The Black Book (Part Two)

After having finished eating, Luciel returned to room 22 to continue reading the Black Book, continuing to see more information from the continent, such as some of the most important events.

The Present Era, also called as the Era of the Three Empires due to the power that the three empires have ruled in this era over the other nations, so much so that at the beginning of this era, in year 0, when the Great Empire of Rilentor, there were 32 nations in the Continent of Skypea, and now, in the year 9987, there are only ten nations, many of the nations of years ago being conquered by one of the three empires.

Although throughout history nations have fought hundreds of wars, the last war occurred seven years ago, a war that lasted from 9955 AE to 9980 AE.

The war occurred between the Ancestral Empire against the Great Empire of Rilentor for control of the Sea Route of Peace, a route heavily traveled by merchant ships of the Great Empire of Rilentor that transported the Sacred Empire with great security and vice versa, because It was a route where there was not much danger, taking into account that the place where this route passed was one of the five dangerous zones, the Great Lake of Neptune.

Because this route was very valuable to the Great Empire of Rilentor, when the Ancestral Empire began to put various ships on the route that prevented the passage of ships coming from Rilentor and even destroyed, it caused the wrath of the Great Empire that warned a only once to the Ancestral Empire that their ships were prohibited from passing through the route.

The Ancestral Empire that was jealous that the Great Empire of Rilentor used the route to obtain wealth from the richest nation caused them to want to obtain that route for themselves, in addition to ordering their two allied nations to prohibit receiving ships from the Great Empire on its docks.

Everything would end in war when a member of the Great Imperial Family was attacked on a Great Empire ship, causing Rilentor to declare war and send his armies to the border they shared with the Ancestral Empire.

At first it was a battle only between the two empires, but soon the Ancestral Empire demanded the help of its two allies, the Kingdom of Dan and the Kingdom of Nadia responded by declaring war on the Great Empire of Rilentor and sending soldiers to the battlefield, but the Kingdom of Antares refused to send soldiers at first, as they saw no necessary reason for the kingdom to go to war and become an enemy of the Great Empire.

Meanwhile, the Great Empire appealed to its allies, the nations of the Triple Alliance, for help.

The Triple Alliance are composed of the kingdoms of: Arcadia, Celia, and Flora. And ironically, the Triple Alliance was created millennia ago to protect itself from an invasion from the Great Empire in its expansionist times.

But since 9421, when the Kingdom of Arcadia suffered greatly from the invasion of an army of Orcs from the Southern Islands, it was the Great Empire that supported Arcadia at that time so fragile for the kingdom that it had lost much by that invasion. . Since then, the Triple Alliance has been a recurring ally of the Great Empire.

And, with the help of the Triple Alliance, the Great Empire gained the upper hand in the war, so in the year 9976 the Ancestral Empire offered the Kingdom of Antares many things for them to get into the war.

The Kingdom of Antares under the command of King Rex then entered the War of Control, and in the following years the bloodiest battles took place, until, in the year 9979, King Rex would die at the hands of Orion, a Paladin of the Imperial Order of Paladins.

With Rex's death, the Kingdom of Antares emerged away from the war, and in the following year, the Kingdom of Dan surrendered when the Unified Army of the Triple Alliance had arrived and besieged the capital city.

With the Kingdoms of Antares and Dan out of the war, the enormous military and economic advantage the Great Empire of Rilentor had at the time, and pressure from the Sacred Empire to stop the war, was that finally in the year 9980 the Ancestral Empire surrendered and thus the War of Control would end once and for all.

But, although the war ended, its consequences were still visible on the Continent of Skypea. Relations between the Great Empire of Rilentor and the Triple Alliance were badly damaged with that of the Ancestral Empire and its allies, not only that, although seven years had passed since the end of the war, the Kingdom of Antares was still in a state of enmity. total with the Great Empire.

The Kingdom of Dan was going through a huge economic crisis from which it had not yet recovered, even less with the enormous debt that it still owed to the Triple Alliance and the Great Empire.

The Kingdom of Nadia in that war had lost a third of its army and was very weakened.

And the Ancestral Empire, though it could pay everything that the Great Empire and the Triple Alliance demanded, right now he was in a bad state, not only had his allies moved away, but the very population of the empire saw the defeat suffered at the hands of the Great Empire as a shame, because they saw that this was an insult to the millions of lives lost in the war.

But not only the losers suffered, because on the side of the victors, each nation of the Triple Alliance had suffered great losses in the war, not only economic but in lives. The nation that suffered the most was the Kingdom of Arcadia, whose gains at the end of the war were not enough to cover the losses.

So much so, that right now many territories in the kingdom suffered from little security outside the towns, many nobles had become corrupt and the armies had lost many important members.

Without a doubt, the War of Control was an event that brought many changes to the participating nations, changes that still affect those nations.

"Whoa." - Luciel said when reading the entire section of the War of Control. - "And to think that this war ended just seven years ago."

After reading some of the history of the continent, Luciel read a remarkably interesting section for him.

World Energy is an energy that is present in all the worlds of the universe, but that only spreads in a way that makes cultivation in Middle-Range Worlds viable, so worlds like the one you come from, the Earth, that It was a World of the Lowest Rank, clearly cultivation didn't really exist.

All the people in the Great World of Gea have World Energy, in the same way, your bodies of you, Earth Humans, were given the ability to use World Energy and to cultivate, for that reason, it is important that know that in order to cultivate you need a Cultivation Method.

Without a Cultivation Method it is impossible to cultivate, and if used in a bad way, they can cause World Energy to corrupt their bodies and turn into monsters.

That is why it is necessary to cultivate with the help of a teacher or tutor who teaches them the correct way to use said Cultivation Method.

Once you begin the long and difficult path of cultivation, you will first enter the Village Novice Rank, the lowest of the ranks, in which a person is said to have the power to rule over a village.

But, clearly in a world like the Great World of Gea, almost all of its inhabitants possess the Rank of Village Novice at least, so being a Village Novice in the Great World of Gea doesn't really mean anything, it's the same thing. than to be an ordinary mortal of the Low Rank and Lowest Rank Worlds.

That is why it is vital that they continue to cultivate, and move on to the next rank, Town Expert, where a person is considered capable of ruling over a town. After this rank, the rank of City Elite follows.

But even in the City Elite rank someone is hardly respectable. It is from the rank of County Master that someone really considers himself passable in the way of the cultivator in the Great World of Gaea, but of course, even with the rank of County Master, one is not invincible, so you should continue to cultivate, working hard day after day, to keep reaching a higher rank.

The following ranges are:

March Grand Master, Duchy Lord, Kingdom King, Empire Emperor, Continental Ancestor, and World Saint.

There are few people on the Continent of Skypea with the rank of World Saint, but they are the most powerful people on the continent, and an especially important part of each nation's military arsenal.

Of course, there are more ranks beyond the World Saint, but to know them, you still have to prove yourself worthy of knowing them, and only being a World Saint is one worthy of at least knowing the next step to take on the path of cultivation.

"..." - after reading that, Luciel felt more and more interested in how to farm, but this was not the time, because he felt that first he had to fix one thing, which was to get a job with which to get money to live and the Identification Card.

"Hm ..." - Luciel still had a lot to read, but he was already very tired, he had gone through so many things and learned a lot of new information that he was already very exhausted and tired, so he decided it was time appropriate for sleeping.

"Ah!" - Luciel woke up in the middle of the night, sweaty and scared. - "Tch." - Luciel was angry, because he could not believe that he had a nightmare, a nightmare that portrayed the last moments that he spent on Earth.

"Heck!" - Luciel said angrily, trying to calm down and go back to sleep.