“So this is the mine, huh?” Jordon asked with a hint of surprise as he followed Ace through the air.

  He didn’t need Ace to say anything; he could sehe incredible fluctuations of energy ing from beh the ground.

  “Yeah,” Aodded before he turo Amira’s father. “What do you think? Do you re you’d be able to create a cave below without damaging the mio allow my people to excavate the gems?”

  “Who do you think you’re talking to?” Emperor Jordon snorted with an exaggerated roll of his eyes. “I may not quite be able to pare to a little freak like you, but I’m still a peak sai…”

  Before he could finish his sentence, both his and Ace’s heads snapped back after sensing a powerful aura rapidly flying in their dire.

  Though he was still several kilometres away, on a clear day like today, the eyes of Ad Jordon were able to lo to the figure approag, causing a small frown to ma on each of their faces.

  Just as Ace reparing to take a, he sensed something that caused his eyes to widen with a hint of surprise.

  ‘Law of the Earth – Profound Mystery of Strength,’ Ace immediately guessed as he felt the earth seem to lend its power to the dark-skinned Emperor beside him, causing the muscles in his legs and arms to swell.

  “You stay here,” Jordon said coldly as he locked in on his target, summoning a pair of twin battle hammers from his ste ring. “I’ll deal with him!”

  Ace was slightly surprised by Jordon’s ge in demeanour. Usually, the Rohault Emperor was the picture of posure and stability. This was the first time he’d sensed him show his killing i. Still, when he remembered the man’s longstanding problem with the O’Brien Empire, he uood, after all, it was them who essentially ruined his big brother’s future, preventing Aiden from ever being able to bee a saint.

  Though also a peak saint, Lanke’s soul wasn’t as strong as Jordon’s or Ace’s. As such, he was discovered long before he discovered them.

  His eyes stricted slightly when he sensed a powerful aura shooting towards him. “Jordon Rohault…”

  The moment he identified his attacker, Lanke didn’t think twice before turning tail to run away. Unfortunately, whilst Lanke, as a warrior who focused on the ws of the wind, would ordinarily be the mile of the two, when it came to travelling in a straight li was the Emperor who came out on top in a petition of speed.

  The power c through Jordon’s body wheook a allowed him to move like a meteor as he shot through the skies, appearing above Lanke in what may as well have been the blink of an eye.

  Ace watched in awe as the space around Jordon’s hammer rippled, as though it wao break free of the spatial straints of their Yun Pne.

  Jordon’s hammer tore straight through Lanke’s body, only for Lanke’s body to shimmer out of existeill, Jordon didn’t seem surprised as teical Lanke’s appeared around him. Instead, he used the momentum of his first attack to skillfully carry him towards another of the doppelgangers.

  Lanke’s eyes flickered slightly as he looked down toward Ace, but sensing the might of the man essentially bulldozing his way through his es, he immediately turail and ran, with each of his es flying in opposite dires. “Marnur was right… About everything.”

  Jordon had just destroyed the fourth doppelganger wheched the other six flee in different dires. He briefly sidered chasing one more but quickly disregarded that option.

  Although he was exceedingly fast when moving in a straight lihat was only when he had a solid ptform to unch himself off; otherwise, he was a level or two slower than the War God’s 22nd disciple.

  And more importantly, even if he was fident in chasing down one more e, he had no idea which e was real and which was fake.

  “This might be a bit of a problem,” Jordon sighed when he sensed Aear.

  “It’s fi’s just a mine.” Ace shrugged. “If we keep it, we’ll keep it; if not, then we won’t. But before their forces rearrahemselves, I wanna try and mine as much as possible.”

  “You really are an odd one,” Jordon said after taking a sed look at his brother’s only disciple. “Most people in your situation wouldn’t be able to keep so calm.”

  “What’s the point of getting so worked up?” Ace shrugged. “Our pns never included the ownership of the mine in the first pce. It’d obviously help our cause if we could cim it for ourselves, but if we ’t, then we’ll just tih our inal pn.

  Either way, no one will stop us from f our Empire iure.”

  “Haha, well said!” Jordon nodded appreciatively. “Still, I’d hate to allow those bastards of the O’Brien Army to grow any stronger. How about some reinforts from my Rohault Empire.”

  “Are you sure?” Ace asked. “You know that ces are it won’t just be the O’Brien Army who set their sights on the mine. If you send reinforts from your Empire, you’d likely be antagonising the Radiant Church, Yun Empire, and potentially the Cult of Darkness as well.”

  Although Ace didn’t have muterest in politics, it didn’t mean he didn’t uand it. He khat with the Yun and O’Brien Empire having fed an alliance, ces are, both forces will e together when attempting to pressure them to give up the mine.

  And with the Church having made some sort of deal with the Yun Empire, there was a good ce that they would be involved as well.

  And although the Cult had seemingly pulled out, when they iably received word about the magicite mihey wouldn’t be able to stay away either.

  As far as Ace was ed, retaining ownership was near impossible, unless he went out to fight as well. Unfortunately, although he was teically still a mortal, in the eyes of the rest of the world, he was now sidered a saint-level expert.

  The sed he stepped foot onto the battlefield, their enemies would all undoubtedly send their saints as well.

  “Don’t uimate us, brat! My Rohault Empire has never been afraid of getting into a bit of trouble,” Jordon snorted disdainfully. “Plus, these st couple of years of peace have been particurly draining for the soldiers of my army. They’re all starting to get a bit antsy.”

  Hearing that, Ace couldn’t help but think back to the impressive martial spirit of the Rohault soldiers. A hint of a grin hung on his face as he nodded. “Fine, we’ll drive those bastards bad split the profits between us.”

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  At the same time, ba the O’Brieory of the Anarchids, Lanke, who had just hurried back, immediately took General Marnur ao expin his findings to his senior brothers.

  “You’re sure?” Fain asked. “Ace found a magicite mine?”

  “Positive,” Lanke nodded solemnly. “And with those Rohault bastards there as well, it won’t be easy to pry it from them on our own.”

  “True,” Fain nodded pensively. “It’s a shame the Rohault Empire’s involved as well. If it was just Ace, we might’ve been able to find a way to force Ace’s hand int him to hand over ownership.

  All we do is tell our new allies and offer them an equal split.”

  “I’m not sure that’ll be enough,” General Marnur, who had beeirely silent until now, added respectfully.

  “Who are you to be interjeg in a versatioween us saints?” Byrius snorted, a cold and disdainful light flickering across his eyes.

  “Byrius, that’s enough! Without the General’s insights, we’d still be pletely unaware of what Ace had found,” Fain snapped back at his irritable junior breneral, please go on. I’d like to hear your thoughts oter.”

  “Yes, Milord,” Marnur nodded respectfully, still cautious about Byrius’ presenot wanting to say or do anything that would get himself killed. “I think it’d be in our best io involve not only the Yun Empire but even the Radiant Churd the Cult of Darkness.”

  “Are you stupid?” Byrius barked. “If we do that, we’d have to lessen our cut by even more.”

  Fain coldly g Byrius, causing him to settle down. Still, he didn’t say anything as he too was of the same belief, but he uood that Marnur wouldn’t make such a suggestion for no reason.

  “I uand that Milords,” Marnur replied feebly. “But Ad Linley have already shown that they have a e to one another. Although I ’t firm the strength of their retionship, it’d be in our best io assume that Linley’s Baruch Duchy would also be providing support to Ace’s territory.

  If I’m wrong, I get that we would’ve lowered our cut for no reason, but if I’m right, and we choose not to include the churd the cult, the ces of us being able to seize ownership of the mih just ours and the Yun Empire’s forces here in the region, is slim to none.

  After all, the Baruch Duchy has five supreme warriors with the strength of a peak ninth-rank expert, as well as that neancer – Zassler.”

  As Marnur finished his expnation, whether it was Fain or the explosive Byrius, her said anything immediately, as they both uood that the General was right, again.

  “Okay, we’ll do it your way,” Fain nodded slowly before turning to his junior brother. “Lanke, you go ahe delegates from the churd the cult to hurry over; I’ll fetch those from the Yun Empire.”

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