Chapter 2732 - 1176: Gaven’s Dragon-Slaying Plan (Part 2)

Chapter 2732: Chapter 1176: Gaven’s Dragon-Slaying Plan (Part 2)

After several days of tense negotiations, Shoon VII finally made a compromise, satisfying most of Aiwikelasa Gran’s conditions, allowing her to leave with a portion of the treasure from the Imperial Treasury.

This was merely a delaying tactic by Shoon VII, followed by the outbreak of the war later known as the War of Sharptooth—named for the deadly bite Aiwikelasa Gran, the powerful mage, delivered to Shoon VII, marking the time when the Blue Dragon gained her widely known nickname, Sharptooth.

Three conflicts occurred between the two sides during this period.

The first conflict arose when both sides were transferring the remaining Dragon’s Nest Treasure from Shine Rui, and Aiwikelasa Gran insisted that Shoon VII personally deliver tribute. This was a ploy by this Quisa to determine the general location of Sharptooth’s Dragon’s Nest.

A man-dragon war broke out between the two sides, this war easily destroying no fewer than four towns, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

However, Shoon VII found Aiwikelasa Gran’s Dragon’s Nest and looted it once again, which allowed him to declare that he had won this war, despite the fact that tens of thousands of Shoon people died in the process, and ten times more were displaced.

After the initial defeat, Aiwikelasa Gran regrouped and bided her time, and when she resurfaced thirty years later, she had rebuilt her arsenal, amassed a large number of spells and magic equipment, and had cracked Quisa’s most famous Soul Flames spell.

This terrifying flame was said to act directly on the soul, rather than the body.

Once ignited, it would turn both the body and soul into ashes, not extinguished even by plunging into the sea, ending the battle with Aiwikelasa Gran seizing the Shoon’s scepter, the divine artifact of the Shoon dynasty.

The final conflict occurred eight years later, after Aiwikelasa Gran had thoroughly researched Shoon’s scepter and directly teleported into the Imperial City Shanaqi of the Shoon dynasty.

The result was predictable, as the tensions and hatred between both sides had become completely irreconcilable, leading to the outbreak of a great war.

When the city gates caught fire, the fish in the moat suffered as well.

In this battle, the greatest harm befell the innocent citizens, with at least over a hundred thousand killed, and countless others injured or affected.

Both sides also suffered nearly fatal injuries, with Shoon VII’s left arm and right leg bitten off, and Aiwikelasa Gran using a special magic in her bite that made it impossible to heal with an ordinary Regeneration Technique or even a Wish Spell.

Aiwikelasa Gran’s wings were also torn apart, leaving her unable to continue fighting and forcing her to escape before more mages and troops from the Shoon Empire arrived.

When Shoon VII declared victory in this war to the outside world, everything seemed so hollow.

Soon VII could never repair his broken body and had to temporarily pass his throne to his daughter Shani.

Shani was equally ruthless, poisoning her father within a year of taking power and ascending to the Quisa throne, becoming the first and also the last female Quisa in the history of the Shoon dynasty.

However, she had great ambition but not the powerful abilities of her father, and when five years later Aiwikelasa Gran returned to the Imperial City Shanaqi, she had neither the ability nor the courage to confront the terrifying Blue Dragon, and could only seek temporary peace through tribute.

For this, she handed over more than half of the Shoon dynasty’s treasury, among which were several famous divine artifacts.

It is said that when Aiwikelasa Gran learned of Shoon VII’s death, the Blue Dragon’s laughter shattered the massive dome of the Quisa Palace.

But Aiwikelasa Gran’s insatiable greed was far from satisfied, and the hatred was not completely eradicated—this is the most terrifying aspect of Giant Dragons, their hatred can be carried forward, remembering the hatred of your ancestors against you.

Especially the war between Shoon VII and her shifted her hatred from an individual to a group—the Shoon Empire.

When perceiving the Shoon Empire’s instability, she naturally fanned the flames, becoming more aggressive in her demands, demanding the Shoon Kingdom to pay tribute every year, otherwise she would raid every city of the Shoon dynasty indiscriminately.

And every large city of the Shoon dynasty was defenseless against Sharptooth holding Shoon’s scepter.

Helpless, the Shoon Empire had no choice but to agree to her harsh demands, paying a heavy tax to her every year.

It was naturally impossible for the ruling class of the Shoon Empire to pay this tax out of their own pockets, so it was passed down from level to level, falling on local lords and free people, known as the infamous Dragon Tax levy.

This became the last straw to break the back of the Shoon Empire, prompting not only the slaves to try to overthrow the decayed mountain, but even local lords and free people joined the effort.

Eighty years later, in 450, Aiwikelasa Gran delivered the final blow to the Shoon dynasty.

At that time, the local lords in the Thacel Region, unable to bear the Shoon dynasty’s extortion, raised the banner of rebellion under the leadership of the founding king Strom, gathering eighteen armies to besiege the Imperial City Shanaqi together.

The centipede survives even in its broken state.

The size of the Shoon dynasty was significant, it conscripted slave armies from all sides, converging in Shanaqi for its final resistance.