DND Realms: The Rise of the Titan-Dragon Prodigy

"Don't even think about causing trouble!" Muria lightly tapped the head of the loli princess Remilia, whose eyes were shining with mischief. In her ruby-like eyes, Muria saw some bad ideas forming.

"Ah! Brother Muria, I wasn't thinking about sabotaging those airships!" Remilia said, holding her head with both hands and rubbing where she was tapped. She quickly explained, but as soon as she finished, she covered her mouth, realizing her slip of the tongue. She had foolishly revealed her thoughts.

"You were thinking of sabotaging the airships?" Muria found it amusing and pinched Remilia's soft, delicate cheek.

"No, I wasn't. You heard wrong." Remilia, whose face was being shaped in various ways under Muria's hand, murmured softly, clinging to a bit of hope.

"So far, I have requisitioned more than 2,400 airships. Do you want to destroy them all?" After enjoying the feel of Remilia's soft cheek, Muria asked with a smile.

The young man in white robes looked up slightly towards the direction of the floating cloud islands. From his current position, he could see four "thin lines" connecting the cloud islands to the distance.

These were formed by airships loaded with supplies, transporting resources from all over the country to the cloud islands to meet the needs of the island transformation project.

Seeing this scene, Muria couldn't help but think of the twenty breathtaking spatial vortices above the Sky Mechanical City of Osiris, and the twenty streams of iron composed of various warships connected to them.

"If I could borrow a fleet like that, it would take at most a month to solve the material transportation problem," Muria thought, but he quickly dismissed the idea. "That's too pathetic. If I really had such a fleet, I wouldn't need to transport materials; I could just raid some evil races' countries."

While Muria was lost in impractical fantasies, Remilia, startled by the number Muria had mentioned, fell into contemplation. After touring the country, she was no longer the naive loli princess she used to be.

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At the end of the second year after the demon disaster, and in Muria's twelfth year of rule, an explosive piece of news spread throughout the Lokman Kingdom: Regent Grand Duke Muria was going to officiate Princess Remilia's coronation and personally crown her.

Every noble who heard this news was overjoyed. The message was clear: the powerful Golden Dragon Duke was finally leaving the Lokman Kingdom.

For the nobles of Lokman Kingdom, having a ruler from the lawful good faction wasn't unbearable. But when this ruler wielded absolute power and acted with extreme dominance, it became very difficult to bear.

At the beginning of Muria's rule, he had executed many nobles to establish his authority. Because of the presence of the ten ancient dragons, no noble dared to voice any dissent.

In such a situation, all the nobles of Lokman, including the seven dukes with legendary strength, behaved themselves, restraining their hidden claws and tentacles, and keeping their families in check to avoid attracting the regent duke's hostility and disgust.

Any noble who didn't restrain themselves and enjoyed making trouble ended up hanging from the trees outside the royal city, so the remaining nobles were very clear-headed, knowing what to do and what not to do.

It's worth mentioning that during Muria's tenure as regent duke, the number of paladins in Lokman Kingdom multiplied several times. This was naturally the result of nobles trying to cater to Muria's preferences.

Those in power have preferences, and those below will follow suit.

To please the ruler, the nobles would do anything. Training their descendants to become noble paladins was just the beginning. Many nobles even dressed up their daughters and granddaughters beautifully, trying every possible way to send them to Muria's side, though with little success.

In general, most nobles were extremely displeased with a ruler like Muria, and Muria didn't show them much favor either, seizing every opportunity to wield the executioner's blade.

The most ruthless massacre by Muria occurred during the demon disaster. The increasingly powerful random demon appearances terrified the nobles scattered throughout the kingdom.

So, some nobles initially abandoned their territories and people, fleeing to the capital with their families, seeking refuge. For such irresponsible nobles, Muria showed no mercy, executing every one he caught who had fled to the capital, charging them with dereliction of duty.

In Muria's view, since commoners supported nobles, nobles had the obligation to protect commoners in times of disaster. It was a mutually beneficial relationship, not one-sided exploitation.

If nobles didn't protect commoners, why should commoners work themselves to death to support them? Enjoying all the benefits during peaceful times but abandoning the commoners in times of disaster was unacceptable.

After Muria executed over a thousand nobles who fled to the capital with their families, no other nobles dared to flee to the capital.

They chose other places to flee. Many weaker nobles were unwilling to stay in their territories, seeing it as waiting for death.

Seeking advantage and avoiding harm is human nature. Facing life-threatening danger, wanting to flee is normal, but Regent Duke Muria couldn't tolerate such behavior from nobles or didn't agree with it.

Hunter Monuments were spread across every city in the Lokman Kingdom. Even in the most backward city, if a legendary demon appeared, a legendary ancient dragon would respond to a call for help.

In such circumstances, Muria could not tolerate nobles fleeing their territories. So, in the middle to later stages of the demon disaster, Muria formed inspection and hunting teams with mages and chromatic dragons who had allied with him, specializing in hunting down fleeing nobles.

After rolling heads and mountains of corpses, no nobles dared to abandon their territories. In the latter stages of the demon disaster, some even lived next to Hunter Monuments.

Given such treatment, almost no noble in the Lokman Kingdom had a good opinion of Muria. So, upon hearing the news of Princess Remilia's upcoming coronation, they naturally celebrated.

Finally, the Golden Dragon Duke, who liked to wield the blade and execute them at the slightest provocation, was leaving.

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