NOVEL NEXT Chapter 94: First Encounter.
I would use the OST Most Emotional OSTs Ever : Ancient China to read the second part of the Chapter.
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Marek smiled lightly seeing her reaction:
"You've endured a lot."
A Portal opened up. Marek looked at Esdeath:
"Spend some time with your Father. He misses you atleast as much as you do."
Esdeath nodded slightly. Marek grinned:
"When you are done…We will begin having fun."
His eyes then landed on Najenda:
"Take good care of Euphemia, she tends to be reckless sometimes."
Euphemia pouted:
"Your Majesty!!"
He laughed out, as he traversed the portal.
"Okay! Okay! I will let myself out!"
He disappeared as he traversed the Blue Portal
Back to the Present time.
Marek regained his bearings as he sighed:
"Are the devils doing their job?"
Lelouch smirked:
"They seem more motivated than ever."
" The Rumors of the Rebirth of the Devils is making them work harder than expected, they will be finished in 3 to 4 Weeks. The first cities already look majestic."
Marek smiled:
"How is Motohama's relation with the Agares Princess?"
Lelouch sighed:
"From what I can infer, pretty platonic…He is quite the shy guy."
Marek snickered:
"Like you are one to talk. Have you even settled accounts with Shirley?"
Lelouch froze in place, and immediately retorted:
"I was busy running your Empire, while you were out training! Don't pin this on me!!"
Marek wisely changed the subject to spare his bitter friend:
"Is the Khaos Brigade on the move?"
Lelouch smirked:
"They wouldn't dare. Not yet."
"But those of the Satan Faction, think they can rack up the allegiance of the resurrected devils."
Marek snickered:
"Let them get their hopes up!! The more riled they are the more useful they are to us!!"
Lelouch nodded:
"At Least they won't dare make any waves, before the Building is over. They do know their place."
Marek sighed, and looked up:
"It seems that everything is on track."
He then took a deep breath as he spoke:
"The Magical City and the Scientific one, Lack key people leading it."
"We still need to wait for months, maybe years for the right opportunity to recruit them."
Lelouch narrowed his eyes:
"Well, they are quite the brilliant people. Even thought their personalities are somewhat lacking."
Marek laughed:
"Well, you can't expect everyone to be perfect."
Lelouch titled his head in thought:
"Specifically the Creation of a Magic Citadelle, and the accumulation of Magic Knowledge is necessary."
"And only with that knowledge could we begin, the New Religion…And call out 'Those Gods'"
Marek took a deep breath:
"If we go to 'that world' unprepared….We will only be losing out."
"I think of all the allies I have until know. Only Goku and Vegeta can accompany me."
Lelouch smirked:
"But if it goes as you envisioned…This country's whole understanding of power, will change completely."
"The risks are big, but the benefits are endless."
He nodded, a profound gaze on.
"I don't know if they are ready for the changes to come."
Lelouch smiled back:
"Your people have proven to be tough enough."
Marek nodded:
"They will suddenly have access to new cites with groundbreaking technologies, magic tools, their everyday life will be changed forever."
"It will also give them time to get used to changes, before we start the Magic And Scientific citadelle's projects."
"There is also the issue of communication between the regions of the Empire. We have a Multiversal Empire after all."
"And People should be allowed to live wherever they want in the Empire and communicate with each other, so they can share the same identity."
Lelouch nodded:
"It is still too early for the Water and Wind, they are still considered a 'Vassal' State."
"But for the Ancient Empire, it is primordial."
He then stood up, a slight smile on his face:
"The Futur leaders of magic and science still unavailable. "
"It seems there is only one thing to do now."
Marek sighed:
"Are the preparation for 'welcoming them' and their armies over?"
He smirked.
"Those facilites were the first one to be built by the devils."
Lelouch nodded:
"Your New Generals, will be met with facilites, they never knew could ever exist."
"Great Generals Under the Heavens."
Marek stood up a big smile on his face:
"I've been itching to do this for a while."
Lelouch sighed as he smiled powerlessly:
"You still act like a child sometimes, you know that?"
"Being this Happy, from recruiting generals."
Marek retorted:
"We are the same age you know?"
Lelouch snickered:
"I am 3 Months Older."
Marek a little pissed off responded:
"I passed 10 Years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber!"
Lelouch retorted:
"You were in a Blackhole completely isolated from any concept of time!! Only your clones were outside! If you count this time then you are 90 000 Years Old man!"
He smiled:
"Choose…17 or 90000?"
Marek sighed finally relenting:
"Huh…17."
Lelouch had a victorious smile on:
"But still…"
"The 10 Great Generals system, huh…You've finally get to start on one of the Four Great Military Orders of the Empire."
"Your excitement is quite understandable."
Marek nodded.
"10 Great Generals. I am looking forward to it!"
Lelouch had a solemn gaze:
"Bulma's birthday is getting closer."
Marek's eyes had some deep Saiyan excitement in it!! Lelouch eyes became stern:
"You promised before getting in this crazy fight."
"That you would At least put in place two of the Four Great Military Orders."
Marek sighed:
"Yes. I know. I will do that. Don't worry!"
Marek had a teasing smile:
"Ooh…Are you were worried, I would go and make better friends, huh?"
Lelouch was a little red from embarrassement and retorted immediately:
"What is wrong with you? Do you think Your First Vizir is that petty?!"
He grinned:
"I know he can be…Or did you forget the last time we played chess?"
Lelouch was outraged:
"Don't get me started on that! Every time you feel that you are getting cornered, you read my mind! How is that fair?!"
Marek had a slight smile as he opened the Portal:
"Didn't you win a match against Mao, like that?"
"I used a trick I could use once and you know it!!"
Marek sighed, changing the subject:
"They would still need to adapt to modern and magic warfare."
Lelouch smiled a slight anticipation on his eyes:
"And Do you really think such details could get in their way?"
He laughed, derision in his eyes:
"If anyone of them was at the Head of the Black Knight. Britania would have long became a thing of the past."
"In tactics and Warfare...Even our worlds 'versions' of them were looked up too, like living legends."
"Neither me nor Schneizel or Cornelia could hold our own. We could be their advisers at best."
Marek laughed:
"So you can admit you are inferior in some fields!"
Lelouch retorted:
"You may think I am petty but I still know when I am bested!"
"Hey!! Where are you going!!?"
Marek waved :
"Bye! Bye! Your Emperor needs to go do some recruitment!!"
Chu Super State. A certain Great General Mansion.
A man was sitting, in his gorgeous house, his door open, his big thick hand on a cup of sake, while the other leaning on the jug. His absent, wandering eyes on the beautiful Chinese garden. His gaze followed the landing of the withering leaves of the Autumn.
Crying drunkard, he was. He had tears dripping from his face as he contemplated the falling of the leaves feeling a deep sense of familiarity with them.
The words of the dead Mou Gou, about the twilight of the Golden Age still in his mind:
'Even you, are gone now. Old Mou Gou…'
He sighed as the memories of the boy who inherited Ou ki's Glaive regained his mind. The Boy who took Rin Ko's life and the boy who traded blows with him.
He sneered:
"Time is relentless."
These words came out in a drunken wail, as if he was pouring his heart out. His drunken soul as he felt the cold hair on his face, floated to the past glories, to the long lost victories, to the bitter defeats.
The Great General, as he saw his peers leave this world one after another, felt his time coming with slow steps.
His biggest regret would be not passing away into the Battlefield, he loved so much.
'Going in a blaze of glory.'
The last moments of Ouki narrated by the promising young boy lingered in his mind, like he was there to witness the scene.
'He was indeed the best of us.'
But as much as he felt eagerness for such an end, the feeling of being left out, weighting on his heart. A deep hunger was also raging in his soul!
The insatiable hunger for war. The love for battle. His thirst for a satisfying confrontation, were still burning ablaze in his soul. Never to be extinguished since the first time he set a foot on a battlefield.
'The Thirst for never ending war, yet the Eagerness for a Satisfying end.'
In this deep contradiction, lived the drunken Legend.
Yet….
Today….
Seemed somehow different.
Was it the wine?
Was it the wind?
Was it the leaves?
Was it the Moonlight?
Maybe, or maybe not.
But to his core, from his guts to his innards, he knew…
Today was special.
Something special is going to happen.
This was his instinct.
His Great General's instinct.
In China, if a soldier was told to trust his own eyes or this man's 'presentiment'. The Soldier would wholeheartedly trust the latter!! No matter how absurd it was!!
This was what his Instinct meant. Not for him…But for all those in the domain under the Heavens!!
It felt, like the day of a crucial battle, the day of a memorable campaign….
The feeling that this was a day he will never forget.
The more he drank from that jug, the more awake he was. Like he was drinking the blood of a hot-blooded Titan.
Or was it just an impression?
Was it all an illusion?
The moment was fleeting, but it felt like time was slowly dilating.
Like the meeting of two long lost lovers.
The dripping of streams of water, the sound of the falling leaves, the shining moonlight.
Everything was set right on, when he appeared.
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Here we start with the Kingdom Arc!!! Recruiting the Most Important recruits so far!!
The Great Generals!!!
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