Chapter 1301: War

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    "This..."

    "This can''t be..."

    Reading through the various messages he received on his other self while he was away, Valyr felt his heart sink deeper and deeper as all of them began to paint a certain picture in his mind.

    "You''re telling me... it''s finally begun?" murmured the young man to himself, still feeling immense disbelief as his eyes continued to scan through the words on the screen.

    "You''re seriously telling me... the War of the Three Sovereignties has finally begun?"

    Feeling his insides shatter into a thousand pieces as his mind was consumed by that one thought, the young man thought back to the first time he''d become acquainted with the war''s existence.

    Considering that he was still grasping at straws in his previous life while he was carving out a path for himself in Greater Beyond, it was only after three months since Greater Beyond was released to the public did he come to know about the war.

    Naturally, with the time difference between Greater Beyond and Earth, almost two years had already passed since the War of the Three Sovereignties truly began.

    Unsurprisingly, many kingdoms had already fallen victim to the violence the war had awakened during that time, turning a considerable portion of the continent into places that no sane person would dare to tread without careful preparation.

    In fact, one of these kingdoms was none other than the same Algerie Kingdom he had been frequenting before being forced to assume his identity as Ataraxia.

    Briefly recalling how the war had brought the Algerie Kingdom to an incredibly pitiful state in his previous life, Valyr closed his eyes for a bit, taking in a few deep breaths in the process to calm himself down.

    "Huu..." After feeling like he''d somewhat returned to a more tranquil state, the young man went ahead and dissected the messages he received in greater detail, wanting to find out how much time had passed since those messages were sent to him.

    "During a lull in the skirmishes between the humans and the orcs, the orcs decided to take it as an opportunity to attack the elves when they least expected it."

    Going through the various people that messaged him while he was busy making his identity as Ataraxia stronger, Valyr decided to contact Mystia out of everyone else first for a couple

    reasons.

    The first one was the fact that he could ask her for more elixirs, which he could give to Thomas and the others alongside the sets of Basic Reinforcement Elixirs he planned on concocting.

    However, that paled in comparison to the second reason why he decided to contact her, especially now that the war more or less took up the entirety of his attention.

    And that was the fact that, aside from being the Imperial Alchemist of the Meltierre Heavenly Court, Mystia was one of the imperial advisers of the Meltierre Empire.

    In other words, out of all the people that contacted him regarding the war, she was the one who knew the ins and outs of the ongoing war the most.

    With that, he sent a brief greeting message in response to the ones she sent him, as well as a brief apology and explanation on where he''d been the past month.

    "I was wondering where you''ve gone for the past month, but I''m glad that you at least had the thought of messaging me back." Fortunately, Mystia did not seem mad at all in her messages. If anything, she was more than relieved to see he was safe.

    "I suppose you got the announcement from the defensive lines, then?"

    "Announcement?" replied Valyr back, his expression that of confusion. "What

    announcement?"

    "They''re calling everyone that enlisted to come to the defensive lines as soon as possible," replied Mystia, briefly leaving the young man at a complete loss for words as he stared at the

    message with wide eyes.

    "...They''re doing what now?"