Defeating the World with the Power of One Dragon!

"If black oil can be eaten."

"Then higher quality energy ores should logically provide even more abundant energy."

"The problem is, these are all strategic resources. Small amounts of black oil are negligible - with luck you can find deposits yourself, and some alchemists refine their own. But large black oil reserves and other energy mines are tightly controlled by major nations."

Garoth fell into deep thought.

Setting aside other considerations.

Just between the human empire [Halden] and the elven empire [Nausil], these two powers have been secretly competing over the division of an ultra-large black oil reserve, with constant friction between them.

If not for the fact that a full-scale war between such powers could lead to mutually assured destruction.

They wouldn't still be just covertly contending.

"The Ser Wilderness has oil fields too, but they're all occupied and mined by military forces."