This left Louis sowhat speechless.
The people from the land of rchants truly run wherever there is profit.
They are not even afraid of getting caught in the quagmire of war.
Oh no, these people are willing to take the risk of the guillotine as long as there is a hundred percent profit.
Especially when it involves the interests of nations or even the future of the continent, they won’t hold back.
With the involvent of national forces, more and more information is coming through various channels.
In just one day’s ti, third-party forces outside the nation and the church began to step in.
The Adventurer Guild was the first to respond to the call.
They are the number one war hounds on the entire Star Continent.
Now, the Adventurer Guild is already in contact with his false identity, Caesar, and saying they plan to move Adventurer Island soon.
Clearly, they intend to nail their headquarters directly in Lokeshi, fully playing their role as disruptors.
Once the Adventurer Island moves over, the likes of the rcenary Guild substitutes will have no choice but to follow.
One can imagine just how chaotic the Lokeshi Empire will beco.
After the maidservants on the royal side had prepared the things Louis needed, it was finally ti for him to depart.
Before leaving, Louis went to see Beatrice.
She was still slumbering in the inheritance ceremony of the Eye of Truth, unable to awaken.
Louis gently caressed her face, leaned down to kiss her forehead, then left the bedchamber without looking back.
Her existence was his reason for returning.
And now he was going to protect the empire where she resided.
On this day, the Prince of the Empire erged once again.
His target, the Lokeshi Empire, to suppress the Demon King Army.
...
Location: Lokeshi Empire, Remonam Palace
The Remonam Palace is a place specifically for forr emperors of honor to handle state affairs.
In the past, it was bustling, often busy until midnight before resting.
But at this ti of night, with the night deep, it should have been the ti for everyone to rest.
However, the office in Remonam Palace remained brightly lit.
Tal Griffin sat quietly in the seat of the forr emperor, overlooking the Imperial Capital through the window.
His fingertips gently stroked a portrait.
In the painting was a boy with a bright, sunny smile.
A flash of agitation crossed his eyes, but it ultimately turned into a dead calm.
It was his son.
The "unlucky one" who died years ago under the great sin experint.
Of course, no one dared to call the child unlucky directly in front of him, the father, but those who knew the story likely said it a lot in private.
In a daze, he recalled many years ago.
Back then, he and his wife hadn’t fallen in love, even though they married; it was rely a union of shared blood for the sake of mutual interests.
At that ti, he told his wife, "I am a refined egoist, and so are you. Let’s not let nonexistent love sully our noble interests."
And so, they entered the marital cathedral under such an atmosphere.
Perhaps because of their connected interests, they got along quite well after marriage.
Sotis, he thought that a touch of sincerity in this mutually understanding union for interests was quite good.
Their goal was quite pure, actually.
To live better for themselves, and if having a child to bind local resources and consolidate interests helped, then all the better.
But the situation wasn’t as good as they’d imagined.
They didn’t have a child for a long ti.
Until the prophecy of the founding myth was fulfilled on them—
The outside world knew that Lokeshi’s founding myth began when Cyan Griffin, the Elector, raised the flag of rebellion.
The Thirteen Houses were initially gathered under the Griffin Family, establishing the earliest system.
Later, as the Lokeshi Empire grew, the Thirteen Houses gradually split to form their separate identities.
But only the successive Patriarchs of the Griffin Family knew that the Lokeshi Empire was destined to "rise in chaos and fall in chaos."
This news was now buried deep in Tal Griffin’s heart.
Those were a few words left by his ancestors.
"Brave descendants of the Griffin, Lokeshi was born of destiny and will die in destiny."
"When the wail of the Celestial Fla Bird rings again, the empire will reach its end at sunset."
"This is irresistible, beyond human reach, ordained by the will of the stars."
"But with the stars covering the sky, the sunrise will still greet the dawn."
"The more you say, the more you err; knowledge often brings disaster, these words and actions must not be spoken to anyone."
"The evening bell tolls the death knell of the twilight sun."
"The great progeny of the Extre Cold shall be consud by the fire of jealousy."
"The first light of Dawn will bring the end, and a new sun will rise."
"When the Sin King and glory reunite, it will be the ti of fate’s rotation."
"Struggle to the utmost of your ability to the end, my children."
"May the will of my god always protect you."
These are the words that every Patriarch learns from the previous generation after ascending to the position.
He was also entrusted by the forr clan leader to morize these words verbatim, without a single mistake, and pass them on to the next generation.
Initially, he did not believe them.
He did not know how many secrets were hidden behind the birth of Lokeshi back then, but he felt the ancestors were making a fuss over nothing.
Or perhaps he never believed that the prophecy would happen to his generation just by chance.
But with the rise of humanity, on a certain year, month, and day, the Eternal Fierce Sun beca the afterglow of the sunset, and the Fiery Sun Church lost the protection of the gods, falling as the setting sun.
But that was after a thousand years since the founding of the Lokeshi Empire.
No one expected that the massive entity known as the Fiery Sun Church would disintegrate in such a short ti.
When the prophecy was fulfilled upon the gods, the leaders of the Extre Cold Giant Elephant could not stay calm.
But over ti, seeing no new prophecy erge, they relaxed their guard.
Until many years ago, his wife, who had not beco pregnant in a long ti, showed signs of pregnancy amidst their prolonged collaboration, with newfound joy between them.
And this, was the beginning of the tragedy.
In the third year after the child was born, a young boy was sent to the Imperial Capital of Lokeshi.
That was the earliest Great Sin: Envy.
When envy appeared in another child’s life, Tal had a sudden premonition that his child was chosen as a sacrifice to fate.
At that mont, he felt like it was all a joke played by fate.
In reality, as ti passed, both he and his wife gradually got used to having another person accompany their lives.
Even if they weren’t deeply in love before, that child’s birth was undoubtedly surrounded by love.
He regretted it.
He didn’t want the child to beco a victim of the prophecy.
The great ones of the Extre Cold Elephant, only two types of people in the family can be called that.
One is those who’ve been Electors all their lives but never ascend to the throne.
The other is the Griffin Patriarch who ascends to beco an emperor.
So this prophecy clearly referred to his and his wife’s child.
That night, he and his wife discussed it for a long ti.
Originally, they neither revered ghosts nor gods, nor did they believe in prophecies; they believed more in their own power to change everything.
But as the Celestial Fla Bird produced a new prophet, their fear grew day by day.
The Celestial Fla Bird doesn’t always produce prophets.
In fact, throughout most periods of history, the prophet of the Celestial Fla Bird was more of a symbol.
But each ti a prophet appeared, it often signaled the coming days of turmoil in the empire’s affairs.
When the prophecies began unraveling one by one, he was forced to reveal to his wife the secret the Extre Cold Giant Elephant had hidden for years, in a state of fear.
And this was among the regrets of his life.
He only rembered the series of potential tragedies depicted in the prophecies and forgot the warning "the more you say, the more you err; knowledge often brings disaster, these words and actions must not be spoken to anyone."
His wife had been one of the top female figures within the Extre Cold Elephant.
Upon hearing this matter, she unhesitatingly rejected the empire’s plan to keep the Great Sin amongst their own.
Not only that, but she also didn’t hesitate to harshly criticize those who proposed the plan at that ti.
She plainly stated, "Lokeshi’s future hasn’t degraded to the point where it needs to gamble its fate on the sacrifice of children."
Later... later, while representing the family to deal with so disaster, his wife encountered an accident.
It was a demigod-level disaster, and of the most dangerous kind.
No one expected the accident to erupt in such an unexpected way.
The next ti he saw his wife, it was on the hospital bed.
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