782. Chapter 782: Crack

Cracks

David flew out of Dennis Continent and examined the 'Alchemy Map' above the ocean. This 'Alchemy Map' had come from Dennis Castle.

His second target was the Cotton Family of Job, the Level 5 Temple Knight. Much like the Dennis Family, Kaia Star had a continent named Cotton Continent, which was the Cotton Family's territory on Kaia Star.

Job, the Level 5 Temple Knight, had been a direct enemy involved in the attack against him. David had no intention of sparing the Cotton Family.

Kaia Star had five continents. Aside from the main continent, the other four were territories of the families belonging to the four Level 5 Temple Knights of the Power Coalition. This was no coincidence.

The territories on Kaia Star had been gradually acquired by the four noble families over countless years by leveraging the Power Coalition's influence. During that time, they had used every overt and covert means to drive away the original nobles from their respective continental territories one by one.

In the end, each noble family occupied a single continent. This was also a process that most ambitious noble families had to go through.

For a noble family to qualify as a top-tier noble, it needed to expand its territory.

Territories could be obtained by exchanging merits with the temples, or by privately purchasing them from other nobles.

The temples did not support private purchases from other nobles, but if the buyer actually held the territory for several generations after the transaction, the temples would tacitly acknowledge its ownership.

Any dispute involving territory could not be resolved in a short time. Without several generations of prosperity, a noble family simply could not securely hold territory acquired through irregular means.

The reason the Power Coalition had initially become enemies with David and targeted him