1514 Divine Ordeals Part 1 (1/2)

That day was known as the 'Bloodless Night' in history.

The slaughter that had taken place prevented bloodshed spreading out throughout the entire Holy Rock City. Saleen restrained the rebels using magic, before dumping them into Nailisi's 12 Notes of First Purgatory.

There was no need to spill the blood of nobles to bring about the founding of the Fifth Dynasty.

That had been Saleen's motto, but those nobles disappeared forever.

No blood had been spilled, nonetheless. Such were Nailisi's thoughts. The nobles had been purified by the Purgatory of Purification. Not only was there no blood spilled, there was not even a whiff of smoke coming out from any of them.

The storm did not seem to stop once it began, and the southwestern nobles were the first to join Saleen's forces. In truth, the southwestern nobles were the ones with the most to gain. The nobles had long sent their members to learn magic in Metatrin City. The titles bestowed to them by Lex were one rank higher than those of Holy Rock City.

As such, none of the southwestern nobles' interests were actually affected. In fact, from a certain perspective, they gained a lot instead.

Saleen elaborated the way forward to them the very first time he got in touch with them. As a result, the nobles no longer insisted on amassing land and gaining wealth. They had instead taken to fostering powerful warriors and mages in their clans, which were initially people they would have simply hired or bought using gold coins.

There were too many nobles who had sizable fighting forces, and they had long forgotten that back in the days of the First Dynasty, people without powerful personal capabilities would not have become nobles in the first place. Saleen established such rules anew and was sure many would have responded to it poorly. However, there were definitely a handful who would benefit a lot from such an opportunity, enabling them to rise from the bottom and become new powerful noble clans.

Everything was definitely turned upside down for everyone on Myers Mainland in the month that came afterwards.

The Floating City was mobilized and destroyed the capitals of three empires, including Misty City. Agares' absence surprised Saleen somewhat. Saleen had led the expedition personally, and if Agares had appeared, he would not have minded taking out that powerful assassin once and for all.

Someone like Agares would have posed a serious threat to Saleen's nobles, after all. It was possible that none of Saleen's followers would have to be afraid of Agares anymore, but then again, there were still the commoners to think about. Nobles who only had level nine troops as bodyguards would not have stood any chance against the likes of Agares.

After being troubled for days, Saleen gave up any thought of locating Agares. Agares might have been dangerous and was extreme in many senses of the word, but he truly did not care about the throne.

If he were given the chance to kill the goddess, he would not hesitate to take up the chance, even if one were to trade that chance with him by offering him the entire plane.

Common assassins did what they did to make a living, but Agares did so only for the thrill of it.

Such professionals were very difficult to deal with, but ironically, they were also very easy to deal with at the same time. At the very least, Saleen's concerns were considerably lessened. If Agares did not show even when his capital was leveled, then it became clear that his interests did not lie in establishing dynasties.

Agares had his own goals and he absolutely would not falter.

Saleen already knew what Agares was after—the Goddess of Myers.

The only thing worthy of Agares' attention was the goddess and the goddess only. It went without saying that Agares needed to advance continuously before he would be able to achieve his final objective. The Lord of Glory would have served as his stepping stone.

Saleen knew what the Snakerun, the weapon he crafted for Agares, was like. That weapon naturally contained power of rules, which was something that Saleen had no way of bestowing.

The rules made 12-dimensional metal so formidable. None of the material's attributes were the top of the line, but the material was irreplaceable and very rarely found. Every single plane had only a set amount of it. When mined, the material would never be found in nature ever again.

The 12-dimensional metal contained plane rules.

Saleen only realized that when he advanced to level 14, but he did not regret doing what he did. He had a lot to gain from the experience, after all. By the time he got to level 16, Myers Mainland would have become his main battlefield. By then, he would be able to tap into the power of the Source to do combat, just how the goddess did.

It would have been the same for Agares as well, but he lacked a piece of equipment like the Hall of Gods, which meant that his rate of advancement would never surpass Saleen's.

The nobles of the Cloudflow Empire were not able to react in time, as the gates of the divine kingdom were on their land. As such, Saleen's assault felt rather despicable.

However, the news that came later rendered the nobles speechless.

The Floating City made the same announcement in every city it passed—the founding of the Fifth Empire, with the imperial city being Holy Rock City.

That meant that Saleen wanted to take the opportunity of all the chaos around to unite the entire mainland under one rule.

There was nothing glorious about it, as the only empire capable of resisting such measures—the Cloudflow Empire—was busy dealing with the attacks from the god creatures. If the god creatures had been able to gain the upper hand due to what Saleen did, he would have become public enemy number one throughout the entire Myers Mainland.

Saleen did not care about what the Cloudflow people thought about him. All enchanters and nobles who served him were busy seeing to a single matter—establishing the structure of the Fifth Dynasty.

Structures of professions, schools, nobility, magic net, law...