"The powerful all have their own will. As a Legendary Powerhouse, once the Black Dragon Lord has made up its mind, basically no one can change it, not even their Dragon God."

Wind’s furrowed brow slightly relaxed, and he said with relief, "I understand now."

He raised doubts only because he feared that the Emerald Forest’s stance on this matter might offend the Black Dragon Lord, leading to dire consequences.

After all, the Elf Elders had never met the Black Dragon Lord in person and could not feel that terrifying sense of overwhelming oppression.

Wind suspected that the Black Dragon Lord was not even an ordinary Legendary Black Dragon and might even rival the Mother of Deep Red.

However, this was just his own wild guess. After discussing it with the Elf Elders, a group of elders laughed, saying he was intimidated and wondered how the Black Dragon of the Black Wing Nest could possibly rival the Mother of Deep Red.

In a Medium Material Plane, having an evil dragon as terrifying as the Mother of Deep Red is already quite exaggerated. The probability of having two is... too low! 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

As for the size of the Black Dragon Lord?

The Elf Elders also had an explanation for it, "It’s either some special treasure effect or some ancient magic spell. There are many ways to increase size; you just couldn’t see it because your strength is too weak.

The reason the Black Dragon Lord did this was nothing more than to give you a demonstration of power, to intimidate you."

Wind was half believing, half doubting this explanation.

However, after thinking it over, Wind eventually accepted the elders’ explanation, because he didn’t really believe the Black Dragon Lord had the strength to rival the Mother of Deep Red.

A thousand years ago, the Mother of Deep Red could dominate the entire Tal Plane, and ordinary Legendary Powerhouses were as weak in front of her as children before adults. According to the history recorded in the Emerald Forest, the number of Legendary Powerhouses who died at the hands of the Mother of Deep Red is as many as eight.

"Alright, let’s discuss who should be sent as the envoy to the Monster City...."

....

Several days later, the Emerald Forest sent out their envoy group, and the Black Wing Nest also sent out their envoy group to visit each other’s nests.

This was an initial step to learn about each other’s customs and characters, laying the groundwork for future trade.

The Black Wing Nest paid great attention to this.

In the Star Realm, which intelligent race does not know that each Elf in the Elf Race is a gold mine?

The Elf Race has a long lifespan, considerable strength, and they love to make friends, go on adventures, and collect beautiful and magical items. Quite a few Elves have mastered skilled secondary professions, like enchanting and crafting magic equipment, or creating artworks... Some older Elves have accumulated wealth that can even rival a dragon of the Five-Colored Dragon rank.

The wealth of Five-Colored Dragons is often acquired through plunder, but how can hard robbery be faster than direct demand?

With hard robbery, you have to act yourself and search for treasures, whereas with direct demand, others willingly bring treasures to you, feeling happy and rewarding themselves inside.

Moreover, Elves and Five-Colored Dragons have one big difference: Elves do not like to sleep; they love to passionately pursue anything they find interesting. In contrast, the more powerful a Five-Colored Dragon is, the more they love to sleep; some Ancient Dragons sleep for decades or even centuries at a time.

Black Wing Nest, Monster City.

"The Forest Elf envoy group will arrive tomorrow. Mind your tongues; don’t say anything you shouldn’t. If they hear something that causes issues in trade and displeases our master...."

Sofia stood at the forefront of the hall, with a group of muscular monsters from various clans below.

Of course, Sofia wasn’t much less imposing in front of these two-and-a-half-meter to six-meter-tall muscle monsters, nor did she appear weak.

Her own height had reached three meters, a proper little giant.

Her whole body had skin that was delicate, and she dressed quite provocatively, but her thighs and arms were no less powerful, with muscles and strength at full display.

A few years ago, to better educate the dragonlings in Black Castle, Udi also granted this Maid Chief a Servant Contract, enabling her power to keep up and preventing her from being eliminated.

After all, to handle matters orderly and put Udi at ease, only Sofia could manage that.

Ava, Isha, Tina, Rouyu.... They, although more innate in cultivation, each had their own personality flaws that made them unable to manage the Dragon Nest’s internal affairs properly.

Under Sofia’s constant supervision and reminders, the exchange between both envoy groups was barely considered a success.

Soon, the details of the trade were finalized.

The requirements from the Forest Elf side were a portion of the high-quality grains cultivated by the Black Wing Nest, top-grade ores, magic plant materials, magic cores, and elemental crystals. All these items were easily supplied by the Black Wing Nest, which occupied the whole Dark Forest.

The demand from the Black Wing Nest side was for the magical assistance of the Forest Elf casters, magical knowledge, and knowledge on crafting magical equipment.

The Forest Elf casters’ assistance was mainly needed for the manufacturing of construction materials.

Compared to manual mining, a single illusion or low-circle spell from a caster could process a bunch of raw stones into neat piles of tidy blocks. In addition, practical spells could make trees retreat, level roads, petrify soil, and solidify swamps into land, and so on.

The background of the Black Wing Nest’s casters in this area was still too lacking, far from meeting the need for opening up, road building, and construction in the Dark Forest, hence they targeted the Forest Elves.

The Forest Elves readily agreed, even stating that since both sides were allies, they were willing to do these things for free. They also claimed it served as a form of cultivation for the casters.

Sofia, Shiji, and other commanders were more than happy to accept this free advantage, without the slightest sense of embarrassment.

Time flowed by.

Within the Dark Forest, one monster village after another was established, one wide road after another was constructed. In the absence of restrictions on food supply, the population of ordinary monsters exploded at a frightening rate.

Two million five hundred thousand, three million, four million....

A pair of goblin couples can give birth to a litter of about five to six goblins, and once these goblins are born, they achieve preliminary work capacity in just half a month and are ready to reproduce in a month.

When these five to six goblins form families and reproduce, another twenty to thirty goblin babies will be born in half a month. With this cycle, the monster population can explode in numbers in just a few months.

The newly born monsters with potential will learn the Blood and Qi Professions, while those with extreme talent will be transformed by the Void Bloodline and taken in by the Black Wing Nest for unified training. Becoming a Dragon Vein Mage or an extraordinary Monster Warrior depends on individual talent...

The southern Black Wing Nest rapidly expanded its influence, while the eastern Crimson Nest and the human-centric faction waged one war after another.

A massive number of monsters and warriors under both factions fell on the battlefield.

The intensity of the wars continued to escalate.

Simultaneously, there was movement among the Sha Hua Fish People of the Yalbit Kingdom.

Previously, the Sha Hua Fish People who invaded the Kingdom captured a lot of human captives after taking over the Kingdom’s southern territories and retreated back to the Laputa River, leaving most of the conquered southern lands to the Centaur, giving them a big bargain.

However, this does not mean the ambition of the Sha Hua Fish People stops here. They secretly guided the flow of the Laputa River, with many Tide Mages casting spells to transform the land into lakes, gradually encroaching on the Kingdom’s territories.

After more than five years of transformation, the southern territories of the Kingdom saw an addition of thousands of lakes and branches from the Laputa River, forming a massive support line.