Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 359 You are the King!

"Joshua, why do kings wear crowns?"

Josiah, the regent of the Faen Empire, known as the 'Empire on which the Sun Never Sets', dismissed all his servants and guards and stood at the highest point of the imperial capital to look out.

This stern, solemn and dignified middle-aged man looked past the imperial capital that was once known as "the most magnificent city in Ekania" and looked down at the various traces left by the years in this great city.

Reykjavik, this ancient name once represented the center of the entire central continent and even the master of power in the entire Ekania world.

The ancestors of the Farn Empire trod through blood and fire in the thorny swamps, held the teachings of the gods, and bathed in the glory of their ancestors to establish a great country that could only be born in a legendary epic story.

Even during the long years, the Farn Empire was divided and united, experienced the rebellion of kings, and the support of nobles. The royal lineage of the Farn Empire changed several times.

But today in the Seventh Era, the Faen Empire still controls the hegemony of the central continent, and checks and balances the Ruman Empire, which owns the "strongest army on land" in the Ekania world, and competes for hegemony with each other.

The two empires are not only the absolute dominant empires in the Central Continent, their influence and tentacles also extend to other continental countries and civilizations. They are absolute behemoths in the world of Ekania.

Josiah, the regent of the Faen Empire, looked at the child holding his broad hand and picked up the child wearing a small crown.

Let this black-haired and black-eyed child sit on his shoulders and overlook the scenery of the entire imperial capital.

"A crown makes the wearer superior to others and is a symbol of supreme status and power,"

Joshua tilted his head and looked at the child's black eyes that shone like obsidian. He smiled and said, "But the true meaning of the crown is,"

"When disaster strikes, I will withstand it all for you and always let you see hope. He who wears the crown must bear its weight. This is the price you must pay for wearing the crown!"

Sitting on the shoulders of the Imperial Regent Joshua, Kane Modra, the only surviving descendant of the Faen Empire's Modra royal family, asked in a childish voice, "This crown is too heavy, Joshua. I will try my best to support the crown on my head like you in the future!"

The solemn and majestic Imperial Regent laughed and gently touched the black flowing hair of the young boy Kane Modra with his broad palm.

He smiled softly and said, "That's great. I also hope that Your Majesty can grow up quickly."

"However, if one day in the future Your Majesty forgets the meaning of the crown, I will confiscate it!"

The young boy Kane Modla laughed cheerfully and shouted, "I am the future king. Joshua said I will be the future emperor. I will not fail like this!"

This was the scene they saw when Carrion and Ledo climbed up the wide stone steps to the top of the Imperial Palace.

The empire's regent, Josiah, was not a member of the Faan Empire's royal family, the Modra family. However, he was the regent who controlled all political and military power in the empire and was recognized by all nobles, merchants, civilians, warriors and generals of the Faan Empire.

Seeing the arrival of the Regent Prime Minister Ledo of the Faen Empire and the Imperial Marshal Carien who controls all the legions, the Regent King Josiah of the Faen Empire regained his serious and solemn expression.

Even the Empire's Regent Prime Minister Ledo and the Empire's Grand Marshal Carien were his close friends.

"Are those delegations ready?" The eyes of the Regent of the Farn Empire were like a bottomless pool of clear water, filled with calmness and sparks of thought.

"According to your instructions, the imperial delegation has built a teleportation magic gate with the help of the Imperial Court Legendary Mage Corps and is heading to the camp of the Northern Kings' Alliance that is stationed in front of the Kingdom of Koria, preparing to visit the Dragon Emperor and the Northern Kings."

The Imperial Regent Prime Minister Ledo answered.

"That's good," the Imperial Regent nodded and looked at the Imperial Grand Marshal Carrion.

The armor that the Imperial Marshal wore was heavy and majestic, but he had an ordinary long sword on his waist.

Perhaps the word ordinary cannot be used to describe this sword. It would be more appropriate to describe it as tattered.

The sword does not look sharp, and the thick and long blade is covered with rust, as if dried blood has solidified on the blade and cannot be cleaned.

But the Regent of the Faan Empire, Josiah, knew that this rusty sword was not ordinary. In the hands of the Empire's Grand Marshal Carrion, it could cut off all magic in the world of Ekania.

The Regent looked at his trusted Grand Marshal and asked softly, "All the legions of the Empire must not move for any reason or anyone else without my order, Karien."

"Don't worry," the Empire's Grand Marshal Carrion looked at the Empire's Regent and nodded seriously.

"Without your royal decree and my approval, no army of the Faen Empire or any noble's private army can leave their base or set foot within a mile of the Northland."

Carrion said word by word, "Anyone who dares to disobey my military orders must ask if my sword is sharp!"

"The vast majority of the tens of millions of people in the empire do not want to fight the northern kings. They will not be forced into the quagmire of war by the orders of the powerful."

The Imperial Regent Josiah nodded, and he turned to look at the city and empire covered in brilliant golden light under the setting sun.

"War is a game for a group of old men, but it sends young people to die." The Regent stood with his hands behind his back and said softly.

"After the war, politicians shook hands and made peace, businessmen made a fortune, but the heroes were gone, leaving only cold tombstones and the tears of their relatives."

"The nobles still reign supreme, while the peasants' children remain in the grave."

"No soldier is wrong in the fight. They go to the battlefield without hesitation for the people and country they love. The most hateful are those who talk about war on paper and advocate war in order to expand their power and influence."

The Imperial Regent Joshua said softly: "My country does not need to fight meaningless wars!"

The empire's assistant prime minister, Ledo, approached the regent Joshua and whispered, "But if this happens, the empire's political influence and geopolitical control over the northern continent that it has built up over the years will be wiped out."

"If the True Dragon Emperor and the kings in the north do not agree to our conditions, even if they do, the relationships we have built and accumulated over the years will be reduced to a point where they have almost no influence,"

"The Empire will almost completely lose its influence and potential control over the Northern Continent from now on! Those great nobles are not completely unreasonable in wanting to start a war."

The Imperial Regent Joshua glanced at his friend calmly, and suddenly scolded him softly: "Ledo, have you lost your mind?"

"Not to mention what the empire should do to launch a war from the central continent to the northern continent, and how much resources and manpower it would take,"

"Not to mention what the Luman Empire will think of the Empire's response, just the northern kings and the Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire, how can you deal with them and face them?"

In this era, the giant dragon Kalon Gogmora of the northern wilderness unified countless races and dragons in the northern wilderness with unparalleled strength and will, and reigned over the northern border as the Dragon Emperor. Kalon Gogmora, the ancestral red dragon, not only founded the first dragon empire in the history of the Ekania world, but also the future destined Gogmora Dynasty, which raised the civilization, wisdom, and military power of the entire dragon empire to a peak never seen in the history of the emergence of civilization in the northern continent.

With his unexpected ideas and great ambitions, he united the kings and races that had always been scattered, opposed and hostile to each other, and created the Northern Kings Alliance that shook the entire Ekania.

Even the two dominant empires that dominate Middle-earth, the largest continent in the Ekania world, the Faen Empire and the Luman Empire, had to acknowledge the great achievements made by the True Dragon Emperor of the North.

And he has the same powerful force as the True Dragon Emperor of the Golden Empire to create great deeds.

"The Empire is indeed much stronger than the Golden Empire, but it is just the Golden Empire's True Dragon Emperor. How many Legendaries does the Empire need to send to contain him?"

Regent King Josiah said indifferently: "According to the research and discussion of those legendary spellcasters, in the face of the power currently displayed by the True Dragon Emperor, at least five or more legends are needed to be qualified to face it."

"And there are several powerful kings in the Alliance of Kings. How many legends does Mogeyes, the multi-armed giant king of the God-Forsaken Mountains, need?"

"How many legends does Anundale, the king of the dark elves, need? How many legends does the king of the orc kingdom need? What about the dragon kings of the Golden Empire? What about the giant dragons that occupy the shadows of the sky?"

The Imperial Regent, Joshia, looked indifferent. He said, "Even in the Empire, those high-level legends have their own missions and are stationed in the dimensional plane of the Empire. Do we have to recall them all?"

"Or should we invite back those chosen ones who traveled through the astral world and explored the mysteries of magical knowledge?"

The empire's regent, Ledo, fell silent. The regent's cold aura at this moment made him no longer want to speak.

The regent Prime Minister Ledo was a mortal, so it was understandable that he did not know the secrets behind the legend.

Although Josiah, the regent of the Faen Empire, failed to reach the top of the legend due to handling state affairs and some restrictions, Josiah is not like those great nobles in the northern continent. He knows that there are also high and low levels above the legend.

In fact, there is no distinction between high-level legends and low-level legends.

Above legend, there is only the difference between legend and legendary destiny. The difference between these two words is as huge as a chasm, and it is a watershed in the true sense.

The outrageous degree of this gap is far greater than that of a mortal facing a legendary being.

But under the legendary destiny, the difference between legends is mostly just a reference to power levels, so there is a difference between high-level legends and legends.

Among the northern kings, except for Charal Caesar, the monarch of the Hobis Empire, almost all of them are legendary kings who are born with stronger basic qualities than the human race.

The advantages these legendary kings possessed before their legendary destiny were immense.

Just like Mogyes, the king of the multi-armed giants, and the True Dragon Emperor of the Northern Golden Empire, they are the ultimate bloodline creatures that almost stand at the top of the mortal world of Ekania.

Those legendary warriors who claim to be able to bathe in magma, want to compete with these two naturally powerful kings simply by relying on their legendary transformation and their own strength. This is simply like a daydream and a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Even for those legendary wizards who have experienced the choice of fate, it is extremely difficult to compete with the descendants of ancestral dragons and ancient abominable Titans' blood, who are born with almost perfect comprehensive qualities, simply by relying on the talents transformed by the choice of fate.

Only those who have ascended through the legendary Gate of Miracles and become the legendary Chosen Ones can possess the wisdom and power to change the world and turn the tide, which is comparable to the talents of the ancestral dragons and the blood of the abominable Titans.

And those powerful people who have achieved legendary destiny, even if they are talents carefully cultivated by the Farn Empire, will not return from the depths of the star realm for a small war that has nothing to do with the fate of the Farn Empire.

Even the two dominant empires in the world of Ekania are unable to impose even the slightest restrictions on such a powerful being.

The Grand Marshal of the Empire, Carien, nodded, breaking the solemn atmosphere. He took the initiative to say, "The Empire really cannot easily sacrifice all its strength for a war that is not crucial."

"Even the high-ranking legends of the empire are not sure of victory. The nobles of the northern continent are all mediocre rats. It is just a fantasy to expect that we can unite their forces to fight against the northern kings."

"Unless the platinum holy sword of the Kingdom of Koria can reawaken the bloodline of the legendary Seraph, there will be a slight possibility of resisting the fierce alliance of kings in the north."

The empire's regent, Ledo, sighed softly. He said, "I failed to consider it. The empire cannot popularize knowledge and wisdom like the Golden Empire in the north, and cannot eliminate the aristocracy's monopoly on resource production and knowledge."

"Even if we can resist the Golden Empire and the Northern Kings, the Empire does not have the ability to compete with the Northern Kings for influence and economic plunder in the northern continent."

Although the Luman Empire and the Fan Empire in the Central Continent both have the power and the ability to open up external dimensions, opening up different dimensions and operating a local base are two completely different things.

There is absolutely no way those great nobles would give up their monopoly on knowledge and resource production in order to enable the Faen Empire to have the strength to compete with the Golden Empire and the Northern Kings.

It was a simple conversation that ended somewhat unpleasantly.

After the Imperial Regent Ledo left, the Imperial Grand Marshal Carien sighed deeply.

"Ledo is starting to become like those great nobles," Carrion said. "I still remember what we three looked like when we were little. At that time, Ledo was still a genius who came out of the slums."

"But I didn't expect that we two natural nobles were not transformed, but he was changed by wealth and power."

"People change," said Josiah, the regent of the empire. "Can I trust you, Carrion? Will you always stand by my side?"

Karien finally smiled, his burly body bowed slightly and said, "Of course, my king, we are all for the betterment of the empire!"

The tender child sat on the broad shoulders of the Regent of the Empire, looking at the long-gone figure of the Regent Prime Minister Ledo, and pouted his lips and said quietly, "Josiah, you said that Prime Minister Ledo has become as corrupt as those nobles, why don't you remove him from office, just like you did with those nobles."

The regent shook his head, smiled, looked at the future emperor on his shoulder and said, "Ledo has not been completely corrupted. He can still be used. After all, his talent is recognized by the whole empire. Without his help, I will have a lot of headaches."

"Moreover, we cannot rush into governing a country. Those corrupt nobles were once the strong roots of the empire's rule. Our rule is based on the support of these nobles."

"Every generation has its own mission and responsibility. Kane, my generation can only do my best to remove the rotten wood in the roots of the empire, and the nobles who cannot provide nutrition for the empire but instead suck the blood of the empire."

"I will try my best to ensure that the empire has enough vitality. Your mission and responsibility for the next generation will depend on your wisdom and ability!"

The little child touched his little crown and laughed, "I know, Joshua, I will be better than the next generation of all other countries!"

"Even the next generation of the Golden Empire and the Northern Kings will be outshined by me!"

(End of this chapter)