228 Chapter 228: Empire 6

Derik and the others emerged from the portal as well, glaring at the fleeing dragons with hints of contempt and disdain in their eyes. Cyrus and Kaido were slightly dissatisfied with the end results but they had no choice but to leave with it.

By the way, it was still a victory for them.

Even though they greatly wished these ancients dragons responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people are dead, they chose to ignore these beasts until Derik explains why he desperately wants to keep them alive.

"Where do you think they hide each time we defeat them?" Kaido suddenly asked weakly.

"Yea! They just vanish, no one can trace them after they vanish from sight…" Cyrus muttered while rubbing his face lightly.

"I guess we will never know…Let's head back… We still have an empire to build!" Derik said uninterestedly.

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By the time Derik and the rest of the team arrived, all the magic beasts around the southern region of the continent had disappeared, the gates of Gyro were opened for the very first time in a long while, without being afraid of magic beasts raiding them. Songs of praises for the gold realm masters who battled these dragons were sung and the top tier masters at the gold realm were ordained the new guardians of the empire!

The unclaimed land within the southern region was taken up by the elves and lizardmen who began rebuilding their various cities, while the people of Cato chose to merge with Gyro and become one force. Since they were all humans, was there a need to live separately? By the way, as a part of Gyro, they gain the protection of the four most powerful gold realm masters around!

With the Death mage, Life mage, Sun guardian knight, and the mysterious nature mage on the sides of the humans, they possessed the largest and most powerful forces in the region, instantly making them the ruling race in the continent. The elves had the moon mage, Diana while the lizardmen were still stuck with Ahika, who is rumored to be as powerful as the life and death mage, his defeat at that time, at the hands of the silver wind dragon was only as a result of a well-coordinated surprise attack. If given a chance to battle both dragons in a free and fair battle, many believe that Ahika would not fall into a disadvantaged position!

Many believed this, even Derik and Cyrus believed this as well, this is the reason none of them dared to look down on the lizardmen chief who wields a fire trident!

In just a year or two, the elves and Baldmar were done with the construction of their own cities, and a massive wall was built to surround the cities of the three races. Each side provided their numerous defensive and offensive formations to help bluster the overall strength of the new empire, as a result, the hundred-meter wall surrounding the empire was strengthened to a terrifying degree!

The human's provided defensive barrier formations and with the aid of the undead commander Kalos, they were able to set up a spatial barrier around the whole empire. Normally this shouldn't be possible due to the mana consumption rate but now the spatial mage has the undying body, it can never lack mana.

The elves provided their nature core, planting it at the heart of the empire! This divine item is just a fist-size glowing green seed with little green vines sprouting from it, at first people who were not familiar with this godly item were doubtful of the capability of this item. When planted at the center of the empire, the vegetation of the kingdom began to improve at a terrifying speed, numerous flows and lush green vines began sprouting all around the empire, beautifying the whole empire. The borders of the empire were filled with living vines, as the elves called which roamed around aimlessly, covering the whole southern region!

Agriculture became a popular occupation and food was in abundance!

To everyone's greatest surprise, the power of this nature formation far surpassed their expectations to a point where even Derik and Cyrus felt threatened by it. They could tell that the effect of the nature core was greatly improved by someone hiding within the shadow, someone with true control over nature! Someone like the nature guardian spirit host, Franics. This man was yet to show himself to the world after entering secluded cultivation to break into the gold realm but his presence still lingered around the empire meaning he was still there! Cyrus and Derik were not bothered by this man's choice to hide himself and chose to ignore his existence entirely.

As long as he helps bluster the defenses of the kingdom in his own way, they have no reason to bother themselves with his shady activities.

In just five years the new empire became a paradise for that everyone had dreamed of and when the effects of the nature core were at its peak, numerous low level, docile magic beasts appeared in the southern region, all hoping to leave in this paradise rather than struggling for superiority with other magics beasts in the other regions of the continent.

To settle the power distribution in the new empire an assembly was created, each race was given a chance to appoint a representative to join the assembly. Apart from this, six seats were made available for the six sun class lords in the continent, The system was quite simple, very important issues concerning the empire as a whole will be brought to the assembly, a decision will be taken based on the side with the most votes.

The humans appointed Gerald as their representatives, while the lizardmen appointed Krasic, a lizardman from the earth tribe, the second strongest lizardman in their tribe and finally there was Elsa who was supported by the elves to represent them, this decision was mostly made based on the rumors of the intimate relationship between the death mage and the former elf queen's daughter! They sincerely hoped the young elf will be able to manipulate and influence the decision of the death mage.

Of course, when this rumor reached Derik who was cultivating in seclusion at that time, his resounding laughter could be heard all over the southern region, making the elves feel a bit insecure.

With the new system a lot of powerful men and nobles who once possessed great status and positions, lost their power and influence! They were dissatisfied with the new system and instigated hatred towards the new government as much as they could and they soon paid the poor to carry out demonstrations and riots all over the empire with the lizardmen race being the only exception.

In response, the Empire tried to control the situation down but with such powerful figures who have been accumulating wealth and power over the years, they could not easily accomplish this! More fuel was poured into the already raging fire and the situation went out of control!

Soon small skirmishes began to happen all over the empire and numerous officials were injured badly. Strategic locations in the empire were overrun by a mixture of angry civilians and powerful masters of various ranks, hoping to make a name for themselves and secure a position in the empire!

At the final moment when the various representatives and gold realm masters were called for a meeting, everyone was present except the death mage and the nature mage. On that very day, the streets of the empire were dyed red with blood and the corpse of numerous civilians and powerful elites served as nutrition for the vegetations in the kingdom! The death mage swept through the whole empire like a plague killing off anyone that dared speak against the government, not caring about age or gender! Both elderly men and women, even youths were not spared!

In just one day the rebellious people were wiped out and does who tried to escape the empire were found dead at the borders, hung by numerous green vines. The elves claimed they were not responsible for this, leaving the mysterious nature mage as the only option.

"Love and respect can never keep an empire together… Only Fear can do this! Our obligation as rulers is to treat our subjects well and do our possible best to have them live a peaceful and satisfying life… Once they have food on their tables and shelter over their heads, we have done our work… When they dare to rise against up, we don't resolve the situation by going soft on them… We need to show them why we were appointed as their rulers… even if it means wiping out half of the population of the empire, I won't hesitate to do that, knowing that the other half will forever be loyal" Derik said when defending his actions to the assembly members.