The Old Empire Fifteenth Celestial Region had no emperor—I believed that was impossible.
Anything could have exceptions, but never the position of emperor. There could absolutely be no accident there. This was practically the second most absolute fact in the entire void, apart from the Zero Tendency Law. The Old Empire had one hundred and thirty-five Celestial Regions, and thus one hundred and thirty-five emperors. Any ruling region, no matter how many universes it contained, as long as it was classified as a "Celestial Region" within the Empire's control system, would inevitably have a supreme monarch as its core. Until the Old Empire collapsed, this iron rule had never changed. It was a law engraved in the core logic of every Shilin Apostle. No one would ever dare claim that the ruler of a Celestial Region could be anything other than an emperor. Absolutely impossible.
Of course, the New Empire had changed somewhat. Although it had two and a half emperors now—Bellavella counted as half, right? Honestly, even calling her half an emperor felt like a stretch...—the New Empire had no plans to divide itself into Celestial Regions. After all, we were effectively starting from scratch and simply lacked the capital for that now. The Old Empire's Celestial Region-emperor correspondence had only developed after the Empire reached a considerable scale and the Shilin Apostles discovered that the Imperial Power Council System was a governing method better suited to their racial traits. It had its own historical context. The present New Empire was not even the size of one Old Empire Celestial Region—not counting the Macro World Network; strictly speaking, the Macro World could not be considered directly governed administrative territory. Naturally, there was no need to divide ourselves into multiple Celestial Regions and have two emperors, Sandora and me, govern