"You mean you set a plan for them to move upon so they can form an empire? what's empire even mean?"
She knew this would be tough, but she had to use the most simple of words to explain. "Empires are like great clans or academies in your world, reigning over a huge stretch of land. The ruling system there lies in the hands of one man, we call an emperor, with the line of his descendants coming after him to rule over these lands after he passes away.
Simply put, a kingdom can be related to a large clan territory of your world's concepts, and an empire can equal the coalescing of at least ten of these clans."
His eyes shone brightly, as this was a new branch of information provided to him. "As you guessed, I draw a strategy, with simple yet effective steps to build an empire. In the meantime, I also lead armies to make sure the empire is built with strong forces, not to be taken down the moment it just rises up."
Her words made him realize her importance. "Can you make these plans again?" he asked.
"For you? Do you want to be an emperor?"
Her laughs vibrated in the place, as she found this quite amusing.
"Sure, I was trying to build a city, and now I want to build an empire."
His logic was weird, but who was she to complain? "Sigh, you are currently my lord, and I will serve you best to achieve your goals. Luckily, any empire is built from a single city. so, we can consider you taking the first real step towards building the empire you wanted."
Her words made him chuckle, as he was pleased to know that his mere whim of decision taken when reaching this world had yielded such a result.
"What is the next step then?"
She glanced strangely again towards him. "We are building an empire, not a mere lousy clan! This needs time, planning, and also many of your own insights."
"Insights?"
"Like do you want it to be strong based on armies and invasions, or prosperous built on economy, industry and trade?"
He paused, thinking briefly at her words, before taking out his stored ores, his usual tools, and started to form the needed runes for his own seal formation. "I want them all! I want my empire to be strong and wealthy."
"Greed isn't a good thing, y'know!"
"Sigh," he helplessly sighed, "you don't get it, do you?" he then finished making the first rune, put it on the ground, before grabbing the other ores to form the next. "This world will have a huge war soon, a war between light and dark sides. if I didn't focus on strength, I won't be able to protect it."
"Then we need to direct the empire towards military might, not the total opposite!"
"This won't do," he shook his head, while taking another ore to write upon. "Having great military might is important, but without enough economic base to support it, the whole place will crumble and be weak. Plus, trade is a great way to gain friends, stress enemies, and avoid many troubles in the process."
She went silent, before muttering:
"I get your point perfectly, but this didn't happen ever before."
"Then make it happen! the fact it didn't happen doesn't mean it's impossible, right?"
She glanced at him, speechless, not knowing what to say. "But there is a huge percentage of failure here, won't you be upset?"
He paused, before returning to work again. "I won't lie and say I won't, but think it this way; I came here and planned to build a city and was very content and proud of it, and now you are planning to make me build an empire. even if you lose, even everything, I still will have my city, right? There is nothing there to lose, take all the risks you see appropriate, and I will support you from the sides."
She didn't open her mouth regarding this topic ever again! his logic was undeniably the most foolish reason she had ever heard in her past life; however as weird as it might see, she couldn't refute it!
She glanced at his back, while working on his runes, diligently and with extreme concentration. 'This is the back of an emperor, sigh, birds of a feather really flock together!' she muttered to herself, as she accepted his demands in her soul, and decided to work her best to help him.
As for Arthur, he continued to work, not bothering his mind with this empire concept. After all, he still couldn't fully understand the great feat he simply took today, inside this forsaken place, away from any prior planning or intentions to be a great person in this grandiose way!
He took half an hour to finish making the runes' groups, then he started to assign them in different places. This teleportation portal was much stronger than the previous one, so he had to make use of his strongest sealing formation ever; the dozen pointed heads!
Once finished arranging the runes, he simply put a single drop of blood over the main controller of this formation. Unlike others, this one needs to be connected to him, so it would function properly and also be alerted if someone tried to attack it.
Then he started forming a simple defensive shield, not strong like the one around that warehouse, but it was enough to hold on for hours at least.
He laid a double layered defensive shield, one to shield the inside and one to shield the outside. So, if anyone of the main clan had some hidden tricks to pull out here, he or she wouldn't be able to step a single foot inside the place, even if the sealing array was undone!
"Finished," he rubbed his hands together, as he glanced over the other portal. "So this one is the one leading to the other pillars?"
"Sure, but you need to have a map of pillars in your mind, so you can know where to go," she then stretched her hand as she demanded, "give me a piece of paper and I will draw the entire map out for you."
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