BXBX NOVEL Chapter 490: Traveling the Continent With My Daughter
Stepping into the ancient country located in the northeast corner of the main continent, Louie experienced the true reality of the world.
The cold north wind whistled through the trees. Although it was not as cold as the northernmost regions of the continent, it was still extremely harsh on the regular humans who lived here.
The roads of the city Louie entered were filled with thickly clothed civilians. Beggars nestled in the corners and thieves kept a keen eye out for potential prey. Poverty and hardship forced them all into this situation.
The city’s guards lazily chased these people away, scolded them, or pushed them out of the way to allow a luxurious carriage to pass through the middle of the narrow road. Then, they licked their lips and leaned to look at the beautiful woman driving the carriage. Their lascivious expressions, however, only brought her disgust.
The driver of the carriage stood at over 1.8 meters. This was quite tall for women on Earth and significantly large for the denizens of San Soliel. She sported a bodacious frame and wore leather armor over finely sewn undergarments. Her expression had the imposing and arrogant mien of a queen.
But now this queen was a carriage driver, driving a draconic horse as it sped through the land of Dragons.
“Father God, don’t we have to go directly to the palace? Why are we wandering around the city.”
A childish and youthful female voice came from inside the carriage.
This was Alexia, who was wearing a gorgeous princess dress. Her white silver hair had a precious metal tiara with a few strands of her hair covering her lovely, clear face. She was currently cuddled up in Louie’s arms.
The beautiful and elegant elven dragon was held in Louie’s arms like a cat. Her little legs poking out under her long skirt had a pair of boots made from Mythril. Her whole body was like a shining jewel, emitting a ‘rich’ atmosphere.
“Before going to the palace of the Mythril King, I need to have a basic understanding of this country, even the habits of the citizens of this country. That way, you can see what the Mythril King who has been ruling this country intends to do.”
Louie said leisurely, and then affectionately pinched Alexia’s cheeks, “Alexia, you abandoned the country to come here. That’s not what a qualified queen should do.”
Alexia let herself sit comfortably. She rubbed Louie’s face with the dragon horn on her forehead. Her pointed ears twitched and wrapped her arms around Louie’s neck and tenderly said, “Father God rarely descends on the main continent. Of course, I need to accompany him. As for the country’s internal affairs, there is simply no need to care too much. The system that Father God established is too good. Now, the officials and nobles of the countries are so well trained that it would be fine even if I’m not there.”
“Moreover, I am a dragon. Dragons going to sleep once in a while for a long time is a normal thing. The citizens and officials would not say anything about it. I also left a replacement puppet in the palace. If there really is an emergency, I can use a spell to teleport back any time,” she whispered.
Although there was no convenient transportation method like cars or planes in the world of San Soliel, powerful mags had spells like teleportation to travel even faster than any vehicle on Earth. This was the power of the strong and talented.
Louie thought about how he would disappear from time to time to return to Earth when he was the lord of Dragon City. The entire Dragon City’s subjects were already accustomed to it, so Alexia’s dormancy could be excused and people would only feel that it was a matter of course.
After more than twenty years of development, the first group of military officials and city officials of Dragon City with meritorious achievements were promoted to nobles. Now that Dragon City was flourishing and the power of nobles was not yet deeply rooted, the entire country was moving forward with a steamy attitude. Perhaps it would not be until a hundred years later that the corrupt and greedy nobles would appear. As long as Alexia’s will remained unchanged, and she continued to rule the country, these would be minor matters.
“Alexia, did Danluciel go find you?”
“Yes, Father God! The female ruler of the Capital Of Wealth has already come to meet me. She has been very cooperative and told me about the political and economic affairs of the Capital of Wealth. Moreover, she is willing to have officials of Dragon City go and serve her. Once the Dragon Kingdom finishes digesting the benefits of the war, we can take over the Capital of Wealth at any time.”
Hearing Louie ask about this, Alexia responded with a clear face.
“When the Capital of Wealth is also annexed, change the state policy to a defensive state, where the goal is to protect the south of the continent. We do not need to build a huge country like the past Subila Empire. In this era, having a huge country is simply a loss. Having a large territory would make it hard to maintain the economy. The thing we need to do is to let the subjects live good life to strengthen their faith. Do you understand?”
For true gods like Louie, there was no point in fighting for supremacy on the main continent, only faith truly mattered. The easiest way to grow people’s faith was to let the people live good life. In contrast with other countries, the citizens of Dragon Kingdom would fervently chant Louie’s name and thank what they have. The second way was to let people fall into a completely desperate situation. In desperate situations, devotional faith would be born from within people. In fact, the gods nowadays were using this method to keep civilization from developing too quickly.
Poverty and ignorance give rise to more fervent faith.
But compared to the second method, Louie still chose the first method, because the second method carried too much risk.
“Your Highness Louie, is it true that the lich who scammed me of my body is in the northern lands?”
Just as Louie and Alexia were being intimate in the carriage, the driving ‘Queen of Calamity’ Noella interrupted them without looking at them.
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Although Noella was educated by Louie to become his believer, dragons were a proud race due to their personal power, so their overall faith was definitely not as devout as other races. It wasn’t that there weren’t any fanatics among the dragons, but the probability of one appearing was very small.
But because dragons were powerful, a single dragon’s faith was equivalent to a thousand human’s faith. In this way, the former Dragon God was able to reach high-tier divine power by virtue of his divine authority.
“The revelation of the gods told me that the lich that deceived you a thousand years ago is in the northern lands. Do not worry, Noella, I have seen your allegiance with my eyes. Since I have made a promise to take back your body, I will not go back on my word.”
Louie’s calm words calmed down Noella’s agitated heart. The queen who brought disaster a thousand years ago viciously said, “I will make that damn lich pay! When I take back my flesh, I will be able to become a demigod once more!”