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- MWM Chapter 549
“This person is definitely not an ordinary human!”
As Valerica felt a deep shock within her heart, she gradually came to understand.
Leo, who was able to kill the Lord of Ideals and so easily eliminate Harkon and a group of vampires, was definitely not just an ordinary human adventurer as her daughter Serana had described.
She even began to suspect that Leo might be the incarnation of some demon god or a holy spirit walking among mortals.
“Restore to its original state!”
Leo raised his hand and restored the castle to its former condition. He then took out a token and tossed it to Serana:
“Take this token, and you will be free to come and go in any city on the continent. No one will arrest you for being a vampire.”
“Leo, who are you really?”
Serana finally began to grasp the truth.
Though she was somewhat naive, she wasn’t foolish. By now, she no longer believed that Leo’s immense power was simply due to human development over the past thousand years.
No matter how much humanity had progressed, it couldn’t have advanced to such a terrifying degree!
“Well… let’s just say I’m the current emperor of this continent.”
Leo smiled, and in the blink of an eye, vanished, leaving Serana and her mother Valerica in stunned silence.
Her father, Harkon, had once dreamt of blocking out the sun, thus leading the vampires to defeat humanity and unite the entire continent.
Yet, the human who had been by her side all this time turned out to be the very emperor who now ruled the entire continent.
After teleporting away, Leo didn’t head straight for the island of Arteam, where the Psijic Order resided. Instead, he returned to his own palace first.
Having acquired Magnus’s Eye, the design for Nirn, the three Elder Scrolls, and absorbed the entirety of the Soul Cairn, he urgently needed time to retreat and integrate these things.
Thus, matters like discussing magic with the mages of the Psijic Order, seeking the so-called artifact Auriel’s Bow, or confronting the First Dragonborn, would all have to wait.
“Oh, there’s one more thing I haven’t dealt with.”
Just as he was about to go into seclusion, something crossed his mind, and he called for Lydia, who had just returned from Winterhold.
“The seven-day deadline is approaching. What’s the response from Ancestral Shenzhou?”
Earlier, he had given Ancestral Shenzhou seven days to surrender voluntarily. Otherwise, he would personally take action and wipe them out. Now, it was already the sixth day.
Lydia respectfully replied, “Your Majesty, according to the information from the front lines, it seems that the high elves of Ancestral Shenzhou have no intention of surrendering. Instead, they have gathered all their forces to defend against our invasion.”
Ancestral Shenzhou’s stronghold was mainly located in the Natsume Islands, and due to the high elves’ strong magical talents and the wood elves’ exceptional archery, they boasted the largest number of mages and archers on the continent.
In their view, even if the Dragonborn Emperor’s army could defeat their forces on the mainland, it would be nearly impossible for them to breach their stronghold.
If Leo’s army dared to cross the sea and land on Natsume Island, they would be met with large-scale magic and countless long-range magical arrows.
The only thing they worried about were the dragons enslaved by the Dragonborn Emperor. But even then, there weren’t many dragons, and they weren’t as invincible as Alduin.
In any case, with their current strength, retaking their former dominance over the mainland seemed impossible, but they felt confident they could defend the Natsume Islands.
That was the main reason they refused to surrender.
“Courting death, are they? Then don’t blame me.”
Leo led Lydia outside the palace and opened the world of Tsukuyomi, releasing Conqueror Kang and his highly advanced space fleet.
“I’ve been quite busy lately. This is Kang; he’ll handle the punishment of Ancestral Shenzhou.”
“Wha… what…”
Lydia was completely dumbfounded at the sight of the countless spaceships filling the sky.
In this world, there were no flying combat units. The only things that could fly were dragons, birds, and a few special magical creatures.
Kang’s advanced spaceships not only flew at incredible speeds but could also attack from extreme distances, making them a perfect match against the mages and archers of Natsume Island — like using a cannon to swat a fly.
After leaving Kang under Lydia’s command, Leo retreated into seclusion.
In the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed.
“It seems that completely devouring a world is no easy task.”
As the three-month time limit for his small world was about to run out, Leo sighed.
Though the Soul Cairn was not as perfect as his Tsukuyomi world, it had been carefully crafted by the Lord of Ideals over many years. Fully absorbing it into Tsukuyomi was no small feat.
At his current level of power, it would take a hundred years, at least.
However, the fusion of the Soul Cairn was continuously strengthening Tsukuyomi, which in turn accelerated the absorption of the Bloodspring.
As the Bloodspring absorbed faster, Tsukuyomi grew stronger, speeding up the fusion of the Soul Cairn, and in turn further boosting the absorption rate of the Bloodspring.
This created a virtuous cycle.
If things continued at this rate, it might not even take a century to fully merge the Soul Cairn.
The only downside was that the Bloodspring might be fully absorbed in two years, which would slow down the process.
Fortunately, his research on the three Elder Scrolls had also made some breakthroughs.
By using the laws of the Tsukuyomi world to analyze the Elder Scrolls, he discovered that the scrolls contained many abilities, including the power to banish Alduin into the time stream, and to see the past and predict the future.
It was like a scroll that recorded everything in Nirn from its beginning to its end.
In a way, it was like reading the script of a movie.
If compared to the mythology of his previous life, the Elder Scrolls bore some similarities to the Book of Life and Death from the underworld, which recorded the lives of all living things.
However, while the Book of Life and Death could alter a creature’s lifespan, the Elder Scrolls didn’t have that ability.
On the other hand, the Elder Scrolls could banish enemies into the time stream, something the Book of Life and Death couldn’t do.
Leo thought that if he could merge the three Elder Scrolls into one and refine it into his Tsukuyomi world, it might one day function similarly to the Book of Life and Death.
At the same time, the Elder Scrolls’ abilities would further accelerate the fusion of the Soul Cairn into Tsukuyomi, transforming it into the underworld of Tsukuyomi and establishing a complete cycle of life and death.
By using the designs from Magnus’s Eye to create all things, the Bloodspring as the origin of life, the Soul Cairn as the underworld, and the Elder Scrolls to construct the cycle of life and death…
Finally, by placing a sun into the world, Tsukuyomi would become a complete and fully functional world.
As life flourished and the world grew stronger, it would eventually form the framework for a small universe, mimicking the way the Celestials operated, and one day, he could build a complete universe.
By that point, he would become a multiverse-level being, on par with Sithis.
(End of Chapter)