Chapter 763: Chapter 752: I Look Forward to the Day When All Flowers Bloom Together Chapter 763: Chapter 752: I Look Forward to the Day When All Flowers Bloom Together “I’ve asked you all here so that we can discuss the future development of our academy students.”

Muria sat at the head of the table, looking at the twelve ancient dragons situated beneath him. Along with these twelve ancient dragons, he would decide the direction of Dragon Clan Academy’s development, which would potentially impact the future of two thousand giant dragons.

“What do you wish to discuss, Prince Muria?” A few of the ancient dragons glanced at each other, and then Ancient Golden Dragon Laeonin asked.

“Do you still remember the martial display during the opening ceremony of the Dragon Clan Academy?” Muria asked with a smile.

“Vividly.”

“Fresh in our memory.”

“Still unforgettable.”

…These ancient dragons showed full respect to Muria, primarily due to the impressive performance put on by the Five-Colored Dragons.

“Do you also remember the manner of fighting of the twelve Five-Colored Dragons that I taught?” Muria asked again.

“Of course, the one left to deepest impression on me was the first Red Dragon who fought in the show. I remember it possessing a physique that rivals adult Golden Dragons, especially its spellcasting abilities. I can’t help but question if it was born to the wrong race.”

“Indeed, this Red Dragon is remarkable, but I’m more impressed by the Rune Dragon that came later. Every one of its scales is inscribed with runes. With every movement, it has the power of runes enhancing it, overpowering an adult Blue Dragon with absolute advantage.”

“I, on the other hand, recall the Black Dragon who is capable of breathing five types of Dragon Breath…”

“It appears that you all remember these twelve dragons very well!” Muria gently tapped the table and interrupted the discussion amongst the ancient dragons. “That is exactly what I wanted to discuss. Those twelve dragons who fought in the display, each of them represents a potential future development path for the Dragon Clan.”

“One dragon represents one development path?” The ancient dragons appeared surprised.

“Red Dragon Auston, who was the first to take the stage, represents the most conventional and mundane path. Through systematic education, proper diets, and breakthrough rigorous training, they can possess strength beyond their kind at their age and reach the ultimate spellcasting capacity when they reach their age limit.

This path is suitable for the majority of the giant dragons, but not for some extraordinarily talented dragons. So, another eleven dragons appeared, and the paths they represented. They modify themselves, inscribe runes on their scales, transplant organs, mount magic armors onto their bodies, or even elementalize their bodies… Each choice represents a possibility that could bring about the full potential of a giant dragon.”

“Your Majesty, forgive my frankness, but we believe that it’s sufficient to have the young ones walk the first path. All paths beyond that are heresies, leading to nowhere and a futureless end.”

Hearing Muria’s passionate speech, one of the ancient dragons could no longer hold back and spoke. He denigrated the development path pioneered by the eleven giant dragons under Muria as heresy.

“I am of the opinion that we should forbid the young dragons from studying these heresies. They waste their time and efforts for nothing. Those fighting styles may seem potent now, but they have no future. Can they sustain these fighting styles into their legendary age?”

“Your Majesty, I feel the same way. Relying on external factors to enhance oneself may render one temporarily powerful, but what about the future? There is essentially no path ahead. These are dead ends, roads to doom. They should be strictly prohibited.”

“Great, we have two objections.” Seeing the ancient dragons that proposed prohibition, Muria nodded, “Who else feels this should be prohibited, let me see.”

Soon, a handful of arms extended in the grand hall, which made Muria’s face increasingly grave. “Who agrees? Are there any dragons that feel these dragons should be encouraged to persevere in their research and continue on their path?”

In the grand hall, only one arm was raised, belonging to Ancient Green Dragon Fiona. Muria glanced at her hand and sighed with a sense of helplessness. He knew this dragon would support him unconditionally and without reservation, regardless of what he said, she would support it.

“So you decide to forbid them from exploring potential future developments merely because these paths lack a future?” Muria asked with a stern expression. In between his words, faint golden arc light flickered across his face, a manifestation of his anger.

“Such ignorance, such short-sightedness. I feel like pounding them with my fist.” As much as he wished to, Muria did not put his thoughts into action. He suppressed his anger and questioned these ancient dragons,
“I ask you, when humans first rose to power, how many options did they have? How many professional systems existed? According to my research into the ancient texts, they went through untold hardships and pains to merely explore three paths. The first is physical training and Fighting Qi cultivation to become a warrior. The second is meditation and Mental Power cultivation to be a mage. The third path is praying to gods, becoming their underlings.”

“But now, how many paths can the human children choose from? As far as I know, there are at least eleven basic professions, including warrior, assassin, priest, mage, druid, forest wanderer, and many more. Furthermore, these basic professions have evolved even higher levels of job systems,”
To give you an example, just the professions derived from knights include medical knights, holy grail knights, central ring knights, wind knights, arcane knights, and even dragon knights.

Then there are the more powerful legendary professions, such as elementalist, cursed sword master, super magic curse master, weapon master. These are professions familiar to you, so I don’t need to enumerate each one.

Estimate for yourselves how many power branches humans have developed up to now.

And what about us, the Dragon Race? We are still treading in place. In ancient times, dragons fought with their bodies. Even now, most dragons still rely on their body and the talents given by their bloodlines to fight. There has barely been any change.”

So what has changed for us dragons compared to ancient times? Our bloodlines are weakening. With each generation, dragons become weaker. In ancient times, there were many dragons of the ancient generation. And now? How many ancient dragons remain? If it were not for the birth of a Dragon King from time to time to slow the weakening of the dragon bloodline, the Dragon Race would be in a worse state than it is now.”

This situation should have changed long ago. We, the Dragon Race, should find new paths suited to us, and not just rely on bloodlines passed down from ancient times.”

Muria stood in the hall, rebuking these ancient dragons, “If there’s no path, we make one. Even at the risk of our lives, it’s worth it. The Dragon Race must escape the predicament of relying on bloodlines.”

Muria reasoned with the facts and a series of challenges, leaving the ancient dragons in silence. After thinking about it, they found that everything Muria said made sense.”

For dragons, it’s true that the present is worse than the past. The Dragon Race is indeed declining with each generation. Although the speed of decline is slow, it’s visible.”

The emergence of the Dragon King can only prolong the rate of bloodline decline, but it cannot prevent it. The age of huge beasts dominating is over. It’s no longer the era of massive beasts.”

No race in the world can dominate solely based on bloodline talents anymore. Even the most powerful race in the world, the Titan Tribe, and the Blazing Sky God Race, still forge weapons to enhance their defense and attack. They learn techniques to improve themselves, making full use of their power without relying solely on their powerful bloodlines.”

“Your Majesty, you’re right. We shouldn’t be complacent anymore. It’s time to find some ways for dragons to walk further.”

After a secret discussion, the Metallic Ancient Dragons had no choice but to defer to Muria. After hearing Muria’s words, they also had the idea to give it a try. The pioneers are undoubtedly the two thousand dragons of the Dragon Clan Academy.”

“Your Majesty, what should we do?” the ancient dragons asked impatiently.

“You don’t have to do anything.” Muria smiled slightly and said something that shocked the ancient dragons, “What you need to do is to pass on all your knowledge to the young dragons who have not yet grown up. Build a solid foundation for them and then give them the freedom to develop and choose their own path.”

“This…”

“Build a solid foundation for the juvenile dragons, then give them freedom,” Muria said from the high platform, outlining his plans. The youngest dragons in the Dragon Clan Academy are just broken from their shells, and the oldest are adolescent dragons. Their ages are not much different from Muria. Muria plans to set them free, allowing them to develop on their own.

“You’ve been talking for a while, isn’t this just reducing the curriculum as we previously suggested?” Some ancient dragons were somewhat speechless. Doesn’t granting them freedom mean that they don’t have to attend classes and can play as they wish?”

“It’s not the same. The premise of giving them freedom is to have a solid foundation and master all necessary knowledge,” Muria refuted the ancient dragons’ doubts,” If they don’t learn anything and know nothing, what can they develop with? What can they create?”

“So which dragons are we giving the privilege of skipping classes? Let them freely express themselves and find a new path for our Dragon Race? They’ve already taken the classes, but how much they’ve learned, we don’t know!”

“That’s simple. Just conduct a graduation examination. Dragons that pass the test will be free from following the timetable. They will be free and have the right to receive tasks.”

“Tasks?”

“Yes, freedom comes with responsibility. I won’t let them do as they wish.” Muria smiled slightly. If some dragons passed the exam, he would then send these foundation-strengthened dragons to perform tasks in different places through Xena Pus’s teleportation array.”

I am truly looking forward to the expressions on the faces of those dragons who think that passing the exam means they can sleep in every day. But I look forward even more to the day when the Dragon Race will flourish under my guidance.

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