Chapter 270 God’s Chosen People from the Other Shore

“Your Highness Noah, a pioneering group on the border has found the coast and is now drawing a coastal map.”

When Noah regained consciousness once again and ended the descent of God that allowed him to experience the perspective of the gods, he received a message from the eastern border.

The territory he rules now basically comes from the former Augustus family, which was once a border noble family of a certain United Kingdom that has become history.

Urnos was the biggest prodigal son in the history of the Augustus family. In order to consolidate his power in the royal capital, he directly threw the family’s base to Noah, forcing the family to relocate.

After Noah took over this vast land, his territory now had borders and a direction to expand outward.

Although Noah’s development strategy is mainly based on operating existing territories, the pace of external exploration has not stopped.

Not only did Noah himself arrange people to explore the wilderness outside of civilization, but even among the people, there were also many fearless businessmen who tried to find the barbaric tribes in the wilderness and get rich overnight.

Some rare resources that are highly sought after in the civilized world are of no benefit to survival, which means that barbaric tribes far away from civilization will not cherish these resources even if they possess them.

This is the source of motivation for the merchants to explore the unknown wilderness, so Noah also issued a reward to find the eastern coastline.

Of course, when Noah posted the bounty, he had no expectations. How could the Eastern Coast be so easy to find? The vast wilderness that needed to be crossed was thousands of miles long, and there were countless giant beasts wandering around and monster clans entrenched there.

This piece of news was truly a surprise to Noah, because the pioneering group formed by his family had only explored 500 kilometers beyond the border, and the coastline was even further away.

“Okay, okay, which merchant group’s pioneering team is this? Contact them. I want to know the map of their route to the coastline.”

Noah, who has been promoted to a legend, can of course also go looking for the coastline. This is not a difficult task for him. He just needs to fly there, and it will take less than a day.

But what is the significance of this for the development of his territory? The unimpeded sky route of the legendary golden dragon is meaningless to most merchant groups. As for the ground roads, they are even more difficult and rugged. In theory, they are still impassable.

But now that a pioneering team has found the coastline, it means that there is a traversable road starting from his territory. Perhaps this road is still full of dangers and uncertainties, but since there is one, then two and three will be easy.

A trade route connecting the ocean is like a golden river flowing with gold. There is no need to explain the huge profits of ocean trade. Just look at the south where there are many city-states.

Even though the South had suffered from the disaster of the abyss, and there were legions of demons rampant on that land, half a century after the collapse of the gate of the abyss, no trace of the demons had long disappeared. This is both the power of civilization and the power of wealth.

“Reporting to Your Highness, this pioneering team belongs to the Silver Cross Chamber of Commerce.”

Lutitia, who had replaced Sifrea as Noah’s attendant, reported.

After completing the cleansing and purge of the fairies, Sifrea completely stepped forward and appeared in the public eye, filling the vacancy left by Elphinor’s beheading.

Today, the governor of the Valley of Fire is the appointed Fairy Queen. It is only a matter of time before she breaks through and becomes a legend.

The most interesting thing is that this appointment was issued by the Holy Dragon Noah, rather than being led by the king of the Kingdom of Atlas.

This is a true usurpation of power, an unforgivable act in any monarchy and a crime of trampling on royal power.

However, neither the tramplers nor the trampled ones cared about it. Even ordinary people took it for granted and no one thought there was anything wrong.

Even though the Valley of Fire and the surrounding three hundred miles of land were previously directly governed by the royal family, the ownership of this land has changed simply with the replacement of the current governor.

Things that would cause huge waves in other monarchies did not even cause the slightest ripple in the Kingdom of Atlas. Not to mention Noah’s subjects, even Urnos’ ministers were used to it.

Even if they heard the news, they would pretend not to see it. There was no such thing as writing a letter to criticize. Everyone knew that the Holy Dragon and the Augustus family were in the same boat. The change of territorial sovereignty was just a transfer from one hand to the right.

Therefore, this appointment did not cause any disturbance, and the only person who was hurt was the leader of the Wanfa Dragon Guard who had lost his name.

Once upon a time, she thought she was irreplaceable and her position was unshakable, but Sifrea’s sword shattered all her pride. Now that she had replaced her as the governor of the Valley of Fire, everything was going well, which made her even more depressed.

It seems to be the same whether she is there or not. The other party can not only take on all her responsibilities, but also do it better than her. This is the most discouraging thing.

“Silver Cross Chamber of Commerce?”

When Noah heard the name of the Chamber of Commerce, he immediately sensed something was wrong.
“What is the background of this Chamber of Commerce?”

The threshold to become a small businessman who can make money is not high. As long as you are smart enough and have a sharp eye, ordinary people can do it. But if you want to set up a chamber of commerce, the so-called vision, skills, and awareness are not necessary conditions. The key is background.

Without sufficient background, the entry tax alone could put an end to the dreams of countless small businessmen to become wealthy.

“Behind the Silver Cross Merchant Group is the Dawn Church.”

“The Dawn Church? That’s a bit troublesome.”

Noah nodded. Any chamber of commerce that could travel to various parts of the continent to trade either relied on the church or had the support of a great noble family.

Compared to the nobles, the church is obviously much more difficult to deal with, but it is normal for a merchant group to have a background in a large church if they can find the merchant group on the eastern coastline.

However, the trouble that Noah had expected did not occur. When the goblins sent by Noah went to negotiate with the Silver Cross Merchant Group, while offering a bounty to the other party, they also proposed to share the route explored by the other party.

A route that can bring in a steady flow of massive wealth. The Silver Cross Merchant Group with a large church background did not choose to confront the Holy Dragon, but chose to share.

The starting point of this route is in the Holy Dragon Territory, and the other end is a desolate coastline with no human presence. If one wants to turn this route into a river of gold, then the Holy Dragon that controls the starting point must join in.

When Noah learned that the Silver Cross Chamber of Commerce was very happy to hand over the route, this was the reason he heard, and it sounded very reasonable.

But Jinlong always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn’t tell exactly what it was.

Therefore, after Noah saw the easy route map and announced it, he also issued a statement, hoping that many powerful chambers of commerce would actively join in and use this route as a basis to open up more safe trade routes leading to the ocean.

Noah’s generosity and magnanimity were like casting a legendary forbidden technique in the city of Elishim, where business was already extremely prosperous. It caused an uproar and ignited the fire of desire in many people’s hearts.

Since then, the era of maritime trade belonging to the Holy Dragon Territory has begun. Along the routes opened up by the Silver Cross Merchant Group, many ambitious chambers of commerce have also formed teams, hoping to explore shorter, safer and more convenient routes.

Of course, there were also chambers of commerce that did not hope to gain wealth from the ocean, but to find undiscovered treasures along this route. In just less than five years, more and safer routes were discovered, and some small and medium-sized merchants dared to take a dozen scaly-horned horses and step into the wilderness to find wild tribes to trade with.

“This really surprises me. I thought it would take at least another two or three hundred years before my territory would be exposed to maritime trade. I didn’t expect someone to have found a safe route so early.”

When the special resources from the ocean were brought to Elishim, even the Holy Dragon in the mountains was quite surprised. He looked at the red coral jade in front of him, and looked at the dragon fairy Lutetia beside him.
“What do you think about this matter?”

“There are too many accidents and coincidences.”

The three great fairy giants, no, the three great giants are gone, the only dragon fairy who has the qualifications to compete with Shifraya answered in a low voice.

According to her understanding, it is not uncommon for a qualified business path that can bring stable profits to take two or three generations from initial discovery and exploration to stabilization.

After several explorations, the distance of this trade route has been shortened to 1,600 kilometers. It was discovered in less than five years.

Can this be called exploration?
Either each of these exploration teams is led by a prophet or seer whose predictions are always accurate, or there is some existence providing guidance.

The paths taken by those so-called pioneering teams had already been marked out long ago. They were just following the established routes, so there was no risk.

“Yes, there are too many coincidences, so many that they can no longer be called coincidences.”

Noah also knew how outrageous it was that this ocean trade route, which started from his own territory and went straight to the ocean, appeared in just five years. Even if he led the team himself, he might not be able to figure it out, but it appeared.

Are the luck values ​​of those explorers maxed out? Is this a joke?
Some guys really don’t even bother to pretend, and they don’t even bother to act any more.

However, although the signs of being arranged were so obvious, Noah still couldn’t see the significance of this move. A trade route connecting the ocean would bring real wealth, and Noah couldn’t refuse it.

“Your Highness, what should we do?”

“what can we do?”

Noah sneered. Although he had noticed the obvious abnormality, he really had no countermeasures, nor was it necessary. Closing the trade route was equivalent to cutting off the gold river. Not only could the merchants not bear it, but Noah himself could not bear it.

“Just wait and see what happens!”

When Noah was 126 years old, unusual changes occurred in the trade route that had continuously brought a large amount of wealth to the Holy Dragon Treasury.

“Your Highness Noah, a fleet of shipwrecked survivors was discovered at the Voyager Harbor.

According to the investigation conducted by the dragon elves stationed at the harbor, these refugees do not come from our Zealandia continent, but from the other side of the Alvis continent. “

“Refugees from the Alvis continent, what’s so special about them?”

Noah spoke in a steady, calm and composed tone.

Now, he is one of the top extraordinary beings standing on the continent of Zealandia, and the forces under his command, even if they are separated from the Kingdom of Atlas, are the undisputed overlords. He has the confidence to face and meet all kinds of challenges.

“According to our investigation, these refugees are all believers of the Lord of Dawn, and the one who protected and led them across the ocean was a group of holy warriors.”

“A follower of the Lord of the Dawn?”

Noah couldn’t help but spit out a breath of fire and sneered.
“After all this detour, this is it?”

“The paladin on board asks us to take in these refugees.”

“How many refugees are there?”

“Less than 20,000.”

“Less than 20,000? Then order Harbor City to relocate them on the spot.”

Noah said without hesitation.

Merchants are willing to go to the wilderness in pursuit of profits, but ordinary civilians, even some small nobles, are unwilling to leave their homes and go to the wilderness, as that would literally mean losing their lives.

The word “open up” is easy to say, but it was built bit by bit at the cost of human lives, so the trade routes he obtained were just trade routes.

Only at the end, the Chamber of Commerce had established a few gathering points, but they were sparsely populated, and Noah only symbolically sent two fairies to garrison there to declare his dominance.

Now a fleet was sent from the other side of the ocean, and Noah naturally accepted it without hesitation. Although they had faith, Noah didn’t mind at all. He didn’t rely on faith to get by.

However, Noah’s order was only delivered to the voyager port on the eastern coastline. The dragon fairy stationed at the port discovered that a series of black spots appeared on the sea level.

The second refugee fleet arrived, and unsurprisingly, they were also believers of the Lord of Dawn. It was said that they were persecuted by a kingdom that believed in a tyrannical monarch and had to flee.

“How did you find this place?”

If it happened once, it could be considered a coincidence, but if it happened twice, it’s clearly nonsense.

“This is the divine revelation given by the Lord of Light!”

The old man, wrapped only in rags but with a peaceful look on his face, answered the fey creature with alien features in front of him.

“What else does your divine revelation tell you?”

The dragon fairy looked at the group of refugees in front of him, who were pale and thin but quiet and able to obey orders, and a strange look appeared in his eyes.

“The Lord told us that this is a place of glory and we will get everything we want here.”

(End of this chapter)