The Royal City was home to the Sun King Royal Family, as well as the city where the Empire's uppermost elite lived. Its importance went without saying.
The Southern Border, meanwhile, was where the Radiant Rite Capital met the Empire. With Headquarters at its back and the Empire before it, this was a crucial hub.
Some of the Silver Dragon Trade Association's senior executives usually stayed at this Branch, handling day-to-day affairs.
But with the unrest caused by the Red Apple Church, every Branch of the Silver Dragon Trade Association across the Empire had been affected to some extent, and this one particularly severely.
If this Branch were destroyed, it would be a major blow to the entire Silver Dragon Trade Association.
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The main reason was the absence of Rosa, the association's current leader, and the fact that she had taken a large portion of the Transcendent fighting force cultivated by the association with her, leaving the Branch short-handed.
"Noah, have you made any headway on advancing to Sequence 7?"
Chen Lun asked.
"Yes."
Noah nodded with a shy smile.
"My sister prepared the Transcendent Knowledge for [Ghoul] for me long ago, and I finished my Mystical Accumulation a while back... It's just that the Ascension Ritual is a little troublesome."
As he spoke, his face fell.
"According to the ascension requirements for [Ghoul], I have to prepare the ritual site beforehand, then consume the complete corpse of a Sequence 7 Transcendent when spirituality is at its most abundant...
"Although I love good food, I can't quite get past that mental hurdle."
Chen Lun looked at Noah and smiled, patting his arm in reassurance.
"The Ascension Rituals of the Transcendent Sequences are actually processes our predecessors worked out for digesting and accepting Transcendent Knowledge... Some methods