After Kemun heard Vaan’s suggestion, he could only give Vaan a wry look. If only it were that simple. He was certain that Pedyssin would just find another reason to nitpick with him.
“There’s no need for that, Supreme Leader. I believe him,” Pedyssin stated, contrary to what she had said earlier. Then, she glanced at Kemun. “Since the Supreme Leader has intervened, I’ll let you off the hook this time, Lord Kemun.”
Kemun heaved a sigh of relief after he heard that.
In fact, the problem started when Pedyssin caught sight of a young female dragon hitting on him. In other words, Pedyssin was jealous and, perhaps, self-conscious of her age.
It was tough being a male dragon sometimes – Kemun lamented.
Moving forward, Vaan summoned the nine dragon lords for a meeting at the Dragon Summit.
None of the dragon lords dared to take their time. Thus, they all arrived swiftly after putting aside their activities.
Afterward, Vaan explained the situation to the dragon lords.
“So the Holy Knight Empire’s invasion is inevitable, huh?” Astarot muttered with a deep look before asking, “What do you require from us and the Red Dragon Clan as a whole, Supreme Leader?”
“We have an agreement with Queen Henrietta that requires us to lend our assistance in defending the Kingdom of Black Rose from foreign invasions. Although this agreement was made for Gehenna, the Holy Knight Empire is also considered a foreign force…”
“I didn’t think there would be a day we have to intervene in a conflict that isn’t related to Gehenna,” Astarot mentioned with a concerned look.
After all, the Red Dragon Clan wasn’t ready to reveal all of their cards to the world.
“Don’t worry, Lord Astarot. I will not have the whole clan participate in this war personally. After all, sending everyone out will defeat the purpose of making Gehenna overestimate our true strength,” Vaan calmly stated.
“Only the young dragon elites will join the war. The rest will play a supportive role in manufacturing equipment and magic tools to strengthen the kingdom’s troops.”
“How many young dragon elites are we expecting to reach Rank 5 after seven days?” Vaan enquired shortly after.
The nine dragon lords quickly shared their data before they reached a rough evaluation.
“Including Zodreg and the others, we can expect a total of twenty young elites to Rank 5 by the end of the seven days, Supreme Leader,” Astarot answered.
“Twenty Rank 5 True Dragons, huh?” Vaan softly muttered with a nod of approval.
Considering the might of dragons, twenty Low-level Rank 5 True Dragons would possess the same combat prowess as twenty Mid-level Rank 5 beings.
If they joined forces, they could stand their ground against High-level Rank 5 beings and buy some time.
“This… This is incredible,” the sixth dragon lord, Tyvrin, commented with astonishment after inspecting most of the Rank 4 pieces of equipment. “To think humans have advanced this much with Pangea metals…”
“Right,” Astarot nodded as he traced his claws on a piece of equipment and glimpsed into vague and fragmented memories of the equipment’s creation process. “In order to produce this quality of equipment purely with just Pangea metals, they have to use a special fire and a sophisticated refining process.”
“If we look at the Kingdom of Black Rose’s rate of development, it would have taken them several hundred more years to achieve this level of advancement, and that’s if they focus on magic metallurgy studies.”
“Unfortunately, their focus lies in magic. Thus, I can kind of see why the Kingdom of Black Rose is falling behind in this field, but at the same time, not really. This knowledge doesn’t seem to originate from Gehenna,” Astarot stated with a puzzled look.
Even if the Devil’s Contractors could borrow the knowledge of the Great Devils to produce such quality equipment, that was only applicable to Gehenna metals.
However, the equipment before them was made purely with Pangea metals.
Knowledgeable as the Great Devils were, even they would take time to learn about Pangea’s resources and produce quality items from them.
Furthermore, it didn’t make much sense for the Great Devils to teach such refining knowledge to the humans; that was no different from strengthening their enemies.
“I agree with Lord Astarot’s opinion,” Narvim supported.
“The knowledge used to produce these pieces of equipment doesn’t originate from Gehenna. For example, take a look at this Rank 5 sword. This doesn’t look like something humans should be able to produce even if they were given a thousand years.”
“It seemed like a master artificer used some highly-advanced techniques meant for higher-rank materials to produce this. There’s hidden knowledge in these items that even we can benefit from learning,” Narvim added.
“The problem is that these items aren’t limited to the Assembly of Silent Night. The Holy Knight Empire possesses many pieces of equipment of such qualities, and possibly the rest of the Pangea, too,” Vaan mentioned with a frown after listening to the dragon lords.
“If what you all say is true, then the metallurgy knowledge and refining techniques used to produce these quality items must have originated from a reincarnator of this universe.”
“That does seem to be the most plausible explanation, Supreme Leader,” Astarot and the other dragon lords agreed.
In that instant, it became more apparent to them that more advanced civilizations existed out there somewhere among the stars.
Nevertheless, moving forward, Vaan listed a number of items for the dragons to produce, which included communication type, barrier type, spatial-interference field type, image-capturing-type, sound-recording-type, and one-time explosive-type magic tools, among several other requirements.
Vaan also drew down rough blueprints for each requirement and explained their functions, leaving the finer details for the dragons to handle. When he checked with the dragon lords, they were able to confirm they could produce such particular magic tools according to his requirements.
After the meeting with the dragon lords concluded, Vaan brought a large number of empty memory crystals back to Sunpeak Town.
By then, a new day had just started as the sun slowly rose on the horizon.