Chapter 32: Two Major Nations on the Eastern Continent (Both Coming to an End)
The Heavenly Mountain Range is located almost at the centre of the eastern continent. As the name suggests, it is an important strategic position with a series of steep mountains that seem to reach the sky. It is therefore impossible for an army to cross this mountain range.
So, the history of this continent has always been divided into two passages: the ‘Heavenly East’ and the ‘Heavenly West’.
If the centre of the ‘Heavenly West’ is the ‘Empire’ then the centre of the ‘Heavenly East’ is the ‘Imperial Empire’ [1]Different kanji, this Empire kanji is more referring to Japan. It was no exaggeration to say that the history of the eastern continent has progressed with these two great powers at its centre.
According to Count Palatine Vedett, there are certain things that the east and the west have in common. When the Lothar Empire collapsed, and the Bungdalto Empire was established, there was also a ‘dynasty change’ in the Imperial Empire at the same time. The current Imperial Empire is the ‘Teiwa Dynasty’.
And now that the Empire was collapsing, there seems to be a major movement in the Imperial Empire as well.
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The Holy One Imperialist Church is the Imperial Empire’s state religion. The religious authority of this Holy One Imperialist Church was called the ‘Holy Guiding Order’, and it held a lot of authority. The Imperial Empire and the Holy One Imperialist Church could be said to have a ‘history of confrontation and cooperation between the Emperor and the Holy Guiding Order’.
However, the current dynasty, the Teiwa Dynasty, is a dynasty that has succeeded in greatly suppressing the authority of the ‘Holy Guiding Order’. Until then, a dynasty’s Emperor can only call themselves ‘Imperial Emperor’ only when they are recognised by the Holy Guiding Order. They could only call themselves emperors if the Holy Guiding Order hadn’t recognised them, which was regarded as weak and led to the lords distancing themselves from the emperor. The Teiwa Dynasty, which has suppressed the ‘authority of the Holy Guiding Order’ formed a stable power base and was steadily centralising their power to the extent that the… Empire was no match for them.