Chapter 1407: Chapter 1407

Through Shaliya’s explanations and the materials in hand, Du You gradually understood the current situation here. The time since his departure was indeed not very long, and after accounting for various matters, only a month had passed in this world.

But in this one month, the entire situation had changed.

Because our own strength was too powerful, the Dark Empire now completely belonged to the Shenghai Empire and was being slowly digested.

The only reason it hadn’t been fully assimilated was that there were simply too many Cyborgs and Cyborg organizations here; cleaning them out was no easy feat. However, now, they are almost invisible on the surface.

Other empires around also refused to accept these people, making them akin to dogs that have lost their homes.

The Dark Empire could be said to have been renamed as a part of the Shenghai Empire. In response, the Krus Empire and the Beastman Empire protested continuously but dared not fight. The strength that the Shenghai Empire had demonstrated in this battle was simply too strong.

Not to mention the hidden forces, even the power shown in the fight against the Dark Empire was enough to annihilate them easily; they dared not make any rash moves. Initially, the two empires were considering and debating fiercely. But once the outcome became clear, they realized they had lost the opportunity. The masters of the Dark Empire were now all dead without a single survivor.

No, there might still be one perhaps fleeing or perhaps already dead, but that one wouldn’t make a difference.

Moreover, as a Cyborg, one might go mad at any moment, which might even backfire.

At the same time, since the Dark Empire had been cleared out, the alliance between the Krus Empire and Beastman Empire had been directly broken, and they could no longer join forces. On the contrary, both nations started to curry favor with the Shenghai Empire extensively.

Their bordering on land made transportation extremely convenient, and trade became frequent.

Trade routes that were initially cut in the sea were opened again, and to appease certain people’s anger, the Krus Empire even pulled out a host of high-ranking officers and officials to take the fall.

Those without any problems were dismissed, and those with issues were dealt with severely and harshly, making it obvious it was a show for their own people, which was indeed a complete submission.

But this type of action also left Du You no grounds to attack them, as there was absolutely no reason.

For the same reason, Shaliya and Luo Jia directly redeployed a large number of troops, starting to march towards the northern part of the continent. Latest content publıshed on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝘯𝘦𝘵

This place was just as they said; there were no countries, only various tribes. But many of these tribes were huge, not inferior to a nation at all, and they were very wary and xenophobic.

Since that was the case, Luo Jia simply proclaimed their surrender. Because these people had fiery temperaments, by sending some cannon fodder, they would surely launch sneak attacks, thus giving them an excuse.

Yet they never learned their lesson, always opting for various sneak attacks, which provided Luo Jia with all kinds of pretexts.

From time to time, assassination attempts occurred, and after the assailants were annihilated, any kind of blame could be pinned on them. Luo Jia’s army rampaged across the northern continent, annihilating and merging one tribe after another.

With other tribes and armies also joining the war here, under the stimulus of military honors and awards, everyone was highly enthusiastic. Especially the Beastmen, confronted with increasingly vast lands, they were excited beyond control.

Beastmen who were once from the Beastman Empire always felt inferior, but now, they considered themselves superior. With the support of the laws of the Shenghai Empire, these Beastmen felt even nobler than their kin.

Especially those Beastmen who had military merits, they were all recognized and worshipped by everyone.

With the Beastmen at the forefront, aided by Du You’s own soldiers, the advance in the north was very smooth. Although only a month had passed, according to Shaliya’s plans, it would probably take only half a year to completely take down the north.

At that time, it would be a long period of assimilation, and troops could be withdrawn for other tasks.

"According to the current situation, even after fully annexing the north, our experience points would still not be sufficient. My next plan is to clear out various islands along our empire’s coastline, and take control if possible."

"Would capturing these islands meet the advancement requirements?" Du You asked.

"Don’t know, maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But even if it doesn’t, the gap won’t be too big. At that point, we can take the final step by annexing the Quicksand Empire."

"The final move is to annex the Quicksand Empire then. At that time, we’ll see. If the experience points are nearly enough, we’ll start."

Du You now had some understanding of a tier seven territory; as long as his territory reached tier seven, a mere Desert Death God could not threaten him. Although tier seven branch of the armed forces’ structures did not exist, Du You was clear about the strength of tier seven forces. These were secrets hidden within the higher echelons, unknown to ordinary people.

Even those not part of the Dark web did not qualify to know about these matters before reaching tier seven.

Du You was aware now but was restricted by the contract, so he could not speak of it outright. Instead, he hinted at it sideways to inform Shaliya, so she could analyze some things for herself.

The last thing was domestic affairs within the empire. In this special kind of nation, the control inside the empire was very firm. As long as one firmly held all the high-end power, no one dared to rebel.

Now within the entire empire, all tier six were his soldiers, who would dare to create chaos.

Hence others had to comply with whatever Shaliya kept insisting on, or they would face annihilation.

The integration between humans and other races within the empire was going very well, with very few frictions arising. Even with dissatisfaction in their hearts, no one dared show it outwardly. To completely eliminate such issues could take many years and generations.

But now, being able to suppress it entirely showed that Shaliya had done well. Of course, to prevent the situation from escalating, different races were still separated into smaller groups as much as possible.

On the one hand, this did not allow them to assemble in large numbers and allowed them to interact with other races. On the other hand, having them in small groupings prevented overly conspicuous friction from arising.

Compared to external conquests, internal contradictions were the most troublesome.

"I will try to shift the internal focus to external wars as much as possible. But to fundamentally change this situation, it won’t be possible without decades." Shaliya made her final summary. To this, Du You could do nothing but encourage Shaliya to press on with her approach.