Chapter 79: House of Dragons
In the map of the empire, the Darkan was located on the northern side with the last front, and the Lindell family as its only neighbors. Before them was the Forest of Beasts, which also led to the Outliers’ Land. Then to its west was a large valley, the trench valley that led to the Vodal Kingdom.
The kingdom was unlike any other in the sense that the ruling royal family wasn’t always the ruler of the kingdom. That kingdom was a combination of several families who served and followed separate gods. And every 50 years, a bloody contest was held to determine the next royalty.
The losing families would have no choice but to listen to the ruling family, even if it resulted in their downfall. The kingdom was also known by its other name, ’Land of Apostles.’ When a god made a follower, depending on their faith, devotion, ability to influence others, and carry out their will, their rankings varied, and apostles were the highest-ranking and were usually the heads of the families.
What made the Solaris empire different and stronger was that, upon having an apostle, who was the Pope of the Five Suns, the imperial family was the blood descendants of the Sun God.
The current ruling family of the Vodal Kingdom was the House of Astra, the supreme masters of time and space magic who served Serath, the Timekeeper, or the Spacetime God.
The same went for the western duchy, the Silver family. They were experts in the use of wind and storm, and served Aloria, the Wind god.
Honestly, it was a bad matchup for the Darkan because the Silver family used a degraded version of dragons, wyverns. Though they were mostly used as transport, they were also aerial fighters. That wasn’t all. It was also the fact that the dragons of the Darkan family weren’t much bigger than the wyverns of the Silvers, and the fact that they could also use the wind element.
This meeting explained these facts, also emphasizing the fact that they weren’t receiving help from the imperial family. Orders were disseminated. And the summary of everything was, the whole land was to enter a stage of war preparation.
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