Chapter 297 The Westle Empire
In Curse Continent, Moonlight Empire:
Using the Amalgamation of Will, Maximus quickly teleported from the city of Arcana to his empire.
"Your Majesty!" Doran greeted as if aware of his return.
"You're here. Where are the others?"
"They are in the kitchen, preparing a feast for your return," Doran said.
Earlier, Doran was shocked to see Maximus' family teleport in front of him.
Doran had studied everything about the abyss.
He knew that it would usually take a few hundred to a thousand years, even for the talented individual to reach tier 8.
Thus, seeing the entire Shadowcrest family appear in front of him left him in shock.
This was not like the shortcut Maximus had performed in the past when he returned to the Etherium realm using a special method.
Doran personally felt a mighty power that only tier 8 beings possess.
If it were not for the unique crest that only the royal family possesses.
Doran might have thought they were enemies in disguise trying to attack and disturb the empire.
After all, using the Amalgamation of Will.
All kinds of weird attacks had been done to the empire, and disguising as a royal family was nothing new.
There was even one time when a spy was disguised as him.
Even the Empire Array fail to detect any anomalies.
At that time the empire fell into confusion, as people didn't know who to believe.
Fortunately, Doran cultivates using 'Origin'.
After easily defeating the spy, and having the general examine the fake 'Doran' everything went back to normal.
After that, to prevent spies from confusing the empire.
Those in higher and more important positions were given something that couldn't be easily copied.
They also closed the empire's teleportation array, isolating it from the outside world.
"I see. Could you tell me about the empire?" Maximus asked, taking his time while his family prepared the food.
Although he had already read the news in the abyss.
It would be better to know the current state of the empire in person.
"The Empire is still stable with all the backup plans His Majesty set up at the beginning," Doran confidently said.
Despite being attacked frequently by all kinds of weird methods.
The empire still stood tall.
All the citizens in the empire could still eat, sleep, work, study as they were supposed to do.
"Is that so?" Maximus raised an eyebrow as he investigated the empire using his domain.
With a range of billions of kilometers, the Moonlight Empire and its bordering sea were presented in front of him.
"Hmm? The aura of the empire is a little thin."
He thought it was just because he was used to the dense aura, and felt the empire's thin aura was normal.
However, upon closer inspection.
The empire's aura was unusually thinner.
This is still because the empire had a tier 7 Empire's array.
If not, maybe the Empire would be back to its barren form in the past.
"This... It should be the doing of the ruler of the Westle Empire," Doran said helplessly.
Although the empire was still safe, they could only be passive, hiding within the empire.
The Westle Empire could do whatever they wanted, as long as they didn't step into the range of the tier 8 puppets.
"It's the Amalgamation of Will," Maximus muttered.
He felt it was quite a clever application that only those who had Expert mastery in the Amalgamation of Will could achieve.
"It seems that this ruler still has something up his sleeve," Maximus muttered in amazement.
To accelerate the imperial domination to this degree.
It couldn't only be with the interference of an outside force.
The ruler of the Westle Empire himself is quite talented.
Taking Doran with him, Maximus teleported to the edge of the empire.
...
Triangle Island:
Maximus and Doran quietly appeared on the island.
"Huh? It seems that the people here are a little pale..." Maximus muttered with a frown.
He teleported to the edge of the empire so that his domain could spread further, allowing him to investigate the nearby land.
However, upon seeing the pale faces of the people on the island, he couldn't help but frown.
"Your Majesty, this is caused by the lack of magical nutrition," Doran explained.
This had been a lingering problem for a few years since the Westle Empire attacked the Moonlight Empire.
The Ruler of the Westle Empire, Khan, seemed to put the Moonlight Empire under a curse.
Although it's seemingly harmless, it's a poison that will erode the empire in the long run.
It's been hundreds of years since the establishment of the Moonlight Empire.
The population had also grown from a few million to hundreds of trillions.
Furthermore, under Maximus's unlimited investment, all the people possessed amazing strength.
From soldiers to the lowest beggar, everyone was at least a knight or a mage.
Even newborns had the strength of an apprentice.
This prosperity can only be found in the most prosperous cities in the Arcane Continent.
However, with the thinning of the aura and the invisible curse.
Mortals began to be born, and people started regressing in strength.
The curse seemed to drain them of any magical energy.
From plants, land, water, people, anything that possesses magic energy will be drained of it.
It's estimated that after thousands of years, without any replenishment.
The Moonlight Empire would turn into a barren land devoid of any living.
"I see..." Maximus nodded upon seeing this.
Just now, at the edge of the empire.
Maximus felt a dense group of Amalgamation of Will, that was slowly sucking away all the energy in the empire.
"What a daring fellow..." Maximus muttered in anger.
'Absorb~'
Enclosing the dense Amalgamation of Will outside the empire in his domain, he directly absorbs it as his own.
"Huh~"
"It's mine...No It's for the empire!" Maximus thought with a smile.
Soon the Amalgamation of Will he just absorbed melted into the empire, giving it a surge of vitality.
"What happened?"
"This?!"
"Is Your Majesty back?"
Looking at the mana surging and flowing into their bodies.
Their thin and pale body seemed to be invigorated as they felt their strength quietly returning.
Suddenly, a person, no a god, the Ruler of Moonlight Empire popped into their mind.
"Hahaha! Your Majesty is indeed back!" A man exclaimed, reading the news on his token.
"What? Your Majesty is back!"
The crowd didn't even care about the flowing mana in their bodies and took out their tokens.
[A Shop Clerk: Tip, I found the goddess of luck, Asha, shopping in the mall. Could it be Your Majesty is back?]
The top-pinned post was so eye-catching that everyone who opened their token saw this.
Coupled with the surging mana in their body.
The crowd concluded that Their Majesty was indeed back.
"Your Majesty is back!"
The crowd couldn't help but laugh in celebration.
Although they didn't suffer much in the raging war, the stress they accumulated is still present.
However, with their Majesty's presence, it seems that all the fatigue and tiredness in their bodies vanish instantly.
"Your Majesty? Mother, can you tell me about what kind of person Your Majesty is?" A two-year-old child couldn't help but ask her mother.
"Hahaha, then let me tell you!"
...
Maximus, seeing that everything went back to normal, a smile appeared on his face.
"Your Majesty," Doran muttered excitedly upon feeling the surging energy.
In a few minutes, the problem that was plaguing the empire was solved just like that.
"No worries," Maximus patted his shoulder.
With his current strength, such a problem was nothing.
"Oh," Doran also calmed down and silently watched his Majesty on the side.
As for Maximus, he continued to observe the surrounding Amalgamation of Will that he couldn't absorb.
Only the curse that sucked the will of his citizens was what he could absorb.
The Amalgamation of Will had different frequencies for different people, like mana.
No matter, how much his mastery on one, he couldn't absorb the mana of others and used it on his own.
Of course, using a special method, one could easily absorb mana.
However, the Amalgamation of Will is a powerful energy that reaches that of the essence of law.
Without a higher-tier method, absorbing other frequencies Amalgamation of Will is impossible.
"So fast..."
Upon further investigation, the denseness of the remaining energy is only possible after conquering over half of the Cursed Continent.
However, how long has it been since the start of the all-out war?
100 years?
1,000 years?
It hasn't even reached 30 years, yet over half of the Curse continent was already conquered by the Westle Empire.
"Is there no one resisting the Westle Empire?" Maximus turned to Doran and asked.
"None, Your Majesty. The Westle Empire is too strong."
"Decades ago, when the Westle Empire started its aggression, a few top empires allied and retaliated to curb its development.."
"However, in just a few days, those allied Empires vanished from the map."
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