Chapter 246: Agreed
In the heat of his rage, using the power of his monster form, the Young Emperor descended upon those monsters like a butcher descending among a flock of chickens, and within one hour the corpses of twenty Fifth Level monsters had piled up around the place!
Hooof! Hooof!
The Young Emperor sat in his human form on one of the rocks and began to breathe calmly. He stared absently at the ground and felt someone approaching him, but he did not move and stayed fixed where he was.
"What happened? How did you suddenly lose your focus, and why all this rage?" The Prime Minister approached the Young Emperor slowly, stood beside him, and asked reproachfully!
There was no one in the entire Empire who could speak to the Young Emperor in this tone except the Prime Minister, and even if he scolded him and struck him, the Young Emperor would show no reaction!
That was mainly because the Prime Minister was the one who discovered the Young Emperor’s talent when he was little, took him in after he had been an orphan, and helped him reach the throne of the Empire as a member of one of the branches of the imperial family.
The Prime Minister had been like family, caretaker, teacher, guide, and protector to the Young Emperor.
"How far have our ships heading toward the Mother Continent gotten so far?" The Young Emperor ignored the Prime Minister’s question and steered the conversation toward something else.
Rraaaawrrr!
A huge body descended from the sky toward the Young Emperor and began rubbing its head against the Emperor’s body.
"Hahaha, hello, my friend." The Young Emperor stroked the mane of the Golden Lion descendant and embraced its head.
"We sent an exploration fleet toward the Mother Continent two days ago, and they are expected to arrive two days from now, and it is the same with the other Empires as well." The Prime Minister raised his eyebrow slightly, puzzled by the Emperor’s question, but he answered anyway, looked at the Emperor, and knit his brows. "What is it, Razar? You don’t seem like yourself."
"I just received an offer." Emperor Razar paused for a few seconds and breathed calmly. "A major law of the Body technique of the Third Grade, ’Sixth Level’, and a recipe for breaking through to the Sixth Level in the law of the Body, in exchange for us eliminating the two Trees!"
"Two Trees?" The Prime Minister raised his eyebrow in confusion. "We only know of one tree worthy of this kind of attention, that ancient monster from the old ages that is still alive to this day... the Immortal Tree of Cradle, the ancestor of all the Elves in this world." Then he looked at Emperor Razar with suspicion...
"But is there any other tree!?"
"It is clear that the Mother Continent has given birth to another worrying variable!" Emperor Razar mocked while patting the head of his companion monster.
"But who made you such an offer, and who even possesses such things!" the Prime Minister asked with worry. He already had a suspicion and a guess about who was behind this, but he wanted to hear the answer from Emperor Razar himself, for speaking of that entity without good reason always brings disasters and bad luck!
"And is there anyone besides him?" Razar shook his head and mocked. "The Devil from another world, the Shadow Puppeteer, the Controller above the Emperors, the Oldest Nightmare." Then he looked toward the sky and smiled. "The ancestors knew him by many names and titles, and they recorded that in the historical records." Then he looked at the Prime Minister. "He is from the beginning of history... He is the Lord!"
The Prime Minister held his breath and froze in place, looking at Emperor Razar in shock and astonishment. His guess had been right, but even so, the impact of those words on him was still severe!
And the Prime Minister was not the only one who felt this. Even the Golden Lion descendant monster looked at Razar in astonishment and some fear, for it was not merely a stupid monster, but an intelligent monster that possessed a lot of information. And it knew well where the bloodline of its ancestors, the Golden Lions, had come from.
After some time, after he had finally steadied his breath calmly and sighed, the Prime Minister looked at Emperor Razar with complicated looks. "And what have you decided?"
Faced with this question, Emperor Razar looked toward the sky and said in a calm voice, "Agreed!"
.....
The Mother Continent — the Celestium metal region.
In one of the caves, one of the flying monsters lay in a large pool of blood. This monster had a strange appearance, for it had a long, somewhat thin torso, covered in protrusions on top, with two short hind legs, a long whip-like tail, two huge wings ending in a hook at the top, and a head resembling that of a monstrous falcon, with a mouth full of sharp fangs.
At this moment an arrow entered the cave like a thunderbolt and shot straight toward the monster’s head!
Rrrrooogggghhhh!
The monster roared in a deep voice, then gradually calmed down, and after a few minutes it spread its wings and flew out of the cave, and when it reached the entrance it stood and looked toward the sky...
Kraaaaaaaaaaak!
The bird screamed in a sharp voice, and soon the rest of the monsters answered it in response!
....
In the Phoenix Kingdom, inside the Blood Lake. The golden thread entered the Blood Lake without anyone noticing it, and pierced the eggshell without any resistance, and moments later strange symbols began to appear on the eggshell, and the Blood Lake began to boil gradually, and did not stop until after several minutes!
....
In the area filled with Fifth Level monsters and surrounding the giant egg, the golden thread entered in front of all those monsters, but no monster was able to see it or perceive it, and after only a few moments, a terrifying scream came out, resembling the screaming of millions of children at the same time.
That scream shook the area at once and terrified all the monsters... Even the Fifth Level monsters were not spared from that scream!
...
Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the Mother Continent. The Giant at the peak of the Fifth Level was sitting on the corpse of a giant Fifth Level elephant, holding one of its legs and eating from it ravenously. Around him were dozens of corpses of other elephants.
While the Giant was enjoying the meal, a golden thread appeared from the sky and headed straight toward the Giant’s heart!
This thread was bigger and thicker than the rest of the threads that had appeared in other places of this world, in addition to containing many strange symbols that were not in the rest of the threads... And the strange thing was that it was not prevented or repelled by the laws of the world like the rest of the threads!
The Giant remained still in his place without moving, staring at the ground absently after the golden thread entered his body, and after more than an hour, something strange began to change around that Giant.
His level did not rise, and his size did not increase, but what changed was his bloodline!
He had transformed from a mere ordinary Giant into a Giant King!
And when the Giant finally opened his eyes and regained his focus, he looked toward the sky with an indifferent expression and said in a deep voice...
"Voldar agrees!"