53 TRUE MEANING

Duke Samil is one of the warlords of the human race, occupying more than 13% of the human lands. His ancestors are said to be the distant relatives of the past royal family. He is a highly ambitious person and want to rule the human race as the Emperor. But just like his ancestors, he also failed to gain the recognition of the Golden Crown. So he simply concentrated on his domain and maintaining good relationships with other powerful warlords.

He didn't mess with any of the powerful human aristocratic clans, that are guarding the borders. For him it is ok, as long as they stick to the borders, without meddling in his affairs. As he is sure, he can't protect the borders so efficiently as they do, from the few powerful minor races. He just want to slowly increase his strength and strike other warlords, slowly increasing his domain and thereby occupying the entire human lands. He know, it's impossible to achieve all these, but he always felt like, he can achieve this dream

But his dream was shattered 3 days ago, when a lady called Ichka Uchiha, gained the recognition of the Golden Crown and is proclaimed as the new Empress of the Human race. He is really scared of her strength and her pet Type 14 monster Kuro. Oh, how he wished for that monster to be on his side, with it's help he can easily become the true ruler of the human race. But now they had to face it, if they want to maintain their control on their domains.

He quickly contacted with his other fellow warlords and came to the decision of destroying the teleportation formations, there by buying enough time to come up with other plans to Kill Ichika. He had good contacts with strong Assassins and planning to personally discuss this details with them. But he along with his friends, were given a huge shock, after yesterday interview, when Ichika compared them to mere ants and planning to confront them alone. She also promised to spent quadrillion peak grade spirit stones on the redevelopment of the human lands. It is an enormous fortune and takes almost infinite guts to reveal your wealth openly to others.

But the messages he received today morning, almost made him spit blood. His so called friends immediately turned into overnight loyal followers of Ichika. They all sent similar messages to him, that is to surrender or to die, for planning an open rebellion against her Highness and causing massive property damage by destroying the teleportation formations. When he confronted them for colluding with him, for the very same reasons, they all answered, that they are all only acting in order to lure the traitors out.These bastards clearly made back up plans, in case things turned out against them and are now planning to make him a scapegoat. Now even, most of his soldiers deserted him. He is only left with 4 of his personal family guards. If this news reaches outside, he is sure, that all these bastards will definitely capture him and send him as a present to Ichika. So he immediately packed up his valuable belongings and his family members and used the teleportation portal in his palace to move to an isolated island on Ganges ocean, which he found million years ago.

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Nightwings is a business organisation formed by 3 friends of Elf, Dwarf and Gnome races. It was founded 2 trillion years ago and is at the centre of all the technological developments in the world. They are involved with almost all kinds of business, weapons, armors, clothes, potions, formations, constructions and agriculture. But recently the current heads of the organisation started to feel bored, as they have no challenges to prove or test their skills. It is then, they watched the broadcast of Ichika interview yesterday, planning to redevelop the entire human lands. It is a huge and challenging project with enormous profits, so they quickly organised a company meeting.

The current 3 leaders of this organisation are Grim Stronghold the Dwarf, Alvian Morningglory the Elf and Reed Tealeaf the gnome. All 3 of them are from powerful clans from their own races, while Alvian, she is a descendant of Dark elves royal family.

"You all must have seen, yesterday news right? What do you think we should do?"- Reed

"Quadrillion peak grade spirit stones, from a single person as a budget? I feel like she is bluffing to gain more attention"- Grim

"I don't think so Grim, she already gained enough attention by becoming an Empress, she also gave hope to all her citizens back home, if she backs down from her words, her own people will revolt against her and do you think people will find her trustworthy again?Also she stressed, the main reason she appeared in the Vanguard Zone, is to bring her clan from the shadows. If she fails to keep her words, then her entire clan will never see the daylight again."- Reed

"Hmm you got a point. Bring the old maps of the human lands and lets see, what we can do with the quadrillion peak spirit grade stones? My hands are itching to try some new things and gain as much profit as we can"- Grim

As Reed started to spread the Old maps on the table in front of them, Alvian who was silently observing the conversation from the side, stepped in.

"You old fools, surely have lost your brains in the past few million years and failing to see the bigger picture here"- Alvian

Both Grim and Reed cursed her in their mind and wanted to retort with "You are even older than our grandpa's", but they silently kept those words to themselves. So they silently waited for her explanation, as to what they overlooked.

"Tell me, you fools, clearly know about the destruction in Human lands and despite that, it is clearly 2nd in place, when it comes to domain size after Dragonoids. Do you think, a mere quadrillion peak grade spirit stones are enough to completely redevelop the human lands? You are also thinking like other fools and only set your sights on the money, but failed to grasp the true goal behind her Highness words"- Alvian

"True goal?"- Reed

"This quadrillion stones are only a bait, to test who has the real ability to stay calm and look far ahead into her words ignoring the lure of massive profits. Anyone who made plans based on just this quadrillion stones, will not even get a chance to meet her and will be completely rejected."- Alvian

Quadrillion peak grade spirit stones are just a bait? Don't you think, you are raising the stakes even higher, elder 'sister'?

"Elder sister, can you explain to us in simple terms, so that we can follow, what you are saying?"- Grim

"Did you remember her highness last words, "she is giving all of us a month time to impress her". Do you think, she will be impressed by people who want to work for her, just for some mere profits and ignore the complete picture, that is in front of you.

From the beginning she clearly gave us huge clue, that she totally want to redevelop the entire human lands from scratch. For any sane person, it is completely impossible to do it with just quadrillion stones. The amount of money required to accomplish her task is easily somewhere around 400 to 500 quadrillion peak spirit grade stones. She doesn't want to hand over this huge project to just any fools, only those who present her with demo, that completely covers the whole human lands will be selected. This is one hell of a huge project which involves a lot of time and labor. Also her words of "close to quadrillion stones as investment" is her promise of profits to the businessman, who will impress her."- Alvian

Grim and Reed, were totally shocked after hearing Alvian words. Now that they listened to her, they have to totally agree with her. The human lands can only be completely revived with quadrillions of money. A complete quadrillion of peak grade spirit stones as a profit? This will be their organisation biggest profit ever.

"Elder Sister, do you think she has such huge fortune of close to 500 quadrillion peak grade spirit stones?"- Grim

"After seeing her casually wear so many above grade 10 treasures, we have to believe her. Also, we can ask this same question to her, when we present her the demo. We can always step back, if my assumptions are wrong and all we did is waste a month of time, honing our skills"- Alvian

"Elder Sister, what are you waiting for, we only have a month of time to prepare the demo."- Reed

"Hmm, i am thinking about which mercenary company guards to hire for our safety in the future. Surely we can't hide our profits from the eyes of everyone, so its better to prepare from now on"- Alvian

Damn, as this princess instincts are always right, it is better to plan about their safety too. Soon they gave call to their organisation managers to hire some strong trustworthy guards.

Alvian was right, Ichika was using the quadrillion stones as a bait to weed out the simple minded ones, she is planning on a long time collaboration with this huge project of her. It can only be possible, if her partners are astute and talented.

Ichika stayed in the faith palace for a week, meeting and talking to various clan heads about her ideas and what she is expecting from them. She also promised them to provide a lot of resources as long as they remain loyal to her and work diligently. But she never brought any topic of promise of power in her court. She will only give out her appointments after reaching Eden. At the moment, she only chose Zetsu and Jean Silverstone as ministers. Zetsu will be Internal Affairs minister, while Jean will be External Affairs minister.

The Church of Goddess of Faith, will also be disbanded in a orderly way from tomorrow and all its members will be given proper jobs according to their skills in the Empire. The various properties and lands of the church will be leased to others, while the Church Headquarters in Vanguard Zone, will be turned into an Orphanage. The rent gained from the properties, will be used to run the Orphanage. While the Faith Palace will be completely taken over by the Empire and will be turned into an Embassy.

Authors Note: Hello friends. I already mentioned to you all, when i finished the first volume, that I will be taking a week long break. But because of some circumstances, i didn't take the break and continued writing the story. But after releasing one more chapter tomorrow, i will be taking this break and will continue releasing chapters again from 17 September. But i will keep, checking messages from all of my readers daily. I will also try to correct, the previous chapters during this time.

Special thanks to ZeroXLife, sheeets, frostqilin for suggesting the names and surnames of Alvian, Reed Tealeaf and Stronghold. I still need a lot of names and surnames, for some of the bad guys who will make their debut in their future. I will also be happy, if you provide some character background for them.