Chapter 319: Azure Royal Family
For the next week, Cain spent his days traveling across the Cicada Forest. He faced several King Beasts, taking their blood in order to improve his Blood Core while at the same time enhancing his techniques and honing his combat skills.
It was excellent training, allowing him to refine his combat abilities and adapt to his cultivation and skills.
’Blood Hand is good, and its power should help me all the way to the Peak of the Wave Champion level, but I should seek another technique in the capital. For defense, the Biometal Herculean Body will help me even if I were to become a Titan, so there is no way to improve in that aspect.
Sonic Dash is still sufficient regarding my speed, and my Sonic Blade Fusion Technique will serve me well until the Apotheosis Realm, so there is no issue with that.’
As he formulated his plans, Cain and Krane finally reached a city. It was enormous, though smaller than the Imperial Lightning Fort. It lacked a Titan Tower or any similar structure but featured a massive castle beneath a mountain.
Cain immediately recognized this place as one of the Eighty-One States. The Imperial Family was vast, not just due to the descendants of the Emperor but also because it included the family of the former Emperors.
Unlike the Old World, the title of Emperor of Humankind was not inherited by birthright. It was a rule established by the First Titan and Emperor of the Godslayer Humankind before his voyage into the Astral Sea.
Once an Emperor grew too powerful for Aether, a grand battle would commence among the Godslayer Humankind’s mightiest warriors until one emerged as the victor. That individual would then assume the role of Emperor, and his family would become the Imperial Family.
Out of respect for former Emperors, the previous imperial family retained their possessions and gained the title of Royal Family. They moved from the capital’s core to one of the Eighty-One States, where they would take control of the land and manage their wealth.
Of course, not all Eighty-One States were governed by previous Imperial Families since the current Emperor was only the Eighth Emperor of the Godsalyer Humankind. The others were under the control of various forces, primarily from the Imperial Court, but they also included the sons and daughters of Sector Dukes and other high-ranking nobles.
Regardless of one’s perspective, the Prometheus Sector teemed with promising figures, all eager to ascend to greater heights.
"This should be the Azure State, under the control of the Royal Family of the Azure Emperor, the Sixth Emperor of the Godslayer Humankind."