Chapter : 76.1 : A New Era of War

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This was already five years after the Red Flower incident, the Six-Legged Pythons had a very low profile during this period. But secretly, the development of the race grew even further. A talented Six-Legged Python became the new leader of the pack, it was more than five times larger than its companions, and even a genetic mutation could not be so exaggerated.

The reason was that five years ago, the one red flower obtained by the Six-Legged Python was fed to this leader. In five years, it continuously got bigger and bigger, in the end, it broke the limit of the race of the Six-Legged Python. Finally, by the end of the day, this super Six-Legged Python sensed that the time had arrived.

The ambition hidden in its heart began to stir again. Once again, the road to supremacy began for this group.

On the second continent, Six-Legged Pythons were like a horde of animals. Wherever the Six-Legged Python passed, everything avoided them. Even the Saber-Toothed Tiger and the Giant Brown Bear quickly ran away. The super Six-Legged Python led the other pythons and came to the largest lake.

Ekyn was still in its prime at that time, as the second Godzilla, Ekyn had a very long life span. His six children had also grown up but they were not fully adults, so Ekyn became furious when he felt the Six-Legged Python's presence. He opened his eyes directly and slammed.

"Here it is, here it comes..." Sebastian was watching with great interest.

It was a battle between giant monsters. This time, the body sizes of Ekyn and the super Six-Legged Python were comparable. The fight was amazing because both of them were equally matched. At this level of battle, the other Six-Legged Python could not help at all, they could only stand aside and be a cheerleader!

After a day of battle, when both Ekyn and the super Six-Legged Python were exhausted, a gigantic crescent-shaped creature appeared. This was also a giant creature that had taken a red flower and it turned out to be a very common eel.

After taking the red flower, its body became massive. By this, not only did the size of the body become larger but even its intelligence had increased. It was hiding on the side during the battle between Ekyn and the super Six-Legged Python and was getting ready to ambush nearby. It was waiting quietly for the opportunity.

When both of them were exhausted, it suddenly burst out, straight to Ekyn.

Ekyn was killed. He was unprepared and exhausted; it was no match for the giant Eel at present. After being tackled to the ground, he struggled desperately for a few moments, but then, he was killed by this giant Eel.

After killing Ekyn, the giant Eel did not stop and turned to the super Six-Legged Python on the side. The super Six-Legged Python couldn't even run away because it didn't have much strength either. It also followed the footsteps of Ekyn in this battle of the behemoths for supremacy.

But before dying, Ekyn let out a roar that resonated through the sky. This was a warning sound for the six Godzillas.

After that, the giant Eel claimed the entire continent and constantly hunted the race of Six-Legged Pythons. From nearly 200 Six-Legged Pythons in their heyday to the last, there were only a few left to hide everywhere like insects.

On the cliffside, they were facing the giant eel coming after them. A Six-Legged Python took two small pythons and pushed them down into the sea while that Six-Legged Python was killed by the giant Eel.

The giant Eel looked at the small Six-Legged Python that sank into the sea but did not dare to chase them down. There was something odd with these two small pythons, one of them had two heads while the other one had too many teeth!

After settling the Six-Legged Pythons, the giant Eel's gaze was directed to Ekyn's six Godzilla offspring. However, the giant Eel searched for a long time but still failed to find the whereabouts of the six little ones.

At the same time, other races had also evolved on this ground. Back then, the creatures that had taken the red flower gradually grew up and ambushed in the shady forest. They were getting ready to launch a surprise attack on the giant Eel at any time.

The giant Eel seemed to sense the crisis, so he restrained his actions gradually. Peace had been restored on the second continent. This peace lasted for half a century until a new intelligent race was born.

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Seeing nothing major happening on the second continent, for the time being, Sebastian could only turn his gaze back to the First Continent as well.

On the First Continent, the environment was excellent in most of the places. It was perfect for human habitation.

At that moment, the Greater Terra was not very big. The main reason why the population kept growing was that the conditions were much better compared to Earth in his previous life. However, what often destroys a dynasty is not a natural disaster, it is human-made.

The Imperium was unaware of it and it also lasted for hundreds of years. When it came to Fabre's generation, the atmosphere of the whole Imperium had slowly begun to change. There was a long-lasting peace plus there were no external threats, it could be said that it was too peaceful.

Academic research became more and more agonizing, and gradually fewer and fewer people worked on it, while Entertainment's life gradually became the mainstream. Casinos, restaurants, taverns, and so on, business was getting more and more prosperous, and even Fabre, the emperor, was also obsessed with parties and banquets. There were more and more concubines in the harem.

By Fabre's twentieth year, this atmosphere had reached an unprecedented level, people were after all kinds of entertainment celebrities. The one-time appearance fee of the so-called talented girl of the opera and the brothel could be tens of thousands of tales of coins. It was more than a year's salary for an ordinary scientist.

Under the surface of this prosperity, something was surging in the dark. Fabre did not suppress the three institutes but the three academies had not forgotten Lewis's attacks on them.

In the dark, the research on gunpowder had never stopped. In this same year, a new type of weapon was invented and it immediately replaced the musket and became mainstream. It was the Matchlock. Its appearance and popularity had truly changed the mode of war.

The earlier batch of muskets had a hole in the back of the barrel and shooters needed a gun in one hand, while the other hand held the flint to ignite the firing charge inside the musket. It was clear that this method of holding the gun was very unstable and it was also impossible to aim.

But the structure of the matchlock gun was very simple. All it took was a person holding a simple trigger underneath the body of the gun, linked to a brace that held the fire rope. When pulling the trigger, the fire rope would be sent to the primer. The ignition of the primer would subsequently ignite the launch charge in the chamber. Then the gun would shoot bullets with the shooter holding the gun steadily and aiming.

The accuracy was greatly increased by the invention of the matchlock gun. In this era, the conventional weapons of the military were still bows and arrows. Those bows and arrows were made of Starfall Iron and they were very strong. Not to mention, a few of the elite would also add vibranium.

Still, it was not something that could fight against but the invention of the matchlock gun was kind of a start, at the very least. It lets the research scientists hope.

Fabre did not suppress the three institutes but he didn't pay much attention either, so the allocations were getting decreased every year. The scientists had become less popular with changes in the social atmosphere, so there was no qualitative leap across fields.

Many scientists changed their careers. They told random stories and became celebrities, they could even earn a decent appearance fee by this. Doesn't it seem good?

A painstaking research work did not produce any results. In the end, they didn't even have money for their family. Scientists were in unrest but they could only hold back for now.

The 27th year was important because, for this year, improvements to the matchlock took one step further and the flintlock was born in that year. This was a better firearm than the matchlock, it was based on ignition that came from a blow of flint against steel, with the sparks directed into the priming powder in the pan.

When shooting, one only had to pull the trigger. Under the action of the spring, it would hit the flint heavily on the edge of the fire door and a spark would emerge to ignite the gunpowder.

The emergence of the flintlock rifle greatly simplified the firing process and improved the firing rate and shooting accuracy, it was also extremely easy to use. In addition, it didn't cost much and was easy to produce in large quantities.

This kind of weapon had a great use and its appearance drew the attention of many people from all three institutes.

Later that night, the first flintlock gun with documentation and maker disappeared, almost anyone could guess that it must be some significant person who hid it.

After a fruitless fight, an angry scientist took the matter straight to Fabre. Fabre was spoiled but his brain was not a mess. After hearing the story, he just knew the seriousness of the matter.

Just in time, many ministers could not bear to see the three academies as nobles. Fabre had a hot head, so he directly gave orders. The case was made into a major rebellion case, almost all the principals of the three academies were arrested and thrown in jail.

The truth of the matter was that the man who stole the flintlock was not a certain power, nor was it any ambitious person but he was just a scientist with the same philosophy as Kai. He also thought that this was a weapon of the devil. According to him, it should not exist in the world.

When he saw a bunch of friends and teachers being taken away, he was scared and handed the flintlock rifle over to an officer.

The officer owed a large debt for his time at the casino. With a ruthless heart, the flintlock and related information were sold out to a casino owner. This casino owner was very close to one of the vice presidents of the three institutes and the casino owner was also a loyalist. He immediately went to the vice presidents of three institutes who had not yet been arrested. Together with these people, they decided to start a prison break.

The flintlock gun was mass-produced in a very short time. After one month, the casino owner with men and flintlock, raided the prison at night. The power of the flintlock caught the guards off guard and no one expected a jailbreak either, so there were not even a lot of soldiers here.

The result was obvious, all the scientists and other prisoners escaped but while leaving the City, they were pursued by the city guards. After a fierce battle, the crowd scattered to escape.

Fabre was furious when he got the news, so he ordered an all-out pursuit. Most of them were captured, and a small number of them escaped with flintlock guns without knowing where to go.

Under the wrath of Fabre, all three institutes were closed and the scientists also withdrew their names one by one. This incident became the fuse that turned the Imperium from prosperity to decline.

After losing a large number of scientists, various areas of the Imperium were no longer developing.