As a guest, Feng Chou only listened quietly and didn't say anything.
Gradually, he understood why Princess Nala and the Black Dragons cooperated.
In today's Southern Continent, everyone knew that the Green Dragons and Black Dragons lived in the vast Amazon rainforest, while the Red Dragons and Blue Dragons lived in the central highlands.
It seemed that the Dragons deliberately left the land suitable for humans to live in, while they only occupied the areas unsuitable for humans to live in.
Of course, this was impossible. How could the ferocious Chromatic Dragons sacrifice themselves for others?
Just like human society, in the wilderness, the distribution of land or territory was often decided by war.
The division of the Southern Continent's power was also the result of cruel war.
In ancient times before the Arcane Era, the intelligent creatures of the Southern Continent had always lived in the shadow of the Dragons. The Dragons also treated the intelligent creatures as targets for robbery and extortion.
This situation lasted until the Arcane Empire's era.
The Arcane Empire didn't invade the Southern Continent, but the aftermath of its invasion had a deep impact on the Southern Continent.
First, the Goblins migrated south, then the High Elves migrated south, and finally, the remnants of the Arcane Empire migrated south.
After these intelligent creatures migrated south, they quickly reached an agreement with the indigenous Amazons of the Southern Continent. They began to use cruel hunting to reduce the living space of the Dragons and fight for more space for themselves.
The conflict between the two sides lasted for several hundred years. With the help of the Storm Goddess, the Elven Gods, the Goblin Main God, and the Hell Devils, the Amazons, High Elves, Goblins, and the remnants of the Arcane Empire hunted down more than half of the Dragons in the Southern Continent. Finally, the Dragons retreated to the rainforests and highlands that humans weren't interested in.
It was during this hunt that lasted several hundred years that the Goddess of Storms grew from a Medium Divine Power Goddess to a powerful Goddess. The Gnome Main God also grew from a weak Minor God to a Medium Divine Power Goddess. The High Elves, who had numerous internal conflicts, also managed to reunite during this battle. Meanwhile, the remnants of the Arcane Empire were completely demonized during this battle, creating the current tiefling species.
The defeated dragons could no longer plunder and extort other intelligent creatures, but their love for gold and jewels would not fade because of their failure.
Some dragons began to enslave their own dragon descendant tribes to mine for gold and gems, but gold and gems were very rare. Only some powerful legendary dragons could snatch such mines. Dragon descendants were not excellent miners, so the dragons' harvest was pitiful.
As they racked their brains, some of the dragons finally let go of their arrogance and began to consider an equal trade with the intelligent creatures that had defeated them.
After a long period of preparation, a business organization called the Giant Dragon Chamber of Commerce became active in the various countries of the Southern Continent.
The Giant Dragon Merchant Guild was mainly made up of powerful "free" dragon descendants. They were able to enter deep into the dragon's country and purchase the dragon descendants' magical beasts' furs, bones, and precious magical wood and magical herbs. They would then transport these items to the humans, goblins, or tieflings to sell.
The one who pulled the strings between Princess Nala and Fermo was a big merchant from the Giant Dragon Merchant Guild.
Princess Nala and the legendary Black Dragon merchant called Soraka had a long-term and stable relationship. Otherwise, she would not have dared to trust him and cooperate with a temperamental Black Dragon.
The terms of the cooperation between the two sides had already been discussed through Soraka. Today, they were only confirming the contract in person.
In this cooperation, Princess Nala and Black Dragon Fermo had an employer-employee relationship. Princess Nala used ten million sors to hire the Black Dragon and his dragon descendant tribe to jointly attack a nearby Troll tribe called the Black Skull Tribe.
Before the battle, Princess Nala had to pay Fermo three million sors in advance.
If the battle went smoothly and they defeated the Black Skull Tribe, then the Black Skull Tribe's legendary feathered serpent guardian would be the princess' spoils of war. The other members of the Black Skull Tribe would all be the Black Dragon's spoils of war. Apart from that, the spoils of war would be divided equally between the two sides.
After the battle, the two sides would jointly evaluate the value of the spoils of war.
In the end, Princess Nala proposed that she would have the priority to choose three of the spoils of war.
Fermo, on the other hand, proposed that Princess Nala would have to pay for the three limited selections. Each limited selection would cost one million sors.
After an intense negotiation, both sides agreed to take a step back. Princess Nala agreed to use five hundred thousand sors to buy a limited selection of the spoils of war, while Fermo agreed that Princess Nala would use the spoils of war to pay for the purchase.
The negotiation lasted until night, when the agreement was reached. A Lord of Hell was summoned to uphold the contract between the two sides.
After it was over, Princess Nala held a grand open-air banquet for the Black Dragon.
In order to enjoy the delicious barbecue and wine provided by the humans, Fermo even stopped his transformation and returned to his true appearance as a Black Dragon.
This forty-meter-long Legend Black Dragon ate more than ten tons of barbecued meat and drank the several tons of strong liquor that Princess Nala had brought.
The three to four hundred logistics personnel were exhausted just by barbecuing meat for the Black Dragon.
The banquet lasted until late into the night. Fermo nodded at Princess Nala when he was full. Before Princess Nala could react, his strong hind legs suddenly leaped into the air and disappeared into the night sky in the blink of an eye.
Fermo's Black Dragon Clan's territory was located upstream of the Amazon River branch next to the temporary camp.
This clan occupied a fertile plain of tens of thousands of square kilometers upstream of the branch.
Princess Nala's target this time was the Troll Black Skull Clan's territory, which was located upstream of another branch of the Amazon River.
During the rainy season, the Amazon River would widen several times, causing hundreds of kilometers of land on both sides to become a swamp country. Other than Murlocs, other intelligent creatures would find it difficult to survive in this area.
The Amazon River was a paradise for Murlocs. The Murlocs here were called Amazon Murlocs. They were very different from their Freshwater Murlocs in other places.
Most of the freshwater murlocs were only Level-2 or Level-3 creatures. They could only be considered as low-level magic creatures and were not difficult to deal with. However, the freshwater murlocs in the Amazon River were Level-7 creatures and were extremely ferocious.
Although the Amazon Murlocs did not look much different from normal Freshwater Murlocs, their bodies were almost half the size of their own.
Normal Freshwater Murlocs were about the same size as humans. When they stood upright, they were about 1.78 meters tall. However, the Amazon Murlocs were almost three meters tall. They were very strong, similar to Ogres. They also had natural scales that were equivalent to + 1 leather armor. They also had Water Arrow Spell, High Speed Swimming, Drowning Spell, and other Water Talent Spells that were equivalent to level one Mage spells.
Not only were the Amazon Murlocs individually strong, but they were also very numerous. Normal Freshwater Murlocs would be considered a large tribe if there were only a few hundred of them. However, the Amazon Murlocs could easily reach up to a thousand. This was all thanks to the rich resources of the Amazon River.
In recent decades, the belief of the Goddess of the Ocean began to spread among the Amazon Murlocs. The appearance of priests, crocodile knights, and other holy professions made the Amazon Murlocs even more terrifying.
Only the Seventh Princess's fleet, which was full of experts, would turn into the deep sea when passing by the Amazon estuary to avoid the Amazon Murlocs' area of activity.