CHAPTER 64: FIVE MAJOR CONTINENTS (2)

The reason for explaining everything in this way was as follows:

The state of peace, which had remained unbroken for hundreds of thousands of years, was beginning to show signs of the first war, which was likely to be the opposite of the serious magical monster attacks and perhaps the wars with the monsters found in the sea and the forest.

The Eastern Continent, or Karion, was beginning to show signs of reacting to this long-standing state of peace.

The first reaction was the presence of a spy from the Eastern Continent in the imperial capital. Of course, enduring Hiera’s torture methods was no easy feat.

After all, they were fire-borns, blessed with the fires of Hephaestus, Prometheus, and Hestia in their bodies, and with the cosmic powers of the Chaos-Born in their souls.

No matter what colour the fire was, it could not harm them.

When Emperor Alfred found the spy, he interrogated him together with Luke. The interrogation had not yielded any results, but it had been repeated over and over again. A week, two weeks passed, and by the third week, the torture method had been carried out.

A huge cage made entirely of mithril, with only one door, completely closed, not even letting light in, which could withstand Emperor Alfred’s black fire.

Luke and Alfred entered the cage, while the spy was seated in the centre of it.

Within seconds, Alfred filled the interior of the cage with the black, endless fire of oblivion, its flames engulfing everything.

The spy was sentenced to death, but before he died, the fire of oblivion managed to reveal the truth to him.

A single word. Indeed, a single word had slipped from the spy’s lips:

[Prophecy].

Luke, and consequently Alfred, and consequently Kevin and Callum, as well as the Freley family’s elite warriors and spies, had been directly mobilised.

They had not encountered a prophecy, but they had managed to see the changes taking place on the Karion Continent.

Luke knew that this was normal, as even the nobles of the Hiera Empire sometimes fought among themselves.

Of course, Luke, whose experience in war was limited to fighting mindless beasts, thought that this was something that would pass.

Alfred, on the other hand, was aware that as long as Wirgo existed in the north and Cestis existed in the east, there was no danger coming from the eastern continent.

Callum was perhaps the strongest member of the Cestis family, but that did not make the rest of the family weak.

The Wirgos, who were wolves, could destroy together, while Callum represented the tiger, and whether together or alone, there was no one better than them in battle.

That’s why nothing that happened mattered to Alfred. It wasn’t because he was careless. To put it simply... Hiera could be in danger, yes, it was possible, quite possible.

Still, there was one thing that couldn’t be overlooked.

Whether it was the elves and fairies combining their magic and the dwarves making magical mithril armour and swords to boost their magical powers, or whether it was the half-humans and half-demons with the highest physical abilities using this armour and these swords,

None of it mattered to the Hieras.

Power, Money, Mercy, Service, Destruction, Loyalty.

All of them were at the Hieras’ command, all of them worked for them.

Even to come close to harming the Hiera family, it might take billions of them focusing on just one duchy for an entire year.

Even the Typhoon family, who would be the weakest due to the open state of war, were powerful enough to eliminate millions on their own within a week. After all, they all were assassins with different powers, just like Kevin being the most powerful wizard or by the other name, a magician in the whole continent.

This was the foresight of a king. Alfred was perhaps a slightly naive emperor who followed the laws created by Andromeda Ariadne Hiera, but no one, NO ONE, could judge his influence over the duchies.

Of course, despite his appearance and weakness in managing affairs, Alfred was the best emperor the Hiera had seen in the past three hundred thousand years.

When he ascended the throne, the empire had once again prospered, after all the foolish Emperor Liam Hiera made everything worse in his 21 years of reign.

Contact had been re-established with the vampires, and when the empress of the southern continent of Mahrak looked at Alfred, she noted that although he was not Andromeda herself, the spirit of that woman was still very much alive within the Hieras.

Empress Kelsey Hilios of the Hilios Empire had described how Alfred bore a striking resemblance to his ancestor as recorded in historical texts.

The Dwarf Emperor had told Alfred that he was the bravest person he had ever known in his hundred thousand years of life, perhaps in the capital where millions had gathered.

Alfred was simply a pure man who had failed to become a father.

He was not weak.

Whether it was a spy or thousands of them, they could exist in the capital.

Either Freley’s Shadows or Typhoon’s Assassins would hunt them down. If anyone managed to approach one of the Hieras, it would be the Hieras themselves who would kill them.

"So, judging by what you’re saying... it seems quite dangerous," Penelope had said. She was a woman who had thought about the reality of war, the crown princess... she only knew the power of the Hieras and thought there would be no trouble.

It was different for Luke. There was a subject that everyone refused to understand.

Sea Serpents were not the lowest-tier creatures in the category, like ordinary sea monsters or mermen and mermaids.

Sea Serpents were the highest-tier creatures in the sea creature category.

They were only the lowest-tier creatures in the sacred monster category.

This did not make them weak or foolish.

They were both powerful and incredibly intelligent beings.

If someone were to gain the power to control these creatures, it would be the thing that disrupts everything. Perhaps Hiera’s balances would collapse, but what about the other small continents between and around the Five Main Continents? What would happen to them?

What if the same things happened to the Western, Southern, and Northern Continents as they did to the Eastern Continent of Karion?

What if Hiera’s allies collapsed?

Who would want to live in a lonely world?

"It’s a greater danger than we think, sister. Unfortunately, my father doesn’t want to see it. He’s right not to want to see it. We Hiera hold too much power in our hands, but... This is a little different, dangerous, and I won’t lie, spine-chilling," Luke replied.

His human instincts told him that something was wrong.