Murphy's conversation with King Louis on the bridge had nothing to do with politics, nor did it involve negotiations over the border conflict between their two countries. With no conflict of interest, the Plantagenet king and the governor of Transia were able to sit together and chat in a remarkably peaceful atmosphere.
The conversation was mainly about establishing the underworld in Glamour and expanding its system.
Although it was the governor of Transia who had created the underworld for the Plantagenet Kingdom, King Louis was remarkably enthusiastic about it. His eagerness and anticipation even surprised Murphy. He had already prepared to "appeal to his emotions and reason with him," but he hadn't expected this king, who had only just found his daughter, to be so "reasonable."
This... I haven't even brought out my trump cards—the Scepter of God and the world-recreation spell. How are you already cooperating so smoothly?
Damn it!
You're making it impossible for me to even find an excuse to blow up!
Although Murphy grumbled to himself that King Louis had surrendered far too quickly, he had actually misunderstood the king of the Xilan and Isha people. It was true that Louis didn't want to anger the Lord of the Underworld, but what had really led him to make such a sensible choice was his country's development.
He had indeed seen with his own eyes in the Sanghai Empire how greatly the underworld system could strengthen a nation. For one thing, the baby booms brought by the natural cycle of life and death alone would give any country plenty of momentum for growth.
The Sanghai Empire's population of over sixty million made it the undisputed hegemon of civilization under the current Old Continent order. Meanwhile, after painstakingly uniting the Xilan and Isha peoples and governing diligently for