Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 248 - 172: The Withering Bloodline, The Difficult Fourth Generation

"Uncle Noah!"

Uranos, soon to be thirty, still retained some youthful and innocent features on his face, but his body had already developed the physique of an adult, a perfect build with long limbs exuding powerful strength, surpassing most adults and able to rival the Barbarians of the Northern Highlands.

Noah scrutinized the young man before him, whose innate Titan Bloodline had extended his life span. However, this young man constantly tempered himself in life-and-death situations, using combat to unlock his potential, and now he was considered a qualified Extreme Intent Warrior.

By his growth trajectory, he had already far surpassed his father, even surpassing his grandfather, Casius. But reaching this step, it had become difficult for him to transcend Casius.

Because Casius, at this Realm, had awakened his bloodline multiple times, but although the young man before Noah was strong, his bloodline had not changed much since birth.

But then again, there is only one Casius. If everyone were like him, the Titan Bloodline would have already dominated the skies and the earth; what business would other races have?

"No need to be so formal. I called you over because I suddenly missed you and wanted to see you."

Noah encouraged the young man to be more relaxed, then asked about his recent circumstances.

In fact, Noah already knew a lot of his news. Mentioning it again was just a way to start a conversation, reducing the awkwardness of their long separation and making the chat more natural and fluid.

In Uranos’s practice within the Extraordinary Power Realm, after an initial rapid progress, it began to slow down once he reached the stage of Extreme Intent. The minimal progress lately had put the young man in front of Noah in a rather gloomy mood.

However, Noah believed this was normal. In the past, his adoptive father also toiled long at this Realm, constantly honing himself before making a breakthrough to become a Legend, and eventually gaining fame and shaking the Continent.

Compared to this, Noah was more concerned about the young man’s marital status. Before the former United Kingdom’s fall, Uranos was engaged to the Royal Family, a betrothal to no less than twenty-eight royal noblewomen, which had caused quite a stir and became a celebrated story.

Even now, tales related to this are still circulated in the taverns of Elisium City, although they are part of the nighttime adult theater, off-limits to minors.

But with the outbreak of the disaster from Hell, the disappearance of the legendary old Mage, and the disintegration of the Kingdom, the former engagement also lost its political significance.

However, the Augustus family did not breach the original engagement. Or rather, the young man chose to fulfill the engagement during wartime, marrying those former royal girls he was once engaged to, one by one.

This adherence to the promise increased his and the Augustus family’s reputation because marrying these girls during wartime provided no benefits.

Yet, once the war ended, the benefits of his decision became apparent. With the Royal Family virtually extinct, the young man, having married so many royal noblewomen, could legitimately and legally claim the former royal territories as part of the Augustus family’s core lands.

Although, given the Augustus family’s power and reputation at the time, they could have achieved this easily regardless, having legal inheritance rights was crucial when wielding significant power.

No matter how strong the Augustus family was, they couldn’t disregard or trample upon the rules that the Human-like Civilization had established and maintained for countless millennia, as well as the implicit norms.

Thus, in both past and present terms, Uranos’s choice to fulfill his marriages was a wise one. More importantly, as the young man’s strength continued to grow, he indeed needed to find a spouse to continue the family lineage.

Because the stronger one becomes individually, the harder it is to leave descendants. This rule has always existed and persists. Upon ascending to Legend, even the Dragon Clan with its naturally powerful bloodline, or the particularly fertile short-lived humans, face sterile-like challenges.

Of course, nothing is absolute. Even Divine unions might produce offspring, so why not Legends? The odds are virtually zero, yet not entirely so.

During wartime, Uranos married the royal noblewomen and, despite his own incredibly strong bloodline and power, had numbers on his side.

Through his extensive efforts, his seeds have had a decent rate of success, and the fourth generation of the Augustus family, starting from Casius, has now been born.

However, the lack of any fuss to date was because Uranos, as a father, intentionally concealed rather than overly publicized it.

So far, Uranos has three children, two sons and a daughter, and without exception, none have inherited their father’s powerful bloodline.

Not only did they fail to inherit, but in related Extraordinary System tests, these children all performed quite averagely, with nothing outstanding, only possessing more robust physiques compared to mundane children.

"That sounds somewhat similar to your father, Tidel."

Noah listened to this troubled father talk about the mediocrity of his children, and he certainly could understand Uranos’s feelings.