Few of the Dragon Princes were willing to serve as civil officials; almost all presented themselves as military commanders.
It was not that the Dragon King forbade it. Rather, perhaps True Dragons simply had a few fewer scholarly fibers in their brains.
The spiritual energy inherited from their ancestors seemed to have gone entirely into their muscles, making them more inclined to wield swords and spears.
Among these Dragon Princes, Ao Han was the very model of the one with the most muscle and the least brains.
He had an almost obsessive fondness for military affairs and focused solely on expanding and training his army. This directly resulted in his domain being the smallest and least developed of all the Dragon Princes'.
It was not as though his ministers had never earnestly urged him to let his people recuperate and develop his internal administration.
But no matter what they said, Ao Han always retorted with the same words: "In tens of thousands of years, I've never heard of anyone becoming Dragon King by working an abacus and hoarding gold! To become Dragon King, you need a million troops under your command. They're the ones who have to lift you onto that throne!"
Even with the recent Bloodline Summons, not a single minister within the Sea-Heaven Pillar had supported Ao Han's decision.
Yet Ao Han had dismissed all their remonstrations with a single question: "If I don't do this, where will the troops come from?"
The reason he had spent so much time in his study recently, frequently reassigning personnel, was to arrange commanding officers for the demon armies drawn to him by his Bloodline Summons.
His expansion plan could only be described as far too hasty and indiscriminate. The talent available within the Sea-Heaven Pillar simply could not keep pace,