On the outskirts of North Wind Castle, the Iron Dragon Wing Palace.

Olivia stood outside the gate, looking quite excited, like a praised child.

"Casius, I have convinced the elders of the tribe, and they have agreed to send some people to us."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but His Majesty will not accept an audience at this time."

Tiefling guard captain Ekmon held out his spear and stopped the familiar-looking lady.

Ekmon had experienced the Red Dragon's slumber once, and knew how dangerous the situation inside was.
His Majesty's "morning grumpiness" alone is enough to bring disastrous consequences to everything.

"But."

Olivia's brows suddenly frowned, revealing her unconcealable disappointment.

She spent a lot of time and effort to convince the silver dragon elders in the tribe to help this former enemy.

Until the end, the great elder Osedro, who was still recovering from his injuries, spoke personally, and they accepted Olivia's request and decided to send forces to assist the Burning Empire.

"As long as I can defeat the devil, I am willing to form an alliance with the evil dragon."

These are his exact words.

For this ancient silver dragon who respects order, the abyss demons, creatures of pure chaos, will always be their enemies.

Just as Olivia was thinking, a familiar voice came from behind her.

"Ms. Olivia, His Majesty has fallen asleep."

Olivia turned around and looked at the huge figure with a surprised expression.

"Mr. Trump?"

The Ogre Archmage bowed slightly and said politely, "But his Majesty told me in advance that he appreciates everything you have done for the Empire."

Rumple extended his staff, and a portal leading to the Imperial Council Hall appeared in front of Olivia.

“His Majesty believes that your contribution is sufficient, and he hopes that you can enter the Imperial Senate to discuss cooperation matters in detail with the ministers.

In addition, His Majesty has reviewed your latest plan and expressed his approval, but some changes need to be made in the specific implementation."

"Thank you."

Olivia showed a hint of joy on her face.

The Imperial Senate is the real authority and has the right to draft various policy bills.

Entering the Senate means truly entering the upper echelons of the Burning Empire.

Olivia believed that her persistence would bring a better future to this country—and bring changes toward order and kindness to Cassius.

But in fact, this is both a "reward" from Cassius to Olivia and an attempt by him to balance the evil forces at the top of the empire.

"Ms. Olivia, please follow me."

Trump bowed slightly and made a standard "please" gesture - but such etiquette seemed a bit ridiculous for an ogre.

"it is good."

But before stepping into the portal, Olivia turned around and stared at the familiar palace.

After hesitating for a moment, she asked softly, "Will His Majesty Cassius sleep for a long time?"

Olivia's worries were not without reason. For mortals, a dragon's sleep could mean their entire lives.

As for a "special" dragon like Cassius, even the Silver Dragon doesn't know how long the dragon will sleep.

ten years?

Thirty years?
Or fifty years?
She didn't know why she cared about how long an "enemy" had been sleeping, but this was undoubtedly an important issue for Silver Dragon.

Trump said in a deep voice: "Ms. Olivia, please don't worry. His Majesty said that he will wake up in a year."

“Is it so fast?”

Olivia let out a sigh of relief, and her expression became more relaxed. Everything seemed to be going as she expected.

The Silver Dragon is about to enter the empire's decision-making level and try his best to bring order and kindness to this empire.

She looked towards the palace again, tucked her long silver hair behind her ears, and for some reason, there was a hint of anticipation in her blue-gray eyes.

"Casius, have a good dream."

Olivia said in a barely audible voice, and then stepped into the portal leading to the Imperial Council Hall.

The cold wind blew across the Anzeta wilderness, the snow in the north gradually melted, and a few months passed quickly, and it was already approaching March.

In fact, in the initial period after the departure of the Falling Stars, the empire lost a lot of its development vitality.

Without those tireless, crazy guys, many factories are facing a shortage of manpower, many products are unsalable, and the development of technology has slowed down.

However, soon, the Chief Minister of the Empire launched many policies such as the "Imperial Protection Act", "Economic Boosting Strategy", "Foreign Trade Regulations", etc. to improve the treatment of workers, expand channels for foreign exports, and find a broader market for the empire.
The Burning Empire is a country that is still growing. The player's departure has only a limited impact. In addition, the war in the south is still going on, and orders for military equipment are continuous.

Without the help of players, although the development of the empire has slowed down slightly compared to before, the scale of industry is still gradually expanding, and the people of the empire are becoming visibly richer.

More and more Anzeta people came to the city from the countryside to pursue the so-called "imperial dream", hoping to become the wealthy people and dragon-blooded aristocrats as advertised.

For the vast majority of workers in the empire, the departure of the Falling Stars has made their lives a little better - at least those employers can no longer arbitrarily offer low prices.

In terms of external expansion, the Burning Empire has also achieved considerable results.

The southern continent advance team led by Earl Jesse Swan has completely established a foothold in the Caterpa area, built an indestructible fortress, and firmly controlled this land in the hands of the empire.

Not only that, the city of Tahan also became a post station for the Southern Continental Group of the Empire. Caravans constantly stationed there to conduct trade, and the city became quite prosperous.

They even extended their tentacles to Thrace in the south, built fortresses on the border between the Empire and the Kingdom of Thrace, and frequently sent out scouts to explore.

But Thrace was suffering from the war in the south and dared not speak out against the empire's attempts.

The Empire's conquest of the Elemental Plane of Fire was also progressing smoothly.

The Fire Elemental Plane Empire Legion led by Count Serkan also controlled the two former fire giant cities of Pig Iron and Black Iron, and had tens of thousands of fire elemental creatures under its command: fire lizards, fire dwarves, lava dragons and even fire giants all became citizens of the empire.

Not only that, he also achieved indirect colonization of the Brass Fortress.

Although the Brass Fortress is nominally still the territory of the Fire Dwarves, it has actually become the Empire's outpost on the Elemental Plane of Fire.

Most of the industrious fire dwarves work for the dragon-blood nobles and big businessmen from the empire, but this is all so-called "free employment."

Subsequently, the war between the Giant Empire and the Holy Flame Legion intensified, and the Empire took the opportunity to sell arms to both sides and made a fortune.

They also sent troops to occupy a fire giant city that was captured and abandoned by the Holy Flame Legion, and named it "New Borean Keep" - Count Serkan was a pure Borean Keep person.

As for the Underdark, the war of the Burning Empire has made the indigenous people of the underground world, such as the drow elves, gray dwarves, swamp bears, and deep gnomes, tremble.

The city occupied by the Shadow Dragonborn Drow, Black Wing, was ruthlessly destroyed by Count Hart and his army of skeletons, and all the Half-Shadow Dragonborn Drow in the city were massacred.

The empire's army of skeletal green-footed dragons and snakes swept in like a torrent, causing the underground world to tremble.

Coupled with the rumors of the "Burning World Dragon", the destruction of Dragon Shadow City, and the death of Mortifil, the Burning Empire naturally became an existence that must not be provoked in the eyes of the underground residents.

Another imperial earl, Zaiko, signed a lenient treaty with the gray dwarves who voluntarily surrendered to him, gave them very generous treatment, and spread the news throughout the Underdark.

The Upper Underdark is originally close to the surface and has large-scale contact with surface races, including but not limited to trade, raids, and conquest.

Soon, several surrounding city-states expressed nominal submission to the empire, including the underground gnomes of Seco Rock City, the gray dwarves of Hoanso, and the ratmen of the underground kingdom.
Even the drow elves of Mosoleia sent envoys, hoping to reach a temporary peace with the empire.

Even these evil and ambitious drow elves do not want to rashly provoke an empire with undead legions and red dragons.

In this way, through a combination of kindness and force, the Empire's Underdark Advance Legion occupied a large area of ​​land and became an emerging and expanding force in the Upper Underdark.

Gradually, the name of the Burning Empire spread not only to the continent of Feanso and the material plane, but also to the entire world of Erezega.

However, in the eyes of residents in different regions, the image of the Burning Empire is different.

It is a land of guns and cannons, a remote place where the north wind howls, an empire full of monsters, and the homeland of some nasty Primes.
Of course, there is one thing in common - that is, the empire is ruled by a powerful dragon. (End of this chapter)