Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 209: The Stigma of the Country, Word Spirit·God’s Punishment

“It’s getting bigger and bigger!”

Noah admired the huge golden tree in front of him, whose trunk was the same length as his dragon body and flourished with his growth.

In terms of the current scale, with Noah's current size, it is more than enough to build a dragon's nest in this increasingly prosperous and lush tree canopy.

However, compared with the huge root system that has taken root and spread in the nebula, the growth of the golden tree is completely insignificant.

Noah lowered his head and inspected the root system of the golden tree that spread for who knows how many miles. He could see a small world in it that was shrunk dozens of times, with mountains, rivers, cities, towns, and everything else clearly visible.

Among them are the Aldis Mountains, the city of Elisim, Ironforge, the Valley of Fire... these are the lands ruled by Noah and his subjects.

To this day, countless lives have had their destinies influenced by him, either actively or passively, providing nutrients for the growth of the golden tree.

Just by transforming into a dragon, he has affected hundreds of thousands of lives, and the number is growing day by day. The fate of all these people has been disturbed because of him. From then on, their every move is closely related to him, and it is manifested on the golden tree.

Admiration, worship, gratitude, these emotions can all become nutrients for nurturing the purple spirit fruit. Production, construction, and population growth can provide Noah with a steady supply of wisdom fruit.

For monsters that meet the definition of evil in the Golden Dragon's concept, all hunting and slaughtering activities related to them can produce blood source fruit.

Of course, forces and races that are hostile to the Golden Dragon can also be included in this category.

At this time, race and bloodline have nothing to do with it. Even if they are humans or elves, their death will turn into a wisp of blood and form a blood source fruit.

However, as the price of collecting so many magical fruits, Noah also needs to bear everything related to it, the suffering and troubles of hundreds of thousands of dragon-transformers and even more subjects. The resulting resentment will turn into dark fruits that make even the golden trees dim.

Especially for those dragonized ones who died due to injustice and wrongdoing, Noah will experience again everything they experienced at the moment of death.

This forced Noah to repeatedly ask the fairies to promulgate stricter and more complete laws and regulations and strictly enforce them.

Because no matter how powerful Noah is, it is impossible for him to pay attention to everyone, not to mention that the number of dragon-transformers is still increasing. He is not an omniscient and omnipotent God, so he cannot take care of everyone.

He can only establish a relatively complete social order that can continuously iterate and update itself, striving to enable all dragon-transformers to pursue their ideals, realize their self-worth, and obtain spiritual and material satisfaction.

That is why Noah spent ten years establishing the order he wanted, which was much more complete and rigorous than during the reign of Augustus.

But even so, the dark fruit matures the fastest and has the highest ripening rate among all the fruits on the golden treetops.

Noah had to enter the nebula regularly to pick the fruits, and this was also the most painful moment for the Golden Dragon.

However, every time the Golden Dragon tastes pain, when he leaves here and returns to reality, he will let another group of people feel the pain.

This is the correction process of the Golden Dragon Order.

Any attempt to deceive him will be useless, and Noah does not need to whitewash false data of prosperity, because the real bitter fruit will be swallowed by him personally, and no one can replace him.

Therefore, Noah could only show limited tolerance to the administrative officials under his command.

It can be regarded as his ability to seek some benefits for himself within the scope of his authority without infringing on anyone's interests, and Jinlong can turn a blind eye to it.

If someone uses his power to infringe upon others or even seize the interests of the people or even their lives, Jin Long will not tolerate it at all, because he will be the one who suffers the most.

Although his will and concentration can be trained in this way, and his dragon soul can be tempered to a certain extent, there are other more comfortable training methods.

If he had a choice, Noah certainly wouldn't want to torture himself, but unfortunately, he had no choice. As long as he touched the dark fruit, it would become a maggot attached to his bones, drilling into his body, and then let him personally experience the sadness, pain, injustice and injustice of the lower class.

"Let me see how many bastards are trying to harm me this time!"

Noah looked towards the golden treetops, the source of darkness that dimmed the branches and trunks that were as bright as gemstones. He stretched out his dragon claws and gently touched them.

A deep and terrifying nightmare suddenly attacked the Golden Dragon.

"No, this is the inheritance my parents left me. Why should she take half of it?"

"Because she is your wife and she is pregnant with your child, according to the Golden Code, not only does half of your property belong to her, but you also have to fulfill your responsibility as a father to raise her. Every month, you need to pay 28 gold dragon coins as child support!"

"Wife? She cheated on me. We've been married for less than three months, but the baby she's carrying is already six months old!"

The man's cheeks were dotted with tiny dragon scales. He was the envy of the Holy Dragon. But at this moment, his face was full of anger. In the trial court, he shouted angrily,

"Besides, my monthly salary is less than 40 gold dragon coins, but I need to pay such a high amount of child support for a bastard who cheated on my daughter and does not belong to me. Why? And I still have debts, why can't the debts be divided?"

"This is your personal debt before marriage."

"My property was also left to me by my parents. It is also my personal property."

"No, your property is where you and your wife lived together, so it is marital property."

"This is not fair!"

……

"Why is the food getting worse? There is more and more sand mixed in the food. I even found sawdust in my food today. What on earth is the food that the Palu production group is feeding us?"

"Don't you call yourselves the people of dragons? Dragons need to eat more wood and sand so that they can grow hard scales. This is for your own good."

"We don't have dragon scales on us. We are just ordinary people."

"Who said that? You are noble dragon masters! Sooner or later you will grow dragon scales, so eat more sand."

"Bullshit, you Palu profiteers should be hanged!" "The Palu family should be cut into pieces!"

……

For the people of the Holy Dragon, as long as their brains are fine and their thinking abilities are normal, there will be basically no problem in getting enough food and clothing.

But this is the general situation. When faced with special circumstances, the people of the Holy Dragon who are targeted will find it difficult to cope.

Many of the Holy Dragon people were just ordinary people before they possessed the inhuman dragon-like characteristics. If you trace back their bloodline, many of the Holy Dragon people's ancestors were slaves who gained freedom through the self-redemption law.

These people are all descendants of slaves. Without any inheritance, they suddenly became rich and possessed wealth that did not match their own strength and knowledge, so naturally many problems arose.

Because the housing prices in the city of Elishim are really too high, so high that some small and medium-sized nobles can hardly afford it, but they want to obtain dragon veins in this way. In the end, they will try to achieve their goals through methods other than purchasing.

Just think about it, a single man who was just an ordinary person a few years ago, in just a few years, not only did his net worth skyrocket, but he also possessed dragon veins without paying anything. To what extent would his mentality be inflated?
With such a mentality, how can one resist the temptations of some well-prepared aristocratic women?
Of course, it is normal for these people to feel resentful because they have wealth that does not match their abilities and because they failed to resist the temptation from the outside world and made irrational choices and lost this wealth.

But this also shows that the Golden Code formulated by the goblins is still imperfect and cannot protect these people, and further modifications are needed.

There are not a few dragon people who have had this kind of experience. Similar cases are quite common, so much so that Noah has personally experienced several of them.

Because some people were really cheated of all their property and had nothing left except the dragon scales growing on their bodies. They were expelled from the city of Elishim, and even if they rebelled, they were brutally suppressed.

In the Holy Dragon Land, the violent armed forces that maintain order cannot be resisted by mere dragonized beings. Not to mention the iron golems controlled by the goblins, even the garrison corps composed of human professionals can suppress these insignificant voices.

This is a group that is easily overlooked, but the golden tree allowed Noah to sense their existence and understand their pain.

In addition to them, the golden tree also made Noah realize more, that is, ordinary people who also lived in the city of Elishim but had not transformed into dragons.

In this city, not having dragon scales means being inferior. If you go out to find a job, you will be discriminated against and suppressed because of your identity as a resident of Elisim City. It is common for you to be deducted from your wages and treated unfairly.

To be honest, Noah had never experienced what it felt like to eat sand or chew wood since he was born, but the golden tree allowed him to experience it countless times.

"Why is it the Palu family again? There are merchants from the Palu family in every Hui area!"

Noah, who had finally broken free from the ocean of pain brought by the dark fruit, cursed and recalled the merchant group that was constantly mentioned when he experienced the suffering of civilians.

Palu family
If you investigate this family, you will find that the founder of the Palu family was a slave who gained freedom through the self-redemption law. After becoming a free man, this slave named Palu soon owned his own property through hard work.

Compared to other free people, after acquiring a certain amount of assets, Palu chose to invest more money in learning, because the threshold for acquiring knowledge is lower than that for mastering extraordinary powers.

But with enough knowledge, gaining extraordinary powers becomes relatively easy.

In just twenty years, when Palu's grandson was born, this diligent, studious freeman with a keen sense of smell had already established a merchant group and named it after himself.

As Palu's descendants grew in number, someone with extraordinary qualifications finally appeared among his descendants, and the Palu family came into being.

In just half a century, the Palu family, along with the expansion of its business empire, gradually became involved in various industries in the city of Elishim.

Today, the Palu family has become one of the leading merchant families in the city.

The first generation of Palu, as an ordinary person, had no extraordinary powers and had long passed away, but his descendants remembered the teachings of this first generation ancestor. Each of them loved to learn knowledge, so much so that the new generation of Palu were very good at finding loopholes in the rules.

Because Noah's Golden Code does not advocate criminal systems such as collective punishment, the Palu family took full advantage of this and divided the family legally into smaller pieces.

Therefore, even though Noah had previously ordered the fairies to sanction the Palu family based on the feedback from the golden tree, this family can still bring surprises to Noah today.

It was thanks to this family that Noah got his first taste of sand.

Of course, this time it is not necessarily the Palu family’s fault, because this family has become much more honest after suffering multiple sanctions.

It's just that because the Palu family had gone to great lengths to accumulate capital and had gone too far, many citizens of the city of Elishim remembered the Palu family as profiteers.

As a result, the surname Palu has many meanings such as greed, stinginess, cruelty, and loss of humanity. When ordinary low-level workers insult unscrupulous businessmen, they always mention the word Palu.

The word "Palu" originally did not have much meaning, but because of the Palu family's reckless behavior before being sanctioned, it has acquired a new meaning. Most businessmen would look very unhappy when they hear someone calling them Palu.

Of course, there are also some unscrupulous businessmen who regard being described as palu as a compliment. They regard palu as their spiritual idol, the ultimate goal of imitation and pursuit.

Born a slave, he eventually established a famous business family in Elishim with his own efforts.

This is so inspiring!
"Eat a fruit slowly!"

Noah, who had recovered from the suffering of thousands of people, stretched out his claws to the golden tree again, plucked a round and plump fruit emitting purple light, and threw it into his mouth to relieve the pain that seemed to be continuing.

This is a fruit that has been nurtured for nearly ten years. It has matured today. The sweet taste of this fruit makes Noah savor it with some pleasure.

Except for the dark fruit, tasting any kind of fruit is a pleasure for Noah.

Because not only will he taste the intoxicating flavor, but he will also gain new power.

When Noah swallowed the flesh of the purple spirit fruit, a vast purple aura rose up and turned into a torrent, sweeping across the dragon soul. A completely new power was engraved.

Word Spirit: Heaven's Punishment

When Noah felt the purpose of this spiritual word, he looked up at the golden tree with swaying branches in front of him, stared at it for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking,

"Give me such a spirit of words, what do you want me to do? Isn't what I have done enough?"

(End of this chapter)