Chapter 2977: Bloodline Magic, True Racial Equality

However, as an outsider like Saville, who possesses not even a shred of dragon bloodline within his body, he is fundamentally unable to enter the threshold of Dragon Magic; such a situation is extremely rare even among vassal states, as most humans in those vassal states are able to cross the threshold of spellcasting through their bloodlines.

And then they can learn Dragon Magic.

The Elves of that Plane still possess an Elven Magic heritage, but it is very niche; basically, not many Elves or humans go to study it, and any Elf with aspirations to develop within the Holy Golden Dragon Empire will choose Dragon Magic from the very beginning.

Bloodline is also not a problem; after countless years of interbreeding, those Elves all have a certain amount of dragon bloodline to a greater or lesser extent, and even if one is a "squib," they can be activated through certain spell rituals.

In other words, in the Holy Golden Dragon Empire Plane, almost every sentient being can cast spells.

Only Saville, the outsider, because he is of pure human bloodline, finds it very difficult to cast Dragon Magic directly even if he can understand it; all he can do is analyze and simulate.

And this has also caused Saville's progress in the field of Dragon Magic to be very slow over the past four years.

Because Xia Duo had prior knowledge of and had even briefly studied the Bloodline Magic of Calimshan, and because he himself possesses a special bloodline, he was able to understand the Enlightenment Book of Dragon Magic almost immediately after seeing it in Saville's memories.

This magic system is indeed very similar to the Bloodline Magic of Calimshan.

It is just that for a Scholar (a synonym for Bloodline Mage) in Calimshan to reach the limit of the Magic Net is not an easy matter, and it has very little to do with the bloodline; once the bloodline reaches a certain level, the lower limit can never be broken through.

The general trend was that the dragons eventually defeated the Elves and became the rulers of the Plane, and all other races without exception became vassals of the dragons, as well as points for population growth for the dragons.

Of course, in that process, the Golden Dragons were also transforming the dragon race bit by bit, until the advent of a key technology made the true unification of the various races possible.

Moreover, the process would not be very smooth, and the ruling foundation after unification would not be very stable.

Against the grand background of the struggle for hegemony between the two races, there were actually the conflicts between Dwarves and Giants, and the conflicts between sea and land races, but those were not the grand historical trends.

This kind of key technology was obviously the Promotion Ritual.

Of course, the era that Saville arrived in was already more than ten thousand years after the dragons defeated the Elves to become the rulers of the Plane; the rule of the dragon race over those ten thousand-plus years was not stable, and there were frequent rebellions by various races.

Seeing this period of history, Xia Duo became even more interested in this kind of technology; the Main Plane is also a multi-race coexisting plane, and if there were a technology that could first assimilate the various races, the difficulty of unifying the plane would definitely be reduced by more than half.

Xia Duo was absorbing those Golden Dragon books in a state of near-starvation; this was very useful for his understanding of that world, but when he saw a certain passage in one book, his thinking actually stalled for a moment.

If it is said that the dragons later became the rulers of the Plane, then the Golden Dragons were the rulers of the dragon race, and the name of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire came from this.

At the very beginning, it was a struggle for hegemony between the dragon and Elf races, with other races reduced to vassals; in order to make the vassal races serve them better, both dragons and Elves bestowed their own bloodlines upon the other races, and even intermarriage was not rare.

In the history of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire—the first thing Saville chose to enter in the Library was history, just as Xia Duo first checked the history of the Projected Plane Arcane Empire—racial integration began very early.

While there was certainly no lack of instigation from the Elves in this, the dragon race's own crude ruling methods were also a very important reason; it was almost entirely based on violent suppression, and the attitudes of the dragon race toward the vassal races also varied.

In the Spirit Thought Network, Saville's sharing continued; unlike the life scenes shared at the very beginning, he shared the memories of searching for information in the Library in great detail.

……

But even so, this is very worthy of vigilance.

If the dragon race that appeared in Netheril this time came from the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, then it shows that this technology is reversible, universal, and can even be said to have already stood at the very pinnacle of flesh-and-blood organisms!

As for improving the bloodline, that is even simpler; a bloodline that can normally reach the limit of the Magic Net does not even need extra resources, it only requires undergoing an Awakening Ritual. (This refers to a bloodline sufficient to support Bloodline Magic in reaching the Magic Net limit, not that the bloodline itself touches the Magic Net limit.)

This kind of means is almost unimaginable in Calimshan; it is almost as if as long as one reaches the bloodline limit, it can be mass-replicated, with absolutely no need for high costs (large amounts of Elemental Essence of the same attribute).

Golden Dragons are a minority that is relatively gentle; for vassal races, other dragon races are all considered cruel, and more than half of the ten thousand-plus years were spent in the process of rebellion and suppressing rebellions.

The content of that passage was "The Empire's Ether Exploration Technology has had another breakthrough; thanks to the new technology, seventeen new planes have been discovered in succession, but unfortunately, there are no Habitable Planes among them"!

However, improving the bloodline in Calimshan is not easy; Calimshan's raising of Elemental Creatures is to a large extent to maintain the bloodline so it does not degrade, and the cost of further improving the bloodline is even greater.

It is possible to transform other races into Golden Dragons through lower costs and lower thresholds; perhaps it could also be the other way around, but Saville did not see it mentioned in the books in the Library.

But very soon, Xia Duo figured it out; for a civilization that has already unified its native plane, exploring the outside is the least likely thing to happen.

But this situation does not exist in the Holy Golden Dragon Empire; those humans and Elves of the vassal states, even if the dragon bloodline in their bodies cannot even achieve Dragon Transformation, can still normally learn Dragon Magic.

The Holy Golden Dragon Empire under the rule of the Golden Dragons is indeed relatively gentle, but for Xia Duo to immediately abandon everything in the Main Plane to become a collaborator is also completely impossible.

Afterward, by accumulating enough Imperial contribution and then finding a Golden Dragon mentor, one can very easily be promoted to a true Golden Dragon, which is equivalent to reaching the bloodline limit.

It is just that for the necessity of rule, the Golden Dragon was made the national standard.

But regardless, this kind of technology did indeed appear and has been applied by the Holy Golden Dragon Empire to this day; if this technology capable of blending races had not appeared, the progress of the Golden Dragons in unifying the plane would likely have been delayed for quite a long time.

Xia Duo does not know how the Holy Golden Dragon Empire researched the Promotion Ritual, and Saville was also very curious at the time, but he searched the entire Library and could not find any relevant information.

The Holy Golden Dragon Empire has already begun to explore the Ether; combining the context, it is not difficult for Xia Duo to discover that the "Ether" in the book does not actually refer to the Ether Plane, but to the "Ether Interlayer".

At this moment, he was very curious about how far the Holy Golden Dragon Empire had developed in terms of Plane Exploration; unfortunately, the book only contained a small amount of records of relevant news, and there were no specific technical details.

Of course, as long as a certain level is reached, then it is very easy to reach the limit of the Magic Net.