What had happened in the past was tacitly ignored.
The Shi'ar Empire would not pursue her destruction of the planet, and likewise, Deathstroke would not pursue the Imperial fleet's advance on the Savage Continent.
With the sincerity of this preliminary agreement established, the two sides could proceed to negotiate the formal deal.
The princess was not angry when the Sorcerer Supreme conjured an even more menacing, larger black chair to sit opposite her. She even ordered the Imperial Guard to bring more chairs so Daisy and the others could sit and talk as well.
In a pleasant voice, she told them the origins of everything.
It turned out that several decades ago, for some unknown reason, the royal ancestral tombs on Featherfall suddenly exploded one day. The former kings buried within all revived as zombies or skeletons and rampaged across the planet.
Those Undead Creatures gave D'Ken quite a headache at the time. Even he could not openly order the military to fire upon the undead spirits of his ancestors.
There were hundreds of emperors, from different families, and many had been legendary heroes. There might always have been a way to destroy their remains, but it could not be done.
D'Ken might have been the Mad King, but he was not a stupid king.
Yet those undead were like beasts, biting anyone they saw, drinking blood and devouring flesh. Moreover, any damage they suffered was repaired by mysterious black light.
After racking his brains for several months, D'Ken finally found a solution: attempting to activate the M'Kraan Crystal and use the power of that higher plane to erase the undead from existence.
He entered the noble dimension left behind by his ancestors and, in the name of the Shi'ar Emperor, touched the enormous crystal.
Unfortunately, the crystal showed him