdom. In fact, more industrial products have entered the upper levels of those southern duchies on the Central Earth Continent through trade.

This has led some people to start looking southward.

Upon learning about the changes happening in the southern barbaric forest land, many have shown great interest.

Some, feeling the chaotic times, have started planning an alternative path for their families, while others who have lost in upper-level power struggles have no choice but to flee. Alternatively, some scholars whose theories cannot gain approval and funding can only seek other ways, considering heading towards the Kawa Great Forest to see if there are any opportunities.

Bankrupt farmers, small businessmen, impoverished aristocrats, the disillusioned... among these diverse and complex migrants, there is no shortage of elite members of society.

Of course, there are not many human elite figures who actively seek refuge under Austin's Dragon Nest Beastmen Royal Court, only occupying a small portion. Still, most elites prefer to live in human capitals, but the local culture and civilization they bring have moderately influenced the border cities of the Dragon Nest Beastmen Royal Court.

They bring to the Dragon Nest Tribe Kingdom not only a change in architectural style within the cities but also knowledge of various magic fighting qi techniques, which beastmen had previously found hard to obtain.

...

Olt Siran was such a high-level intellectual from a certain duchy. At sixty years old, an old-fashioned individual, he was once a magic teacher at a prestigious academy in a certain duchy's capital, with his power level reaching the high tier of Silver.

His power level wasn't high, and within the entire noble academy, he was only at a medium level, just an ordinary old teacher nearing retirement.

After all, within the highest academy of a duchy, a Silver high-tier mage doesn't really count for much.

Originally, if Siran could continue to teach steadily, although it was unlikely he would achieve great wealth and status in the future, at least he could teach magic courses for several more years until retirement, receiving a pension and accumulating some wealth. After retirement, leveraging previous connections, he might even seize the chance to research some magic knowledge and possibly even break through to the next realm by good fortune.

However, a year ago, 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

some matters occurred within the noble academy. A diligent commoner student who managed to get admitted was bullied by a group of noble students. Siran, just passing by, remembered his own journey before becoming a mage, remembering how he was once a commoner student as well, struggling to study, and thus lent a helping hand.

Who would have thought that this help would lead to trouble.